WEEK FOUR MINGLE

[grigori]

camebit: week 4 mingle the castle within clouds

29 Remain

We hope that, with the start of your fifth week traveling across worlds, that you would be used to waking up in unfamiliar surroundings. The arid heat and bustling noise of the markets are gone now, the luxurious beds replaced with more gently broken in ones. You've got yourself a new bedmate—or two—but there's a different sort of buzz outside your door. Opening it will reveal a lively and colorful tavern full of other people, not just you and your fellow travelers.

Exiting the tavern shows a city full of all manner of people—much like Ahnkeen, this is a world made of different races you could only dream of or had left behind. The square is full of life and commotion, people, creatures. The Watchers aren't alone in being winged people, but there are elves, ogres, dwarves, worgs, and even small bird-like beings that chirp in greeting and carry out their business.

And there's a lot of business! Everyone around you is busily working on... something. Stalls are being set up and filled to the brim with masks, fancy dresses and suits, accessories, food, games. Hawkers at these stands advertise further business to be found in the actual storefronts, and many more give out free samples of food and drink, along with flowers to give to one another. A grand, wrought iron gate has been affixed to the castle gate's open doors, decorated in wrapped bundles of flowers and tree boughs, white silks draped to flow freely in the wind, with various offerings placed on either side of them.

Further exploration of the city will come to the realization that it is very much a city in the sky. All around you are rust brown and deep mahogany wood trees, in full autumnal colors, but the forest is broken up on floating islands all along the southern edge of the walled-in city. It's beautiful, but dangerous, and the locals and guards posted will advise you to watch where you're going so that you don't fall off the edge of the world.

And maybe keep an eye on your things. Unfortunately, the grifflets are not the only winged things here. While there are pegasi and wyvern and small dragons, assorted vermin can be spotted throughout the city, winged as well to have adapted to their environment. They are bold, and prone to biting.



Waiting for you to join them in the town square, outside of the Prancing Pegasi, are Baraqiel and Suriel. Shamsiel is not with them currently. Neither of them seem to be reacting to the effect for the week, even if it's abundantly clear that they are also affected by it, the same as you. Their hoods have been modified for the new additions to their persons—two slits with clasps to allow them to easily remove or adjust their hoods for... ears.

Baraqiel speaks up first, a pair of dark but gold-dusted and straight ears standing upright on their head. One of them twitches a little, an earing jingling faintly with the movement. They appear to be healed of their injuries, from the stay in Otamo, or at least enough that they aren't visible any longer. "Welcome to Camebit, apparently. Don't completely ruin everything this week, like you did Ahnkeen."

Are they joking? A little, but also not, as they continue. "I mean it. They're preparing for the Masquerade of Souls, so at least try to be respectful for once—I'm not going to claim responsibility for any of you if you manage to piss off the locals during their equivalent of a Ghost Festival."

Suriel also appears to have been mostly healed, having ditched the splint and crutch in the new week. Their squirrel daemon sits between a pair of cat ears in glittering, dusty gold that poke out from under their hood. "This festival is really important to them, so try to get along with them, okay? It might even give us something to look forward to!" After a moment, they add, "And don't worry too much about Shamsiel. They'll be okay, they just... need a little time."


Ready for your effect of the week? From the moment you wake up, until you've arrived in another world, everyone will get to be a furry. Hooray! This means you take on physical traits of a single animal—some leeway is allowed for creatures that characters would know from their worlds and creatures of mythology, the same as with your daemons—as well as some of their behavioral traits. This can include ears, horns, tails, wings, et al. Per law ("what law?" my law), you will only have one set of ears. This isn't Loveless.

Additionally, there will be A Thing posted on Tuesday. Please stay tuned for further information—but be ready to get fancy for a masquerade.

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Comments

[greatdeduction]

[browsing all the wares! going ooh! ahhh! TRYING TO KEEP HIS GOSH DARN DETECTIVE HAT ON it is hard when you have cute bunny ears]

[every day is suffering for a furry]

[gregore]

[there's the sound of footsteps as a very tall man thudthudthuds his way over to sholmes in the stalls, and then - hands sholmes a pastry with cream in it. like a danish, basically.

he looks pleased with himself.]

