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Kadoc Zemlupus ([personal profile] impostorsyndrome) wrote in [community profile] isleofavalon2021-09-18 03:58 pm

LATE AF SEPT CATCHALL

🧙 WHO: Kadoc and a bunch of people, including perhaps your character?!
⚔️️ WHAT: There sure is a lot of dumb shit happening in the month of September. Both OPEN and CLOSED prompts, the latter in the comments!
🕒 WHEN: IT'S—the month of September. (More specifically, the span from the beginning of the month to the first part of the event, ending before any dragon problems!)
🗺️ WHERE: Here there and everywhere, including Celliwig, ~the club~, straight up prison, and other assorted places around Camelot.
⚠️ WARNINGS: Eventual branding/tattoo/pain stuff, the subsequent servitude that comes along with that prompt, language, sexual themes in ~the club~, likely violence/actiony antics in the jailbreak, animal capture and implied slaughter for food in the event prompt, and I'll add anything else!


1. Kadoc the Stubborn Husky (early Sept., OPEN, thanks a lot Claude)

[Kadoc needs a second opinion. Maybe even a third, fourth, and further opinions. Claude is a lovable scamp and all, but Kadoc is a paranoid bastard, and he can't quite convince himself that he's not being had with the whole—howling thing. He sounds fine to his own ears! He's probably not an Animal Mage, although boy would this be a typically embarrassing way for that to make itself known if he were!

He needs confirmation, but after how that went with Claude, he can't quite bring himself to walk up to anyone and just start talking. What if he really is making dog noises?! So, instead, he's gathering his courage to approach people he recognizes as offworlders and . . . hold up his tablet, on which he has a Notes file open, with this typed in a large, visible font:]


I NEED YOUR HELP. NOTHING DANGEROUS.

[ . . . This could have been an email a network post, but he's not exactly on his game right now. Who can blame him?]


2. Jailhouse Rock (early Sept., CLOSED to Kate, Jailbreak quest)
Here!

3. Amanita Bigger Basket (early Sept., CLOSED to Ritsuka, Celliwig's month of magical mushes)
Here!

4. Super Smash Bros Part 2: The Revenge of the Smash (mid Sept., CLOSED to Itaru, The Pain-Tolerant Badass)
Here!

5. Your Obedient Servant (mid Sept., CLOSED to Rinea, The Caring Badass)
Here!

6. Lukewarm Knights (mid Sept., CLOSED to Gareth and Ritsuka, Hot Knights quest)
Here!


7. Jailbreak Part 2: The Great Goosening (late Sept., OPEN, the cute part of the event)

[Kadoc has had, to say the least, an unlucky month—but here finally there's a break, or at least a small pleasure. He's already spent plenty of time out in the wilderness gathering mushrooms this month and was debating whether to bother going on an end-of-month hunt, only for the hunt to come to him for once. A chance to grab a pre-fattened goose for their table to go with all those mushrooms? Don't mind if he does!

The geese have other ideas, of course. By now, Kadoc's managed to humanely return several of them to the farm; his Light magic helps there. It's no big deal to snap them up in cages of hard light and then carry those back to where they belong. But geese are smart. Geese are watching him. And when he finally snaps up the fattest of the geese he can find to take home for himself, shutting it up in another light cage and hefting it under his arm, that's when they make their move.

Catch Kadoc racing down the streets of Camelot, vaguely in the direction of his home, but mostly just in any direction that's away from the ten furious honking geese in hot pursuit of him. He's only barely watching where he's going. Watch out, or you could get swept up in this disaster and end up a feather pillow yourself!

Or save him. Someone, please save him from this entire month.]



(( Check out my plotting meme post here if you're interested in setting anything else up with Kadoc this month outside of the upcoming event; I'm happy to oblige! Also if I forgot to get one up hmu. It was a lot lol ))
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-09-20 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Wh-- is it that big a deal?!

[ Is it a secret gold item?! Considering the trouble it had been to get one, she's not surprised, but the vehemence of his response does startle her. ]

Nothing else about this mystic code works except for dealing with the elements, so what was I supposed to do with it... you can just have it, if you want it that much?

