I can't lie, I've been played

[bakudan_bambino]

🧙 WHO: Gokudera and YOU!
⚔️️ WHAT: Various Quests! (Dark web stuff; getting blugeoned by a vampire pumpkin, failing at making anything bed related)
🕒 WHEN: October
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot
⚠️ WARNINGS: Language, violence


1. SUNS OUT, GUNS OUT


The Vongola may not have a lot of power in Avalon, but back home, they are the strongest mafia family in the world. Right now it merely consists of the Tenth Generation Don-to-be, Sawada Tsunayoshi, and his right-hand man, Gokudera Hayato.

That's it.

They aren't going to operate under some other organized crime calling shots and putting up a quest that would secure their territory. Not when it puts the refugees in any kind of danger. Any smell of a fight and they're going to step in.

Tsuna suggested they disguise themselves, and with the pigmentia potions they earned upon their initial arrival in Avalon in place of hair dye, they've got a brand new look.

"Do you want me to call you Primo or Giotto, Tenth? To get into character?" He's not sure which one would fit better. Giotto is so personal, after all. Primo feels right, but it's not his call, ultimately.

Gokudera is holding a large bow, wearing a quiver of arrows on his back. He's smoking, watching as if on the lookout for some seedy characters, or anyone who may attack a refugee. Good thing the poor souls that arrived in Camelot don't blend in too much.

Cause a scene and see how quickly Gokudera is going to approach you to find out how to help. Whether that's dropping your sweet roll, or just getting into an argument with your bestie. He's on high alert. Good thing he left his leopard at home, or this could get even more chaotic.



2. A QUEST FROM LOCKSLEY

So these pricks won't share their housing, shelter those in need. They won't give food to the hungry. Gokudera's not particularly skilled at gardening, or building anything, cooking, cleaning, and really is only capable of destruction. He's a walking burden.

Usually he hangs out on the dark web to see what he might be able to bust. It helps to have friends who are knights.

But he feels he hasn't done enough, and isn't able to.

So... he used to steal when he was a homeless kid. It's been a while, but he's sure he can do much better now.

The aristocrats aren't even at home. Gokudera at least doesn't have to worry about hurting anyone. He doesn't have his usual bombs with him, just his smoke and flash bombs. He moves quietly, a hood working to conceal his face, and his hair dyed still that pink it had been the other day when he'd been on the lookout for anyone acting under "Camelot's Organized Crime". The only real giveaway for his identity is maybe the smell of smoke or the strange collar around his neck. It's not easily visible, but he also is not actively hiding it.

He's picking a lock and throwing a flat wooden disc under the door to a room. It goes off without making much noise, but shakes the door, and it creaks open. Gokudera takes a step back, turning to glance behind him and check on his whereabouts when he bumps into someone. A light shield jumps over one of his arms and his other hand holds his dagger at the ready.



3. PUMPKIN MAYHEM!

Gokudera isn't super interested in carving pumpkins, but he figures that whatever can be collected when others are done can be roasted, blended, and used for food. He's carved a cat face into a very thick, lumpy pumpkin. When it meows at him and then bites his arm, he's jumping back, and brandishing the cheap tools he'd been using. The pumpkin flies up and lunges for him, and he tries to dodge.

It works, but then he's getting struck by a pumpkin that's going after his neck. ​

"Aughhh!!" There are pumpkin guts and seeds flying everywhere, and he very clearly needs help.



4. BUNKER DOWN

"Done!"

Gokudera smiles at his handiwork. Forget even putting two bed frames together to make a bunk bed. This boy has clearly never built a single bed frame. Everything is wrong.

He moves to put the mattress on top, but it can't even support that much weight, let alone a person. It holds for... maybe thirty seconds before one of the legs just falls off the frame.

"Oh."

He's picking up new nails and his hammer, and hasn't even taken the mattress off. Is he going to attempt to patch it back on while there's still weight on the frame? Yeah.


5. Wildcard
[Did we plan something and I forgot? Wanna hit up something else entirely but aren't sure where? Throw it in here. Just go for it. I'm such a glutton for CR it could be super unrelated and I'd still be down.]

Comments

1

[theskyaccepts]

[Tsuna is nervous. For a number of reasons.

It's the first quest he's done where he's really sticking his neck out rather than keeping his head down. He's really never done something like this unprompted either. Usually it's been Reborn pushing him into these things and not giving him the choice to back out. Well, the option has always been there, he supposes but at the end of the day, he can't take it.

Something about it just feels bigger. Never mind his disguise. He's really only met Vongola Primo once, during the trial of the Vongola. And while he knows the First Generation boss has accepted him, he can only wonder what Primo would think of the disguise. Hopefully he's not treading on some forbidden ground. Or doing some sort of disservice.]

