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

[omnicrafter]

"Probably," she replies, dragging out the syllables. "I guess if you need me to haul his arse back home, I can. But why didn't you just say that when you had his phone?"

[tantailizing]

"Oh that? I didn't want to get caught with his phone. Yeah, he can check his messages later, buuut before that, I didn't do anything. It's just by chance a few people he knows might come by."

Sooo... can't pin anything on him yet. "Besides that, he's being so stubborn. I figured someone who knows him better might be able to make him realize he can accept some help."

[omnicrafter]

"Well... it's true he can be stubborn. But him being in there at all just doesn't seem like an innocent act, somehow."

She tilts her head from one side to the other, perplexed. "What brought this on, anyway?"

[tantailizing]

"Haha, yeah, that..."

He can totally explain why. "Y'know how people are testing arrows this month? He got hit by one. He thought a cold shower might help, but... I dunno, he seems fine."

[omnicrafter]

"That's it?" She blinks. "It's not like he'd be the first nor the last to have to deal with that in front of other people, man or woman. Hells..."

She knows he's still a bit reserved when it comes to public displays, something no amount of sex city life will train out of him, but this is just ridiculous. "I was really, really hoping I wouldn't have to go in after him, but I guess that's just how it is today. And after he warms up and calms down," she gestures to Zidane with a small smirk, "mayhap it would be prudent to change the settings on his phone so nosy kids can't go through his contacts anymore."

[tantailizing]

"Right? I guess something-something public appearance and possibly feeling humiliated." He shakes his head. This is why he doesn't care too much about public appearance as long as he acts right when the moment needs.

Grinning, Zidane just places his hands behind his head, looking elsewhere while rocking on his feet. "I mean, it's not like that 'nosy kid' went searching his personal files at least. But yeah, he could put a lock on it."