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Frannie & the golden owl... (Collaborative storytelling.)

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Okay, I haven't done this in a while. So it could be a hit like it's been done before, but it could also be a miss like it's been done before. Collaborative Storytelling some of you may be familiar with this kind of game that's done around a campfire where we tell a story together, but each person adds one word to the story. Well, here on Swell we've done it where we add 15 seconds to the story

Where we all tell the story, 15 second at a time.

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@SeekingPlumb
Franie had heard about the mysterious Golden Owl. But here it was right before her, and she couldn't resist. She jumped out of the audience, up the stage, grabbed the Hooting Golden Owl off the pillow and ran flat out for her flying car. And before she knew it, she was flying off to her lair
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@AtlasEz
Ezra Lawhn
@AtlasEzย ยทย 0:17

@SeekingPlumb

Which was at the bottom of the ocean, and it was beautiful. It had sharks and dolphins and fish swimming all around it. It was a paradise
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Swell Team
@Swellย ยทย 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoย ยทย 0:24
But not to the owl named Sandy who really wanted to go back home and be with her family. But here she was, amongst other birds and doves and all of a sudden she sees these bears of cubs
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@Her_Sisu
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisuย ยทย 0:21
Soaring high above the bears, she looks down and realizes no matter whether bird, sea creature or carnivore, a common thread that we all have is love. So she continues to fly high in the sky as she runs into a pirate who had a patch over his eye
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@Pixiepoet4life
DawnMaria Bradley
@Pixiepoet4lifeย ยทย 0:20
But just as the pirate was about to speak, sandy found herself coming out of what one could only describe as a waking dream. She shook herself, realizing that she was still on her pillow on the stage. And, in fact, she was staring into the eyes of a woman, smiling mysteriously
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@ThaMoor84
Aoki
@ThaMoor84ย ยทย 0:49

@Pixiepoet4life

Suddenly, just as Cindy was about to speak, staring into the eyes of this mysterious woman, the woman kissed her, and they were both charged by the magnetic pool the energy of this passionate kiss and were transcended back into the waking dream where they both became owls, soaring her high above the bears, soaring past the pirate into a branch way up in a sycamore tree where they shared it, bobbing and staring, cooling in each other's eyes, sharing only a type of love that two owls could share it's
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@aBirdieOnaWire
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWireย ยทย 0:25
Just above the branch where Sandy and her partner Audrey were sitting with a black crow. And he whispered to them, you two now understand that you're in a dream world and that the other side is the real world. But you come here because you know there's something that you must do, and you have to do it before the Woodsman gets here with his friends. Here they come. I've got to go
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@SeekingPlumb

Loving this!! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ Thank you, everyone! Feel free to jump in again, whenever you feel so inspired!

With a woman smiling mysteriously in the waking world and the woodsmen coming in the dream world they knew they had to find the ancient tree known as the oracle so they closed their eyes, took a deep breath and morphed space and time when they opened their eyes
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@Pixiepoet4life
DawnMaria Bradley
@Pixiepoet4lifeย ยทย 0:28

@SeekingPlumb

They were again back in the waking world. Audrey had once again become a human woman. In fact, she was the smiling woman, but Sandy was still the beautiful golden owl. Audrey turned to her, smiling again, and said, I know you think you're an owl, but you were never just an owl. Now I must explain to you who you really are
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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Shethย ยทย 0:05
Who who was the only sound that she could make
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@SeekingPlumb
In response, Audrey said, I know. That is the question. Who? Who are any of us? We really must find the oracle. In the waking world, in the dream world, it's an ancient tree, but here it's a fire hydrant down on 75th street. Let's go
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@ThaMoor84
Aoki
@ThaMoor84ย ยทย 0:13

@SeekingPlumb

So willingly. Sandy stepped up the woman's arm and legally perched upon her shoulder. And together they darted for 76
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@Pixiepoet4life
DawnMaria Bradley
@Pixiepoet4lifeย ยทย 0:33

@ThaMoor84

It wasn't long before they reached 76th street. Soon after that, they were standing in front of the hydrant. Audrey paused, looked at the hydrant, and then looked at Sandy with a knowing glance. Sandy inclined her head in that beautiful way that only owls can, and sheth waited breathless. After a moment's pause, Audrey began to speak. Well, we're here now. It's time I tell you everything
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@SeekingPlumb
Sandy, you are actually the oracle, the woodsmen and the pirate. They magically extracted your consciousness and then confined it to the body of this owl. But you actually belong within the life waters of the planet. This hydrant is the gateway to return you
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@theheartdrive
Arya Sunyata
@theheartdriveย ยทย 0:14

@SeekingPlumb

To the source where first mother and first father first created light and word memories flooded back many lives. Many names, many deaths. And she was a scribe who recorded all known order. And then
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@ThaMoor84
Aoki
@ThaMoor84ย ยทย 0:27
I sandy realized that in that moment, once the vision passed her third eye, that she was actually spit apart. Spit apart from a lump of clay, one being two souls spit apart
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