isleofavalon | Dragoon in July

🧙 WHO: Barbara, you!
⚔️️ WHAT: July adventures (incl one quest)
🕒 WHEN: Throughout July
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot and the farms!
⚠️ WARNINGS: Violence, probably

a. I Didn't Even Get To Touch Lava 🗡

[Barbara's never met a geode slime. But she feels a great deal of sympathy for a creature that's in Celliwig and can't get out. It's too bizarre a place to be taken to against your will, never mind unable to leave.

So that's why she's back here herself. She frowns at the crystal walls of the cavern and the unfortunate creature, occasionally quivering where it's wedged in the facets, and working out how she and her companion will free it.]

Break crystals, get away?

b. Why is it always worms

[Farmlands are important, farmlands need protecting. Moogle knows this is Barbara's view, and always informs her when there's any farm-related trouble either on the questboard or in local talk.

That's why Barbara's been there the past few days, stabbing and using anything but fire against the zombies. That's where she is, fighting alongside you, when the earth shakes--and keeps shaking--and begins to sink.]

Run!

[...an instruction that comes too late, as the ground opens into a very toothy maw. It's too late to jump, gravity's in charge now, and it's sending you right into a cavernous creature.]

c. Unexpected Disney Princess

[Barbara thought by staying in the woods during the loud, colorful, noisy carnival would mean she didn't have to worry about it and she could come back into town after it was over. Barbara was wrong.

Normally she gets along fine with woodland creatures when she's not hunting; she gives them their space and they give her hers. Not today. Not when there are squirrels chattering in her hair and trying to braid it.]

Off! OFF!

[She's doing her best to catch them without hurting them, which means she's dancing around on the sidewalk. An unlucky broom that's too close doesn't get the same mercy, hopefully she didn't just kick it right into you.]

d. wildcard!

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[Hm... there's a thought. And Barbara would rather not damage the cave interior more than they have to, either. It's pretty and it doesn't belong to them.]

Should try first, yes.

Slimes. Bold or timid, Jasper know?

[She doesn't know if it's going to come rushing out as soon as it has an escape route or if their messing around near it will make it hostile.]

[Jasper looks at the slime. He cannot fathom whether it will flee or fight given its lack of movement and expression. Better to err on the side of caution, perhaps?]

Depends on the breed, I'd say.

[It is not a strange, unknown monster by any means. He almost feels sorry for the position it's in. The beast hardly knows better.]

Do you have a suitable tool for that wall?

[Hmm. Well, if it's a fire slime, it probably doesn't have a reason to be cautious. Not when it can glorp around setting anything on fire that tries to get in its way.]

Hammer. [She pulls it from her belt and holds it up. It's of an unusual design; it's got glowing runes, and it's made of stone rather than metal.] Borrow from Celliwig.

What Jasper magic?

[Knowing that would also help--if he can do something to make the slime's passage easier, or throw up a defense in case it comes out angry.]

[The hammer earns a satisfied look of approval. This simplistic person comes equipped with the right tools for the job - which is more than can be said of most.

Though he hardly wants to share knowledge of what he is capable of. Hmm. Perhaps it's better to share some, mind. To make his work less difficult. He holds his hand over the ground and telekinetically lifts a handful of shards. Then he drops them at his feet.]

The answer should be obvious.

[Kinetic.]

[Barbara doesn't know the word kinetic--she heard it once when being told about the different types of magic and then forgot it since it hasn't been relevant since--so it's just as well that Jasper demonstrated.]

Useful. Barbara smash rocks, Jasper keep slime at bay.

[As she says that, she's already kneeling by the fissure again and sets to work with her hammer, breaking the more fragile-looking bits of crystal away.]

[Jasper narrows his eyes and braces himself for impact; ears pricking as metal smashes into the wall and clangs against crystal. The slime writhes uncomfortably. Unable to flee and with nowhere to go, flames begin warming the crystals surrounding its form.

It is a sight that earns caution. Splinters are redirected by his magic to the floor - kept away from wounding an irate creature even further.]

This should be over soon, I imagine?

[BAM BAM BAM this is not how you're supposed to treat crystal.

She can feel the heat coming up the fissure as the agitated slime begins to flare and works faster, wanting to make sure she's given it as big an escape route as she can before it comes racing out.

The only response she gives Jasper's question is a curt nod, and when she's smashed enough crystal away, she leaps up and backwards.]

Now!

[very now. EXTREMELY now. slimes, as it turns out, do not need legs to move FAST.]

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