A Busy Wizard’s Winter (Open)

[phoenixwiz]

Who: Harry, Rose the Pygmy Puff, and YOU!
What: Café Work, Practicing Kinetic Magic, Snowball Fight, and Goblins!
When: All of December
Where: Avalon’s city center, training grounds, snowball fight area, and lower town
Warnings: None at the moment, will update this when something comes up


Teen Barista
It took some time for Harry to search high and low for a job that can allow teens as employees, but he is doing work as a part-time barista in the café within city center. Sure, it is not exactly what he has in mind back home, but this should do for now; patiently taking orders, brewing drinks, and dealing with customer concerns and complaints. Today is very busy at the moment with the lunch rush starting to happen and people are entering the café looking for a place to sit and something to eat. What’s more: there are seasonal drinks and foods made to tie into the Winter Solstice season and everyone will be salivating over them for sure. Luckily, his kinetic magic is also handy in getting plenty of tasks he has as a barista from delivering drinks and food to quickly getting spare change from the cash register while he multitasks on the fly during this time of the year.

Thankfully, the owner/manager is kind enough to let Rose accompany him at work, though he has been told not to let her run amok or eat up supplies while at work, which they both comply around the clock. You can catch him taking your order (or someone else’s order) or making drinks on the fly. Or say hi to Rose while she dances around on top of the food display case.

Mind Over Matter
It’s about time that he gets to put his newfound kinetic magic to good use. Upon arriving at the training area, he walks towards a clearing with Rose riding on his head this time, doing her best to maintain her balance while her master walks down the dirt and rock covered path. Putting down his backpack onto a fallen log which acts as a bench and with Rose hopping onto the log to sit on, he could see rocks, twigs, and fallen branches of various sizes on the ground.

Harry then does his best to visualize a magical force tossing those things at him like playing catch or chasing after a Golden Snitch during a round of Quidditch before flicking his right index and middle fingers towards a rock and when it flies towards him, he immediately catches it at once. Rose happily squeaks in joy as her master captures a rock. Soon his focus targets a fallen branch the size of his arm and he attempts to make it float by lifting his right hand up to the sky. The branch slowly rises up for a few meters and stay that way for around 3 minutes before it landed on the ground. Not by much, but at least he gets some practice while he’s at it.

Feel free to chat with him and practice magic together.

Trial and Icy Errors
Snowball fights sound like fun, that’s what Harry thought to himself when he sees Merlin sending a text about practising magic through snowball fights and he has been looking forward for any opportunities to get better at it. After all, he does have kinetic magic, so he has a bit of an advantage to slug some snowballs at people for fun. Thank Merlin that it happens to be on his day off from the café so he gets out there, carrying a basket full of shimmering rainbow snowballs and loose rainbow snow while Rose stays cozy inside one of his coat pockets with her head sticking out to see snow falling all over.

Harry then begins to float a trio of snowballs before maneuvering his right index finger to fling them into some trees for target practice and he soon discovers whenever he sends three snowballs at his selected target, they either expand in size faster than Aunt Marge after she had pushed him too far before bursting into rainbow snow slushie or bounce back and hit at random trees and rocks or sometimes flying back at him, the last one has him dodging them as swiftly as he can. In addition, he is also being careful with how much snow needed to pack into a snowball as he witnessed some people having trouble with snowballs with large sizes.

And to make things even more interesting, a group of mischievous people is flinging snowballs at him at random behind his back: Harry has to run fast and dodge faster from the mischievous snowball fight participants before he finds some shelter behind a large bush, all while carrying that basket of rainbow snowballs and snow. While he is busy sending snowballs to fly at his opponents, he then turns to the person next to him, saying, “Well, it looks like we got to stick together to scare them off.”

Jack Bredbeddle(s)
The quest sounds simple enough: get the mischievous Jack Bredbeddle and turn him over to the authorities. Harry knows this sounds like a great chance to help the locals out during his free time and days off. He has been gathering information from the people who witnessed Jack’s antics and pranks so he can keep up to date and track the man down. Soon enough, he has caught on to the pattern and was slowly inching closer to getting Jack and ending his pranking spree.

Luckily, he has been looking a close eye on the green tint in ‘Jack’'s sclera when he catches him trying to set some horses loose on the streets one mid-morning and yanks in him with levitation towards him so he can take the fellow to the authorities. Except that he wasn’t expecting that there would be more than ONE Jack Bredbeddle, as he soon finds himself getting swarmed by goblins: small green goblins, not like the goblins he was used to seeing back home, these ones are terrifying as they can get.

