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Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

@PerfectThought

I also post almost exclusively from mobile, and can confirm that it is often a bitch.

@Fading Memory

I think I somehow didn't comment on this but:

I love the idea of having abilities assigned, it's something I've actually employed in a previous RP(though I kept the methods of choosing the player powers secret)

I agree with Jumbus, that I'd like to know the power before locking down a cosmetic change. I only have a few ideas for it, right now, but might have more inspiration once I see what you saw in the character. Sometimes the outside perspective can help.

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

Audrey Springer

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Audrey chuckled at seeing the compass.

"Making your own luck," she said, "Now that really is witchcraft."

Dropping down to her haunches, she looked over the fungi and insects that were slowly, but diligently, returning the dead tree to the earth. She could appreciate it, in her own way, though she knew she understood it much less than Rowan did.

Looking up at her friend, she asked, "Hey, do you know which of these shrooms could kill a guy?"

Somehow, from her the question sounded off-handed, rather than off-putting.

@Jumbus

~~~

As Audrey and Rowan conversed deep in The Weeping Sam, Toby's call went straight to voicemail.

"Hey, it's Aud. If you don't leave a message, I'm not returning the call. Even if you do, no guarantees..."

Beep

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

@myrkwise That call is gonna go straight to voice mail, I think Audrey and Rowan are too deep in the woods for a cell signal. And Audrey has a crap phone to begin with lol.

@Fading Memory other than the hair being much too long, that's excellent! I actually love the funky jacket, and I'm imagining it's something she modified herself. I'll try to find an excuse for her to have it on her when they get isekai'd, lol.

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

@Teyao I think small posts are perfectly reasonable while interacting with another character.

@Fading Memory if your friend wants to do Audrey, I never did find art for her.

EDIT: also, is there cell service in the Weeping Sam?

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

I have also added a color and header to my posts now, lol.

Also, forgot to mention @Jumbus, and I know editing it in doesn't send the notification.

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

Audrey Springer

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Audrey jumped violently, landing back on her feet almost a yard away from the log, facing Rowan. She had to glance down to understand what had just happened, and when she did, she rubbed a hand over her cheek, relieved if embarrassed.

"Jesus fuck, Row," she said, "I about shat my pants. And what about you? Just as far out as me, aren't you? What're you, collecting ingredients for potions? Giving up on science and becoming a witch? I'm telling you, it's the way to go."

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

That sucks, I hate it when a plan doesn't pan out like that.

So I posted. I had the first part of that written for like a week, but I couldn't think of where I wanted to put her.

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

Audrey left the house quietly while her parents still slept. They had both had a late night; her mother from serving drinks at the bar, and her father from drinking half of them. She hopped on her father's Mustang. It was her father's in name only, as Audrey was the primary driver ever since his DUI last year. Instead of starting the engine, she disengaged the parking brake, and let it roll down their long, sloped driveway, swerving around her mother's Corolla with practiced grace, and backing neatly into the street. Here she did finally start the car, a reasonable distance from the house so that she hoped it wouldn't alert her parents to her departure. She didn't want to get entangled with either of them, and ruin her summer freedom.

As she pulled down their side street toward one of the town’s main roads, she put her flip phone on speaker and dialed.

"Hey Aud," a tinny, crackling voice came through.

"Hick, got any work for me? Even just one?"

"Sorry, sweetheart, but I usually just extend everyone's loans around the festival. People get forgetful, you know? Just trying to give them one fewer thing to think about."

Audrey,  who had been hoping that same forgetfulness would translate into pocket money for her, grimaced but kept her tone light. Hickory Earhart was a very nice man, and she wanted to stay on that side of him. "Alright, I understand. But if anything comes up, I dunno, like you need shelves moved or something...?"

Hickory was perfectly capable of moving any shelves he needed moved. More so than Audrey, truth be told, but he didn't say so. "You'll be the first I call."

"Right, thanks Hick, you're good people."

"You too, enjoy the festivities, should be a good one this year."

As she ended the call, she wondered what festivities she was meant to enjoy without any money. Her mother always gave her gas money out of her tips from the bar, but Audrey would never ask for more. She knew an allowance just wasn't in the budget.

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She turned the car away from festivities(many of which were, in fact, quite free) and instead toward the edge of town. One of the roads that led to the nearby highway had a small paved parking pad on the side of it. Just three parking spaces, in faded white lines, and a sign marking a trail into The Shaded Grove. The trail was generally disused, including today, when Audrey walked right off it and into the woods, heading for the heart of the Weeping Sam.

Audrey wasn't dressed the best for the adventure. Her boots, at least, were functional, if well scuffed Doc Martens, but she wore constricting skinny jeans. On top, she had what had once been a plain black T-shirt, but she had bleached a spooky face onto the front, and cut and tied it at the sides until it was a raggedy sort of tank top.

She walked with her hands in her pockets, not sure where she was going, nor exactly why she had come here. Presently, she came to a certain fallen, rotting tree and, not yet noticing that she wasn't alone, she lifted her foot up and kicked in some of the soft, spongy wood.

@Jumbus

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

I have no strong opinion, but I would certainly use the discord if we made one. I'm in a handful of discords already, so it's pretty natural and accessible for me, personally.

Dreaming Together With You - A Fading Memory Experiment - On Hiatus

@Fading Memory Odaya Bilica: Audrey gets along very badly with the Bilica family at large. She is marginally kinder to Odaya, particularly when she is away from her brothers. Audrey operates under the assumption that Odaya has a hard time as the only girl, and tries to be a good influence, in her own way. It is worth noting that by most traditional standards, Audrey is a categorically bad influence.

EDIT: proposed nickname for Odaya, based on the theme of Mustelids from the rest of her family: Otter.