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{ a bit leafy }
A BIT LEAFY
I. LEAF STORM
During the first week of November, a storm of leaves will pass through town. It starts innocuous enough, with just a bluster of leaves carried in the wind that looks normal for the changing of the season. But as the days progress, there are large bursts even downpours of leaves that just fall all over town. And with this storm come strange things…
A. Leaf Monsters. As the leaves pile up and people attempt to rake and blow them away, there will be some strange movement...until it's revealed that oddly shifting pile of leaves suddenly rises up to try and attack, blasting sharp leaves and even trying to "engulf" the unexpecting, trapping them in piles of leaves. Time to deal with this sudden leaf invasion! (Note: the leaf monsters will be most active during the first week of the month and then taper off by the end of the second week. By mid-month, only a few will pop up here and there.)
🔥 Burn Burn Burn! Using any kind of wind will only disperse the leaf monster and make them split into more. They need to be destroyed completely, and the best way is through fire. Dreamotion fire especially.
🪤 Trapped. But be careful with that fire! There may be those trapped within the leaf monster itself, and burning it may hurt those inside. This is the one time using wind to disperse the leaves may be warranted, but maybe a "controlled blast" will help to keep the monster from spreading.
🐌 Animal Aid. While fire is the most effective, there are other methods—mainly through certain critters. The chickens around that statue from the Dream Board could probably help scratch and break them apart. Finding some special rainbow snails from the lake just south of town will also help as their glittery slime will not only trap the leaves, but also break them down quickly.
B. Leafever. The strange leaf storm and the leaf monsters are also bringing a strange cold-like disease, likely spread through the pollen or spores attached to the leaves. Those who get caught by the leaf monsters are most likely to catch it. Fortunately the effects are mild and only last a few days, week at most, but can be caught multiple times. There is also a cure, but it requires the same leaves that brought it.
🤧 Achoo! While having the leafever overall feels no different than a bad cold, some of the symptoms and side effects are a lot more…unusual with little consistency between individuals. Some may find themselves sneezing bubbles, others secreting slime as they sweat, and all dreamotion effects going haywire.
♨ Incense Burner. One way to help ease and lessen the effects of the leafever is to burn the leaves in a special incense burner infused with special dreamotion focused on healing and soothing emotions. A special stone must also be used, and it can only be found in the hot spring caves in Dragefjell, Dragon Island.
🍂 Leaf Sap. For the actual remedy, sap must be collected from the leaf monsters. How? Well—that's for everyone else to figure out, good luck. Maybe try squeezing the leaves? Or cook them?
C. Dryad. The most severe side effect of the leafever is the individual slowly turning more tree-like, some becoming similar to dryads. There are no serious side effects and will only last for about a day or two. In fact, those who "turn dryad" will feel healthier and livelier than usual. But it may be an interesting experience regardless.
🌲 A bit stiff. As the skin turns more bark-like and limbs become a bit more "wooden," those affected may find their movements a bit more limited at first. A bit of exercise and a gallon of water dumped on them will help loosen them up.
🌷 In tune to nature. While in this state, there will be an increased sense of awareness regarding all things plant. This includes the leaf monsters, allowing them to sense and pinpoint any that may be hiding or lurking around. There will also be a brief time where they can even control and call upon plants to do their bidding.
🍃 Big shed. When the symptom finally ends, all the leaves, branches, and bark will just fall completely off the individual and they will return completely normal without a single blemish. …And clothes. Hope this isn't happening out in public, ahem.
II. INFESTATIONS
With the changing of the seasons, all kinds of critters are either passing through on their migratory route…or burrowing in to start hibernation. Usually it's not a problem, but perhaps due to all the strange dreamotion energy flux over the past year, the creatures are behaving a little differently and getting in the way more than usual. The storm of leaves isn't helping matters, aiding in some of them to travel through. While some will appear during it, the majority will cause problems from around the second week onward.
