[CLOSED] YDALIRQUEST

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[CLOSED] YDALIRQUEST

Who: Zoey, Faust, Dipper, Lily, Mizuki, Lavi, Sanemi, Stardust, Ryan, Link, Min-Gi, Genya, Akaza, Mystery, and Ydalir and also your ✨beloved mod Wolfie✨
What: Ydalirquest
When: A point in time that does not interfere with the main event :3
Where: The Leylines themselves, baybee!
Warnings: will be placed in headers/I expect you all to behave regarding this

Alright crew here's how this is gonna work:
- Mod responses will come after every player has tagged in OR after 24 hours have passed. If you do not tag in those 24 hours you will be skipped over.
- OOC communication will be done through the Discord in a thread in RP-Talk-1. You don't have to unmute, but please have your pings on so that if I need to @ everyone, I can. For now we will clusterfuck everyone into one thread; if we need to split into 3 for the groupings we will, just lmk.
- I am going to give you an initial "go play" toplevel somewhere in this as a heads up (this is my contingency for "Wolfie is out/busy or players are out/busy and we still want to play"). I do not recommend hitting the bell on this one, but this is so that all fourteen of you can interact at once. I want you to fuck around and go play in this one. I promise you this one does not need to be mod-guided (but ask me questions if you need to). I sort of put a lot into this setting and I'd feel bad not letting you all do the thing oops.
- PLEASE GOD IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS @ ME IN THE DISCORD chat might move fast and I might not see it. PING ME. I'm begging. I'm on my knees. A ping for Wolfie, please.
- Please hit the bell on your group threads :) and try to maintain some semblance of a tag order. For the initial "all fourteen of you are together" I will not ask for you to maintain tag order and I'm sorry for anyone's inboxes. I will try to get through this in a manner that does not make you want to explode. I was woefully underprepared for 90% of the game to actually want to do this sorry-
- You will get rewards! for participating.
----> You can redeem participation in Ydalirquest for your entire month's AC if you want ~~I don't recommend this bc there are going to be subthreads and breakpoints and you could get like, 5 threads of BAC easily from this but you know it's there if you want~~
----> Participation in the quest as a whole can count for 2 threads of magic practice, and I'll let you use the threads for other BAC. But please when you do your next magic regain put "participated in ydalirquest" so that I remember. Please.
- ?? ??????? ??? ? ??? any other weird shit i'll put in toplevels or headers thank youuueueuuuuueueuuu for playing :)

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[Dipper is also following along, and following along much better than probably Genya is, though his arms are tied with the whole taking physical notes thing. It's fine, while his memory may not be quite as good as Lavi's its still pretty damn good.]

Yeah- No, I think we got it.

[The buildings are an issue, but he hasn't tried to fly yet. However, he doesn't think he can carry anyone but Genya with him. However maybe if he made a harness?? How much weight- Before he can say anything else, Genya is suddenly in a bubble and he pauses.]

Can you do that on command?

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[wolfie going through the 5 stages of grief like:]

Is "over the buildings" confusing? I'm sorry. Um, but look, he's got bubbles! You can totally just go over them. Go aaaaaaaaaaaall the way over there. Like over, [she hops, and her name is NOT LISA,] OOOOOOVER THERE. It's in the— oh birdie!!

[She is Immediately distracted by the birdie. Faust's bird leads... well. East. It just flies east a bit and then waits like ? ? ? hello follow me please. Tweet tweet, it says. Please follow me.

Coincidentally East is the way that the teenage girl is pointing at. If she is not stopped she will try to bump the bubble containing Genya toward it.]

Oooover there! Follow your bird! I can't come with 'cause my mom will lose her MIND if I'm not home on time. Don't tell her but she's super like, nervy. Don't tell her I said that. I'm trusting you!

[ Interesting that she is encouraging them to follow the bird. He's not sure yet if he trusts it, this was meant as a test... but it is starting them off in the right direction at least. He gives Genya a faintly sympathetic look... or would if the skull could emote. He's sort of left to stare like 'this is what you get for choosing a different perch.' ]

I'm following the bird.

[ It's... a little growly? It sounds less like his normal voice and more a mix of groaning wood mixed with threatened animal. Weird.

Either way following the bird feels like the path of least resistance to him. He nods to the others and starts going. ]

[Suspended in the air as he is, there's little that Genya can do but... sort of agree to go along with it? Give him a second to figure it out - can he just... hamster ball this thing?

... It's so humiliating, and in front of a cute girl, too.

Oh, right. Where were his manners]

T-thanks. You're really cool. And nice. [A pause.] Give your mom a hug, okay?

[Listen. He has a soft spot. And it's moms. There's nothing wrong with that!

(does he gain an inch or two back? Maybe. But certainly not enough to pop the bubble).

Anyway, Genya hamster wheel, away!!!]