The young former wizard does his best to keep them at bay by pushing them away from him and the onlooking crowds as far as possible and hopefully into nets, although he does know he will need some help if he wants to end these goblins’ terror on the people.

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jack bredbeddle

[theskyaccepts]

[Tsuan is not one to let a friend get attacked, but at the same time he feels pretty helpless. Without his usual method of fighting (activating his Hyper Dying Will mode and transforming his gloves), he's not quite sure what to do. He doesn't usually get into fistfights and he still doesn't entirely trust his magic.

So, he'll try for something else.]

Aki, get those goblins off him!

[And the Griffin charges forward with a loud screech!]

[phoenixwiz]

(The moment he hears a griffin’s voice and the goblins being scattered about, Harry turns around to see Tsuna and Aki the Griffin coming to help. It is such a relief to see help coming in the way as Aki scares off the goblins.)

Thanks for coming in to help, Tsuna. For a minute, I thought I was a goner the moment the Bredbeddle disguise begins to wear off. Didn’t anticipate goblins to be behind all of this.

(One goblin thinks it was a good idea to attack Harry as he meets up with Tsuna, only to be greeted with a rolling barrel Harry sends out with kinetic magic and getting knocked out by it.)

[theskyaccepts]

No problem, are you okay?

[He does wish he could do more but his magic is only so effective right now. Still, he's activated the fire on both hands. It's weird to be in combat like this.]

It looks like there were more of them to.

[phoenixwiz]

I’m alright. Just some scraps on my knees and elbows.

(Many people scramble for their lives while local authorities evacuate them from the area as swiftly as they could with the goblins coming after the boys.)

No wonder the authorities here had a hard time capturing Jack Bredbeddle: they were sharing the same identity to confuse people all around.

[theskyaccepts]

[Unfortunately, Tsuna doesn't really have any healing abilities, so he can't help with that.]

Sounds like it got pretty confusing.

So, I guess we've got to catch them all?

[This is going to be tough.]

[phoenixwiz]

(Okay, he will have to find a healer or someone with healing magic to get the injuries healed up by the time they’re done with the quest.)

I have a funny feeling that this is the case. To be fair, I haven’t seen goblins like the ones we’re dealing with before in my world.

Yeah, it looks like we have to catch them before everything gets out of control.

(Rose squeaks as she pokes her head out of his jacket pocket while trying to look out for any goblins attacking.)

[theskyaccepts]

Let's get to it then. I'll try and herd them back here with Aki.

[Granted he doesn't have the speed he's used to, and isn't the fastest individual, so we'll see how this goes.]

[phoenixwiz]

Okay, that sounds like a good plan. Then let’s go catch those goblins.

(If only Harry had the ability to cast spells with him here, he could’ve instantly knock out the goblins long enough to bring them back to where they come from. But he didn’t, so he has to get creative with Tsuna.)

Rose, be on the lookout for any goblins within the area: we can’t be sure where they could be hiding in.

[theskyaccepts]

[With a nod, Tsuna and the griffin head off in the direction of the goblins, or at least, where they seemed to be headed last time. He's doing his best to try to stay calm but it feels so weird to be going into a confrontation like this without his hyper dying will activated.]

See anything, Aki?

[The griffin shakes its head before turning towards the sound of rustling.]

[phoenixwiz]

(Rose begins to shake rapidly while she anxiously squeaks to Harry of where another set of noises could be heard aside from the one Tsuna and Aki are dealing with.

It is coming from a market stall that was set up for selling produce, though the two are handling it with extra caution as Harry picks up a rope net from the ground, ready to catch any goblins at any moment.)

What is hiding behind that stall, Rose? Do you think a goblin is hiding in here?

(As they reach closer, a small set of goblins pop up out from the stall, lunging after him when he sets out a net at them, capturing them before he sends them flying towards some crates to knock them out for now. Those creatures could wake up at any moment, so he has to be careful in handling the net of goblins.)

[theskyaccepts]

[Tsuna turns suddenly at the noise, directing Aki to move on.]

Are you okay?

[He yells before another crowd of goblins comes towards him being chased by the griffin. Muscle memory takes over, even if his mind is still not quite in the fight and he's at least able to block the incoming blows.]

