Tanita was standing under the giant Castle at the end of Main Street USA, in Disneyland, staring around in awe at everything she was seeing. Humans might exist for them to USE, but they did make some pretty amazing things sometimes. This 'Theme Park' was immense, and looked like there was lots of interesting things to do. The walk from the entrance to here had been full of amazing smells... That Candy Shop looked like it made many tasty and interesting things! She had no idea there were so many kinds of human candy. She turned to Liya, a gleeful look on her face. "This place is the freaking best. You were totally right that these 'Theme Parks' are amazing."
She turned, trying to figure out where they should go next... Map? What map? Who needed a map? Tani surely didn't. She pointed to the area that looked all wild and Jungley... Adventureland. "Let's go there! I bet there's fun stuff to do in that direction." She started to move, and as she did, some stranger human brushed up against her. She would normally just ignore it, and move on, but for some reason, her entire body felt strange. She backed up, against the wall, tucked into a corner where only Liya could see her, and let out the biggest blasted sneeze in the world. As she did, she felt a... ripple, that was the best word to describe the sensation that went through her body, and when her eyes opened post sneeze, the world looked wrong. Out of proportion, it was too tall. "What... the hell?"
Tanita Conquest Horseman : Scout/Nobleman Temperance Arcana (Group D) General Appearance: See avatar. Skin tone is a paler orange then I had available. - 6"1' Tall - Hoarder/Protective of Your Hoard Too (from others. Not you.) - Friendly!
Liya remembered Dzni Land. She remembered thoroughly enjoying herself when she spent the day there with Rayu. So when her good friend informed her that she'd never been there, Liya decided then and there that she was going to bring Tanita to a Theme Park.
"It sounds like an Adventure buuuuut remember, this is still for Humans. They don't have the same sensibilities as we do so some of it is a lot tamer than you would expect," she said, not wanting to disappoint her friend too much.
Liya did not expect the sneeze. "Oh, you wanted to change how you look? Huh, that sounds intere-" a human family brushed past her and Liya didn't even bother trying to hide somewhere when she let out a sneeze of her own. And she too realized she'd made herself younger.
"The ********> she gawked.
Liya War Horseman; Warrior Wild Arcana (formerly The Tower Arcana Group D) Journal - 5"0 tall - Mother hen - Loves you all!
Lady Aria Starstone
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:37 pm
Tanita stared at her friend, and then at her hands. "I'm... younger? What do you mean?" And then she heard Liya sneezed and she looked up, startled, to find her friend had de-aged. She blinked, and then stared. "Wait did you decide to de-age because you thought I had?" She shook her head. "It just like... happened to me." She paused, then looked around in serious concern. "Ohmygosh did anyone see that?" She didn't want to break their cover, after all! It might lead to a riot, or worse, to them getting kicked out! She hadn't gotten to have her fun yet, that wouldn't awesome!
She looked relieved when she realized no one seemed to have noticed, or even seemed to, at the moment, be paying attention to them. She took a deep breath of relief, then frowned, her eyes narrowed as she tried to figure out what was going on. She also processed that Liya had expressed disbelief in what happened. "Ok so... No you didn't mean to de-age, but... Why did we both suddenly de-age? Cause I can't imagine this being a coincidence." She thought really hard about what had happened, and said "We both sneezed before the change... What happened that caused us to randomly sneeze...?" She looked at Liya, with a confused expression, and not yet connecting to the one incident in common. "We need to figure this out, because what if it happens again and some human... sees it?" She did not want that, no she did NOT.
Liya scratched her head in confusion, mirroring that of Tanita. "Hell if I know why we sudden de-aged. Maybe it's because of the Human World's sun or the teeny bits of FEAR here or something. Could be human food-scents too. Ah well, doesn't matter. Let's just look normal again and get on some rides!" the War Horseman declared, concentrating so that she was once again appeared at her usual age.
While she waited for the Conquest Horseman to do the same, Liya started mapping out the route they would take to maximize their visit. Start out with rides, take a break for some snacks, maybe look at the kitschy things Humans sold.
Lady Aria Starstone
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:42 pm
Tanita blinked, then nodded and grinned. "All right, that sounds good." She tucked herself back into her hiding spot further, and focused until she was back to her normal self. "Ugh that's better. That was just so weird feeling." She straightened up, and turned to her friend. "So you ready to go?" The ParkNewbie had no idea that it was important to map this stuff out. She had even less clue how big this place actually was, or what the lines could be like.
She turned to look around for a minute, examining the created world around them again. "I still have trouble believing they could come up with something like this. I mean I get it's not gonna be what we're used to, but it's pretty impressive..." She paused, then leaned in and whispered "For humans." She was confused by a weird tingle in her nose when she said that, but shrugged it off, and straightened back up. "Even kind of... pretty, ya know?" She poked the stone facade of the castle tunnel, and started to drift towards the exit of it, grinning back at her friend and ready to explore this odd world. "Do ya think we can do it ALL in one day?" The naive question was filled with hopeful eagerness, that innocence that only some one who had no idea what Disneyland was truly like could muster. "I mean, I hope so! I don't know about coming back too often, ya know?" She grinned and shrugged.
