isleofavalon | [OPEN] April Catch-all

🧙 WHO: Mash Kyrielight and ~YOU!~
⚔️️ WHAT: Mab’s Cavern adventures! CameCon geeking out and cosplay! Raft rides through the marshes!
🕒 WHEN: Throughout April, with one prompt backdated to March
🗺️ WHERE: Mab’s Cavern, CameCon, the Unnamed Marshes, and wherever else you might care to find her!
⚠️ WARNINGS: N/A for now. Will update as needed.

Feel free to use brackets or prose, I'll match your style.

Mab’s Cavern: Entry
You find yourself at the mouth of a cavern. Mash is standing nearby, peering in curiously. If you happen to give it a glance yourself, you’ll see it looks like a long, sterile hallway. Maybe you recognize it? Or maybe you don’t. The important thing is that Mash certainly seems to. Her expression is … complicated.

"I suppose there's only one way forward..." she mumbles quietly, as much to herself as to anyone.

Indeed. Obvious exits are east (into the cavern.) What will you do, adventurer?

CameCon: Ha ha, NEERRRRD
This wasn’t Mash’s first convention, but it was certainly her first of this nature. She is, at her core, a great big nerd and a huge history and mythology buff so there’s plenty at CameCon to draw her attention.

Maybe you catch her waiting in line for Knights of the Round - bright eyed and excited at the prospect. Perhaps you spot her admiring the figurines, or at least trying to. She's spending a lot of the time playing defense and keeping Fou from knocking over the display of Merlin figures. At one point she's even talking to one of the vendors about ...doujinshi???

She's having a good time - you should join her!

[Feel free to catch Mash either pre- or post-cosplayification here, whichever you’d prefer - there’s no real set timeline for the happenings.]

CameCon: Miracle, Magical, Mash-ical?!
"I know just the thing for you! A legendary warrior - a kind human girl gifted with superhuman magic!"
"Eh? Ehhh?"

Mash hadn’t said so much as a polite hello to this stranger manning the cosplay cart and yet he acted like he knew her. He puts an arm around her and grins. Before she can manage to stammer out a reply, her clothes had been been transformed into an unfamiliar costume. It wasn’t just her, either. Fou, who had been going along for the ride in her arms, was turned into a cute teddy bear and even her fairy familiar was sporting a new look.

"Wait, what…but I—!?"

So where do you factor into this, dear reader? Well, Fou (Foufurun? Mofourun?) just took off running past you in pursuit of the cart and Mash is chasing after him. If the sight of a living teddy bear running on all fours through the convention doesn't make you catch your attention, then, well, I don't know what to tell you.

"Fou, wait! We have to stick together or you'll get lost!!"

The stage is set! A magic spell had been cast! Cure up, ra pa pa! Make the convention extra interesting~!

Unnamed Marshes: Willing the Wisps
Mash needs some help. She'd been hoping to help investigate the changes to the Marsh since the whole...Fisher King incident. However, she's not as strong as she once was (much to her dismay) and this raft she's acquired is going to need at least two people to steer if she plans to get there before it gets dark.

Whether she recruited you or you just happened to be in the area, she's now looking your way hopefully. Care to go for a ride?

Wildcard!
None of these sending you? Feel free to come up with your own prompts or hit me up to plan something! I'm down for basically everything except the whole nymph egg situation. I’ve got a plotting comment on the CR meme here that you can use to that end which also has all my contact info if you’d like to hit me up some other way.

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[ If there was one person in all of this Avalon that could truly appreciate Mash's appreciation for doujinshi, it was Gareth. She hadn't been on the creative end back then at ServaFest, but she'd certainly bought her share of stacks. Some quite a bit more scandalous than others. She'd grown to truly appreciate the artform, the free-spirited nature of it, the existence as a testament to one's love and appreciation of something, born from independent drive.

And also sometimes it was really scandalous.

