Catch all for May

[mushroomaficionado]

🧙 WHO: Jade Leech (mushroomaficionado) and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Quests: Scary Sea Shanties, Tik Tok Challenge and the TDM!Craft fair
🕒 WHEN: Throughout May
🗺️ WHERE: All around
⚠️ WARNINGS: Nothing so far, will add as they come up



Scary Sea Shanties

[Jade had taken on the quest largely because he had mistakenly thought his merform would have an advantage if he got pulled in. And well he had been pulled in but hadn't anticipated getting zapped and it's taken him a moment to shake off the effect of it, even if he hadn't been hit full force.]

It almost makes... me wish... I was an... electric eel.. instead...

[Jade's able to heal himself enough to recover but he still feels shaky. He turns to you, his companion, who may or may not still be on the boat.]

How long until we can put her in her place?

TikTok Challenge

So I was wondering... [Jade said as he snapped a picture of a piece of steel wool and then glanced at his companion with a smile] ...if you would like to make this whole adventure a little more interesting? Not that the potential curse isn't intriguing on its own, but I believe it would be even more exciting to add a little wager to the adventure.

[He gives a smile, one that doesn't entirely hide his sharp teeth, but hopefully looks a little less threatening.]

I was thinking maybe whoever snaps the next picture first is owed a favor by the loser. What do you say?

Craft Fair: Tie the Knot

[Jade's a bit annoyed because he should have been more alert, but here he is tied to another person and he is supposed to share a secret with them?

Normally he'd relish the chance to find information on someone, but it being a mutual thing takes the fun out of it for him and he's trying to figure out how small a secret he can reveal.]

They sure are clever with these trust-building exercises, are they not?

Wildcard

[Feel free to modify any of the above prompts as you see fit! Also Jade hit up the other two events at the craft fair, so feel free to have fun with those!

I'm not sure if I'm going to top-level in the current event thread or not, but he will have gone along to Bermuda station, so if anyone has any ideas, throw them at me, or message and we can come up with something!

He will have also been around the job fair, since he works at Azul's restaurant and will be investigating other businesses, so that's another avenue.

But if you need to contact me, feel free to pm this journal, or message me at discord (Joy#8142) or plurk (kanetsugu]

Comments

[tempredmental]

[Keith took a breath, and then nodded a little.]

Alright.

[Not that he would have minded going first once he got past the initial hesitation. After all, he was trying to think of what he had in the way of a secret here that he honestly wasn't just really open about anyway. He didn't like sharing things, but that didn't mean he kept things secret on purpose.

Plus, if he'd gone first, he could have just ripped off the proverbial band-aid. Now, it was more like delaying the inevitable. But, in all fairness, he had left it up to the other person.]

[mushroomaficionado]

[Much like Keith, Jade wants to get it over with. Even though there would have been advantages to going last. But well, this is fine too.]

Very well then...

[The problem with someone you aren't well acquainted with is that everything is technically a secret, but at the same time that also frees him up a bit.]

...I once borrowed my friend's textbooks without telling him when we were in Middle School. He spent three days stressed out wondering who broke into his little hideout to take them. I finally put them back without him ever finding out the truth.

[Okay there, appropriately harmless, and if somehow Azul finds out about this, he'll probably forgive Jade. Or more likely offer a long-suffering sigh.]

[tempredmental]

[Keith listened, quirked an eyebrow for a moment, and then chuckled a little.]

Sounds like something I would have done.

[Okay... so he supposed that meant it was his turn. He thought about it, shifting his eyes to one side as he did, taking a little bit of time before he spoke.]

I mean... I don't know if it could really be considered a secret because I don't exactly hide it, but it's not something I've shared with a lot of people here, so maybe it counts.

But, my mom's a space alien.

[He shrugged. Keith didn't exactly have secrets. He rarely hid things when asked unless it was an enemy interrogation situation, which this wasn't. But, he also just wasn't something who automatically just shared stuff about himself, so there was still a lot people didn't know about him... not because he held it in on purpose, but because he wasn't the type to usually talk about himself.]

[mushroomaficionado]

[His eyes widen a bit at the mention of space alien.]

So only on your mother's side? Your father is a human I take it?

[Unique unions between species are not uncommon in his homeworld of course. It's what happens when you're all mingling about like that. And in his Ocean, the tale of the Mermaid Princess and her human Prince is still beloved for many reasons.

But alien, huh? That's an interesting way of putting it.]

[tempredmental]

[Keith nodded.]

Yeah. Dad said I look a lot like she would have if she was human. [Sometimes, Keith didn't really see the resemblance, but that was likely because she was almost seven feet tall and purple.]

[mushroomaficionado]

That's nice I suppose in its own way, resembling family. Though I'm guessing since you are speaking in the past sense...

[Otherwise Keith would have stated such a thing with more certainty. Not as an opinion he'd received second-hand.]

Not that I mean to pry of course.

[tempredmental]

Oh... uh... it's fine.

[Mostly. Keith took a breath. The point of this exercise was to talk, right?]

My dad passed when I was ten. I didn't know my mom. She had left when I was too young to remember her. I didn't meet her until I was almost twenty.