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July 2025 IC Mingle
July 2025 IC Mingle
Introduction
Welcome to Folkmore's monthly IC Mingle! Please feel free to post with any characters regardless of whether they joined this month.
All IC Mingles are game canon and work like "mini mini-events". They're a great way to gain new CR and immediately jump into the setting.
IC Mingle threads can be used for spoon spending at any time.
Content Warnings: Dreamscape/Dream Logic, Potential Violence, Potential Memory Sharing, Potential Mind/Power/Etc Swap
In most of Folkmore, it's impossible to tell how deep the cracks go, their black void and nature to swallow whatever enters them evading the answer. On Never Fade, an island in the sky, one crack breaks through the bottom of the island. It devours the space it occupies and grows little by little by little. When it reaches a foot wide and crosses a third the island, Lavender declares enough is enough! Whatever Star Children decide for the rest of Folkmore, this threat must be stopped. Lavender sends chickadee spirits in dreams and reality to invite Star Children to join them.
Star Children can ease the process by coming to Never Fade with someone who matters significantly to them. People need to space themselves out on either side of the divide and connect. Star Children with bonds—soul mates, Familiar/Unfamiliar bonds, adoption, etc—are asked to go into the tunnels. They must use their bonds to find each other in a dreamscape, which will thin the void until they can see each other again. Star Children with emotional connections—non-formal bonds—are asked to face each other on the surface. There they will knit the energy of Folkmore together with yarn. They can toss the yarn back and forth to each other or even exchange yarn with someone next to them, to tighten the weave. Lavender goes hazy but walks above the crack on the woven yarn. The void fades until its blackness is gone.
The space remains empty, a chasm across Never Fade. No one will disappear from Folkmore should they fall down it, but if they cannot fly, teleport, or otherwise recover themselves from a fall, it's a long way down to go. Mildly problematic when it traverses so much of the island. Lavender asks for Star Children to come up with ideas for how to solve it. Either, Star Children will fix the problems in the process, or it can generate enough Lore for Lavender to heal the island.
Lavender creates a lucid dreamspace around the crack. The dreamscape allows Star Children to use any of their abilities, native or Role or something completely different, and to physically manifest challenges to build the Lore needed to succeed at this healing. It requires both physical and relational (Lore) elements. The greater the differences between Star Children, the more effective their challenges are at healing Never Fade. Differences include amount of time spent in Folkmore, Roles, regions they live in, worlds they are from, species, etc. The greater the gap(s) between Star Children, the bigger the impact.
The challenges manifest themselves based on the approach pairs of Star Children take to solve the issue. They follow dream logic. Success depends on both material means and emotional success.
In most of Folkmore, it's impossible to tell how deep the cracks go, their black void and nature to swallow whatever enters them evading the answer. On Never Fade, an island in the sky, one crack breaks through the bottom of the island. It devours the space it occupies and grows little by little by little. When it reaches a foot wide and crosses a third the island, Lavender declares enough is enough! Whatever Star Children decide for the rest of Folkmore, this threat must be stopped. Lavender sends chickadee spirits in dreams and reality to invite Star Children to join them.
Star Children can ease the process by coming to Never Fade with someone who matters significantly to them. People need to space themselves out on either side of the divide and connect. Star Children with bonds—soul mates, Familiar/Unfamiliar bonds, adoption, etc—are asked to go into the tunnels. They must use their bonds to find each other in a dreamscape, which will thin the void until they can see each other again. Star Children with emotional connections—non-formal bonds—are asked to face each other on the surface. There they will knit the energy of Folkmore together with yarn. They can toss the yarn back and forth to each other or even exchange yarn with someone next to them, to tighten the weave. Lavender goes hazy but walks above the crack on the woven yarn. The void fades until its blackness is gone.
The space remains empty, a chasm across Never Fade. No one will disappear from Folkmore should they fall down it, but if they cannot fly, teleport, or otherwise recover themselves from a fall, it's a long way down to go. Mildly problematic when it traverses so much of the island. Lavender asks for Star Children to come up with ideas for how to solve it. Either, Star Children will fix the problems in the process, or it can generate enough Lore for Lavender to heal the island.
Lavender creates a lucid dreamspace around the crack. The dreamscape allows Star Children to use any of their abilities, native or Role or something completely different, and to physically manifest challenges to build the Lore needed to succeed at this healing. It requires both physical and relational (Lore) elements. The greater the differences between Star Children, the more effective their challenges are at healing Never Fade. Differences include amount of time spent in Folkmore, Roles, regions they live in, worlds they are from, species, etc. The greater the gap(s) between Star Children, the bigger the impact.
