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

[a_parting_word]

[ It's not that he means to compare, or turn up quite this close to the plant, or in all exist in a world where singing subjects of gardening frolic as matter of course, but - ]

...it holds a note better than most tavern singers.

[negativegate]

I'd rather listen to the plants back home than this thing.

[At least they have useful parts...]

[a_parting_word]

[ He could be staring more.

Just maybe not more intently. ]

...the ones you know also sing.

[negativegate]

[Getting creepy there, buddy! Have a glare in return.]

They scream when you fry them. It's close enough.

[a_parting_word]

[ Slightly mumbled - ]

That sounds remarkably like murder.

[negativegate]

What, you like a few lame plants that much?

[a_parting_word]

It's no different to you if they scream?

[ So much judgment. ]

[negativegate]

They're monsters! Who cares if they scream when you take them out?

[It's totally natural to her!]

[signatures]

Not a paid tavern singer.

[a_parting_word]

[ Cough. ]


You've had good luck with your patronage.

[signatures]

Or lucky choice of establishments.

[a_parting_word]

They all look and sound the same after a few sips.


[ e x p e r i e n c e ]

[undespairing]

Haha, it's pretty good for a plant, isn't it?

[a_parting_word]

Don't pay it.

[undespairing]

Why not?

[a_parting_word]

Because it might follow someone like you home.

[undespairing]

Haha, that'd be pretty interesting! My very own singing plant.

[a_parting_word]

There isn't a pot big enough to keep it.

[undespairing]

Maybe it knows where I can find one.

[riseto]

Don't say that, you make me feel obligated to pay it.

[a_parting_word]

[ ...and that sets him fishing through his pockets - ]

What's the... usual fare for... singing plants?

[riseto]

Well, it's a couple of coppers for a tavern wench with a decent voice.

[a_parting_word]

Coppers? ...I should take to singing.

[ FINDING THE GD COINS... ]

[riseto]

[ . . . ]

What are you doing?

[a_parting_word]

[ finally tossing a bit of change on the ground, is what!

...noticeably, the plant's vines collect it. ]

You said it was doing a tolerable job.