[ Kadoc... would probably be a Caster, wouldn't he? He doesn't quite have the certain sort of intensity that she associates with Avengers. It's the sort of dumb passing thought that goes through Ritsuka's mind. Okay, he's a Caster who's going to need these eggs for skills or something, cool. ]
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-09-21 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
I just said I'd give it to you??

[ Kadoc, please. She's using her words and everything. ]

Call it--I dunno, call it a thanks for that lunch last month, if you're so worried about paying it back. But I'd rather it get used for something, because it's otherwise just kind of taking up space in my room...

[ Eventually, hopefully, she'll break the farming habit. She doesn't have a storeroom here! At least the wool she's been selling (almost) immediately for cash, but that also starts taking up a lot of space after a while. ]
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-09-24 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ She makes faces right back at him. He started it! If he wants to act childish, she has no qualms in matching him tit for tat. Honestly, it's preferable to how she remembers him from home--the way he'd carried himself, like he was cringing even as he was standing still, defensive even in defiance. ]

I've been shearing a lot of sheep this month. I'm planning on hitting up some more. That reward's not anything to sneeze at, you know?

[ So many sheep. She's a little surprised there aren't still tufts of wool clinging to her clothes. She does follow without hesitation at least; even if they are fighting like kids, she doesn't really think he's leading her anywhere dangerous. ]

Anyway, I don't need it, and I don't need the prize you get for trading it in, and you do. Therefore, you should just take the egg, or I'm gonna chuck it at the back of your head when we get back to Camelot.
Edited 2021-09-24 03:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-09-25 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine.

[ Ritsuka sticks her tongue out in brief response, then moves to crouch down next to him. That... looks like a mushroom, all right. It doesn't appear to be anything different from the varieties she's seen in grocery stores back in Japan: more dirt-covered, less plastic-packaged, but still. A mushroom!

It has not occurred to her that they might have to spend the night in Celliwig. In her head, the vague plan was to drag themselves back to Camelot by nightfall, and he can go home and she can maybe find some nice soft ground to sleep on, because Ritsuka's great skill is her ability to sleep anywhere. And he's not wrong to think she doesn't have the money for a real hotel or anything like that. ]


So... that's one of the edible ones, right?
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-09-30 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's true; Ritsuka is very bad at participating in activities that involve dying or killing the other person.

She is, however, very invested in food and aware that she is not the best at it. Most of what she's capable of are immediately rice-related, where the mushrooms have already come neatly packaged for her to use. She folds her arms on her knees, leaning forward to get a better look. ]


I've got a knife... I haven't had the chance to get a better one.

[ Read: it's a pretty dinky little pocket knife sort of thing, already banged up and battered from hard use, a month and some change in. ]

Anyway, trust me, I'm not interested in poisoning myself or anyone. Did it once, didn't like it much.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-03 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't be nearly as dramatic without all the snow. Give it a few more months.

[ She manages to be mostly deadpan in reply, but there's a small pleased smirk on her lips at his laugh. It's the sort of thing that she wouldn't necessarily say to a Servant or a member of Chaldea's staff for fear of a a genuinely upset reaction--but it's safe to do that with Kadoc, right? Even if she hits bond level 10 with him someday, it doesn't undo what happened. It can be built on, but not taken away.

But when he offers his phone, she takes it easily enough, scrolling idly through the bullet points of information, on to the next couple of pages, then back again. The silence is companionable on her part until she finally finds the page for this mushroom and has to pause and contemplate. ]


Mario is real.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-04 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't just randomly eat whatever I find lying around, don't worry.

[ Even the poisoned cake had at least been a cake! A very cute cake, left in an area where one would expect to find a cake! No matter how reckless she can be in other scenarios, she's (usually) careful about what she puts in her mouth.

Now, though, she has to take a moment to contemplate the idea that maybe not only is the Mario mushroom real, but in a world with its own rules of magic, it might work the way it does in the game... ]


...But now I'm gonna be looking at all the roofs when we get there. If there's a lot of patches, you might be on to something.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-05 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'd wonder how they manage, but I've definitely learned that giants are better at hiding than you'd expect.