[greatdeduction]

....Oh!

[Takes...the pastry! With some mild confusion because sir, who are you. Someone giving samples? But he nods, pleased. Free food is always welcome.]

I do thank you kindly! How very nice of you.

[of course he's going to nom the danish. nom.]

[gregore]

[he opens his mouth

and squeaks! you're welcome.]

1/3

[greatdeduction]

2/3

[greatdeduction]

3/3

[greatdeduction]

The....frog? Sir?

[HELLO?????????????????]

[gregore]

[he just

this icon is the mood, fam

another squeak of confirmation...]

[greatdeduction]

[He's like six feet tall so he probably doesn't need to reach up too high to pat Greg's head, which is what he's doing.]

My dear fellow...how unfortunate. Well, welcome to the world of humanity. You have been most helpful to us...surely we can't get this reversed?

[gregore]

[oh... head pats. he seems to appreciate this at least, shifting his head to the side to allow for it.

there's a pause, and then - he shrugs? wow. it's much easier to communicate as a human. greg waggles his fingers, and then wrinkles his nose, like this is going to mean anything to sholmes.]

[greatdeduction]

...

[Waggling fingers back?]

Ah, well, we do need to work on your communication skills. Do you want to join me in going around town for the time being? We can figure out a way for you to deal with this...situation of yours, yes.

[gregore]

[frog instinct is to bite the waggling fingers, but greg does not. his eyebrow twitches instead.

as for the offer, greg nods! hell yeah, let's go on a journey. there's a lot of stuff in this area, maybe someone is selling a potion of frog?]

[greatdeduction]

[Just hooking his arm with his! Let's go!]

It's an exciting new world! Many things to see. Is there anything you're interested in, my dear fellow?

[gregore]

[oh! he seems startled a bit by the arm hook, but he's down? he blinks a few times, and then takes a step forward.

he's most interested in food, but sparkly things tend to get his attention too.]

[evocationary]

[it's probably rude but lup comes right up behind him and adjusts his hat for him. and then pokes an ear.]

We really need to stop meeting like this.

[greatdeduction]

...Oh!

[His ear does a whole twitch at the poke, and he blinks, surprised - before grinning wide.]

My dear lady! How good it is to see you again! You truly are our constant companion, aren't you!

[evocationary]

[she laughs, nudging him a bit.]

Apparently! I thought I'd end up back in Otamo, but... it's okay. I'm sure Clint can hold down the fort while I'm gone.

[head tilt as she looks up at the castle in the distance.] I'll be completely honest, I don't mind. It's nice to see different places.

[greatdeduction]

It is nice, isn't it? The universe is clearly a place far beyond our grandest dreams. And we get to see a piece of it. How lucky are we?

[He nudges her back, but looks to the castle as well.]

How unfortunate it has to be under such circumstances.

[evocationary]

I - yeah.

[her ear flicks.]

Yesterday seems like it was... very, very rough for everybody. [she gently reaches out to hold onto his wrist.] I uh, I can't do anything to help there, but I can at the very least help keep everybody's minds off it for just a minute.

Come explore with me. Before things go wild again.

[greatdeduction]

[I do hope that Lup is holding onto his left wrist and sees he has a whole hand missing because haha! Things happen.]

...It was. [And he frowns slightly, but he's nodding all the same.] And of course, my dear. I would be most happy to do a bit of adventuring with you. Let's make the time count while we have it.

[evocationary]

[well now that you've said this there's no way i'm going to let that NOT happen.

a beat. her expression does the like now processing thing, and then:]

What the fuck happened to your hand?

[greatdeduction]

Ah.

[He just. Stares at it awkwardly.]

If I told you I died, would you believe me?

[evocationary]

[she lets go of his wrist and takes his face in her hands instead, idiot sandwich style.]

With how weird things have been lately? Yes! Stop dying! Don't do that again!

[greatdeduction]

I-I'm not trying to?

[now he has a fish face from cheeks being squished]

[his nose twitches]

[evocationary]

Good. Try harder.

[and she taps him on that twitchy nose before letting go of his face.]

... Are you okay? [otherwise. she really is worried under all this posturing.]