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2024-12-21 17:48:28
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The room of "Futures and Pasts" is filled with squeaks. A flock of young worker brodskuls, not even old enough to have their signature skulls. A large old arma speaks in her and the brodskul's traditional language of high pitched chirps and song.

A piece in the middle of the room captures the attention of the early tour group.

2024-12-21 17:49:34
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Last edit: 2024-12-23 19:38:18

"Our Future and Past" - By Calcite


Before the group can take the time to read the artist notes on the pile of bones before them, the arma steps in front of the caption.


Calcite
"Ah, don't read the notes. I wish they weren't required."
Calcite
"What do you see in this piece?"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix looks up at the art piece in deep thought before she shares her opinion, "I think I see the remains of a once fierce beast laid to rest along side a couple stray bones."
Fuppenkat
A hybrid observes the bone pile in silence, slowly and laboriously slinking the rest of his body into the room with the rest of the group. He turns to the arma with an answer as the apidee finishes up.
Fuppenkat
"It's bones, dude. I mean, I guess I'm getting kind of a reverence for a long and sordid history with anticipation for an uncertain but hopeful future sort of vibe here." He rubs his chin. "But uuhhh yeah. Bones. That's pretty rad."
St.Abeegail
"Bones are cool! And what my new friend said. The color makes it seem like it is supposed to be a bit grim, but it isn't like people bones. Right?"
Calcite
"Ah, you're both very visual thinkers. I used to be like that too when I was younger."
Calcite
"Sadly, I don't see too well anymore."
Calcite
"I suppose you two would prefer some of the other artists. My art is very-" The arma pauses to listen to the chatter of the brodskuls as they perch on the many skeletons hung around the room. "-easy to fall flat."
Calcite
"Ha! Ah, my art is a big hit with the morbid crowd. Most of the time I don't show up to my own events. I think most people who buy my art would prefer to imagine a large battle scarred arma."
Calcite
2024-12-21 17:53:12
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"But I had to be here today. Do you know what today is to armas? It is the holiday of foolish dreams. I promise you, it's a lovely event despite the name."
Calcite
"If a bit somber. Like a death."
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix looks to be excited about the concept of a new alien holiday, "That sounds like a wonderful holiday to partake in and I am overjoyed to be able to meet the artist to have made such a morbid art piece."
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix introduces herself, "My name is Beeatrix Majidaunt. Would you like to share more about this lovely day you mentioned? It sounds neat!"
Fuppenkat
"Don't sell yourself short, dude." Kat inches forward, mouth slightly ajar to peer up at the strung up skeletons.
"Bones are rad. I'm enjoying this all just fine, even if I'm getting just a surface level on this... And uh, I've heard of Foolish Dreams, can't say I've celebrated. Think I got an uncle that's into that?"
Calcite
2024-12-21 17:54:29
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"I assure you, I'm not selling myself short. The opposite in fact." She states with a sly smile. The arma moves towards the other side of the large display piece. The brodskuls chirp and twitter. The arma changes her footing according to their warnings and suggestions.
Calcite
"The holiday of foolish dreams is celebrated by aliens sometimes, but they simplify the whole thing. In arma culture, every year, all armas heading towards their future of training for wars are allowed to pitch their dreams."
Calcite
"All young armas, are allowed one attempt to avoid the future of the battlefield. Many do not bother. After all, it is you against the rest of the population your age."
Calcite
"If you fail this pitch. Your life is decided. There are no more attempts."
Calcite
2024-12-21 17:55:05
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"As I haven't died in battle, you can assume I'm one of the lucky few whose pitch was accepted. I became an artist unlike my peers sent to war. But in a way, I realized that....Our society is too entrenched in war."
Calcite
"I was making posters, but of the next war, like an advertisement. I escaped the front lines to report on the very thing I pitched to escape."
Calcite
2024-12-21 17:55:22
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"The version aliens celebrate is much cuter. It is the day that "All fools are allowed to talk." The day you can speak your dreams and no one is allowed to laugh."
Calcite
"A day for the waiter to talk about the book he's been saying he'll finish one day, become famous, and escape his mundane job."
Calcite
"Not to pry, but do you two have any foolish dreams? It is the holidays!"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix was processing the grim tradition she was just told and attempting to not look at all optimistic or happy about it.

She is happy to tell the Arma her dream however, "One day I aim to bring peace between the Apidee and Vespidee!"
St.Abeegail
"It is a work in progress."
Calcite
"You have to pitch it more than that if you want those who decide fate to pick you! Say how you'd make it happen. Remember no answer is wrong, it's all about the passion."
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:00:07
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"Let's see......If I were an apidee I would bring the vespidees to our side with friendship, and a warm meal! A few apologies here and there on both sides would be shared and we would all be a happy family once more!"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix pumps her fists and agrees completely with this happy go lucky pitch, "That is exactly what I was thinking!"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix then explains, "I've tried it like that too. Though I got lightly stabbed for it."
St.Abeegail
"Much better then actual stabbing! That's just Vespidee for you. Real misunderstood sweeties." Beeatrix tells.
Fuppenkat
Kat thought about the several things he wanted out of life and how many of those things he had let go over time. And where he was now, in regards to every lofty dream he had.
"Uuuhhhhh..." He rubs the back of his head. "I dunno. Feels stupid hearing myself say this out loud."
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:00:20
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"No dream is too "stupid". Today is the day of Foolish Dreams, dear!"
Calcite
"Even if someone thinks your idea is poor, it would be in poor taste of them to say so!"
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2024-12-21 18:01:32
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He thinks it over.
"I guesss... I've always wanted to like, do more for the Dragon/Anomaly Pride community. Maybe like, take a leading position in that. I've done some art and spoken on behalf (on tweeper) but it's all been drop in the bucket. It's no unifying of bees and vespibees but..."
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix was very tempted to ask if this man was a dragon, but stops herself. She thinks you can't just ask people if they are dragons or weremantises or other strange species.

