[Open] December Catch-All

[excalibeam]

Who: Saber and you!
What: December Catch-All. TDM Prompts and Quest Threads. May add more quest prompts as time goes on.
When: December
Where: All around New Camelot, see the prompts
Warnings: None at the moment, will update as needed

(1)Trial and Icy Errors

[ Spotting the message from Merlin, Saber immediately sends a few more messages his way. Mostly along the lines of a demand for him to meet her and explain himself, or just for him to come down so she can give him a good smack (so basically a threat but whatever).

When she is inevitably not given an answer, she decides to take full advantage of this snow...

And then she gets beaned in the back of the head by a snowball, and suddenly "practice" becomes "a battle". ]

Who dares!?

[ Was it you who just beaned her with a snowball? Well then, expect her to immediately retaliate.

If you weren't someone who just instigated the King's competitive side, then you're probably a victim of it, as she's now running around with an all-too-competitive look on her face as she uses wind magic to send a volley of snowballs your way. ]

(2)Fogueria Quest (Combat Quest)

[ After much time, Saber's managed to locate where the Fogueria may be found. As a user of Elemental Magic, she's been told that she would be a good matchup against the fiery beast. While she's mostly practiced with wind, she may as well learn to use water now.

As she marches into the Land of Rot, however, she would definitely appreciate some help. While she may be the King of Knights, this land has most definitely robbed her of the vast majority of her abilities. She's unsure how powerful this beast is, so having anyone to help back her up in slaying this beast will be appreciated.

Perhaps she found you before marching in the direction of the Land of Rot, and you accepted? Either that or she saw you, knew you would be helpful, and dragged you along with her to fight a giant fire lion.

In any case, you are with Saber, and you're both in the territory of the Fogueria now. ]

(3)Foraged and Found (Closed to Rin)

[ Saber's main priority is obtaining knighthood. Even if she is not a King in this land, she is still a Knight... however right now, she is only claiming to be a Knight.

And that simply won't stand, will it?

However, even though this is the case, it seems she's been dragged along to something else entirely. ]

Rin... I understand that having a partner for a quest is certainly important... but surely there are others who could help you better than I?

[ Rin is technically no longer Saber's Master, but still she felt obligated to follow Rin. However, obligation isn't the reason Saber's here. Saber is here, standing in front of an enchanted sleigh, because Rin was oddly insistent about it and dragged Saber here before she could protest.

It hasn't crossed her mind once that this could be anything more than a Quest. Still, here she is, dressed for winter (and not in her armor), about to ride a Sleigh. ]

Comments

Trial and Icy Errors

[whatsamada]

Here Ken was, trying to figure out if throwing the snowball at her was a good idea or not. Based on her reaction, she was taking this much more seriously than she thought. Try as he might to hide in the trees, he knew it wouldn't last for long before he felt the barrage of snowballs coming his way.

Grabbing a snowball, he threw it before a small bear appeared before approaching her way! Was he going to regret this?

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[mithrarin]

[Well, she certainly ought to have an idea of what Dust can do. And if she finds that helpful, he's not going to complain. Quite the contrary, having some direction and a creature to deal with has him in high spirits; it's the sort of thing he understands and expects.]

[The problem mostly comes from his accustomed travel method: a distance-destroying lope that really, uh, isn't too compatible with a girl Saber's size who only has her own legs and not mana reserves to add some oomph. So on occasion he forgets himself, and has to pause for her -- an embarrassing situation all around.]

How are you doing on other elements?

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[theonlyrealthing]

[These two met up along the way, in search of the same beast. Jack is a little skeptical of two people going up against something this big, magic or no magic.

So he's trying to think of ways around actually, you know, fighting it.]

You know, if this is a big cat, I might be able to talk to it.

[greedyvixen]

[Hey, this might also help with Saber becoming a Knight here even if that isn't Rin's main reason for doing this. Speaking of Knights and Ladies and titles, Rin hasn't thought about them too much herself, not yet, she's loyal to one version of King Arthur and her Excalibur but that's obviously not the local one from this world. Then again, she could get one of those local titles to herself and see what happens after that...

She'll think about it later, she has much better things to think about right now! She smiles at Saber.]

Nope, no, this is something where no one else could help me at all.

[Besides no one's ever better than Saber, not in Rin's biased opinions. This is not just a quest as this is also a date and she'll tell that to the blond later. She wouldn't have to follow, of course, their familiar contract is --- well, maybe it still exists somewhere even when their own skills are null here, but Saber's free to do whatever she wants.

Rin's still really, really glad for any time, that she gets to spend with her, so she's in a very happy and cheerful mood. She's also dressed for winter and she's getting into that sleight first.]

Come on, it'll be fun. I promise.

[Sitting down and leaving space for Saber right next to her, while she keeps looking at her as much as she can.]

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[honorkept]

[ The two met before marching into the Land of Rot. He was once the commander of the Holy Knights, and could not idly stand by while a beast could cause harm to the people. His posture remains stiff and formal; each step confident and assured.

He shakes his head in mild dismay over the situation they both find themselves in, and mutters: ]

Such troublesome business.

[ It seems like the peaceful atmosphere of the world is also plagued with its own monsters. At the very least, it is good that they are not real demons. ]

Do you have experience with fighting such creatures?

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[peacewithouttyranny]

[Magic isn't a strange concept to Soundwave, he's seen plenty of it over the years, but this is the first he has to use magic. And apparently practice.

Even though making snowball is a somewhat silly way to practice, he's taking the activity seriously, all the same. Concentrating, he's managed to get the snowball hovering above the ground. So far, everything goes well... Until it keeps going higher and higher and shoots upwards.

Oh... That was not what he meant to do. Alas, gravity does it works. The snowball goes downwards... and promptly splats on someone's head. And said someone looks...furious about it. Scrap. Soundwave raises his hands up.]

That was unintentional... I was practicing. [Hopefully that should probably ease the other up? Unless the 7' tall robot does that for her instead of the clearly robotic-like quality voice.]

Trial

[donovan_deegan]

Well he hadn't been part of it, but wound up with a snowball to the head anyway. "Well, that's snow way to say hi," he said with a friendly smile, as though he didn't have snow dripping down his hair.