the temple of beginnings.we're all a little mad here.
Needless to say, the Circle has been out of sorts as of late.
Fortunately, the weather has stabilized — residents will find that they are no longer plagued with snowstorms or heat waves. However, it appears that the flora and fauna have...come to life. Vines may wind around your feet and legs, entrapping you in a vice-like grip. They will eventually let go, but it seems like you need to speak nicely to them first. Bizarre, but it'll get the job done.
Mushrooms have also sprouted and now sing at you when you pass by — they aren’t particularly good singers either. Trees extend their branches to poke at you from behind, but when you turn around you’ll find that no one is there.
...And worst of all, the flowers seem to be especially privy to your thoughts; when you’re close, they’ll blab out whatever is on your mind at the moment and will only be silenced once they are picked. Best of luck surviving in this more, er, animated environment! Perhaps even plant-life can be reasoned with…? Or destroyed.
That’s always an option, isn’t it?
oh my god they were roommates.
It isn’t a proper welcome until you’ve picked out your room! In the hallways, you may find a table or two offering cookies and tea as you survey your newfound surroundings. They seem to be left by invisible people . . . weird? The Unseen Servants seem to be playing a bit more nicely from your arrival, and seem to be apologizing for their antics with sweets! (These cookies, neverfear, are not magically cursed. They are just normal cookies.)
These rooms are a bit magical, you see — should you decide to room with another person (or multiple people), you’ll find that the room itself will accommodate your needs and expand accordingly. They look the same for the most part, so some might say that it would be wise to make your decision based on what your neighbors are like.
Say hello or potentially someone else’s room by accident; it’s a bit of a Russian roulette.
Regardless, it seems that this is your new home in sense of the word. Make the most of it!
wildcard.
The Temple is a pretty big place! The Forest of the Fey stretches on endlessly, Lake Dona (and the resident Nessie) is free to explore, and there are plenty of creatures who are curiously inspecting the new arrivals.
The wyverns seem to be particularly precocious today, given the singing mushrooms, the psychic flowers, and the new people checking into new rooms! They are relatively harmless (as are most of the creatures in the Temple), but can be pretty annoying . . . especially if you have something resembling a snack in your hand.
At any rate, free to explore the rest of the Temple, the Forest, or the Lake at your leisure! Unless otherwise designated in the bestiary, everything is free to play/free to explore. :)
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That idea of a bathhouse isn't one that he's heard before, though, and he considers it with a curious tilt of the head.] That's an interesting way of looking at it...they were pretty common where I came from, so maybe people were more used to it. But it was kind of funny to watch people who came from other places and weren't, because they always got really awkward.
[Tilting his head a bit further, he looks Molly over once more - the jewellery, the tattoos, the scars.] What kind of place was it you came from?
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Oh wait that's a question. He blinks.] Hm? Oh I'm from lots of different places, but this whole "different worlds" thing is new. I'm not really sure what part of it I should be responding with. We call the whole thing Exandria, but the place I normally travel through is called Wildemount. It's... not quite like the majority of people are coming in with, I'll admit? [He lilts upwards, feigning a nervousness he doesn't have. What he has is abject confusion, but apprehension sells better than ignorance.]
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Ren rests his chin on one hand again as he listens to Molly explain, and while he doesn't quite buy the nervousness given Molly's demeanour so far, he nods along with it anyway as if he does.] Mmm, those are nice names...my world's just called Earth, and I'm from a country on it called Japan. So it doesn't sound quite as fancy as yours, right? But I think it's interesting to learn about other places, since we all got brought together like this.
[He does have a sneaking suspicion he's going to meet a lot of people who are just from Earth, But Slightly Different, but it's worth it to find the exceptions.]
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[He stabs at the water pointedly, suddenly. Okay, so maybe he's tapped into something he has a Problem with.] We have to stay here. We can't just go off and seek our fortunes elsewhere.
[This was fine when he thought everyone was dead and this was an afterlife, but now that he's realized that's not the case, he's offended.]
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He does kind of commisserate on that issue, at least, and he leans his head into his hand a bit more with a hum of dissent.] Mmm, it's a nice place, but I don't know how much I'm going to like being stuck here like this...though I heard we go to other worlds too? So maybe that will help make it not boring.
[It also depends what the other worlds are like, but the general answer Ren seems to keep getting is "we don't know until we get there".]
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[No sense in complaining about it or making grand sweeping comparisons. This is both a benefit and a curse of his lifestyle. "When in doubt, say yes" can be a right bitch of a mentality when you actually don't have much of a choice.]
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[There's a small gap after that as if there's something missing from it that Ren intended to add, and then he rubs the back of his neck a little bit as if being sheepish about something.] Oh, I forgot to ask your name, that was rude of me...
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[Getting to introduce himself is a nice change to how it usually goes, where people know him on sight and decide to slap the most formal honourifics they can think of on the end of his name. Full name is still force of habit, though. Too many business meetings and public events.]
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[This would sound more genuine if Molly weren't speaking in his carnie barker voice like he's trying to sell Ren on Why He Should Be Friends With Him, but that's classic Molly, really.]
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[He winks, flicking one of his forelocks back over his shoulder with a smile that's just a touch more knowing than what he's been wearing for most of this conversation. They also share being a pretty good read of people, evidently.]
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[Ren is and always has been very fond of displays of skill, and Asaka has always been impressive enough at that sort of thing, so of course he's going to jump at the opportunity to learn what someone else from that background can do.]
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[The swords he doesn't have. His disappointment in Astoria taking his sole line of defense and leaving him with nothing but a useless (but pretty) periapt of wound closure will never fade.] I'd demonstrate, but I'm fresh out of swords. Also a deeply poor idea to make the attempt while you're slippery.
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What kind of fortune telling do you do? There's lots of different kinds in my world, though it's usually about reading people more than anything...
[The woes of a world where magic isn't really a thing, he supposes.]
i can't believe i typed sticks instead of tricks. wtf
Will he admit it?
Nope.] Ah, well. It's a particular kind of divination, calling on the gods for aide and all that. Very few people are in tune with the spiritual energies of the world to truly set people on their destinies, but I'd like to think I'm particularly skilled.
that's a mood
Would something like that even work the same way here...? I've heard people have lost their powers when they arrived...
["Heard" meaning he lost them himself and that's how he knows, but same thing, really.]
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I guess we'll find out if that's one of them. I haven't had a chance to turn cards for anyone yet.
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[He winks a little, the gesture innocent. Does he mean fortune telling, cards, or having someone try to read him? Who knows. It might even be all three (it's almost definitely all three, actually, but he knows better than to let that on so early in the piece).]