[OPEN] Flower gleam and glow

[windeity]

WHO: Everyone in the Town
WHERE: The community garden(s)
WHEN: Anytime in August
WHAT: Flower crowns! Teach each other to make flower crowns, exchange them with each other, succeed in questing
WARNINGS: No



[At any point during the month you may come across the community gardens in the Town and see a couple of different set-ups.

For one thing, someone created a sign painted with purple paint that reads "FLOWER CROWNS HERE."

For another thing, there are bushels and bouquets of different kinds of plants and flowers that have their color restored that have been gathered.

And finally, there are smaller slips of paper that read "RED", "YELLOW", and "BLUE."

At least once a day people passing by the garden will find John sitting there and monitoring the situation. Anyone who approaches will be greeted with a large grin and a wave.]

You saw the forum, right? I thought we could all make this a little easier on each other.

[Grab some flowers and some friends! Questing has never been so easy.]

[ooc: Hello! For ease of use to complete quest 23, this is an open log that people can consolidate and thread with each other! Please feel free to label in the subject what color your character is, thread out making and gifting crowns to each other, and have fun!]

Comments

[swordfucker]

[#FFFFFFucking with us]

Yeah, you shouldn't. As nice as it would be for things to stay this way, I don't think they've ever kept our well-being in mind. Just the life of this town.

[pursestrings]

That's what I've been saying! But everybody keeps going no Okuyasu, you're just a dumbass, here's a list of a bunch of maybes nobody cares about that are better than your ideas.

[He's paraphrasing, but this is more or less what he gets when he bothers to try, so-- now he's not. An adventure.]

[swordfucker]

Who's telling you that?

[A kid he has to scold?? He places his hands on his hips.]

You're right, so don't go thinking you're wrong. It's fine to enjoy things as they are, but it's not fine to let your guard down in a strange place. We don't know anything about that person leaving the quests, so we shouldn't trust them. We don't know what adding color to the town is doing, even if we might assume it's for the best.

At the same time, it's all we can do to keep moving forward.

[pursestrings]

[Okuyasu flicks at another one of his shitty crowns, frowning at it. Grumble mumble that's what he's been saying...!!]

I bet people listen when you say it. Instead I got told Mr. F might be trying to help. Bullshit!

[Surely Guren, who also god bogeymauled, can understand why this is bullshit.]

[swordfucker]

No, I'd probably get the same response. There's a difference between optimism and naivete, and I think that'd be the latter.

[Hmmm.] The only thing that guy may be helping is the town itself. Our own well-being isn't in the equation at all. That's incredibly clear from all the danger we've been put in.

There's an end goal they're moving towards, and we're just pieces on the board.

[pursestrings]

Are you calling me naive? Come on. [He has LIFE EXPERIENCE...]

That's a lotta words just to say it's total bullshit, man. What d'you think he'll do if we all just stop doing his quests?

[Like, this will never happen, he is standing here doing one himself right now despite not believing in it anymore, but.]

[swordfucker]

No, I'm saying people who think #FFFFFF is trying to help are naive.

[He tilts his head slightly. He's agreeing with Oku!!]

If I had to guess, the color would drain from everything again, and worse things might happen to us, too.

[pursestrings]

Oh. [Okay, that's totally fine, never mind. Yeah, that's dumb!! Also how did you make that # sound with your mouth, Guren.]

Worse shit's happening to us now. I don't think it's gonna be great when everything has color again. [Hold on, he's actually got a reason for this that he's thought about beyond "fuck that guy"--] It's already coming back wrong, right? Like, you seen the purple cows? Saw a couple purple mice too.

We're probably fucking it up.

[swordfucker]

Yeah, I'm not sure about that. It's possible that that's how things look here— the animals have extra limbs and features, after all...

But it's possible that those things are also part of the corruption.

[So it's not normal at all, possibly.]

The idea is that color is better than a lack of it, since the taste returns to normal, but I'm not sure what other aspects it might be changing.

[pursestrings]

[Look, he's got a cat plant sitting in his room straight from his actual real house, so. Mutant deer are okay.]

Yeah, that's too much for me. I think it's gonna go bad.

[swordfucker]

[That's fair.]

I wish I could say that was a bad assumption, but I can't say you're wrong. That's why I'm trying my best with a defense force, but even then, there's not much we can do.

[They're all screwed the end]

[pursestrings]

Everybody else tells me it's a bad assumption, so thanks, I guess.

[Shrug... they're super screwed though, that's true.]

We can't even be sure we're stuck here.

[swordfucker]

[I forgot to say this two tags ago but by the way, he probably says hashtag and I hate that.]

We can't really be sure of anything. If anything seems like it's off more than normal, can you come to me? I want to know.

[And if no one else will listen, well. He will.]

[pursestrings]

[i'm choosing to block that from my memory]

Uh-- sure, I guess. Weirder than normal-weird, you mean.

[Mutant deer.]

[swordfucker]

Yeah. Like if you feel like you're picking up on a pattern and people are calling you paranoid.

[Guren is paranoid himself, so give it to him!!]

[pursestrings]

Alright, sure. I can write it down.

[Or he will forget.]

[swordfucker]

That works.

[They have magic quills still, he guesses...]

Anyway, I think I'll take my fancy new hat and take a walk. [Around for more flowers.] Thanks again, Okuyasu.