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[ahorseforgood]

WHAT in person
WHERE the farm, though feel free to have encountered the GHOST HORSE
WHEN Night 3/Day 4 morning
NOTES ADVENT OF THE GHOST HORSE and/or MILD MANNERED PETTING ZOO ARRIVAL! (open/see below)

[anyone out wandering past Day 3's midnight (definitely doing something productive and not trying to find munchies or stagger home drunk) who happened to skirt too close to the wide-open spaces near the lake or woods might have gotten the fright of their lives last night. a dim, pale shape resolved in the distance, accompanied by an inexplicable ringing sound. if they were unlucky enough to be standing in the wrong spot, the chiming got louder and louder, and before they quite realized what was happening some kind of huge ghostly creature had swept past with desperate speed, an invisible force pushing anyone in the way off their feet to safety. A VERY SCARY GHOST!

a single resident of Quiet Mounds alone heard something else in this period: a familiar noise in his head.]

[...there's no explanation for the Ghost Animal Mystery if that just so happened to scare you last night. but if you arrive at the farm anytime past early morning Day 4, a beautiful white horse now seems to be part of the petting zoo. she's eating her hay in the field peacefully, barely flicking an ear at you; well, it's not like horses take a lot of notice of humans normally. or talk.]

((Notes: anyone can feel free to handwave Yfandes scaring you on Night 3, she wasn't paying attention to who she almost ran over! GHOST HOOOORSE. I'll play out her nearly running you over if you really want to and comment to that effect. otherwise, please check my stats and link me to your own/let me know anything you want her to be able to sense from your character! thanks guys ♥))

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[locked to Vanyel on Night 3, whatever/whoever he's doing]

[ahorseforgood]

[Vanyel on the other hand is hopefully in bed sleeping or something sensible after trying to CATCH HIS DEATH IN THE RAIN the night before, but wherever he is, he's jerked out of sleep or concentration on his task by a sudden, frantic voice in his head.]

Vanyel? Chosen, where are you--?!

[...the sense of his bond being restored comes with the voice, hitting him with enough force to drive the breath out of him; Yfandes isn't wasting any time.]

[twicebonded]

[definitely considered just jumping out the questionable windows but is very impatiently just launching himself into the elevator instead]

[and just flinging his arms around her neck as soon as he can get outside. wearing a loose bathrobe and t-shirt and boxers and whatever I don't need pants. or shoes. I guess. whatever, it's probably not raining]

:'Fandes! 'Fandes . . .!:

[twicebonded]

[similarly, you can find Vanyel either—

1: flinging himself, crying, onto a horse, in the middle of the night, outside the apartments? THAT'S weird; or

2: at the farm in the morning, where you've probably seen him before, except looking considerably more chipper and staying close to this fancy white horse at like all times]

[mindinthegittern]

Good morning!

[splashofbourbon]

[turning up for work! On time!! And not even visibly drunk]

I'm gonna take a wild shot and say that horse's got something to do with why you're looking happier than a pig in a mud puddle today.

OPTION 1

[dialogical]

Holy shit.
You've got to be kidding me.
But these numbers don't joke.
And there's a 98.53234% probability that those are fucking horse sounds originating from your mic.
Is that a horse?
Do you totally have a horse over there?
Van, that question was rhetorical.
I know you have a horse over there Van.
I can hear her despite your impressive attempts to muffle her soft appeasing whinnies with your gross sobbing.

[mindinthegittern]

[yes yes heading up to the farm in the morning and—

I know that horse-shaped person!!!!

now he's hurrying]

Yfandes?! Gods, what a relief—

[ahorseforgood]

[twitches involuntarily and picks up her head to look at him; who is this young man and why does he know my name? wait shit i reacted no IT'S FINE, PICKING UP YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU HEAR SOMEONE MOVING IS DEFINITELY A HORSE THING

...blows a breath out through her nose at him...]

[abardacttofollow]

She's here.

[chasethedragon]

[ I WAS HERE TO MAYBE TRY THIS FARM WORK THING, BUT staring at this horse over the fence and looking, uh. Irritated. somehow. maybe confused. it's hard to say. ooc: this dude also has holy/divinity pings bc dragongod o/ ]

[ahorseforgood]

[...she's trying not to react overtly to him like not-a-horse, but she's definitely eyeing him sidelong, grazing in a wide semicircle around him with him as the focus point in the way that prey animals do when they're keeping watch on something.]

[cinnaponroll]

[I work here]

Wow...! I haven't seen you before.

[It's morning. Standing at the fence, Tsuzuki digs through his pocket for a sugar cube and holds it out when he finds one.]

