MINI EVENT: IN FULL BLOOM

[asgardmods]

IN FULL BLOOM( APRIL 6TH ) april 6 ↴ MINI EVENT: IN FULL BLOOM It's unlikely you see the catalyst of this event, or at least understand it. The entirety of Asgard can be, and frequently is tied to the Gods that protect it and what they have dominion over. The latent curses that Wanderers have sprung upon them are intangible proof, but when it comes to a God like Sigyn...her ties to the world are much more visible, apparent. She's holed herself up in her district, tending to the earth with her hands and tools, like a human would. It distracts her, makes it easier to force her mind to feel things it isn't otherwise. Most Gods would know this comes with side effects; if snapped out of the state, she would as well. Right now, it's not so pressing a matter. Her emotional unsteadiness doesn't come out as ugly or marred as one might imagine -- no, if you're standing outside when the magic takes effect, you'll be surprised to see large clumps of flowers curling up from the earth and blooming blossoms larger than they should be almost immediately after coming into complete existence. Some locations for these plants make no sense, taking root anywhere they please. Maybe in a patch of soil, or maybe on the side of a wall. Your roof, your bathtub, the very sleeve of your shirt. Their sudden appearance may cause you alarm, enough to stay away on instinct. It's likely for naught, with just how plentiful they are. Smelling their aroma or coming into contact with their pollen is basically an inevitability. And when you do...something strange will happen. ASPHODEL → This flower will cause the feeling of soul-crushing regret and guilt. What's the one thing that you regret the most? The one thing you would change if you could turn back time? It's time to have that thrown back in your face for the next twelve hours, assuming you're not exposed to this pollen again. In the case that there is no big thing that you regret or feel guilty about, it'll be some small minor thing that has been exacerbated in your mind by the pollen to the point that it is now a big deal as well. CARNATION → After coming into contact with this flower, you feel a pull of absolutely clinginess that draws you towards someone you have some degree of fondness for, be it romantic or platonic in nature. There's this niggling feeling that won't stop pestering you, that you simply have to be in close proximity to this person. Hovering, observing, touching. Once you are? The feeling goes away. This magic tether lasts throughout the day, despite how your target may feel about it. If for some reason you can't be near this person, like they force you away by some magical means, your desperation strengthens as the proximity remains broken. EDELWEISS → This one will cause you to become extremely reckless. It goes beyond developing or exacerbating a hero complex. It's like experiencing l'appel du vide for twelve hours and actually listening to it. You won't be very susceptible to reason without some magic to put a stop to you, and your sense of consequence? Completely out the window. POPPY → Upon close contact with these flowers, you experience mild to severe synesthesia for anywhere from ten minutes to a couple of hours. Your senses mingle. You smell colours, see sounds. It often comes with a very mild sense of euphoria, but some find it disorienting instead. GENTANIA → When's the last time you had a good night's sleep? A few days? Weeks? Prior to ever showing up here? Here, let's help with that. The pollen from Gentania andrewsii, commonly known as a closed or bottle gentian, will instantly put anyone who comes in contact with it to sleep. It doesn't matter if they're sitting, standing, driving or swimming. They will fall into a deep sleep, varying anywhere from six to twelve hours. For the duration of that time, they will experience vivid nightmares, and will only awaken after experiencing sleep paralysis. IRIS → Apparently you're allergic to this flower. Don't worry, everyone else is too. Contact with this pollen causes a painful burning sensation. Don't scratch or rub at it, because that'll only cause it to spread. Washing the afflicted area or applying any sort of ointment or balm won't help. Tough it out. It'll only last a couple of hours. The flowers definitely overstay their welcome, as does their magic. The blooms themselves will fall off and uproot themselves from their unnatural settings after about a week. The magic? It sticks with the plants for a whole day. The curse you're hit with might not last as long, but this means being careful: there's always the chance of being afflicted again. Maybe with two curses at once! How will you know the curse is over? Maybe if you can put two and two together, you'll wake up in the morning and notice stepping outside doesn't...smell the way it usually does. The grass, any stray flowers, trees. None of them have any whiff of a scent. MOD NOTES This is the April mini-event before our bigger event later in the month! Note that you can stack flower curse effects except for the Gentania curse that puts someone to sleep.

