XANADU OPERA TIME | ALL INVITED

[shall_yield_us]

WHEN: Jan. 15 | the Xanadu gardens.
CHARACTERS: Everyone.
SUMMARY: we interrupt your regular Xanadu viewing for the following special reminder: ...the visit ain't over til the bloody plant sings.

That's right: our green belle been giving rather obnoxious titillating performances in Xanadu, to what can only be the... enjoyment... of certain Citizens. Adding injury to insult, it's quite possible that a couple of residents have also captured the plant's tune on film, and now the video's been turned into a network viral phenomenon!

But as Citizens surely know, every grand artist needs a doting live audience: come get dibs on more plant footage? Save someone from its evil clutches? Help a poor soul that's got lost in the gardens' great expanse? Get the plant to sign with your talent agency? Embark on a mystical quest to get it to shut up?

Just put your chlorophyll-tinted glasses on, and anything is possible.


[ ooc: Find whatever excuse to throw your character in Xanadu, tag someone new, and all around: GET IN HERE. Just as a note: hearing the plant is definitely optional, so please don't think it's an overwhelming sound that'd keep your character up at night or some such. It's just a log prompt. XD ]

Comments

[signatures]

Pancake usually likes everyone. [ He's being unusually shy. ] Maybe he's too cold for politenesss, eh?

Have you? When?

[misterblackbird]

[This would be Cain, venturing out after his convalescence--still wary after that ordeal, but still determined to take a walk in Xanadu.]

[signatures]

Not a paid tavern singer.

[synanthrope]

Maybe it's the smell of my shoes.

[She shrugs; it's an unusually human gesture.]

When she got out. I helped Yusuf find her.

[thepointyend]

I don't have fire.

[child_radical]

Just another thing which may turn out to be annoying or utterly traumatic.

[negativegate]

Idiot. Monsters don't care.

[thepointyend]

Are you magic?

[Yeah, she's still looking pretty wary. Of both the plant and of her.]

[charring]

No. Just...considered different where I'm from. Nothing magical about it. [The plant is now hitting a very long and high note and Charlie starts stepping back from it.] If it's going to do that, I can't focus.

[notrapturesmessiah]

[Eleanor doesn't move the book much. Just turns her head to see who is talking to her, a bit alarmed. Manners, where did they go? Still, she tilts the book slightly more towards Rosiel.] Is this better?

[nohometown]

[He continues his approach, but comes to a halt a pace or two away from her.]

That wasn't my reason for coming. I was exploring, more or less, but the plant did draw my attention. [He glances back toward it again.] Do you think it represents a threat to public safety?

[thepointyend]

[Arya takes a step towards it, Needle at the ready. She's not going to let a stupid plant get the best of her.] I can.

[othersdie]

It carries a tune well.

[Just checking out the singing plant, possibly wondering if it would be possible to come up with a hybrid that doesn't sing.]

[nohometown]

[Sephiroth's interested in the man's examination, as well as his tricorder.

He's still trying to figure out if he should destroy the plant, himself.]

Have you discovered anything interesting?

[othersdie]

They do have stomata.

[This isn't said directly to her so much as thought out loud.]

Not that that could explain the singing. Even if a plant was capable of changing the tugor of its cell walls that rapidly it wouldn't produce any noise.

[brobeforehos]

[But she hears it, alright. Biology, how entertaining biology is.

Conversations are still conversations.]

Not to mention produce words?

[charring]

[Charlie stops her retreat and watches Arya for a second before following.] Might want to watch your feet. It's sending things after them.

[Charlie, meanwhile, was keeping an eye on the vines creeping towards her own feet. Every once in a while, one would flare and recoil rapidly, shrinking from the flames that appeared on their leaves.]

[othersdie]

[This is not quite what Justin expected to see when he decided to get a closer look at the plant.]

What are you doing?

[deadly_legacy]

Oh! Cain! [She waves over at him before making her way closer. She looks relieved to see him.]

[nohometown]

[Sephiroth watches his approach, patiently. His faintly glowing catlike eyes are perhaps a little unusual, but otherwise he looks more or less human.

When Mr. White is closer, he nods toward the plant.]

Good afternoon. Do you happen to know anything about this creature?

[dulcisnuntius]

Yes, I do! I've never seen a singing plant before. For me, that's a pretty big deal.

[deadly_legacy]

[Euphie is standing close enough to watch and listen, but not too close to the singing plant. This is fascinating and more than a little disturbing.]

[thepointyend]

[Arya jabs at the vines with Needle, her sword apparently just as effective in driving them back as Charlie's vines. It does make it tricky to get near the plant, though. Arya's not having any success there at all.]

[totallyinaband]

Yeah, so do I.

[othersdie]

[Justin likes plants. He doesn't like singing. The novelty of a singing, blood-thirsty plant, however, is enough to make the noise bearable. He'd like to get a leaf and try grafting it to something that doesn't sing, which involves getting close...]