A. Bugged Trees. Those living in treehouses are going to have a bit of a time as a number of insects will be looking to find a new place to chill during winter. Specifically, their home. Those who are under the dryad effect may want to be careful of any bugs that may be attracted to them.
🪲 Giant Beetles. Some may remember these fellows from previous years. The beetles are quite friendly, but they are quite large, large enough to ride on. They can also cause some rough damage on gardens and yards, their massive size creating large holes as they burrow into the ground. However, some are really useful with their pincers, capable of pruning unwanted branches. If not chasing them away, perhaps one could use them instead? (Especially against leaf monsters.)
🐞 Ladybugs. These ladybugs are average sized (thank goodness), but they have quite the attitude. Preferring colorful and well tended flowers, they will speak their mind should they find any that are wilting. They will also drop critiques on anyone with poor etiquette and living poorly. Those who have well kept homes will have an easier time with them…and also suffer large groups coming in hosting parties in the branches.
🦗 Crickets. The crickets are of the musical sort, ready to put on a performance to try and endear themselves to receive temporary lodging. Just for a few days! Their range of music is wide, from classical to punk rock to country to jazz to even rap. And while they try to be polite, well… Sometimes music jams happen whether they should or not. Like late at night. Crickets are nocturnal after all.
B. Migration Migraines. As if dealing with bugs wasn't enough, other critters are either migrating or looking to hibernate around town. One would think the Wildlands would have plenty to offer, but some may find the easy access to food in town a bit more enjoyable.
🦡 Honeycomb Badgers. These interesting looking badgers have a honeycomb for a back. While they will dig up gardens in search of tasty flowers, they need to "shed" their honeycomb and are deliberately going to people to offer it. They are not harmed and will just reveal normal fur beneath before a new honeycomb forms.
🦒 Flying Giraffes. A flock of large winged giraffes will be flying in and roosting on various tall buildings. They act a lot like Canadian geese, so…beware.
🐻 Cotton Bears. These cute little bears look like they could be living teddy bears with how small and plush they appear. And for winter, they are looking to sleep somewhere nice, soft, and warm. Like a bed. Now they don't really care if they are occupied or not, so maybe it would be better if some dens and beds could be made for them instead.
C. Field Foes. The farms situated around the outskirts of town are preparing to harvest their fields, but there's trouble. Unless it gets sorted quick, food might be harder to come by for the winter!
🌾 Scarecrow Rebellion. Something is wrong with the scarecrows, but no one is sure what. They're either sitting in the fields not trying to shoo away the numerous wildlife that have decided to come through, or actively waving their pitchforks at the very gardeners and farmers they're supposed to help. Perhaps they feel a bit underappreciated so some word of thanks could help them get back to work. In the meantime, some help clearing out the fields of unwanted visitors, especially the crows, will be needed.
🍄 Hopped Up Hares. Among the unwanted "vermin" are some hares that have somehow gotten into some…strange green mushrooms that have made them behave a bit erratic. They're digging up tunnels, wearing carrots on their heads, and stare blankly out into the distance. Catch them and drive them away! And maybe feed them some special pellets that will help cure them of their, uh, "ailment." It's not recommended to eat the mushrooms should they be found, but if one does…well, enjoy the same dizzying, heightened experience the hares did.
🍆 Oversized Veggies. Some young "genius" thought creating a special formula mixed with dreamotion would help the crops grow larger and faster. However, it only caused the vegetables to overgrow to as large as an adult person and are now rolling dangerously through the fields. Some even get into town! Pumpkins, carrots, lettuce, corn, potatoes, cabbages—all manner of vegetables are rolling around, so stop them before they cause too much destruction.
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With another wave of her hand, more Dendro vines sprout to catch the rolling produce. ]
This doesn't seem to be the natural state of these vegetables. What happened?
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(Isabela grows more sturdier vines to catch more giant vegetables and keep them away from rolling down further.)
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I'm certain they only meant well, but it doesn't change the fact that it's now a problem for the locals.
[ Another wave of her hand and more giant vegetables are caught in vines. ]
Do you know how much more of these giant vegetables are around town?