She instead tells the assumed Dragon, "Follow your Dreams and Bee yourself!"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix then focuses back in on the Arma, "Thank you for the helping me with my pitch for the Holiday. I hope you don't mind me taking it."

"But, I have a question. What motivated you to come here on this holiday to look at your art?"
St.Abeegail
"You did say that you don't normally come in person to your displays."
Calcite
"Most dragons seem to have much pride in themselves, but I'm sure there's plenty of other dragons that could need a community. You should do that. Why not start a group and send it off to every dragon you know? Surely they would all react positively to it!" The brodskul breakout into a sudden flurry of chirps, but the arma is quick to throw in her own chirp that quiets them down.
Calcite
"As for your question...I came here because the host of this event is a special friend of mine. We're in the same art club." The arma sighs slightly as she clumsily places her hand on one of her works, causing the brodskuls to once against break out in panicked song.
Calcite
"Though....I've stopped doing art a long time ago. I'm......"
Calcite
"Merely placing things where the crowd wants them to go."
Calcite
"That being said, all these things have meaning to me. As long as I've been doing these bone artworks, they've always had the same theme. It drives critics up a wall."
Calcite
"My artworks are about the past and the future."
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:03:22
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"Death, is the natural state of being. The past is dead, and the future is too. Life is an unnatural state of being. You and I are wrong."
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:03:32
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"My artworks are about arranging death, to look unnatural, the way life looks like to death. Adding movement to what shouldn't move, and thought to what shouldn't have thought."
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:03:50
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"You were dead, before you were alive, and you will be dead for the rest of time after this, relatively speaking, flicker of life."
Calcite
"Many species fear death, but armas do not."
Calcite
"After all, it's not like you came into this world screaming and traumatized over your death state before your life. It could not be that bad. In fact, it was likely a wonderful time!"
Calcite
"Don't you agree, that death will be exciting?"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix nods to the Arma and says, "Yeah! It'll be my final adventure after all."
Calcite
"Good job! Most people get that answer wrong."
Calcite
"Though, you are an apidee, maybe that's just how your species feels about it. But, on the day for Foolish Dreams, when someone says that death will likely be exciting, you agree with them, in the same way you agree with someone who wishes to be immortal."
Calcite
"I think that earns you a feather!" The arma holds out a black feather to Beeatrix.
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix excitedly attempts to take the feather from the Arma and asks, "Woah, a black bird feather!"

She puts it lightly into her hair like a decoration and looks like she doesn't at all know what she is supposed to do with it. Which she does not.

"Thank you."
Calcite
"It's a brodskul feather. It is said that the more feathers you collect from a brodskul the higher the chance of your wishes coming true! The person with the most feathers nearly always has their wish come true."
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:08:52
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"You know what a brodskul is right? They're the little friends following me. I'll keep the history lesson short, but the brodskuls used to see armas as their holy animal, and when they had destroyed their own world with war, they handed it off to us."
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix was actually going to ask about this and is happy to be educated so much on Arma culture despite coming here for looking at art. This is great!
Calcite
"Their young workers seem much like any other bird but the egg laying members are much different, sort of like how apidees have different states of existence!"
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:09:31
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Last edit: 2024-12-21 18:09:59
"They love and care for armas, and in return, when an arma dies they pick them to the bone. You can tell how old an arma is by how many brodskuls attend to them."
Calcite
The amount of brodskuls in the room suddenly felt intimidating. While each one assisted with the arma's day to day activity, they were actively waiting for her demise for a meal.
Calcite
2024-12-21 18:10:20
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"A brodskul is just as intelligent as you or I! As such, it's said that the feathers of a brodskul are especially important."
Calcite
"Maybe it's all a fairy's tale (and you know how fairies love to lie) but when I was a child I collected as many dang feathers as I could get without plucking them, and the wish I asked for came true. Maybe it was a foolish wish, but I felt it worked."
Calcite
"Consider this feather a first step to having your dreams come true!"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix gives a little bow to the Arma and tells them, "Thank you again for the gift. I think I will maybe take some time out of my day to gather a couple to really feel that holiday spirit."
St.Abeegail
2024-12-21 18:11:03
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Last edit: 2024-12-21 18:11:39
Beeatrix asks the Arma, "Do you have a name I could call you by?"
Calcite
"It's Calcite! And let me give you a hint, little buzzing bee."
Calcite
The arma swishes her tail, causing the brodskuls perched on her to take flight. As soon as they had left, they return, perching on her once more. "The best place to find brodskuls-"
Calcite
"-is around the dead, and the dying."
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix looked somewhat determined and says something silly, "I will vulture the vultures!"
St.Abeegail
Beeatrix does ask to clear it up however, "No plucking them though, right?"
Calcite
"My mother used to tell me, if you pluck the feathers of a brodskul....."
"-you'll learn where they get those skulls they wear on their heads."
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