Stronger With Those Daddy Issues

[missrecalled_mods]

Waking to bird song isn't exactly shocking in Auradon, but it seems... louder than usual on the first morning of the event. And there is a reason for that. Auradon has been visited by a rather large flock of Golden pheasants. An odd flock as experienced birders might notice there are only the brightly coloured males in evidence. But there isn't much time to think about that because with them comes... a complication.

Now this is Auradon, of course, so the only mess the birds are dropping are bright colourful feathers. But the feathers, like the flowers last month randomly trigger a memory. Once again the memory shows in 3D, looking the most solid to the one who touched the feather - and unwittingly contributed the memory. No one can interact with it, and no matter how solid it looks, the figures and places and things in the memory can be walked through with ease. Well, physical ease, anyway. The memory, once again, will not be from the perspective of the one it belongs to; they and their companion or companions will be observing from a third party perspective, thus allowing a person to see their own face in the memories without the aid of a mirror.

The memories this time are memories of fathers and paternal figures. Generally good memories. After all, this is Auradon.

If one interacts closely with the birds or their feathers they might also have strong vivid dreams of their paternal figure. Again, genrally happy dreams given this is Auradon. While the birds will fly away after two weeks, and the feathers will lose their power to share memories at the same time, for every day spent handling the birds or feathers during the event, the character might have up to that many day of intense dreams after.

Comments

[aquawayfinder]

"Well, the offer remains." A warm smile.

[smilingarmor]

"I appreciate it," he said. "To think that we saw all that because of a silly little feather; this place never ceases to amaze, even if it is a tad nosey."

Changing the subject, he continued. "Anyway, I was just doing a bit of hunting, as you can see. Pheasants are lovely, but unfortunately for them and luckily for us, they're also quite tasty. Have you ever had pheasant, darling?"

[aquawayfinder]

"Ah... I have," she said. And now she was wondering if she should be trying to keep Enki indoors....

"And for those of us who eat meat, so long as there are no ill side effects, I think it will make a nice change of pace to have something fresh that Malia doesn't have to magic up."

[smilingarmor]

"I don't see why there would be," Sylv said. "It's their feathers that seem to be causing the visions, not their meat. And yes while I'm going to freeze most of it for later, it will be lovely to have something fresh again. Malia's been wonderful of course, but something tells me it's best we not rely too much on the food she conjures up, you know?"

[aquawayfinder]

"Exactly, we do not want to over tax her. Or take advantage of her kindness too much."

[smilingarmor]

"Exactly darling," he said. "It's lovely that she's so generous, but wouldn't want her to overdo it, you know?"

[aquawayfinder]

Aqua nodded. "Would you like some help or prefer to be alone in case another memory is triggered?"

[smilingarmor]

"Some help would be lovely," he said. "Many hands make light work, and all that. Plus it'll be nice having someone to talk to while we work."

[aquawayfinder]

"Alright. Happy to work with you. Anything specific you want to talk about?"

[smilingarmor]

Sylv picked up the freshly shot birds and gestured for her to follow him to the kitchens. "Well I've told you a bit about Erdrea before," he said. "So how about you tell me a bit about your world, hmm?"

[aquawayfinder]

She followed. "I would be happy to," she replied with a chuckle. "But there are multiple different worlds that could count as mine, so I'm not sure which one to start with."