mini event: growing pains

[sticksandbonesmods]

Who: The Grove
What: Something is happening!
When: Time is Fake you know that
Where: The General Store
Warnings: :)

It's a normal day, isn't it? Or as normal as it can be in Aldric's Grove while a mischievous and loving skeleton is pranking literally everyone. The Goddess's statues rest in the center by the well. Flowers are blooming. Plantimals are also blooming, and getting into things they shouldn't, and playing. Biblically accurate animals are grazing peacefully or resting in trees.

It might even be pleasant.




Up until a large crash from the General Store. Maybe you should check it out.

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[sticksandbonesmods]

No enemies! Just the sound of someone moving, groaning a bit. It's a deep voice- likely unfamiliar, given that the shopkeeper has been resting since before Dark Cacao arrived.

The backroom opens to a storage room with two hallways going in opposite directions. One leads to a dark room that smells of plum blossoms, while the other is lit up, and the smell of tea left out to sit wafts through the air.

[winterfrosting]

Okay, this is sounding more like an accident than a battle. He sheaths his blade and jogs towards the lit up room.

"I am coming in." He calls out so hopefully he won't get hit for B&E.

[sticksandbonesmods]

"Huh- Domanic...?"

Dark Cacao will find a lovely kitchen, with the aeformentioned abandoned tea in a mug on the counter. It's long since gone cold. But no sign of the man who's calling out to a man long since dead. Presumably, DC will go further, so here's the bedroom he'll find the source in.

Rather than a familiar shadow not unlike Ydalir, here sits a man. An older man, gaunt in the face with graying black hair and grey eyes, utterly baffled.

[winterfrosting]

What a lovely home! The name makes something tingle in his jam, but is completely unfamiliar.

He blinks, not expecting a human man.

"Ah. My apologies. I heard a crash..."

[sticksandbonesmods]

Something passes across the man's face before he manages to regain his composure.

"Weren't a crash. That was... uh. A body growing from nothing. Lucky you didn't hear the cracking, that was... somethin' else.

Sorry for worryin' ya."

...




Sir are you REALLY going to just leave it at that.

[winterfrosting]

"...?"

Yeah that's a lot to drop on a dude. Even with Earthbread magic making a whole ass body from nothing isn't really a thing.

"Is that... something normal for humans? Forgive me, I am still learning such things."

[sticksandbonesmods]

"No. No, it is not. ... Forgive me, I'm- I'm a little out of it. I feel like I've had a cold for months, and then this happened-"

He drags a hand down his face with a soft sigh and shakes his head.

"...Have you met the trader, Ydalir, yet? I was like her. And now I'm... not."

[winterfrosting]

He has not, but he heard alot about the locals from Pure Vanilla. So with a deep "hmm" he nods to himself.

"I see."

...and he's just gonna turn around and head back towards the kitchen with clear intent??? Sir, plz.

... he's gonna warm up that tea he smelled seeping. Apparently a life time as a cookie did nothing to change his past life's tendency to just Do Things.

[sticksandbonesmods]

Heimr blinks and watches him leave, shifting a bit to see what he's doing... before smiling fondly. After a few minutes, Heimr follows- but even for a man of his stature, the clothes he has is... a bit too big for him.

He used to be a seven-foot shadow giant. And now he is only a dilf.

"Thanks."

[winterfrosting]

He just grunts and waves a hand at that. Nope, he kicked your door. At least he could do is be hospitable. In your house. Don't question it.

Once it's reboiled and repoured he carefully hands it over.

"It will probably be stronger than you first had it." Too much seeping. A crime.

[sticksandbonesmods]

"Either it's gonn' be just what I need, or a real kick in the teeth- haven't had a body to eat or drink with for centuries."

... Granted, it could also be both.

"Normally I brew it for the smell and then leave it as an offering at one o' the shrines."

But then he. Kinda. Grew a body.

Rapidly. So it's no surprise the tea was left out.

Heimr takes a slow, almost cautious sip before his eyebrows shoot up and he exhales as the cup pulls away-

"It was both."

[winterfrosting]

Cacao gives a sharp but warm bark of laughter at that.

"Sometimes it is indeed both. How do you feel? In pain? I can call for Pure Vanilla Cookie if needed..."

[sticksandbonesmods]

"Gods, yes. I can't say this is an experience I recommend."

PLEASE HE IS SO SORE. HE IS SO SORE AND SO TIRED.

[winterfrosting]

He nods.

"Then drink your tea. I will go find him and return promptly."

[sticksandbonesmods]

"Mm. Will do."

... But first-

"What do I call you? I knew you once, by a different name."

[winterfrosting]

"....ah. Vanilla told me about that. These... other selves. I am Dark Cacao Cookie."

[sticksandbonesmods]

"... Somehow it suits you. Mean that as a compliment. You were a friend."

[winterfrosting]

That makes him smile slightly. Barely a quirk to the mouth.

"Well, hopefully that can continue."

And off he goes! Thankfully there's only so many places Vanilla might be.

[purevanillacookie]

And Cacao will return with one (1) blonde former cookie. The first thing out of his mouth?

"Return to bed!"

And if that is not complied with he will physically carry you do not make him do this.

[sticksandbonesmods]

Heimr had just been waiting with some tea and much-too-large clothes and then this! Happens! And he just barks out a laugh-

"I been in bed since winter, let me have my drink!"

[purevanillacookie]

HMPH! WHO IS THE MEDICAL OFFICER ON THIS SHIP!? But PV will grant him that, set his staff aside, and lay both hands on the poor mans head. His healing feels like gentle warmth, seeping in and easing aches and pains in a trickle down effect.

"Have you eaten?"

[winterfrosting]

"Not yet. I did not want to shove food on him right away."

[sticksandbonesmods]

"Which I appreciate. Starting with liquid seemed like the safest bet."

Heimr is quiet and allows any other manhandling as needed- just don't send him to bed yet.

"... For the record, Van, this ain't normal of humans. You ain't gotta worry about suddenly regrowing or changing anything."

[purevanillacookie]

"Indeed it is. Honey in the tea?" Aimed at Cacao mostly.

He won't send him to bed right away. And will laugh as his mind is read.

"Ah, good, I do not wish to adjust again." Horns, hooves, and wool is enough thanks. But the man is going to get the gentlest of non-invasive physical exams anyways. Sir. What the fuck?

[winterfrosting]

"Hm." He nods and goes to get honey- he just boiled what he already made, after all.