#maun and magic 8

[exoamalgam]

tfw ur team warlock is literally just a titan in a robe.

[noro-noro-noro]

had a weird dream there was a different halloween event added to sdv that was really depressing. the summary:

1. halloween party in the farm which is now next to the ocean!

2. tearful reminiscing on the child the citizens of pelican town allowed to die

3. george becomes a large plant with the help of two pokemon & me because i was pretending to be his lungs

4. dramatic showdown in the underwater base. 

It started off as some kind of high hearts event for Penny, where there was a halloween party at my house & she & her redhead friend with an undercut (her name was Maun or something like that) would hold the door for everyone arriving. Maun was so obviously gay for Penny also bc whatever Penny did, Maun would support her. 

There was no actual event in my house, but i lived by the beach & everyone left really upset. There were mangroves at the beach fsr also? Anyway when everyone left, they didn’t all go home, they were all standing & looking out over the water & all really upset. If you talked to them, they would say things with a regretful tone. After it hit 8:00, they all started moving around, sort of heading back, but stopping every time they moved more than 5 tiles, & the sfx was whispering from all their voices like “I should’ve tried harder.” “Why didn’t this stop?” “We could have done something.” & a bunch of other overlapping stuff. If you stopped to interact with them, each character was saying something they regretted & their character sprites looked visibly upset both in the profile & the actual sprite. When interacting with Penny, she said that she was trans & she was really worried that her mom or everyone else wouldn’t accept her. Maun (predictably) said that she was worried Penny would want to be her friend anymore if she found out she was gay. If you interacted with Sam, he was just covering his face with his arms & crying. These lines were all voice acted, by the way, if you interacted with someone their voice would read it above the rest of the murmuring voices, or in Sam’s case,just the sound of him crying, which made me want to give him a hug but & your character couldn’t respond to anything they said. If you talked to the non-marryable characters, they were the ones talking about stuff like “we couldn’t save her. we were responsible for her & we let this happen.” So you kind of glean information from them that someone died today, a girl, another child. I really liked this by the way it gave SDV that extra layer of depth 

Finally, Mayor Lewis was like “ok so here’s the deal- there was another daughter, [unintelligible]’s daughter, she was really cute & good & was best friends with Jas! One day the faeries gifted her some Wand Of Magical Happening & it made sparkles & zapped things to make them happier & what ended up happening is that she created a beachball, fell in love with it (yeah i was like ??? too while dreaming) & then it got blown out to sea so she went out to go get it but got kidnapped by the [i don’t remember anything about the sea creatures that kidnapped her but they were led by someone that looked like Nidalee with redder hair & darker skin]. They’d left a speedboat in the harbor that wouldn’t let us leave bc the propeller would chop us to bits, but the ball was distracting them somehow? So george decided to swim past (that’s how he got his spine injury) & disguise himself as one of the henchmen, which were these really large baggy hammock shaped things that also had a ton of stalks coming out when he was above the water so he looked like a weird tangled cluster of mangrove with eyes. 

I was suddenly transported to the past as Lewis was talking about this where George had just morphed into the fucking. tree monster thing with his two Victreebels that resembled the "feet” of the weird henchmen even though they floated & travelled oon their backs scuttling like spiders. The rest of them had lungs outside their body that were blueish purple, ring shaped, & had neon green oatmeal in the middle, so I had to pretend to be the lungs. It was so ugly but it worked?

We went underwater to the main cave - at this point it was less about stardew valley & more about The Weird Dream That Was Happening & George was just an ally instead of some grouchy old man. Once back in the main headquarters, all the monster things shed their mangrove outerwear (probably bc i forget it existed)& took up unmoving positions on their hammocks. They gossiped so fucking much though they were talking shit about our disguise & just saying we were so fuckin ugly. 

Lady in charge (redhead darker nidalee) & a grandma look at us, “I hve a bad feeling about this” says grandma & they take me off the eggplant body thing & i Just kind of collapse on the floor pretending to be lungs until they’re out ot sight.

At this point it becomes a CYOA game & i can reset the save to undo the past action whenever i want., so it was easier.. I didn’t want anyone on my side to die, so I kept resetting. 

through that, I became allied with two guards from Algul Siento that were like, the reverse Taheen? Like Pimli Prentiss taken from Keystone earth & recruited to this job? t/heir names were Leona & Anuc & with their help I made it to Final Showdown. 

The Nidalee woman had a long spear (of course) but first, we got to see her backstory via her telling us about it intently. Basically as a child of 7 or 8, she went through a door one day & got stuck in the in-between. The in-between was a small, cramped tunnel with black & white stripes on the walls kind of like that one part in The Incredible. The stripes kept shifting around, but there were a ton of turquoise doors. She went through one to see her dad & her younger sibling & she says, panicked, “Is mom alright? I had a dream that she died?” & the dad looks at her grimly like “She did die.” So Nidalee woman went back through the doors, trying to find an alternate reality where her mom didn’t die. She finally went through & saw her mom & got a hug from her & she was so happy!! But the next day her mom died. 

So she kept exploring & looking for realities, but no matter where she looked, even if her mom was alive when she got there, she would just see her mom die over & over & over again & while in th e in-between she didn’t age, so eventually she did just give up & leave otherwise she’d not be in her 20′s by now. It made me really sad. 

Anyway, first try, defeated Nidalee Woman but she killed Anuc. Reset save, switch to Leona’s POV, (leona was currently stuckhiding behind/under a large heavy rock), Leona warns him & - 

I wake up with a HELL STOMACHACEH but i do think anuc survived. cool