rest under the stars

[purevanillacookie]

Who: Peepaw + You cause lbr he's inviting everyone
What: Sleepover! In an outside blanket fort!
When: Time is wobbly
Where: Outside Peepaw's Place
Warnings: It's gonna be cute and loving

[ Life's been rough, come hang out at Pure Vanilla's in a blanket fort, which is what the little jot in the journal says. The quest was for loved ones, but Pure Vanilla loves all of them? So, blanket offering.

Literally. ]

Please come visit tonight and spend a moment of rest and relaxation with me, my dears! This month has been rough, and I feel we can all use it.

[ Those who show up will find one side of his Cookie Cottage absolutely turned into the largest blanket fort he can make it. Most of it is made up of wool blankets, but when he ran out of those, he's stolen extra blankets from the Inn, as well as stripped his house of them. Pillows and furs line the ground, and small shards of light that seem almost ethereal litter around the area. Some float in the air like small gleaming prisms, some are attached to the ceiling of the blankets like their own stars, while others sparkle gentle amongst the furs. Touching one for any length of time will make it fade into the person who touched it, and give them a sense of warmth and peace.

And there's food. Lots of it. Drinks too, carefully marked that they will aid you into sleep. Peepaw spent the entire day busy. And a bunch of various things to do to unwind with. Books to read, marshmallows to roast over carefully shielded fire pits (there's little magic circles around them to keep the fires magically going and safe), a record player with various records he borrowed. If you really want to fall asleep, he even had his things to make yarn dragged out, just be sure not to fall asleep mid-spin. And a little telescope or two set up from the School.

It really does look like a school camping trip...

There's also a larger shield around it all, near invisible in the moon and starlight, but it shimmers occasionally. People gathering in one spot is always a prime target, and he's not going to let his loved ones be hurt.

Vanilla will greet every one with a wide, happy smile and a hug. Get loved. ]

Thank you for coming!

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[ephemeralflow]

[They do not, apparently. Timekeeper's eye twitches briefly. The problem with time powers is that when they actually don't work on something, there's little other recourse.

Luckily, Timekeeper is nothing if not resourceful.]

Oh, Continuum Cog! [The little black hole makes some eager clicks, floating over to her.] Tell me, have you ever tried to eat a shadow?

[Cog follows Timekeeper's gesture to the shadows climbing her legs, and makes a displeased grinding noise. Oh, it doesn't like that. Then, it slowly starts spinning its cogwheels, its gravitational pull on only the shadows starting to increase...]

[jesterlies]

[HM. Maybe let's not test ones luck here. The Hands do not like that as it turns out and let go, starting to recede back into Timekeeper's shadow proper.]

[Then out from some other shadow near by, comes Shadow Milk.]

Cheater! Phoning a friend was not in the rules of this game!

[ephemeralflow]

[Awww. It wanted to eat a shadow. Continuum Cog stops winding up as the hands slip away, looking slightly deflated.

Timekeeper, meanwhile, simply gives Shadow Milk her best mock gasp of shock at such an accusation.]

Cheating? Me? However could I do such a thing when I was not told the rules to begin with?

[As if cheating when she does know the "rules" is ever out of the question. Hint: it isn't, her whole powerset is cheating.]

[jesterlies]

[He floats a bit as the shadows come over to him to wave at CC.]

Oh, it isn't my fault you couldn't figure them out! I thought they were quite straight forward!

[There are no rules, there's no game, he is making shit up, obviously.]

Games aside, I do home dear Director, you have been keeping your step light in these trying times.

[ephemeralflow]

Oho! My, surely that is not genuine concern from you. What are you trying to butter me up for, hmm?

[But her tone is more playful than it is accusatory, and as she speaks she reaches into her hip pouch and retrieves a small glowing gummy, flicking it at Shadow Milk. Have one of Cog's Pure Light Gummies, she's got too many. Also she knows Shadow Milk might be able to tell what its matter was before it was this, and that could be funny, especially because she lets Cog eat a lot of the scrap she can't use.]

I've not been keeping many steps at all, truthfully. Walking on the ground seems far too likely to result in snakebite these days. What a surprise that I cannot blame you for that!

[jesterlies]

Me? Oh please, perish the thought. I am merely the ever trustworthy herald of knowledge, you know.

[That's a funny joke, that only the two of them would find funny probably. He catches that with some curiosity! Ohhh what's this? Pure light in edible form? How interesting.]

[He turns it over in his hands for a moment.]

Your little pet sure has an appetite, hm?

[He does laugh at that jab.]

It really has made assuming that form far too much trouble! They see a creature slithering in the grass and stomp first, asking questions later. Rotten way to start the day.

[ephemeralflow]

[It does get a laugh out of her, a sound like the swing of a pendulum.]

That is what black holes are known for, is it not? Hm, I can only assume you speak from experience. How many times did you get stomped before giving up, I wonder?

[jesterlies]

Juuuust enough to learn my lesson, of course. Gave them a fright when I changed forms, though!

[Anyway, he looks the little candy over and then shrugs, shoving it in his mouth.]

[Oh. HELLO. His hair rises up and boofs outwards like an explosion, as that jolt of energy runs through him.]

WHOAH!