pedalbike | 2nd Event: Choices We Make

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Arrival

Not all characters (known as Wickie, singular or Wickies, plural) arrive at the same time, surprisingly enough! That’s life for you. Some Wickies find their way to the island at a pivotal (or very mundane) point in their life, or even after or during their death.

Wickies who were standing or walking often find themselves entering the town South Sister, located on Lighthouse Isle, through an open doorway. Those that were laying down, or sleeping, tend to be found lying prone in beds, bathtubs, showers, couches, and similar places within the cottages on Cottage Row. There’s no rhyme or reason to it all! To Wickies familiar with the era, they will realize that everything looks as if it’s come from the ‘90s.

The house which a Wickie finds themselves within could already be occupied. This includes walking into a fellow Wicke, waking up in the same location, or accidentally scaring a room full of people with their sudden appearance.

Oops.

C-C-Changes

Thankfully the fog has gone down to what it was before, a slow creeping crawl over the ground. And too, the monsters of before are gone, leaving the town much like it was before. Well...close to what it was before.

For now the season's have changed, from a lingering summer to a cooler fall.

There’s new foods to try, even if some things like lattes cause people to slip into warm boots and tie up their hair, and soups make people curl up under blankets on the couch. And it also means decorations of all sorts, made of the leaves from the forest, orange, yellow and red things and...we can not forget...

Pumpkin overflow

Pumpkins! They're everywhere. Wickies will find pumpkins infused into all sorts of things, like coffee, ice cream, even spaghetti options! It's wild.

There’s also many jack o'lanterns. They have been placed everywhere in town, outside homes, and even small ones have been made into table decorations. The Jack o lanterns have very cheerful faces, and seem to watch Wickies every single move.

That is, until a Wickie bashes or otherwise abuses a pumpkin. That's when it changes- there seem to be more of them. Their expressions change to that of anger, sadness and disgust. None of them attack- yet. But their faces become more and more horrifying, as they follow the Wickie more and more- outside of the bathroom perhaps, or found on top of them as the Wickie wakes up in the middle of the night.

It shouldn't matter right? They're only pumpkins.

What a ride

Funny enough, with the pumpkin invasion, there also comes a dull colored horse wandering about the island. Its head is drooped, and it looks depressed and lonely. The horse is tame on approach and will accept pats and treats, even from those who are obviously not human.

But it also wants something, for all that it seems to be begging for attention. It wants someone to ride them, seems to even be begging for it with its big eyes. The horse will help Wickies to figure out how to mount; it will even stand beside the Town Center benches, rocks, or even go down in order to make it possible for the Wickie to get onto the horse’s back.

That’s when it changes. The Wickie is immediately wrapped in chains from their barrel to the Wickie’s waist. The horse turns a coal black and the Wickie’s clothing changes into that of a soldier's uniform, with a hand either holding a whip modeled after a human spine, or a jack o'lantern.

The Wickie cannot get off the horse on their own, no matter how much they struggle. As the horse moves throughout the town, they will go anywhere from a walk to a full canter, seemingly impervious to any magic or physical attacks. The same cannot be said for their unfortunate rider.

If the rider is hit, or simply in pain, the Wickie will feel an impulse that grows and grows until they scream a name of someone in town, someone they know.

And the named will drop, paralyzed. Paralyzed wickie are likely to die within minutes, more so if they are too close to horse and rider. The horse will happily trample anyone on the ground to death.

Even without the impulse, should the Wickie rider use anyone’s name, that person will drop, paralyzed, and unable to breathe.

There is only one way to possibly save the rider: scatter golden objects in their path. The horse will shriek, and promptly buck the rider off, before running away. Just make sure to catch the rider, or at least cushion their fall: they have no way of saving themselves until they hit the ground.

Heart game: confession

Current residents of the island may remember this particular beeping alert, and how it doesn’t go away, no matter what they do! That is, unless they open up the Heart Game, and answer the question.

Welcome back everyone! It’s so good to see you again! Now let’s play that game, Confession! And the question isssssss…

How do you celebrate the changing seasons! Don't be shy!

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How long have you lived, exactly? If you're speaking in centuries then you must have a longer lifespan than anything I'm familiar with.

[Mikumo is curious and they don't have immortal magic wielders where she comes from. The people with the cool powers are the ones who die earliest.]

It's hard to pin down my exact age at this point. Give or take a couple millenia.

[ apparently when you've lived for so long you start to forget some little details in your life. ]

That's quite a lifetime. Since you say it's hard to pin down traditions, maybe you could share some of the most interesting ones you've seen in that time?

[Artificial human blues means she hasn't actually seen a whole lot of traditions.]

[ oh, that's a nonhuman mood right there. ]

I do know one. Once a year there's a flower festival in a certain town where unmarried women wear white dresses, and if you were to meet one, you're to bless them with good fortune and love.

Isn't that romantic?

Maybe. That seems like it would depend on whether they actually find any romance that day.

[Dry humour doesn't translate so well over text.] But I admit I don't have much experience with love, so maybe I just don't see the appeal besides being showered with compliments from strangers.

[ well, she's got a point about that. romance, that is. but also - ]

All I can tell you that love is a wonderful and disastrous thing. A double-edged sword, if you will. But that's what I love the most about it.

[ big talk from someone who just can't grasp the concept of love at all, but the person at the other end of the line doesn't know that. ]

Does that make loving love a double-edged sword too? That two-sidedness is one of the few things I know about it, so maybe those of us who aren't tangled up in love have an easier time seeing the good and bad of its power.

[She's seen people made by love and ruined by it, so on some level she respects the power of it even if she's never felt it herself.]

I wonder about that.

[ he smiles at his communication device. ]

But didn't you say that you were constantly complimented by people? Wouldn't that be enough?

[ because to figaro, someone who is highly respected (and feared) back home, it's never enough. ]

I said that sounded like the main good point of the celebration you were talking about. Though I'm the focus of a lot of attention anyway, but it's never made much of a difference to me.

[Mikumo has always been too focused on work to care all that much about how many people are watching her at any given time. It's about protecting them, not attention-seeking.]

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