Quest Mingle: June-July

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Quest Mingle: June-July
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• These quests are valid from start of June until end of July
• Characters don't need to be a member of the guild to do quests and anyone can do any segment's quest! The quests are just marked this way to show where the quests are taking place.
• City Location Details | Segment Location details
• Remember to keep distances (times are calculated as walking times) in mind when planning what quests to do when. You have two full months, so there's no rush!
• For some of the monsters, additional details can be found from the Beastiary.
• Rewards are for one completion of the Quest, but characters can do it multiple times to earn more money from them, as the problems do repeat.

• Please see the guild page for permanent quests.

IC Note

We are very concerned of the increase in danger in the Segments and hope that people take extra caution when going outside. If anyone finds clues about what might be causing all these things, please let any of the power holders know! The quest rewards have been raised to compensate for all the danger you need to face.

A full investigation is going on about the situation. We thank you for your continued support.

City Quests

Even in your city... quests! [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Bolstering the Defenses	Due to the abnormal amount of danger in the segments, we've decided to start strengthening city defenses. Watchtowers were built near the bridges, on both the segment and city sides. We're currently training natives to take on watch duties, but until we have enough personnel, we ask that you pair up with someone and sign up for guard duty at one of the towers. Any monsters coming too close should be dealt with and if the amount of monsters is too much for two - a warning signal set out into the skies for the other tower to see and spread the message.	Due to the High Risk quests, a lot of different regular monsters are on the move. The numbers they come in range from just a few to even twenty. The more there are of the same monster, the better they work together - but variety makes the groups more chaotic and more prone to fall apart.	10 000 Moon Coins
Sir, There's a Capybara in My Bath	Animal Shelter volunteers have done it yet again. This time the animals that escaped are ones we least expected to. The Zen Capybaras are always so calm and never really go anywhere. They're perfect for keeping other animals in check as their aura calms them down. Now we've heard reports of them appearing in public baths... and even people's private baths. They especially love onsens and can be seen with a mandarin on their head there. We will work on making them suitable baths here at the shelters, but meanwhile, can you help us find them? Be careful, since their aura might render people into a relaxed mess.	Zen Capybaras are like normal capybaras but come in various colors, usually in pastel but other variations exist too. They have an aura that will calm even the angriest creatures down and with regular people the effect is strong enough to make someone feel like their head is full of clouds. Scratching them under their chin will make them stop doing the aura thing, which they sometimes do without meaning to.	900 Moon Coins, Capybara pet (if desired)
We Never Planted This	An experiment between the Tower of Potions and the Botanical Garden has gone awry. They were trying to combine their abilities to create new possible guardian flowers to help with defenses. However, instead of fighting, all the flowers are running around tickling people. They continue to tickle people until they nearly pass out from laughing. We suppose that's one way to fight... but the problem is they do it to everyone. They will likely lose all ability to move and tickle after a while, but new ones will rise, as the potion was accidentally used as a regular fertilizer in various parts of the city. Never leave your experiments where they can be found I guess. At least when they can be find by summer workers.	The flowers can be any type and they grow up to be around 170cm/5.5feet in height. They're very weak to physical violence and magic, but are very sneaky and like pretending to be normal flowers before attacking their victims.	2000 Moon Coins

