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

[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?

[othersdie]

[He was not expecting a reply.]

Oh... that, too. It must have a nervous system, which--which plants aren't supposed to have.

[brobeforehos]

[Nods.] And yet I think it's been pretty much established that it's no ordinary plant.

[othersdie]

That--yes. But it doesn't seem surprising, does it?

[brobeforehos]

I've been here for half the morning. None of it seems surprising anymore - it's just...the City.

[othersdie]

Mm. You've been here long enough for things like this to seem normal?

[brobeforehos]

Apparently, skepticism can turn around one-hundred and eighty degrees and become conformist just that easily. I thought I'd never get used to this place - I mean, I did think, wow, a singing plant, how unusual!

But then the next thought always is it's the City.

[othersdie]

Physical evidence has a way of changing what we will and won't believe.

[Contemplating the plant.]

I didn't think plants could sing, think, or grow fangs. Now I believe they can.