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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[There's always this:] You might want to reconsider the spot. People live there.
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[ Her way of saying: lol no.
She brushes her hair out of her face. ]
I'm Lorna. [ half second's pause: ] Dane. — hi.
[ Welp, she might as well introduce herself. ]
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Steve tries not to make a thing about it. He opts instead to get up and offer his hand to shake.]
Steve Rogers. Pleasure to meet you.
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[ She's done the multiverse thing way too many times to count or care for, so it doesn't really bother her at all at this point any longer. She shakes his hand when offered. ]
Same shtick, different people -- mostly.
[ There'd been some cases where X-Men had been Avengers, and Avengers had been X-Men. ]
Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are my half siblings, if ... those names mean anything to you. If not, whatever, the multiverse is weird and I've been doing this shit since I was seventeen.
[ So that's.
Twenty years.
r.i.p. her sanity. ]
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[He figures it's possibly... especially with the mention of those names. Steve straightens up further, visibly alarmed by those names.] They mean a lot. I met them when we were taking down the HYDRA base where the experiments on them took place. They took off before we could talk to them. Are they going to be okay?
[Surprise he has a lot of sympathy for a pair of kids who volunteered for something they didn't quite understand. He also really doesn't get this multiverse thing. At least he means well????]
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They've survived worse. So, yeah, I think they'll come out of that one too.
[ Maybe not with their full sanity intact, but. ]
Where I'm from, they're both ling time Avengers, both get married and have children.
[ Wanda also depowers most of the mutant population for a time (including Lorna herself) and Pietro loses his shit and pisses off the entire Inhuman race by stealing their crystals WAY TO GO. Among other things. ]
If I know my siblings, I assume by 'take off' you mean Pietro scooped her up and sped out of there going like ten bazillion miles an hour.
[ She says that with a half smile. ]
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He nods at the question tiredly.] That was it. I think they thought we were with them. Wanda pushed me down some stairs and her brother got one of my friends shot.
[Either that or Whedon wrote them out to be actual monsters. Who knows???]
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[ 'We're', meaning this family of disasters. ]
I don't know that I'd mistake Avengers for Nazis — instead I'd call them people who have a bad habit of standing back and don't use their resources and clout to help mutants when they're being slaughtered by the thousands, and saying it's 'not their business' to step in to 'mutant problems', sure. But that one, not so much. [ Which is a different kind of shittiness than Hydra, or the humans that test on mutants. It's really the only beef she has with her world's Avengers, and hopefully this other set of Avengers lacks that brand of shittiness, so it's as much of a dig as she's willing to take here. ] But I can believe they'd want the hell out of their cages and get through anyone to do it. Your friend was okay after?
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He's heated about it. The only thing keeping him from shouting is that Lorna doesn't deserve his anger. His voice is tense as he tries to keep it conversational.] Correct me if I'm not following this as you meant it, but since when have I opted not to step in when people are being slaughtered? It's my entire purpose as Captain America. If I'm- he's not stepping in to help a group being slaughtered, you have my blessing to tell him he's no longer worthy of his power and should give the shield to anyone willing to do something because he's failed his mission. He's failed the people who trusted him to do the right thing with the power we've been given.
[Side note: he's going to kick his own ass. Lorna doesn't need to pass that along.] Unless your Captain America isn't an Avenger?
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[ she is a block of salt about genosha still ok. ]
And Tony Stark's a giant asshole, so that doesn't help. But the one here is four hundred percent less asshole and actually pretty all right, so. That's weird. [ But a nice change from what she knows, so there's that. ]
If I get sent back home again for a time, and remember my time here, I'll pass the message along. But I'm not optimistic about that one, considering I didn't remember here when I went back recently.
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Steve blows out a sigh like a whistle.] He's my partner so I'm glad you think so.
[He's had conflict with Tony, but they are in a better place now. What she has to share worries him. Steve doesn't want to forget what they've shared. He keeps that to himself though. They just met, after all.] I just wish you could pass that along. Sounds like your guys need to be straightened out.
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[ It's a compliment, really. ]
Yeah, a lot. Don't we all in some way, I guess. I mean, I'm not especially known for my diplomacy skills.
[ hahahaha, understatement.
of the year. ]