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Myrobalan Shivana ([personal profile] faithlikeaseed) wrote in [community profile] middaeg2020-10-31 01:33 pm

Out of the mid-wood's twilight into the meadow's dawn | OTA

Who: fauns fauns FAUNS (and their enablers) (and anyone else)
When: Octeuril 31st
Where: The Haven
What: Somebody set up a trap specifically designed for Fauns. Or tried, anyway.
Warnings: F for Faunery; warnings per thread as needed!


It's a lovely day in Aefenglom and you are a horrible beautiful Faun.

Somewhere between the evening of the 30th and the midnight advent of the 31st, a disused corner of the Haven has turned into a patch of cultivated wilderness. Somewhere a little after midnight on the 31st, and the beginning of the full moons, several Fauns (and one or two others, Monsters and Witches alike) received an enthusiastic if slightly garbled written invitation to come see what awaits.

Gourd vines of all descriptions drape an abandoned cottage, its floating terraces, and half of a nearby house. Flowers in a riot of colors decorate them, some glowing softly and others exuding a fragrant perfume. The fruits hanging pendant or nestled on the ground defy description and beg to be tasted: There are tiny pumpkins no larger than grapes, thin-skinned and sweet, while massive savory marrows lurk in the underbrush to trip the unwary. A rare fist-sized specimen glimmers with enchantment and grants a rush of energy when eaten--along with fleeting, unpredictable changes (horns, fur, hooves) that make one a little more faunish for an hour or two.

Cheap furniture, clotheslines, and hanging sheets have been used to roughly shape the vines into an impromptu maze. The design's irregular, wandering, like whoever planned the corridors couldn't see what he was doing. It wanders in and out of the cottage, pouching into dead-ends and cozy little clearings that might fit two comfortably and three if they're familiar. Some of them have benches in them; others, piles of pillows; and still others are carpeted in thick and flowering moss. Heavy quilts in a riot of colors and patterns can be found neatly folded in the buildings, waiting for chilled revelers to find them. There are also covered braziers for the truly cold, though they seem powered by magic and not by flame.

Food and drink are lavishly if haphazardly provided, spread out through the bowers like a treasure hunt. Casks of mead with cups attendant, bowls of honey candy and glazed nuts, fruit both fresh and dried, and a variety of different sorts of cheese provide an ample repast (so long as one's not hungry for blood or meat). Entertainment's on the guests to provide, with simple musical instruments (mostly pipes, an occasional lap-harp) gracing many of the grottos; others have toys and games, of varieties both innocent...and not...strewn about them.

There are also oddities here and there in the maze, like the bower where someone took painstaking care to tie a half-hundred feathers to the low vine ceiling. Another nook teams with stingless bees of all varieties during the day. What else might await someone who's looking?
sneaksweet: (dango)

[personal profile] sneaksweet 2020-10-31 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
There was an invite.

[Which he had a little bit of a hard time reading.]

Did you just come?
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-01 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
There was?

( you might have known that, Steak, if you checked your Watch more than once a week. )

I saw the decorations from the street.

( and wandered in and started eating their fruit. very polite. )
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[personal profile] sneaksweet 2020-11-03 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess it's fine? I don't see anybody uh... watchin' the gate or checkin' people are supposed to be around.
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-03 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
( well, in that case: )

Let's go.

( deeper into the unknown, because what is caution when you could just charge recklessly ahead? )

What's your name, anyway?
sneaksweet: (dango)

[personal profile] sneaksweet 2020-11-03 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sure, they can go into this party(?) together.

This whole place is pretty European, and so-]
Juza. What's yours?
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-07 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
( well, for both of their sakes, they hope it's a party and not like, some moonlight virgin sacrifice? )

Steak. ( look, he probably would have understood both sides of the coin, because Tierra is a mishmash of cultures and influences and there is nothing saying he shouldn't understand it. but that's besides the point. )
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[personal profile] sneaksweet 2020-11-16 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Nobody said anything about murder. Juza would like to keep all of his innards... in him.]

... Like the food?

[That's new. Maybe it's like... a nickname? It's a little weird to hear it.]
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-18 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
( nobody ever says anything about murder. otherwise people wouldn't come. )

I'm a Food Soul. ( so yes, exactly like the food. and, because he knows what question is (probably) coming next, he continues without much of a pause; ) On Tierra, humans found a way to harness the spiritual power in food to summon beings like myself.