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MINI EVENT: IN FULL BLOOM

IN FULL BLOOM( APRIL 6TH )


april 6 ↴
MINI EVENT: IN FULL BLOOM

It's unlikely you see the catalyst of this event, or at least understand it. The entirety of Asgard can be, and frequently is tied to the Gods that protect it and what they have dominion over. The latent curses that Wanderers have sprung upon them are intangible proof, but when it comes to a God like Sigyn...her ties to the world are much more visible, apparent.

She's holed herself up in her district, tending to the earth with her hands and tools, like a human would. It distracts her, makes it easier to force her mind to feel things it isn't otherwise. Most Gods would know this comes with side effects; if snapped out of the state, she would as well. Right now, it's not so pressing a matter.

Her emotional unsteadiness doesn't come out as ugly or marred as one might imagine -- no, if you're standing outside when the magic takes effect, you'll be surprised to see large clumps of flowers curling up from the earth and blooming blossoms larger than they should be almost immediately after coming into complete existence. Some locations for these plants make no sense, taking root anywhere they please. Maybe in a patch of soil, or maybe on the side of a wall. Your roof, your bathtub, the very sleeve of your shirt.

Their sudden appearance may cause you alarm, enough to stay away on instinct. It's likely for naught, with just how plentiful they are. Smelling their aroma or coming into contact with their pollen is basically an inevitability. And when you do...something strange will happen.

  • ASPHODEL → This flower will cause the feeling of soul-crushing regret and guilt. What's the one thing that you regret the most? The one thing you would change if you could turn back time? It's time to have that thrown back in your face for the next twelve hours, assuming you're not exposed to this pollen again. In the case that there is no big thing that you regret or feel guilty about, it'll be some small minor thing that has been exacerbated in your mind by the pollen to the point that it is now a big deal as well.

  • CARNATION → After coming into contact with this flower, you feel a pull of absolutely clinginess that draws you towards someone you have some degree of fondness for, be it romantic or platonic in nature. There's this niggling feeling that won't stop pestering you, that you simply have to be in close proximity to this person. Hovering, observing, touching. Once you are? The feeling goes away. This magic tether lasts throughout the day, despite how your target may feel about it. If for some reason you can't be near this person, like they force you away by some magical means, your desperation strengthens as the proximity remains broken.

  • EDELWEISS → This one will cause you to become extremely reckless. It goes beyond developing or exacerbating a hero complex. It's like experiencing l'appel du vide for twelve hours and actually listening to it. You won't be very susceptible to reason without some magic to put a stop to you, and your sense of consequence? Completely out the window.

  • POPPY → Upon close contact with these flowers, you experience mild to severe synesthesia for anywhere from ten minutes to a couple of hours. Your senses mingle. You smell colours, see sounds. It often comes with a very mild sense of euphoria, but some find it disorienting instead.

  • GENTANIA → When's the last time you had a good night's sleep? A few days? Weeks? Prior to ever showing up here? Here, let's help with that. The pollen from Gentania andrewsii, commonly known as a closed or bottle gentian, will instantly put anyone who comes in contact with it to sleep. It doesn't matter if they're sitting, standing, driving or swimming. They will fall into a deep sleep, varying anywhere from six to twelve hours. For the duration of that time, they will experience vivid nightmares, and will only awaken after experiencing sleep paralysis.

  • IRIS → Apparently you're allergic to this flower. Don't worry, everyone else is too. Contact with this pollen causes a painful burning sensation. Don't scratch or rub at it, because that'll only cause it to spread. Washing the afflicted area or applying any sort of ointment or balm won't help. Tough it out. It'll only last a couple of hours.


The flowers definitely overstay their welcome, as does their magic. The blooms themselves will fall off and uproot themselves from their unnatural settings after about a week. The magic? It sticks with the plants for a whole day. The curse you're hit with might not last as long, but this means being careful: there's always the chance of being afflicted again. Maybe with two curses at once!

How will you know the curse is over? Maybe if you can put two and two together, you'll wake up in the morning and notice stepping outside doesn't...smell the way it usually does. The grass, any stray flowers, trees. None of them have any whiff of a scent.


MOD NOTES

This is the April mini-event before our bigger event later in the month!