[phoenixwiz]

(Harry evades every attack the goblins are throwing at him while he is carrying a net full of goblins and using kinetic magic to keep them away from him or send items to knock them out entirely before sending nets after them to keep them in place. This is going to be a long quest, isn’t it?)

I’m alright. (He dodges another attack from a goblin with a dagger who accidentally gets it stuck to a crate.) I just hope that the nets could up against axes, daggers, and brute strength.

[theskyaccepts]

You might need to send a few my way!

[Tsuna didn't exactly bring anything to catch the goblins with, but it's easy enough to stun one with a right hook and his fire. There's got to be a better way to use the flames though. And he's a little reluctant to test out the X-Burner here. It's still a new move]

Are they staying down if you knock them out?

[phoenixwiz]

(A couple of goblins catches up to Harry, but he then ducks to avoid getting attacked by them, allowing Tsuna to catch them as they realize their folly.)

I haven’t checked yet, but I guess so, hopefully long enough for the authorities to pick up them and put them in their place.

[theskyaccepts]

Are they on their way?

[Because hopefully they can start rounding up the ones that are down. And he needs something to focus on other than the fact that he's in a fight with goblins.]

I don't really have a way to make a cage or anything.

[phoenixwiz]

I do think the authorities are on their way since some of the locals are calling them to get to here. We can always try to find nets in the area to catch them.

(So far, he hasn’t seen more goblins going after them now: he suspects that they are beginning to be scared of them already, although he is not dismissing a chance of them attacking either.

He is able to knock out a couple of more of the ones in the area by sending them flying towards more empty crates before gathering them into another net.)

I haven’t seen any more goblins coming after us now.

[theskyaccepts]

That's good at least.

[But he'll set Aki to keep an eye out.]

But times like these have taught me not to relax. I just have a bad feeling we're missing something.

[Granted, he always has that feeling]

[phoenixwiz]

(Harry nods while looking around for any goblins in sight and securing the goblin-filled nets, not knowing if they are hiding anywhere.)

I haven’t found out just yet, we will have to stay vigilant for any signs of danger though.

(Right behind his back, the leader of the goblins is about to attack him from the back, ax rising up to slay him, only for Harry to quickly snaps his fingers and the ax soon hits the leader instead.

Is this the something Tsuna was talking about? He hasn’t yet to let it sink in.)

[theskyaccepts]

[It's probably the whole situation. Tsuna will stay on guard until the goblins have been rounded up by the authorities. He's really just waiting for more to show up.

Plus he's ignited his hands again so he's reluctant to touch anything until he can put them out.]

These ones just showed up, right? Would it be worth trying to draw any stragglers out?

[phoenixwiz]

(Rose squeaks to her master that she could overheard something from the alleyways that the last of goblins are hiding from them. Now they need to find a way to capture them.)

Hey, I think I got an idea: Rose had informed me that the last of the goblins are hiding behind the alleyways from us. So maybe we set up a trap for them in the town square. Perhaps laying out some gold and treasures on a net could incite them to come over?

[theskyaccepts]

That sounds like a good plan. Then they can all be in one place.

Do you have anything gold?

[Regrettably, he does not.]

[phoenixwiz]

Here you go.

(Harry grabs a wallet from his rucksack and gets some gold to hand over to Tsuna to use as goblin bait.

Meanwhile, Harry summons in a large net to fly towards him before he lays it down on the ground, sets up a pulley mechanism to trap them all, and tells Tsuna to put the gold onto the center of the net. Hopefully this one works.)

[theskyaccepts]

Seems like you were really ready for this.

[He definitely feels unprepared in comparison, but then, he had really shown up to help. He might have to start carrying some more stuff around, he thinks.

Still, he places the gold in the center and then goes to find a place out of sight.]

[phoenixwiz]

I have found work as barista in a cafe some time ago, that explains some of the gold I have on hand.

(Make that super crazy prepared and Slytherin cunningness. Harry eventually joins Tsuna in hiding and, with a rope attached to the pulley on his hand, waits for the goblins to come over and be attracted by the gold.

True to the plan, the remaining goblins do show up, distracted by the gold and begin to play with it. While they are not paying attention to the net beneath their feet, Harry yanks the rope to set the trap in motion, catching all of them in one place, their struggle is being in vain as they try to get out.)

[theskyaccepts]

[That would make sense. Tsuna should probably look at getting a steady job. He and Gokudera can't stay in the inn forever.]

Got 'em! That's all, right?

[He'll help hold things steady so that their wiggling doesn't ultimately free them.]