FORGE

[livestage]

[The Showmaster leads you through the dark stage and you find yourself entering something that looks like a very nice and expensive classroom.

Each desk is spacious with drawers that you will conveniently find any important item that had been on your person or that you feel like you would need here. Each chair is cushy and swivels.

Sitting on top of the teacher's desk is a young girl, older teen / younger adult in age at most, hair that looks like mint cotton candy that probably reaches down to her ankles. She has a knee drawn up to her body, resting her chin on top as she scours the room of who arrived . . .

And then she looks at you all with disdain and slight fear in her face. You'll notice that her purple eyes shifts when she makes the scowl, it goes from a solid purple to a purple mixed in with this symbol in green also.]

I thought you guys might have been the exception, but oh no, no, no. Absolutely NOT.

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[well. that was a thing]

How's everyone feelin'? Sound off.

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

[watches with some bemusement as a finger melts, but then turns to metal.

Then looks at him]

'M blamin' you for this.

[he is 100000% joking]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[does look like he feels bad tbh,]

I think I jinxed ya, so I'll accept responsibility.

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

To be fair, I agreed it'd be cool.

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

...

If it stays like that for a few days we can practice with it before we try anythin' on the others.

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

[fuck waiting he's trying to remove the finger now.

Forge curiosity and all]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[immediately holds his hand out to take it if it can be removed]

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

[success!

Deposits it into Lea's hand.

. . . as another grows in it's place]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[starts taking apart the finger down to its teeny tiny metal parts, slow and steady]

Well would ya look at that. Does it hurt?

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

[wiggles his fingers as the rest of his hand starts]

Hurts the more it happens, but it ain't like I can stop it. Stops when it turns.

[. . . removes the finger again. Starts a pile]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[watches him do this]

I'm forced to state, fer the record, that this is really really cool and really really weird. Make sure ya keep all the parts.

Re: DISCUSSION

[throughbamboo]

If this is gonna happen, I may as well take advantage of it.

. . . I'll leave the parts to you. I don't remember even comin' here.

[casually like forgetting that is nbd]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

Ya--what?

[collecting them and putting them in his pockets, yeah]

If ya get memory loss then just hold on to me and I'll make sure ya get back home.

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

Colorful.

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

Ya sure look it. Ya feelin' okay? Nothin' hurts?

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

I'm okay, this is just too many weeeds.

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

What're ya talkin' about? Those ain't weeds. They're useful.

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

They're weeds!!!

[ plucking more off ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[




holds his hand out for them]

I got some kinda impulse to break stuff down, so give 'em to me and I'll take care of 'em.

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

Oho, that's convenient! Destroy them bad little weeds.


[ as she hands over actual flowers she's compulsively plucking. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

[collects them and: makes the pretty ones into a little bouquet to set aside, takes any edible ones and adds them to the Patina Veggie Pile, and the rest he plucks apart very slowly]

Doin' stuff like this is how we operate as a team.

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

Well - What can I do for you?

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

Me? Hmm.

[considers]

Well, for the performance, we all gotta stick to what we agreed upon. That means stickin' to what we agreed upon and clearly statin' what effects ya got as a result. If ya do that, then yer already doin' somethin' for me.

After that, we gotta make a stew with all these vegetables we're gettin'. If ya get a flower on yer head that ya don't recognize, keep it so we can check it out later.

Re: DISCUSSION

[alanhearted]

[ unfortunately in the "what's wrong with me," department she's a dumbass. ]

So don't overstep, hmm?

You think there might be something interesting in the flowers?


[ she wrinkles her nose plucking another!!! ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[takeyoutochurch]

Don't do what we didn't agree upon. People'll get upset if ya do. The most important thing for performances is makin' sure we all get out without feelin' unhappy with each other.