Text Meme #1

[parthasgrovemods]

TEXTING MEME

Intermission

Months have passed since everyone’s arrival in East City, the caravan's tour of the continent has been a welcome distraction for many, and the flooding of South City is long forgotten but for others the anxiety about their homes and state of the land left behind is only increasing. While the apprehension of new arrivals grows with every day stuck without answers, the natives of this region are growing restless in other ways with return to the East. Whispers of “Festál” can be overheard, but any questions about what that is, exactly are met with coy smiles and promises of “You’ll find out soon, don’t worry.”

As the caravan moves back into the desert, the observant may notice swarms of flickering multi-colored lights moving along with them in the twilight of the evening. Those familiar with fireflies or lightning bugs will see a similarity if they get close enough to the fluttering insects, in order to identify them. Time passes with the swarm only seeming to grow in numbers, until one evening the caravan is forced to stop in the middle of nowhere and set up camp for the night.

The swarms fill the sky, lighting the encampment up like Christmas in a town square. The residents warn that these lights are sentient beings, truly more akin to spirits than insects, and should be treated with the utmost respect. However a character treats the firelights will have consequences, positive or negative, which may not be apparent right away.

One night as everyone returns to their tents for bed, it becomes clear that the firelights have invaded even those spaces. There’s no escaping them anywhere in the caravan, hope you can get to sleep with your new guests lighting everything up!

Midnight Texting

You awaken slightly disoriented, coming to your senses slowly in the temporary encampment. There's no immediate indication of what woke you, was it a sound or light?

New arrivals will find that they are laid out on a comfortable pillow of bright red velvet. A look around will tell you that you are in a tent of sorts that is currently functioning as a temple. Ylang ylang incense burns for the travel-sized figurine of a woman fashioned out of some kind of red marble. A voice in your head tells you that this is the goddess Abhiruca. Her equals, Ceannasach and Cuiristeach have brought you to Parthas, but Abhiruca says that she is here to guide you on the path of the righteous. What is Parthas? Parthas is paradise!

Strangely, despite the knowledge that you should be able to hear the thoughts of others, and send your own, it doesn’t seem to be working. Instead, what you find is that the sand on the ground fills with text before your eyes, as if the words are being written out in front of you.

You can’t see or tell who your recipient is, but direct it with an intended person in mind and hope for the best! It should work the same way as usual, right?

Misfires

... Right?

Maybe not.

You could work out that your intended recipient is not who responds, or maybe you're not their intended recipient. Perhaps neither of you figure it out and have an entire conversation under mistaken identities! Get creative, go crazy with it.

Misfires can happen any time to anyone, mix and match with TFLN, Word Association, Midnight Texting and more! Wildcard to your heart's content.

Word Association

It's possible that instead of a coherent message you find one word displayed before you. Does this pique your curiosity enough to compel you to respond? When you do, it should be with another word that you, for whatever reason, relate to the word first sent to you.

Volley words back and forth, until one of you breaks the pattern!

Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together. The game is based on the noun phrase word association, meaning "stimulation of an associative pattern by a word" or "the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation."

GUIDELINES
① post with your character's name & series.
② include a word of your choice and optionally the definition in the body of your comment.
-- visit the random word generator if you need help!
③ other characters will reply with the first word their character associates with the one you chose.
④ continue back and forth until one of you just has to know the story behind an answer.

TFLN

Everyone wakes up the following morning even more disoriented. Those familiar with the feeling will recognize it as a hangover. Did you party last night, were you drugged? You might remember the strange activities of the night before, or you may not. Perhaps you know exactly why you feel the way you do, and maybe it’s just a simple matter of not getting enough sleep after waking in the middle of the night. How long did you stay up?

Either way, you wake up to messages. More messages. Responses to your previous messages, even if you don’t remember sending them, in the first place. Better get back to those texts from last night!

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MOD QUESTIONS

[parthasgrovemods]

Furiosa

[eumenis]

[She's been quiet since she got here, never one to willingly share her words with strangers, let alone her emotions. Something about the lights prompts her to change her mind tonight, however. The words in the sand aren't directed toward anyone specific, but they write themselves out in neat block letters:]

Don't follow the lights. No good can come of that.

[desertdancer]

I don't think I have much recourse- they're all over my tent by this point.

