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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 hadn't really noticed the patterns before - they were definitely there, as if it wasn't just a toss back and forth, but it makes him focus on it more. "Huh...you're right. That's interesting... usually you need to do different motions with yarn to make those threads go that way."
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"Or maybe it's because we're just that good we can do that without trying."
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"Good point; clearly it's that we're awesome."
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"What do you say, Raphael? A toss or three more and we can call it there? We seem to be easily filling this gap up." Probably because common ground between people isn't that hard to find if you truly tried to find it.
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"You got yerself a deal, Mitsuko," he says, preparing himself to toss the ball back to her when she's ready for it.
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"Mmmm... If things weren't so dire, after this I would invite you to try some of my food. I love cooking all sorts of foods and I love watching people enjoy it even more. It's threerific, if I say so myself."
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"If you're okay with a rain check after this dire stuff, I'd love to try your food."
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He wasn't certain where that was - getting the lay of the land was hard without more scouting. "You're going to school there? Wait, they have schools here???"
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"We have... six... no, seven schools here. I'm surprised you haven't heard of them. Schools are a threemendous part of Folkmore."
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The mention of so many schools though makes him balk at it. "Really? That many? What--what do they teach?"
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"I guess that makes sense though, since the fox told us when we were yoinked here about finding potential or something?"
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"Ah... Yeah. That's right. I suppose they did. I guess they want to give us an opportunihree to try new things, for better or for worse..." She's... not as fond of the Fox as she'd thought she'd be, but no matter. The smile remains on Mitsuko's face.
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He nods, not really liking the whole 'unlock your potential' bullshit that the fox spewed at him, but considers it. "Well, I can't deny that being able to try going to school is an opportunity. Dunno if I'd be patient enough for it though."
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Like more fighting styles!
Shall we start to wrap up?
Probably a good idea!
ty for the thread!
Mitsuko gives a small sigh and stretches. "But that's for another day, after these threeicky disasters are sorted. I'd better go check on some of the schools, given what we've seen here. Hopefully, I'll see you around, Raphael~"
of course! anytime!
But he lifts his gaze when she stretches and says her goodbyes. "Alright - thanks for the help, Mitsuko. Safe travels."