P-Primo is probably better, yeah.

[bakudan_bambino]

[It doesn't feel right to help the Tenth with something dealing with the Dark Web. But... it feels right considering it's the Tenth and Gokudera would do anything for him. And this is not to actually accomplish what was posted, but to thwart it.

They're doing this as vigilantes.

It's kind of exciting, and Gokudera isn't super happy about his magic pink hair. It's not bad, but he's also not certain if the makeup he put on his face is on the right side.]

Alright, Primo.

[He doesn't bow. From what all he learned about the first generation Storm Guardian, they were close. Gokudera puts a hand on his boss's shoulder and looks around.]

[theskyaccepts]

[He's trying not to think of this as mafia training (though Reborn would probably think so). Tsuna just doesn't like the idea of people trying to cause further harm to those already hurting. It just doesn't sit right with him.

Tsuna smiles at the touch, before remembering who he's impersonating and tries to stand up a bit straighter.]

Right. And...it's G, right?

[bakudan_bambino]

[Gokudera is just itching to fight someone, too much pent up aggression without having a regular sparring partner. He's got his boss's back no matter what he wants to do, but this feels good... more on brand for the lessons Reborn-san would teach the Tenth.]

Yes, Primo. Should we talk to any of the refugees, check on them to see if they've heard of any trouble being started, or demands for money made?

[He's not great at talking to normal people without coming across as some kind of angry little delinquent, so he'll let his boss be the kind face that will prompt any concerned refugees to open up.]

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[tantailizing]

Frankly, this guy made it personal. First, Zidane lets some refugees move into the house he's renting, then that group that came around to bother him decided to risk coming back and hassle them, and he finally managed to get one to blab who was paying them to do this.

A noble - pardon him, aristocrat - because of course it was.

He had no difficulty making his way into the house, hood covering him, mask over his face, but not the one he used while taking care of bounty hunters; he wanted to keep those characters separate. He kept his tail hidden and moved quickly, silently, and begins pushing the door open... not realizing someone's pulling the door open until he bumps into them. When he sees a glint of steel, his own dagger is drawn, second at the ready, but he pauses.

"Wha- hey! This is my mark...!"

He keeps his voice at a low hiss. Moguo had scouted the place so what the hell?

[bakudan_bambino]

Gokudera doesn't have such a reason. Honestly, anyone who would turn away a refugee at this point is no-good as far as he's concerned. The boy can't house anyone when he has a leopard living in his apartment. Uri would probably be stressed out, and... that's a wild animal now, not his box weapon.

The face paint do well enough to conceal who he is without requiring a mask, but when he runs into another hooded thief, he narrows his eyes, staring down a dagger drawn in defense.

"Wha- Robin Hood?" Better use the name so he can figure out what's actually going on.

Or if they have the same employer.

[tantailizing]

Keeping his dagger drawn, he narrowed his eyes a bit.

"... You Robin Hood, too?"

He knew the post had said to don a cloak, but there could be someone running around outside of the quest and doing this. Hell, Zidane would've still come after this guy himself, but the quest just happened to line up so well. Though, in this instance, what were the chances of running into someone else? There were other houses.

[bakudan_bambino]

Gokudera actually lowers his dagger some, but mostly because he's an idiot and wouldn't really know what to do with it. Mostly, he uses his fists in fights, and dynamite. It'd probably be better for him to use a smoke bomb in order to escape a fight.

But hearing the name, he blinks honest surprise. "Yeah. I was here first, so you should probably go take from some other rich bastard."

Acting as if this guy is going to get in his way when Gokudera has never actually broken in to steal for someone else's benefit before.

3

[phoenixwiz]

“Whoa, what is going on in here?” Harry must have been blinking his eyes in shock as he sees Gokudera getting attacked by a pumpkin.

He had been busy, trying to carve a face onto a sturdy pumpkin nearby, when he overhears the scene ongoing. It didn’t take long for the cat like lumpy pumpkin to come for him too, but he turns to see it coming for him that he slows down its speed and telekinetically pushes it away from him and into a basket for the time being.

The young man didn’t any waste time as he approaches the bomber and his pumpkin foe and he teleports said pumpkin onto the basket as well.

Once those pumpkins have been dealt temporarily, Harry turns to Gokudera and checks if he is alright, “Hey um, do you need some help with the pumpkins?”

[bakudan_bambino]

"What the fuck does it look like?!" Is Gokudera's yelled response.

He watches as Harry moves the pumpkins away with magic, gets up to wipe pumpkin gut-slime off his arm, and then he's shoving Harry out of the way of another pumpkin.

"What do you think?"

Yes he needs help.

[phoenixwiz]

“It does look like chaos to me,” he replies while ducking his head away from pumpkin guts flying about.