Note that you can stack flower curse effects except for the Gentania curse that puts someone to sleep.
tealeafs: (into the heavens)

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[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-11 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, this really doesn't seem like it'd be a Naminé kind of activity, now does it? It's strange to a point that Chizuru kind of freaks out when she first spots the blonde hair all the way up there, figuring this must not have happened intentionally. Why would Naminé of all people do such a thing, after all?

So Chizuru quickly runs up to the tree, and once she's standing under its branches, she looks up with the most worried expression on her face. ]


N.. Naminé, are you okay? Do you need help?!
lethechained: (Rumpled)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-12 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The assessment is an accurate one. As Naminé has proven already during their time attempting exercise, she's not much for it. So it might seem a little odd, then, that when the girl leans over to glance down at the sound of her name, she looks quite unbothered by the height - even smiles warmly. ]

Chizuru? What's wrong?

[ Too unbothered. It's uncharacteristic for Naminé to look so happy in the first place, much less in such a context. ]

I'm fine...! I can come down any time I like.

[ Whether or not the method by which she'd see fit to do so would be acceptable to Chizuru is entirely a different question. ]
tealeafs: (i will watch over our encounter)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-13 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is so weird. How could the girl even ask her what's wrong?! Chizuru is pretty sure that it's very, very obvious what's wrong here! Sure, there's still the usual sliver of selfdoubt, that maybe she's the one exaggerating matters here.. but she's pretty sure she would not be the only person in this city to be concerned over seeing Naminé up there. ]

.. Are you sure?

[ Because Chizuru doesn't sound sure. ]

I didn't know you were such a good climber..
lethechained: (Flower vase :o)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-15 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Naminé tilts her head at the question, too comfortably separated from her own usual self-doubt to actually do more than shrug lightly. It's non-committal in a situation that should probably be very thoroughly committed to, one way or the other; if she doesn't know she'll be fine, then why is she so calm? ]

A good climber?

[ Actually, she does have the good fortune of remembering some good climbers. Or remembering what they remember, that is, and learning from those deeply-ingrained memories of their childhoods spent messing around all over the play island largely unsupervised. It was enough to get her up there, at least, but, ]

I don't know about that. I've never climbed a tree before today...!

[ Which means she's never climbed down one either. ]
tealeafs: (like tree branches)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-15 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Chizuru's jaw looks like it'll be pretty much on the floor if it lowers any further. ]

B.. Before today?!

[ Okay. Sure. She's been trying to not get too panicked today, despite something weird obviously going on around town. She figured that maybe she was just being too paranoid, too cautious - it wouldn't be the first time, after all. But Chizuru is pretty sure that Naminé being that high up without any real tree climbing experience is definitely something worth panicking about. What if she falls? She'll break something from that high up! ]

Naminé, you should come down..! [ Before something bad happens! ]
lethechained: (wh...what?)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-17 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Even in her altered state, Naminé is not entirely unable to register Chizuru's distress. The blonde blinks at her, formerly content expression waning into a mild surprise that becomes a chastised sort of confusion. Chin tucking, Naminé wilts, though the flower in her hair remains crisp and lively. ]

Huh? Come down?

[ Chizuru seems pretty certain about there being cause for worry, and in the face of that Naminé begins to frown - or pout, rather, though it's more sad than sullen. ]

But-- why? I like it up here.

[ Defiance isn't part of the question - she's too used to being denied what she wants to have that sort of attitude - but it's more as if she genuinely doesn't understand why heights are a bad idea. ]
tealeafs: (shedding your petals graciously)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-18 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She almost replies to the question right away, instinctively protective, but Chizuru's resolve can't help but waver a little in the face of Naminé's expression. Sure, there really is something wrong here. And she knows 100% for sure that it's better for the girl to be standing with both her feet on the ground right now.

But is that really worth seeing Naminé looking sad? Chizuru's heart almost can't take it.

