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

[heartofthestar]

Did but she know such arguments were necessary, Venat might have several to make in opposition to his thoughts. Did she think it would help, she might even make them. But to the contrary, all she knew was a certain brusque response that, were truth to be told, offered no surprise at all. Diplomatic replies of hers notwithstanding, she suspected he'd needed her help, and had no desire to face that fact. Thus, that abrupt rudeness.

She had encountered such many, many times in the past. Far from minding it, such attitudes warmed her heart -- simply one more facet in the grand jewel that was the people she so loved. So her response, a smile that spoke only of love and delight, likely made little sense to anyone observing. Of course, an old acquaintance of hers might know its source from recalling her words, over time... but few if any ever understood no matter what she said.

"And I thank you in turn. I shan't mind if you mention me in your report, of course, but either way, be well and safe until you reach home once again."

[emet_sulk]

His sourness now directs itself more openly to her. He is not quite so petty as to leave her off the report but her smile irritates him into thinking it.

He turns away though rather than comment, instead muttering under his breath as he angrily types into the quest board application.

"I've no home since you took it away from me."

[heartofthestar]

The barb lodged, caught, tore. Venat's hand curled tight, terribly tight indeed.

"I have done many terrible things, many unforgivable things," she said, her eyes shut so the words stayed calm. "But that is not one of them."

[emet_sulk]

He hadn't meant for Venat to hear that. He glares at her, the silence dragging on for interminable seconds before he decides that no, he's not prepared to have this conversation with her yet. It's bad enough to know that she's here with all the rest of them, that eventually one of them is going to out him because it's impossible to avoid anyone here forever.

So he turns away again without another word and walks further off. A clear and curt dismissal.