Thinking on command, yeah? [In his defense, if he'd been trying to think on how to move himself, it would've been Lavi in the bubble. Though, that would mean Genya was still bubbled, but at least not actually bubbled himself.

Speaking of, doing that now and—congratulations!—Dipper gets one as well. ~~Also Faust if he wants one.~~ But Genya has the right idea of it, only with Lavi's mental aid it goes a lot faster.]

Get home safe, kid. [The bubble wouldn't pop anyway unless Lavi wants it or someone uses force like the servo press in those shorts.

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite

Floating the bubbles to the east after the bird!]

Thanks for all the help!

[Hopefully this won't lead to their immediate doom! But, it feels right. This is probably where they should go. He does kind of want to check on the others, and it's a little frustrating that he can't just reach out telepathically like this- he'll just have to trust they'll be fine, for now.]

[Dipper is about to stretch out his wings/arms to see if he can get off the ground. Just as he does, the bubble swallows him up and he squawks in alarm.]

Okay, fine! Bubbles it is!

No problem! I'll be super safe!! Have fun flying to the islands! Say hi to the pretty old lady for me!!!

[Bye! Bye she's waving! Goooooodbye!

Bubbles it is. Faust will follow along somehow, but the important thing is that with his ability of Bird, that the bird will carve the path forward. It does try to go over the buildings, but if Faust doesn't feel like going over, it will lead you through the alleyways as they change... which definitely means that, if the bubbles are being controlled appropriately, they will zigzag through the air.

Up this high, it's easy to see the destination in question. The forest is a vast expanse of green, marked with giant sunflowers that look akin to trampolines or maybe springboards, something bouncy judging by the glass squirrels that can be seen using them as toys from this high up. It looks like some sunflowers are lower to the ground and serve much the same purpose.

Mysteriously, it's daytime in the forest, but that isn't why you're here. Who cares about the sun being out even though it's clearly nighttime in the city? Pbfbffbttt.

The wormholes, meanwhile, spin and spiral. They're dispersed randomly throughout the woods, though notably they're much easier to spot from high up. You can only imagine that, had you taken the ground, you might've wasted several hours here looking for one.

So, shall we go into the wormholes? Or are we taking a foresty detour? Or turning around and giving up, idk I'm still not your dad.]

[ He will begrudgingly acquiesce to bubble once he's sure it's safe.

That said he is rapidly coming to accept that nothing within the leylines makes sense as far as he understands it, and while it is incredibly frightening, he doesn't... think the aim is to hurt them? ]

Does it matter which one we go into?

[ He is-- asking the bird. But anyone can chime in. ]

[Faust may be talking to the bird, but Genya looks to the trees. Something stirs within him, urging him to descend rapidly downward. Sorry guys, he's splitting the party, but at least he... mostly remains within sight distance.

He stops in front of a tree. Something in the back of his mind tells him to speak. As if somehow he's going to get an answer.]

This is so stupid. [He mutters it to himself, and immediately feels his body compress once again. Dammit. Whatever.] We're, uh... trying to get to some islands. We're looking for someone important to us. Her name is Ydalir. A, uh. [To quote LISA...] Pretty old lady. We were told she was on the islands, and that we needed to go through a portal.

Can you show me which one?

[Just talking to trees, nbd.]

[Super safe, last thing Lavi would want to do is hurt anyone. Especially since they've all done nothing to warrant it. Everyone sort of has minimal control over their bubble, so if he's not overriding it, feel free to nyoom—within reason. ~~He'll turn this car around!~~

Lavi keeps quiet on this one, mostly keeping an eye out on their surroundings because while the town seemed friendly enough, it doesn't mean everywhere else is.]

[Dipper stays up in the air for now. He's trying to make a mental note of where the portals are, and if there's anything else in the area they should keep an eye on. From up high, his vantage point wouldn't be bad for spotting uh. Danger.]

[How alone do they appear to be in this forest?]

[The forest is vast and empty, save for normal... well, "normal" wildlife. Animals with plants growing out of them like the Grove, but ones made of glass, too, hop or spring or casually walk under the boughs. Deer, moose, foxes, bears, birds... you know, animals! Depending on your perception of bears, that might be dangerous. But why friend shaped if not friend?

The bird circles around Faust as if indicating that he should follow, and then zoops over to the closest portal. It flits around it a couple times, then perches on a branch in the tree above it.

The tree, meanwhile, talks to Genya. Which all trees do, obviously, and this is not weird or unusual. Of course, Genya is the only one that can understand, so he may just look moderately insane, but that's the risk you take.]

The islands? You can go through any portal to reach the islands. The portals open and close randomly, though, so you may want to choose quick. Sometimes they're stable, sometimes they're not. I saw a squirrel get sucked into one the other day when it opened under its feet.

I don't know where on the islands you'll end up, though! Hopefully close to your friend. Or maybe the squirrel.

