February open log

[emet_sulk]

🧙 WHO: Emet-Selch and anyone
⚔️️ WHAT: Coming out of a sleep (canon update) and throwing himself into quests to distract himself from new memories
🕒 WHEN: Throughout February
🗺️ WHERE: See prompts
⚠️ WARNINGS:
- Possible sexual content in the arrow threads.
- Potential spoilers for Endwalker, let me know if you are fine with them or not.


1. G(lacial)-Warriors 🗡️ (Knight quest)

A quest is just what he needs to take his mind off the plethora of revelations to come from his day of forced slumber - and what better way than to go out and hit something until it falls to pieces? He takes his gunblade, his horse, and the provisions provided by Camelot to all knights embarking on this particular journey. In typical fashion, he does not bother to ask around and see if anyone would like to join him. No, he wants the time to himself to sort out his thoughts.

Yet nothing is ever that easy, is it? He's ambushed by one of the I.C.E. constructs as he nears the spot. His horse rears up in alarm, throwing him from the saddle before bolting into the trees. Emet-Selch lands with a painful thud into a bank of snow. Fortunately, the gunblade strapped to his back seems in order. Unfortunately, the ICE is advancing on him and he's having trouble getting out of the snow.

Help?

(ooc: Existing CR are free to assume they accompanied him from the start if they want.)

2. Serve, Save, Slave, Slay...Some Sushi 🗡️

The sushi monster is no easier to slay than the I.C.E. as Emet-Selch discovers much to his chagrin. What does a man have to do to get some relatively simple knight quests??

The...creature(?) fires a round of pellets at him which has him diving into a rolls to avoid. He comes up into a crouch just in time to parry one of the sharp green swords it wields, quickly getting his feet beneath him before the second can slice him in half. He's been at it for a few minutes by now, focus utterly consumed by the opponent before him. He's growing tired though and the thing still doesn't look like it plans to give up.

"Ridiculous thing," he seethes. "And me, reduced to using these inferior magicks... I should have asked Irhya for a greatsword instead of a gunblade."

He fires off a round and its ricochet echoes throughout the forest. Even if the sound doesn't draw attention, the eerie blue after-image of the shot is worth attention.

(ooc: Existing CR are free to assume they accompanied him from the start if they want.)

3. I See You, Opening! 🛡️

Well of course, Emet-Selch doesn't want anything to do with these tricksy arrows and their dubious effects. But other people may have no such qualms. Perhaps you want to see this sour-looking man pour his heart out to one of his associates. Or perhaps you want to make him suffer by tasting nothing but chocolate for two weeks. Anything goes. Really. Anything.

If shooting: Please nominate which arrow you're shooting him with. I'm happy to write custom starters if you want.

If encountering him after he's been shot: Please nominate which effect you want for him. Again, I can write a custom starter if that's preferred.

4. Wildcard

If you have some ideas, feel free to send me a PM or leave a comment on the CR meme.

Comments

[luciing]

With the both of them on horseback, Somnus pulls the reins into one hand, guiding the animal go gallop around their opponent.

"As many as necessary," he answers with an assured, steely determination. Whether he actually has experience wielding more than ten at once, he does not say, but whatever is required of him, he will do-- and execute-- as needed.

[emet_sulk]

He frowns but merely says, "Then only manipulate as many as you can keep a firm hold of."

The ICE vents an electronic screech as they flee and starts to pursue them. Emet-Selch fumbles for a slip of paper and a pencil, awkwardly using Somnus as writing support. He loses several sheets before he manages to pin one down thanks to the rough movement. He almost loses his pencil as well.

"I am going to let loose this paper," he shouts, "and I want your blades to pierce the ground in a circle around it and around that thing. They will form a cage when I activate the circle."

[luciing]

The commotion of battle is a chore requiring most of his attention, but he's able to navigate away from the attacks. As he's only accompanying Emet in this endeavor, he sees to his safety, first and foremost.

"You intend to trap it?" The plan is better than anything Somnus had in mind, and he'll follow the other's direction, trusting him on this spell. "Very well."

He nods, ready. "At your signal."

[emet_sulk]

"Nyx!"

His familiar swoops out of empty space and grabs the paper he holds out to her. She wheels back towards the ICE construct and drops the slip in the two men's wake. As it begins to flutter to the ground, Emet-Selch grips Somnus' shoulder, waiting for the creature to come almost upon it before he shouts.

"Now!!"

He'll activate his spell as soon as the swords strike and are in range. Their metal will be used to create the bars of a rounded cage, trapping the thing inside.

[luciing]

The ICE goliath strikes against the cage, causing chunks of ice and snow shave off from its appendages in lieu of sparks. Its attempts amount to nothing, and it is unable to break free.

Somnus turns his head from the beast to Emet. "Should we spare it, or finish it?"

He raises his hand, conjuring a flame. Melting the abomination of ice and technomancy should be no issue against fire. Very few things are issues against flames, after all.

[emet_sulk]

"The order was to clear the road. Melt it." He doesn't think anyone will miss these things. The notice to all knights had been quite clear about ensuring the road would be safe to travel.

One hand gripping Somnus' shoulder for balance, he peers around the other man and examines their captive before it is consigned to flame. "I wish I could study it. Alas."

[luciing]

With a flick of his hand, fire flares into an inferno, engulfing the creature in flames. It makes a strange, half beast, half static noise as it struggles.

"What use would you have of these things?"

[emet_sulk]

"I would like to know how they create autonomous figures here and how it differs to similar machines made with a fusion of aether in my world." He watches the robot creak and shudder as flames consume it. "But this thing has gone wild. Without knowing how to shut it down or neutralise it, I would not be able to study it safely."

[luciing]

...Perhaps burning it hadn't been the best tactic to use. Effective, certainly, but not conducive to studying.

As if to offer consolation for the loss of opportunity, Somnus offers: "Undoubtedly there will be other such golems. Perhaps they can be captured."

[emet_sulk]

Fortunately, Emet-Selch isn't one to dwell on lost opportunities. He nods briskly, looking away to peer into the forest instead.

"I should find my horse. I hope it wasn't killed by one of these things."