She does know she has to pull through for her safety though, so.. ]


Well.. You could fall, you know..? [ It's such an obvious answer. It almost feels a little patronizing. But Naminé question sounds so genuine that she can't help but reply with the genuine answer, no matter how simple it is. ] I don't want that to happen.
lethechained: (not good news man)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-20 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Intellectually, Naminé is still aware that it's a possibility that she might fall. She's a smart girl and the flower's effects haven't completely sapped her common sense, yet it's so much harder now for her to picture the potential risks actually becoming an unfortunate reality. ]

I know, [ she says, guiltily enough to indicate that she really does. Nevertheless, she presses on with, ] But I haven't fallen yet...! And I've been up here for a long time now.

[ To her credit, her voice doesn't take on any whining or resentful sort of tone. There's only reluctance, hesitation despite how her nature makes her more inclined to relent under Chizuru's fretting. ]
Edited 2020-04-20 03:21 (UTC)
tealeafs: (to stain my path)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-20 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've been up there for a while now, maybe this is the right time to come down..

[ It's hard, because Chizuru really has to struggle with pushing on with this. It doesn't come to her naturally. Not with people as sweet as Naminé, anyway. She's used to pushing around big guys back home into finally listening to her, but they're grown men, they can take it.

She doesn't want to break Naminé's heart, sure, but she would also prefer to not see the other girl break her legs. ]


I mean.. [ Her voice trails off as she quickly tries to think of something. ] Aren't you.. hungry..? [ That's a good excuse to come down, right? ]
lethechained: (Strained)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-22 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ 'I don't want to, yet,' the part of her that the flower has in its clutches says, but that's not all of Naminé that there is, and the rest of her holds her tongue. Melancholy eyes shifting toward the branches of the tree that cradle her and the little shapes she was busily making out of leaves, she breathes a soft sigh.

But she still looks back down at Chizuru when her voice calls again. ]


Hungry? [ Naminé echoes, faltering. Her lips press together a moment, but soon enough she musters a weak smile, one that exists under a knitted brow. ] A little bit, I guess.

[ Not enough to convince her to come down otherwise, but-- her desire to make the people around her happy is such a fundamental part of her personality that even the edelweiss can't block that out; her kindness factors too much into her instinctive choices. ]

Does that mean-- you'll cook for me if I come down?
tealeafs: (shedding your petals graciously)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-23 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course!

[ The reply is practically instantaneous. Maybe Chizuru is a little too eager to latch onto the slightest hint that the other might leave her position high up there, but she can't help it. She's so worried about the girl, especially since right now it seems like she's the only one around to help her. ]

I'll make you anything you want, okay? [ Granted, it's not as if she wouldn't do that for Naminé in an instant. Chizuru would do it for most people, in fact, but Naminé is such a young and precious girl that she can't help but agree even more easily. ] Well.. As long as I can make it here, anyway.

[ Limited ingredients and all. ]

All you have to do for that is come down carefully.
lethechained: (Oh :O ?)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-25 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ The offer of food does make coming down more appealing - less because Naminé's peckish and more because she's not used to having whatever she wants to eat. Her mouth rounds slightly, expression catching between surprise and curiosity. It's such an innocent look, and even the return of her hesitance doesn't put an end to that as she glances down at the space below her feet. The height doesn't seem to make her nervous. ]

Mm... well, alright.

[ And for a second she shifts her weight forward, like she might actually jump-- only to turn, leaning instead to try to figure out the best path down from where she's settled. ]

I'll come down, then, if you say so. [ A beat. More quietly, ] Once I figure out how...!
tealeafs: (i stretch my arms)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-26 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh god. For a moment it really does seem like Naminé is about to jump, and that in turn makes Chizuru's heart leap inside of her chest. She feels like she's had a heart attack by the time Naminé turns and it's clear she won't actually jump.

.. probably won't actually jump. Chizuru still doesn't fully trust whatever got Naminé so bold that she'd climb that high up to begin with. ]


Ah... J-Just try to find the most nearby branch that's only a little below you! [ Easier said than done, sure, but what else is Chizuru supposed to do from the ground? ] Make sure it's not too far away though, okay..?
lethechained: (er....)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-27 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Chizuru's quite right not to trust the situation, really, although (for now at least) Naminé seems to be behaving herself. She even angles her head down toward the other girl to listen to the advice, even if the smile she offers in return is entirely too unconcerned. ]

Okay...!