Harry was going to ask about who caused this in the first place when another pumpkin has it eyes on him as it flies across the pumpkin patch to attack him, but it soon gets frosty when he freezes it in place temporarily. The pumpkin in its ice cube then falls onto the ground with a thud.

They need to find a plan to get those annoying pumpkins quickly.

[bakudan_bambino]

There are some carved pumpkins that look like botched attempts. Some of them have little more than a single hole for a face, others lack decent structure. They all seem to be either aggressive or problematic.

Gokudera has no idea how to deal with them. He watches Harry freeze one, then attempts to do that same. Now the vampire-pumpkin has little icicle teeth. Wonderful.

4.

[prontissimo]

[ Alberto's doing his part as a good citizen, and helping to build bunk beds for the refugees. He's been feeling pretty useless since he's gotten here, compared to all these heroic types and adults with cool weapons and generally more experienced, more dangerous, even more adventurous than himself — and he considers himself pretty adventurous...! The things he's always prided himself on in his small life back home are vastly outshone here, and he feels downright minuscule sometimes, late at night on nights he can't sleep and Bruno has a lot to say. But one thing (he feels) he knows how to do for sure is build stuff!

However... he's wrong. He's nearly done with his second set of beds, feeling rather chuffed with himself. The first one has some rough spots with jagged nails, but for the most part looks like it's supposed to, and is holding the weight of both mattresses. The second one is much cleaner — looks pretty good, in fact. Okay, so there are just fewer jagged nails, less noticeably jagged, but it still looks good! And Alberto does, too, he fancies, wearing a headband and feeling the most capable he has since he arrived two months ago. But he actually probably looks ridiculous to anyone else, because he's holding his hammer backwards, yet still wearing a lazy-lidded smug smirk as he works, even with a nail sticking out of his mouth.

Just as he's about to finish the bottom bed frame of his set, one nail left to add, the loud noise of Gokudera's bed crashing next to him distracts him. He looks over with a furrowed brow in nosy confusion, that smug smirk wiped off his face — but only for about thirty seconds, when he sees Gokudera just... reattaching the leg even with the weight still on it. He stops working just to watch, waiting for it to fall again... ]

[bakudan_bambino]

[Gokudera is trying to do his part. He always puts in way too much effort, even when it's clearly not going well. Like this bed, for instance. He hits the nail and it doesn't go in very well. It just bends, so he strikes it further into the wood and puts a screw beside it. Not a nail. Not what's supposed to happen.

No he's never attempted anything carpentry related. The screw goes through and pokes out the other side of the board, not even close to where he was trying to connect it. The boy turns his hammer and correctly uses the back to try and pry the "nail" out.

He's grunting and tugging, and the bed is staying together well, but wobbling. Beds should not do that. It's going to fall right over onto his leg at this rate.]

[prontissimo]

[ Alberto is watching quietly, not even pretending like he's not... but when he sees Gokudera flip the hammer over to pry the nail out with its end, Alberto gives a suddenly wide-eyed worried glance to his own hammer. Which he's suddenly realizing he's been using the wrong way. For like. Ever. Since the first time he ever found a hammer. I mean, his way works, in that... he's smacking a nail... with something heavy and metal... like hammering a nail in with a heavy boot can also "work," though. Doesn't mean he's doing it right just because it "works." Whoops...?

He twists the tool around in his hand with a little unnecessary flair, facing it the right way, and continues to pound in his bottom bed's final nail with mounting gusto as he realizes this is so much easier, holy carp... It goes in very smoothly and neatly like it should — well, comparatively to all his other nails. They're fine, he guesses. He's... suddenly a little less proud of his first bunk bed set. Not that he's admitting that even to himself, glancing at it nervously. It supports the mattress' weight; that's what counts, right? And this one still has the whole top bunk to go, so with his newfound hammer "trick" (he's gonna call it a trick, like that's not its basic and only function), he's gonna make the best bunk beds ever. He crawls around to bang in any stray nails that look like... they... should be hit...? He doesn't know what he's doing, either. But he thinks he does, undeterred, and confidence at least gets things done fast, if not done right.

Satisfied, he rises up to admire his work, standing contraposto with one hand on his hip and holding the hammer in the other as he lets his arm limply hang at his side. He's smiling at his bed frame, but before he moves to grab his mattress for it — he's still curious what the fate of Gokudera's bed is because... it seems dubious... so turns that lazy-lidded gaze back on his neighbor again. Nosy kid. ]

[bakudan_bambino]

[Gokudera has to sit back for a moment and look over his work. He thought he was proud of it, but it's not supposed to wobble. He groans and starts to lift up the mattress, leaning it against the other before he gets to work dismantling the entire thing. Might as well start from square one, now that these boards all have nails in them at odd angles and aren't working together.

