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(open) help out a newbie

🧙 WHO: Minako Aino and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Minako is new to town, so it's time to explore.
🕒 WHEN: Mid-July
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: Should be none, will edit if that changes!

(a. at the senshi (and friends!) house)

[ Minako's arrival hadn't exactly been.. pleasant. Somewhere between everything being so chaotic back home right before she showed up here instead, then suddenly being dropped into the water out of nowhere, and then getting covered in gross jelly stuff didn't exactly make it the most fun course of events.

But at least Makoto helped her over to the house, and now Minako has been able to bathe and get all that junk out of her hair, things are starting to look up a little more. Or at least, Minako thinks she looks presentable enough to be seen by others.

Which means she starts wandering the house, peeking her head into all the rooms so she can greet people with a: ]

Hi! [ You know, casual. Just showed up here. No biggie. ]

(b. on the streets of camelot)

[ If you just happen to be calmly walking along the city streets, your moment of relative peace and quiet gets interrupted really, really quickly.

Because you might suddenly feel something jumping on you. It happens so fast that you can't even see what it is, other than that there's a sudden pressure on your head, like something is clinging on for dear life up there. If you try to remove it - which is possible if you put some effort into it - you'll find it's a cat. A kind of.. odd-looking cat, since it's a little too big for your usual cat, but it's still definitely a cat.

Or even if you don't manage to remove it, there's suddenly a blonde girl outright charging at you, yelling out-- ]

Wait!

[ What do you do. Do you run. Do you stay. Do you ponder why your life suddenly turned out like this? ]

(c. outside a bakery)

[ After having managed to recover her familiar, Minako is making sure to tightly hold it to her chest, not wantin to start an entire chase scene all over again.

Which means things are a little bit calmer right now. Instead you might find the blonde girl standing outside a bakery, staring at the delicious goods inside, looking like she's about to drool right over them. ]

Ahh, it looks so good, right? [ She squeezes the cat-like creature a little. ] Maybe you were just hungry too.. Rough is the fate of those who don't have money.. [ Please, Minako. You literally have a house full of friends you're staying with. Cut down on the melodramatics.

Still, her stomach growls. Loudly. That chase must have taken some energy. Do you help out this poor blonde girl. ]

(d. on the streets of camelot, less chaos edition)

[ Or maybe you, very simply, just find the girl walking up to you on the middle of the streets. Do you know her? Probably not! And yet she talks to you so casually, as if you're not total strangers. Welcome to the power of an extreme extrovert. ]

Hey! Sooo.. if someone wanted to practice these new powers everyone's talking about, where do they do that? Won't you help a cute girl out?

[ Look at her batting those doe eyes at you! You're locked into this fate now. It's inescapable. ]

(ooc: as a note for those who have threaded with me on the tdm, i am more than willing to carry those over as in-game canon, so feel free to assume those interactions happened! c: )

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[Aurora is, not surprisingly, very used to animals just randomly showing up around her. When one jumps onto her head, Vivek, her Eurasian Eagle Owl, lets out a very loud screech in warning to the creature. Even now, Aurora is literally surrounded by animals.]

Now now, Vivek, no need to threaten the creature.

[She reaches up and pries the cat from her hair and safely into the crooks of her arms.]

Why hello there, you poor thing, you seem frightened. What's wrong? [She gently scratched under its chin.

However, when she hears the loud "WAIT!" and sees a blonde girl charging at her, Aurora's eyes widen but she merely hugs the cat closer and promptly moves out of the girl's path.]

Well, you figure out what magic you have, and ask someone with that magic to help you, if you need it.

[Sorry Minako, you got one of the grumpiest idols to deal with. The only friendly part of him is the puffin sitting on his shoulder taking a nap.]

[Eventually Minako will see Yuyuko exiting the bakery, using her kinetic magic to make a noticeably large amount of baked goods float around her so she doesn't have to carry them all.]

If you're thinking of going in, the goods here are certainly worth trying. [Is she really that oblivious to Minako's plight? Who knows.]

[The cat is on top of a duck. Drake can feel the cat on his head and is nervously trying to coax it off. What if it bites him or something?]

Ea-easy there, little one... Just get down, nice and easy...

[Then some girl shouts towards him and he winces. She's even charging towards him! He raises his arms defensively!]

