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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?
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-01 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
( yes, what else do you call this? he's trying to foist them off onto other people.

though, for all Steak may be saying that, in his head at least, he's also gently running a finger over the back of the rat as Everett talks.
)

You got them to do chores?

( he'd almost consider getting this thing to prank Red Wine, but the bastard has a cat, and that clearly wouldn't work. )
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[personal profile] rollfordiplomacy 2020-11-01 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That I have! I'm surprised you did not notice, earlier. I had so many at the cottage and DiplomaTea. All that time they must have scurried out of your sight. [just... an ominous horde of rats, hiding out of vision. Not alarming at all. Not. At. All.]

Scrubbing surfaces, laundry, tidying up anything that's set down- they're very clever about such tasks. Useful helpers who desire such simple payments as affection and food in return. Ideal animal companions, I would boast.
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-01 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
( to be entirely fair, if Steak had noticed that, without explanation, it would have ended badly for the rats as he would have assumed them to simply be vermin. )

I wouldn't know. I've never had one.

( a rat, or any other kind of animal companion. it isn't a complaint. merely a statement of fact. his life has hardly been suited to pets, and that's just the way it is. )
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[personal profile] rollfordiplomacy 2020-11-06 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Could I persuade you to foster one? Should they not impress you, I would happily take them back into my care. [the one in Steak's hand chatters happily and boggles it's little eyes at the petting, contented with the attention]

I doubt that would happen. I have utmost confidence in their training!
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[personal profile] battlebound 2020-11-07 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
( all things considered, it's not the ugliest thing he's ever seen, and if Everett is telling the truth (and Steak has no reason to believe he isn't), it could be useful. )

... Alright. ( as long as Red Wine agrees to keep that blooming cat away from him. ) I'll do it.