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[open] summer's turn is nigh

🧙 WHO: Robyn and YOU!
⚔️️ WHAT: Various prompts, including quests (mostly animal-related ones).
🕒 WHEN: Throughout the month of August
🗺️ WHERE: Around Camelot, in or around Broceliande
⚠️ WARNINGS: None; will add warnings if anything comes up.

A. Don't Treep, Man

[After the undead incident last month, Robyn resolves to help out with repairing the damage caused in the farmland. As such, she's been tasked with rounding up stray sheep and herding them back to their owner's farm. Robyn's never done shepherding before, but she's watched shepherds at work plenty of times and she has her animal magic to help. If you're in the farmland at all, you may see her at the back of a flock of sheep with a look of concentration on her face; she's using her magic to make sure the sheep go where they're supposed to without any of them breaking away from the group. When one of them starts to stray, she uses the shepherd's crook she borrowed to gently nudge it back into place.]

Stay with your friends, alright? We don't want you or anyone else gettin' lost again.

B. Invasive Species

[Robyn already spends a lot of time in the forest of Broceliande, and she was taught how to be a hunter, so this quest should be fitting for her. However, she's trying to focus more on getting the woodland creatures away from the lake and back into the woods, not wanting to disrupt the Carcinuses too much.

Unfortunately, she inevitably finds herself face to face with one, its scorpion tail pointed at her and snapping its claws menacingly. Robyn is firmly standing her ground, with her wolf familiar Rowena at the ready to defend her if need be, but her voice is still clearly nervous.]

Please...go back to the lake. I don't want to hurt you, but you should go home. You can't keep attackin' the animals.

[The Carcinus snaps its claws again, and all Robyn can hear with her animal magic is its overwhelming want for food, with no other logic behind it.]

Please, just go back...! [Robyn points her crossbow at the Carcinus. She's reluctant to kill an animal without the purpose of eating it, but if she has no choice...]

C. I'm Running with the Wolves Tonight

[Despite having to deal with problems on Broceliande, that doesn't stop Robyn from going there most days or nights in her wolf form, simply to enjoy herself. She'll never get over having her sense heightened and being able to run and jump much faster and higher than she could as a human.

On the off chance that you're in Broceliande at night, you may hear the sound of howling. Following the sound will lead you to two wolves calling out to any other wolves that might be in the area; one is golden and covered with markings, likely someone's familiar, while the other one is small and slender.]

D. Wildcard
[Feel free to hit up this post with any other scenarios!]

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Maybe...but we also have to get the animals from the forest away from here. That's what those things are after.

[Robyn notices another Carcinus scuttling towards them, and this time she reacts faster, shooting an arrow to scare it away.]

And I can't keep shootin' at them, since I'll run out of arrows...

You’re definitely right: those animals have to get out of here quickly before the Carcinuses try to go after them again.

Is there anything I can do to keep them super busy?

Just do what you can to hold them off. I'll try to handle the animals.

[Robyn looks around for a moment, trying to think of a way to deal with the animal situation, before she gets an idea. She cups her hands around her mouth and does her best impression of a wolf howl, and sure enough, some rabbits rush out of a nearby bush and head towards the woods.]

Sounds like a great idea. I will keep them busy as much as possible.

(As soon as he agrees with the plans, he sneaks around the forest to see a group of Carcinuses trying to chase after a group of harmless deer. Harry then summons a rock to kinetically fly right pass them as the chase goes on.)

Hey! (The rock flies right pass the Carcinuses as planned and they turn to see him and Rose in front of them, allowing the deer to flee away from the scene.) Try to go after me instead, you giant crabs!

[While Harry deals with the Carcinuses, Robyn starts to realize that there's a way to make her current plan more effective. A moment later, she shifts into her wolf form and starts howling along with Rowena. So far, so good; even with her eyes closed, Robyn can already sense more animals fleeing towards the forest to get away from the obvious sound of wolves.]

(Harry gets into a chase by the angry Carcinuses on the path towards the lake: Rose decides to annoy them further by sticking her tongue out at them as to taunt them further.

While being deprived of food by his relatives for most of his life is still a bad thing for him, it also allows him to go on faster than most people back at home. How else it could explain him being to go further distances than Ron and Hermione combined during the Horcrux Hunt?

Jumping over rocks and fallen logs, the wizard is able to find the lake not far away while he could’ve sworn that he could hear the claws snapping loudly. He hasn’t checked as to how many Carinsues are still out there, but at least he got his part of the plan down while hoping that Robyn and Rowena will be okay as they lead the animals away from the forest.)

Is that the best you got, giant crabs? I have seen giant spiders in my world who can hunt down food better than you!

[Meanwhile, Robyn is trying to actively herd any animals towards the forest...though by "herd", it's more like running at the animals for a short distance so they'll flee at the sight of a wolf and head for the woods instead of the lake. So far, so good, since most animals wouldn't want to be in the same area as a wolf for too long.]

(The Carcinuses didn’t like Harry’s little taunt: in fact, they got super enraged by him that they attempted to crush him with their claws, but Harry and Rose quickly teleported away into a tree.

