January Catch All (open + closed prompts)

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🧙 WHO: Azul + you!
⚔️️ WHAT: January Quests and whatever else
🕒 WHEN: The entire month
🗺️ WHERE: Everywhere probably
⚠️ WARNINGS: None atm

Ice Fishing

["You can't use rods or nets or anything! Gotta dive in the water yourself!"

Please. The only concern Azul has about this is if gorge is big enough for him to actually swim in.

Thankfully either the gorge is large enough or whatever magic works to allow him to transform when wet takes location into account, as Azul has no problems once he's transformed (though someone passing by may be extremely concerned since Azul's skin is...well, it's purple. And he's in freezing cold water. Unless you happen to see one of his tentacles come up with fish, you would be forgiven for thinking he has hypothermia.

Or maybe you've seen this before and are just looking to harass a hard working merman. Either/or!]

Wizards Gone Wild

[Honestly, Azul is only doing this because calendar sales almost always go up around this time of year and he's never actually managed to get in on that particular part of the market. This will be a good chance to get data on what sorts of stationary people are looking for, too, so yes. Azul can be found selling the Wizards Gone Wild calendars before business hours at the Golden Silence, either in the restaurant itself or just at the market, when he taps you on the shoulder.]

Excuse me. I'm certain you've bought one already, given that all proceeds are going to charity, but would you be interested in a calendar? And, perhaps, filling out this quick survey?

[God, he hates surveys. How do Jade and Floyd get all their info? Has Azul been employing sketchy eavesdroppers for the last few years?

(Yes, Azul. Yes you have.)]

Beta Testing -- Closed to Jade Leech

[Knock knock, Jade.]

Jade? I have something I want to try out with you. It's for a quest, and it sounded interesting.

Wildcard

[Want something else? Hit me up via DMs or on my Plurk! Azul will be doing the above, but he'll also be at his restaurant!]

Comments

ice fishing

[concierto]

[Venti himself really isn't into the quest life. Working for a living? No, he's not about that.

But he is curious where he stands on the edge of that gorge looking down at the freezing cold water. He stops for a second and pulls the edges of his warm cloak up to his chin and squints. Hard.]

A moment please! ... Azul? Is that you? Are you sick? Why in the world are you in that frozen water?

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[Azul glances up, squinting before realizing that it's just Kaeya yelling down at him.]

Ice fishing. Apparently these fish can't be caught with rods or nets.

[Wait. "Sick"?

...right. He holds up one of his arms, turning it a few different ways to show off how he's perfectly uniformly purple.]

I'm fine.

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[Who fishes without rods or nets but with skinny dipping...?]

Ehe? Are you sure? You're looking a little ... ahem. Fishy.

[He's squinting harder...]

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[And at that, Azul brings a tentacle with a fish up from the water, dropping the fish into a nearby bucket.]

You don't say.

[Didn't he tell Kaeya he was a merman? Did he hallucinate that conversation?]

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[Oh, don't worry. He remembers.]

So you are a fish! Sort of. ... Ehe.

[Ew...]

You have all the purple and tentacles that there is...

Beta Testing

[mushroomaficionado]

[Jade had been about to get to work on the terrarium he bought and was doing to ignore that knock, but since it's Azul, he very well can't.]

Come in Azul. And what quest would that be? I know you had said there were few that suited your skills here.

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[Please no more mushrooms.]

And this month there are two I don't actually mind. Amazing, isn't it? [He holds up the stone.] This one, about the "dalmation stone", if you're willing.

[mushroomaficionado]

[For once there are none!]

Ah, dalmatian stone? Well, I will try almost anything once, as you know. What would I have to do?

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I'll bleed on it, and then hand it to you, and we see what happens. Knife, please.

Wizards Gone Wild!

[arf]

[ Taichi balks, clutching the tote bag he has with the biggest puppy eyes when Azul asked him that. He came.. to try to sell one to Azul...

No, stay determined! You can do it, Taichi! ]

I'll buy one of yours if you buy one of mine!? And I'll fill out your survey!

[ He pulls one of the same calendars out of the totes. ]

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[. . .

Eh, he'll just resell it to someone else. Possibly at a slight mark up. Azul shrugs and reaches for the calendar, handing over his own and the survey.]

It's just something to figure out if calendars and stationary are really what people want from a charity drive, and if so: what kinds.

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[ Taichi takes Azul's and gives him the money, then thinks for a second, then withholds his. ]

Do you want me to sign it? I'm in there, it'll be pretty cool to have a real actor's autograph, right?

