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Post by Wit on Dec 3, 2022 1:08:04 GMT -5
The cool wind blows softly through the grass, harmonizing with a chorus of crickets singing their early evening song on the edge of the Moonveil Forest. The world is quiet, its seasons on the cusp of change as they fall into one another, crisp autumn leaves falling away to make way for winter's frost. With the weather growing colder and the days growing shorter, nearly every creature has burrowed themselves somewhere warm, settling down beneath a blanket of stars for a well needed rest. Even the plants seem to be sleeping, buds curling in on themselves, roots slumbering in the cold earth...
All except for one, that is.
Rushing through the piles of fallen, frost-touched leaves like a tiny whirlwind, Wit goes running through a clearing, disregarding the weather in favour of gallivanting among the trees as he's always done. His hands are full of twigs and leaves, arms outstretched like a bird flapping its wings, his little legs carrying him as fast as they possibly can. The rush of wind ruffles his glowing leaves, the bright turquoise standing out against the warm reds and browns of the landscape.
Despite many of his flowery friends hiding away from the cold, so many new ones had sprouted up to fill the spaces. Every now and then Wit stops abruptly, stumbling to a halt to say hello to a new mushroom that he's spotted in the leaf litter. Each one is a brand new friend!
As he rushes to greet the next fungus, Wit finds himself sliding on a particularly damp leaf, winding up rushing to greet the forest floor instead.
"Hiyo," he chirps anyway, face down and muffled by the dirt.
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Post by Button on Dec 3, 2022 2:12:32 GMT -5
Button ran through the fallen leaves excitedly, scooping up piles of them and throwing them into the air, giggling. They loved playing in the fallen leaves, their colony often collecting them and using them to fertilize their fields and as meals. Button really enjoyed those meals.
They collected a pile of leaves again, but this time they didn't throw them into the air. They tried to crush the leaves up in their little arms, not being very successful thanks to their small size. The elder Myconids were much better at this. Still they managed to crush and tear a few up into little bits. They found a nice spot next to a tree and dropped the leaf bits on the ground before stepping on them.
They stood there, absorbing nutrients from the dead leaves, their smile only conveyed by their yellow eyes due to their lack of mouth. They closed their eyes and took a nap as they ate. Their eyes closed and left them looking like just an unusually large mushroom growing beneath a tree.
Their nap was suddenly interrupted when they heard something sliding across the leaves in front of them. They looked down at the little plant person on the ground in front of them and heard their muffled greeting. Button bent down and patted them on the back of the head, smiling, hoping this could be a new friend.
"Hiyo!" they said back cheerily.
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Post by Wit on Dec 5, 2022 14:42:56 GMT -5
"Uffda..." he mumbles, his face still half buried in the dirt. Thank the stars the earth is always here to catch him, even if it wasn't always gentle. Ordinarily, he might have continued to lay there, waving his little limbs to make a cozy nest to watch the night sky in, but something else catches his attention. Or rather, he seems to have caught someone else's attention.
As he hears the sound of another voice, along with the soft pats catching his attention, Wit perks up, quickly popping his head up and sending several dried leaves flying in the process. Was there a new friend to be found in the leaf litter? He glances around, searching for the source of the voice with a silly grin on his face, his tongue sticking out and legs kicking slightly in excitement. Surely, he can't have imagined it... When no human shape can be immediately found, his smile falters, but only for the briefest second as his eyes settle on the figure standing over him. He hadn't imagined it! Wit's eyes light up, his whole body caught in a fit of delighted wiggles. He didn't know mushy friends could get this big! This one knew how to talk, too!!
"Hi! Hi!" Wit squeaks, scrambling off the forest floor and tottering to his feet. He waves with his entire arm, bouncing where he stands, nearly toppling back over into the pile of leaves in the process. "Who you? New fren?"
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Post by Button on Dec 5, 2022 22:46:27 GMT -5
Button watched as the little something stood back up and looked around for a moment before their eyes seemed to finally land on the little Myconid crouching in front of them. They had never met someone like this before. They definitely weren't another Myconid. They looked kind of like the trees with the leaves on them, but different. They could speak too. Buttons friends usually didn't speak.
"Who you? New fren?" the little plant person asked.
Button's eyes lit up with excitement and the crouching Myconid shot up, also nearly falling backward from the sudden momentum. They nodded vigorously and put both of their hands on their chest.
"Am Button! New fren!" they shouted excitedly and took both of their new friend's hands in their own and started jumping up and down with joy. Their friends never asked to be friends first! This was so exciting for them, their metaphorical heart jumped with joy along with them.
