Second Spell [Open Log]

[perfalmost]

Who: Magilou and Magi-you?
Which: Open Log,one dream-related part
Where: Around town
What: A series of Dream Board shenanigans! Plummeting through portals, reasoning with owl-cats and dealing with a Baku!
Warnings: Include any content warnings

A. Flunking with Portals

[There's an unusual sight around town at the moment. It's hard not to notice a pair of black portals in the middle of town: one on the ground and one above it in the air.

Someone keeps on plummeting from the upper portal into the lower one, then coming right back through the upper portal again! All the while letting out a scream. Though the continuous scream starts to wind down as she gets used to the situation - and tries looking around for anyone who can help her out of this perpetual freefall.]

Little help?! [She shouts out at anyone nearby!]

B. Too Hoot To Handle

[Magilou's found herself stuck with an owl-cat. One that just won't let her sleep! She's tried giving it food, but it's just not satisfied. So she tries going out for a walk... only for the creature to keep on following her and making noise.

Someone else might be out at night, or stirred awake by the owl-cat's loud hooting. Or perhaps one will instead by awakened by Magilou knocking on their front door. It doesn't matter if she knows the person or not, she might just be knocking on random doors out of desperation. In any case, once she finds someone, the tired witch will gesture towards the hooting owl-cat with a fatigued groan.]

Make it stoooop....

C. Baku-Gone

[On other nights, when Magilou can sleep, she's been haunted by these strange dreams where the delightful parts fade away in favor of nightmares. After doing some research, she's learned that she might be haunted by a Baku. She'll have to dreamwalk into her own dreams in order to get rid of the monster before it consumes all of her positive and neutral dreams!

So here she is, stepping into her own dream, where she's putting on an elaborate magic show to an exuberant crowd of Normins! She's trying to keep her eyes peeled for any signs of the Baku, but it's hard not to just get caught up in the energy of the dream.]

We have a very special show for you all tonight! Now, let me call up my first volunteer~!

[She will gesture towards one person in the audience who is probably the only non-Normin creature around (unless they've transformed within the dream!). Now, Magilou hasn't told anyone else about this, not wanting to risk anyone seeing parts of her mind she wanted to keep private, but maybe someone else managed to stumble or dreamwalk into this dream anyway. After all, she'll need all the help she can get!]

D. Wildcard

[Feel free to come up with an alternate prompt or hit me up for plotting!]

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[perfalmost]

[She was almost ready to give up and move on to try bothering another door when it swings open with enough force to startle her. Well that helps her feel more awake! But she is, for the most part, very visibly being kept from sleep by the creature perched on her.]

Well, it... looks like an owl, and also a cat, so... you might be onto something there!

[She says with a shrug of her shoulder, sounding tired when trying to sound more chipper.]

You want to help it quiet down, right? Don't let this little guy disturb a good night's sleep! [As if she isn't the one bringing the creature into this stranger's life-]

[ascensum]

[ His own thoughts are somewhere along the same lines - why and how did this suddenly become his problem? Of all the ridiculous... ]

The culprit to blame for disturbing tonight's rest is debatable.

[ Though even if he were to set all that aside (which lbr he already gave in just by nature of even opening the door and not immediately closing it again,) the more he looks at the creature the more it seems to be rather... Uh. Is it chewing on this woman's hat? ]

It looks taken with you as it is. What exactly would you propose I do?

[perfalmost]

[Man, she hates it when people imply she should be held responsible for anything ever! Why can't she just do things?

Magilou gives a weak smile.]

Help to calm our little friend down of course! Do you... know anything about doing this kind of thing with animals? Maybe it's just hungry. Got any dead mice lying around?

[ascensum]

What? [ ? ? ? ???? ] No. Who would keep something of that sort?

[ Though even if he wanted to, he isn't the most experienced animals guy around. Frowning but at once trying to discern more about the situation, he looks over the owl-cat again... well. Hungry seems like a fair guess, but Sandalphon's mostly bare pantry is another problem if that's the case. ]

Best I have here is perhaps some bread. [ Sigh. ] Come in if you must.

[perfalmost]

I don't know, maybe you're a cat person?

[She offers with a shrug. But she smiles as she's invited into the house.]

Don't mind if I do! [With that, she skips right in with a little pep in her step. Despite her exhaustion!] As long as it quiets our little friend here, it's fine by me! Now let's see that bread!

[ascensum]

Do I look like one to you?

[ Really would never guess she was the one suffering from the sleep deprivation here. Maybe this his how mortals act when they're really going through it? Hoot hoot hoot h...

Okay, okay. He follows her after closing the door again and walks to the counter where a neatly kept bag of bakery bread sits, barely been opened. Undoing one end to pull out the loaf, he sets to cutting apart a slice. Somehow he gets the feeling this won't be quite as easy as feeding birds on the streets. ]

Have a seat. Here - see if this helps any.

[perfalmost]

[She blinks as she looks at him, trying to think of a snappy answer to his question.]

...Cat... face... nevermind.

[She shakes her head while her little burst of energy fades, and she follows him towards the bread. Taking a seat, she lays her head on the counter while lazy passing the bread towards the owl-cat.]

Heeere, little birdy-cat! Polly want... some bread?

[The owl-cat grips the bread it in its beak! ...And then drops it while continuing to hoot.]

[ascensum]

[ Wow rude. (Tbh he really kinda does.)

....... You know somehow he can't even be surprised at this outcome. There's a moment of silence (rip) in-between the bread at its beak and once the crumbs hit the floor (this is how we get ants) where he just stares, baffled, then ultimately resigned. Well then. ]

So not exactly hungry, then. [ Or his bread just sucks, whatever!! ] Now what?

[perfalmost]

[She sighs as she witnesses the bread's rejection. It's weird, she can almost swear this creature is hungry, yet it doesn't seem to want any food...]

Beats me! It'd be really nice if it could just join me in wanting to be quiet and sleep. You don't happen to know any lullabies, do you?

[ascensum]

[ At this point he just can't help a dry laugh he's losing his mind. ]

Sure, and shall I produce a lute to accompany it? Ridiculous...

[ Besides it couldn't possibly be that easy, right? Or that should be thought given how readily the creature is refusing simple food..... but all things considered of what he has observed about this world, it does give Sandalphon pause enough to turn over the thought a moment longer. ]

I suppose that given the worth such beings in this place have for sleep and dreams, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that it wants something less tangible too. [ He raises a pointed brow at the owlcat, prompting as if it might really answer rather than continue its incessant hoothoothooting. ]

Go on, which is it - a dream, a lullaby, a bed time story?

[perfalmost]

[She keeps her head rested on the counter like it's the comfiest surface in the world. If only that bird-animal could quiet down so she could get some shuteye! His words do make sense, though. The way things work here, it's probably hungry for something more dream-adjacent.

The bird-owl's eyes widen, and its hoots sound excited at that last one.]

Ooh, do we have a winner? I hope you have a good tale to tell!