Winter Segment

Lights, Snow, Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
New Cod On The Block	The Unfrozen Lake has gotten some new species of monster fish lately. They keep eating all of the regular fish in the lake! This is a problem because it's a popular fishing spot, as it's close to the airship station. The hospital has lately seen many fishers return, telling how they were mauled by a fish they pulled up, too. It would be great if the invading species could be fished out - or otherwise removed - from the lake.	There are two types of monster fish: Icicle Piranhas that bite the moment they come up from the lake, usually targeting someone's nose or their ear (causing at least a nasty frostbite) and Octofish that are a mix of an octopus and a fish and they spew poisonous ink at the people fishing them up. The poison is very potent, but can be cured by an antidote made from the Octofish tentacles.	2000 Moon Coins
Now This is a Sir Price CW/TW: possession	There has been a report that a very ghost-like group of people has been walking around the Forest of Spirits. That's not the weird thing. The weird thing is that they all looked like the same guy. When a group of researchers when to take a closer look there were more of them, but this time they looked like different people: but there were multiples of the same person! It seems the rumors about 'I think Therefore I Am' was true after all. Please do something to stop people from accidentally creating clones of themselves - or from getting possessed.	Something found from the Underground library has come true: "I think, therefore I am. Never say this out loud near a group of ghosts or they will start thinking they're you and take your form, perhaps even your body. Spoken from true experience. If you see multiple ghosts going by the name of Sir Price, exorcise them for me, please." This means even otherworlders can have copies of themselves walking around. These ghosts are special and can be seen by anyone due to the phrase making them "feel real". The ideal solution is to exorcise the ghosts, but just stopping natives and your fellow power holders will help thin their numbers.	1600 Moon Coins
❗High Risk Quest❗ Where? Wolf! CW/TW: possible gore	Werewolves have started expanding their territory. While they used to remain in the Wolf's Blood Mountains, they have now started appearing on other areas in the eastern Winter Segment. Not only that, they've started to turn people into their kin, rather than kill them. They've been bold and attacking even areas near the city to get their prey. It's an all out war against them, and we need help! We need to drive them back to their mountain! Be careful not to get bitten and bring some silver with you.	Ferocious wolves that walk on two feet during the nights. Moon gives them power and they're almost invincible during the full moon - but they're not extremely weak during new moon, either. Their bite is poisonous and can turn someone into a werewolf if they survive the attack or the strength of the poison. Being scratched by a werewolf may also end up leaving a minor werewolf curse (partial wolf transformation during full moon, not necessarily any awesome powers). Best way to deal with a werewolf is to get them alone (usually travel in groups of 2-3) and using silver-covered weapons. They have regenerative powers that the metal stops for long enough to matter.	20 000 Moon Coins

Spring Segment

Breezing through quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Moon's Favor	Moon Bunnies are creatures that circle around the segments to bring the moon's blessings to all of them. They're originally from the Winter side, so whenever they reach the Summer they need to get help from people. So the people have set up places in the city to make different variations of nutritious and delicious cakes to give the bunnies. You can either help make the cakes or/and deliver them near the Spring Flower Yard (unlike last year when the 'buffet' was held at the Summer's flower yard) for the bunnies to find. You may even get a chance to feed and pet them yourself. The Moon Bunnies are also feeling very generous and giving anyone who gives them a cake a blessing: any item you want will get blessed with the moon's power and will light up the darkness when they wish it.	The Moon Bunnies float in the air as a means of travel and sometimes they sparkle like the moon. They cannot be adopted and if someone tries to take one back with them they will poof into moon dust and reappear somewhere else. The blessing can be received from multiple bunnies and put into multiple items that way. It also works in emergencies (like if the owner is knocked out) even if someone doesn't wish on it, so others may find the person.	900 Moon Coins, Moon's Favor
Thinking About the Immortality of the Crab	A species of monster crabs has been found again from the shores of the Prism Lake. For centuries people have hunted them because legends have said they possesses a gem hidden in one of its many barnacles that was assumed to be the secret to their immortality. However, they are extremely elusive and appear only on nights when moon is covered by clouds. Whenever they're on the surface, they cause a lot of damage to everything nearby - sometimes even further away, as they move faster than normal crabs do. We're really interested in getting the gems to study them.	Immortal Crabs are, as it says on the tin, immortal. They've lived on Ellipsa for longer than people. No one has seen them for three decades, but now they have made their grand entrance. The gem inside their barnacles are magical in nature, but don't grant immortality. Instead they make healing magic thrice stronger than normal. The crabs taste delicious, but don't otherwise do have any special effects.	800 Moon Coins per Gem, a free crab dinner
❗High Risk Quest❗ Hell's Coming Home with Me CW/TW: possible gore, being eaten alive	A big part of the Cherry Blossom Parks has started to move. The trees look like they might have evolved into living trees, but on closer look they're covered in slimes. Not just any slimes, but the Weapon Slimes that live in the parks. Something has made them possess the trees and made them starts marching towards the city. There's a long way for them to walk, but the sooner they're dealt with the better! They also have weapons attached to the trees, so they're armed, moving trees.	Weapon Slime are a type of slime that dangerous due to them absorbing weapons and making them a part of their body. They're very aggressive and don't like strangers coming near them. Several of them have combined each other to be big enough to absorb trees to use them as ways to attack people. The slime covered trees act very much like live giants, acting with one mind. Like a lot of regular slime, they're weak to fire, but they know ways to shield themselves with items found in the environment - or captured people. Those captured inside a slime have two hours before they start dissolving inside.	20 000 Moon Coins

