MARCH 2015

[thecanopycrew]

Uncertain if this is a game for you? Curious to see how your character would act in it? Testing the waters? Then take them on this very first Home Tree Test Drive! directions ❀ Don't forget to read the Introduction , our Rules and the F.A.Q ❀ Post with your character with their name and canon in the subject line. ❀ Use the prompt(s) given here or make up your own! ❀ Both prose and comment spam format are welcome. ❀ Tag around! Make friends. Don't be afraid to discuss OOCly while tagging. ❀ The Test Drive Meme can be used for your application's first person sample. ❀ This meme is is considered as OOC and not part of the game's canon. prompt Welcome to the Faerie Feast! After your have gained your wings, you are met by a feast on the second floor with all that the forest can offer you. Tables and chairs are set up everywhere along the walkway between the houses, allowing the new visitors to meet and greet - or try to hide in the corners and eat berries all by themselves. Try your new wings to be the first to grab those delicious crumbs of walnut bread? Or say hi to your party lights, courtesy of some excited glow worms and flies that just want to be your best friends. Explore how your new gem works, try put your leaf clothes or decide to head further into the tree, seeing just what kind of place your have stumbled into. Maybe you will even get a glimpse of those hairy legs on the fourth floor?

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[betterthanwu]

[Spirit-changed, Kuvira speculates, for lack of any other way this could come about. It's very strange. She manages not to stare, though she would like to.]

I've seen someone I know, but I'm not sure anyone was... kidnapped as part of a set. I hope you find someone.

[Is the food poisoned? They are in such deep trouble if it is that it's probably better to assume it's not. Captain Kuvira hesitates and goes to one knee to get her eye level closer to the strange child's.]

Thank you. I've never had candyfruit. What if I just sliced off a piece? My name is Kuvira, by the way.

[alley_kit]

[Kit nods.]

Thanks. I haven't seen anybody from home here so far. There's one or two that looked like they might be, but I asked and they're not.

[The thought that the food might be poisoned or otherwise tainted hadn't occurred to Kit, largely because everyone else seemed to be eating it with no problem. Plus, she just wasn't the type to turn down free food if it was offered, despite the unusual circumstances.]

Really? Candyfruit is the best. The Berbils grow tons of it, but you can find it growing wild some places too.

Anyway, sure, if you've got a knife or something, go ahead. And my name's Wily-Kit, but everybody just calls me Kit.

[betterthanwu]

There are a number of people here. Maybe they're hidden by the crowd.

Hello, Kit. That's your favorite food?

[Knives. Not a lot of people in the Metal Clan need something like that. Kuvira takes the berry, hefting its roundness and firmness in her fingers, and bends the metal of her armguard into a point sticking out past her fist. She uses that to cut out a small part and hands the rest back.] Here you go.

[alley_kit]

Maybe. I'll just have to keep looking, I guess.

[The thought occurs to her that she could just fly above the crowd to get a better view... but she's not sure enough of her wings yet to want to go more than a few feet off the ground. That way if she falls, at least she won't be hurt too badly.]

One of 'em yep. Though I like fruitbread and bone stew too.

[And then Kuvira metal-bends her armguard and Kit's eyes just get as big as saucers. Because she's never seen anything like that before, and it's so cool!]

Wow! How'd you do that?

[betterthanwu]

Running around and shouting wouldn't help much. Could you leave a note somewhere they'd be sure to see it?

[Kuvira raises her expressive eyebrows and smiles. She makes a gesture and her armguard shifts back into its usual shape.]

I'm an Earthbender. I learned to bend metal when I wasn't all that much older than you. [well. Maybe.]

[alley_kit]

I would, but...

[Kit shifts a little from one foot to the other, wings giving an unconscious little flutter as she looks a bit uncomfortable.]

Well, I kinda can't read. Or write. Mama and Papa were going to teach us, but then... well... stuff happened, and they weren't able to.

[Not particularly wanting to elaborate on said 'stuff' just then, especially with someone who's basically a stranger, Kit tries to shift the conversation to a more comfortable topic.]

An Earth-bender?

[The term is obviously unfamiliar to her.]

I've never heard of someone who bends earth. And usually metal has to be heated up before you can bend it, unless you're really strong. But that's different than what you just did anyway.

Is it a kind of magic? I know the Wood Forgers could do all kinds of things with the special paper made from the trees in the Forest of Magi Oar.

[betterthanwu]

That's... [terrible. She'd better not let that on, though. Still, instant +50 to empathy.] I see. If we can't get this resolved quickly, maybe I can teach you.


Some people call it magic. That's not how I think about it, though. I'm just closer to earth and metal. A lot of people can do this - sense this element, and move it around. There are also Waterbenders, Firebenders, and even a few Airbenders.

[alley_kit]

[Too late Kit already caught some of it, perceptive little thing that she is. But she doesn't say anything, since it seems like Kuvira doesn't want anything said about it.

The offer of teaching gets a smile, though.]

Sure, that sounds good. I'd like to learn; I feel like I'm missing out on stuff sometimes.

[The stuff about bending just gets a curious head-tilt.]

Huh... I don't think we have anything like that back home. Some people, like the Clerics, can tap into the world's magic to do different things, but I don't think it works like that. At least, I've never seen Cheetara move earth or water or metal or anything. Her magic does help her run super fast though. A lot faster than even the Thundertank can go.

[betterthanwu]

It's useful to know.

I think that kind of thing is outside my experience. [Having met several people from very strange places now, the captain is having an easier time accepting that things work differently in other worlds.] Can you do something like that?

[alley_kit]

Kinda? I mean, I can't run super fast like Cheetara, but... I can do a little magic.

[She sets the berries down and reaches into one of the pouches on her belt, pulling out what looks to be a kind of ring-shaped flute.]

I can put people in a trance when I play my flupe. Animals too. Want me to show you?

[betterthanwu]

Can you do it without affecting me? [rather not be in a trance thanks. Kuvira needs to keep her wits about her.]