It took them way too long as Harry makes noises at them towards said tree and, when they try to come after him, he simply teleports into another tree, confusing them ever further. He knows that the lake isn’t too far away from his current location, how about if he can teleport away into near the lake’s edge as a way to get them back to the water they belong.

As the result, he would either throw fire balls at them or toss rocks at them, they chase after him, and he goes ‘poof’ to the next tree towards the lake. Rinse, lather, and repeat, except this time, he is not actually getting too tired from teleporting a lot, being mindful of how much energy he would need to use it.)

[Unfortunately, one Carcinus was able to slip past the defenses and head towards Rowena, menacingly snapping its claws and waving its stinger. Robyn comes back from chasing more animals towards the forest when she sees it happening. She doesn't doubt that Rowena can protect herself, but even if she's afraid of the stingers threatening her directly, she can't hesitate if she sees someone else in danger.

She quickly plants herself between her familiar and the Carcinus, showing all of her teeth and growling as threateningly as she can. At the moment, she's forgotten her own fears; all she can think about is keeping this thing away from Rowena.]

(Meanwhile, Harry is pretty busy with keeping the other Carcinuses very busy as they chase after him towards the lake. As he teleports away onto the trees near the lake with Rose, he does notice that one is missing from the rest of the pack. But there isn’t much that he can do with his hands full with luring the other pesky crab-like creatures into their lake.

Then he focuses in creating a slippery ice ramp on the edge towards the lake and on the ground they stand for them to slip into. They don’t have paws or feet to use to run away, so basically many of them slip right on the icy ground, slide onto the ice ramp, and, one by one, a lot of them fall right into the lake waters, completely dazed and defeated.)

[Meanwhile, Robyn tries to drive the stray Carcinus back, snapping her jaws as much as the creature snaps its claws at her.]

Stay back! Leave her be!

[The Carcinus takes a few steps back, but it doesn't seem to want to budge any further. It still wants food and it's going to get it.]

(Harry is currently making sure that all of the Carcinuses that chased after him through the woods manage to get back into the water as they slip onto the icy ramp he just made; he made sure to make it permanent so it wouldn’t melt away on his watch. Should there be one that is trying to flee, he just simply teleports them either on the icy ramp or into the lake itself.

And to be quite honest, he sort of lost count of the amount of Carcinuses that went after him besides the one who just slipped away. Still, he did make sure to count the ones who went into the water so he doesn’t forget any.)

[Robyn is still making a valiant attempt to defend Rowena from the remaining Carcinus. After a while, the creature seems to decide it's not worth it and scuttles as fast as it can towards the lake...specifically, towards Harry.]

Behind you! [Robyn sees where it's headed and chases after it, calling out a warning. She knows anything she says will just sound like barking to people who don't have animal magic, but she just hopes that can get Harry's attention.]

(Despite not being an animal mage, he does hear Robyn’s warning through the barking loud and clear and he is able to take note of it as soon as that runaway crab-like creature is coming after and is about to snap him like a twig. The noises are so loud that he could hear behind his head.

Soon enough he immediately teleports away from the claws and stingers onto a higher tree branch still near the lake. For a while, the Carcinus is snapping at him in rage while he thinks of something to get it into the lake. Then out of the blue, Hedwig swoops in to distract it, hooting furiously and flying in fast speeds that it couldn’t keep up with her.

Then he musters a strong kinetic magic energy to push it away from the tree he is hiding on and onto the lake with its brethren. Hopefully there aren’t more Carcinuses out there chasing animals in the forest.)

[Robyn is thankful that Harry caught her warning in time, though she wasn't expecting Hedwig to intervene. Birds are useful like that.

She looks back towards the way she came, listening for any sounds of either stray Carcinuses or animals from the woods. Seems like everything's been cleared out for now.]

Are there any more of those Carcinuses running around in the forest now?

(Harry still hasn’t come down from the tree branch right now when Hedwig flies back into his arms and she playfully ‘nibbles’ on his finger out of relief.)

Thanks Hedwig: that was really brave of you to help us out in the last minute in distracting that last Carcinus back to the lake.

[It takes a moment for Robyn to answer, since she has to shift back first.]

I don't think so. I can't hear or smell any more of them near the woods.

Hmm, that’s true. I haven’t any noises so far either.

If that is the case, I think that we’ve managed to bring all of them back to the lake and hopefully they won’t be running around the forest and chasing animals anytime soon.

That's good. Looks like we're done here, then.

[Robyn shudders a bit at the thought of those creatures' stingers.] I hope I don't have to deal with those things again. But...I didn't want to kill any of them, either.

Same here, I just don’t want to put them in harm’s way as well. That would be very terrible.

(He doesn’t want to see more animals and Carcinuses being harmed in some form.)

I guess that we can all go back to Camelot right now and hope for the best.

I suppose.

[Robyn's just glad that the animals are out of harm's way for now. And even if she doesn't like the Carcinuses much, she hopes they can find food somewhere else.]

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