USER: #E00707 - can we even have green thumbs if there isn't any green

[parodeity]

[ USER: #E00707 in this lovely color ]

A brief announcement, as we’ve all seemed to embrace the trend of sharing important information on this forum: we have successfully begun cultivating a garden.

apparently when he says brief he means brief but anyway
flavo is now plus one flavor station
you could say its flavotown with guy fielderi
or not that you could also say not that
but yeah we just took over a random ass field and planted things
and then used a magical fertilizer known as time shit and also me
but mostly time shit which smells less bad than like bullshit but apparently has the same results
and anyway we used that to make stuff grow faster
you know for fun and profit
and also french fries
and now we are inviting you to help the fuck out because gardening is actually really boring
and also we could use a bigger variety of things to garden
i guess
right
hey how do we garden salt

Salt can be distilled out of salt water, with a bit of time and effort. Or was that intended to be a rhetorical question?

none of my questions are ever rhetorical i always want an answer
unless the answer is something dumb i guess but in that case i can always just make up that someone told me something not dumb
or i can just pretend i never asked
anyway that aside
were willing to probably reward anyone who wants to put in gardening time
like with weeds or things
or like actually giving us neat seeds or whatever
with food that actually tastes like stuff since thats most of what were growing
or just like food which is an important resource if you dont wanna die i guess
but also more importantly than any of that
french fries
because guess what tel made me french fries and theyre the bomb and i can now die a happy man the end
I didnt realize until this moment just how much i missed salt and that kind of warm greasy french fry smell and feeling
its chicken soup for the soul only way more satisfying and also probably less healthy which is what makes it more satisfying
you know you want in on this

That does seem a sufficient bribe, yes. Join the gardening effort; receive french fries. I’m willing to call that my contribution to the cause.

[ despite the fact this is all in dave's lovely red text, he is probably not larping talking with someone else. in fact, the other person is ignis scientia who will also probably respond to things. and as promised they have in fact set up a garden plot in flavo! thanks to dave's dumb time powers things they're growing there are on a month-week scale. for example, potatoes take 2 months but with dave applying some time shit they're taking 2 weeks. the garden currently offers: tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, onions, and wheat. these things all have flavor because they were made from things ignis had already from home! give them more stuff, obviously. maybe earn yourself some delicious french fries! ]

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[keeneye]

[This instantly catches the attention of another would-be gardener who salvaged her cottages' garden patch. Also color.]

You had a harvest already?! That has to be some amazing fertilizer!
I've been trying to grow things as well!
I only have seeds that I've found around town or collected from plants in the forest. I don't know how useful they would be since they still don't have color though.

[parodeity]

when the fertilizer is time travel miracles are possible
but yeah if you want i can do some stuff on the seeds you got
if nothing else they can be you know
fodder food
and maybe they will get colors back sometime?
i know a bunch of shit did

[keeneye]

Honestly! I thought I was doing a good job just clearing stuff out and tilling the soil. I need to step up my game!
That's what I'm hoping for! Leafy greens really aren't appetizing when they aren't green. And when they taste like paper.
Maybe we can discover a secret green part of town that will help out all these plants.

[parodeity]

well if you want to join our gardening coalition youre more than welcome
we could definitely use people who like
know what they are doing also
tel does but im like haha ok and just follow directions

[keeneye]

I would love to!
I haven't done a lot but my siblings and I planted a garden a little while before I showed up here so I'm not a total beginner.
We can learn the more complicated stuff together!

[parodeity]

what kind of stuff did your garden have

[keeneye]

[healing demon herbs that were never given a name is what.]

They were seeds gifted to us by Musica so they were native herbs and edible plants. She's a demon but she doesn't eat humans, by the way.
The plants found where demons live are way different than we read about.
I guess that's why I'm used to just eating whatever I find in forests. They tasted better than the gray stuff here at least.
Once we got to the bunker we found normal seeds for like carrots and stuff though.

[parodeity]

wait so your world had like demons that just lived wherever

[keeneye]

[Well, he hasn't lied to her about the crazy stuff from his life so he'll probably get it.]

No, the human world and demon world are separate.
The orphanage I told you about was actually a farm which is why us humans were over there in the first place.
Sorry, I thought I had told you already.

[parodeity]

oh nah you hadnt mentioned that part
that sucks
(? i assume that sucks it doesnt sound like a positive thing)
but got it

[keeneye]

It definitely sucks.
Honestly, even with how strange it is here I wish I could open a door and just bring everyone here instead.
It's an improvement.

[You know, for now. Since no one is dying.]

[parodeity]

thats fair
id do the same if i could since
im p sure most of us were nowhere grand

[keeneye]

Then maybe we can make that our goal?
Grow lots of food and find a way to drag everyone here to join us. Make this a big bustling town again and everything.

[she's only half joking.]

[parodeity]

why not tbh
making a new universe was supposedly my goal i guess?

[keeneye]

You were making a new universe?
Is that even possible?

I guess it is considering we're in a place like this already though.

[But making one is kind of not something she considered possible.]

[parodeity]

it involved frog breeding and maybe some kinda door
and yeah its possible in my universe but
shrugs
who knows if that is a thing here

[keeneye]

If one universe has the power to make more universes then wouldn't all the newly made universes also have the same power?

[uhhhhhh]

Actually, it might be a better idea to just leave that a mystery about this place.

[unfatalist]

[COLOR because guess what, chums, despite being a blue he's borrowing Dave's computer and account for this.]

Yes, as it turns out, Dave is quite the asset to gardening.

How long ago did you plant your own garden? I presume it must be recent.

[keeneye]

[Oh... Guess this is the mysterious tel since it's definitely not Dave.]

Guess you discovered his hidden talents then. Being able to make plants grow faster is definitely a big accomplishment.
I started mine only a week or so ago. I don't know if anything has even sprouted yet honestly!
The house I'm staying at is in Flavo so I decided to fix the garden along with the "cleaning up" we had to do.

[unfatalist]

Ah, I see. That's a sensible course of action; I rather wish that my own accommodations had included space for the garden, but as they didn't, we ended up resorting to commandeering a spot in Flavo instead.

[keeneye]

I think it's good!
There aren't a lot of people around here so I'm sure it'll liven the place up. Plus it's like a community garden everyone can work on.

[unfatalist]

Indeed. With any luck, we can all cultivate and add to it, and everyone will benefit from it.

[keeneye]

Yeah! Fresh food is really the best motivator!
I'm sure we'll find out a lot more with a full meal that doesn't lead to a stomach ache.
I'll gladly volunteer my own garden plot too. There's a lot of people to feed around here.

[unfatalist]

That's very kind of you. I'd suggest coordinating with Dave, in terms of accelerating the growth cycles of whatever it is you planted. I work mostly on the back end of the endeavor.

[keeneye]

That's what I'm planning. Although they are mostly filler plants at the moment since they don't have the right taste.
Yet!
I have hope that we can regain their color soon too!

You should be more proud. Growing is only half the battle! Cooking is where the real magic happens!

[even compared to magical time fertilizer.]