welcome to the jungle we've got fun and games

[saddleclub]

Who: Y'all
When: Day 8 noonish
Where: THE JUNGLE

[So there is a mostly unexplored jungle out there.

It seems like a good day to explore it, eh?

Please look out for:

Venomous snakes, the smaller ones will leave you fevered and nauseas, the larger may stop your heart.

Spores, inhaling them can leave you with mild to severe continuing hallucinations

Pollen, it may make you sneeze.

Dark shadows in the undergrowth, that seem to whisper as you pass. In familiar voices...? Or that's just the wind.

Vicious monsters. They want to eat you.

And look out, if you go exploring, because halfway through your adventure the sky seems to open up and pour on you, try to find a safe shelter--if that exists in the jungle.

For those of you not inclined to explore well, you may see lights in the jungle, little wisps, of light in the growth, or maybe it's your team colors you see? The more you look the more you feel practically compelled to follow those lights and flashes of something familiar....

Maybe you get caught by the jungle's dangers, trapped in a cave by the downpour, or maybe you make it to an odd break around a still pond, the surface so smooth it's almost like a mirror. If you look in, your reflection looks back. And it smiles at you.

And if you make it this far, if you look deep into your reflection and let it stare back, you might find yourself leaning down, towards it--hopefully you have a companion to pull you back before pale arms reach to pull you in and drown you.

Even if you're pulled back from the glass pool, a strange dread lingers with you for a while. And the urge to be near others is incredibly strong. Be it their presence or their touch you crave, you need reassurance.

((OOC: Explore, use this an excuse for wet huddling together in a cave while hallucinating, get cool new scars from fighting beasts, encounter the glassy pool, or whatever! Grab a buddy, have a good(?) time.))]

Comments

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ here's someone who is not inclined to explore, or to stare at mysterious lights that are absolutely up to no good. she's more genre savvy than that!! nice try!!!

she is, however, absolutely inclined to go outside at the sound of the rain starting to come down, because while she is genre savvy she never claimed to have common sense. besides, playing in the rain is fun! ...or would be if, you know. senna's default uniform didn't involve a white blouse. so. there's a bright blue wet rat huddled up somewhere with her knees drawn up to her chest in an attempt to preserve her modesty, all but vibrating in embarrassment. ]



iii've made a mistaaaaaake

[dragonblooming]

[ good thing hazel's uniform has the good shit ] Um - do you want to borrow... my... sweater...?

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ ...that's enormous. she would swim in that. which makes it 100% ideal ]

yes please

[dragonblooming]

[ it's SO ideal. pulling it off and handing it over and. politely turning around ]

[ghostfromthemachine]

Thank youmff—

[ muffled by mouthful of fleece as she wiggles into it IMMEDIATELY ]

I'm— you can look now, sorry...

[dragonblooming]

[ it's also warm ]

No problem. I think I'm a bit better equipped for the jungle, overall, in terms of the clothes they gave me, so...

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ and smells like FLOWERS! A+ best sweater to have gotten ]

Just a bit. I've been meaning to get less fussy clothes, but I wanted to have enough put away in case of an emergency or something first...

[dragonblooming]

[ its true, its ideal ]

That's fair. Something practical?

[ghostfromthemachine]

More practical, at least. I'm sure some sort of balance can be struck between "not dry clean only and won't immediately show dirt" and "still reasonably cute."

[dragonblooming]

Cute? [ why would you want clothes to be cute and not battle-ready, ]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ bold of you to assume she can't do both

or that she isn't battle-ready regardless of what she's wearing, ]

If I'm going through the trouble of buying clothes they should suit me, right? I don't think I'd be any more comfortable if they were only practical than I've been in these ones.

[saddleclub]

Oh....

[Looking anywhere but like, at her.]

Perhaps you should go get changed.

[ghostfromthemachine]

I would like to! Really! However I would also like not to flash the entire train on the way back.

[saddleclub]

Perhaps one of the large leaves from the jungle...

[His own shirt isn't suitable.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

Well, if you wanted to get me one.

[saddleclub]

If you can wait a moment.

[Time to find some giant leaves.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ oh. oh no she didn't actually expect him to, ]

—thank you!

[saddleclub]

Of course.

[He's not gonna let a lady walk around like this unassisted? He's a gentleman. He just has to cut down some leaves and like, they may or may not have spores with them up to you.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ I'm good with either but she's more or less immune thanks to being a cheater. advantages to being dead,

anyway the huddle will continue until coverage improves ]

[saddleclub]

[Just pollen then, so he comes back sneezing but holding large leaves!! He's trying not to look like he feels like a dog that has fetched a big stick.]

Will these be--achoo!-- sufficient?

[ghostfromthemachine]

I think so... I'm pretty small, so...

[ she does not actually mean specifically in terms of her chest

this does not stop it from being absolutely true ]

[nihilmancy]

[Tabby stumbles back towards the train after getting lost and stoned earlier, soaked to the bone in her delicate gothic clothing, and shivering with cold.

And she sees an interesting sight. For a solid few seconds though, she's too disoriented to avert her eyes, and just stares, before staring instead to the side.]

Ah. It's raining.

and then I left out the link lmao NEVER MIND,

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ thankfully (?) there's not actually a lot to see, thanks to the Fetal Curl of Shame.

...Tabby might notice that the other girl has some pretty hefty scarring, though— the faded rings of it around her neck and right wrist more visible in the cold, but there's also a faint but large pale starburst of scar tissue visible through the wet fabric at her shoulder, and the edge of another on her chest peeking out above her knees. ]

Oh wow I hadn't noticed.

Re: and then I left out the link lmao NEVER MIND,

[nihilmancy]

[She fidgets, realizing that she just stared at somebody else's body like that, and that is Inappropriate. She whispers a word, and a small dome of force appears above both of them, suddenly deflecting the falling rain, which falls in strange looking sheets all around them. She should have done this for herself earlier, but by the time the rain started, she was quite stoned on spores. ]

Come on, we should go inside.

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ oh... that's kind of... hmm. it's cool, but she can't help but feel a little disappointed...?

...well, she's already pretty firmly established with herself that she's a weirdo, so what else is new. ]

Not to sound ungrateful, but— as much as I'd like to, if I get up I'm going to flash half of the train.