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(She had dealt with this before with Pauline although it didn’t stem from someone’s best intentions to make harvests easier gone horribly wrong. The giant turnip did gave the two of them quite a hard time.)
Well. This is a semi-regular occurrence but it is still a problem though. Whenever someone or something tries to make produce or vegetables grow fast and plentiful, sometimes the best of intention can end up with results like this where one accidentally causes the hormones of each plant to go into overtime.
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So there have been multiple attempts to improve yield, but they've all resulted in accidents?
[ This sounds far more serious than she thought. Was it due to the inherent properties of the dream, or was there something more malicious going on in the background? Either way, investigating the situation further has become top priority now. ]
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Maybe the plants here react to the applied dreamotion energy differently from other lifeforms or even non living things from what I can recall.
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[ She would say it seems irresponsible that no one has organized such a thing if not, but then again, dream worlds aren't exactly known for being coherent. And, this isn't Sumeru. She's not in charge here, nor should she try to be.
If it wasn't such a threat to the people's wellbeing or livelihood, she would leave it be, really, but she doesn't want to see people come to harm, even in a dream. ]
I shall have to test it myself at a later date.
[ If anyone should know how dreamotion works on plants, it should be the Dendro Archon, after all. ]
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(Come to think of it, Isabela doesn’t remember if there is a regulatory board for science and tech in Reverein that is already in place. So far stuff like bringing in electricity and Alastor’s radio station have been very successful.
But if more stuff like this does happen more often than anybody would like, then having to start one from scratch could mitigate the chances of stuff going wrong more easily.)
Speaking of the formula, I think that there are some leftover from the person themself that you can try to test on. Maybe they must have left it once they notice the formula was working all too well.
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[ She has no intention of being the one who creates the organization however. This is something better left to the people, while she looks into the dream world itself. ]
If they're not adverse to giving me some of the solution, I'd be grateful to them.
[ She flicks another hand to grab a few more of the giant vegetables, and then looks around the area. ]
That seems to be the last of the vegetables.
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(She does make sure to check if there are more giant vegetables rolling down at any moment, which thankfully doesn’t seem to be coming in huge amounts so far as she grows more vines to catch the last remaining vegetables. Hopefully this will be the last time she will have to deal with giant veggies on a semi frequent basis again.)
Oh yes. I do hope that they won’t mind letting you to check it out, Nahida. They could sure use some feedback and help to get the formula to the right track soon. Must have overheard them wishing that someone could help them out in fixing the formula.
Phew. That is a close call. I don’t see any more giant vegetables rolling in either, so I think that we caught all of them.
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She has a chance now, to be as a scholar and hypothesize and experiment in a subject. It's something she's always wanted to try. ]
I hope I will be able to aid them.
[ She peers around some more, to farther areas, trying to spy any other potential problems in the distance. ]
I do wonder if other areas of the town are having similar problems.
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I was thinking about the same thing too. There might be some parts of the town that could sure use some help but I haven’t been able to catch onto many of them fully. With me being so busy with running my own business, I don’t have enough time to check on every part of town all the time.
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A business? That piques Nahida's curiosity. ]
What kind of business do you run?
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The shop sells all kinds of plants (year long and seasonal alike), gardening tools, seeds, floral and non floral arrangements and even herbs, spices and most recently tea leaves. In addition I do also offer to do arrangements for special events too.
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I would love to visit your shop and see what kinds of flora you sell.
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[ Dream worlds would sometimes bend logic to accommodate the desires of the dreamer, though more often it bent in ways that were unpredictable. This dream world, though, seemed to reflect reality more closely than normal.
Again, she looks around to see if there's any more trouble they need to deal with. ]
If there's nothing else you're occupied with, I'd love to visit now. Would you be willing to guide me to your store?
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Oh certainly. I don’t have anything pressing to do other than stopping these giant vegetables from causing more trouble. I would love to show you around the store and what I’m currently selling for the fall time.