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

[cawnflict]

[ yes that is exactly how it is

i love hypocrites

time for a buzzfeed quiz. ]

Well, that's pretty cute. What tea would I be?

[saddleclub]

Hmm. Rose petal black tea, perhaps.

[cawnflict]

Something floral, huh.

[ He says it kind of fondly.

This is the guy who named his crime syndicate after white lilies. ]

You said you were missing some friends of yours? That they had gone this way?

[saddleclub]

I never said friends. But they are the ones on my team. Like I said, Ceylon and Assam, I thought I saw them. You know, the irritating man and the baffling pink woman.

[cawnflict]

[ well irritating man is definitely the snake. ]

I haven't seen the snake yet. Maybe he fell into a pond somewhere.

[saddleclub]

That would--Surely he's got more sense than that?

[cawnflict]

Sense is one thing, but have you seen his arms? He might topple over in the wind. Look at how often he just lays on the floor.

[ This might not actually be true. He might just be brutally attacking Naan in his sleep. ]

[saddleclub]

That's presumably part of his idiot persona.

[cawnflict]

Imagine that. Something we're agreeing on.

[saddleclub]

Is that so difficult to imagine?

[cawnflict]

[ :^) yes. ]

Maybe I'm a pessimist.

[saddleclub]

Yes I'm sure that is the only issue.

[cawnflict]

[ hey can we go back to bullying the snake, thanks ]

Old habits die hard.

[saddleclub]

What habits are those?

[cawnflict]

You'll find out.

[saddleclub]

Perhaps I have no desire to.

[cawnflict]

[ ha ha ha ]

That's probably the truth.

[saddleclub]

No, I simply pretend not to be interested in your personal problems.

[The sarcasm.]

[cawnflict]

I just think you're better off not knowing.

[ what a cute kid. ]