Claire Bennet ∞ Heroes

[infinite1ups]

1. I woke up cuddling a ham. That's not a euphemism. I actually slept with an entire ham.
2. All I'm saying, is that being compared to a Muppet is not the end of the world.
3. I think my favorite day of the week is the day we get to fuck.
4. Redeem this text for a blowjob.
5. i dont even know how to be here
6. [Uno Reverse! Text Claire! Totally down for midnight texting and/or misfire texts without a prompt. Assumed CR is welcome, feel free to hit me up with questions or ideas.]

3

[tooktheblack]

Weekly, now? I wasn't aware.

Khaishan Urumet | Final Fantasy XIV

[desertdancer]

1. Friends don't let friends put whipped cream in their wine
2. After you punched me you ran away and it took an hour to find you... On the wrong floor... Sitting alone saying "it doesnt make sense"
3. Tonight just feels like one of those I'm going to lose a shoe nights.
4. You kept purposefully giving me wrong directions, laughing, then yelling at me for taking directions from a drunk person.
5. [Text him instead! On purpose, misfire, whatever works!]

2

[infinite1ups]

I'm so sorry. It was my first time being drunk and I panicked.

Fjord Stone | Critical Role

[mayberaven]

1. I feel like we'd have a lot of fun being drunk at a dog show.
2. I woke up this morning with a sharpie tramp stamp. Pretty sure it's a picture of a squirrel.
3. Don't pretend like we're functional. We're gonna discuss this drunkenly via Sending the way serious conversations should take place.
4. Honestly it was like 3 AM and I only agreed to go because I wanted chicken tenders
5. [Text him instead! On purpose, misfire, whatever works!]

2

[coldsong]

It's Ratatoskr. Not just A squirrel, it's a Divine squirrel that carries terrible gossip.

I'm a little hung over, but I think what happened is I said I'd climb you like a tree and the conversation went downhill from there.

Laica Hawke | Dragon Age

[lovelylaica]

1. Hey, it's all about finding the bright side. And boobs are definitely a bright side.
2. I'm starting to have hip problems from having my legs spread too often.
3. It's okay. We're not going to soak the fireworks in alcohol. The alcohol is for drinking.
4. I just need to find someone whose kink is financial submission.
5. Do you ever feel like your dog agrees with you? Like REALLY really agrees.
6. I was just on craigslist and saw and ad for a naked yoga instructor. I will no longer be jobless.
7. Wildcard/misfire/whatever! I'll roll with it.

2

[one_one_se7en]

Magic can only do so much. I'm amazed you can still walk.

Cassian Andor | Star Wars

[festianbargain]

1. I just remember making out with this guy's friend, washing blood off my hands and hearing the ISB were looking for me.
2. If a girl called me a promiscuous philandering Casanova, should I say thank you?
3. Shes from Coruscant what did you expect her to say when you asked her if she did spice? Its like asking someone from the Outer Rim if they are hungry
4. he kept opening the airlock while we were IN FLIGHT and insisting he could make it. next time i fly my boss home at 3am i'm putting the child lock on
5. I know shes my ex. And I know she punched me in the face and stole my speeder to go get drunk. But it's the best sex I've ever had.
6. Bro what are you doing Thursday the day before I go to jail??
7. Wildcard/misfire/whatever! I'll roll with it.

5

[eumenis]

Honestly, she sounds great to me.

Aloy | HFW

[toomuchridgewood]

1. He professed his love for me while I danced on a picnic table with a bottle of vodka. I said thank you and walked away.
2. Apparently you need a permit for a flamethrower.
3. Everyone is in jail. I'll see what i can do though
4. remember facepaint boy? turns out it stains. aaaand i have it all over my face and neck.
5. i'll fuck you during the next apocalypse. promise
6. This is a mass text. Does anyone know where I am?
7. Wildcard/misfire/whatever! I'll roll with it.

2

[mayberaven]

Only if they know you have it

Wanda Maximoff | MCU

[hydric]

1. soak the fruit in vodka for ten minutes and then mixed it with normal fruit and sherbert icecream. It was called "lottery fruit".

2. How do you get a cum stain out of a lawn chair?

3. You text me last night that you invented a new food. Cheese-less grilled cheese. Congrats, you made toast.

4. Text her! Misfires welcome.

2

[infinite1ups]

I would try peroxide. I know it works for blood?

