observe info: Excited and fluffy little mad scientist (for a given value of goat science). Always wanting to test how things work, especially the dangerous and forbidden. Thinks fast, talks faster, nosy about everything. Not a fighter, and confrontation turns him into a sad heap. Tail is almost constantly wagging.
test info: strange, teasing, aloof
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giblet info: In a family of serious thinkers who study nature, medicine, philosophy, and the operations of the natural world, Giblet is the exact opposite. He's here to have a good time. A silly hunk who likes a good joke and doesn't like to think about anything too hard. Loves fun, food, family, and friends. More likely to run than fight. Not a competent flirter, but he'll give it a try. Good-natured, he's easily commandeered for help on projects. He calls the big, gorey mark on his thigh his "funny bone".
rare info: A funny friend with about as much brains as Giblet.
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rave on info: Party, party, party. There's nothing Rave likes better than dancing in the dark. He and his twin are a formidable force of glowing lights and sick beats. He's all for a little hallucinating to heighten the immersion. Sees life as an experience.
trip info: ♂ on the hunt for a good time.
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bones of bees info: A competitive acha always looking for the latest and greatest. Sees information as the most important resource in the swamp, but likes to have more than his share of other resources, too. Has a buzzing lisp and a fondness for insects. Does not like touching, but fighting is fine. Has sharp teeth, very friendly and talky.
squirm info: studious, diligent, worries easily.
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mud bath info: A lazy inventor who enjoys tinkering with this and that, especially in the garden. Enjoys going to sleep early and waking up late. Naps regularly. Indulges in anything relaxing, especially if it's a warm and earthy ooze. Careful about his appearance. Very fluffy. Can be a bit smug. Nervous where confrontation is concerned. Prefers to talk his way out of difficulties. Does not like long walks, or most physical efforts. Quite fond of familiars and foals, although not very good at being responsible for them. At your service, for a price.
handsome info: ♂ a floppy companion who is good for being pet and not much else. has an unnatural sense of disaster and misfortune and is skilled at avoiding it. was found in a bone yard.
snug info: ⚥ curious, affectionate, overgrown. secretes slime. followed bath home after he spent his winter festival making offerings to a stump with rather a lot of crawly residents.
name:
hot water
a bed of grey ooze
clay that rolls and slides and coats
a sleepy luxury
leeching resistance from tight muscle
not all earthly treasures glitter
and here lies a rich reward
to those who would stay a while
mud bath
wrote:
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fool of fortune info: Like a cat, curious, nosy, and into everything. Hides a melancholy disposition behind a cheshire smile. Quite beautiful and graceful in their own way. Makes their own fun.
prize counter info: ⚲ so, so many rows of teeth. makes a ringing sound.
toy of fate info: ♀ an artful companion with clever paws.
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pumpkin bat info: Wary, she's coming to terms with living somewhere with only a few, smaller curses, where the ground isn't soaked with blood and the undead walk the mountain. Is trying to be positive, but frights easily. Suspicious of every distant rustle of wind. Every once in a while, like a sleepwalker, she is drawn to the obelisks. name:
The land in the shadow of the obelisk was cursed. There were creatures too big or too small to be alive. There were things that should have died, but didn't. The unliving. It was easy to give over to superstition. Not to trust strangers, and to be guarded with friends. There was a constant tension strung through the air, like trying to breathe through cobwebs. Minor disagreements were like a fish's gasp in a black and troubled sea, threatening any minute to churn up a sharp fin and a frenzy of blood.
Food was difficult to find, the berry bushes bare, the animals thin and afraid.
One year, deep in some of the mountain caves, the Totoma found the beginnings of an unusual harvest. Carried by bats and seeded in their droppings were the promise of something new. She guarded the bat's cave, and its yieldings, for months and months and days upon days until the green leaves bore fruit, and the fruit grew bigger and bigger. Something at last good. Her happiest memory. Rich with guano, protected from frost, foreign but as bright and welcome as the sun. Pumpkins.
She shared the miracle with a few others from her tribe, and they harvested the seeds for another season. They gave her a name, too, after her charge and its origin. Every year she looked forward to the harvest, and when at last their mountain was cleansed and an opportunity arrived to leave behind those haunted grounds, improved but no longer the home she knew, she took some seeds with her.
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heal info: Affectionate and sensitive, loves to study the world to gain a better understanding of life. Especially interested in plants, and their properties and care.
light info: relaxing to watch, contemplative.
name: (not done yet but just so I don't forget the concept: a ruined battlefield blooms with plants and life, nature restored)
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on display info: Fierce, logical, proud. A predator. name: They open their mouth to speak, but no sound comes out: instead, a bubble swells and grows above their head, flashing images that somehow manage to convey both more and less than simple words could.
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midnight star info: An eloquent and refined kin, concerned with the swamp's magics and records. Wants to get to the root of the how. Always keeps an eye out for things that pique his interest. Less interested in personal relationships.
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story: He was always listening, to the swamp and its residents. The bubble of water from a hidden caiman, the way the wind bent the reeds, the drone of approaching insects. The hushed whispers of other kin.
He was not sure when it started happening. If there was some pull that he himself exerted, or it was only the novelty of a listening ear, or that he was patient and did not pass judgement. But gradually rumors arose that there was a kin who could take onto himself the outpourings of haunted, burdened, and lovesick hearts and ease their torment.
Some dark truths, some actions witnessed but never voiced, and soon from even far away kin would come to unburden themselves of long-held secrets.
They came to Confess.
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