Time for Tending Plants [Open]

[lionunchained]

WHO: Shiro and You!
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: Dealing with Plants
WHEN: Throughout Event
WARNINGS: Nothing yet, will update.


Oh What Insanity Is This
It was nice to be able to step off the ship and finally be back in Temba. While it wasn't actually home, it was nice to actually return to the place that had become sort of become home.

That's what he really would have liked to think. As he stepped out of the hangar and was able to survey Temba again, he was completely dumbstruck by everything that had happened. He just... stood there as he stared at it. The plants... there was just so much of it. It was everywhere...

"What the hell happened here? How long were we gone?"

Brave Explorer
Even though the urge to just stand and stare at the mess was really very tempting, it wouldn't do anything to make things better so finally, he went to find something that he could use to start cutting plants down. Dark that his new arm didn't have the same abilities as his old one and he couldn't just use THAT.

However, the metal arm did come in handy (ha) because he could use it to help push plants to the side with less worry about it actually hurting him. No feeling and very hard to damage helped like that.

But after working for a while, it didn't feel like they had really gotten anywhere. He grumbled before looking at the person next to him.

"How long have we been at this?"

Save the Glownie!
Shiro hadn't been planning on being out so late. He'd kind of lost track of time. One would say it was stupid for him to have been so careless as to forget about this part...

Shiro would call it a blessing though since as he was trying to find his way back, he stumbled upon a faint glowing light among the trees. Moving closer, he spotted one of the glownies that had wandered away from the its home in this mess. Maybe it smelled mint somewhere.

But that wasn't all he spotted. There was Thorntooth that was attempting to sneak up on it, ready for an easy target.

Shiro, of course, couldn't let that happen, charging to get to the Glownie first, having only a dinky weapon to try and delay it in his attempt to flee with the Glownie.

Bishop
Sorry, crew of the Bishop or anyone else who would be there, there is temporarily a Glownie wandering around on the ship one night...

Comments

[lionunchained]

"Yeah. Basically. They showed up when some mint accidentally got left out."

The Glownie saw that hand and went trotting over to Radley to see him. Hello, new human.

[crystalmaster]

"They're obsessed with mint?"

Radley chuckles and moves to gently pet the Glownie. "Hi there."

[lionunchained]

"They are. Surprisingly, it is their favorite snack."

The Glownie was happy there and made a contented sound at being pet.

[crystalmaster]

"Huh. I wonder what they'd think of chocolate mint."

It's just an idle thought, since he knows chocolate usually isn't good for animals. He smiles, continuing to pet it.

[lionunchained]

"Hmm... I've never tried. It might smell to different for them." He didn't think there was any here to try that with though.

The Glownie stepped close, enjoying the pets. Yes, pay attention to the animal.

[crystalmaster]

"It probably wouldn't be good for them. Hopefully none will get left around."

He chuckles as the animal enjoys the attention. "So you guys have them somewhere as livestock?"

[lionunchained]

"I haven't seen any so it is probably fine. The smell might also keep them from it."

He nodded. "Yeah, they stay in the barn and occasionally out in the field. We sheer them like we would sheep and use the wool."

[crystalmaster]

"Hopefully."

He nods thoughtfully. "Cool. So people get glowy sweaters and stuff?"

[lionunchained]

"Unfortunately no. It loses its ability to glow after being cut off the Glownie, but it is still very warm. One of my friends here knows how to spin wool from home. I tried learning some from her. Still nowhere near as good."

[crystalmaster]

"Huh. So the glowy ability must be tied to the Glownie's body somehow."

He nods thoughtfully. "I never picked up that skill, but I saw my great-grandmother do it."

[lionunchained]

"Yeah, I think so. I think it basically enters the wool when it is attached, but whatever it is eventually fades. But that's not too much of an issue."

Just no glowing after too long.

"Really? That's fun. I never had the chance until I got here."

[crystalmaster]

"That's interesting. I guess it's good if people don't have their hearts set on glowing wool."

