Happy Easter! [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: Easter Sunday, aka the 21. of April
Characters: Open

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Easter Sunday starts perfectly normal, and promises to stay so - a welcome relief from all the weirdness of the last few months.

Well.

Unless you own chicken or bunnies.

Because as it so happens, if you own one, you will now find yourself with an equal amount of the other. Children who keep a bunny wake up to a chicken having replaced it inside the cage, picking around with some confusion (not that it is hard to confuse chicken). Farmers who keep chicken will find a bunch of bunnies of varying sizes in the coops.

And out and about, wherever normally bunnies would be destroying lawns and more by burrowing into it, there are young chicks milling around, for the most part very surprised by encountering sun and lawn and fields.

[[ooc note: For those with fine noses who keep track: The scent found on bunnies and chicken doesn't belong to Mr Helpful or Mr Evil.]]

Comments

network, audio

[catted]

...I realize it's early morning and maybe I'm just not awake enough yet to understand this, but....

Can someone explain to me why three of my cats have brought in chicks that look like they're chicken chicks now? I can't spot any in our garden, so... [It's at least not like with the poppies that just grew everywhere.]

Re: network, audio

[iamnotgod]

[While a pause for Walter isn't as noticeable now as it would be from other people, he still puts in the effort because that sounds bizarre.]

Perhaps this is like last month, and a certain someone thought they were both also lost and that they belonged to you?

[It's the best frame of reference he's got to explain.]

Unless there is someone raising chickens near where you live.

[Which is the more mundane answer, but doesn't seem as likely given how Mary Ann's reacting.]

network, audio

[catted]

Not that I know of. There's a neighbor who has adult chicken, but they've never to my knowledge tried to raise chicks - and anyway, I feel like chicks this age shouldn't be outside where the cats could get them in the first place. They seemed very young. ...from what I could tell.

[dragoonrouge]

[Sadie had been placed on a slightly earlier volunteering slot due to not having any religious commitments on the Sunday, and so Sadie is the first person at the RSPCA to notice that all the rabbits have disappeared and been replaced by chickens.

It takes a little bit of time as everyone at the centre has to be on hand to help search for the missing rabbits, but Sadie eventually manages to get onto the Network.]

I am fed up with the festive nonsense every holiday! Somehow, someone managed to replace every single rabbit at the centre with a chicken!

[Audio]

[iamnotgod]

[And suddenly, Mary Ann's post makes a little- no, a lot more sense. Stray rabbits are more common than stray chickens, to be sure.]

I'm with you on that measure.

[He'd say 'preaching to the choir', but.]

Any calls about missing rabbits from nearby - or chickens, for that matter?

Re: [Audio]

[dragoonrouge]

Not that I've been told about but I wouldn't be surprised if the police are getting a lot of calls right now.

[She sighs.] I wonder which of our mystery men is responsible for this one...

[channingchanningchanning]

I can go and look for the rabbits!!!

[Don't let him. For the sake of the rabbits. Though to be fair half of them are probably taller than him.]

[dragoonrouge]

Chad, we need to be careful. [Aka. Don't hurt any rabbits or chickens!]

But I could use your help actually, Sam's too, if I brought you to where the rabbits are supposed to be, could you see if you can smell anything of the man you tracked to the coffee shop here?

[Audio]

[dreamtamer]

A.
This is kind of strange. But its kind of cool too! I've never seen a chicken up close before. Do you think they'd let me pet them if I got close?

B. [Sometime Later]
Mum? Nel?

I think I had one of those memories everyone was talking about.

[Audio] A.

[iamnotgod]

Possibly - but there's nothing to tell apart the farm chickens from those that are wild, so they might peck at you.

[The farm chickens, at least, might be used to it.]

Re: [Audio] A.

[dreamtamer]

I'm going to try anyway!

[Audio] B

[vernal_miss]

[Thom has not had his number very long at all and yet he got one first. She is a bit envious, but oh so curious!]

Ohhhh! Did it just happen? Wait. Was it a good memory? [A note of concern comes through in the last question.]

[Audio] B

[scarsolderthanyou]

[He's not mum or Nel but he's still listening.]

You okay? Sometimes those can be rough. Or just make you dizzy.

B

[catted]

What was the memory about?

[Audio]

[lovedramamoron]

I honestly don't know what to say about this. I can't even work this into my stories, because its just too silly.

Re: [Audio]

[iamnotgod]

Have you been doing that with the other events here in Mossgate? Writing them in stories?

[Because there's a chance those stories getting published could be REAL CONCERNING.]

[channingchanningchanning]

But it is exciting!

[warped_replica]

Benjiro had seen the earliest messages on the Network by the time he had gone downstairs for breakfast, nevertheless it was to his surprise when his great aunt Rosemary passed along a request from a more distant neighbor. Introductions had been made to Chuck his first summer in Mossgate as a favor for his aunt to repair a damaged fence while the man’s hand healed from an injury. As he keeps a number of chickens, his great aunt purchases eggs from him for her baking regularly. She is really his best customer. So when he called her to tell her his chickens were gone along with the strange circumstances of rabbits taking their place, he wondered if he could have a hand from her great nephew in dealing with the perplexing swap.

Hurrying through his breakfast, he headed outside the village to a local farm to study the scene. No visible signs of damage are apprent in the fence around the coops, and there are a lot of rabbits inside the enclosures. More than he has ever seen in one place.

OTA phone contacts
At a farm Aunt Rosemary likes. Chickens are gone and there are rabbits in the coops.

Sadie
Hey.

Weird question. Any tips for how to handle a rabbit without causing any undue stress?

OTA phone contacts

[iamnotgod]

Are any of them harmed? As opposed to merely confused and extremely out of place.

[dragoonrouge]

You too???

...did u have chickens that you never told me about?

[Phone text]

[spaghettimonster]

Is this the petting zoo all over
Do you need animal herding help

[Early on in the number nonsense, it seemed like whole months could go by without anything happening. These last few... Scarcely weeks between incidents, with open reminders that someone can sneak in and change things or leave things without any warning. It's unsafe enough to make Russell extra tired.]

OTA

[scarsolderthanyou]

I - for family

Sam doesn't keep pets of any kind and hasn't for a long time, but the network is buzzing about it, so he swings by his daughter's house to have a look (and a sniff) of the ones the cats brought in.


II - OTA

And now that he has a scent to work with, he's on the prowl, trying to track it around the city. This is starting to become a pretty normal thing for him, these days, it seems. Maybe he'll turn up a fourth weirdly named person that they're attached to.

Ha. Ha.

II

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie's waiting outside of the RSPCA building for Sam, waving at him when she spots him approach, "Hello, Sam. Thank you for coming!"

I

[catted]

"Hi, Dad." She lets him in with a slightly frazzled smile.

This morning has been something else. AGAIN. Why do those things keep happening.

At least there are no upturned graves this time.

II

[saveournpcs]

The scent can be found ...really all across town this morning. Everywhere where normally wild bunnies run around, so the Greens are covered in it.

Due to there being so many traces, it's not really possible to find a specific track. All Sam CAN say after his search is that whoever this was seems to be able to cover a LOT of ground in just one morning.