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shipoftheseus ([personal profile] shipoftheseus) wrote in [community profile] wilderlogs 2018-03-08 10:32 am (UTC)

phosphophyllite | houseki no kuni

[One moment they were walking alongside their partner heading out to patrol, and the next it seemed like they'd somehow dozed off on the way and fallen straight into a weird dream, earth and roots and leaves and a voice--

They wake up to so much green they think they must still be sleeping and lay on the ground a bit longer. When they open their eyes again, all the green is still there.

It's...buildings. So many of them, and in such disarray. It takes Phos a moment too long to realize that all that green is trees, too. But the trees are are strange and numerous as the buildings, thick and tall and heavy with leaves like bushes to the point the sky is hard to see in places. Phos picks through the mess of green with awe, beyond confused.

Wherever they are, it sure as hell isn't anywhere on the island.]


Cairngorm? Hey, Cai--

[Their voice chokes off very abruptly as they catch sight of the white figures, and they instinctively stumble behind a tree for cover. They wait for a few moments, mind racing through all the awful possibilities of why there would be Lunarians on the ground here while their partner is missing, but none of them come to investigate all the noise Phos had been making and eventually, Phos peeks back around the trunk of the strange tree.

The figures aren't moving. And at second glance, they don't look like Lunarians. Cautiously, Phos creeps forward, gaining confidence the closer they get without prompting any kind of reaction.

Up close, the white figures definitely aren't Lunarians, but Phos sure as hell can't tell what they are. Some of them are shaped a little weird, and the clothes and hair are as stiff and strange-looking as the figures themselves are. Close inspection reveals that they're stone, but not why they aren't moving. One or two are missing heads, but the damage on the others shouldn't render them immobile. And why are they all the same stone? Phos pokes at the odd, dull stone of one figure's broken arm, disconcerted but concerned.]


Can you hear me? Hey. Hey! What's wrong with you guys? Hellooo?

[Anyone stumbling into the clearing will come across a...pretty bizarre sight. A delicate-looking person in high heels and hot pants prods and shake the statues with golden arms, their mint green hair brilliantly refractive in the sunlight coming through the trees and scattering fractals of tinted light across the scenery. They're speaking in Japanese for some reason, because this clearly wasn't weird enough to begin with.]

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