Even when the starry sky dissolves at dawn

[brightlyshines]

WHO: Literally anyone and everyone
WHERE: The Town
WHEN: May 3rd, evening
WHAT: The town's regained both some aspects of evening and a starry night sky. Stargazing is clearly in order.
WARNINGS: All that good pure cute, probably.

The town is just a little bit different today. Color has returned to some objects, even phenomenon, and it has left others. Slowly but surely, things are changing.

In some cases, very big things are changing.

Maybe someone looks out a window, maybe they're out late in the evening. At around 6pm, the sky takes on it's normal hue, just for a moment. And later, as darkness falls....

The stars blink into existence, one by one.

Comments

[theshowsover]

...I didn't think of that. But I'd rather not try it.

[Even if the worst he got was a bad case of food poisoning, that sounds even less enjoyable in a place with no running water.]

[good_ideas]

Obviously? [She won't make him try it, but there are definitely other people who could.]

Or I guess I could just take a look... [That last part is mostly to herself though. Maybe they should go foraging for poisonous mushrooms to use as weapons.]

[theshowsover]

Do you know a lot about mushrooms?

[He knows she's probably referring to her super secret psychic power that she probably has too, but he won't call it out specifically.]

[good_ideas]

Well... I did do an apprenticeship with a mushroom expert. [She didn't but that's the story she and Kaoru decided to go with if anyone asked her about her powers.

At this point she's the apprentice of a skeleton expert, a bug expert, a cave expert, a castle expert, a potion expert as well as a bunch of other ones that she's stopped keeping track of.]

[theshowsover]

[That's a lot of apprenticeships!]

I'm surprised you're interested in something like that... [Then again, he has no idea what a mushroom enthusiast might look like, normally, so who is he to say.]

[good_ideas]

And why is that? Don’t I look like I’d be super into mushrooms?

[She probably doesn’t. Unless it’s about poison mushrooms or extremely expensive imported mushrooms in which case she’s very much interested.]

[theshowsover]

Not really.

[If they're talking about mushrooms in general and not that.]

[good_ideas]

Awww... really? [Have an obviously theatrical pout, Akira.]

[theshowsover]

[Very theatrical!]

You'll have to work on your mushroom expert look.

[good_ideas]

Hm~ I guess I could.

[She will never say no to dressing up for no reason.]

But dressing up here is kind of hard...

[theshowsover]

Would the old clothes not work for that?

[What does a mushroom expert wear, anyway...?]

[good_ideas]

A mushroom expert doesn't have to wear that kind of stuff.

[Because she's decided to be the kind of expert that hunts down truffles.]

[theshowsover]

Then you might be out of luck.

[Unfortunately there isn't a mall she can go to.]

[good_ideas]

Or!

[And she can't believe that she had to think of this, but:]

I could be undercover.

[theshowsover]

Hmm. Your disguise is pretty convincing.

[Since he still doesn't know what a mushroom expert looks like.]

[good_ideas]

Right? I look exactly like a mushroom expert who isn't trying to look like a mushroom expert. Or maybe like some kind of mushroom expert who's on vacation?

[In a place with no running water, no heat and monsters living in the forest. But she doesn't know what mushroom experts do on their vacation and she's guessing he probably doesn't either.]

[theshowsover]

[It's true, he has no idea.]

I don't think anyone would be able to tell a mushroom expert on vacation apart from a normal person.

[good_ideas]

That's the point, right? Mushroom experts deserve to have a vacation without being mobbed by their fans. [Why do they have fans, you ask?

Who knows but she's apparently decided they have/she has fans now.]

[theshowsover]

Are mushroom experts celebrities in your world?

[He's calling it out!]

[good_ideas]

[Still smiling like she’s done and said nothing wrong:] Of course not. What kind of weird world do you think I come from?

[theshowsover]

So they don't get mobbed by fans?

[good_ideas]

Do they even have fans? [Shiho that's rude]

[theshowsover]

...I guess not.

[He's confused.]

[good_ideas]

That's kind of mean. [Shiho you're the only one being mean here]

[theshowsover]

[He's very confused!]

I guess there's no way to know without meeting one...?