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TDM: JANUARY/FEBRUARY

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SCENARIO ONE

You wake up on the beach thoroughly drenched, with your mouth full of sand. The salt water is making all the cuts and scrapes on your skin sting and the sand isn't helping. The air is slightly humid, ruining any feeling of refreshment you might have gotten from your dip in the ocean.

There are lights in the distance, but the unfriendly scent of gunpowder fills the air. If you're lucky, you're alone. If not - you might find yourself staring up into a pair of monstrous eyes or down the barrel of a local's shotgun.

SCENARIO TWO

So you've just arrived, and already some of the natives are trying to get on your good side with offers of food, shelter and other luxuries in return for hoping you don't eat them. They even have some helpful pamphlets to share with you. "How To Deal With Changes", "Alternatives to Human Flesh", "What to Expect When You're Expecting (to turn into a monster)" are all on the more informative end of the scale. There's even some detailing certain monsters, and the changes they go through. Some of these seem to have been passed down from one monster to the next.

Among these however, are some... not so helpful ones. "Bunnyipyips And You", "Axe Thief Axehounds," and "So you're becoming a Fur Bearing Trout" among others. Sometimes they have marks on them from previous readers saying they're lies, or pointing out good "jokes."

Then there are the people who aren't happy to see you at all. Glares and silent, judging stares if you're lucky, torches and pitchforks attempting to drive you out of the town if you're not. You may need a friend to help you.

SCENARIO THREE

"Seek us out," the voice whispers in your head, and before you have time to question it you've found yourself in someplace entirely alien.

Maybe it's the Fog God's ghostly town of Dyster, where exultant followers dance around bonfires and sing their praises to the skies above. Maybe it's the Fourth God's arcade, with small robots wheeling about amidst the lights and colors of old pinball machines.

Only one thing is certain: you are not alone, in this sacred place.

SCENARIO FOUR

The time has come and you've found yourself becoming a monster. Is the change instant, or gradual? Are you familiar enough with monsters to know what's happening, or is it a complete shock? Feel free to pick any monster type for this prompt, but note that you may not get the same one in game.

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[Eugene, has anyone ever told you that you talk really fast-]

Waait wait wait wait- back up, you said they don't...remember? Does that mean Cassandra doesn't have the moonstone's power right now? Or...does she have it, but doesn't know how to control it? Or...

[He's maybe complicating things a bit here, not considering that it's not simply the fact that they don't remember. It's that they're not even from the same points in time.]

[Eugene's tail whips around behind him, full of nervous energy.]

No, well. Maybe. Y'know? I'm actually not sure but, it's like... It's like Rapunzel was pulled from a completely separate space in time than me.

[The thought is sad to him; for a while he wasn't even sure if those things really happened, as Rapunzel didnt recall them.]

But either way, the moonstone and sundrop mean nothing here. They don't exist.

Okay, that...sure does change things.

[The moonstone and sundrop not existing is unfathomable. Unheard of. About as unfathomable as Rapunzel being from a completely different time than Eugene, but again...so many unbelievable things have happened to them that Varian wouldn't have put any stock into if he hadn't seen them with his own eyes or heard of them from Rapunzel directly. And even with how his trust in the Princess has been strained in the past, he knows she wouldn't outright lie about something like this. So what Eugene is saying must be true.

After all, he's here too, somehow.]

So we're on a peninsula that's entirely unknown to our region, Rapunzel and Cassandra don't remember the same things we do, aaand...

[Varian props up his elbow in one hand, the other coming down to point at Eugene.]

You're a...dragon? now. Is that everything?

Aaahhhh, no.

See, Cassandra is also a bear, Rapunzel is a giant bird, aaaand in about a month you are gonna also sprout wings or horns or claws or something.

[TACT.]

Oh, and the princesses from Arrendelle are here.

[It's almost comical how quickly Varian's expression drops upon learning that, well...everyone he knows (or everyone that he knows that's herehe's going to start doing that too, at some point?