He nods. "I liked watching her, but I kinda made a mess of it when I tried to do it." He chuckles. "Maybe I could pick it up now. I don't know. That would make a pretty topsy-turvy picture, a biker punk spinning wool."

But then again, he is a very unusual biker punk.

[lionunchained]

"Yeah. It's also a lot more noticeable."

Hence the dilemma they were in now. Glowing horse was easy to spot for anyone.

"I think it takes practice. I've been getting better the more that I do it. Everything gets better with practice." He chuckled at that last part. "Don't worry about something like that. If you want to spin wool, spin wool."

[crystalmaster]

"It sure would be."

Radley smiles. "That's good. And ha, yeah, I usually just do what I want regardless of what people think."

Or he figures there's no way to convince them otherwise, if they're intent on misjudging him as people often do.

[lionunchained]

The Glownie nudged Radley's hand. Snack? Realizing what the Glownie wanted, Shiro held out a rolled up napkin that contained mint. It was hardly a good way to hide it from the Glownie, but it stopped it from immediately snapping it from his hand.

"That's good. I have the theory that you should... as long as it is not hurting others or breaking the law."

[crystalmaster]

Radley chuckles at the cuteness. "Should I feed it or do you want to?"

He nods in agreement. "That's how I feel too. Back home I was unusual in that I didn't wanna terrorize people with my motorcycle. I ran a motorcycle gang, but we tried to protect our town from a cruel guy and his gang."

[lionunchained]

"You can," Shiro said. "I get to feed them all the time."

Glownie was very expectantly looking at the rolled up napkin. It knew there was mint in there...

"Sounds like a very honorable thing to do. Sorry that you had to actively try to prevent the others from terrorizing people."

CW: Mentions of torture

[crystalmaster]

Radley smiles and opens the napkin to reveal the mint.

"Thanks. Yeah, it was a real mess. I don't know how much good I really did. It was a complicated situation and people got badly hurt and killed before it was all over. If I hadn't stopped the guy from completely taking over, maybe even more would have suffered. But it was bad enough as it was and I wonder if my greed fueled some of my decisions. We were fighting over a valuable mine. My rival tortured his miners, but I treated mine fairly."

He looks haunted by the memories.

[lionunchained]

The Glownie was definitely looking at him. Mint please?

"Oh man, that's rough. I'm sorry to hear that this happened to them. There are some really terrible people out there."

And he knew that from experience as well, the torture part and the terrible people.

"Unfortunately, it's hard to tell how much it would have helped. Maybe not at all. People like that generally don't need a reason, but they will take it when they have one."

[crystalmaster]

Radley holds it out farther for the Glownie.

"There sure are," he sighs. "My friends tell me we did do good, as later the town fell and it immediately got worse. Thankfully, some other guys finally saved it for real."

But he still feels like he failed, especially since he was unable to be part of that.

[lionunchained]

The Glownie immediately began to snack on the mint, taking it right from his hand. Yum... mint.

"That's not good that it fell, but good that someone else was able to assist. Doesn't sound like it was an easy situation for anyone."

[crystalmaster]

Radley smiles, watching.

"Yeah, I'm glad someone could help. That's the most important thing. It was really rough."

[lionunchained]

"Yeah, it is. It's a shame that someone would do something like that to others, but I know that some people just have no concern for anything other than themselves."

And he'd raise his arm to show off his floating metal arm.

"Someone thought that I'd be better fighter for them with a new arm. Wasn't my choice."

Granted, this also wasn't that arm, but close enough.

[crystalmaster]

Radley can't help but stare in shock.

"They deliberately amputated your arm?!"

He heard of Rex Goodwin doing that to his own arm back home, which was gruesome enough, but to do it to someone else ... !

[lionunchained]

"They did. And gave me a mechanical one that could be used for fighting. This is not that one, but I have to have it because otherwise I'd have no arm at all."

He sighed. "There are some messed up people out there."