December Prompts

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Who: Indigo and OPEN
What: Gift Exchange + Open prompts for December
Where: Various
When: December
Content Warnings: None for now, will add them if they come up.

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1. Spin, Spider, Spin (Merlaut Lobby)

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Indigo can be found in the lobby of the Merlaut, at the spinning wheel she's managed to put together with odds and ends from Takoba Beach, and the wheel-recliner she made earlier nearby as well. (She's probably been sleeping in it.) She's working at the wheel, spinning a mass of black fur into thread.

But as always, Novakid don't do well with such unstimulating work, so she softly sings a rather fitting song to herself as she works (swapping the pronouns, as most spiders that make webs are female anyway). But her weird, reverberating, two-voices-at-once voice gives the soft, almost whispered song a strange aura -- otherworldly, perhaps even sinister considering the subject matter if you don't like spiders.

"So let her swing on a silver string, a pleasure to the eyes...."

2. The Oldest Art a Mushroom (outside Heavenly Blanc)

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Indigo has brought down a whopper of a mushroom, cutting it into more manageable chunks that she can actually carry to Heavenly Blanc, one at a time (or perhaps more than one, if she gets help), for their larders. She'll help cut it up even further, but it's not the actual food she's interested in as she sets aside pieces of the hard skin.

After the mushroom is cut up, she goes back to her bits of mushroom skin, and sets about carefully scraping any bit of actual mushroom from the rock-like substance, then sorting the cleaned skin into different piles: White and... not-white. If this stuff actually is marble or some similar stone, then the color is surely caused by impurities that make them useless for chemistry; but perhaps they can be used for art?

Sitting by her piles, she thoughtfully turns over one particular chunk of colored stone in her hand, a makeshift scraper (and now chisel) in the other.

3. The Courage to Lose Sight of the Shore (Mortis Lake)

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On the shore of Mortis Lake, Indigo is steadily pulling off layers. Not to the point of nudity, or even to her underwear; rather, her flower, cape, waistcoat, socks and boots... anything that would get in the way of swimming, or would just be inconvenient to dry later, is removed, leaving her in her shirt and pants. She wraps the discarded articles up in her cape, then weighs the whole thing down with a rock. (Perhaps not the best idea, considering the wind can sometimes get strong enough to move even the rock, but she's doing her best.)

With that, her sleeves and pantlegs are rolled up to her elbows and knees, and she starts wading out into the lake. If there's anything to see at the bottom of the lake, better to find it now, before this place remembers that they have to breathe. (What's that? It'll probably be dark at the bottom of the lake? She'll be fine, she is a living light source!)

4. Sam Colt Made Them Equal (Gift Event; Merlaut Lobby)

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((For Ann, but other characters can join in too!))

Indigo is in the Merlaut lobby again, this time sitting on the floor with the various parts of a disassembled toy submachine gun laid out on a towel in front of her. She picks up one piece, rotating it near her 'face' with a thoughtful hum.

"No wonder this thing ain't workin', it don't even have all its parts." But where would the rest of the parts be -- and how would they even fit in where they need to? "And this material's awful flimsy for shootin'." She raps her knuckles against the plastic before laying it down again; she's sure a gun made of this material would either fall apart or even melt if you actually tried to shoot it, and that's ignoring the fact that it doesn't even have a proper barrel. What even is the point of this thing?

5. Wildcard???

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((Let me know if you want to do something else with Indigo!))