it started out as a feeling; [open & closed]

[imperfectwish]

🧙 WHO: Machi Kuragi (imperfectwish) & others
⚔️️ WHAT: Catchall for August w/ TDM & quest prompts
🕒 WHEN: All of August
🗺️ WHERE: All over Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: None for now.


I. FRESH WATERS;

[This was what Machi got for her determination to explore, to help and to change for the better while here. When she had thought about change she had meant becoming more open, more honest, less abrasive perhaps. More confidence at the very least.

What she hadn't meant was a change like this -- tentacles and pointed ears. Not to mention the gills too! At first all she can do is look absolutely aghast at the very helpful nurse but she's shuffled off soon enough to find her own way back to the surface.

... Once she can figure out how to operate -- well, all of this. Did she have to have so many tentacles? They all seem to respond just fine but it's definitely a mental adjustment to go from two legs on land to eight or more tentacles underwater. She just seems so flustered by it all it's... kind of cute to watch in a way? Not her fumbling around but the stern frown and wrinkled brow that accompanies it all.

Help a girl out? Or at least don't get too offended when she outright bumps into you or one of her tentacles ends up grazing your tail / tentacles.]

II. OPEN HOUSE -- ROYAL BATHS;

[Though Machi hadn't quite expected water park levels of attractions going on here she had shown up in a bathing suit. Odd for a public bath? Maybe. But she had been more curious than wanting a bath to begin with so it seemed to make sense to her at the time.

She's sort of marveling at just how big the slide is though.]

... This doesn't seem suited for a bath.

III. OPEN HOUSE -- GLOWING COLORS & ROSE GARDENS;

[The library had been fascinating. Some of the books hadn't made much sense to Machi while others had been so dense she didn't think she could finish them anytime soon.
Could she check things out like a library back home? She wasn't sure and had ended up tucking all the books back after a glance over.

Then there was the forbidden section. Machi wasn't one to break rules typically but well... curiosity and all that. That was why she was out in the rose garden now, more or less hiding away among all the flowers -- at least until someone stumbles across her.]

Ah, pardon me.

[She's an entertaining shade of red. And not just her face either. The glow isn't blinding or deep but there's this subtle shade of red to her that can't help but be eye catching.]

IV. DON'T TREEP, MAN;

[When the call goes out for green mages Machi knows the right thing to do is go and offer her help. She's been trying her best in classes all month and succeeding rather admirably to be honest. She's a decent student back home and here she's become quite devoted to her new studies. Without the pressures of others to perform to a perfect standard she's found school is actually pretty fun, particularly the magic courses. Studying for them definitely isn't a chore for her.

She's still green with her green magic though and it definitely shows. On the first few days she's directed to the orchard given several people can work on the trees and such at one time. She's pouring herself into helping one of these trees alongside someone else when the tree just starts budding out fruit like mad on Machi's side. She flusters, quick to draw back her hands and stop herself, eyes wide as she glances upward.]

A little too much then...

[On some other days she's directed to the fields and there she's having a hard time getting anything to sprout. She looks rather frustrated too.]

V. WILDCARD;

[Feel free to leave other prompts under this. Plurk and PMs open for plotting!

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[imperfectwish]

[One moment Machi is sitting there and the next -- yep, there she goes!

What goes on next is sort of a blur. Machi doesn't have the time to be angry at the kid anymore because she's going at a pretty decent speed. The slide isn't just a straight down affair but it has twists and turns, loops that one manages to stay on somehow? A magic slide maybe??

By the time she's spit out into the pool at the end Machi looks frazzled to say the least. She gets dunked down into the water and after she resurfaces she just sort of gazes back up the slide in amazement.]

... It really doesn't look like it has that many twists and turns though...

[conciliant]

[It's quite the trip down, judging by how long Machi took to get there. From the outside, it looks like a normal slide, and by virtue of that, she should have hit the water much quicker, but it's several seconds after 2B expects her to emerge that she actually does. She raises a brow, confused by the look she's giving the slide, but—

"Alright, my turn!"

Ugh. There goes the kid, hardly waiting a beat for Machi to collect herself at the bottom. He's down much faster than she was, just by being smaller, and hopefully she's moved out of the way before he splashes down!? Because here comes 2B, doing the same to him.

...

Her speed is unlike anything else, and she's surprised that the slide can even hold up against the 325 lbs of steel android scraping over it. Although there are indeed more twists and turns than she was expecting, the bends surprising her when she's whipped around each one of them before she's forced out the end. And what follows is a giant splash—one that sends giant waves of water that force those near the edges of the pool out of it, and soaking everyone else, including the boy.

The water is shallow enough that he and Machi, as well as the rest of the guests, are in no danger—thanks to her tactical visor, she'd made those calculations before she climbed onto the slide—and all he can do is sputter water and wipe it from his eyes when he rises from the waves again, several feet away.]

Next time, don't be rude.