Crystal

[windyvoice]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Jenny Lou
RECIPIENT: All you crash queens and motor babies
NOTES:

Hey my dudes and duddettes, super important question.

What's the weirdest animal here that I can touch that won't like immediately try to kill me and does that include this zombie horse I just found in the stable.

Cus I wanna pet him.

Like super bad.

But I'm open to non-zombie horse petting options too, I guess.

Comments

i'm gonna fucking die

[windyvoice]

Those are like the little lights, yeah? Fairies are way different. They're like... rude butterflies with people faces.

[wythersake]

All the better — I hardly imagine he's taught them manners.

[windyvoice]

Wait, does he like keep them? Like tiny little puffballs?

[wythersake]

Never for very long.

[windyvoice]

Bummer, that sounds wicked cute. Hey, if there's sprites and things, does that mean this place is haunted?

[wythersake]

Thoroughly so.

[windyvoice]

Rad! Where's the most haunted? Who're the ghosts?

[wythersake]

They aren't anybody. Has anyone explained spirits to you, yet?

[ being one. ]

[windyvoice]

Maaaybe? If it came up in the whole like Welcome to Riftwatch Presentation, I kinda checked out after the whole "We can't send you home, there's an evil not-god trying to kickstart the apocalypse and the green thing in your hand is magic glow cancer."

I know the Fade is probably involved.

[wythersake]

[ that's fair, he checks out of 90% of things rifters say ]

The Fade is impressionable, so are spirits. They often mimic events — a spirit might claim to be a dead king, or a young girl. [ ahem. ] At most, it's a copy.

[windyvoice]

[ hmm. ]

Sooooooooo they're ghosts.

[wythersake]

[wythersake]

More or less.

[windyvoice]

[ Brightly: ]

So they're somebody.

[exequy]

[ His tone is ffs. ]

They are not puffballs.

[windyvoice]

What are they then?

[exequy]

Spirit balls.

[ Because that's better. ]

[windyvoice]

Do they glow?

[exequy]

Yes.

[ Warily. Why. ]

[windyvoice]

Bet it looks like a fluffy puff.

[exequy]

They look like spirits. Or stars, maybe, if they have to look like anything but what they are.

[windyvoice]

They sound cute as fuck, how do you find 'em?

[exequy]

I summon them. I imagine you would have to get lucky.

[windyvoice]

How do you summon them? Can you show me?

[exequy]

[ Dislikes: eager young people. Likes: being treated like he knows something worth demonstrating.

It’s a tough call. But, ]

Fine. Now?