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[lethechained]

[ Her eyes shift toward the flower as he mentions it, lingering there a moment as she pays it proper attention for the first time. ]

Ah...! It's a different kind.

[ Well, that's interesting. ]

Now that I think about it, there are a lot of these around today, aren't there?

[keybearing]

I guess. I grabbed it cause I figured I'd give it to you or something.

[Sora explains with a shrug. He's not too fussed either way, in being more active outside with swimming or sparring or racing or such to have spent a lot of time gardening. But flowers were pretty and smelled nice. He thought maybe she might like it is all.]

[mindseer]

You are too sweet. You're going to handle all the sugar for this. Sure sure, we can be decent and give them a chance to flee in terror.

[A good indication if the lemons were the dancing type. Thank god, she'd only seen one here, the first month she showed up... when it all rained down.]

[lethechained]

Oh? To me?

[ The idea triggers a surprised blink, but soon enough a bashful smile curls at her mouth. ]

I'm flattered, then - that you thought of me. It... is very pretty.

[lethechained]

Oh? But if I'm too sweet, won't I put in too much?

[ It was probably a sign of her progress as an individual with a real life that she didn't become stymied by bashfulness at the compliment. (Though the flower certainly couldn't have hurt that; she colored slightly but answered back right away. At Terezi's agreement, ]

Deal...! That way no one can say we weren't being fair.

[mindseer]

Pffft, I don't know anyone who complains about lemonade being too sweet.

[There was probably someone out there who would. But it seemed almost silly, really. She was pleased to see her friend in this good of a mood though.]

Least of all the lemon. If they speak up,, they'll be running away!

[keybearing]

Y-yeah. I thought you might like it. I mean, it's pretty and smelled nice, so.

[He'd just figured he could grab it for her. Only, when he did find her she was up in the tree and all. And they'd gone rock climbing. He himself might look a little bashful, raising a hand to the back of his neck as he notes some movement in others seeming to want to use the rock climbing. He reaches then to her hand in at least leading them out of the way.]

[lethechained]

[ With a giggle: ] There's a first time for everything.

[ And it was a good mood indeed. ]

Mm! I suppose if they're the kind that have mouths, they're probably also the kind that dance.

[ It seemed reasonable enough they'd go hand in hand. ]

Maybe we can leave the door open for them, just to be nice.

[mindseer]

... yeah, I think we can do that. Now, let's just hope that they're not zommbie bouncing fruit, because now that we've said all that, I'm imagining it.

[lethechained]

[ Although normally she might have anticipated their being in someone else's way, Sora's a pretty good distraction. Once she realizes it, though, she gives a soft noise of surprise and offers a quiet apology to the bystanders, her fingers naturally shaping themselves to Sora's once he reaches for her hand. Trailing after him, she finally says the shy, ]

Well, you were right.

[ that she'd meant to say before. As they walk, ]

-- Wait, were you waiting to bring it up this whole time?

[ Because she'll feel bad if she was taking up his time with other stuff. ]

[lethechained]

Zombies? [ Naminé looked suitably, laughingly put off by the notion. ]

Now that seems unlikely. But I guess they'd be trouble if they were...! It'd be hard to catch something that small.

[keybearing]

I guess I forgot about it for a bit? Finding you up in the tree and all....

[Which is fair enough? That was the last place he would have expected to find her and all. Considering her not being the most athletic usually. Sora was surprised and worried in the moment and all. He takes the flower and offers it to her now anyway if she wants it.]

[mindseer]

Tiny zombies would absolutely be the worse, but no. I'm pretty sure they're just going to be dancing lemons, the regular sort, if they're even that. Zombies... would be almost too silly even for here.

[lethechained]

[ She makes a quiet noise of understanding. Now that she thinks about it, ]

That must have seemed strange...