"We could do it all in one day but the Humans won't let us," the War Horseman made a displeased face. "Sometimes it's because the ride is broken or being fixed." She did not bring up her particular adventure with Rayu, in case someone overheard their conversation.
She linked her arm with Tani's and started leading the Conquest Horseman when they passed by a stand selling snacks. Which had a line of humans waiting for their turn to purchase the overpriced sugary goodness. Liya opened her mouth to say something but instead had to abruptly look away from her friend so that she ended up sneezing on the line of Humans instead.
When she opened her eyes, she was once again de-aged.
Lady Aria Starstone
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:25 pm
"Oh that's mean of them! Why on earth wouldn't they let us?" She pouted a little, displeased at the idea that these HUMANS would prevent her from doing whatever she might wish for the day. Ok, yes, she did try to follow basic human rules on behaviour but they'd paid to come in, so what possible reason could these humans have for not letting them do everything today? She snorted in annoyance, but happily kept her arm linked with her friend, and followed her, a calm smile on her face.
She happened to be looking the other way, at the shop across the path from them that sold trinkets of various natures, like snowglobes and such, when she heard the sneeze. Her eyes went huge and her head whipped back around to find that, yes indeed, she had an apparently 10 year old Liya on her arm now. And strange humans were turning to look after the giant sneeze.
She was about to panic that they had SEEN when a strange one simply said "Teach your daughter to cover her mouth when she sneezes, I mean geez, RUDE." Tani blushed, startled and confused at the idea that some one thought Liya was her kid. "Liya... Let's... go over there!" She saw a small corner they could tuck themselves in, and headed towards it, hoping Liya would have no trouble keeping up. As they got close, she brushed against some one, and sneezed, joining Liya in the de-aged group again.
Liya's jaw dropped, less at being told she was rude and more at being mistaken as Tani's daughter. Because the War Horseman was pretty sure even with FEAR disguises she didn't bear much resemblance to the Conquest Horseman. It wasn't an insult though, it was just not something Liya would have ever expected to hear.
Also did that Human just suggest Tani looked old? How dare they! She was ready to snap at the mouthy human when her friend instead led them away. Just in the nick of time to hide as they were once again a much younger version of themselves.
"Okay this is getting really weird and not in the good way!" she frowned.
Lady Aria Starstone
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:25 pm
Tani wasn't bothered by the question, or the issue. It didn't matter as much as the issue of changing did. It shouldn't be happening, and it was. Both of them were old enough, and trained enough, that they shouldn't be losing control of their FEAR this much. They shouldn't be in a position where they were unable to stay their true ages, so that was all she wanted to worry about, right now. Being younger at her will would be ok, but being forced into it was freaking her out like nobody's business.
"Liya.. This is getting bad. Twice to each of us. It's definitely when we sneeze that it's happening." Her eyes were wide with her concerns. Sometimes, she wondered how her friends put up with what a WORRIER she was, but she couldn't help it. When things went badly, she worried. It was what it was. She took a deep breath, and pondered the situation. "Do we want to go home...?" She clearly didn't like the idea, but she also clearly could tell it MIGHT be the best option. "Or do we want to change back and try once more, if only so we can try to figure out what is triggering the sneezes?" She was trying to think of what had happened before both times she had sneezed, but the only similarities was being brushed by a human. And that couldn't possibly it, she'd never had issues with humans before, so... That was a ridiculous potential link.
Liya was not one who immediately went with the ideas or suggestions of retreat. And no, calling it an "advance to the rear" is almost the same damn thing to this War Horseman. "Since we de-age whenever we sneeze, let's just this "age" during our visit. I've seen youngling humans wandering around on their own. We should be fine."
And to prove it, Liya headed for the ride called "The Matter Horn" with Tani in tow. Except the moment they got in line, Liya sneezed once again. Thankfully she didn't change in age this time but her nose was ridiculously itchy and the need to sneeze wouldn't go away.
Lady Aria Starstone
we can have them head home in the next post or two?
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:40 pm
Tani nodded, and shrugged. "Ok. Sounds good to me, so long as we don't... like, get any younger." She shuddered. "Can you imagine if one of us turned into a BABY?" She followed her friend, her apparently young head held high. Even in human form, she found herself a little oranger then most human skins, and found she heard people whispering about 'Who let their daughter put on SO much spray tan at such a young age? Or did they let her try to use a tanning bed?' She wondered what Spray Tan was, as she'd never heard of, and had no idea what tanning was, for that matter, so the whole thing was a weird little mystery. She resolved, in the future, to make her skintone less orange, and more pinkish fair.
When Liya sneezed, Tani frowned, and was going to speak, but her nose became intolerably itchy, and she was trying really, really hard not to sneeze herself. Someone behind them said "Young ladies, are you alright? You seem to be having an allergic reaction to something..." Tani's eyes went wide, as she realized a concerned Human Adult was leaning towards them, which made her actually sneeze now.
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