[Deaging Event Start!]

[oi_theoi]

Who: Leedin, people who do favors for gods, gawkers. The usual
When: Day 72, evening
Where: 4th floor, near the shrines
What: De-aging event and an industrious goddess.

[You might hear the click and clatter of wood against wood near the shrines. Leedin is working at a spinning wheel. Of course, most people don't manipulate several others via magic as they go.]

I have been asked to assist in the cleaning of the public spaces. If you wish to assist me, please take a spindle -- a full one -- and carry it with you. It will temporarily remove some of the elapsed time of your life and store it within the thread. After a couple of days, I should have enough to restore one of the buildings here. Or another space.

[She stops work and swaps out the full spindles for empty ones.]

Also, do be careful until I have finished. This sort of work does… relax… the way that time flows. There may be pockets of odd effects in less settled areas.

[OOC: Rules

[Taking an spindle will cause you to regress in age. It will be a full, physical change: any scars, tattoos, missing limbs, magical transformations, etc. will be reversed if you age your character down past when those happened.

[Characters can either mentally stay the same age they are, or age up/down to match their new physical age. Similarly, memories of being an adult may be vague or even impossible to remember for children. Your call -- whatever's fun. Whether they retain the memories of being de-aged after the fact is up to you.

[Leedin will take care of details like clothing, because that's in her domain, and she's a neat freak like that. The effect will also wear off if they return a spindle to her (or you can join later).

[Characters not inclined to volunteer when goddesses ask for donations can be caught in a pocket of odd time.

[This will last an OOC week.]

Comments

[fill_the_blanks]

Well then you're gonna go through a lot of unbelievable things by the time you end up here...

[anopenbook]

Excuse me? I already am here.

[fill_the_blanks]

I mean your future self who you're currently taking the place of.

[anopenbook]

........

[POINTS AT LAVI]

[fill_the_blanks]

. . . Right. And there's two of you. Like I said, you go through some unbelievable things.

[anopenbook]

[SHAKES HIS HEAD NO]

This is impossible.

[fill_the_blanks]

Maybe you're having a crazy dream and you'll wake up in a couple days.

[anopenbook]

Maybe I am...

[fill_the_blanks]

Just chill... Things'll go back to normal in a few days tops. Take a look around at new things and hear some new unbelievable stories from people. Well, if everyone hasn't been turned into kids by then...

[anopenbook]

I don't like this dream.

[fill_the_blanks]

. . .

[crouches down next to. Reaching over slow enough so he can see he's not aiming to harm. Though he does pinch him on the arm]

[anopenbook]

[suspicious and tense but allows

with a knife in his hand]

Ow!

[fill_the_blanks]

I think you're gonna have to accept what I'm saying probably contains some truth unless you can think of a better explanation.

[anopenbook]

But...!

Where is Bookman??

[fill_the_blanks]

At home. Aah... Well, not here, anyway. This is a world where gods are real, and your Bookman wouldn't tell you something's not real if it is, right?

[anopenbook]

...

[fill_the_blanks]

...My name's Kon.

[anopenbook]

Sean.

[fill_the_blanks]

Doesn't really suit you.

[anopenbook]

And what does?

[fill_the_blanks]

. . . Red like your hair? Something a bit more direct works better.

[anopenbook]

That's a dumb name.

[fill_the_blanks]

That's fine, you'd think the reason's dumb too I'm sure.

[anopenbook]

The reason?

[fill_the_blanks]

It's based on something more solid. You could dye your hair but it'd be the same underneath.