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vernal_miss ([personal profile] vernal_miss) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2019-03-17 10:41 am

It Might As Well Be Spring [Open Video]

Date: March 20th, 2019; after school
Characters: Network Number {235 13 892 33} ; Action open to family

[As the video begins, the sleeve of a lightweight knit sweater covers the view as the broadcast as Nel makes an adjustment to the angle of the phone. Gentle, she releases the device and withdraws her hands slowly before taking a few steps back to bring herself into the frame. The view is somewhat elevated and shows Nel standing in the family backyard. The grass looks a little more vibrant than those belonging to neighbors or elsewhere in Mossgate thanks to her time playing around outside this afternoon trying to burn off the excess energy that makes itself known as she addresses the Network.

As she talks, her words are hurried and there's a light bouncing on her heels as she attempts to stand in one place with modest success.
]

Hallo everyone! I thought it'd be nice if I shared the gift Father Christmas gave me! I decided today is a nice day to wake the seeds up and so I have these here-

[She gestures to the few pots she has set up with dirt in them beside her, and in front of them rests an opened gift box.]

-to put them in. Then I started holding them trying to pick which one I want to grow and oh they look brilliant in my head and I knew I had to show them to everyone cause they're absolutely beyond anything else anywhere!

[A gleeful giggle breaks from her in anticipation, and she claps her hands together with excitement. Rather than take a simple step over, she springs in a hop to land in a crouch and reaches into the box to retrieve one seed out of the packets within. Leaping right back up to her feet she hurries over to the camera to hold the seed up close for a slightly blurry view of what looks more like a chunk of ice topped by a bit of lint than a plant seed.]

See? It's already so nice, but watch this!

[Scurrying back to one of the pots, Nel minds the camera enough to go to the opposite side and crouch there. She digs a hole down into the dirt with her finger, and drops the little seed down inside. A sweep of her hand covers the dirt, and then she lays her hand over that same spot in the pot as she closes her eyes to focus. Coming quite fast, the vibrant green coloration overtakes her hair nearly to her shoulders as she calls her magic to hasten the growth of the plant. What follows is the sight of her raising her hand upwards with the tip of the plant pushing up against it within the little sparkles falling from her hand. The stem of the plant twirls as it rises upwards, and as it gets taller, small buds shaped like diamonds form at the sides near the top, as sharp and crystalline as ice. Her second hand comes underneath the lowest bud, and the largest buds at the top open at the tip to spread out flat into thin sheets that rather resemble snowflakes without separate petals. By the time the last of the top three buds open, the plant itself is nearing a meter in height with Nel now standing. Her hands lower away as she stares wide eyed at the sight of what she had only pictured in her head previously, and with a squeal, she jumps away from the pot to start running about.]

IT'S SO PRETTY!!!!

[She goes out of frame, then a few seconds later, crosses in a cartwheel with her long red hair trailing behind.]
lovedramamoron: (pic#12874338)

[personal profile] lovedramamoron 2019-04-27 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to be a mystery writer. [Jimmy grins at her.] I started reading about them because I was trying to build a mystery story, but it turns out that they're pretty interesting just by themselves.
scarsolderthanyou: (amused)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-04-30 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sam watches indulgently for a moment, before commenting.]

You're a lot more hyper than usual. I'd expect your brother to be racing around doing handstands and falling over, not you.
iamnotgod: Black and white picture of a man looking up and off to the right. (What Even Is This?)

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-05-12 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Walter nods slowly.]

That would make you like a plant doctor, if you used your abilities in that way.
scarsolderthanyou: (thinking)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-05-14 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's vaguely alarming, really. Not enough to show on his face or to make him do anything about it, but enough to worry in the back of his mind.]

Kind of strange how just a few months ago, you could hardly get out of bed, and now this.
lovedramamoron: (pic#12874333)

[personal profile] lovedramamoron 2019-05-14 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
My favorite detectives are the ones who use facts and science and logic to figure out the solution to a mystery. But to write a mystery like that, I have to figure out which facts to use first. And plants are a good source for that! The secret to solving the mystery could be which side of the tree a certain kind of moss grows, or knowing how fast a certain kind of tree grows, or even knowing what kind of mushroom grows in different areas.
iamnotgod: A man, smiling and holding a book. (When He Smiles.)

See keywords~

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-05-17 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, Walter did see that reaction coming.]

Yes, quite!

I'm sure she'd be proud.
scarsolderthanyou: (curious)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-05-22 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet it was.

[He watches her to make sure she's not going to fall over-- or rather, that if she does, it's not onto anything dangerous. He fully expects her to fall over before too long, here.]

Any thoughts as to why?
iamnotgod: A man, smiling and holding a book. (When He Smiles.)

SUDDEN ECHO IDEA???? Will mention on Discord.

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-05-23 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It'll be a good way to vent energy on your part, too.

[Should he mention it being a possible career path? Perhaps not; Nel is young yet, and who knows what will happen with the Numbers in even the next year!]

One could even call it non-zero sum.
Edited 2019-05-23 13:10 (UTC)
iamnotgod: A man, holding a folder in one hand and gesturing with the other, looking off to the right. (And WHAT Is This?)

[Video]

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-05-24 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
A non-zero sum; it's a scenario where everyone-

[Walter pauses mid-sentence because hello deja-vu, he did not miss you.]

Wins...

[Walter trails off, because why did that cause an Echo and what does this memory mean and nope still not okay with the sensation of Echoes, nopenope.]
lovedramamoron: (pic#12874339)

Oops

[personal profile] lovedramamoron 2019-05-26 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[He was starting to get a little dizzy watching her run in and out of frame.]

That's right! I've been trying to put together a mystery based on that.
scarsolderthanyou: (thinking)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2019-05-28 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
And you didn't eat anything unusual, and you're not sick. Not that this is what sick usually looks like.

[He considers what else it could be.]

You didn't get any more pulse things, did you?
iamnotgod: A man, sitting and possibly smiling. (Awkward Smile)

Re: [Video]

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2019-05-31 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Just a memory.

Not even a big one.

[Apparently non-zero sums had been important to Webmind, too - but this wasn't another worldview shattering Echo.

Just a heartbeat-unsettling one.]

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