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Post by Wit on Dec 7, 2022 22:15:34 GMT -5
Button! The mushy friend's name is Button! Wit giggles with delight, eagerly gripping his new friend's hands and jumping right along with them, his leaves rustling as they bounce in the same rhythm. This is, perhaps, the most exciting day of the little root's short life. What are the odds of stumbling upon not one, but two new friends in such a short period of time? He can hardly believe how lucky he is.
"Hi! Hi Butt'n!" Wit peeps, barely able to form words around his overjoyed laughter. "Am Wit!" A brand new friend growing right in the forest..! One who's little, just like him, who can move and talk and play! He never knew the world outside of his home woods contained so many sights to see, and so many new friends to meet. By the stars, there are a million questions he wants to ask-- do they know magic? What's their favourite flower? How many moons old are they? There are so many potentials swirling around his head. Just thinking of all of the adventures they could have together, Wit feels as though he might burst.
"Butt'n live here? Dis 'ou home?" he chirps, dipping his head to the side.
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Post by Button on Dec 9, 2022 1:10:20 GMT -5
So their new friend's name was Wit! What a nice name! It was so fun to have a friend. It was so exciting. They'd never met anyone like Wit. Were they really a plant? They looked like a plant. What were they wearing all over their body? Button had never seen things like that before. No one in their colony wore anything. They were all just walking, talking mushrooms.
"Wit! Henlo Wit!" they giggled.
"Nope! Mmmm... live..." Button thought for a moment, looking around. They actually didn't remember what direction their home was in, but they knew it wasn't here. "Dunno!" they finished answering the question, looking at Wit happily. They didn't really care, or really realize that they were lost. They were just going somewhere knew, so being able to go back home didn't matter.
"What dis?" They asked, reaching a hand out and lightly gripping Wit's shirt between two fingers, tugging it slightly.
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Post by Wit on Dec 12, 2022 21:23:38 GMT -5
So they don't live here..? Then... Surely, they must be a traveller, too? Kvasir is a traveller, and Wit too has taken to wandering as of late. Maybe this is how people do in the world. Though, to be fair, everyone else he's seen seems to know where they're going, or at least how to get back to where they've been. He hopes Button knows how to get back to wherever their home is.
Wit nods sagely, as though it all makes sense, despite understanding absolutely nothing. "Ohhhhh. I sees, I sees."
His attention is drawn down to the raggedy, threadbare shirt that he salvaged from the outskirts of a village on his way here. He runs his hands over the hem of the fabric, swaying slightly as he appreciates the texture of the patchy threads. It's far too large for his tiny frame, and isn't nearly as pretty as other clothes he's seen, but it's in much better shape than the motley scraps of fabric he usually wears. It's already picked up a myriad of stains in a rainbow of different earthy shades, almost serving as a record of all the different things he's gotten his grubby little hands on-- a travel log, painted in crushed petals and leaves.
"Dis am... shirt!" Wit beams, spreading his arms wide to show it off better. "Found it! Am mine now."
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Post by Button on Dec 15, 2022 0:49:18 GMT -5
Button stared at the shirt, admiring it. Their eyes sparkled with amazement at the grubby clothing that Wit showed off. It may have been a ragged compilation of scrap cloth to most, but the little Myconid was fascinated. They'd never seen or heard of such a thing before. A shirt! It looks so cool! It's so colorful and interesting! Button wanted one too, then they could match their new friend and look cool and interesting.
"Want shirt too!" Button said, putting their hands together in front of them.
"Show where found?" they pleaded.
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Post by Wit on Dec 21, 2022 19:14:18 GMT -5
Wit smiles even wider, dark eyes twinkling with delight while he wiggles his arms, making the oversized shirt flap with the movement. It leaves him overjoyed to have someone new to share his discovery with, even more so since everyone else he's seen already knows about shirts, and maybe even pants. It was such an exciting discovery! He notes how little Button is wearing themself-- did they ever get cold?
Now that he thinks of it, the weather has been getting awfully cold over the last little while...He'd hate for his new friend to get cold, especially after seeing his other forest friends grow withered and crisp in the icy chill. No, this won't do at all. There was plenty of cloth where he first found his shirt... Maybe there will still be some left?
"Yah, yah! Find shirt for Butt'n too!" he claps his hands together before glancing skyward, thinking very hard about the last place he remembers being. "Hrumm... Where found..."
He surveys the area for a moment before pointing out the trail he left in the crispy, colourful leaves, toddling off and beckoning Button to follow. "Uhm... Dis way!"
