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[unhappy]

🧙 WHO: Emerald & YOU!
⚔️️ WHAT: Top is open prompts, individual prompts in comments.
🕒 WHEN: Early to mid-March
🗺️ WHERE: Various
⚠️ WARNINGS: None yet, will add as needed.

A. Flowers and Dragons (TDM Prompt)
[ Emerald isn't much of a flower person. She doesn't mind them, but in the grand scheme of things, she's more a fan of realistic wants and needs-- she's not the type of person to get drawn in because something is pretty. The baby dragons are kind of a menace though, and without her aura to protect her, she'd rather do things the peaceful way...

At least her particular style of magic is especially useful for this kind of a mission. She may not have mastered hard light by any means, but in the months she's been here, she's become very adept at illusion and glamours. It's more a focus of familiarity and want, but right now, it's got her with one hand up to hold an invisibility illusion up while a dragon is mere feet from her and she's kneeling down with a basket full of little purple chive blossoms. She's doing her best to fill up the basket with one hand, but it's obviously a little messy.

If you come near her, she'll stop to put her fingers up to her lips. She can't control what the dragon hears, after all. Please don't alert the baby, she's trying her best to get this done without disaster. ]

B. Homesick or sick of home?
[ While Emerald's happy that they have inn rooms to fall back on, it's a stark reminder that it's still not a home. There's no one there waiting for her, and the longer she's here, refusing to let anyone get close (even if some people are clearly trying) the more it reminds her that she's alone. It also leaves her to think a lot about what a home means to her, and why she wants one here. It would be natural to want to stay in that inn if she felt like she had a place back in her world. Because the inn should be temporary-- a reminder that this is not forever, that they'll all go home one day. It's getting harder and harder for her to see why that's a good thing, the longer being here reminds her what it's like not to spend every day in a constant variable state of terror.

And yet, she finds herself wandering around an open house. The place she's at is too big for her to live at alone, for sure, but anyone can wander in easily and see her looking caught up in her own thoughts. If she does catch you looking though, it'll quickly be covered up with her narrowing her eyes. ]

Do you want something? You're supposed to be looking at the house, not me.

[ Well, she's still got an attitude problem whenever she's caught having feelings. ]

C. Wildcard
[ Write your own prompt or contact me and I'll whip up something for you! I can be contacted at tartetatin or taylotjelly#4556 on Discord. ]

Comments

for raven

[unhappy]

[ It wasn't until she was already on the hopscotch.. board? Whatever you call it. It wasn't until she was on that that she saw who her opponent was and her immediate instinct is to draw her gun and just shoot Raven. But she's trying not to make herself out to be a wanted criminal here. She's really trying, and so despite that it would be so easy because Raven isn't a maiden here, she doesn't reach for Thief's Respite.

Instead she just glares and sticks her tongue out before proceeding. They explained the rules, and Emerald thinks she's got the advantage here for sure. She just has to get to one of the magic squares first, then she can use illusion magic to hide where the actual steps are. ]

Aren't you a little old for this?

[ She taunts as she waits for them to get the go ahead to start. ]

for morgan

[unhappy]

[ This was possibly the most annoying quest that Emerald had ever done on any planet. It was easy to catch something when you could kill it, managing to infiltrate a bunny cafe without hurting any rabbits or being able to really bring anything to capture it in besides her hands.. that was a challenge.

Emerald took out her phone as she leaned against wall adjacent to the door of the bunny cafe she'd trapped Flufferton to. She wasn't against calling a partner. As soon as the ringing stopped and Morgan picked up (or she caught the voicemail) she started talking. ]

Morgan, you're good at annoying things, can you meet me at...

[ She started giving the address, but cut off halfway through, as there's a rabbit running right out of the door past her, surprised exclamations from the pop-up shop owner after the rabbit leapt right past the boundaries and booked it. Emerald started chasing, putting Morgan on speaker so she can focus on it. ]

Just get here!

for naoto

[unhappy]

[ Emerald held her phone up as she entered into a bar attached to the Red Spring Inn. If what she heard was right, the guy wasn't the type to avoid celebrating a 'win' with a drink or two. Some guy tried to sit down next to her and chat her up, but she turned around in her chair just enough that she could still see him in her peripheral but made it clear she wanted nothing to do with him.

That turning around lead her to spot a familiar face. ]

Beat it, I'm here with that guy. Naoto!

[ She calls out for him. If she manages to get his attention, she'll gesture him over to hopefully prove to her stubborn seat neighbor that she really isn't interested. At least talking to him will make waiting for the Snagglefooted target to show up a little more exciting. ]

wildcard

[trustheart]

Chris is once again at the training grounds; practice makes perfect, as one might say. She's come a fair bit of the way on her training with magic in under a month, and now... now she needs to try and reach out. She's had a number of training partners so far, but more never hurt, and besides, she might meet someone with whom she could partner up with in the future.

Even if such a possibility were ultimately intimidating to her. But she'd never been able to meet people easily.

But who to approach? Chris felt the social anxiety creeping in, and so she found herself backing away from people... and ultimately, into someone, along with her bow and quiver strapped to her back.

"Oh! I'm sorry!"

let's gank greg

[morns]

( well, if you don't have anyone... that girl just went up on her own. see if you can catch her!

Kate squints, sceptical of that offer, but since she's going in that direction, she may as well see if she can run into whoever it is. maybe they'll be competent. maybe not. )

... You?

( or, maybe they'll be very fucking familiar instead. )

A

[kiss_it_better]

[He'd already picked some edelweiss and was looking for a second type of flower when he spotted the girl with green hair which wasn't even strange all things considered.

He saw the gesture and nodded. When he was closer he knelt crouched down and started picking flowers...and putting them in her basket. Look, picking with one hand while managing magic had to be at least a little troublesome and since she was making his life easier as well he thought he should help even if she probably wasn't trying to help him specifically.

His own basket of white flowers was neatly arranged. Not for any love of flowers but just because he's a bit of a neat freak.]

for pyrrha

[unhappy]

[ Apparently at some point after she returned the rabbit with Morgan, it escaped again. Which is really annoying in some ways, yes, but in other ways it causes her to re-assess the best way to go about this.

Maybe it'll respond to a... gentler touch. A healer maybe? Healers can do like.. soothing things. SHe doesn't want to chase the stupid rabbit again. So Emerald thinks for a moment, then decides to do the best thing she can think of.

She calls Pyrrha Nikos, despite that she really has no right to do so. And now she's waiting at the entrance of the first cafe on her list of places she knew he hadn't already hit up, hands in pockets, leaning against the outer wall. ]

for kaji

[unhappy]

[ Okay, she got the package and while she's.. incredibly curious about what's inside, she hasn't opened it yet. Going by foot seems annoying though so as soon as she sees someone she knows, Emerald ends up spotting Kaji.

Someone she knows is apparently a lose definition. She's not really close to anyone, and she still has her suspicions about this guy. He seemed like he knew her and if she's got a long journey up to Celliwig to begin with... two birds, one stone.

She walks by him and bumps her shoulders into his. ]

Hey.