Jyn Erso | Star Wars

[superweaponized]

1. No, I don't know how I got half the bruises on my body.

2. I puked for half an hour, but I went and danced afterwards, and that made me feel better.

3. I just crawled out of a second story window using a sheet and his clothes for a rope so he wouldn't wake up.

4. Text her! Misfires welcome.

3

[infinite1ups]

That's brilliant, I'm taking notes. I take it you made it out safe?

Rhaenyra Targaryen | House of the Dragon

[halfyeared]

1. proudest moment: just made a guy walk into a parked car with his mouth hanging open cause of the shirt im wearing.

2. how do i tell him I'm always in the mood without sounding like a slut?

3. I told you I would drunk text you sometime........its that time.

4. Text her! Misfires welcome!

2

[infinite1ups]

Tell him you can't get enough of him? That way it feeds his ego and he probably won't care if it sounds slutty.

Master Chief John-117 | Halo

[one_one_se7en]

1. You going to midnight mass? We need a DD.
2. At the hardware store. Need to get supplies to fix the wall we cracked by fucking too hard against the bookshelf.
3. Damn her and her understanding. And her hips.
4. Let me start this apology by saying you were the finest piece of ass I ever had.
5. OPEN!

1.

[waxwings]

wasn't planning on it, guess I could help.

Kotomi Ichinose | CLANNAD

[dandeliongirl]

1. You kept say ridiculous things then repeating them in perfect classical latin. You are an intelligent drunk!
2. I woke up to him eating me out, listening to classical music.
3. I think I get why guys like boobs so much. I just motorboated myself and it's fun. My boobs feel soft and squishy on my face.
4. It's like my butt was the only innocence I had left and now I don't even have that.
5. OPEN!

1.

[dartheliot]

well, it is true that casting is a certain percent more accurate while drunk.

Eliot Waugh | The Magicians

[dartheliot]

WORD ASSOCIATIONOne word is scrawled across the sand, probably a fleeting thought that Eliot certainly didn't intend to share.

1. FILLORY
2. DRINK
3. MAGIC
4. Wildcard or send your own!

TFLN1. There was this blissful moment of peace and quiet... then you ran past our tent with a lit firecracker in hand going "SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!"
2. So you threw a sword at me last night.
3. Whenever guys ask me why I like weird sex stuff, I just answer, "Catholic School."
4. Look at him with dead eyes and tell him to fuck off.
5. Being sober is boring. Everything takes so long, I feel like I'm just waiting in line to die.
6. Text him! Misfires always welcome!

WILDCARDPretty open to whatever, hit me up on discord or sinnerwithin to hash something out if you'd prefer.

TFLN 5

[infinite1ups]

I didn't realize that was a universal sober emotion.

Cricket Pate | Lawless

[alittlehinky]

1. when the doctor asked him how he fell, he said he was tryin to lick his own eyeball and tripped over his tongue.
2. I can feel my liver failing just LOOKING at that thing.
3. I think she lost me at about the point the words "ice cream enema" was spoken.
4. You said "pretend I'm your pet dinosaur" so I walked you around on an invisible leash while you made hissing noises.

3

[desertdancer]

Do you need me to fake an emergency so you have an excuse to bail?

Edward Elric | Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

[waxwings]

1. I wasn't going to drink. Then there was alcohol so I gave that up.
2. Autocorrect changed "sex" to "sec". I went so long without it my phone thought I made a mistake.
3. The only way he could ever pleasure me is if he lit himself on fire and let me watch.
4. The last shot I remember taking was toasted to "fun, sex, and magic". Needless to say I was 0 for 3 on that toast for the evening.
5. This is the closest I'm going to get to a vacation. I honestly can't even complain.

[The usual: misfires, handwaved interactions, wildcards all welcome!]

5

[thyarchon]

There have indeed been worse vacations.

Shiori | Original Character

[writehistory]

1. How bad is it that I can say that this isn't the first time a married man, who is in the military, has tried to make me his mistress?
2. I like to make sure that they know that it is casual by giving them a high five afterward.
3. I was too sleepy to verbally annihilate anyone and ruin their reason for being. So I just opted to sleep on the floor.
4. I only understood the part that said mucho orgasmos.
5. My tent looks so cute. Who wouldn't want to hook up with me in here?
6. Misfire/wildcard her!

1

[one_one_se7en]

... I'm not married. And I wasn't sober. Not that it justifies it.

