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(Main Quest 1/5)

Find five trees? BEST FIRST QUEST EVER. For a Sentient tree anyway. Sap had been planning to say hello to all of them. Even though she wasn't... technically... A tree here.

What was she? A human-tree-cat-thing? So confusing! So fun!

Well, meeting five of them seemed easy enough! "Hello!" she said to the one next to her! It had stripes! Imagine that! Unfortunately, it also did not talk, which was a SHAME because Sap was sure that a striped tree would have something interesting to say.

Oh well.

Never again! Never again would he trust a bottled labelled “Drink Me”. Even in the dream (and he knew it was a dream) that had sounded suspicious. It was just that...the bottle had the loveliest of smells;- of freshly chopped apples and carrots. How was one supposed to resist a temptation like that? Especially after all the running that one had to do in order to reach that funny hole in the ground. Odd, now that he had time to think about it. Why would he enter a hole anyway? It wasn’t as though he liked being in a tiny enclosed space underground.

But regardless, he had drunk from the tiny bottle and had an even weirder dream than before. A dream within a dream?

Of a funny character who introduced herself as ...Alice AI wasn’t it? And all that talk about Wonderland and job classes...

Speaking of which...

“Flying carrots and golden horseshoes...,”

Something was floating above his head. “Clopper...,”

Yes, he had chosen that name didn’t he? He’d always wanted a normal name and “Clopper” had a nice steady steadfast ring to it. Yes. His name was Clopper.

Flicking a tiny ear forward, “Clopper” bounded over the grassy grounds as fast as his little legs would allow him. It was an odd feeling being this close to the ground but there was a sense of safety too. Clopper liked safeness. It meant that you were unlikely to be preyed upon.

There was a sign ahead and the sign did something no respectable sign was supposed to do. It told him to examine five different trees! And the sign even had the nerve to order him to return with a report once he had done so!

“Well... okay,” said Clopper who had no issues with being ordered around by someone who seemed to be in charge (and in this case it was the signpost). “I’ll look at five different trees. Perhaps then something will start to make sense ,”

(Main Quest 3/5)

Sap sauntered up to the next tree, hoping that this one would be conversational.
Oddly enough, there was a voice... but it wasn't the tree, it was a mouth in the tree! What a trippy game this was! Sap giggled.

"Okay!" she said to the disappeared mouth, her Cheshire tail swishing happily, "I can't wait to get lost in it! Haha!"

Lawrences dreams very rarely, if ever made sense. Typically a sequence of scattered images and schizophrenic disordered memories. It was as close to chaos as he trod. Tonight - Today, had he even been sleeping? Things were most unusual, but he let himself be carried along because everything in the dream appeared to be bending, leaning towards an eventual end. He did not hesitate to leap down the hole because fear was a requirement of these things, and in the dream world, there was not even the fear of bodily harm.

The bottle looked most unfriendly, but once again, he was dreaming, lucidly at that. And there was nothing to fear.

What he found himself in as he reached the bottom of the rabbit hole appeared to be some manner of computer game, at least he assumed this was the case, technology was not something he was entirely well versed in. The hallmarks were there, along with the obligation to choose a username. For him it was simple, there was one word he could use to truly describe the essence of what he was. Divinity.

Presented with his choice of an array of classes from which he could choose, he opted for the Cheshire cat, finding his already far softer and more youthful appearance changed with the addition of wings, tail and ears. He looked himself over critically before nodding. Yes. This would do as a persona. He thought for a few long moments on what he would be like, and then he was ready to face whatever tasks this strange location presented.

His movements relaxed and his expression softened as he went.



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My character's username: Divinity
My character's level: 1
Character's HP: 30
Current party: --
Current Guild: --
Location: Tulgey Wood
Small IC description of character: Tall, extremely pale and slender with delicate features, long slender wings and light clothing.
Character journal: [x]

((Entry))

"You just had to go investigating dream holes and mysterious bottles, didn't you," Gwenyfarh muttered to herself in a low, soft hiss. Granted, she hadn't been hurt by either action, but it was still weird. Maybe not quite as weird as the AI calling itself Alice, but still pretty weird. Ears twitching, the tiny werebat forced herself to focus back on the AI as it/she? continued to explain things.

And once she got to the part about picking a name and job class, Gwenyfarh had to laugh a little. Sure. Why not.

"Well, my friend," she addressed Alice and grinned. "The name part is easy enough. IttyBittyBatty."

Thank you.

"Let's see, Job Class now, was it?"

Scanning through the list, IttyBittyBatty found herself drawn to the Mad Hatter class. Sure, there was a chance she'd end up completely boned during an encounter, but an equal chance that she'd pull off something amazing. And if she was going to be honest with herself, the muted earth tones of the default uniform appealed to her. If she had to play this silly dream game, she wanted to be comfortable.

"Mad Hatter job class, if you please, Alice," she chuckled and heard a soft chiming noise. Then, quite suddenly, she was dressed in her chosen outfit and well. Teleported was the only way to describe what came next as the scenery changed and she found herself looking at a sign with a bright yellow exclamation point floating above it.

Weird. So very weird. As she listened to the signpost speak, she found herself blinking a little. All she had to do was check out some trees?

Seemed legit.

((1/5))



IttyBittyBatty eyes the tree stump suspiciously for a moment before deciding that it was exactly what it appeared to be. Seriously, after a talking sign post, she was determined to not be caught off guard by things talking that shouldn't. After a few more moments of inspecting the area around the stump, she decided that she wasn't going to find anything and headed off. She had a quest to fulfill after all.

Shaking his head, HotTea continued along the path, pausing to make a face at the next tree to his left. "... Pinstripes? Where the hell am i?" Or, more importantly, what had he eaten that had made him dream of this?

This tree talked too, however, and seemed to be insulted by how odd he found a striped tree to be. When it asked him to shake him he looked at it long and hard before giving it a hesitant nudge.

"No, no... Not like that. Good and hard! Give it a go, won't you I'd like to get some color out."

He bit the inside of his lip, resisting the urge to make any sort of comment that might be constituted as harassment of a tree before glancing around to make sure no one was watching before he gave the tree a solid shake, quite satisfied when a shard came shooting in his direction afterwards.

"Thanks, doll."



Trees: 2/5
Fragments: 1/??

((2/5))



The next tree up definitely was not happy to see her. In spite of its warning, she felt like she had to try to get up close. After all, she was supposed to examine trees and examining couldn't really happen if she kept away, right?

"Don't worry tree-dude. I'm not gonna hurt you," she murmured as she crept close, ignoring the agitated tree's warning. Besides, what could a tree do to her? Fall on her?

Well, no, it couldn't fall on her, but a rather whippy branch came flying out and smacked against her side.

"Ow!"

Stupid tree.