[open] march catch-all

[leicesters]

🧙 WHO: Claude and you!
⚔️️ WHAT: Quests, being a nerd, and dumb happenings
🕒 WHEN: Throughout March
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot, the Red Springs and the Broceliande
⚠️ WARNINGS: Nothing yet.

1. RUN SNAGGLEFOOT RUN (QUEST)

[Apprehending thieves is nothing new to Claude, even if he's more accustomed to battling dangerous, heavily-armed bandits than just chasing down someone harmless yet sticky-fingered. Somehow the latter is proving much more elusive, however, and he's chased his target all the way from Camelot on horseback to try and catch up to him before he can make his escape.

Initially he'd managed to hit the thief with a curse to try and slow him down, but Snagglefoot managed to give him the slip when his curse wasn't quite what he wanted: hitting him with a binding curse only managed to immobilise one of his arms rather than his full body.

By the time Claude dismounts his horse at the springs and runs after him, he realises someone has already beaten him to the punch and -- intentionally or otherwise -- is blocking the doorway to the inn the thief had just tried to flee inside. Claude puffs, out of breath, hands on his knees.]

Grab that guy for me... would you...?

[If they hesitate for even a second, the thief might just get away again.]

2. LIBRARY

[Claude's not thrilled about being hurled into another world, what with everything resting on his shoulders at home, but it's also not the first time he's had to adjust quickly to a completely new land. His reaction in this case is to handle things just the same as he first did in Fodlan: get as much information and then some, as quickly as possible, so he can make up for any disadvantage he has in knowledge.

... Maybe he's overdoing it a little, though. It's getting close to closing hours in one of Camelot's libraries, and he still has a huge pile of unfinished books on the reading desk he's seated at, covering subjects as broad as history, magic, flora and fauna, geography, and more.

He yawns, and his familiar, a small cat-sized white wyvern, headbutts his arm -- either for attention, or just to make sure he stays awake. He pets her absently.]

We'll leave soon, just let me finish this chapter first. [He stifles another yawn. He should call it here, but he's also dreading the idea of lugging lots of heavy books back to his room.]

3. BROCELIANDE

[For anyone who might be wandering in the Broceliande, you might hear a voice complaining and cursing through the trees. Follow it to its source and you'll find Claude, who seems to be... kneeling by a stream and... crying? At the very least, there's tears streaming town his cheeks, but on a closer examination he looks more exasperated than upset.]

Ouch ouch ouch...

[He splashes his face with water to try and rinse his stinging eyes, his wyvern keeping a lookout as he does so.]

Owww. I knew I should've left that flower alone. [The wyvern trills in what sounds like agreement, or maybe because she just spotted someone approaching. Hello friend!!]

4. WILDCARD

[Choose your own prompt! If you want to plot anything out, feel free to hit me up via PM or at moonsilver.]

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2. LIBRARY

[darkestbefore]

[ Claude isn't the only one in here far later than most, although it's Yona's rumbling stomach that eventually has her getting up, selecting one or two books to take home with her for the time being and leaving the rest for another day.

She's done this before. Pacing is important. So is food, for that matter.

There's a small dragon curled up on her shoulder, tail wound around her throat for balance as she departs the quiet little corner she'd been tucked away in for most of the afternoon and evening. His scales are almost a golden hue tonight, the color of sunshine despite the late hour, and he's yawning as if her movements had woken him up from naptime.

She thought she'd been the last one here, but she hears a voice on her way out, so she pauses to detour, coming across an unfamiliar for surrounded by a veritable mountain of books. She blinks, but then smiles in amusement as she peeks around a bookcase at him. ]

You know, if you're going to try and get through all those, they're likely to turn out the lights on you.

[leicesters]

They can do that?! [Claude seems startled out of his earlier sleepiness. Oh, right. Light switches. Unlike back home, it's not like he can just hunker down here with a candle all night and assume no one will find him.]

Arrrgh. What would you say my odds are that I can sweet-talk the librarian into letting me stay?

[...Slim to none, probably, given that the librarian here is a stern, no-nonsense looking older man, but he can dream.]

[darkestbefore]

[ Yona looks him over. And then glances down the corridor of shelves to study the frowning old man bent over a pile of books, muttering to himself. She bites back a laugh. ]

...I think you'd have more luck wishing yourself invisible and hope he forgets about you.

But if you ask nicely, he may let you take one or two home with you?

[leicesters]

Just one or two? What a stingy old fart.

[But he'll admit defeat... this time. He picks out a few texts he thinks are essential (three or four books, because he does at least like to push his luck), and starts to put the rest on the nearest cart for reshelving.]

[darkestbefore]

[ Yona can't help but laugh at that complaint, grinning as she moves to help him put the rest of his pile away. ]

How many do you intend to read in one night?? You could always come back for more tomorrow...