True, he's left far more than just one trail in the leaves... But that shouldn't matter, right?
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Post by Button on Dec 24, 2022 8:15:10 GMT -5
Button happily marched off behind Wit, following the trail left in the fallen leaves. The leaves crunched beneath their stump-like feet with each step. They were positively giddy! Wit was going to help them find a shirt of their own and bring them where they had found one! They couldn't be happier.
Button started to hum a discordant, but distinctly cheerful and merry tune as they followed along behind Wit. They payed no attention to where they were actually headed, fully trusting their new friend to lead the way. Button had an awful sense of direction, so they probably wouldn't have noticed all the doubling back and circling around even if they did pay any attention.
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Post by Wit on Jan 15, 2023 17:40:13 GMT -5
The child-like giddiness between the two bubbles like a summer brook winding through the forest, lively and unbothered by silly things like 'time' or 'direction'. They have every ingredient for a successful adventure! Forward momentum, a handful of leaves, and a burgeoning curiosity for the human concept of clothing.
"A'venture... A'veeenture! Goin' on a'venture..!" Wit babbles along to Button's lively, chaotic tune, confidently leading the pair in what he hopes to be the right direction. He stops every now and then to pick up some oddity that catches his attention from the forest floor-- a pine cone, a colourful rock, a twisty stick... All of which he shows to Button with the same unending sense of delight. The unfamiliar forest is full of treasures, including friendship!
Wit's excitement slowly winds down as they travel further and further in, settling to something sustainably calmer but no less cheerful. His eyes wander across the chilly landscape, over the leaf-barren trees and frosty shrubs in search of some sort of landmark. Without the telltale glow of the lantern lights of his home woods, however, Wit quickly finds himself at something of a loss. Despite diligently following a leaf-bare path, it occurs to him that he may not have been paying the best attention to where they've been going... Or where they've been.
"Uh-ooh," he mumbles, glancing around.
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Post by Button on Feb 2, 2023 14:59:12 GMT -5
Button looked at each bit and bob that Wit showed him with as much wonder as if each pinecone was a precious jewel and each twisty stick was a golden scepter. Truly, these were amazing treasures to find! He kept the twisty stick, using it as a little staff as he plodded along happily, tapping it on the ground, on trees, and on rocks they passed by.
He tilted his head in confusion as Wit glanced around, looking lost. He didn't understand that they hadn't really been following any kind of path, too lost in the adventure of the journey rather than the destination. He stuck out the other end of the twisty stick and poked Wit playfully in the back with a giggle.
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Post by Wit on Feb 18, 2023 0:04:27 GMT -5
Well, one thing is for certain-- this patch of forest certainly doesn't look like a place to find clothing.
Wit puts his hands on his hips, puffing out his cheeks and blowing a long, drawn out raspberry. As the evening has gone on, the stars creeping across the sky like a fat, sleepy caterpillar, the temperature subtly dropping until tiny breaths begin hanging in the air in cloud-like wisps.
He could have almost gotten lost in simply watching the afterimage of his raspberry swirl in front of him before fading away, if it weren't for the sudden poke whisking him back to reality, leaves standing up on end as he squawks out a string of indecipherable babble. Wit stumbles to see behind himself, falling on his bottom with a soft thump.
"Ack! Wha do--" he squeaks indignantly. The little root stares down the twisted end of the very stick he gifted to Button, a smile spreading across his face and chirps of laughter bubbling inside of him. "Ohhoho, 'ou gots me," he burbles. With a quick but gentle tug, he grabs hold of the stick and falls backwards into the crispy leaf litter, bringing Button down to the soft forest floor alongside him.
His mischief now repaid, Wit rolls around in the leaves. "Baha! I gots 'ou, too!"
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Post by Button on Feb 21, 2023 14:14:29 GMT -5
"Ah!" Button let out a little shout as they were pulled to the ground beside Wit. Their surprise quickly turned into joy though as they also started to roll around in the leaves and laugh. They scooped up a handful of the fallen leaves and tossed them in the air, watching them flutter back down to the ground.
When they'd had their fun rolling around, they stood up, some f the slightly damp leaves stuck to their body and mushroom cap in places, but they didn't seem to mind at all. They reached down and picked the twisted stick back up, a gleeful laugh still coming from that spot that their mouth would have been if they had one.
When they looked at Wit on the ground, their laughter just grew even louder as they pointed to Wit's face. The living root was just as covered in slimy leaves and dirt as the mushroom, one sticking directly to the center of their face!
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