[ She follows after him, because of course she does, still idly paging through the entries on the app. It's kind of neat, in a way that Ritsuka very rarely takes the time to slow down and pay attention to. Most of her knowledge has come hard-won on the fly, in desperate action, and not read from neatly written and researched text. ]

I guess, if you see any beanstalks climbing up into the sky, give me a call.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-06 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
No, they were more--...

[ Ah. Hm. He surely must guess that, if she's gone through three Lostbelts at this point, that the Crypters she's faced along the ways are dead.

(Hinako is a special case, though. Ritsuka still isn't sure whether she should tell him about her or not--if he does someday come to Novum Chaldea, then he'll need to know then, but what if Hinako arrives here? She'd be so mad that anyone knew the truth beyond the immediate need-to-know basis...)

Ophelia, though. Ophelia is gone.

For now, she puts off finishing the sentence, crouching down next to him to peer at these new mushrooms for a few seconds before she starts scrolling through the app until she finds what she thinks they are. ]


...do they really call these "Satan's mushroom"? Wow.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-09 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and you're not supposed to point that kinda thing out.

[ SIGH. There are rules, Kadoc!!

But she pokes at a red SATAN MUSHROOM a couple of of times with a finger, listlessly, then sighs. ]


I dunno how much you know about the other Lostbelts... but there were a bunch of giants in Scandinavia. The Director kind of lost his mind a little the first time we ran into any. Given the circumstances, I'm gonna assume they were as close to the kinds that you might've once found in Proper Human History, too.

We never got great at dodging them, but we got better at it as time went on.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-11 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just weird.

[ Wow she'll cut them in a moment, jeeze. Some things aren't really suited for multitasking. ]

They were your friends--or, fine, at least your teammates, right? It feels like I'm giving you bad news, but you've probably guessed some of what's happened.

[ He knows that she's denied three Lostbelts by now, including his own. He knows which two they were. And he's a pessimistic sort of guy; the fact that he still expected her to be hostile to him after they'd spared his life in Russia says a lot. Surely Kadoc has no illusions about what happened to Ophelia and Hinako.

...Even if Hinako's circumstances are a little more complicated. ]


The way the Scandinavian Lostbelt was run--it was just a different kind of desperate than Russia. The balance might have been even more delicate. The giants were part of that.
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-13 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...Not personally, but who knows? Ask me again in a few months.

[ It's a joke, a joke. Though it's quieter than usual, something that is halfhearted and she knows it. She's still idly prodding at the first of the poisonous mushrooms, trying to gather her thoughts. Maslow, Maslow, where has she heard that before... ah. ]

That's the guy with the hierarchy pyramid, right? The things that you need, as a living thing. I don't have it memorized or anything, but yeah, I know about it.

And I wouldn't even argue with you. Between the Yaga and the people in Scandinavia... I think the Yaga would have been better-equipped to survive.

[ In Scandinavia and in China both. The Yaga might have feared the thing that Ivan had become, but the existence of the rebellion at all had been a spark of independence, a desire for things outside of the secure, safe regimes that both of the other Lostbelts had existed under. ]
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[personal profile] fujimaru 2021-10-19 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
I know you're not. Neither am I.

[ She says it without rancor or accusation. He's not that sort of guy--she does believe what Mash and Da Vinci have said about him, that he's kinder than he might initially appear, but Ritsuka knows very well that kindness doesn't necessarily mean that kind of selflessness. Neither of them come anywhere close to qualifying as saints, no matter how well they treat the others around them.

He's not a savior. Neither is she. ]


Scandinavia and China were almost the opposite of that. China especially. Everything the people could need or want was just given to them, almost immediately. No one was sick, no one went hungry... and in Scandinavia people were protected and cared for, as long as they stayed in their villages.

But that's the thing. It was like... their needs were being met, and it was like all the life had just been sucked out of them. There wasn't any fight in them at all. They believed everything that the Lostbelt Kings told them.

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