[ And it seems a little strange to her now, too, in hindsight. Why was she up there again? She doesn't have long to concentrate on it, because soon enough he's holding the flower out to her. The girl gives a soft exhale of surprise, then reaches to take the offered bloom. ]

Thank you, [ she says, looking down at the flower - almost close enough to sniff. ] Really, Sora. [ A beat, as she realizes she still has her own flower as well. ] -- Oh. We can trade, if you'd like...!

[ The edelweiss isn't exactly ugly either. ]

[lethechained]

I don't know, [ she commented idly, trying to picture the lemons in question. ] There have been some pretty strange situations around here.

[ Shaking her head to clear it, ]

But-- I'm sure we'd have heard about it by now if there were a problem like that with the lemons. What are the chances that it would start happening right when we decided to make lemonade?

[ Clearly, statistics were on their side. ]

[mindseer]

There have, haven't there? But I think you and I are on the same page here. If we had zombie lemons, we'd definitely have had someone screaming on the network for me to laugh at by now. [She shook her head.] I'd say the odds are pretty low, so we're safe today.

This town's all about playing the odds.

[keybearing]

A little. Yeah.

[He can't help but to smile a little at that, chuckling for a brief moment before he blinks when she offers her flower. He gives a nod then, figuring it couldn't hurt to take it. It's just a flower. And from her, after all.]

Alright.

[lethechained]

It would only make sense. That doesn't seem like something everyone would keep to themselves, even if you would laugh at them.

[ Naminé felt reasonably confident about that assessment, regardless of the flower's influence. Mouth curling slightly, she agreed, ]

Well, sometimes the odds play you. Still - I think we have a good plan.

[lethechained]

[ She'd think twice about it if her mind were fully clear and she'd considered the possible causes for her behavior, but in the absence of such thought it seems like a nice enough idea. Her hand falls away once his has accepted the flower, both sets of her fingers coming to take delicate hold of the one he gave her. She hesitates a moment before shifting it around to tuck it into her hair, like she originally did with the edelweiss.

With that settled, she exhales a breath, looks up at the wall-- ]

I think... I'm done climbing for today.

[mindseer]

I would have so many laughs. Dante and I would just lay into them with al the memes...

[She snickered hard.]

Yeah, let's do this. To the lemonade stand!

[She was an idiot. She knew it, but she was fine being an idiot.]

[keybearing]

Fair enough.

[Sora attaches the flower to his jacket, not thinking much if anything on her now seeming more like usual and less confident in comparison to how she was before with this particular flower. As their fingers brush in exchanging the flowers. He gives a shrug and figures to lead her out of the arena.]

[lethechained]

As long as you still help them if they need it, I suppose it doesn't matter if you're laughing the whole time.

[ Other than, you know, the fact it might give offense. In any case, all the idiocy seemed to go over just fine with Naminé, who laughed briefly with her, ]

Well, if you want to go now, that's fine - but we do have to get down first.

[ Since they were in a tree, and all. ]

[lethechained]

[ Naminé's eyes linger on the structure for just a moment before they shift back down, her head angling his way as she watches him settle the flower in place. 'It looks good on you,' she doesn't say, because it sounds weird even in her own head, but she smiles all the same. ]

Sorry, [ she speaks out loud instead, ] if you're disappointed about not getting the chance to climb anymore.

[ But it's not a serious concern, and she seems in good enough spirits as she moves to keep pace with him while they walk out. After a moment's thoughtful silence, ]

It really is odd. I'm not sure what got into me...!

[mindseer]

That's just the privilege of getting to help! You get to laugh a little on your way to the finish line! It's not half as much fun if you can't.

[And it did get offensive at times, but she was a tiny bit better about that.]

Mmm, you have a point... this tree's kind of nice right now isn't it? I mean, it's not like the lemons are going anywhere, if they're not the type that we're supposed to let go.

[lethechained]

No? I guess I've never thought about it being fun to help people.

[ It was always just The Right Thing To Do. Actually, for Naminé, helping people usually involved a lot of stress and grief and general unhappiness, so perhaps her expectations were somewhat skewed. ]

That's true, [ she agreed to all of the points put forth. ] And there's no one around to warn them, anyway - not unless the tree can tell on us.