isleofavalon | [open] march catch-all

🧙 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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( Claude isn't the only one who takes to the library as soon as he gets the chance — Maruki has sat at a table for several hours, poring over books and transcribing notes into his phone until the screen is filled with an endlessly scrolling block of text explaining facets of magic and the history of it.

he's discovered many things about cognitive magic, but this is merely the tip of the iceberg in study, and he's so ready to continue plunging into it, even as his eyes ache and someone nearby promises to leave soon.

wait... )

Is that the time?!

( whoops. he got a little too engrossed there. )

Hm? [Claude hadn't realised someone else was still here, so he looks over curiously, before addressing them.] Seems that way, unfortunately for us.

[Should he try to hide so he can stay here all night, or figure out a way to take all these books with him...? Decisions, decisions.]

( that explains why he feels kind of weary, doesn't it? Maruki pulls his glasses off long enough to rub his eyes, dragging his hand down his face with a sigh.

the reading never stops, and that's not a bad thing, but he's going to need some eyedrops after all of this. )

I wonder what the loan limit is... ( because he's got at least ten books he still wants to finish sometime. trying to hide in the library doesn't even cross his mind, honestly. )

How about an exciting stealth mission? You, me, and all these books.

[... It's not a stealth mission if you announce it out loud in a silent library, Claude.]

( yeah, that's not the stealthiest of moves, but you know... )

I haven't done anything like that since my college days.

( because Maruki was definitely That Nerd who thought a library lock-in was a thrilling night. (Shibusawa brought beer. it was not the productive all nighter Maruki initially planned for it to be, but it was a great memory.) )

Do you think we can pull it off?

Me neither. [Officer Academy days rather than college, but still. Same thing.]

Sure we can. We just pick a good spot and hunker down until the coast is clear. Wanna help me look?

( hmm... it's definitely one of the riskier things he's done in a while (adult life? kinda boring like that), but maybe it's worth taking a chance for a change. after all, what's the worst that could happen? )

Sure. Why not? ( it would be nice to get up to speed here as soon as possible. hm, and come to think of it... ) There's a floor plan nearby. It should help us get our bearings.

( running around mindlessly seems like a bad way to find a hideout, in Maruki's eyes. )

[He grins.] Good idea. Let's see...

[He moves over to the floor plan, with the exaggerated bearing of someone going over a military strategy:]

On a cursory glance, it seems this set of shelves create a blind spot in that corner. There are some study rooms here, although it might be a problem if we get locked into those for the night... What about hiding in the restroom until the coast is clear?

[share your tactical suggestions, general maruki!!]

( oh, we're playing it like that, huh? well, then... )

The restrooms are cleaned every hour during opening hours, but I don't know about after hours. ( if he had to hazard a guess, he'd say they were the last? just in case any of the remaining staff needs to use them. ) If we choose a toilet, we could safeguard it with magic.

( nothing like on the job training! )

Ooh, I know! How about a cursed toilet that regurgitates its contents onto any hapless intruder!

[...]

Actually, scratch that. If we're trying to lock ourselves in there, that's absolutely going to backfire. [Give him a minute while he racks his brains for a scheme that isn't completely stupid.......]

( it does make Maruki laugh, though. ) I don't think we want to make work harder for the cleaners.

( but, hm... ) I could use hypnotic suggestion to redirect them.

Can you really do that? I admit I'm jealous.

[Manipulating people with magic would be so much more simple than having to use tricks or persuasion. so jelly.]

Let's go with that -- I want to see it in action.

I can't say I've tried before, but it's part of cognitive magic. ( he shrugs. that's the part that's like Actualisation, and though Azathoth isn't here to bolster it and make it work, the similarities are enough that he thinks it should work.

no different to what he did with Yoshizawa-san, really.

so, if that's the plan. ) Let's go. ( they just set up camp and he'll hypnotise anyone who finds them, right? how hard could that be? )

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