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polarvoidWELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 018.07.154.55 *** CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS has joined 018.07.154.55 <Daisy>This is Basil! I'm not around right now, but if you leave a message I'll get back to it as soon as I can. <BANNED USER> SCREENED MESSAGE. UNSCREEN? Y/N -- sample for when you ban someone <USERNAME> First sentence of message. <USERNAME> First sentence of message. | ||||
<purevanilla>
Date: 2023-04-23 05:39 pm (UTC)<daisy>
Date: 2023-04-24 01:33 am (UTC)He's been trying not to think about it. Trying to put the entire last two weeks out of his mind, focusing on simpler tasks. Watering his flowers. Remembering to eat. Remembering to eat.
Things like that.
But then he receives an unexpected message from Pure Vanilla, and in spite of everything...it does inspire some joy. It's just a little flutter of it, but it's there nonetheless. But when he thinks about all of the stuff that's taken place at the Palazzo in the last couple of days, and how uncomfortable even his own ROOM has been making him...]
Can I come see you?
<purevanilla>
Date: 2023-04-24 02:30 am (UTC)[Pure Vanillas had a rough few months as well, but hopefully with the rain ending and spring coming, with flowers blooming... tending to a garden and new life should help ease the distress he's in.
Hopefully.]
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Date: 2023-04-24 11:02 pm (UTC)I'll be there in a little while. I just need to let my housemates know where I'm going.
[Which is in the form of a little note he leaves behind on his door. Hopefully this time it's far less ominous of one than when he went to go see Komaeda...
As it stands, though...Basil feels like he shouldn't just show up with nothing. So after some rummaging in his room, he locates one of his little pots situated on the top bunk of his loft bed, containing a small cluster of vibrant purple pansies.
With the pot in hand, he heads out towards Bavan, taking the bus to get all the way to the center since he just does not feel like walking that far (and doesn't trust his ability to fly there...at all). He hasn't actually seen Pure Vanilla's place there yet, but he assumes it can't be that hard to find...]
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Date: 2023-04-25 03:56 pm (UTC)The Minotaur comes into view after, definitely different than how Basil last saw him, but the wide smile is still the same. Just ignore the bags under his eyes and the fact he seems a little skinnier.]
Basil?
[Just checking to make sure. He's not expecting anyone else, but his hours mean anyone can come and visit at any time so! Bending down, he picks the puppy up and moves the gate aside.]
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Date: 2023-04-26 02:59 am (UTC)Y-yes, um....who is this?
[He asks softly, indicating the cakepuppy who is just vibrating excitedly in Pure Vanilla's arms.
It's hard not to notice how different the Minotaur seems though, on the side of this. The tiredness, the skinnier stature......it's worrying. But Basil doesn't yet bring light to it (or maybe he won't, but who's to say).]
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Date: 2023-04-28 02:21 pm (UTC)Basil, meet Lavender. Lavender is my little associate, training very hard to be a therapy dog. Lavender, be good.
[He will step aside so Basil can enter the room and so he can shut the door, then let the little puppy down. Lavender immediately runs to Basil and headbutts his ankle, then looks upwards with icing in its eye and wags its tiny tail, awaiting to be picked up. Discard the item in thine arms and lift him, peasant! Please please please ple...]
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Date: 2023-05-01 01:16 am (UTC)He sets the pot on a table nearby just for a moment so he can crouch down and very, very gently pick Lavender up. He's immediately beset by how sticky and...very much cake-like this little puppy is, but he's so struck by it that all he can do is marvel. He's had a rough time of it, yet this might have been the only thing to get him to think about anything else.]
This...this puppy is made out of cake!
[Preaching to the choir, he realizes, but he just can't believe it. What the heck.]
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Date: 2023-05-01 02:20 pm (UTC)Pure Vanilla laughs, 'looking' up from the pot to turn his attention in their direction.]
Indeed! A dear friend of mine had a Cake Dog brought in from our world, and she recently- [gave birth is definitely not it, nor did she rebake herself...] think of it as a flower budding smaller flowers! Lavender attached himself to me.
[Moving away to his desk, he pulls open the top to pull out powdered sugar and wet wipes. He'll set the latter down on top of the desk, then bring the tin of the former over to Basil, opening it and holding it out, smiling.]
It helps. Coat your hands generously.
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Date: 2023-05-03 01:20 am (UTC)Wow...I knew you used to be a cookie, but I didn't know you had anything like this!
[Oh Basil, get ready for what else Pure Vanilla is going to show you today.
He will shift Lavender carefully in his arms, from both to one- gently tucked by his elbow- so he can reach out and carefully cover his palms with the powdered sugar being offered.]
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Date: 2023-05-03 01:37 am (UTC)Oh my friend, my world is made up of many similar things! Our sheep's wool is thick, fluffy cotton candy, for example! Mango fish, and blueberry birds. And!