Oi! Come here?

[ahorseforgood]

[raises her head with a snort and pricks her ears forward at him, then ambles forward amiably, one eye on him and one eye on the sugar. her hooves sound just a little odd, but their chime is mostly muffled on the soft earth.]

[eforeveryone]

[last night was weird, but today, there is A HORSE!!!!!!!!!!

Young man runs up to horse. Then gently approaches horse.]

[ahorseforgood]

[it is clear Link knows the Correct Way to stop running and approach a horse. this sacred knowledge predisposes Yfandes towards liking him, as laid out in the ancient Code of the Horse on "Humans That Move Unexpectedly and Other Potential Terrorists."

she curves her neck politely to look at him, stretching her nose out towards him the slightest bit]

[abardacttofollow]

Lord and Lady, Yfandes! You're really here. I'm so... so glad...

[this bard looks like he's gonna burst into tears]

[ahorseforgood]

[well you know my name and you're extremely emotional so I'm GUESSING that you're the bard that Vanyel mentioned; also something about you just seems... hm, I can't quite place it.

gives him the courtesy of not pretending that Vanyel hasn't clearly filled him in on how Companions work, at the very least, even if Bards in general are kind of hit and miss with how much they understand about that relationship. looks him full in the eye with a slight, sober nod, stance square and attentive! probably a sunbeam illuminates her at that moment like they do.]

[twicebonded]

Stefen . . .!

[not smiling anymore, but looking at him with wide-eyes]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ so at some point during Yfandes' Wild Ride she passed some kind of very unquiet and thus possibly worryingly powerful spirit. it hadn't gotten in the way, though, or otherwise seemed up to no good, so probably a matter to deal with later.

on the other hand said spirit is now wandering around the farm with a basket of assorted goodies bought from the attached market, clearly looking for something— before she spots Yfandes, squints, and then brightens. ]

—oh, goodness. You seem a bit more settled.

[ahorseforgood]

[that's certainly a strange reaction, and an even stranger spiritual "feel." lifts her head to look at Kaiko; it's safely horselike enough after she was spoken to directly, and Yfandes is curious.]

[foretasted]

[this slightly suspicious immortal predatory animal with a slightly foreboding lack of any power level feedback was just stopping by to buy some veg but is also gonna make time for, you know, staring down the magic pony.]

[ahorseforgood]

[he moves like a predator, and that definitely pings Yfandes's horsely instincts as well as her magical ones; doesn't look at him directly or move from her hay, but keeps an ear targeted at him, the muscles in her neck and shoulders tensed for movement the slightest bit. wary]

[wheelofmisfortune]

[ Horses are new. This invisible earth spirit is going to lean himself on a fence and look at said horse, eyes narrowing a little. ]

You're a new one.

[ahorseforgood]

[pricks her ears in his direction, then lifts her head entirely and gives him an interested, measuring look; she plainly has no problem seeing him, though it's equally plain she doesn't know quite what to make of him.]

:...I'm newly-come to this place, yes.:

[splashofbourbon]

[guess who is working at the barn and probably wasn't out late enough to see you last night? this guy]

Well, you must be new.

[ahorseforgood]

[flicks an ear towards him and then raises her head to look at him as he continues talking; NormHorse Casual over here]

[clocked_out]

[Here's this kid, wearing tinted lenses, giving off all sorts of weird pings, with the emotional vibe of a very overwound clock. What is he doing on the farm??

Dave Strider has never seen a real horse in his life so he kind of just leans on the fence, squinting at her, bemused. Talking to himself]

Goddam, I almost feel my maidenly virtue coming back to me looking at such a pure and majestic creature. Dirk would be shitting himself.

[ahorseforgood]

[Yfandes does not immediately respond to this DESERVED PRAISE, munchinq quietly on her hay and ambling from patch of grass to patch of grass in the most unconcerned way

she does opportunistically wander into the nearest bright sunbeam so that her pure majesty can be extra appreciated though

SHE'S NOT GONNA BLOW HER COVER THAT EASY BUT NO POINT IN WASTING A GOOD THING]

[exiled_honor]

[Alberich knows what he saw last night, but if a panicked Companion had wanted his help, they surely would have asked. (And if it was Kantor, he would have known, instead of having that feeling of absence constantly pressing against his ribs.) So it's the next morning when he wanders down to the farm and spies Yfandes.]

:Excuse me:

[ahorseforgood]

[her head comes up with a snap, clearly startled; she doesn't reply immediately, but it doesn't take her too long to pick out Alberich at the fence, and put two and two together...

nods back to him, eyes wide]