may catch-all

[troubadamsel]

🧙 WHO: Maribelle & You!
⚔️️ WHAT: Catch-All For May  - Quests and TDM prompts included.
🕒 WHEN: All Throughout May
🗺️ WHERE: Verens - city, beach, training grounds.
⚠️ WARNINGS: N/A, will update if needed.



Party Rock Anthem

[ Maribelle is absolutely not here by choice. She was yoinked inside, and has tried to get out several times. All of this so-called dancing, this hard drinking, this… utter debauchery, it’s all too much for her gentle, elegant body to take! Oh, and her temper is a hell of a thing. She doesn’t care that she’s shouting – the music’s so loud, who can really hear her?]

If I have to hear that awful ‘untz untz untz’ noise one more time, I swear I’ll just scream!

Holo Goodbye

[ Maribelle’s being a tad picky in this quest. After all, if this could be an elderly lady’s last hurrah, then Maribelle will settle for nothing less than the best, most beautiful stone she can find!

Which explains the small pile to her side, as she continues to nitpick over each one she finds. ]

Hmmm… no, no, this won’t do at all. The colors are all out of balance. It’s far more garish than gorgeous.

Safety In Numbers

[ What a dreadful attack! Maribelle is unharmed, thank goodness, but she’s quick to work. She has healing magic, and intends to help everyone she can.

Which, unfortunately, she’s taking very literally – she wants to help EVERYONE. Even as her magic is draining her and leaving her utterly and completely exhausted, she’s still trying to find anyone who needs her help. Sweat drips from her brow, and her familiar, a white bird on her shoulder, lightly nips at her hair in an effort to make her stop. But Maribelle dismisses the gesture with a wave of her hand. ]

Nnnngh… I can’t just stand idly by! I must keep moving… I must keep moving…

Training

[ Maribelle is trying to get the hang of her second magic, Light. For now, she knows how to make a shield, and is choosing to try and master that first. But this magic is so foreign, compared to what she knows of her world, so trying to draw it up is difficult.

At the training area, Maribelle notices she isn’t alone. After a moment’s hesitation, she asks an odd question.]

… Could you please attack me?

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Safety in Numbers

[cureofmanyworlds]

[Nozomi notices Maribell as she is also helping others. She sees how utterly drained she is and runs to her side.]

You don’t look so good...!

[troubadamsel]

I-I'm fine! I am! Besides, there are others much worse than I am!

[cureofmanyworlds]

I know, but you’ll be of no good if you’re exhausted like this.

[troubadamsel]

[ She whips her head around, glaring. ]

You know nothing about what I can handle!

[cureofmanyworlds]

N-no, you’re right, I don’t. But, I’m afraid you don’t, either. Please, take a moment to rest.

Holo Goodbye

[resistetmords]

Really? They all have their own, individual charm in my eyes.

[Said with a friendly smile as she sifted through the pile of rejected stones.]

[troubadamsel]

[ Although she's happy to see a familiar face, it soon turns into a frown. ]

But they aren't the right type of charm or individuality! I won't settle for anything less!

[resistetmords]

[Maribelle, girl, why you gotta be like this??????]

Hm, then what do you think speaks of charm and individuality?

[troubadamsel]

[ it's a fair question, the ones in and out of brackets. ]

I'll know it when I see it!

Training

[crimsongirl]

[Homura had been focused on practicing her footwork, she had yet to notice her till she spoke up. Not the oddest request here. Probably needed defense work. She got into her stance, ready to launch the first blow.]

How hard we talking here? I can hit pretty hit hard ya know.

[troubadamsel]

[ She grimaces, appreciating the warning. ]

Ah... not too great at first, if you don't mind. I'm trying to work on my shields, you see.

[crimsongirl]

No worries, just focus on blocking.

[She raises her leg, swiftly doing a kicking motion towards Maribelle, stopping only just before it touched her head. This was the best way in her mind, if only to think she was gonna be hit and trigger the shield right there and then.]

[troubadamsel]

Yeek!

[ She had expected more warning, dammit! She flashes her hands up, and a tiny shield of lightly pops up - really jus the size of Homura's ankle. ]

Training

[morganknight]

Sure.

[No sooner has he agreed than one of Morgan's hands flickered out, to do nothing more dangerous than simply push her. The opening stage of a basic move, in which one puts an opponent slightly off-balance, then uses their reflective straightening motion against them to pull them down.]

[troubadamsel]

Eek!

[ She's caught off-guard, and falls backwards right onto her butt. ]

I DIDN'T SAY RIGHT THAT SECOND!

[morganknight]

You didn't say some unspecified time in the future, either.

[Morgan offers her a hand up, because that's the least he can do now.]

[troubadamsel]

[ Rrrgh. Dislike. She takes the hand reluctantly, and brushes herself down when she's on her feet. ]

Very well... on the count of five, then.

Party Rock Anthem

[konpeito_aji]

What about the clang clang clang?

[For all Nobunaga looks like a drunk idiot, he is trying really hard to find the item to break the spell.]

Are you any good with magic?

[troubadamsel]

Not as good as I used to be... this world took what I had and made it much more of a hassle.

[ She's ready to go on a rant, but that's not the point, isn't it? ]

[konpeito_aji]

I understand.

[He'd let her rant away! If it made her feel better or blew off steam, he'd actually love to hear it! But first:] There's an item somewhere in this midst that once destroyed will allow for escape. However... [Gestures broadly with a sweeping gesture of his whole arm.] I barely know what's out of place this for this world or situation. Do you think you could sense it?

[The arm sweep motion also reveals his ridiculously long katana and a gun on his hip. Very normal party wear!]

[troubadamsel]

[ The weaponry does get an eyebrow raise, but not by much - he certainly came prepared for a fight, and in this world, maybe that's to be expected. ]

I'm of no help there. This is hardly like any of the parties in my realm! There isn't an ounce of class or dignity to be found!

Safety in numbers

[blushing_beauty]

[Olivia had never thought of her dancing as magical. She thought that it was perhaps pretty okay now and then, and people had praised her for it on many occasions, but magical? That is until she tried to use her dancing here where people had been stripped of their magical powers and given entirely new and different ones. Normally when she danced it would have an immediate effect on people's energy, and while it did seem to raise people's spirits... is seemed much more like they were simply trying harder for her sake rather than her dancing inspiring the kind of energy gifting it used to.]

Come on Maribelle! You can do it! I believe in you!

[She twirled and hopped, doing an absolutely acrobatic tumble through the air to try to inspire Maribelle... but her poor friend still looked like she was going to collapse any moment now. Olivia herself was panting from the feats of dancing she was trying to pull off to try even harder to make this work. At this point she was also handing people medical supplies and moving litters between dances, since her dancing didn't seem to be nearly as useful as it was supposed to be.]

Maybe... we should... sit down for a moment or two...

[troubadamsel]

[ Another time and place, Maribelle would have taken notice in the difference in Olivia's dancing prowess and power. But right now? She's run herself so ragged it's difficult to concentrate on anything. ]

Nnngh... Y-You take a rest, Olivia, I... there's still so much I have to do...

[blushing_beauty]

I can't just... sit back... while you do everything! Look at you, you're... just as breathless as I am!

[Actually she'd say Maribelle was even more breathless than she was, but Maribelle had a bad habit of pushing herself, especially when people's lives were on the line.]

[troubadamsel]

I... I'm perfectly fine!

[ no she isn't. ]

I'm a healer, this is my duty! I... I have to...

[ She says this, but she's leaning on a wall, staggering. ]