[ He kinda tilts his head at Genya talking to a tree. It's no more crazy than following a bird, he supposed. He moves his bubble down to where the bird leads. ]

The bird's saying she's this way.

[Genya's head shoots up. He looks to Faust, then to the bird, and finally to the others. He quickly holds up a hand.]

Hey, hey. Be careful. The portals are unstable, I guess. Could open or close at any point. And there's no telling where they're going to spit us out at, either.

[He floats back to the group after thanking his new tree friend, also named Lisa now, thank you.]

We should pick one and go through together. Fast.

Think it'd be best if we jump in at the same time? [Holding hands might be iffy, might end up splitting body parts. Maybe pushing one giant bubble through it.

Lavi starts directing the bubbles downward near one of the portals but not quite landing yet, seeing as they can open anywhere without warning.]

Might be safer to use the bubbles to get across the waters, even.

[(Dipper gave the okay to skip) (I am noting this here for me so when I backread I don't think I'm an asshole)

The portal ominously swirls. It looks scarier than it really is; everyone will note that as birds fly very close to it, including Faust's, they don't get sucked in. Really, "getting sucked in" must be when they randomly open up in front of people, or under their feet, or something like that. Or maybe the deer are stupid, as deer are, and just spring sproing right into them because they don't know better. Hard to say. Except easy to say because a glass deer startles due to a bear and just

zoop!

into the portal. Goodbye.

Anyway, are we following the deer?]

[Genya looks to the others, then to the bear also also named Lisa.]

On three?

[Genya does not wait. He does not say three. He just plows in, following the deer that is also also also named Lisa.

I will stop after this tag I promise.]

[ Hey Genya, what the hell.

Faust feels somewhere between indignant and actually hurt as Genya barrels in ahead of them. But he says nothing. He just rolls his hamsterball bubble into the swirly portal, assuming they're going in separately since SOMEONE broke off from the group. ]

O-oi!!

[Attempting to call the rogue bubble back but it's out of his reach through the portal. So. Ya'll might also find yourselves on the ground now on the other side.

Because distance probably plays a part in his control. ~~Also, he slightly peeved.~~]

Che... [Rubs at his head.] Guess we're going in...

[Heading towards and hopefully into the portal.]

Well, it's not the worst portal I've had to jump into. At least this one's not made of living flesh.

[No time to elaborate on that one as Dipper runs in after them. It's portal time babbeeeyy]

[Zoop! go the four of you into the portal. Yay, hooray! We love the portal!

It doesn't feel like much in terms of portalling. You'd expect a wormhole, or the feeling of being stretched and elongated, or maybe the intro to Doctor Who or something, but no. One moment you're in the woods (and also in a bubble), the next you're in a blank white space, and the moment after that you're in...

A blank white space?

You hear the sounds of gulls and waves crashing on the shoreline. It takes a second for the visuals of this place to become apparent, though. Black and grey lines intermittently shake, forming drawings of landscapes — hills and the squish of sand underfoot, starfish along the shoreline, palm trees and lines of wind that blows over your forms. It's a living sketchbook, one that, when your emotions bleed out of you and onto the pages, fills the scenery with droplets of watercolour that trail in your footsteps.

Also, that glass deer has arrived with you and is stanced up as fuck. Who are you people. Where is this. Where is grass. Whuwhhuh. The portal behind you has shut, so there's no way to go except for forward!]

[ This is fine

(It isn't. He's so fucking tense.)

Whether it was or not this is what they were now dealing with. He looks about to make sure the others all made it safe before taking in their surroundings. The color that gathers at his feet reflects his fear, but he moves forward anyway. ]

... Well I can guess how someone might get lost here... we'll probably need those bubbles to get back out.

[He fine, going through a portal is no big deal. He's been through tons of them! Getting ragdolled through space is just a fucking Tuesday for Dipper.]

[It's being met with a blank white space that fucks him up, because for a moment something rings familiar and it sends sharp dread through him. A world broken and falling away, a dream collapsing, a nightmare ending, and then finally the fade out like images snuffed from a page by an eraser.]

[He'd escaped through a portal to avoid that, once, so to get dropped into it-]

[It fills in and he starts to relax again, that incredibly potent burst of anxiety working out of him. He takes a deep breath, but he still feels a little shake, following after Faust.]

--yeah. I don't uh. I don't see any other portals opening up either. We'll have to figure something out later, I guess. Let's see what we can find.

[Any argument Genya might have offered to anyone shouting at him dies on Genya's lips the second he takes in the landscape. It reminds him of a woodblock painting, beautiful as it is unnerving. A shiver moves through him, and he finds himself instinctively edging toward the person nearest him.]

... Right.

[He steals a look around. Any more helpful trees? Or plants? Or anyone they can bother? Hell, aside from the deer,, does anything look alive out here?]

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i have to immortalize this

okay anyway

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LISA LIVES

im gonna be on my deathbed and y'all are gonna be like "wolfie why didn't you give us lisa"

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