[Event] My Sweet! - Printable Version

She had come to Polaris to find Tourmaline, but hadn't expected to find this many other gembound here. Why were there so many others!? Arquia stayed at the edges of the group, not wanting to interact with anyone. Plus, some of the gembound here looked rather threatening. Well, looked threatening. They were acting... nice? What the hell has gotten into all of them! Like actually!
And she spots a chocolate sitting on a rock. Interesting. She looks around to see if anyone could have planted this here to try and poison an unsuspecting gembound. But it smelled so good... no. Don't do it. Eyes darted around. The other gembound were eating the chocolates though, so perhaps... Arquia gulps it down. Oh god she was starting to regret this already. WHAT WAS SHE FEELING!?
And then her eyes found Tourmaline. Oh! That was who she had come here to find. "Tourmaline!" That was uncivilized of her, one should not shout like that! The dragon made her way over the the Pallas' cat, "How have you been?"

Wulfsige had a very good sense of smell, and that sense was currently picking up... chocolate? Of course, he had no idea what 'chocolate' was, but the sweet smell was curious and enticing nonetheless. And the amount of gembound in the area was... strange. He had joined in after those whom he would identify as intruders- those radiating chaotic or orderly energy- had left the area. Or at the very least, he could not see any such gembound from his current position. There would be no self-righteous violence in this thread.

The particular treat Wulfsige had found was a plain one befitting of a relatively plain individual. A undecorated oval-shaped piece of milk chocolate. He ate it in one swift chomp, the treat barely touching his teeth nor tongue- although he still got a taste of that delicious milky chocolate flavor.

The warmth that spread into his chest was.. familiar and not. Similar to the vague not-memories of before he emerged from his skystone tomb. It was, more jarringly, the first time his sense of duty didn't urge him to his paws, to do more and more and more. It was okay. It was safe, if only for this moment.

He laid down, eyes closed, and basked in the moment of peace in the middle of eternal war.

With Polaris came the energy, the thrumming of rock. It was like a heartbeat shared - the flesh the only barrier between its essence and the cave's, one and the same. Such a sensation pulled the blood to pump a little faster, a little closer to the skin. Reach out, the magnetism whispered. Unite what has been separated.

She ignored the call.

Instead, she heeded a different one - loosened nostrils flared comically at the strange new smell. Raising her head, she did not have the presence of mind to notice the warmth bubbling withing both her chest and mind; But it presented itself in the passivity of her gaze and the slowing the fluid. After a half-hearted examination of her surroundings, she got to snuffling along the ground, following the scent.

The chocolate located - nothing more than a simple pale cube - was promptly eaten without reflection. after a final testing sniff to see if any more remained, it turned to exit.

Polaris was a magical place, well-lit and brimful of energy. To travel through here was to have weariness bleed from one's shoulders and a dose of renewed purpose injected into veins. For Fahl, embarking at last on a long and arduous journey for the sake of reconnection, taking a stroll through here would provide him an extra boost of stamina that might reduce the pit stops between every couple of caves. What benefit he hadn't expected was a quicker reunion facilitated by unusual edibles.

The chocolate had been perched on stone, innocently, as if it'd always belonged there alongside crystals and soft patches of moss. Despite memories informing him better, he had almost believed it, colorfully specked white squares not the strangest thing a finned iguana with hue-shifting scales could encounter. A stone, he had first guessed, though its shape was rather too perfect to be natural. But then a curious sniff revealed otherwise, awakening taste buds to salivating new possibilities.

Adventurous, he'd nibbled at it to test if his stomach would agree with his nostrils' assessment. When no issue was discovered, further emboldened, he snapped up and chewed what remained until it'd been flattened enough to swallow past his gemstone obstruction. It blazed a sweet trail of delight as it slid down his throat. Satisfaction lingered after, a heady sensation which chased away any concerns which might have been and left warm comfort behind.

Like home despite its frigidness. Or praise for an accomplishment solely his doing.

"Oh, fuck," he exhaled, any sense of a filter swept away by the experience. "That's just... wow."

Words were never easy for Fahl unless they were in his mind, verbal expression always restricted by how much his tongue was willing to cooperate. Now they refused to spawn even in thoughts, all intelligence banished by the taste of the almighty sprinkled confection. He stared, awed, into nothingness for at least a minute before sense returned. And then it did so due to back and forth shouted declarations of love startling awareness back into him.

"What? Yeah," blurted Fahl as he tried and failed to shake the fog out of his brain, "That's great. But seriously, does anyone know what this... is?"

He scanned the area for someone with answers and came up empty, everyone else preoccupied by camaraderie or consuming the mysterious chocolates. However another sight drew his attention, a familiar feathered figure off in the distance. It elicited a squint; doubt managed to penetrate past the hazy spell he was under. But hope crashed over him next, the wave washing scales a metallic gold.

"Wait. Huh... hey! Imp, is that you over there! How're the eyes working?"

Forgraves had, largely, just been out to gather supplies, but passing through polaris made ignoring the large collection of people and noise looking for something hard to ignore.

he didn't know what people were looking for, but he's never been one to give up a game, so he joined in, seemingly without cause.

it didn't take TOO long to find what (he assumed) people were looking for. a small, white square that smelled almost overwhelmingly sweet, with a fun little green thing on the top!

he looked around for guidance on what he was supposed to do. was he supposed to say something? it looked like people were eating what they found, actually. couldn't hurt, right??

he popped the square into his mouth, humming in delight at the taste.

"oh WOW, this is good!" he said, muffled with his chewing. he'd never had anything like it, the closest he'd gotten to such delicious confectionary was bebby's rock candy. maybe he'd have to learn how to make this stuff!

"Speech." Thoughts.

Esther hears the chatter before they see it. There's a large group of gembound gathered together - and they spot it as soon as they go to see what the commotion was about. There's so many of them that they can't quite figure out any specific conversations through the mess, but surely it's nothing that important. Have they missed the start of a quest? They look... Too happy for that to be the case.

As they get closer, there appears to be some kind of nice-smelling food? Something like that. It drew them closer and closer somehow, ignoring the other figures around them. That one, seemed the most delicious to the gembound. When they shove the thing in their mouth and chew, Esther feels good. Warm and good. They don't have the time to think it's any suspicious due to the good feelings.