[Closing the tin of sugar and setting it aside, he moves over to a pot in the window, to pick it up. Growing there, small yet, with only one bud barely open, is... yellow orchids? But when Basil looks closer, he will notice the slit across the middle, and the tiny ... eyelash lines?]
I'm afraid I cannot yet show you the Jellyragora full size, but if you pull one out, you can get a sense of what they look like...
[He gestures to another pot, a larger one, that has several tiny little colorful flowers sticking out.]
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Date: 2023-05-04 02:33 am (UTC)Basil blinks, moving over to where Pure Vanilla ended up so he can look for himself...and when he sees what looks like a closed eye on the flower?
He gasps, and it's actually a startled exclamation initially.]
W-wait, these plants...are they...are they like Nymphs? They're not sentient, are they?
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Date: 2023-05-06 09:32 pm (UTC)No, not quite. They do not think for themselves, or make decisions based on informed ideas. They may react to stimuli such as certain plants do - I have heard tale of plants that close to touch - and may have their own defense mechanisms as trees do with sap or flowers with thorns, but they are simply plants.
[Except for his staff, but that is a symbiotic relationship born of a lot of decisions.
Lavender decides he's tired of being held and begins to squirm to be let down, gumming Basils fingers gently as he does.]
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Date: 2023-05-08 01:49 am (UTC)There are some, like Venus Fly Traps...I've really never seen anything like these, though. They're amazing...
[Basil can really get a good look at them now that he's put Lavender on the floor, and though he's tempted to dig up one of the Jellyragora, he's afraid he might damage it without his proper tools. He'll have to examine it later, when he's taken them back home.]
O-oh, um! I brought you a flower, too....I've been growing some daisies, and these ones I have are a really bright white and yellow, so...they reminded me of you.
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Date: 2023-05-08 02:48 am (UTC)[He's trying very hard to picture this plant, given what he knows of flies (which is not much, they are tiny and buzzy?) and all he can imagine is a plant shaped like a little snare. How adorable!
Lavender takes off once he's down to go find a toy to brutally chew on with a sudden crescendo of squeakies, Pure Vanilla casting a smile in the direction he hears them coming from, before back to Basil, oh!ing that he got him a daisy.]
Thank you! I will be sure to take good care of them. Here...
[Moving around, Pure Vanilla finds a small pot and his tools. Carrying them over to the bigger pot, he scoops some soil in, then gestures Basil over as he oh-so-carefully uproots a jellyragora. It's a tiny little tube like plant... in the shape of a little guy! Almost. It looks like it has legs and tiny arms, and a tiny little face that seems fast asleep. Pure Vanilla will let Basil get a good look, before carefully replanting it. Then another so it has a friend.]
They're quite unique back home. When they are fully grown, their defense mechanisms is to scream and run. It is merely magic, however, do not worry about them being sentient. There have been thorough studies on them. If they scream and run, however, it means they're too mature and it's best just to let them replant themselves. If you attempt to use them for their anesthetic or pain relieving properties then, you might end up asleep for quite a while. Here I am simply hoping they retain some of their anesthetic properties, for changes.
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Date: 2023-05-08 03:53 am (UTC)[A little morbid, perhaps, but fascinating to Basil, who loves plants so much...just as fascinating as what he sees next, because holy shit? The fact that Pure Vanilla just...casually plucks a little guy from the soil is actually a little startling, but it's no weirder than some of the other stuff he's seen here. He watches as it's replanted, followed by a second one.]
I can study them as they grow...I'll let you know what I learn about them, if there's anything new. Hopefully they'll be mostly the same here! Right...right down to the screaming, I g-guess...if that's normal for them.
[Basil can't blame them though, his defense mechanism is to also scream and run.]
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Date: 2023-05-10 01:12 am (UTC)[Ah that changes his mental image. Little mouths? Why not, his world has eyeball plants. They're really sort of cute in his mental image! And he laughs a little to the idea of these little guys screaming, shaking his head.]
Do not worry about them doing that. I should surmise that they have been depowered here, much as we all have upon our entrance. I assume they will simply be like tubers here, if with a slightly jelly consistency once you have cut into them. Quite like an aloe plant, I believe?
[He had the luxury of getting to feel one.]
I am hoping their anesthetic properties remain, if not as powerful, for a natural pain relief is far better than manufactured. When they reach about... so big [He uses his hands together to approximate their size] replant them in separate pots, but do make sure they don't receive too much water, or they will gorge on it...
[Or do, and behold a very fat jellyragora...]
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Date: 2023-05-10 10:49 pm (UTC)Oh, aloe is great!
[He.......isn't sure how easy it's going to be for him to cut into a plant with a face though, uh]
I think they should...it wouldn't make sense for everything about them to be taken away. Plants don't have to be magical to have medicinal properties.
[Also hey, what if he WANTS a very fat jellyragora, you don't know.
After Basil has looked over the new plants, he steps back a little so he can look at the rest of the room. He's only just now seeing Pure Vanilla's new setup for the first time, after all.]
Your place is nice, by the way.