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isleofavalon2021-09-04 06:15 pm
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SEPTEMBER CATCH-ALL
🧙 WHO: Claude and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: September shenanigans - potion mishaps and pain-tolerant badassery
🕒 WHEN: Throughout the month
🗺️ WHERE: Around Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: CWs for branding and consensual submission for the second and third prompts.
1. POTION DISASTER
[Potions had become something of a side hobby for Claude since he arrived on the island earlier in the year. Much like his fascination with poison back home, he liked experimenting with different ingredients and seeing what kind of -- hopefully non-lethal -- effects he could produce. Who knows when that knowledge could be useful one day? However, without a magical talent for alchemy granted to him on arrival, his actual ability is still... quite some ways away from mastery.
Which is why he has a case full of dud potions he's dutifully carrying back to the nearest apothecary where they can be disposed of responsibly, or, at the very least, salvaged into something usable by someone who actually knows what they're doing.
Should you be unfortunate enough to pass by him, it's at that exact moment that he trips, and he watches in horror as the case upends right out of his hands and sends a potion (or two, or three, or five) crashing into the unfortunate victim, drenching them.]
Gah--! I'm so sorry! Let me help--!
[Feel free to choose whatever disastrous effect you want the potion to have, or RNG something from this list. Just keep in mind Claude hasn't mastered potion-brewing so the effects are going to skew negative or just plain weird from his mess-ups.]
2. THE PAIN-TOLERANT BADASS (cw: branding)
[Having gotten wind of preparations for the autumn equinox, and being well aware of what nasty repercussions could happen when spirits are allowed to move about unchecked in Avalon, Claude decided it was best to help pitch in and take on one of the spirit guardians. He's not sure he trusts the entire process, honestly, but the locals seem to swear by it, and the costs of not having enough volunteers probably outweigh the risks of helping.
Which is why Claude is stripped down to the waist, sitting on a block of obsidian and eyeing up a potential volunteer to help with the preparations.]
Are you sure you want to do this? I may be gorgeous, but this won't be pretty.
3. THE CARING BADASS (cw: consensual submission)
[For anyone who wants to volunteer to take care of Claude! As this will vary according to CR, feel free to write your own starter or comment and I'll write a personalised starter. Claude will only agree to this with people he has preexisting CR with and who he trusts; feel free to hit me up via PM/moonsilver#4734/![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
moonsilver if you're not sure.]
4. WILDCARD
[Choose your own adventure! As above, write your own starter or hit me up to plot.]
⚔️️ WHAT: September shenanigans - potion mishaps and pain-tolerant badassery
🕒 WHEN: Throughout the month
🗺️ WHERE: Around Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: CWs for branding and consensual submission for the second and third prompts.
1. POTION DISASTER
[Potions had become something of a side hobby for Claude since he arrived on the island earlier in the year. Much like his fascination with poison back home, he liked experimenting with different ingredients and seeing what kind of -- hopefully non-lethal -- effects he could produce. Who knows when that knowledge could be useful one day? However, without a magical talent for alchemy granted to him on arrival, his actual ability is still... quite some ways away from mastery.
Which is why he has a case full of dud potions he's dutifully carrying back to the nearest apothecary where they can be disposed of responsibly, or, at the very least, salvaged into something usable by someone who actually knows what they're doing.
Should you be unfortunate enough to pass by him, it's at that exact moment that he trips, and he watches in horror as the case upends right out of his hands and sends a potion (or two, or three, or five) crashing into the unfortunate victim, drenching them.]
Gah--! I'm so sorry! Let me help--!
[Feel free to choose whatever disastrous effect you want the potion to have, or RNG something from this list. Just keep in mind Claude hasn't mastered potion-brewing so the effects are going to skew negative or just plain weird from his mess-ups.]
2. THE PAIN-TOLERANT BADASS (cw: branding)
[Having gotten wind of preparations for the autumn equinox, and being well aware of what nasty repercussions could happen when spirits are allowed to move about unchecked in Avalon, Claude decided it was best to help pitch in and take on one of the spirit guardians. He's not sure he trusts the entire process, honestly, but the locals seem to swear by it, and the costs of not having enough volunteers probably outweigh the risks of helping.
Which is why Claude is stripped down to the waist, sitting on a block of obsidian and eyeing up a potential volunteer to help with the preparations.]
Are you sure you want to do this? I may be gorgeous, but this won't be pretty.
3. THE CARING BADASS (cw: consensual submission)
[For anyone who wants to volunteer to take care of Claude! As this will vary according to CR, feel free to write your own starter or comment and I'll write a personalised starter. Claude will only agree to this with people he has preexisting CR with and who he trusts; feel free to hit me up via PM/moonsilver#4734/
4. WILDCARD
[Choose your own adventure! As above, write your own starter or hit me up to plot.]
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seriously, was Claude always this pretty? he's finding it hard to keep his train of thought going. especially when he's offered a jacket. )
That's... Yes, thank you! ( gosh darn it. his tongue's all tied up. this isn't fair. but he'll scramble out of the coat and reach for the offered jacket.
right. c'mon, brain, you can function!!! just. talk about... something that isn't Claude's pretty eyes. )
Maybe we should, uh... try to clean this up?
( totally not an excuse to spend more time with Claude, nope. is his heart rate picking up? huh. )
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Right. Do you have any magic that can help? If not, there's an apothecary not far from here. We can get some stuff to clean up with from them.
[And deal with these other potions before Claude can wreak any more havoc... He reaches to pick up the crate of remaining potions, looking sheepish.]
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I'm afraid cognitive magic isn't made for clean up... We could use my coat. It's already stained, after all!
( he wants to be helpful, okay! just. right now he's a little... overly enthusiastic about it, even for Maruki. )
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Oh, don't worry about it. Your coat will get even more ruined if you do that. Let's just head over there, shall we?
[He waves for Maruki to follow, hoping he'll listen despite that... weird mood of his.]
can't believe i come to tag this right after sad rumi introspection hours
... which is something he hasn't thought about in a long time, but maybe, just maybe, that discussion with Akira wasn't wrong.
could he be happy again, after everything? )
S-sure.
( let's go! and, uh, while they walk; )
Um... Do you want to get a drink sometime?
( wow this is. much harder when his brain keeps thinking about end of the night kisses. haha how long has it been since he even tried asking anyone out... )
🥺 mawookee
Er, sure-- but shouldn't we talk about it after you're cleaned up?
[And out of the influence of whatever potion's making him act weird...]
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Y-you're right. ( sigh, at least they're close to the apothecary, which will probably be a relief for Claude as Maruki continues to ramble; )
I haven't, um, asked anyone out in a long time. Guess I got ahead of myself.
( was he this nervous when he was first approached by Rumi? ... actually, he was probably worse. high school. it's cringe. )