Willowtree Grove - May 17th

Perfume causes mayhem in the cobbled streets of Willowtree Grove! Bonus moments of Artemis interfering with the recording of this episode.

Transcript

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It's the end of the week here in Willow Tree Grove, and it's time for our weekly catch up. My dear listeners, I hope this broadcast finds you well. It has been a lovely and then rainy and then haily week, and I am just getting over a terrible case of the triple M's Magic Migraine Malaise. So you will forgive me if I sound a little groggy still. I have a honey and lemon tea here to nurse me through, and the wind's blowing outside my window making it all the more cozy inside. Bundle up with me as I go over the happenings of this week. Now as you all know, the moon is throwing us through a loop this month, especially our wares, and this is only going to be gearing up more as we're barreling into the end of the month. As you all will already know, we just had a supernova moon on Saturday the sixteenth, and gosh damn, did it bring along with it some trials and tribulations? Before we get to the mishaps, let me first fill you in on the different items that have been successfully harvested, powered, and created by the supernova moon that are now available for anyone needing speciality items for the blue full moon on the thirty first. A large collection of night flowers were foraged and harvested that have all bathed for the longest possible time in the super new moon's light. At the Oh hello, Artemis. At the Old Barn shop you will find Moonflowers, Queen of the Nights, and Angel's Trumpets. And Mugsworth's shop has a large collection of night blooming jasmine. Now for popular uses, the moonflower and the night blooming jasmine can be added into candles to enhance their effect, but most of us use them as prophetic enhancement. Remember, you need to inhale the scent at dusk, no later, and place the flower who sent you inhaled next to your bed to experience the prophetic dream. Adelaide, let me remind you and anyone she might plead to, you cannot purchase more moonflowers or night blooming jasmine for prophesizing. To anyone confused by this, Adelaide using moonflowers or the jasmine is sort of akin to Obelix drinking the strength potion in Asterix and Obelix. She doesn't need more. If anything, it could be a bit dangerous to try to reach for more foresight. For the Queen of the Night flowers, anyone with asthma or any respiratory problems will be given a few flowers for free. Delphine has been given a list, but do say if you feel you should be on the list and are not. Except for you, Kyle. You're fine, okay? Now for everyone not using it for its uh carative properties, do remember that this bloom requires patience and a lot of reverence for whichever god you are requesting your wishes from. Hello, Artemis. It is very powerful and most definitely can grant deep desires, but wishes can also have drawbacks, so keep that in mind. Also, all these flowers can be used in spiritual baths to cleanse energy or enhance power. I will, however, ask that no one use Angel's Trumpet for a spiritual bath until after the next full moon has passed. I suppose I should get to the happenings that have led to this request. As you might know, the Angel's trumpets release an intense perfume at dusk that peaks into the night. A single plant can perfume hundreds of meters, and as you will definitely already know, it is a highly poisonous plant. It can induce a powerful trance with its hallucinogenic properties. And I'm not talking the good vibe sort of trance here. It can disconnect you from reality, cause amnesia, and even send you into such powerful hallucinations that people's lives have been in danger. Now, these powers are of course what attracted the first users to the plant. Amazonian and Andean shamans would use it in a very distilled and controlled amount to communicate with their ancestors.

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Artemis Okay.

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Nowadays we use it in its oil form usually, placed on an item to enhance psychic sight or lucid dreaming. Usually one does not get it on their skin, and if they do, it is thoroughly cleaned off. Well, someone decided that the fragrance of the angel trumpet needed to be harnessed. Though it is quite pungent in its natural form, our local perfume hobbyist, Mabel Wren, decided that the fragrance reduced and contained with notes of rose would be a beautiful scent indeed. In her slightly short-sighted efforts to create this new perfume, she used the roses that were on special at the floor stand, and the special, of course, during the supernova moon were white roses, a very potent flower in absorbing and enhancing lunar energy. Now put this together with the nocturnal angel's trumpets, the energy that would have been lost with the refinement process that she had perfected for other poisonous plants remained instead. Now, unknown to her, as the tests at home resulted in no adverse effects, she wore the scent out. Unfortunately, this would bring her into contact with the very sensitive and overcharged senses of the wares. Upon wandering into town, sporting her new fragrance, Mabel paused by a cottage to admire the wisteria. Unknowingly to her, the window of the cottage was slightly ajar, and inside a young ware caught a whiff. Having already been made to stay indoors because they were feeling very affected, let's say, by the energy of the blue moon, the minute energy of the flower somehow enhanced all of those feelings, and launched the ware into a sudden and insatiable frenzy for their favorite cake at the roast and toast, the Madeira loaf slice. The Ware launched themselves out of the house and down the streets. As they were racing, they knocked a bucket off of the edge of the bridge that had been sitting out full of water to soak some flowers. The bucket fell down and slammed straight onto Oscar Crawford, who had been out on a walk with Silas the Stag. The stag, rearing in anger at the attack to his antique loving friend, raced after the ware into town. Meanwhile, Maybell is already in town and has entered Sage's pages. She perused the books for a small while until a certain Peter Kurt entered the bookshop. Almost instantly, Peter sniffed out that Maybell smelled different and was loaded with lunar energy. Thankfully, Peter's warning was taken very seriously by Heather Grigori, and the shopkeeper immediately called the elders. Unfortunately, at this point, the Ware and Stag were just rounding the bend, and as Maybell exited the shop with the two elders, the Ware slammed straight into them, knocking over Maybell backwards back towards the shop, where Peter was exiting right behind her. Peter caught Maybell, and upon inhaling the full effects of the perfume, his restraints snapped, and he burst into raucous laughter, doubling over in the middle of the streets. The laughter infected all the wares in proximity who all started bursting into uncontrollable fits. This distracted them long enough for the feral ware to slip past and slam into the roast and toast window to devour all of the Madeira loaf on display. It was cake carnage. It took several hours to calm all the wares and clean up the mess in the roast and toast, but Maybelle has now promised to leave those flowers alone. Now, I think we can safely say that this ordeal was the subject of Adelaide's premonition about a perfume that would cause a string of problems, and I am very pleased to tell everyone that there is no premonition for next week. We can all hope that this will bring us a moment of peace. Now, please do collect any flowers you want before they sell out for the blue moon coming at the end of the month. There are also an array of charged crystals at Roxar Us and at Crawford's, precharged and then amplified in the super new moon, and these are all locked in cases so that they do not affect our dear wares. Well, after all that, I think we deserve a relaxing week to come with hopefully less drama. That's all for now, my dear listeners. As always, have a soft and safe week. See you next time, here in Willow Tree.