[ Far too many apple slices. ]

eddie munson — stranger things

[thefreak]

1. You know, I thought hangovers were bad, you should try waking up after dying. Words I never thought I'd say.

2. Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just -- oh. It is a banana, how disappointing.

3. There is not nearly enough weed and booze in the world. Full stop.

4. Can it be called the walk of shame if I don't actually feel any shame?

5. Text him first! Wildcard/misfires/etc. all welcome

4

[halfyeared]

Why would you feel shame?

jack crusher | star trek | ota

[drivebys]

1. For my birthday I require a kiddie pool filled with vodka. Make it so.

2. It was like teleporting. Every time I opened my eyes I was in a new place. Usually on the floor.

3. I can tell right now. We will either have a lot of fun or I'll ruin your life.

4. I made out with 4 girls last night, and excuse me while I count the boys.

5. Text him! Misfires welcome.

3

[coldsong]

I assure you, you're not going to ruin my life. I already took care of that myself.

Loki / MCU

[coldsong]

1. shall I compare thee to a sunset? tis every fuckin day with thee.

2. Tonight there is no gender, only chaos.

3. Drunk me left a note for sober me. It appears to say 'sponk hypnidb yeetbokx'. What the hell did I drink last night?

4. The only reason I bought a watch was so I could look at it and say "oh, look, it's I don't give a fuck o'clock".

1

[thyarchon]

shalt to preserve the harmony of the verse you would use shalt rather than shall

Urianger Augurelt | Final Fantasy XIV

[thyarchon]

1: if I want to spend the whole night tied up and getting railed I’m allowed to do so
2: she bought my drinks all night, made me breakfast in the morning, and let me use her expensive hair products before I left. Best one night stand ever
3: that’s the second time my extensive knowledge of Taylor Swift has gotten me laid
4: I need advice on ways to say “fuck you on your way to hell”
5: [misfire to him?]

1

[coldsong]

If you're going to drop a mental image like that on me, I'm going to need you to give me advance warning so I can prepare a cold shower beforehand.

Cora Pearce | Original | OTA

[springgirl]

1.Please don't ironically join a cult.
2. Oh I had the weirdest dream in which I was an archeologist stealing a golden dildo from a snobby British person.
3. Turns out naked yoga wasn't a pickup line. I feel betrayed.
4. At some point I'm going to say to you "I have this really bad idea! You in?" Just go with it.
5. [misfire? misfire. or just text her!]

1

[thyarchon]

I am joining for other purposes, primarily to gather information.

I may need someone to attend the orgies with if you are willing to monopolize my time at them when I need to be a distraction for others.

Orion Luis | Original Character

[warnotlove]

1. Are you going too far? No, no, no. You went too far about seven hours ago.
2. Date someone who will drag you outside at 3am to look at the stars.
3. Not trying to brag or anything, but I can wake up without an alarm clock now simply due to my crippling and overwhelming anxiety, so...
4. [probably a mass text:] Hey there's a creepy guy stalking around outside the tents. I would look alive getting in.
5. Text him. Misfires, wildcard, anything!

2

[thyarchon]

I am usually the one going out to look at the stars then. Are you trying to find me a partner?

Magnai the Elder | Final Fantasy XIV

[dawnbrother]

Intermission

A man, black horned and scaled, steps from the tent and out in to the air. He's tall, dressed in a robe with a fur of some sort around his shoulders with eyes like an eclipse. He rolls those shoulders as he squints around the camp, settling the axe that looks like it's made of... actual stone? A massive scale? where it's on his back.

"You. Tell me who is the Khan of this tribe and where I will find them." he says, all command.

TFLN

1. She picked a quarter off the floor, kissed it "for luck" and won the $20,000 jackpot. She bought dinner and stayed sober to drive us home. This is a typical example of a visit with my sister.


2. Drunk me is very safety conscious And apparently just as annoyed by her as sober me


3. Tell me you're alive little brother. And please tell me you didn't get arrested. You made no fucking sense last night in your random texts and pictures you were sending me.


4. Who the fuck is eating string cheese in my bed?

[notyournhaama]

"I'm afraid that you will find no Khan here, Little Sun," came the voice of Y'shtola. She idly tapped her chin with a claw. So it would seem that others from Eorzea.

"We are no longer on the Steppe nor anywhere else you might know."