Summer Segment

Get your hottest quests here [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Aserejé ja de je	The Dancing Skeletons have made it to the Summer Segment on their "tour". This time the skeletons they've dragged into their dancing are Hula Skeletons. Mostly called that because they like to dress up in different straw skirts, flowers crowns their heads and leis around their necks. As per usual these skeletons have no sense of personal space or consent, so anyone who happens to come close enough to them is going to be bothered. Otherwise they seem to be pretty harmless this time, other than not knowing limit to how long someone can dance that is. Some people might need rescuing.	Hula Skeletons are the friendliest sort of skeletons who enjoy dressing up and looking nice. They can be easily distracted by showing them different clothes or even make up. The Dancing Skeletons will be annoyed, but won't cause a scene and instead continue dancing.	1000 Moon Coins
Dandelion Dreams Coming True	There's a species of lions that look very much like dandelions. They're usually hard to find, as they blend into the sceneries in the Spring Segment. However, strong gusts of wind have brought a pack of them into the Summer Segment. The environment here is dangerous for this species, so we wish to see them go back to the their original habitat. However... we don't have the courage to approach lions. Even if they look like dandelions they're still predators.	Grandelions are large lions that look like dandelions. They mate with whoever, as the gender doesn't matter. The flowers on their tails turn into seeds and produce new lion cubs when they get planted on the ground. Newborn lion cubs have a bud instead of a flower on the tip of their tails. Despite being large, they're very light and often get carried to places by strong gusts of wind.	1600 Moon Coins
❗High Risk Quest❗ Bless the Cursed Rain	It's finally raining in the Summer Segment, but that's where the good news end. Dark Albatrosses have appeared in the skies, and they're affecting the rain. Any place they fly in the rain gets mixed with dark energy that drops on plant-life, the soil and creatures alike, making them corrupted. Plants and soil die, creatures turn into abominations and attack people. The Dark Albatrosses need to be dealt with as soon as possible - especially before they fly over the areas with Wyverns and make them even stronger.	Dark Albatrosses are giant birds, with wingspan over 4 metres/13.12 feet. They're all black in color and have horrifying red eyes and their talons are sharp as knives. They're coated in dark energy, making them harder to fight than most creatures and they prefer to stay high up in the air.	20 000 Moon Coins

Autumn Segment

Maple scented Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Autumn Cleaning	Leech like plants have started destroying the Autumn Airship Station. We've made attempts to chase them away, but more keep coming back. It's very likely that there's a nest (or several) of them somewhere nearby, but we're not brave enough to go check. We're pretty sure the only way the bypassed the barrier is because they're mostly plants.	Leech Vines are plants part of a monster body called a Leech Plant. The monsters themselves aren't able to pass the barriers, but they can send their tendril like vines to eat the material the station is made of. Finding the main body and destroying it will help the problem, but be careful of the vines as they might try to suck anything they can find - even people's blood.	1400 Moon Coins
You Use a Repel	It's a known fact that the Lake of Healing gives someone energy when they dip into it, but also attracts a variety of monsters. Well, we have developed a cure for that. It's still in an experimental phase, so we're looking for volunteers who would bathe in the lake and then spray themselves with the spray we developed. It should negate the effect, making monsters ignore you... but it might be a good idea to keep a weapon nearby if it doesn't work!	Good news! The spray works. None of the monsters approach the person who took a dip in the lake. However, the next morning, after sleeping for at least a few hours, they will find every harmless, fuzzy creature within three mile radius has made their way to them and are either snuggling or sleeping next to them. The spray wears off during the course of day or with a nice, long shower.	900 Moon Coins, Pets(?)
❗High Risk Quest❗ Rulers of the Skies CW/TW: electrocution, possession	The storms in the Autumn Segment have taken a different form than usual. The clouds above themselves have become sentient, it feels like and they're making precise shots with their lightning bolts at anyone there. Occasionally they even change shape and become more menacing, sucking trees, people and creatures into the cloud with winds. They're either never seen again or return as creatures possessed by lightning that cause havoc all around. We've had to capture and lock away some natives possessed that tried to get into the city to cause havoc there. We're looking for a cure, but something needs to be done to these clouds before things get out of control.	Storm Conquerors are clouds that have traveled through the Darkness and have become sentient creatures of chaos. Whenever one breaks apart they're quickly reformed, but the more pieces it's torn into the longer the reforming takes. Those possessed by lightning will return to normal by having the electricity sucked out of their bodies with different devices.	20 000 Moon Coins

NSFW Quests
DO NOT use the Quest Mingle for these quests and instead play them on other posts! This questboard is only unlockable by characters that are 16 or older.

