LATE AF SEPT CATCHALL

[impostorsyndrome]

🧙 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 ))

Comments

[fujimaru]

That's true. But it's not for lack of things trying.

[ 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. ]

[impostorsyndrome]

. . . Yeah. I know that much. I'm jealous of that, too.

[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.]

[fujimaru]

[ She chooses to let that thread of conversation drop for now. It's not something she wants to talk about in a more closed-in space like this--it's not like walking into a modern mall, but they're certainly not the only people who have been bringing in their mushrooms for harvest. Even though she's trailing after him to the counter, she's also getting distracted. Like everything else in this fairy city, the things here are unique in ways she isn't used to--it's been so long since she's been able to even casually shop.

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. ]

[impostorsyndrome]

[They're the same in this way. Kadoc had walked in focused on their task, and that had lasted all of two seconds: there's so much to see! Fae potions, things he could never hope to see back home, but here they are, real as anything. Just a shop they can walk into and browse. He makes a little sound, under his breath, and drifts over to get a good look at a bright and attention-grabbing row of little vials. Like a kid in a candy store, yeah.

He's not even really talking to her when he says,]

. . . Cool.

[fujimaru]

Yeah.

[ 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.

[impostorsyndrome]

Heh. Of course that's where your mind goes. Not that you're wrong. It's just what I'd expect of someone who's not a mage.

[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.]

[fujimaru]

"Just what I'd expect from someone who's not a mage."

[ 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.