He glances over at Alberto's bed while the boy admires, then catches him watching.]

Either help, or mind your business.

[He grumbles and yanks out another nail, which causes the plank it was holding to fall.]

Quest from Locksley

[usedforcepalm]

Hanabi's gone a step further than wearing a hood to hide her identity, and has gone as far as getting a theatrical mask to cover her entire face. Her eyes are distinctive enough that she needs something that will draw people's attention - should she happen to be seen, in the first place. Ideally, she'll simply be quiet enough to get in and get out without anyone identifying her. None of the aristocrats appear to be home, at least.

She's quiet when the other hooded person bumps into her, inwardly chastising herself for being caught off guard like that. Quickly, she draws her kunai in case he wants to fight. She sizes him up carefully, looking for any identifying features when she finally catches a glimpse of what looks like a collar. She's not completely sure that it's him, but the height and build fit. So she speaks quietly when she addresses him.

"Thank you again for the story, Robin Hood."

[bakudan_bambino]

Gokudera starts when he bumps into Hanabi, and has no idea who she is. The kunai drawn sparks a little recognition, but the mask throws him off. He's usually pretty gullible when it comes to disguises, but he also doesn't know many girls her height or build. Still, there's a weapon drawn and he puts his hands up.

Is she also here to complete this dark web task? He has no idea, but at the name and the mention of the story, he mildly flounders.

"Uh... you're welcome?"

That is the same collar that she catches a glimpse of. When he raises his hands, the metal links in the choke click and there is a dim blinking light at his neck. It really sucks that the accessory is such a dead giveaway to his identity. He forgot about it.

[usedforcepalm]

It's hard to forget that collar, and when it automatically reacts to his hands, it's all the more obvious. She puts her kunai away, tucking it back in her clothes to show him she's not a threat.

She'd identify herself, but considering that they're breaking and entering, it might be better to leave that as an unknown for now. After all, while she trusts that he wouldn't intentionally tell on her to the local authorities, there are so many different kinds of magic here. It's possible that some sort of potion that compels people to tell the truth could exist here.

"If you're here about that quest, maybe we can work together and make things go faster. I brought a wagon that can be pulled by hand. It's got a blanket that I stuck hay all over on the outside, so if things were heavy, it would just look like I was pulling along hay bales."

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[emet_sulk]

Emet-Selch happens to be wandering by on his way to forage in the forest for alchemy ingredients when he sees the near-disaster unfolding before his eyes. At first he almost strolls right past - it matters not one whit to him if some novice gets themselves crushed beneath the weight of their own mistakes - but he recognises THIS boy.

"--You fool! Take the mattress off first!" he shouts from afar.

[bakudan_bambino]

Eyes narrowed, hammer in hand, he's ready to swing and strike it in when someone starts yelling. Gokudera gives a start and his hammer swings but misses and strikes the wood. He's letting out a little relieved sigh and looking at his thumb. Could have hit that...

Oh yeah, taking the mattress off would be a good idea, and he'd thank Emet, except the other called out to him with an insult.

"Mind your business!" It's a good idea, though, he's moving the mattress off the wobbly frame. Gokudera doesn't sound upset, perhaps a little dismissive and bratty.

[emet_sulk]

Since the boy is listening to him, he interprets the retort to be a jest rather than serious anger. Striding closer, he takes in the whole of the construction area and its various labourers with a raised eyebrow.

"You know carpentry?"

2

[apshot]

[ Look, Bakugou has his own bone to pick with how these noble assholes aren't really acting all that noble. He has a half a mind to deal with them in a different way, but theft? Stealing? That's not really something he can let slide either. So Bakugou's approach to the whole thing is entirely different.

He can't allow someone to just steal, even if it is for the right reasons. So of course the person that Gokudera is smacking into is none other than one Bakugou Katsuki. ]

If you're gonna fucking stab me, then you better just do it. Otherwise, put that thing away and return the shit you just stole.

sorry for the wait!

[bakudan_bambino]

Oh-

[Gokudera drops a few things, and those quickly are... dynamite? Yeah, smoke bombs disguised as dynamite.]

No.

[And then he's exhaling smoke, and creating a barrier around himself, trying to vanish. The light hits the smoke and can't travel, so he's literally making a barrier out of the light and the smoke in layers, literally backpedaling and concealing what he's stolen to look like his usual gaudy jewelry.]

i'm also moving slowly it's good

[apshot]

[ Lord. Dynamite around a hero named Dynamight. Irony, in a way. But then he doesn't drop shit and instead starts to use his magic.

Bakugou groans. ]

COME THE FUCK ON!

[ This is NOT how his day is supposed to go. If he wants to use smoke? Bakugou will stand there and conjure wind to blow it all away.

And maybe something a little more reckless depending on how this goes. ]