[ And Naminé does, in fact, find a branch that's pretty close - it's just getting down there that's the problem. Even after she's gotten a hold of it, the process of moving herself over to it is awkward, and-- yep, there's only one small slip and then she's dangling from the thing - with both hands, fortunately, but still. ]

-- Oh.

[ Just. Give her a second to get repositioned, here. ]
tealeafs: (into the heavens)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-27 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
N.. Naminé!

[ Chizuru is going to age about sixteen years before this whole ordeal is over. She's seen some seriously wild shenanigans back home, sure, but somehow it feels like they bleak in comparison to this. Mostly because at least those were grown men who could take responsibility for their own actions, and Naminé is so small and frail. ]

H-Hold on! Maybe I can find someone who can help you..! [ But that means abandoning the girl in her current position, which seems like an extremely bad idea. Which is exactly why Chizuru can't bring herself to move away from the scene. Instead she just stands there, practically rooted to the spot and completely baffled. ]
lethechained: (Oh :O ?)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-04-29 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ The girl looks even tinier all the way up there, holding on with just her skinny, delicate arms. Fortunately, she's also very light, which is probably the only reason she's able to keep herself there at all. At the call of her name her head turns the best she can manage, trying to glance down at Chizuru. The swaying makes it a bit hard to focus properly. ]

Huh?

[ Naminé looks more puzzled than distressed, face oddly calm as she swings slightly in place. ]

I don't think I can, [ she notes, as if commenting on the weather. ] If I wait any longer, I'm going to fall.

[ Which Chizuru seemed really bothered about before, so. In an effort not to let that happen, Naminé awkwardly adjusts her hold on the tree, shifting around until she finally manages to at least plant the bottoms of her sandals on par of it. From there, well-- she's already eyeing the next branch, so if Chizuru's going to find some way to help she might want to be quick about it before Naminé takes things into her own hands. (Like branches.) ]
tealeafs: (i stretch my arms)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-04-29 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ How can she say that so calmly.

How can she say something like that so calmly!

Chizuru feels so lightheaded at the very words 'I'm going to fall' that she almost feels like she might pass out on the spot. It's the pure urge to be helpful that keeps her from doing so - she knows it won't exactly help matters, after all. So instead she just quickly sputters out a -- ]


O.. Okay, wait, please!

[ -- as she sees the other girl at least.. vaguely safe.. the safest she can be right now, anyway. And then she quickly dashes off.

Chizuru is gone for a few moments. Not super long, since she's way too worried about the other girl to leave her alone like that for so long, but it's not like she can find an instant solution to this problem. After a little while she does return though - holding a ladder that is comically oversized for someone as tiny as Chizuru. She's just.. doing her best to try and drag it along with her.. ]


Here, look what I got..! Just wait until I put it up against the tree and you can use it to climb down, okay..? [ Having a solution ready should make her feel relieved, yet Chizuru knows she won't properly calm down until she sees the girl with both of her feet on the ground. ]
Edited 2020-04-29 19:35 (UTC)
lethechained: (Partners in Crime)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-05-01 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her placidity seems to be one of the more beneficial parts of the flower's effects. In truth, Naminé's much happier in general not worrying about anything - not that that means it's for the best. By the time she manages to twist around well enough to call down an, ]

Okay-- oh.

[ Chizuru's already run off. Naminé blinks, hesitating a moment - and honestly it's a lucky thing she's less interested in jumping than she is in spending more time in the tree, because otherwise Chizuru's quest would likely end up to be in vain.

By the time the older girl comes back, she'll find that Naminé's managed to maneuver herself onto a slightly lower branch and sit down there - although this one looks... a bit less stable than the previous one, considering how much smaller it is. If the blonde were any heavier it might present a problem (and it's bending concerningly already) but for now she glances over at the sound of Chizuru's voice, perking a little and still entirely comfortable with the situation in a very disconcerting kind of way. ]


Alright...! I'll wait. [ And seeming to feel the need to explain herself, she adds a late, ] I'm sorry, my arms got tired holding on like that.