The Spice [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Good Vibes Only	Sponsored by Good Vibes is hosting an adult toy contest. Everyone is encouraged to flex their creativity and design a toy toy that could potentially go into production. The winner will be picked by Eiden. People are encouraged to only submit one design - so be sure to put your best, most creative foot forward.	To be considered for the win, please visit here and drop a line. Winner will be randomly chosen.	Rewards (1 per person): Everyone: 50% off coupon to Good Vibes For entering: 250 Moon coins For winning: 1000 Moon Coins + Potential Toy Production
Spicy Gacha	A new restaurant has opened as a rival to the infamous Gacha Restaurant. The Spicy Gacha Diner offers similar services, but all the food has a twist: they all have an added effect. Most of them are harmless, (like creating bunny ears on someone's head or changing their voice into a different one) but some of them can cause sexy effects (like a heat like state or a desire to go do some sexy pole dancing) which is why the restaurant is only accepting customers that are over 16-years-old. Come test their restaurant and get paid for it!	The effects range from very silly ones to very sexy ones, but all of them are very harmless and meant to have fun. The food is always delicious and can be either savory or sweet. The best thing? Everything costs the same, no matter what you order.	Free Gacha Meal, 500 Moon Coins

City Crime Quests
This questboard on an app on the phone and is only unlockable if your character has received a (handwaved) code for it from one of the crime organizations or just criminals of Nightwake. Another way is to hack your way in if you know it exists.
You don't need mod permission to do these, just make sure you find a reasonably way for your character to get there.
Anyone can be a victim of these quests.
Should players doing these quests wish for IC consequences, they may report their character here - or just assume that NPC law enforcement characters are on a lookout for them.

Dark Side of Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Dirty Fighting CW/TW: murder	Underground fighting rings are nothing new, but I have something that's new and exciting. I'm hosting a fighting ring where I've invited rival gangs to take part in. I want them gone. Break all their bones, maul their faces - kill them. Make it look like it's part of the fight to not rise anyone suspicions. If you manage to kill someone by "accidentally punching too hard", you will get the highest reward.	This quest is all about violence. However, there may be cops in disguise in the audience so it's possible to get your character into huge problems, should you so wish. Though if it looks like an accident, maybe they won't get a long sentence. Feel free to also have been "invited" by this mysterious someone to be a fighter, especially if your character has been involved with dealing with gangs before.	10000 Moon Coins
It's For Your Own Good	We have plenty of debts to collect, but not enough collectors for the job. At least not collectors intimidating enough. We wish to have the aid of power holders so they can use their powers to get a point across: that paying the money is for their own good. And if they don't listen, you're free to break some bones to give them reminders of what happens if they don't come up with the money.	Debts are collected from various different kinds of people from different districts and then brought to a specific drop point to get a reward. Those who try to steal the debt money will get another debt collector after them.	2000 Moon Coins per 2 debts collected

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Comments

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

Seven pauses, taken aback by the question before suddenly bursting into laughter.

“No, MK, no fancy hat, but we do have a pretty handsome uniform. Captain Seven works in a crunch, but I prefer either Captain or Seven onboard. Captain Seven makes it sound like I’m in trouble.”

Catching her breath, she turns to MK and considers him for a moment with a raised eyebrow, leaning her back against the rail as she continues.


“Making it to the moon is an important milestone in any civilisation, especially with a vessel you built yourselves. What was her name?”

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

MK just ate everything up. His attention was fully on Seven as she explained everything. He nodded. Captain or Seven. Not Captain Seven unless there was trouble. Got it.

"Oh! Thanks! I know astronauts made it to the moon before but yeah. It was called the T.E.A. Sandy said it stood for Total Environment Automobile. It was a big van we all drove in with beds. Monkey King turned that into the rocket. So I think the name would have stayed the same. Yeah."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

Tea, Earl Grey, hot. The words sprung unbidden into her mind as she smiled.

"You know, I used to work with an Admiral who would have highly approved. She sounds like a sturdy ship."

She sighs, letting out a breath that felt like it had been bottled up for weeks.

"I served on the Titan, we were an exploratory ship - seek out strange new worlds, new life and new civilizations - that was us. Real poster child of the Federation. But there was a battle, we were one of the few ships in the fleet able to do anything about it. We lost our Captain and I was the senior officer on board. I took command, saw us through and when all the dust had settled, Starfleet saw fit to confirm my commission. They even rechristened her - new Captain, new name and all. That's where I was before I came here. We were just heading out on our Maiden voyage before all this."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

"The Titan? Oh that is such a cool name! I'm sorry about your old Captain. That had to be hard. But now you're Captain. What's your ship's name now? Is it like a number like your name or is it like Titan 2? Or something else?" Oh he was excited to learn more.

