Maverick sees Meiou take off with Timothius and glances at Pyrus. "Check this out..." and sneaks off to the same spot to watch with Pyrus as Timothius miraculously heals Meiou.

Emerald rushes to give Mittens a hug and try to rescue JB from curious kitty prodding. "Welcome, Mittens! Hey, I was gonna do some silly songs! Wanna do some silly dances for the party? I can try to keep up..."

She was also kind of running interference for Meiou, hoping nobody else noticed him and Tim head off, but figuring most are distracted by the party for now.

Katy seems busy with trying to make sure most people are doing their part for the party, and occasionally checks on JB. She saw Meiou head off, but that was supposed to happen, so she just continues being a busy body.

Shelly goes to give Lucky a hug. With a tiny squeak to her voice, she says, "Oh the sweet hugging kitty! I know I can always count on you for hugs!"

Nearby, Autumn says, "Hey Shelly! The sun is going down soon! Wanna show the new guys your light tricks when it's dark?"

"You bet! And maybe Joe can combine my light show with his grappling hook!" Shelly squeaks happily before turning to JB. "So how do you like Channelwood? Nice place, huh? Sweet-as-candy people, neat-o treehouses..."

"I'd say," Johnny says, as he gets a reprieve from being cat pounced en masse.  "I've never seen several dozen treehouses connected together, and after what I've gone through, I'm glad to find some friendly faces."
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Lucky accepted the tasty dessert offered by Pyrus and gave him a friendly nudge as thanks.  He chuckles from Mits' enthusiasm for the new faces and wonders how long it'll take her to figure out Pyrus is just a kid.

As for Johnny, Lucky doesn't know about the poor guy's cannibalism phobia or he'd make more of an effort to assure him.  "Timothius is a healer," he explains to Johnny so he doesn't feel like his buddy was being rude or anything, "Like, actual healing superpower.  So he can help with the bump on the head if not the confusion."

When hugged and complimented by Shelly, Lucky blushes and smiles, returning the hug.  "Aw shucks, Shelly.  Thank you!  Looking forward to your light show."

Lucky reaches to arm-around Johnny and gives him a friendly smile.  "So glad you like it here."

Pyrus smiled when given recognition for distributing dessert and grins proudly that the excitable cat girl thinks just seeing a dragon is super fantastic.  He still doesn't get why Emmy would tell Johnny to pretend to not remember, but he's not gunna spill the beans just for the curiosity of his new fan.

But Pyrus can't help but stagger and shake his head when Meiou admits to doing, "something stupid."  Yeesh.  If they only knew!

Yay!  Silly dances and music and light show!  How fun!

First thing's first, though.  After following after Mav, Pyrus' eyes go wide when he witnesses Timothius heal Meiou.  Woah!  He turns that amazed look to Maverick again before turning back to watch Meiou's reaction.

Mits would raise her shield to block any hug attempts from flirt-face Lucky, who was conveniently attacked by Shelly first, but is defenseless against Emmy hugs.  She returns the hug and smiles at the suggestion.

"Yay!  Silly dances and music and light show!  How fun!  But Sir Grappling Hook is right.  Let's not forget that this is a welcome party for Sir Falls-Between-Worlds.  So I'm going have to insist that he tell us what it's like to slip-n-slide through space-time at some point tonight!  Especially after Sir Heals-A-Lot gets done patching up the bunny.  Who'll have to tell us what epicly dangerous thing it was he survived!  You know... for the kids.  So they know to not do the thing.  Because it's dangerous."

Meiou shivered abit as Tim's healing patched him up . He smiled to the cat nodding his thanks to him. Hopefully after a little mingling he would get some free time to work on his experiment. He was eager to make it and improve upon its design.

"Magical Healing, eh?" JB said, and then thought to himself, 'He'd have a field day with me.  I'm only pretending to be amnesiac.'

  "I suppose we could convince people they are haunted if I dangle you past windows. That's probably not what the girls had in mind, Joe.

The party goes great!