She's in a mostly discreet cosplay of her own, thumbing through the selection. ]

Oh! Look at this one!

[It was really nice, having someone who appreciated the art form here. Mash quickly looks up from the slice of life King Arthur-centric book she has in her hand to examine what Gareth is presenting.]

Ohh, it's about this world's Lancelot! Have you flipped through it yet? Do you think you're, or rather, this world's Gareth, is in it too? Wouldn't that be something! I hadn't really done a ton of researching into the Knights of this Avalon yet, so it's all been wonderfully informative.

[Whether or not it was a good idea to get your first impressions from a doujin is another story...]

This historical record on this world's Gareth is a little dry, to be honest...

[ Or maybe it was just disquieting in how it was just... ordinary. In that she couldn't find any way in which their life was significantly different, gender aside. Still, she flipped through the book...

Yep, this was a Lancelot book, alright. So many broken hearts... ]

Some things seem to never change, do they?

[Honestly, Kotarou couldn't help and feel isolated coming to this convention. There was something about it that was missing. Something wild! Something grand! Something big! You couldn't have conventions without a few unexpected events happening every now and then. He had recently about to take a bite into his freshly bought hot dog until...

A man in a cart had come rushing by and accidently knocked him aside. What Kotarou saw happening was something tragic in slow moving motion as his meal came crashing to the floor with a rather unceremoniously splat. The young man falls to his knees and lets out an anguished cry.]

MY HOT DOOOOOOOOOOG!!!

[Can we get an f in the chat for Kotarou's hot dog? ~~Fou~~ Foufurun comes running past, leaping over the hot dog in his pursuit. He is undeterred by melodrama of this probable stranger!! Mash is hot on his heels, but she at least kindly(?) comes to a stop at this Scene in the making. She recognized that voice, recognized that anguished young man.]

...Kotarou?

[Her familiar, rejoining her, stares incredulously between Mash and this boy making a tremendous fool of himself. She is starting to regret having agreed to come along with this. 'It'll be an interesting examination of human culture!' she told herself. Well, interesting was certainly one word you could use to describe this. Why do you have such weird friends, Mash?]

[Not paying much attention to how much actual attention that he might be attracting, Kotarou couldn't help and cry a little bit at the death of his fallen hot dog. He'll be okay in a moment, Mash. He just needs to get himself together...]

Damn it... I can't believe something so inhumane happened in front of my eyes. That guy killed my hot dog, Mash! My healthy dose of proteins! I need to get my hands on that guy and--

[He pauses for a second as he looks up at Mash, then Foufurun, then Mash, then Foufurun again... This was more than enough to calm himself down a bit.]

Wait a second... Is that a teddy bear?

[ You know how it is with conventions, sometimes: you start out with a group of friends, but as you wind your way through it, the vendor's booths and the different stalls and conversations, you get separated and occasionally run into each other again. Ritsuka herself has managed to escape the clutches of the costume cart (thankfully, she thinks; she's been Da Vinci's dress-up doll often enough that she doesn't particularly want to play the part for strangers), but she's outside at a designated meeting spot in the early evening, waiting for Mash to show up.

And when she sees her approaching, she slowly raises her phone and takes a shot. Georgios would be proud. ]

[Boy what a day. Fou (teddy bear form) comes racing up to Ritsuka and circles her a few times. Mash, carrying bags of merch and doujin in either hand, follows his trail with her eyes just in time to see Ritsuka raise the phone and snap the shot. The color rushes to her face. She tugs at the skirt and tries to cover herself to little avail as she makes the final approach.]

S-senpai!!! I can explain! Though, it doesn't really make much sense, even if I do...

[She supposes this is equivalent exchange for the cherished picture she capped of Ritsuka dressed up in Shinjuku...]

[OPEN] April Catch-all

camecon; doujins but also costumes

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CameCon: Miracle, Magical, Mash-ical?!

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Wildcard/post CameCon Costuming

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