lets go in the garden, you'll find something waiting (semi-closed to the gardening club!)

[mermaidcursed]

WHO: Nene Yashiro, Natsume Sakasaki, Hajime Hinata, Yuzu Hiiragi, Stephanie Meanswell, Crona Gorgon, Lucifer, Turing, Add, Shinobu Kocho... and anyone who might be interested! 
WHAT: Time for the Gardening Club's first meeting!
WHEN: Early June, just after school
WHERE: Room 3-E
WARNINGS: ... None. Yet. It's Yogen, we'll see.

i. INTEREST CHECK! 

( at some point during the first week of june, you might find nene at the bulletin board, putting up a new flyer: an advertisement for a potential gardening club! the flyer itself has a series of lines so that people can note down their names to show their own interest, but since you seem to have caught nene- or perhaps another person also interested- there, you can ask her anything right there! despite the circles under her eyes, she smiles brightly when approached. )

Are you interested in gardening? 

ii. a: the first meeting! 

( a few days later- wow, that sheet filled up fast!- and nene has happily let everyone who signed up- or perhaps were signed up against their will- to meet after school in room 3-E. at some point you'll see her trying to lug around a bunch of equipment to set up... or maybe you'll get there by the time everything's been set up. 3-E has a new shelf installed, and on series of desks pushed together is a few stacks of clay pots, planters, tools, and a bunch of seed packets. left on the ground is sacks of soil and meal. to the side, however, is a little egg carton planter that nene is tending to herself, given that the flowers have began sprouting over the course of may. )

Hi! Welcome to the first meeting of the gardening club! Not everyone has experience, so if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! If I can't help, I'm sure someone with more experience can!

So, we've got a lot to work with... which I think is really fun, because it gives everyone an opportunity to do something different! 

( she's so excited, guys. as she starts setting things out for everyone, it should be clear to see the inventory: 

10 Standard Clay Pots - 1 for each Club Member
5 small multi-plot planters
12 packs of seeds ( American Coneflower, Chamomile, Mint, Daffodil, Lavender, Sage, Strawberries, Cosmos, Basil, Rosemary, Anemones, Jade Plant )
3 Hand Tool sets ( trowel, transplanter, cultivator and weeder )

and she's also made a set of labels for everything with toothpicks, paper and a bunch of markers for everyone to make their own. all in all, a varied and... oddly useful haul? )

ii. b: getting to work

( after helping people get started, nene has turned most of her attention to the egg carton planter. if you pay attention, you can see her carefully cutting the cardboard and transferring different sprouts into a planter. though she seems to be leaving the little labels she's made blank. huh! what's up with that? )

iii. the mingle

( not an actual prompt, just have fun and get to know your new fellow clubmates! some folks might need help getting started, or maybe you recognize some of the seeds! the bloodmeal doesn't activate the void school, thankfully. have fun, don't be a dick, love you all. )

Comments

[crystallomancy]

( ....well. )

I'd love TO. Give me some fun snake FACTS, Crona-san.

[radnarok]

O-oh! [ Yes! Something they know. ] You can tell me more plant facts after. I want to hear more!

Did you know vipers can have something called a 'pit organ' that lets them detect infrared light. Most people think they are detecting heat, but warm objects actually emit those infrared thignies. I think seeing in the dark like that would be really useful.

[crystallomancy]

Is that SO? Perhaps nicknaming Kawai-chan after them was a more suitable than I THOUGHT... She seems like the type of creature to be able to do something like THAT.

( rika wherever you are....... this is affection i promise. )

Do you know anything about constricTORS?

[radnarok]

Kawai-chan? Do we have another person who likes snakes at the school? [ :>! ] I hope she can see in the dark, I tried to explore the big void with Mister Lucifer, and we didn't see anything!

[ They nod. ]

They're one of the few snakes who keep their eggs inside them! So they give birth to live babies!

[crystallomancy]

( If anyone could gain the ability to see in the dark, he'd believe it would be Rika. He does. )

Do they take care of their young once they're BORN, or are they left to fend for themselves like most animals do to their KIN?

[radnarok]

[ She is a women of many fearsome abilities. ]

No, they're born fully independent. I don't know of any reptiles that really take care of their babies. [They look down at their plant with a sigh. Lady Medusa was gone, but why did they keep thinking about her? ] Sounds hard to deal with...but maybe if you're a little baby snake you don't care if you don't have parents.

[crystallomancy]

I doubt they have the cognitive awareness to think SO, but perhaps they think they sprung from nothing and noWHERE, not unlike GODS.

[radnarok]

E-eh? A snake god??? How scary! Do you want to be a snake god?