The challenges manifest themselves based on the approach pairs of Star Children take to solve the issue. They follow dream logic. Success depends on both material means and emotional success.
- Add material to fill the gap > find common ground. Examples: walk across a rope bridge toward each other, with each slat requiring saying something you have in common; fighting an enemy together with teamwork.
- Pull/push the island together > understand a significant difference. Examples: complete a maze/obstacle course that requires skills of both people; walking through a memory that shows why the other person is the way they are.
- Magically connect the sides > switch places and succeed. Examples: complete a challenge with a power swap, body swap, or Role swap; fight an enemy in a mech where one person controls each side or each set of limbs.
- A crack in Never Fade gets so big, Lavender decides to banish it.
- Lavender invites Star Children to help:
- Star Children with bonds (in-game or from canon) go into the tunnels on opposite sides and focus on their bonds to thin the void.
- Star Children with strong relationships face each other atop the island and toss magical yarn back and forth, weaving it together. Toss it to your neighbors too!
- Once the void is vanished, the empty gap remains. Lavender creates a lucid dreamscape where Star Children can face different challenges based on their solution so close the gap:
- Fill the gap with material > challenges to find common ground.
- Pull/push island together > challenges to understand significant differences.
- Magically connect the sides > challenges to switch places and succeed.
- Wildcard (got another idea?) > ask below!
- The effects/impact of successful challenges are bigger, the more differences there are between partners: time in Folkmore, Roles, regions they live in, worlds, species, etc. The challenges are just as hard.
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He nods at the suggestion, moving to where the mace ended up and slamming the hockey stick against the meaty part of thumb and forefinger, earning another holler of pain before he's snagging it and tossing the damned thing out of range. With another spin, he's slamming the end of the stick into Slash's temple to stun, quickly moving to the exposed section of neck to jab a pressure point.
It takes all but a few moments before the big guy goes still, letting Raph back off with a hard exhale. "...there...that'll take care of it for now."
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He's never done pressure points before, that sort of thing doesn't work on Krang monsters. At least, not in his world.
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He quiets as he looks at Slash for a few moments before continuing. "My sensei taught me them."
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But he pushes it aside to smirk, eyes crinkling with mischief. "I could probably teach you some of them if yer interested."
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He finally feels comfortable enough to relax his posture, circling around the giant turtle to stand next to Raph. Now what are they supposed to do...?
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When Casey wanders around the still stuck and downed Slash though, his face falls. "...something don't feel right about this whole thing though. Even if Slash was from some other point of our world, he should have at least recognized me."
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What the next steps are, though... "Tell me about him?"
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Raph listens as Casey brings up the idea of a trial, his eyes narrowed at the downed turtle, but grumbles about it. "Well...where to start, really..."
He rubs the back of his head and takes a deep breath. "Slash used to be Spike. A normal turtle. He was my pet before he got mutated into...well, Slash."
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In his experience being adopted when you feel abandoned or lost is kinda the best thing ever.
"Weird that he just attacked out of nowhere..."
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His gaze goes to the downed Slash, who still hasn't gotten back up or woken, which surprises him because Slash is pretty hearty, even when they fought the first time.
He swallows hard because those bandannas around his bicep are enough of a reminder.
"...after he got mutated he...at first thought it should just be him and I. That the rest of the team wasn't supposed to be a part of it."
"It was all my fault."
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He finds it hard to imagine that Raph would've done something intentionally to cause an assumption that unreasonable. Like- the brothers were inseparable, surely in every universe, because the opposite feels wrong, not something they'd have chosen. Even in his own apocalyptic world where everyone died, the choice was made for them and they'd fought every day against it.
But he's no stranger to self-blame either, so... he listens.
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"I don't know if you ever like, vented to anyone about like, the things that bother you or when you're frustrated or whatever. I did that when it was just Spike and I. I mean, he was my pet and my buddy. So like, he was there to listen when no one else would."
And all that turned into misunderstandings and assumptions when Spike turned into Slash.
"When he got mutated? It was fine at first. Then like...I guess he thought because I complained about m'bros that they shouldn't be in the picture anymore."
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...Still, though. "You can't take all the blame. Even if you could've known or done anything different... he should've talked to you. He didn't have to take it all on himself, without checking first if it's what you actually wanted."
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It's definitely a heavy responsibility - though his team does look after each other, despite their perchance for arguing. "Well, yeah, but..." A shrug. "That's just how it is?"
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