[ Please let him sign it, he wants to.. feed his ego. ]

Ohh. You should talk to Hikaru, he's really good at selling merch kinda stuff. I guess they did it all the time at his host club back in Japan.

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[Smile!]

Please, sign it.

[Feed the ego, possibly get something useful to sell later....]

Hikaru?

Wizards Gone Wild

[tantailizing]

Ah, you're selling the calendars too! Ehe, sorry, I already got one.

[Also, if Azul had gone through the calendar, he'd know the guy standing before him had actually been in two images: one with the Kaika Theater and another on his own.]

How many takers have you gotten?

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[Azul had not looked through it. Not like anyone in there is likely gonna be his type anyway--]

Five or six. [A sigh.] Apparently half of Camelot decided to try and sell these things, so most people already have them.

[tantailizing]

Yeah, that sounds about right. More buyers than sellers would be great about now.

[But, tilting his head, he nods.]

Well, what should we do to guarantee you a new sell?

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Advertise, but I don't have the time or resources to try and set that up for a short charity sale.

Wizards Gone Wild

[colchismagecraft]

[Because Caster's life is suffering, who should she find but her not-rival giving her a tap on the shoulder, and offering her that calendar.

She was so glad for the hood covering up her face- please say he hadn't looked through it and seen her picture in there!]

...Aren't you a little young for selling these sorts of things?!

[He was a teenager, wasn't he?]

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[?]

No? Obviously, or I wouldn't be.

[Caster is spared. Azul did not look.]

[colchismagecraft]

Oh good.

[That's one crisis averted at least!]

...What does that survey have to do with any of this?

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I want to see what other stationary people might want, of course. Calendars only sell for about two months, after all.

ice fishing;

[prontissimo]

[ Alberto's chosen to harass a hard-working merman, yes.

But at least he's a hard-working sea monster, himself.

Alberto's embarked on this quest with very little hesitation. Yes, the waters are really cold, far colder than he's used to... But this is what he does, man! He's gotta prove himself here! Hard work isn't comfortable! Plus, y'know, he needs the money. He always needs the money... So he's determined to catch as many of these fish as possible.

He's, naturally and as he'd described to Azul before, transformed into his sea monster form underwater, his long tail and prominent dorsal fin helping him zip through the waters at, really, a rather impressive speed. He's carrying a canvas bag hanging on his shoulder trailing along behind him, suspended in the water... who knows what he's got in there, but he's brought stuff, apparently. He also has a strange staff, like a shepherd's, and indeed seems to be trying to herd the needlenose fish with it, chasing them toward one another with varying success. He's only just started out, but he's feeling very certain and confident that he's going to excel at this quest with flying colors.

When he catches sight of Azul in the distance, though, it does distract him from the task at hand. He remembers the man had said something about being an octopus merman the first time they'd spoken online over video. Alberto's only seen locals here in Avalon who look like that. He's not so sure it's not a local, at first, and if it were he probably wouldn't approach them, still salty about being turned away from their village in the lake; but when he catches a glimpse of Azul's hair from afar, he's certain it's the same guy. He's so fast swimming over to him with a big grin on his face, calling out excitedly, his voice just slightly garbled by being underwater. He may look far more different as a sea person than Azul does, the Change being much more pronounced with his kind, but it's recognizably — perhaps unfortunately — but still obviously Alberto.

Oh, boy. Here we go. Cuz Azul really needs all this excess energy around right now, right? ]

Heeeeyyy~! It's you! Right?! You're that guy! Ciaooo~!

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[Oh for the love of little blue fish.

Well, Azul can certainly tell this is Alberto because wow. Who the heck else could it be?

He does his best not to let his annoyance show as he's suddenly got a fourteen year old monster in his face like this. He just uses a tentacle to enforce his personal bubble.]

Azul, yes. Alberto?

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[ Alberto takes the hint from Azul's wandering tentacle and floats backwards comfortably, not even slightly put-off or abashed. He's grinning ear-to-ear, baring sharp teeth, green eyes bright and excited, the now-yellowed whites almost glowing in the underwater dimness. He shifts to rest his fishherd's staff behind his head, hanging his arms on it as he leans back suspended in the water, as if lounging. ]

Haha, yeah~! You recognized me! So, have you caught any of these weird fish yet, huh?

[ Natural assumption. Unless, y'know, this guy just likes chilling out in ice-cold lakes for fun. No judgment. ]

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Several. I've already turned in a few buckets.

[Why is this child talking to him.]

I take it you're here to do the same?