[ Its not in the least what he asked, but Crona is great at jumping to weird associations. ]

I don't know what cognitive awareness means, but snakes are pretty smart!

[crystallomancy]

...I've never considered it before you said someTHING, but it wouldn't be too bad to be ONE. A god, that IS.

( catch him when he's sleep deprived and he'll basically say he is one anyway, )

[radnarok]

It w-wouldn't? How do you know?

[ In their world, becoming a god requires a lot! A lot a lot a looooot! Does Natsume know something they don't?? ]

Running all snakes seems like hard work, I'm sorry! Wouldn't you have to leave?

[crystallomancy]

Don't you want to LEAVE?

[radnarok]

I miss Maka, but Ragnorok isn't here! I think it would be nicer if she just came over instead! Then she could help me study, and we could hang out again.

[ Murder school what murder school? Crona is having a nice time meeting so many people. ]

I'm not in any clubs back home, so I don't wanna leave until I've grown a plant!

[crystallomancy]

( So they'd rather one of their friends come here, even despite...? )

Then let's do our best to make one GROW. ( But: ) Who is Ragnarok? I've heard of a mythological event of the same NAME, but I don't recall it being any type of personNAGE.

[radnarok]

Mhm. So don't go leaving before you grow your plant. I can't take care of two of them...

[ Nothing bad would happen to Maka, Crona would protect her! ]

Ragnorok lives in my blood. He's a terrible guy - he's always bullying me and messing with my clothes! I hate him so much...but he's not here with me, which is super weird. I thought I'd die without him.

[crystallomancy]

That just proves he's not so vital to you after all, doesn't IT. ( Good for them..! ) How did he get in YOU? If that's not too... invasive a quesTION.

[radnarok]

My bloods the same color, so maybe he's still in it but just asleep? I don't know.

[ Who cares though, if he's awful. Maybe on some level Crona see's him as a sort of brother...but an awful, terrible, bullying brother who always beats them up. Its fun to play without him. ]

Oh its fine. Lady Medusa did it when I was really little so that I'd become stronger. I don't remember it.

[crystallomancy]

( STILL IN IT BUT ASLEEP god yogen never stop being what you are. )

Were you a sickly CHILD? It seems like there's more of us than I THOUGHT, though mine wasn't too BAD... My parents were merely cautious of the possibiliTY.

[radnarok]

Sick? [They stare blankly. ] I guess a lot of the stuff Lady Medusa did made me sick. It was for my own good.

[ They lean closer to Natsume, eyes suddenly wide and unblinking. ]

What were your parents like? I don't think most people do stuff like that but I'm used to not thinking about it. But these days...I wanna know.

[crystallomancy]

( Oh, uh. )

My mommy is a world famous fortune teller who can get anyone and everyone to come see her with just a WORD. My daddy, on the other hand, is an extremely successful and smart entrepeNEUR... I'm sure he can have anyone's ear as WELL, but Mommy's definitely better at IT.

( a charismatic young man who comes from two people skilled in charisma, who would've thought it. )

They would've never done anything that would've brought me... serious disTRESS.

( ...............................on purpose. )

[radnarok]

What's an entrepeNEUR? [ They mimic the way he said it almost perfectly. ]

Your family sounds chatty. How did you even get a word in if your parents make everyone listen to them? [ Scary...his mom sounds scary... ]

Did you do nice things with them?

[crystallomancy]

( He doesn't like that, their mimicry is almost on point and that's Bad. )

An entrepreneur is, in layman's terms, a businessMAN. Or woman, if feMALE. ( as you do. ) My parents let me talk as I'd like — they promote independenCE, for better or for worse — and I...

( He pauses, nodding after a moment. )

...Yes, I DID. They're wonderful paRENTS, and I'm an extremely fortunate young MAN. ( A good family, a good upbringing... and yet he's still insatiable. ) There's not a single thing I would change about THEM.

[radnarok]

[ Oh so only Natsume is allowed to talk weird? Watch them call it an entrepeNEUR forever. Ungreatful. ]

Natsume seems very independent! He's here with me in a club and a weird school, and has lots of friends anyway. [ They poke at the dirt. ] My mother never let me talk as I liked...I think. I don't even know if I'd have anything she'd want to hear me say. It sounds strange...knowing your parents like that...

But um..I'm very happy for you Natsume. [ They give him a small smile. ] Your parents sound very nice...

[crystallomancy]

( "has lots of friends" i'm glad this was the case before the end of the month happened, that was nice.

he smiles back at them, a small one. )

And your mother sounds absolutely terriBLE. ( ...he shouldn't say that about other people's parents, but. ) Do you like HER?