isleofavalon | October Open Quest Log

🧙 WHO: Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck and whoever!
⚔️️ WHAT: Taking on a number of this month's quests
🕒 WHEN: Throughout the first half of the month
🗺️ WHERE: Various places
⚠️ WARNINGS: Headless Horseman in Prompt B

A. Smashing Pumpkins [Pumpkin Mayhem - Drake/Darkwing]

[At first, Drake Mallard loved the idea of decorating some pumpkins! Nice way to get into the Halloween spirit. So one can join the civilian duck as he paints and/or carves some pumpkins. Of course, most of the designs he uses are based on Darkwing Duck and some of his villains! Join him during the calm before the storm and help him with decorating pumpkins... or when they start to come alive and take the off-duty hero by surprise!

Or later on, after he's made a costume change, Darkwing Duck will do some more patrols of the area and see if anyone else is having any trouble with rogue pumpkins...]

B. Heading Places [Don't Lost Your Head - Darkwing]

[When he hears rumors about the headless horseman, it sounds like a job for Darkwing Duck! ...A particularly scary job, but a job nonetheless!

And so, he ends up showing up to protect some volunteers who are cleaning up bodies in Celliwig. He keeps some distance from the volunteers and watches from the shadows because of his aesthetic. Perhaps someone is staking this out with him, or is one of the volunteers that this duck is trying to protect.

Or skip ahead to when the Headless Horseman makes his entrance, and Darkwing springs into action... starting with his catchphrase, of course!]

I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I am the dental floss that has been dropped into your candy bag!
I am... Darkwing Duck!

C. Beddy or Not [Bunker Down - Drake]

[So what happened at the end of last month sure was depressing! He felt some relief in being able to do his part to help save people from Lestari, but especially as a hero, he feels the punch from all of those that weren't saved elsewhere. So he throws himself into some relief work so that he can do something to help the survivors!

And so Drake can be seen at the woodworking sight, where he tries to help out with constructing some bunk beds. One can catch him in one of several scenarios. Tired out from all of his work, he could end up taking one of the unfinished beds for a trial run by passing out on it. Or he could be seen doing some strange work for one bed, like making the carving of a duck head coming from the foot of a bed, and also several imperfectly-shaped wheels off on the side... is he trying to make a Darkwing Duck racecar bed...?]

D. Wildcard

[Feel free to come up with an alternate prompt or hit me up for plotting!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Clearly anyone who works together with him is neatly classified under the same box! Life is simple and not confusing at all.

He responds with a grin.]

Exactly! After all, two heads are better than none!

[Darkwing looks prouder than he's ever been, as if he's waited all day for the perfect chance to make that joke, which Juzo has just delivered to him. Man he's missed him!]

I haven't seen any sign of him yet. Have you!

[ Well, if their ability to banter and set each other up perfectly for jokes in any indication, then real life isn’t going to be so different from that video game after all. ]

Not yet.

[ Those seem to be the magic words, however. Down the way, where some of the volunteers are doing the grim work of tending to the fallen, someone screams. ]

[This guy's still got a gun head, so Darkwing figures business might be the same!

He's about to continue the casual banter when he hears the scream.]

We can catch up later! It sounds our quarry's found us! [He wastes no time dashing towards the volunteers!]

[ Just by virtue of stride, Juzo outpaces Darkwing, pulling ahead of his friend as they both make a mad dash for the source of the commotion.

There sure is a cloaked figure on horseback charging a small group of volunteers – and he sure is missing a head. Juzo wasn’t sure if that bit was literal or not, since one can never tell. Most of the volunteers scatter, but one woman gets tripped up in the chaos. Juzo springs forward to gather her into his arms and duck under the swing of the horseman’s blade. Steel clashes with steel in a shower of sparks as the blow glances off Juzo’s head.

Well, that could have gone much worse. He lets the woman go and turns to assess the enemy and wherever Darkwing’s ended up. ]

You came to the wrong place if you’re lookin’ to get ahead, buddy.

[ Ah, yes. It begins. ]

[Darkwing rushes up in Juzo's footprints, and witnesses from a few yards back as he pulls off that rescue! Now that's a cool entrance. He feels jealous!]

Aw, you beat me to it! [Juzo really headed him off to that joke.] Never mind that, this intro isn't over yet!

[With that, he just... deploys the smoke bomb as he introduces himself.]

I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I am the nemesis you shouldn't lose your head over...
I am Darkwing Duck!

[He poses! ...And now maybe he can actually focus on the action!]

[ The smokescreen seems a little redundant, since Juzo has already stormed onto the scene, but he’s understanding that with Darkwing – video game or no video game – the intro is important.

It’s hard to tell just where the horseman is looking, since it doesn’t have a head and all, but Darkwing manages to catch its attention nicely, evident only because the horseman’s body language shifts in that direction.

In fact, the horseman spurs his horse on to charge right at Darkwing, sword flashing. It probably figures the one without the head made of metal makes a better target, but as it charges away from Juzo he snaps a hand out, grabbing ahold of the apparition’s cape with kinetic magic to yank him from the horse.

Of course, that still leaves the horse on a mad dash right at Darkwing. ]

[And down that horseman goes, right off his horse! Darkwing continues to be impressed with Juzo and tries to cheer him on.]

Nice one, budd- eee! [He realizes the horse is still coming right at him! He leaps up into the air - and ends up landing on the horse's back, clinging desperately to it while facing backwards as it continues trampling around.]

I- I'm okay!!

[ Well, that sure is happening. Too bad the horseman himself is quick to get back on his feet and brandish his sword at Juzo. Juzo drops into a defensive stance while the ghost stares him down - Juzo assumes he’s staring, anyway. Hard to tell when the guy doesn’t have a head.

In the background, Darkwing and the horse speed by, and Juzo can only think, “Oh, hell.” ]

Grab the reins!

[ He’d help but he’s kind of busy here!! ]

Of course...! Exactly... what I... was thinking!

[He grunts those words while bumping around with the horse's movements! Holding onto the horse for dear life, he manages to turn himself around and grips the reins! Now the horse tries to buck hin off, but Darkwing remains determined!]

Your 'rein' of terror... ends here!!

[ He loses track of Darkwing and the horse for a moment because the horseman charges him with a swing of his blade. Juzo ducks under it and the two of them dance around a bit, dodging and attacking by turn. ]

Darkwing! Quit horsing around!

[ Maybe he can get the horseman into the path of the horse? But there’s no telling what the animal will do. ]

Neigh!! [He cries back with a grin, while he tries his best to keep a reign on the horse.]

I'm just trying to "whinny" this one, Juzo! Let's try to get on the same path here.

[The horse seems more focused on getting Darkwing off than anything else. So he'll take advantage of that, subtly shifting his control on the reins in an attempt to make the horse unwittingly collide with its true master!]

That one felt like a reach.

[ Somehow Juzo manages to sound deadpan even while fighting off a ghost with a sword. The horseman goes for an overhead swing, and Juzo blocks the blade with the back of his hand, sparks striking again as it hits the ammo chamber there.

But he does manage to keep the horseman’s sword locked up long enough for his own horse to plow right into him.

Juzo skips back a step to keep out of the way of flying hooves. ]

I’ll take that, though. Nice shot!

They can't all be winners!

[Except they are all winners in Darkwing's eyes! He keeps a hold on the reins as he continues bouncing around on the horse's back.]

Thanks! Did- did it work? Is he down for the count? Can I stop?! [He's starting to feel dizzy!]

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