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After kicking a few leaves around she found something that she assumed were a pair of glasses. They had round little circles with something transparent them. What it was she was unsure.

“Here they are, now don’t lose them again,” Cramming them onto the trunk of tree she hopped down and started to leave.

"Thank you, oh my goodness, thank you indeed. Here, have this." The tree replied giving her a fragment. Finally! Lass thought a fragment for her queen she thought as she endured the prickly hug.

No more hugs.

Tree 1

The first tree is a long tree, and bends down to look at you with hollow sleepy eyes as you reach over. "Oh, please, you're not putting your hand in my nose are you? That's so very disgusting, and I'm afraid I haven't cleaned up yet. Very disgusting indeed. Come back again when I'm clean."

When you come back the tree is gone.

Inferno approached the tree wide-eyed and hopeful that he'd get something for his troubles when it blinked at him as he reached out touch it. It was worse when it spoke. He jumped back slightly, holding his hand against his chest like he'd been burned (ah! that's hilarious). "Sorry?" He mumbled, confused as he looked the tree up and down. It didn't look very dirty to him, but if he was about to stick his hand in it's nose, then maybe he shouldn't touch it.

"Uh, okay? I guess?" He replied, blinking slowly as he backed up and spun on his heel to give the tree the time it needed.

But when he returned, the tree had disappeared. A frown formed on his face and he placed his hands on his hips. "Rude," he grumbled before stalking off to find another tree.



1/5 trees

Drinking that potion probably wouldn't count for one of his smarter moves. Then again, since leaving home, he'd done many things that would count as less-than-smart moves.

Drinking a mysterious potion in a dream was definitely up there though.

Here he was now, in the middle of truly chaotic woods, wondering why he had Clattering.Chains floating above his head. Clatter shook his head as he began walking through the woods, marveling at the cacophony of noise, color, and movement that changed with every step. Stepping around a tree muttering something under it's roots, he spotted a sign post with a large question mark floating above it.

"Well, that's... subtle," he muttered as he walked towards it. As he approached, the sign started talking, despite the lack of a mouth.

"Trees." He looked around in half amusement. "All this going on, and you want me to investigate trees." Clatter shook his head. "That's it, I'm never eating boorritos from the cafeteria before bedtime again."

Shrugging in resignation, he stepped away from the sign post, and began walking towards the nearest tree.




1/5

(Entering)
Down, down, down...OOMF. What the Jack? Aurel wasn't quite sure what was going on other than the fact that he had managed to get himself into some kind of trouble. There was a tiny bottle beside him with some kind of words scrawled on it. Now, his literacy wasn't the greatest, but he could tell it was something he was likely supposed to consume. Not being an extremely paranoid creature - and very aware that he was dreaming a very strange dream - he decided it best to go ahead and pop the bottle down. It was at the moment that everything went black he decided maybe being a little paranoia would do him so good.

When the blackness faded and he found himself in a warm, cheerful woods he instantly felt better. THIS was more like it. THIS was his domain. Trees and growing things and lovely warm grass. Yes, this would be okay. TheBoughman blinked a couple of times as he tried to adjust his sight to his new surroundings and take in everything other than the initial thrill of forestry. The first thing he noticed was he no longer had horns. Instead, there was a bright green hat which blended in with his brown-and-green hair perfectly well. It matched the rest of his outfit and all he could say was if he had to be clothed at least it was interesting. Okay. So. Randomly dumped in the forest, more human than anything else - What did this weird dream want of him? The yellow exclamation point over the sign was his first clue and god he hoped it was easy to read. TheBoughman pushed himself onto his feet, not bothering to dust off his pants and jacket, and headed over to the sign.

Luckily, he didn't need to read anything as it began to talk. Okay, stranger things had happened to him (let's face it, it was Halloween) - this was just convenient.

"I am the wayfinder, and it means finding your way and not finding your way. Well, I supposed this is an official welcome to Tulgey Woods, where you'll find everything and of course nothing at all. First things first, I supposed you'd like to level up a bit, and collect these rare sort of fragments. Well, not a problem at all, not a problem. Let's see... hm... yes... I do think some exploration is due. Do be a dear and examine five trees around you. Keep in mind, trees are very shy, yes some are shy indeed, and some are just too noisy those trees, full of surprises. Examine five trees, and come back to me when you're finished!"

