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deercountry2022-11-08 08:15 pm
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[CLOSED] Hunting for a magic shroom
Who: Luz and Abby
What: You Will be A Friend of Mine Prompt
When: Later in November
Where: The Spooky Woods
Content Warnings: two cool witches flying around a forest. maybe some violence and horror? idk
While Abigail isn’t certain what to make of the sudden call for help, she does know that she is very much interested. Both to help, but also to explore and see just what sort of things she might be able to find in the wilds. Who knows, perhaps she could find something especially useful? Or at least interesting. She still hid her overall nature for now. The only thing she let slip was the keyhole in the center of her forehead and an aura of… something not being quite right with her. Beyond, you know, the bottomless, pitch-black hole in the center of her forehead. Moving on to her current. Apparent witch-in-crime, blue eyes stared wide at Luz, then at her staff.
Did she just hear her right?
“Fly on a staff. Like a… witch?”
She sounds just a little worried at the notion. Usually the stories she’s heard, and some of the means she knows of, to achieve magical flight can be kind of… sketchy. Not always, but she still has a certain form of mental framework in mind when it comes to witchcraft. It certainly doesn’t help that she knows of more than a few questionable means to achieve flight.
What does help is that Luz seems like a nice enough girl. Also, Abby is kind of excited by the prospect of flying over the wilds on a wooden staff. Who knows, maybe it could be something that she can pick up!
“Um… well if it would allow us to reach our destination quicker… I would be okay with it, Miss Luz.”
What: You Will be A Friend of Mine Prompt
When: Later in November
Where: The Spooky Woods
Content Warnings: two cool witches flying around a forest. maybe some violence and horror? idk
While Abigail isn’t certain what to make of the sudden call for help, she does know that she is very much interested. Both to help, but also to explore and see just what sort of things she might be able to find in the wilds. Who knows, perhaps she could find something especially useful? Or at least interesting. She still hid her overall nature for now. The only thing she let slip was the keyhole in the center of her forehead and an aura of… something not being quite right with her. Beyond, you know, the bottomless, pitch-black hole in the center of her forehead. Moving on to her current. Apparent witch-in-crime, blue eyes stared wide at Luz, then at her staff.
Did she just hear her right?
“Fly on a staff. Like a… witch?”
She sounds just a little worried at the notion. Usually the stories she’s heard, and some of the means she knows of, to achieve magical flight can be kind of… sketchy. Not always, but she still has a certain form of mental framework in mind when it comes to witchcraft. It certainly doesn’t help that she knows of more than a few questionable means to achieve flight.
What does help is that Luz seems like a nice enough girl. Also, Abby is kind of excited by the prospect of flying over the wilds on a wooden staff. Who knows, maybe it could be something that she can pick up!
“Um… well if it would allow us to reach our destination quicker… I would be okay with it, Miss Luz.”
Re: That works for me!
"That can't be what we're looking for, though save some, winter is coming after all. But that can't be ours. That one is supposed to be secluded in a tree, and super hard to gather up. We have the satchel, but we'll have to be careful when we get it."
Luz had her ear out for any rustling, then motioned for Abby to come.
"Let's just use my light glyph. That way we don't let any monsters know we're here."
Re: That works for me!
"It's not, and they will make for some wonderful soup."
Or a snack, or dinner, or most of anything else that involves mushrooms! Behold, the forests bounty~!
Abigail at least seems rather happy at her little finds. She grabs a more... special, sort of mushroom, and throws that in its own bag. Before stepping closer to Luz.
And stopping every so often to pick more mushrooms. Heck yeah!
"Um, okay... let's do that." A pause in thought. "But wouldn't a light make us more obvious?"
Re: That works for me!
Though if she knew her friend Rose, one more mushroom would be enough to have her screaming into the night.
Luz noticed you grabbing that mushroom! But that was, of course, her own business, right? She just hoped she kept them dried and didn't, well, have a bad experience?
Luz was going for the more edible kind, but had her light glyph working to see if there were any in a hollow tree.
"Nuts! Nothing yet. Looks like we're going to have to keep going. When we see it, I'm going to have Owlbert pick it for us. We don't want to damage it."
Luz paused. "I can keep the light low. We won't give away our position."
Re: That works for me!
And are super careful, she wants to add. She can think of all sorts of stories about those that hadn't been. Also, Luz, shh... because Abby doesn't really know what she's going to do with it quite yet. But she did feel like it might come in handy later.
Anyway, she was going for edible and edible. And of course, the special shroom they came here for. But who could blame a girl for doing a bit of side hustling?
"Alright, that sounds fine with me." No need to waste their trip here. On the light... she was still kind of hesitant about it. But if Luz was certain, then Abby was okay with it as well.
"Okay... if you're certain."
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Luz was a bit of a reader: she was pretty aware that mushrooms (certain kinds anyway) could be used recreationally, though they were also part of rituals to open the mind for shamens. As Luz had been the unwitting participant of that though, she did her best to avoid that kind of situation.
Luz certainly didn't blame Abbey there. There was bound to be a market for that, and since people didn't use money, you traded what you could.
"I won't go too crazy, but we need something, or we'll just be wandering around, groping blindly. I can give us little dots of light, and that'll be just enough."
Luz did just that, and as promised, they had small glimpses of illumination. More mushrooms of several kind, but so far, no hollow tree yet. What was more, the forest was getting denser, and Luz was beginning to hear the shuffling of things in the dark.
"Ooh, we better do this quick. I think once we get it, we'll be in for it."
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It was more that she was interested in seeing if she could use the more special mushrooms for anything useful. There was bound to be some spells that make use of them. That and they could be fun to toy with, twist and change into something more. But she won't mention anything like that.
