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

[likeboudica]

[ She visibly relaxes, tension draining out of her. ]

I assume it is magic of some sort.

[mintjulep]

Dangerous.

[ It's a gruff comment, the line of his mouth hard and his eyes dark to match. ]

[mintjulep]

Suppose that would make sense, where you come from.

[ There has to be some sort of science behind it, if she physically changes -- which is what it sounds like, if it used to hurt. ]

[likeboudica]

Do you [ she takes a deep breath ] If you want to-- do something, to learn how it works, if you can. [ She would let him. ]

[mintjulep]

[ He pauses, considers. It's tempting. But... ]

Not right now, and not here.

[likeboudica]

No, of course not. [ There's a little relief in those words. ]

[mintjulep]

I don't need to know how it works, Tess.

[ It's different if she wants to know how it works, but that doesn't matter to him as much as if she's healthy, happy. ]

[likeboudica]

No? [ She doesn't-- quite get that. ]

[mintjulep]

No. I'd be interested in knowing, sure, but I don't need to know. I can live without knowing. [ He pauses. ] I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable, or obligated to show me or let yourself be poked and prodded at.

[likeboudica]

I know that I am not obliged to.

[ Thinking for a moment. ] Why are you so kind to me?

[mintjulep]

[ He considers for a brief moment, but it doesn't take long before he replies. ]

Because you've got to ask that question.

[likeboudica]

I don't understand.

[mintjulep]

You've been through more at sixteen than anyone should ever have to go through, Tess. If I can help make things a little easier for you, keep an eye out for you -- hell, even just teach you about horses -- then I will.

[nohometown]

You're quite right.

[He wouldn't say this at home, but it's a bit of a relief to be able to speak openly, without consequences.]

The scientists responsible for the project have been irresponsible--I would say criminal, save for the fact that the government sanctioned their actions.

1:2

[likeboudica]

[ That he would-- Tessa swallows down the emotions those words bring up. ]

It was not all bad. Most of my life was not bad at all.

[likeboudica]

[ very quietly: ] I do want to know about horses.

[mintjulep]

[ But some of it was. ]

I'll teach you.

[likeboudica]

[ yes. ]

Thank you.

[mintjulep]

Governments can still be criminal.

[ He's still frowning, but-- ]

We had Eugenics Wars, in the history of my world.

[nohometown]

I mean technically, in that they cannot be prosecuted under our current laws.

We've had a related war as well, still ongoing, where I'm from. [It had been Genesis and Angeal's degradation and mutation that had started it all, and such great power had made them difficult to combat. They were gone now, but the war might not be over.] What happened, in your world?

[mintjulep]

Three years. Over 30 million deaths.

[mintjulep]

You're welcome.

[beifongbandit]

I get around. [ She grins. ] Better than a lot of people. Eyesight is totally overrated.

[beifongbandit]

Moving around rock, dirt, metal... anything like that. And reading the vibrations in the ground. Great for fighting. [ She seems enthused by this idea. ]

[errandry]

Yeah, if you can control something like earthbending, I bet. Were you born with it or what?