[OPEN LOG] Welcome to Cape Beryl!

[theharvestmods]

Who: Everyone!
When: Spring 2nd - all day.
Where: All across Cape Beryl.
What: You've splashed down into the Harvest Goddess's sacred pond, pulled yourself out - or perhaps been pulled out by an out-of-breath and soaking stranger, shaken off the worst of the shock of the cold and the unexpected trip underwater, and likely by now noticed that the little silver piece of jewelry that put you through this seems to have found its way around your neck.

Now you ought to get your bearings. Leave Goddess Grotto whenever you're ready, take the path out along a beach and up the cliffs to a village - see where you are, maybe if you can get directions. No matter what, you're going to realize that you're somewhere new - but maybe some of the Bower Village townspeople will be willing to help you get sorted out. If nothing else, maybe you'll be drawn into talking to anyone else you might catch sight of wandering the village, disoriented, soaked to the skin, and with a silver heart-shaped pendant around their neck. Depending on how you see it, you're not all alone - not any more than everyone else, anyway.

Headers for open interactions in example locations will be posted - but by all means, start threads wherever and with whoever you like!

Rating: Expected K-PG - subject to change as appropriate.



It's a cool, early spring day - the air and the breeze may not agree with anyone with wet clothes. But apart from that, the atmosphere is pleasant and peaceful; distant chirps of birds can be heard from the mouth of Goddess Grotto to Mt. Throne. The trees and grasses are pale green and flowers are budding in the meadows - not to mention the garden at Florist Lilia and de Sainte-Coquille Park.

And the town at the top of the cliffs is somewhat drowsily at peace. It's far from deserted - stabled behind a house on the town's east side is a healthy-looking mule, and a pair of chickens and a goat hang around in a pen behind an inn, the town's brightly-dressed mailwoman is out and about, as is the town watchman, who will likely be ready to approach anyone with an unfamiliar face before they can approach him, if he happens to catch them on his rounds. However, although anyone may freely knock on any of the doors in Bower Village and expect a polite "come in", no one is prepared for company, and whoever is inside might jump at finding themselves talking to a clearly displaced stranger!

Comments

[healium]

"Huh?"

For a moment, Jane starts, her hands dropping and staring through wet bangs at the girl before awkwardly laughing. Wiping her face and pushing herself into sitting up, she tries to smile.

"Oh, oh! I'm alright, at least I think I am. Uh.."

Looking around, there's distinctly no sign of Jake in his obscenely yellow godtier clothes, so Jane has to ask. Good god she still doesn't feel ready to talk to him, but at least knowing where he is happens to be a good start.

"Have you seen a boy about my age? He's wearing a lot of yellow." Then she hesitates -- "No, wait, you just got out of the lake too, didn't you? Sorry!"

[whiteserenade]

Wow, the other female seemed to be taking things even harder than her, didn't she? That didn't mean that it wasn't understandable, though. Deuce herself could barely understand what was happening to her.

Countering Jane's smile was none other a genuine smile of her own. Deuce didn't even know this person in front of her, but she seemed to be perfectly okay physically minus the wet clothes. Jane's question, sadly, acquired no decent answer from the brunette.

"I'm sorry, I haven't seen anyone else beside us," a flash of sadness passed by her face, before it faded out into another bright smile. "Don't worry about it. Should we look for this boy together?"

If Queen, Ace, or even King was around, they would label her naivety yet again. But she didn't regret all of this. She would try to help everyone.

[healium]

"No, no, it's alright. I'm sure if he comes crawling out of the lake himself I'll know where to find him." At least the smile got the reward of making Jane relax and smile easier. She hasn't met a lot of strangers in her life that weren't trying to kill her, but the girl didn't seem like some assassin or alien fish overlord.

Picking herself up and ringing out her clothes a little, Jane looked about a bit. "Um, do you happen to know where we are, by the tiniest chance?"

[whiteserenade]

If Jane said it like that, well... Deuce couldn't do anything much but obey. After all, everyone had their privacy and she was never in the place to invade one. Had never been one, was never one, and would never be one.

"Ah, about that..." Deuce pondered for a small moment, brushing the wet side of her hair. "I'm sorry, I don't have any idea about it as well."

She sighed again. Just once. Before her face seemed to lit up again.

"But we can find out where we are together. I'm sure of it."

If any, her tone was rather upbeat despite her current situation. Being a pessimist, after all, would not do anyone any good, right? Especially in this kind of situation.

[healium]

"Hoo hoo, that's a good point. It's part of a detectives job to have as many eyes and ears around as possible when it comes to finding clues, you know?"

The upbeat tone winds up making Jane smile, and on finishing ringing out the other side of her clothing, Jane offers her hand in a shake.

"My name is Jane Crocker, it's lovely to meet you!"