What's going on?!

Hey~

[Said room is a rather roomy kitchen, one with a good-sized herb garden in the window sill and several pots and hanging planters of more heat-tolerant plants decorating the rest of the space.]

Just in time; chicken curry and rice is ready when you are, and I fried up some tonkatsu too!

[And knowing her for two years, the stew's spice and consistency is perfect to Minako's tastes.]

[ Della was chosen to go grocery shopping for Duck House - a poor decision, really - and had begun to walk out with a bagful of pastries, including one in her mouth.

At the same time, she does overhear the stomach-growl. She pauses, and after a moment of thought, digs into the bag and pulls one out to offer, with a garbled - ]

Fawn fun?

[ That's "Want one?" in "mouth full of pastry"-ese. ]

[Yvelon had taken a moment to go over his weekly shopping list when he heard the young woman talking to her pet. As much as he generally tried to avoid people outside of his work, he had once been that hungry youth. There was a moment of internal debate, after all, he couldn’t feed every wayward teenager he came across, but in the end morality won out.

He heaved a sigh and turned to see what she was looking at.]

It is all merely sugar, it will only sate your appetite briefly. Meats and cheeses will do you far better.

[Perhaps coming off a little harsh, but he was a healer. Such lectures were difficult to switch off.]

[Oh no, not the doe eyes. Jean looks a bit awkward to be put on the spot like this.]

Well, there are some training grounds available for everyone. And depending on what magic you have...

[ naoto yelps at the cat creature clearly climbing on his back. what the hell was that, he didn’t know, but he wanted it off yesterday. when he realizes it was a cat creature, his fear is alleviated. cats good. and then he hears the scream.

why yes, he does ponder how did his life come to this. naoto’s luck has always been bad, but this takes the cake. the cat on him is ignored as he lets out a deep sigh. naoto looks at the cat with a look. ]

Cat, I don’t know what you did, but it’s clearly Something.

[Ami has been at school all day, and Mina was in the shower when she'd gotten home, so somehow Ami has totally missed that Mina is actually here. Right now she's just doing some schoolwork on her desk in her room, when she hears a familiar voice at the door. Her head jerks towards the door in surprise, and a wide grin spreads across her face in realisation.]

Mina-chan! You're here! When did you get here? Are you okay? I am so happy to see you!

[Hurriedly she stands, almost running over to give Mina a hug (and maybe make sure that she's actually real.]

[Ren happens to be shopping for some baked goods. He's not that into them but he does like to eat them from time to time. If he couldn't finish them all, he always had Camus.

Minako is now a familiar person to Jim and so he offers her one of two bags. Inside there is a piece of strawberry shortcake.]

An offering for a goddess.

[ Hey Minkao, ever see a duck walking a dog before? Well now you have.

The dog sniffs around her curiously as she walks up, despite Fenton trying to pull back on the leash. So he doesn't quite notice the doe-eyed look she's giving him. Or maybe they don't work on a different species? Who knows. Still, he catches her words anyway and is more than happy to help out. ]

Oh, are you a new arrival? Well, there are some training grounds where people are able to practice their magical abilities, and some instructors there who help with some of the basics.

[At least Minako had company in her misery. Though Haruka took a bit better to suddenly taking a plunge in the lake more likely, her hair was much easier to dry at the very least. Luckily among the possessions that she had was a spare set of clothes, there would have been problems had she been wearing the black leather skirt she was sporting now.

When the younger girl peeked in Haruka looked up and grinned.]

Hey there. How are you settling in?

[It looked like at the least she'd gotten around to exploring before Haruka had.]

[Being that he has animal magic, animals randomly jumping on his back isn't all that surprising now. He's grown used to animals trailing after him due to the magic's resonance, but he'll get that issue sorted eventually. Although this causes his familiar, Spinel, a small bipedal black cat to be on full on protective mode and is about to whack at the bigger cat before Soundwave stops him.]

Calm down, it seems to be frightened. Now, what is it that you--

["Wait!" Now what?

Soundwave turns to the source of the scream and sees a blonde girl... charging towards him? Unless she manages to stop herself before colliding into him (and it will hurt since he's a 7 ft tall mech), he'll sidestep out of the way of the collision.]

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