"And the battle. Who were you fighting? Evil aliens? Martians?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

"It's called the Enterprise, now the ninth ship of her name." Seven's eyes narrow as she stares out over the landscape below.

Shit. I was hoping not to go into this here.

"We were fighting the Borg. They're a... hive mind. A race of cybernetic organisms that assimilate other cultures into their collective, implant their technology into their victims bodies, turning them into Drones slaved to the Collective. They're the single most grave threat to our galaxy."

She taps the ridge of her ocular implant.

"And they're who gave me this."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

MK saw her eyes narrow and blinked. Uh oh. Did he ask something he shouldn't have? He listened carefully. he Borg sounded scary. Really scary. Harbingers of Order, that was what Donnie called something similar. He shivered and swallows. His eyes looked at the implant.

"Oh. I thought that was just like some cool future cyborg stuff people from your world had. ...They do sound like bad news. We don't have to talk about that if you don't want-"

MK was cut off when he saw movement. Out in the wilds something was coming toward their check point. A collection of slimes and a lot of them. All of them in different colors; blue, yellow, green, red, and black. Looks like that was going to have to wait.

"That's a lot of slimes. That's not good. Okay. I know those guys are weak to fire. You Summer by any chance?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

"It's fine, you didn't know, and honestly, I should have expected more people to ask about it than they have."

She unslings her rifle, shouldering the stock as she takes aim at one of the slimes below.

"And no, I'm Autumn, but I do have this." She depresses the trigger, sending a phaser pulse down-range, neatly burning a hole clean through the closest of the slimes.

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

MK watched Seven line up the shot and fire the rifle phaser pulse. It burned right through that slime.

"I'm an Autumn too. But that works. I'll try to get them all close together, you keep firing," MK said as he raised his hands. Even from up there the earth obeyed his commands. Large rock walls erupted from the ground to try and force the slimes into a bottleneck.

"Keep firing and I'll try to work on smashing them with boulders."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

"Rodger that."

Switching the phaser to automatic fire, Seven adopts a more stable firing position, leaning the base of the weapon against the platform's railing as she takes aim. Working in short, controlled bursts, she opens fire, sending phaser pulses down into the midst of the bottleneck.

"What's so dangerous about these things?" She calls out, sighting another target.

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

"These guys eat anything they can suck inside them. Dissolves them alive even. And I think they are a hivemind. If they get into the city, that's just going to be bad news."

MK lifted two giant boulders. The rock shifted and formed giant spikes. He slammed them down further up than the bottleneck and started having them spin and crush up the slimes that were in the boulders path.

"There is a lot of them. I read something in the library info sharing post. If we can cast a spell together, it should be more powerful. You been learning the earth manipulation and creation yet?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

"I've dabbled." Seven calls back, firing off another salvo to cover the boulder's advance.

"Still pretty new to it. What've you got in mind?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

"They're all gooey, right? Well how about a giant wave of sand? Sand is easy. It's just a lot of little pieces of earth. If we both do it, it should be super strong. I know we just met but I trust you. If you trust me, just a little, it should work. Wanna try it?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

“I’ll see what I can do!” She calls back.

Engaging the safety on the rifle, Seven slings it back over her shoulder, concentrating for a moment. This was the first time she’d done anything like this, certainly on this scale. Holding her hand out in front of her, she closes her eyes, picturing dry, coarse sand in her mind.

Focusing, making her will reality, she opens her eyes.

There, 10 yards out. A densely packed globe of sand floating in mid air.

“How’s this?”

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

MK held out his hand and focused as well. The glove formed and MK pushed to add more of his own sand. Then the globe doubled in side and flew like a wave. It crashed into the slimes hard and swept them away. The sand got stuck on slimes and pushed them back. It slowed them down and forced them to get stuck in the sand.

"There we go! Yeah! Ha!"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

"Well done!" Seven replies. Once again unslinging the rifle and bringing it up to her shoulder. "Are we talking fish in a barrel, or you got something else in mind?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

"Totally fish in a barrel. I'll squeeze them together. Open fire, Captain!" MK grinned as he moved his hands. The sand and rocks pushed all the stuck slimes together. It would be so easy to just blast them all now.

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

"Copy that." Seven thumbs her weapon's selector switch, switching it to automatic, before bracing herself and the rifle against the platform's railing.

