Butteryfly Effect: Real Life [AUG22/2017]

>Pick up everything you can hold, then leave the room.
>Story: Stop playing the pronoun game.

Explain the need for subchapters, this isn't Homestuck, after all.

>Power beanie and fly down

You put the dice under your hat, and the batteries in the hat. You also take the d10 out of the drawer and take it with you.




You turn on the beanie, and it unfortunately achieves lift off. Without you, which is why it's so unfortunate.




You grab the beanie before it goes flying awaWOW you can see your house from here! Or like, your cubic prison.

You crash land in a regular tree, in a regular forest on the west side of the valley. It's pretty dull when comparing it to giant fucking mushrooms, but they were poisoning your drinking water anyway so haha who even gives a fuck.

Oh those animals don't look too pleased. Apparently cats like to make nests in trees in close proximity to birds? Sure, whatever. Not like you have any context for this situation, what with waking up in the middle of the woods in a strange fantasy land with no memory and all.

>Climb down tree

You attempt to become one with the birds by flashing the customary peace greeting. The birds greet you with cold stares. They seem to be on edge.




Oh wow no that's way too far for you to climb. You can't even see the ground, just a thick fog. You can also see what looks like a city nestled in the top of one of the trees.


The Bird Matriarch sees you peering over the edge and beckons you over. She introduces herself as such, and offers treasure and a flight to the ground in return for your services.

She explains her feud with the Catfolk living on the other side of the Leafland, (you're sure she means tree top) and how the cats are always sneaking over to eat her children. She has taken to throwing cats off the tree in retaliation, proving her theory that cat's bones do in fact shatter upon meeting the ground at terminal velocity.

She says if you can somehow stop the Cats and bring peace to Leafland she'll help you out and reward you with great treasure.





Whoa whoa not so fast! To pet the Host uninvited would be a humongous disrespect!

Acting on your extreme urge to be pet (which is really me commanding your subconscious to give you the illusion of free will) you let the Host pet you. He graciously accepts, and is quite pleased with your uncommonly pleasant demeanour.

He urges you to share your cares with him.

It's awfully fiddly though. I would advise against using them. 

>Offer Propellor Hat Wing as your cares.

Yes, and both demand your allegiance!



YES, AND BOTH DEMAND YOUR ALLEGIANCE.

Wait that's technically grammatically incorrect. I wanted to repeat what I said before, to rub in your face exactly how annoying that question was as a follow up to an already annoying question. Of course animals talk what the fuck do you think they're doing right the fuck now. Pay attention I don't want to have to go through this diplomacy sequence a THIRD time, it was bad enough the first time, and doing it again with you doesn't make it any better.




You tell the Host that you only seek to end this war, and... regain your memories? You aren't really sure what your end goal is here, so you just tell him you're a wandering hero trying to end all strife in all places.

He tells you he is also trying to end this silly war. He explains a way that would end it with the least bloodshed possible, and would restore the rightful owners of Leafland to power.

You say okay sure, and he continues by telling you to find him a legendary bladed weapon of some sort. It has to be legendary or it won't be as cool when he wins Leafland back.

You know these conversations would be so much easier to read with quotation marks and dialogue and such.

The Host is now looking at you for a gift. After all you shared your cares, now you must give him a reward for taking the time to listen to you. You think this is stupid because you're here specifically to help HIM and HIS people, completely selflessly, but it's 'culture' so therefore it's automatically dismissable and polite.




You offer him the wing of your Propellor Hat, because you aren't thinking with your brain you're thinking like a dumbass who doesn't care about being able to fly.

You can still fly with the co-operation of the bird people, but still that requires the co-operation of the bird people. And you can't get the co-operation of the bird people without ending the war with the Catfolk and you can't end the war with the Catfolk without presenting to them a Legendary Sword and the only thing you know of even remotely sword-like is the broken sword at the top of the cliff but now to get there you'll need the co-operation of the bird people... You get the point.




INNOCENT? The Host pushes past the obvious cultural barrier to prevent getting offended, and to explain their plight.

You see, long ago, Leafland was known as Longcat. All the Catfolk, their minds open to the consciousness of the Universe, loomed above the lesser creatures of the earth.

All of a sudden, a great evil swept across the land. And from the origin of this evil rose terrible monsters. And also birds.

The birds would come down to Longcat, nesting in the Catfolk and smearing their All-Seeing Eyes. The God-Kings of the Catfolk created the LeafTowers, big, self-contained worlds for the Catfolk and Birds to fight. The Catfolk have lost everything. Their immortality, their magic, their height... It is a tragedy beyond compare.

That is why they kill the devil spawned birds.

"For about a week now! Roughly. Maybe two. Not sure, I haven't been keeping track. You should probably ask someone else."



You try to hover with the half propeller on the propeller cap. It sort of works, but you don't get very much lift off, and you're all off-kilter.

This sucks. Why'd you give him the propeller?