For JB, the people here are considerate, understanding, and patient, while still very much curious and excited to befriend a new face. In general, Emerald protects him from being overly questioned or prodded. And JB quickly gets the idea that this girl is some kind of super young matriarch where people bend over backwards for her. But then... JB quickly finds out there really isn't anyone older than 30 around here.

To Meiou, it feels like a number of people seem to be carrying guilt with them as if they blame themselves for Meiou's actions. Most people are trying to be as welcoming as possible without invading his space (because of his earlier actions causing people to believe he just isn't ready for space invaders yet). A select few, such as the more bully personalities, give him unforgiving glares. But one look from Katy usually makes them suddenly act laid back or joyful.

https://youtu.be/JInJlQpBf4U?t=692

When it's dark, Shelly does wind up glowing in the dark while swinging from grappling lines and doing some mid-air dance. She's no pro, but she makes it look like she is because she is graceful and turns mistakes into looking like they were part of the act.
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Johnny's was friendly enough, eager to find out more about the world he fell into.  And most people knew the haunted look of someone who's been through some bad things (thanks to Robotnik) enough not to press the new and strange mouse that much.  Most assumed that he just saw his whole village get roboticized en masse and his mind had to block out the memory just so he could function.  Wouldn't be the first time that happened.

While watching Shelly swinging through the ropes glowing like a firefly, he happened to catch Emerald's eye.  "From what I could see, you're probably the oldest one here.  Let me guess, this Robotnik guy.  He took out all the adults?"

The rabbit didn't try to make anyone talk to him nor did he go out of his way to talk to many aside katy. around the time dark came he watched katy for a little before going to a place he could make use of for a workshop. he had had a spark of genius during the fight with the bots earlier and intended to upgrade his weapon of choice to help in the coming fights.

  Glow in the dark princesses who fight robots on ziplines.  In case you didn't think the apocalyptic future based on a 90s game was 80s enough.

  Just another reason why Joe quit the brooding loner club, and it seems Meiou is already looking into one of the more practical reasons if past experience is anything to go by.

OOC: Combination of 'Technically just annoying' health RL and "Everyone I know has it so much worse" makes for one heck of a distraction.

Mittens can tell the difference between "actual amnesiac" and "stonewalling due to emotional trauma," so she tends to be the one Emerald has to stiff-arm the most.

"So what was it like in the place you come from?  Was there a team of unlikely sports stars who teamed up to fight crime?  What happened before you got here?  Were you zapped by the ray gun of an earthworm wearing an alien power suit?  Was it more zany than the time I had to team up with a meerkat to rescue his warthog buddy from island natives who mistook him for their god?  Hey Timothius!  I think he needs you to heal his brain!"

Many of her questions are punctuated with swings and thrusts with the sword she crafted from an old lawnmower blade.  Regardless of whether she gets any real answers, she questions Meiou in much the same way.

"So why are they giving you dirty looks?  They jealous of your epic vampire powers?  You the kind that only sucks the juice out of veggies?  Or maybe they're mad because the beautiful red-head overlander everyone was crazy for chose you over them then winds up captured by a villain who wants to dip her in a vat of terpentine?  Maybe you should transform into robot form and put them in their place."

Shelly's acrobatic light show of course draws many an enthusiastic cheer from Mits.  She of course insists on joining in.  There's no way in this world she's going to pass up on a chance to trapeze dance with a glowing princess.

Lucky of course is protective of JB as well.  And knowing full well that Mits doesn't like his flirts, he'll resort to paying her compliments to shoo her off if need be.  But that depends on if JB considers the crazy cat endearing or annoying.

He loves Shelly's performance of course, and applauds her enthusiastically.

Lucky cringes when JB accuses Emerald of being the oldest.  So he tries to smooth things over by adding, "Heh.  Hear that, Emmy?  You're so young looking he doesn't think you're even an adult yet."
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Pyrus thinks Mittens is hilarious and spends a lot of time rolling on the floor laughing.