[whiteserenade]

As if on cue with Jane's movement, Deuce's own face turned brighter, yet another smile claiming its place on her lips. It goes without saying that the young brunette would gladly accepted her handshake.

"I am Deuce, it's nice to meet you too, Miss Jane."

A slight headtilt was performed here as the handshake between the two take place. It was definitely going to be much easier, and not to mention nicer, if she had a companion- a friend to find their way out here, right?

Now, to find it... Deuce pointed slightly at the direction where the sun seemed to shine brightly over it. "Maybe we should go there?"

[healium]

"It's a start! Hopefully we can find a town of some sort before it gets too dark, since we don't really know what's hanging out in the woods."

Trotting a little, then stopping to take off her shoes and shake them out, the slipper-like things were just plain soaked; at least her bare feet would be fine with all this grass around.

"I feel like it's been forever since I've seen so much grass, trees, anything so alive. Goodness, I think I started to forget what dirt smelled like even! Anyway, let's get going, shall we?"

[whiteserenade]

At first, Deuce was about to go with having her shoes equipped tightly by her feet. Yet it only took a slight glance at Jane for her to change her opinion. Why not, indeed? The place seemed to be nice, too! No sooner, she was in her bare feet stature as well.

"Mmm!"

She quickly tinkled up in agreement, starting her own walk soon after. Still, leaving the pace without a conversation wasn't exactly her favorite, and that triggered her will to actually start one.

"Miss Jane," a slight headtilt. "Do you mind if I ask you something?"

[healium]

"Sure, go right ahead!"

Even if she knew her feet were going to get really dirty and maybe a bit muddy, walking outside felt all sorts of fantastic. Part of her still thinks she's just dreaming, that the strange explosions and dying just left her in a sort of limbo dreaming state -- Dirk said something about Roxy floating into bubbles where other people were, right? Maybe once or twice before all this began, but it's hard to remember any details since they all stopped talking to each other about three months in.

[whiteserenade]

"Where do you come from?"

At first, she was slightly contemplating about how should she ask this without sounding weird, still keeping her pace toward the other side of the place strongly. Being pulled suddenly after she was changing after a nice game of lacrosse was one of the most surprising things that she had ever experienced, and it was nonetheless not the best of a memory. And thanks to that, it was rather arduous to make it not sounded absurd as it was.

She still kept her smile intact, of course. Whether Jane would turn down her question or not would not bring the sun down from her facade.

[healium]

"Oh, I'm from America. Maple Valley, Washington! At least, that's where I was raised. Where I was last is a little harder to explain."

She can't help a sheepish sort of smile, shaking her shoes out a bit before hopping to try and pull them on without breaking their pace.

[whiteserenade]

Her face emitted the confusion from the thing that she just heard. Luckily though, she was still able to contain it for herself. Just so that Jane wouldn't spend her mind in thinking their different worlds, since she seemed to be so grateful merely by the existence of grass, trees, and all that.

"Was it a beautiful place?"

Truthfully, she wanted to hear Jane's explanation about her own world so she could at least come into a theory. But again, she was Deuce and forcing was never in her dictionary. Hence why she asked something rather irrelevant instead.

[healium]

"Home? Oh yes, it really was lovely. We had a tire swing outside, and it was just nice enough outside that Dad was washing his car, and the weather was so bright and clear; a lot like here is!"

If anything, Jane sounded homesick.

"The.. other place I was at, it was dark and everything was dead. Giant skeleton monsters that were better left avoiding than taking out. Four months of that nonsense; sunlight is a treat!."

Sighing and giving a half smile, Jane kept walking, her pace a little slower to take in the grass under her feet. Hopefully Deuce wouldn't think she was downright crazy, goodness.

[whiteserenade]

As Deuce listened to the other female, she couldn't help but let her mind wander and imagine how the place that Jane had just described looked. The imagination couldn't come perfectly, but at the very least, even she could tell how peaceful the place might be.

Unlike Deuce, really. Homesick? Perhaps a little. But it hit the spot better if she were to put it as 'worried about her friends'. The place was... close to hell, really.

"I am happy for you, Miss Jane," Deuce quickly returned Jane's words, completely ignoring most of the second sentences that Jane had said for the obvious reason. There was definitely no need to touch the point that would make Jane to reminiscence the unnecessary. "I was always in a battlefield. Almost always."

Despite that, Deuce flashed her smile again at Jane as she continued her brisk walk as well. To be quite honest, Deuce was already pretty fond of Jane for her sunshine nature.

[healium]

That makes her look up with a touch of surprise, returning the smile out of habit than genuinely being happy about hearing of the battlefield. Jane's smile went a touch sad then.

"Thank you, though I am sorry to hear that. Was it.. scary?"