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revivalproject2024-09-10 11:02 am
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[Event] [Open Log] Why Did The Tumbleweed Cross The Road? To Meet He Rows
In a way it’s like a scene out of a Western full of cliches. It happens on a quiet day with the streets more or less empty. A wind rolls in from the south, from the path toward the beach. A large bundle of what looks like twigs and sticks curled up not unlike a tumbleweed rolls along in the wind. An orb that moves quietly as it rolls over the roads in Temba, from the outskirts toward the center.
It moves fast, faster than the winds should have allowed for. Someone catching sight, who might want to follow it, would need to jog to keep up. In fact, following it would only cause the orb to seem like it was rolling away faster. Actually, it is. How strange.
The almost tumbleweed rolls with purpose and ease through the twisting roads and paths of Temba, slowing only briefly once it reaches new paved areas. Again, weird, given it should be able to move easier over something so smooth. Then it’s off again, quicker than ever. Rolling and rolling and racing almost until… until the fountain.
Here the twisted, dried out vegetation rolls right up over the edge of the fountain and settles into it. There it rests for a while, still and perhaps sucking up a drink from the water. Only after ten minutes have passed does the bundle of twigs and sticks shiver. Shiver and tremble and quake, like a dead tree caught in a storm. Then it unfolds. Uncurls. Rises up.
The thing still looks like a large, twisting mass of twigs and sticks and branches. But now it unfolds a pair of arms and three supporting legs. A particularly dense clump of twigs lifts up above the shoulders, tilts as it looks around with faintly glowing amber eyes. All told it rises easily to four feet in height, which is impressive as when it had been nothing more than a bundle of twigs it was maybe eight inches tall. Turns out it was very densely packed in there. Now it looks more spindly and delicate, a mass of thin, twisted branches and twigs, with the only real bulk in the more branch-like legs. Legs that still rest in the water, perhaps still drinking.
Amber eyes peer about before the creature gives a series of trembling, shuddering movements. It makes all of the twigs and sticks around what might generously be called a ‘torso’ to rattling and rasping. Rustling and scraping. Groaning and whispering like trees in a breeze. To any who might be observing without Communications it may sound unnerving and mysterious. To those who can understand languages, well, it is clearly a calling.
Little kin, to me come. I return little ones. Come fruit, come frond. Let us speak and together be knowing of the world. So kin calls to kin, and the old stories are shared, the knowledge comes to be known.
The rattling carries an impressive distance. Near to the edges of the city it carries, amplified perhaps by the buildings still standing. And sure enough, over the course of the day, Funfronds will be seen rushing through the city to the Fountain. And a single Barry soldier, to serve as envoy to the arrival.
But that’s for later. For now the strange new Plantkin looks around, looking for something. Until, at last, it sees a He Row. Then the rattling starts again. Quieter.
It sounds like the hallucination of words whispered when wandering alone in the words. A low rattle that, the more that it goes on, the more it will resolve into a certainty of words.
“Summoned I was. By knowing kin and by the little ones. Come for the knowing. So is calling. Kin calls for me, and I seek for those of whom I was told. Come to seek Link. Seek Sonic. Seek Dustin. Seek Tony. Seek the strange animals who speak. Who build like the kin. Who aspire to know. Come and speak, and through sharing, grow together toward the sun.”
It moves fast, faster than the winds should have allowed for. Someone catching sight, who might want to follow it, would need to jog to keep up. In fact, following it would only cause the orb to seem like it was rolling away faster. Actually, it is. How strange.
The almost tumbleweed rolls with purpose and ease through the twisting roads and paths of Temba, slowing only briefly once it reaches new paved areas. Again, weird, given it should be able to move easier over something so smooth. Then it’s off again, quicker than ever. Rolling and rolling and racing almost until… until the fountain.
Here the twisted, dried out vegetation rolls right up over the edge of the fountain and settles into it. There it rests for a while, still and perhaps sucking up a drink from the water. Only after ten minutes have passed does the bundle of twigs and sticks shiver. Shiver and tremble and quake, like a dead tree caught in a storm. Then it unfolds. Uncurls. Rises up.
The thing still looks like a large, twisting mass of twigs and sticks and branches. But now it unfolds a pair of arms and three supporting legs. A particularly dense clump of twigs lifts up above the shoulders, tilts as it looks around with faintly glowing amber eyes. All told it rises easily to four feet in height, which is impressive as when it had been nothing more than a bundle of twigs it was maybe eight inches tall. Turns out it was very densely packed in there. Now it looks more spindly and delicate, a mass of thin, twisted branches and twigs, with the only real bulk in the more branch-like legs. Legs that still rest in the water, perhaps still drinking.
Amber eyes peer about before the creature gives a series of trembling, shuddering movements. It makes all of the twigs and sticks around what might generously be called a ‘torso’ to rattling and rasping. Rustling and scraping. Groaning and whispering like trees in a breeze. To any who might be observing without Communications it may sound unnerving and mysterious. To those who can understand languages, well, it is clearly a calling.
Little kin, to me come. I return little ones. Come fruit, come frond. Let us speak and together be knowing of the world. So kin calls to kin, and the old stories are shared, the knowledge comes to be known.
The rattling carries an impressive distance. Near to the edges of the city it carries, amplified perhaps by the buildings still standing. And sure enough, over the course of the day, Funfronds will be seen rushing through the city to the Fountain. And a single Barry soldier, to serve as envoy to the arrival.
But that’s for later. For now the strange new Plantkin looks around, looking for something. Until, at last, it sees a He Row. Then the rattling starts again. Quieter.
It sounds like the hallucination of words whispered when wandering alone in the words. A low rattle that, the more that it goes on, the more it will resolve into a certainty of words.
“Summoned I was. By knowing kin and by the little ones. Come for the knowing. So is calling. Kin calls for me, and I seek for those of whom I was told. Come to seek Link. Seek Sonic. Seek Dustin. Seek Tony. Seek the strange animals who speak. Who build like the kin. Who aspire to know. Come and speak, and through sharing, grow together toward the sun.”
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Because of course it doesn't know how invasive of a question that might be.
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"I, um, that's a little... forward. I mean. I'm sure some people wouldn't mind taking their clothes off in front of others but it's not really my thing."
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"Ah. This is culturally inappropriate to ask? Forgive."
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Alec leans back a little, until he can lean against the fountain wall. "It's not entirely inappropriate. And there are people who would be comfortable undressing. I'm just...not like that."
He thinks about it a little more, debating what and how much to say. It's a weird conversation, but the creature clearly wants to learn. "It can also have sexual connotations. That could offend or make people uncomfortable as well."
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So that might explain how it could speak in words he might understand.
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"Um, sexual... sex is the word for the human reproductive process. Though some people do it for fun too, not because they're, uh, trying to have babies. Um... does that make sense?"
Can a hole in the ground please open up and swallow him now?
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The whole bush shudders, like it doesn't like the very idea of what might happen there.
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"Are there other things you'd like to know instead?"
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And learning is important.
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Or is Alec just supposed to talk about himself? He's not sure, and he's really bad at talking about himself so he hopes that's not the case.
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