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isleofavalon2021-09-18 03:58 pm
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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 beenan 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 ))
⚔️️ 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
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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It's otherworldly. Which, you know, this whole world is otherworldly by definition, but by now I've gotten so used to Camelot that I hardly think of it that way anymore. It took me a while to come to terms with it, but now? It's not that hard to feel like it's just another place I'm living in. Maybe it's just that humans are always human no matter what, and the fae are far from human.
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[ She thinks, briefly, of the other Lostbelts--even in Russia, where the yaga weren't truly human anymore, they'd still been human in their own way. There's no way to convince her that Patxi had had anything less than the metaphorical human heart, no matter how coldly he'd acted. And Scandinavia, and then China... surely the others will be the same, she thinks.
(She's got no idea what Britain's going to be like.) ]
I don't really know anything about them other than like... kid stories. I guess the closest I'd relate them to are the stories of kami? But even that wasn't that big in my everyday life, before all this started.
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[Look, he's a mythology nerd, and it's a topic he enjoys; studying folklore in a book is never the same as hearing something casually from someone who grew up in the culture. It's a whole other experience, with an added human element, and the human element of folklore is really the point of it. Kadoc peers over at her, a little shy, as they make their way down the alien streets to the fae apothecary.]
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I wouldn't call her superstitious, but... she basically believed in treating everything with respect, whether it was a person or an animal or a thing or a place.
[ There's a fond, distracted little smile on her face as she tells him this. Thinking about it now, she wouldn't be surprised if a lot of her usual attitude was influenced by her grandmother's attitude. What a thing to think about now, walking through this city, worlds away from the little village where her grandmother lives. Lived? Lives. ]
It's not like my family was religious by any real stretch. It was just kind of, I dunno, a general awareness? A thing that was just kind of normal and natural.
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Without realizing it, he smiles a little, for a moment, lopsided. Then it slips away again.]
Every culture's got its own thing. Background awareness or whatever you're thinking of it as. Mages have their own society, but aside from that, I grew up in a pretty Christian country. It's like how I had an awareness of Hell even though we didn't have anything to do with the Church.
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[ Why would the place of punishment be the place he would default to? Is that a him-thing, or is it just a religious-thing? She can't tell; she doesn't know him well enough yet to make more than a guess.
But she does see that smile, and it gives her a little moment of hope. Maybe it isn't a completely foolish venture after all, trying to befriend this prickly, closed-off guy. ]
I guess I wouldn't know, though. Most of what I've thought about is usually more of what's immediately around me.
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[It's not just a him thing!! Not that he considers himself Christian either, but it's still the culture he grew up surrounded by in non-mage contexts, and it's a pervasive one. Now he smiles even more openly, though still briefly. It was funny, okay.]
It's not like it's healthy. But maybe I shouldn't throw stones when it comes to that kinda thing. . . . Even saying that is pretty Christian, though.
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[ But also--she thinks about Solomon, and Goetia, the raging, furiously lonely abandoned Beast at the end of the world. Maybe in light of that, it's not a surprise that their whole religion is just kind of like that. Her lips purse into the beginning of a frown, thoughtful above anything else. It's familiar to her, but also foreign, not unlike this strange fairy city: the buildings aren't wildly weird or different (apparently the fae are still mostly human-shaped, it seems), but nothing about it is something she immediately recognizes. ]
It's just not how I think, I guess.
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[WHOOOOOA! WHO KNEW! WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED THAT KADOC ZEMLUPUS IS JEALOUS OF FUJIMARU RI
No, he's aware himself of how hilarious that thought is, and he snorts loud enough to hear as he swings open the door to the apothecary to lead them both in.]
Not about Hell specifically. Like I said, I'm not Christian. But Christianity isn't the only screwed up culture you didn't grow up in. There's a lot you haven't been twisted by yet, Fujimaru.
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[ Maybe she escaped some terrible things when she was a child, but while it doesn't feel particularly productive to point out that she also has baggage--if not exactly the same kind--it's still a thing. There are things that she knows affect the way she approaches people in her role as Chaldea's Master, and they're not necessarily for the best.
And other than that... it's certainly true there's a handful of saints in Chaldea, but they're far outnumbered by Servants who'd like to drag her down. People who want to see her cry or struggle, that she has done her best to sidestep. It's not like she lives in a vacuum, it's just that she's stubborn enough to push back against influences like that when she notices it happening. ]
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[He says that more quietly, and with that, he turns to take in the sight of the apothecary as they step inside. He hadn't yet put much thought into what the place would look like on the inside.
It isn't just luck to have been born free from certain influences that keeps Fujimaru steady and sane (ish); it's her own will and grounded sense of self, and that's something Kadoc knows he doesn't share.]
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So while Ritsuka continues to follow Kadoc, she does slow down and linger, examining the shelves and their rows of neat, colorful bottles with an open, near-childlike curiosity.
They can talk about the heavier things again later. Right now, she just wants to look. ]
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He's not even really talking to her when he says,]
. . . Cool.
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[ What else is there to say, really? Yeah. It's super cool! Even to someone like Ritsuka, who only really understands the aesthetics more than the actual work that would go into making potions like this, or how they might benefit others. (Or cause trouble; she can't deny that's also a possibility.) ]
They're really pretty.
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[He manages to sound annoyingly smug and not entirely unfriendly about it at the same time, even. It's an unusual tone on him. But despite himself, the potion he delicately picks up in his palm first is in fact the prettiest one his eyes land on: a plain vial, but the liquid inside is a swirl of light and dark blue with gold flecks.]
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[ She deliberately pitches her voice in a (bad) imitation of him, though there's no real annoyance in it. This is the sort of thing she'd have done with one of her old high school friends, playful rather than snotty. ]
C'mon, you can't tell me that mages don't care about aesthetics at all. I'd call you a liar straight to your face.