Taking a breath, she squeezes the trigger, holding a steady stream of automatic fire down on the slimes below. Working in short, controlled bursts to avoid overheating the weapon, she quickly dispatches the remaining creatures.

"Efficient." She nods, looking over at MK. "You had a good plan there, worked out pretty well."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

"I am the plan man, even back home," MK said with a grin and flip of his hair. He grinned and focused on leveling the ground again so everything was back to normal. All done.

"Whoa that took it out of me. Hopefully that's the only swarm we gotta deal with today. I'll be okay after a nap when I get home. Gotta work tonight."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

Putting up her rifle, Seven lowers the power setting and re-applies the safety, giving the weapon some time to cool before stowing it away again, breathing heavily from the exertion of the contact as she does.

"I can see that. Well done." Holding out a steadying hand to him, she continues. "I've got the next watch covered if you need to rest."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

MK looked at the hand but he didn't take it.

"Sorry. Uh. I can't touch people right now," MK said as he lowered himself to sit on the floor of the watchtower.

"I'll be okay. Yeah. Just let me rest my eyes. I can still talk. Been using a lot of my magic lately. Kinda wears on you after a while."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

Withdrawing the hand, Seven nods at him, inviting him to take a seat as she rests up against the lookout point.

"Don't worry about it. You sound exhausted. I take it things have been a little rough?"

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[noodleboi]

MK nodded and closed his eyes. He leaned his head against the wall and let out a long slow breath.

"More than a little rough lately. ...I uh...I signed up for this because I can't let anyone touch me right now. I thought just me and one person up here. There's enough room. I could try to get used to being this close. And it's working. But if anyone touches me I...I freak out. It's rough. Really rough."

Re: Bolster the Defenses

[funwillnowcommence]

Thinking for a moment, Seven reaches down to her belt and removes her tricorder.

"Scan radius of 500 meters should do it I think." Opening the clamshell, she types a few commands into the device, setting it to scan for any movement on the other side of the defenses before setting it down on the table.

Heading across the platform, she sits beside MK, leaving enough room between them to respect his wishes.

"I was a child when I was assimilated. I don't have any memory of my life before becoming a Drone and when I was still part of the Collective, I had no free will. No autonomy, I was just one voice in billions. There wasn't even an I to speak of - there are no individuals within the Collective.

"When I was liberated, I was terrified. For the first time in decades, the only voice I heard in my head was my own. I was an individual. I didn't know how to function, how to operate within the society I found myself in. All I knew was the Borg. I lashed out, tried to contact the Collective and I put the ship, her crew and everyone who saved me at risk because I freaked out, because I wasn't able to adapt to my new environment."

She sighs, staring off into the distance.

"I get it. Touch was something that took me time to adjust too as well." She taps the back of her left hand. "All Borg have assimilation tubules implanted in their hands. It's the main way new drones are assimilated - and it was the same with me. It took me months, years even, after my liberation before I could trust others - and myself - enough to work through that."

Re: Bolster the Defenses - CW/TW: Gore, Character Death

[noodleboi]

MK watched Seven pull out something and left it sitting on the table. If that thing could tell them if monsters were coming, that was handy. He wondered if she had other ones or if she could get more. It was a small idle thought. He listened to her story and it sounded terrifying. To just lose yourself completely. To not know you as you. His heart raced thinking about it. Then she was freed and scared and even tried to go back.

It took time and that made sense. It made sense for him too but he still wished it wouldn't have to. He wanted to bad to get better. He couldn't rush it. He just wished he could.

"...Someone I love...cut my head off with a handsaw. Recently. And it was really really traumatic for us both. ...He was trying to save me from something worse. I had this collar on my neck. Made me do what people told me to and I was told to take it off. But it wouldn't come off. It would tighten when I used the fire powers it gave me so I...started to light myself on fire over and over trying to get it to shrink so much it would come off. So he used the saw to...get it off faster."

Re: Bolster the Defenses - CW/TW: Gore, Character Death

[funwillnowcommence]

Shit, this kid's been through a lot.

Seven listens, keeping her eyes on the horizon as she takes his story on board.

"That sounds... intense. I can't even imagine what it must have taken to come through something like that. You've done well to get this far already." Seven sighs, resting her head against the back wall of the platform.

"Listen, I'm no Councilor. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be doing here just yet, but if you ever need anyone to yell at," She taps the end of the rifle resting up against her legs. "Or someone to teach you how to shoot a phaser, I'm here, OK?"