Five trees, huh? Trees were his friends. He could do that.

TheBoughman meandered up to the nearest tree - which happened to be striped - and went to poke it. Trees...generally weren't striped. TheBoughman, however, didn't seem to care as it was still a tree. "Silly tree," he said, "What am I looking for?"

When the tree talked to him, once again, there was no surprise. He often heard trees, and he bounced childishly on his heels when he heard this one. "No, no, of course not. I apologize!" The funny thing was, the Hatter sounded completely sincere. "Yes, I will shake you!"

He wrapped his arms around the striped tree and wiggled, shaking the tree about wildly. The laughter was infectious and TheBoughman found himself joining in, catching the fragment when it spit it out. "Good day to you, too!"

Off to find the next tree!

MY STATS

My character's username: TheBoughman
My character's level: 1
Character's HP: 30
Character's Job Class: Mad Hatter
Current party: N/A.
Current Guild: N/A
Location: Tulgey Woods
Small IC description of character: A six foot tall male with long, messy green curls and the default Mad Hatter outfit - earth tones, baby. He may or may not be an awkward turtle.
Character journal: Battle Log

5: You reach a willow tree and you can barely see its eyes through the giant slew of willows. It shakes its head furiously, leaves rain down, and refuses you let you go any closer, batting you with its leaves. Ow!

Pleased with his collected fragment, Inferno tucked it away safely in the folds of his coat, which he never imagined being useful until that very moment. He then proceeded to wander through the forest before finding a willow tree that caught his eye. He scampered over, eager to explore what the tree hid behind it's willows but it shook it's head and batted at him.

"Owwwwwww," he cried, shrinking back as he glared up at the tree. "You're not very nice," he stated, pouting as he tried to go under again before being slapped again. "Fine, I didn't want to look at you anyway," he huffed stomping off to find another tree.



3/5 trees

The second tree that TheBoughman went to was one that actually called out to him.

"Hello," says the long slender tree. "I have a small question. I have two friends, Dilly, Milly, and Nilly. Nilly is taller than Dilly, but shorter than me. Dilly is shorter than Milly but taller than me. How tall am I?"

TheBoughman looked at the tree in mild confusion. "OKAY HOLD ON!" He knelt down on the ground, using the tip of his finger to draw in the dirt a single line. That represented the tree. The second line drawn, to the right of that line, was slightly shorter than the first. The third line, representing Milly was drawn taller than the first line and the final line, representing Dilly, was taller than the first line but shoreter than the second. Nilly was drawn shortest of all.

"Taller than Nilly but shorter than Dilly and Milly?" he asked with a blank expression, rubbing his nose and getting a bit of dirt on it.

"No, why, I do not think that's the answer at all. You are very wrong."

"Okay then." Still confused, TheBoughman pushed himself up and went looking for his third tree.

MY STATS

My character's username: TheBoughman
My character's level: 1
Character's HP: 30
Character's Job Class: Mad Hatter
Current party: N/A.
Current Guild: N/A
Location: Tulgey Woods
Small IC description of character: A six foot tall male with long, messy green curls and the default Mad Hatter outfit - earth tones, baby. He may or may not be an awkward turtle.
Character journal: Battle Log

Objectives

• [Enter Wonderland]
  
• [Tree # 1] Search - failure
  Tree # 2
  Tree # 3
  

After the last a** of a tree, HayMak3r was not in the mood for sillyness, stomping his way down the path and he dared for a weed to naysay at his procession down the road. It could meet his shoe size.

The next tree was very quiet if not for the smile above it, a lazy sort of drawl that widened as he came up closer to inspect it. It wasn't so much a riddle but a statement, about what was happening and hopefully not as deep as he expected it, tilting his head to the side. "I hope i don't get too lost then." he retorted, taking in what the felt was a premonition of things to come.

The shiver that went down his neck was not suppressed, closing his eyes to let it pass. when they reopened, it was gone.


"Note to self, dont get lost." very much noted.