[EVENT] The Simulation Ends

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: 6I Fountain Park & Elsewhere
WHEN: April 1
OPEN TO: ALL - Mingle
WARNINGS: N/A

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In the snug circle of an old park, a fountain sits burbling beneath a broad, midday sky.

Once-neat paving stones have buckled and cracked from the slow nudge of wayward roots. Benches stand covered in lichen and rust. Three paths push into the underbrush like the spokes on a wheel, the encroaching forest creating lush tunnels through the dark.

But the fountain stands singular and pristine, brightly splashing in open rebellion of the deep, muffled sounds of a place long ago gone to seed. A vibration hums through the ground, there and quickly gone, and the water in the fountain trembles, lapping against the high walls of its cool, pale reservoir.

Far, far away, in a place that isn't really there, people begin to blink out of existance.

It is the first of April.

It is precisely ten o'clock in the morning.



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Comments

[minus1twin]

Wanda's hair had always been long and she liked it that way. With over a years growth it was now too long, falling below her waist. She could braid it but even then it'd be very long. "I want to keep it long but not this long." She has already cut off about eight inches and her hair was still very long.

"My home, not much else. Everything is where it was left this morning. Even the chickens are in their coop."

[womanofvalue]

"Show me where you want it," Peggy says, knowing very well what a woman's hair can mean to her, and she doesn't intend to take any of that away from Wanda, seeing as that's absolutely not her intent. Settling in, she starts to comb her fingers through the hair to make sure all the strands are even, cautious as she works.

"That's so strange. Do you think anyone saw if the animals came from the fountain the way we did?"

[minus1twin]

Wanda took a strand of hair that she had already cut and pulled it out for Peggy to see. "This long." It went down to about the middle of her back.

"I don't know. My chickens were at my house but I don't know about the other animals." She didn't have any larger animals to check on since Ardo had gone off with Clint this morning. "Do you think that some of them will or is everything set up the same way?"

[womanofvalue]

Peggy nods, ready to do the work now that she's seen what she needs to do. While she cuts, she tries not to think about the goat that's not going to be there, but she has to hope that her pigeons are still flying about the place somewhere, even if she only barely got them trained.

"I'm not sure what to think about this place," she admits. "The canyon is gone, so obviously some things are different, but where does that end?"