Besides, who knows what the future might bring.
"Little dots of light should be fine."
She hopes, but Abigail also has a feeling that they're already being watched. Perhaps they should start getting ready for whatever was shuffling around? The amount of foliage around them could be useful if she wanted to alter any of it.
"Hm... anyway, with all of the vegetation and trees around us we should be close to finding it. Or where it would be."
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Luz wasn't sure she'd be able to mess around with fungus like that, since she knew even in science, they were something of an oddity. It seemed like no one really knew all of what they could do.
"All right, small dots then. When we do find the mushroom, we can combine our powers and make more flora if we need to."
Luz certainly could, anyway. She was assuming Abigail likely had that same power.
"See anything yet?"
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She hummed in thought, quite a few things were far more than just a little alien for her here. But there was also a sense of familiarity in other things. That could be focused on later, however.
She used the small dots as best she could. Getting up on her tip toes to peek inside the trees.
"Mm... no, not yet. How about you?"
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Luz wanted to cast light, but knew better than to make a bright light for monsters to immediately notice them. Instead, she opted for a smattering of dots in front of her and followed them so it was more like a concentrated bit of flashlight she could cover.
And strangely enough, when Luz squinted, she SAW it: it was a bit ahead, and it was very small, but there was the hollow, and she could make out the outline of the mushroom.
"Do you see what I'm seeing?"
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She stands up on her tip toes to get a peak. Squinting and peering into the hollow. She could see it, The Mushroom! It is the mushroom right? It sure looked like it based on the descriptions. It's still horribly dark out. Then there was the rustling of the brush and the occasional flash of a shape in the dark.
It has to be the mushroom.
"Mm! That's it."
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Things were starting to move around behind them, and Luz sure didn't like that. On the other hand, that likely meant it was exactly what they were looking for, so it was all a matter of getting the item.
"We're going to have to get closer, and here's the kicker: Owlbert's going to have to not be a staff. I think HE needs to pick it for us, since regular people's hands could damage it. That means the moment it's in the satchel, we'll have to make a break for it. I'm going to do my best to fly us out of the forest, so I'll need some offense."
Luz swallowed. "Think you can handle that?"
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She nods her head. It might be kind of scary, but it wouldn't be all that hard! Probably, she's only had some limited experience in dealing with these land's creatures so far. But Abigail was more than certain she could bulldoze through them!
Serious face is serious!
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Luz looked at Owlbert and gave him a peck on the head before letting him fly off. He was gone for at least a minute, and while that was happening, Luz seemed to be scribbling on pieces of paper quickly. She's been practicing for this exact situation but was hoping she would not have to rely on it at all. It would be hard enough flying.
And then Owlbert was back, and she opened the satchel. He carefully deposited the fungus into the bag. Luz closed it and he became immobile in an instant.
Just in time too.
The whole forest seemed to burst to life seconds later. The monsters were now louder and were coming at them fast. Luz hopped onto the staff and made room for Alice. If anything, this seemed to madden them more, and they somehow were approaching with more urgency.
Which was why Luz was trying to get a little higher before bursting into speed. This outpaced some monsters and avoided others, but some were rather large or could fly, and Luz wasn't stopping to see which.
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Abigail readied herself.
A pair of keyblades that weren't present before now materializing in her hands. Darkened tendrils seemed to slowly writhe from beneath her dress. The air grew more oppressive around her. Right, she had nothing to fear at all.
As Owlbert snagged the mushroom and came fluttering down, Abby inserted one of the keys into a nearby tree. And turned it. The familiar sound of a lock clicking open could be faintly heard as the plant began to slowly writhe. She altered it, turned it into something else, used it to summon something else.
Probably helpful to them.
The bark was no longer bark, but darker, it seemed to breath and move and sway under its own control. The branches were the same. Reaching out, waving, and wriggling in a sickening fashion. The woods are a witch's friend.
And this former tree would certainly be helpful in keeping the immediate threat back as they take off. Speaking of, Abigail very quickly hops onto the broom as it began to rise!
Just in time too, as the former tree went to work, snatching the hidden beasts that threatened to pounce on them. Grabbing them, twisting them, and doing... something to them. Probably better not to look what that something was.
"Quickly."
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Absolutely not.
She had traveled with Eda long enough to know that when a gift was handed to you, you took it without hesitation. Tree monsters wrangling with the monsters in the dark was more than enough for her to continue on, faster. Abigail absolutely had this covered, which meant she could concentrate on getting them out.
And here Luz absolutely did not disappoint. She bobbed and weaved through the trees and leaves without fail, avoiding anything that might knock them off and kept to where there was room to go faster. There were more coming, though at least they were trailing behind now.
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She squeaked as they picked up speed and began to weave and bob through the trees quickly. One surprisingly strong arm moved to wrap itself around Luz's torso, while the other one held onto the staff for dear life!
This was still kind of fun, though, and she couldn't help but grin a little. Hopefully they don't crash though!
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She'd be fine with Abby hanging on too-she did the same thing the first time she rode a staff. She wasn't even riding for her life back then either!
"You doing ok?"
Luz says this without stopping once.
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"I-I think I am!"
She calls out above the rushing winds. They're already in the homestretch by now, so things were going far smoother than she'd think!
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It actually took ten more minutes before Luz was sure that they weren't being followed, and at that point she landed them on the nearest soft grass and Luz fell upon it, seemingly hugging the ground.
"Oh my sweet baby I missed you," Luz said, letting out a sigh. "Those were some pretty helpful powers! Can you actually learn them?"