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pixieledmemes2025-03-15 08:32 am
Test Drive Meme #2
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You wake up at a party.
You're not sure how, exactly, you got here. You may have just been walking in the woods or at a meeting for work or doing any other normal activity for you. But you know you weren't supposed to be at this party, you're fairly certain.
Anyone you ask about it will say the party is for you. You and the others also waking up and looking confused. Further questions will lead to the partygoers insisting you have something to eat. You're starving and others are eating the food without repercussion, so you figure there's no harm in a bite. You finish your portion.
It's a garden party at the crack of dawn, with the sun still in its early stages of climbing through the yonder, casting a good mix of pastel hues of blue, pink, and beige on everything. Heralding the first day of spring, the Ruler of the Spring Court has found it fitting to arrange this gathering where guests can feel the blades of grass touching their ankles, as well as the rich soil beneath their feet. Flowers of all kinds surround the party as if they were carefully curated. With spring as the "dawn of seasons," which marks a transition from winter's latency to the resurgence of life everywhere, the Ruler of the Dawn Court has also seen it fit to host aspects of this party during the one time of the year that dawn occurs the whole day. Tall candles and torches grace the outskirts of the garden party, providing warmth and an orange glow everywhere. Not one flame goes out even with the occasional wind, the Duchess always makes sure of this.
There are also freshly picked blossoms and branches with leaves on every table accenting the festive spread of food and drinks. This time, a lot of the food prepared for the Adopted guests are familiar to them with a little bit of a twist. Burgers might come in small packages and in toothpicks, while hotdogs in buns are also diminutive. Cookies look delectable but they have a flowery flavor to them, as if eating freshly picked daisies or daffodils. Fruits that may have been present in an Adopted's home, such as pineapples and watermelons, have seeds in odd places. Picking this selection of food is an attempt to be more welcoming and to appease the lovely guests the fae have invited.
As the party winds down and everyone's eaten, a tall, stately woman stands up and speaks. You feel her voice more than hear it.
I am the Lawspeaker of the Fae, elected by Seelie and Unseelie alike, and you are all, now, subjects of Faerie. You cannot leave this realm once you have eaten our food, and even if you could, there is no saying how much time has passed back where you're from. Your loved ones are likely dead, your problems have likely played out. We require assistance in various matters, and each of you has been chosen for your talent and skill. You will be adopted by one of the Seelie or Unseelie Courts based on your strengths and personality. Your Court will decide what to do with you from there.
As suddenly as she stood, she sits back down.
A party is not complete without dancing, of course, and while during the last gathering held for the Adopted, different fae danced to music exclusively for them around a glowing tree, this time they are insisting their guests to join in.
This is a party for you, after all.
If the prodding of the different fae hosts won't convince you, perhaps the music will. They play easily recognizable tunes that their wonderful guests must have heard before. These melodies have certain unique effects to their mortal attendees, which are as follows:
- Upbeat Music: You will believe that you and your dance partner have been friends forever and have known each other a long time.
- Romantic Music: You will become amorous and flirtatious towards your dance partner.
- Slow Music: You will develop some tension with your dance partner. It may be negative or sexual; completely up to you.
- Quiet Music: You will assume your dance partner is a threat and try to fight them.
At the Spring King's behest, every Adopted should wear a flower corsage or boutonnière to the gathering. After all, this is to celebrate the coming of spring and what better way to do that than to honor everything in bloom.
The thing is, though, the King of Spring, while amorous and friendly, also has a penchant for playing with mortals' memories, if not also affect their desires and despairs.
So, mischievous as he is, he made sure to enchant the different flowers present in every corsage and boutonnière for the party with the effects below:
- Rose: You will recall a horrific trauma
- Carnation: You will see a vision of your future, whether it's good or bad
- Orchid: You will remember a time you lost someone
- Chrysanthemum: You will believe someone among the Adopted is your soulmate
- Dahlia: You will believe you betrayed someone important to you, whether you actually did or not
It is perhaps a good thing that no one but the Adopted are allowed to see these visions and memories, but everyone who wears a corsage or boutonnière will be able to see each other's memories and visions when in close enough physical proximity to the vision-haver, for better or for worse.
You feel a vibration in your pocket sometime after the Lawspeaker addresses everyone. When you search for the source, you will pull out your Leaf, the device the Fae use to stay in touch with each other. Anyone who's used a smart phone will easily recognize how it works.
Greetings, Adopted. This is your Lawspeaker.
Tell us all of a time you gave someone a gift. Perhaps a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Was it appreciated or not? A reward might await the most meaningful gift given.
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Angeal is kind. She had been right in approaching him, in trusting him as a point of safety. The Soldiers, all of them, seem to have so much possibility in them. They could be so good if they hadn't been pushed to their absolute brink by an alien entity and a mad scientist or two.
"I don't know." her expression falls, "I don't want to see him, but if I do and he recognizes me, he might tell you I'm his enemy."
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And on this Sephiroth topic, he couldn't expect her to keep smiling. But he just nodded to her worries, not dismissing them in the slightest.
Words he said to Zack to his mind, where he said he should have dealt with Genesis. Angeal wasn't making the same mistakes here as he did back when he was alive. The least he could do was help people out while he was here, just like he used to back home. And if he fixed some of his mistakes from before his death, all the better.
So he gave Aerith a small smile. "It's alright. If you see him and he makes you nervous, then come find me. I'll deal with him."
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But it's not like she has rested either.
"He is the reason I entered the Lifestream." she reveals softly, "Cloud tried to stop it. This is...our fate."
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The music was starting to slow down and their dance was nearly complete but he still had a small amount of time. "We'll have to wait and see if he's here and what condition he and his mind are in, then we can go from there. And I meant what I said about coming to find me."
Keeping an eye out for her was the least he could do. He'd walked away from both of his childhood friends and look where that landed everyone. Being dead didn't absolve him of anything. After all, he'd been the one to keep them from showing off and trying to kill each other in the training room. Ultimately Zack had been the one to pick up the pieces and that hadn't been right.
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"I will contact you if I see him." that seems fair. If her luck is especially bad and Cloud finds him first, she will try to lead the blonde somewhere else. Just to keep him from further fights. Angeal is much better equipped to reason with Sephiroth - if any reasoning is possible.
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He then nodded at her promise of sorts. Angeal had been at his friend's side when they both young and on a Soldier mission so he'd seen and knew plenty of things. And while he wasn't going to go burden Aerith with any of that information, he felt it best to handle the situation, should things go sideways.
Hopefully if Sephiroth did appear, his mind and spirit had been cleansed so he could have a clean slate. Somehow though, Angeal doubted it.
After a moment's thought, he looked at her. "I'm guessing those leaf things we got would be the fastest way to communicate with each other." It was a question of sorts.
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That's a rather grim line of thinking and so she quickly gives Angeal an apologetic smile.
"I can't hear...this world." she starts, her brow knitting, "I'm sure every plant, every animal is trying to tell us something. We just can't hear it. I'll work on it."
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Angeal gently shook his head. "It's alright, maybe I just wasn't clear. I meant the phone like devices that we were given. But I take it that's something you can do back in our world." It was the most logical conclusion he could come to. If she could eventually do it here, that might be something else, but the phone had been what he was referring to.
Given his own love of nature, it was intriguing to find out that every plant and animal was trying to tell them something. It made him wonder what all of those plants might have had to say when he had put them into the ground and watched them grow.