soulping | DAWON + VASH

[You are ushered through an archway covered in flowers of your team color and find yourself in a different, smaller garden- or at least, what will soon be a garden. Plots of freshly turned soil are lined up in two rows and the area is littered with all the tools you could need. The small field is surrounded on three sides by a wooden fence, and past it all that can be seen is a thick white fog.

Along the back fence is a wooden table, covered with paper seed packets. Each packet has the plant name and a price neatly written on the front, along with some...slightly strange descriptions. You can examine them all you like, but you'll find you can't actually pick up the packets...until you pay for them, of course. A small pile of silver coins sits on the table next to the seeds, which you can move and distribute freely.

A voice speaks from the sky as you look around, just as loud and obnoxiously cheerful as before:]

Okay, let's get started already! Today you guys are gonna try to grow the best garden you possibly can! You can handle that, right? Yeah, I know ya can! Seriously, it ain't hard, just buy whatever ya want! Oh, but be sure to take good care of them, and make sure they all grow big and strong. Trust me- you're gonna need 'em!

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[ PLANTS!!!! ]

Having at least one bonus might not be a bad idea. Just in case.

[ He just wants to plant flowers sry Dawon ]

Maybe the sunflower?

It does say award-winning! That's pretty compelling.

I am in agreement. But we should protect it well, and not make it too vulnerable to...whatever attacks sunflowers.

Animals?

Or bugs.

... Or other plants, looking at these packages.

Are we going to have to fight other teams in a plant death match?

Well, it kinda looks that way, doesn't it? The other teams'll be getting options like these, too.

But if all we do is defend, where is the offense?

There's squash, or peashooters, or—cabbage-pults? [ SQUINTS!!! ] Are these even real plants...

I do not think that is an actual plant.

Do we have to worry about the squash damaging the other flowers when it... explodes or whatever a flower does when it self-destructs?

Oh, that is a good point. Should we leave an empty plot on either side of it? Perhaps put it in a corner and leave two blank ones on the side and behind.

The first sounds the most effective.

It is up to you. I'm not particularly well-versed in the fighting tactics of vegetables...

Just think of it as a strategy game and forget we're talking about plants. Focus on their capabilities.

[ waving her hand; she doesn't seem to be in the mood for strategy today, a rare occasion considering how she normally is ]

I'd prefer to think of them as plants, if it's all the same.

We have to try to help Aster, Nightshade. It's about more than just us right now. He's important to Ivy too.

[ frown! ]

I don't have to help anyone but myself if I don't want to.

Aster is Dawon.

And what if our problems are because we keep losing the people who won for us?

[ nettle. ivy. ]

There is no help for that.

We didn't lose Ivy, Nightshade. Ivy won. She and Diamond are deciding their own future. It's... hard not to have her physically here anymore. But Ivy's legacy remains with Dawon. It hasn't faded.

And neither has Nettle's time.

We lost her. She is going home, and in all likelihood we will never see her again.

It doesn't break our connection to her. We're the ones who decide whether that lasts. And who knows what we might be capable of accomplishing once we restore more worlds. In a place like this... I'm not ready to go throwing around the word "never."

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