During Shelly's performance, he was happy to play along by flying around and puffing his itty bitty flame breath in such a way as to make it appear to onlookers Shelly and Mittens are death defying daredevils...  without ever coming anywhere near their actual flight paths.

In any other scenario, Johnny would be more than happy to tell Mittens more about himself.  About the world being made around himself, this variable magical kingdom all his own...before something took it all away from him, friends, family, and everything else.

He shuddered, which gave Mittens the idea that maybe Timothius should heal his brain.

Emerald smiles at Lucky and winks at him before she turns to JB and says, "Robotnik took most adults away from us, that is true. Tanner, Janet, Michael and I are in our thirties. The oldest is Jimmy, though. He's in his fifties. Most of our adults are under thirty. Consider... Robotnik's takeover happened about 10 years ago. So what few adults got away, tried to take as many children with them as they could. So most Freedom Fighter settlements, like this one, are mostly people in their twenties or younger."

To Mittens, she goes to the kitty and whispers in her ear, "He doesn't have amnesia, sweetheart. He just has a lot of pain to process and talking about it hurts very much. Amnesia was just something quick to keep people from prying much."
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However, while Emerald is distracted with telling Mittens what's up, Timothius approaches JB and sits next to him and says quietly, "I can heal you, Johnny. I have a healing touch."

He reaches to give JB a pet, but gives JB plenty of time to object. If he doesn't object, JB is soon getting pet by Timothius and starting to feel amazing. Like eating cheesecake while getting a foot massage. Or putting on pajamas fresh out of the dryer.

After the performance, Maverick gives Pyrus a paw-bump, "That was super cool!" then hugs Shelly (because he knows he can get away with it) "And beautiful!" He is sure to fist-bump Joe and Mittens for their contributions.

Shelly rubs behind her head, then pets the boy who is taller than her. "Thanks!" then turns to Joe, Pyrus and Mittens. "Thanks for spicing things up!"

Katy goes about making sure everyone is being treated fairly or having fun. Then makes her way to Meiou when she is able.

he blinked when he was stopped by mittens for questioning. these were really random odd questions "well no it wasnt any of that. its just back in the day I wasn't the most popular furre around. I used to get into all kinds of trouble with my skillset. Funnily enough folks dont like it when you butt into their life as them." and as he was about to continue explaining he did a double take "wait what? who did what now?" he asked confusedly before shaking his head. questions could wait he needed to finish this before anything else happened.

after the performance it wouldn't be hard for Katy to find the rabbit fussing about with his new toy. His sword blade was white hot and he was testing its power by chopping up robot pieces with it like they were some kind of vegetable he was slicing up for a stew.

JB first blinked as Tim reaches over to him, but after a bit of a flinch, JB feels the effect, and he starts to relax under the hold.  He even started to murr and close his eyes and then Timothius began to hear some tapping from Johnathan as he started to brux.

  Thankfully for Mittens, Joe delves in redundant grappling hook technology for a reason.  The wonders of living in a place where swinging around bioluminescent royalty (and adventurous cats) is probably the least absurd subject of conversation today.

  For example. Stunt coordinator dragon.

  "It's fine" he says while providing the required hand to hand collisions.  "Though I'm sure you would have figured out something, it's nice to help out."

"Ohmygosh you can breathe FIRE?!" Mittens exclaims to Pyrus after the performance is over, "And fly too!  Awesome!"

The little dragon returns Maverick's fist bump and blushes and slides his foot bashfully at being praised by a grownup.

"Its a thing.  Dragons.  Do."

Mits grins and returns Mav's fist bump and answers Shelly.  "You know I'm always up for spicing things up!  Especially if it means I get to use a super-cool Joe grappling hook!"

She oooohs at Emmy's explanation and turns to Johnny to give him an extreme bow, making her pigtails flip up and stand on end.  "Apologies for the foolish foot in mouth cat!"

To Meiou she explains, "A story I heard as a kid.  Or was it a cartoon I watched?  So you can disguise yourself to look like other people?  That sounds fun!  I'd love to get some pointers!  Woah awesome weapon!  Can I have one?!"
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