[ Which is meant to excuse her having moved to the new branch, but. It's probably a good thing Chizuru wasn't around to see that whole process because it would have subtracted another five years from her lifespan. ]
tealeafs: (shedding your petals graciously)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-05-01 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ It definitely might just have killed her on the spot to witness that.. She feels herself growing older just watching Naminé sitting on that branch that's starting to bend so dangerously right now! At least the apology is nice - and very much like Naminé, despite the rest and the odd recklessness not being like her at all - but Chizuru most definitely feels the need to rush with that bending branch.

And so she quickly moves to place the ladder against the tree. Except.. there's nothing really 'quick' about it. After all, it's a large ladder, and Chizuru is so tiny. It would look comical if the situation wasn't so pressing. In fact, the ladder almost falls over - and would have bonked Chizuru right on the head - if she didn't manage to grab it at the last moment and press it against the tree.

Chizuru lets out such a sigh of relief when it's finally just standing upright and still.. Although she's still holding onto the bottom, just to make sure. ]


T.. There.

[ So many years off her life!! ]

You can climb down now..
lethechained: (D:)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-05-03 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ At least some part of Naminé remains, recklessness or not; she's got enough consideration left to straighten with mild concern as Chizuru nearly gets whacked by the large object she's holding. Seeing as no harm was done, however, Naminé doesn't comment, even though most of the time she'd be immediately inquiring about the other girl's wellbeing.

Which probably suffers a little for how unhurried Naminé actually is about the climbing onto the ladder. Her, ]


Okay. I'll do my best.

[ is polite enough, but the more she shifts around to try to climb onto the ladder itself, the more that support under her creaks. Just as she's about to shift her weight over completely, there's a sharp crack. The branch snaps, and it's only reflex that gets the girl to pull herself the rest of the way onto the rungs before the tree limb falls. As abrupt a motion as it is, it might make Chizuru's job a bit harder, provided she's still holding onto the ladder. ]
tealeafs: (shedding your petals graciously)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-05-03 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's still holding onto the ladder, thankfully.. Or all of this could've ended a lot worse.

Not that it's great right now either. Chizuru suddenly has to make a lot more effort to hold up the ladder. It'd sure be a lot easier if she could use her demonic strength right now, but alas, even before ending up in this place she never was particularly good at that. So instead she's just trying to hold the thing up the best she can with her regular human strength.

But it's straining her. It's obvious from the way she speaks up: ]


N-Naminé.. Please hurry! I don't know how long I can hold it..
lethechained: (Partners in Crime)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-05-05 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ A lot worse - possibly as badly as (or more so than) it would have turned out if Naminé had jumped. Luckily for both of them, the blonde recognizes the urgency of not letting Chizuru get smushed and or otherwise harmed by said ladder, so she begins to scurry down much more quickly than she probably ought to. ]

I'll be right there...!

[ There's at least one instance of her foot slipping on a rung, but she manages to clamber down in good time, hopping off near the bottom in a decidedly un-Naminé-like fashion. She does, however, immediately turn to consider the other girl with far more characteristic attention. ]

You aren't hurt, are you--?
tealeafs: (when i live by your side)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-05-05 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
No. No, I'm fine, just..

[ Just terribly exhausted after this whole ordeal. Although Chizuru's answer is probably undermined just a little by the fact she literally drops to her knees on the ground right after she says it. It's just the heavy relief kicking in from the realisation that Naminé really made it safely without dying. It feels like a small miracle, considering how many things went almost wrong just now.. ]
lethechained: (you won't disappear)

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-05-07 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Chizuru--?

[ Naturally, Naminé finds this reaction a bit distressing, flower or no flower. She gives a start, and almost as soon as the other girl lands, Naminé's kneeling down next to her, hands hovering awkwardly without any real aim to apply themselves to. ]

You don't look fine...! What's wrong?
tealeafs: (to stain my path)

[personal profile] tealeafs 2020-05-08 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
I-It's okay!

[ Honestly, it's more of an instinctive reply than anything else at this point. There's no way anyone could ask Chizuru if she's okay or what's wrong without her replying that before even really thinking about it.. Even though she's well aware she must not look super fine right now.

She sucks in a deep breath of air, at least trying to smile - though really tired-looking - at the other. ]


I was just really worried about you. [ She'll admit to that much, at least. Chizuru knows it's hard to hide she worries when she worries so much all the time. ] But now you're safe on the ground, it's a relief..

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