So Varian...snorts, staring straight ahead and not quite at Eugene in a bit of a concerning way that betrays the fact that he's freaking out inwardly more than he's letting it show.]

Okay! Okay, let's just...calm down, no reason to panic- [He says quickly, as if Eugene is doing anything but literally just standing there.] -there has to be some sort of explanation for this, yeah? Some sort of...magic thing that happened I'm sure that can be reversed, somehow. Unless there's an arbitrary time limit on how long we have to fix everything, there's always something Right? Right!

[He's pacing now, his hands moving as he talks more to himself than Eugene specifically.]

Sure it...probably is some kind of really powerful magic, seeing how not just Rapunzel but princesses from other kingdoms have been dragged here too, but that's no reason to start panicking-!

Edited (where did that extra space come from) 2020-02-22 23:12 (UTC)

[Eugene just kind of watches Varian's miniature breakdown for a few moments, and after he's had enough time to vent a little of that steam, Eugene puts a hand on his shoulder.]

Alllright, let's take a breath now, champ.

[On new-found instinct, Eugene lets one of his wings stretch around Varian like a shield, containing him to the smallness of that circle instead of the wideness of the unknown.]

Iiii'll admit, this whole thing is scary, but it's...

[Something washes over Eugene's face, a dull sadness in his yellowed eyes, before they soften, and he gives Varian a gentle smile.]

You're not alone.

[It isn't until Eugene stops him that Varian realizes he'd sort of been rambling there, prompting him to snap his mouth closed with a nervous grin. It's a good thing Eugene is here right now, or else he may have worked himself into an even more anxious lather long ago.]

Yeah...yeah. You're right, Eugene.

[It's hard for even Varian to miss that look that was there, if only briefly. It's one he's seen in his own reflection before, so he recognizes it.]

How long have you been here? Just so I, ah...know what the timeline is for you, currently.

Ohhh.... Fffffive months?

[Eugene knows that sounds like a long time-- aaand he's not going to hit Varian over the head immediately with the fact that people have been here for years. He does, however, try to soften this bit as much as he can.]

Look, I don't understand it really, but people keep saying time doesn't flow along the same lines as it does back home.

[He gestures a little 'flow' with both of his arms.]

So supposedly five months passing here doesn't mean five months have passed in Corona.

I was going to say...you haven't been gone...really at all.

[As far as he knows, beyond his normal duties requiring it. And like, if he AND Rapunzel disappeared for that long, he'd know.]

I mean, you guys were gone from the kingdom for a while with Cass, but I was.....sortofstillinjail during part of that so obviously I can't really account for that time.

Weird, right? But Rapunzel got here months before I did and Cassandra.... I don't even know how long Cassandra's been here.

[Eugene adds, tail whipping about like a bored cat's.]

But I never... They weren't gone, for me.

[Oh!]

--You remember the red rocks, right?

Red rocks? Of course I do, they were all over the place...why?

[He thinks he knows why, or he's starting to understand why Eugene is asking, at least. It'll help narrow down where exactly he's come from, as far as Eugene remembers anyway.]

Oh, Varian, pal, I am so glad to hear that. You wouldn't believe-- Rapunzel and Cassandra didn't even remember that far before, I thought I was going crazy!

[Well he kind of is, but-]

Good job handling those with Rapunzel, by the way, I don't think I got to say that enough.

Oh! Hah, it...pfff. It was nothing! Nothing.

[Varian waves both hands at that, lifting one to rub beneath his nose.]

Just doin' my job, you know. Helping out, and stuff...

[Now that he's, you know. NOT the bad guy.]

That's so weird that they don't remember, though...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. It definitely did.

Yeah.. Yeah. I know.

[Eugene answers, rubbing the back of his neck-- but there's still a bit of a smile on his face. Relief. ]

Well, this isn't the greatest place to sit and chat, so. What do you say we get you somewhere you can get the sand out of your boots?

Please. I mean, I've always wanted to see the beach, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind...

[Varian's going to be beating sand out of his clothes for a while to come, he thinks. How long was he even unconscious on the sand?]

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