When You Made Wishes: start! (player plot)

[deuteranope]

Imagine Wist's surprise when April rolled around and their plan for a great prank was foiled on account of all those students just...leaving??? Truly, they have become the April fool... It's what they wanted, of course -- for the pitiful humans to find freedom -- and sure there are some stragglers around, but...in the end, they decide to take the win and enjoy a short break of their own. Good thing, too, or they might have pulled out all their hair in frustration when Spring Break comes to an end and the swarm of students and faculty willingly return to their prison.

While settling back into the academy and resigning themselves to a routine, the people of Daybreak will be soothed by a gentle tune rising up from the forest. It isn't a song they've heard before, and yet, somehow...it's nostalgic, isn't it? The soft notes of the pan flute stir up something in their hearts, tugging at old memories and drawing forth a feeling of dissatisfaction and longing out from under them. Let the song lull them into taking a moment to withdraw from the hustle and bustle -- hey, turns out they sort of need it. Maybe they're coming down with a cold, or just some quick little bug...
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>> user M3G4M4G1CH4XX posted on April 6th, 2019:
Why did you come back? You don't have to live like this.

Weren't things better back then? Try to remember what it used to be like.
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The odd message from an iris account that doesn't exist isn't up for long before the spell kicks into the next phase. However they manifest and from when differs from person to person, but those affected will all have the bizarre experience of watching some ghost of themselves from their past be born from their soul's memory. Don't think there are those that can escape this fate just by returning at a later time, either -- Wist can keep up this panpipe nonsense all day, every day if they have to. If that what it takes to get their point across...

Good luck trying to comprehend whatever point that may be, because now Daybreak is the new home to a bunch of familiar-looking rugrats and has to contend with whatever complications they may bring along with them.
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[For more information on this plot, please see this ooc infopost!]

Comments

[eudaimonikos]

Stan...

[Why that? But there's a vague sense of assent; certainly it doesn't know any better sound-names, so why not?]

You're all wet and squishy. [Humans are gross. Fine to talk to, but gross.]

[nor_iron_bars]

[Cool, she named an eldritch thing.]

[This assessment of the human condition gets a shrug.]

Yeah, pretty much. You get used to it.

[eudaimonikos]

[Gross. There's just a general telepathic sensation of - gross.]

Where's this?

[nor_iron_bars]

[Jail snickers a little. Listen, she's a trashfire, she's not sorry about being gross.]

Depends, what scale are we talking here? Like... Which part of this building? Where in the country? Which country? What planet?

[With each broadening of the scale, she accompanies it with a mental projection of the term as she understands it- what a building is, what a country is, what the planet Earth is.]

[eudaimonikos]

All of those.

[But that probably isn't helpful, is it? Let's start with the largest one, then.]

Planet? I've seen planets. [But the association it sends along with planets are all rock and magma, noted in passing and largely ignored. Once you've seen the first volcanic hellscape, you've sort of seen them all; it's unfamiliar with planets that have other types of...people? People, it supposes, on them.]

[nor_iron_bars]

[Oooh, now that's impressive. Jail isn't a geologist, but she can appreciate a good show, and a molten sea of rock is pretty neat if it's not a regular occurrence for you.]

Well yeah, that's what they look like raw. This one's had a while to cook, it cooled down a few billion years ago.

[Vague impression of her sketchy understanding of Earth's development. She's more of an engineer, but she's seen some documentaries.]

So this planet's Earth, and this country's France. The town's Soleil, the building is Daybreak Academy, and we're in one of the courtyards.

[eudaimonikos]

[That's a lot of names that don't mean anything to it. But it has no special attachment to any point in space. It's stayed in a few that were safe, until they weren't, and then it moved on and that was that. It may as well be here now.]

Are there others like me here?

[These "humans" clearly aren't a threat it has to be concerned with.]

[nor_iron_bars]

Still not totally sure what you are, so it's kinda hard to say. Then again, I've been here for a while and I haven't seen anything that looked much like you, so I guess that's a point for 'no'.

[eudaimonikos]

...good.

[All the better, if it doesn't have to worry about being attacked. Maybe it can settle around here for a while.]