Quest Mingle: April-May

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Quest Mingle: April-May
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City Quests

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

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Catch the Void	The animal shelter in Amberfall has its own section for a cat species called "the void cat". They look like normal black cats, but they have a habit of disappearing into the shadows of dark corners. A group of these cats has made an escape and are running around doing what cats do: stealing food, dropping things down from high places, scratching everything and absorbing light from light sources. Help the shelter staff catch and bring them back to the shelter.	Yes, the void cats are adoptable, hence why they are in the animal shelter. They just like running off a lot and sometimes make all light in a room disappear. The cats can be anywhere in the city, but generally don't go out into the segments as they do love people, but are just also adventurous.	50 Moon Coins
It's in Your Mayo	Solarpeak is known for its street food. And what goes well with street food? Mayonnaise. It's not, however, all it's used for as it's a way of attracting a culinary creature that only flies around the Summer District skies at this time of the year: The Cabbage Kites. They're flying cabbages that move around restlessly, but once they taste a mayonnaise that they deem tasty, they will turn into regular, very tasty and nutritious cabbages. Anyone around the place is challenged to make their own mayonnaise from scratch and see how well you do with the cabbage kites.	Cabbage Kites are creatures that search for the right food (mayo) that satisfies them all their life before their souls ascend, leaving their cabbage body behind. They can be attacked by other means, but the natives would find this disrespectful and likely throw mayonnaise at the characters, so it's not recommended when there's a peaceful way out.	any cabbage you catch
Welcome to the Jungle	When delivering new potions to people, please remember to use caution and don't trip. Someone did, right next to the clocktower. Now there's an almost literal jungle surrounding Coldreach's infamous clocktower and making it hard to access parts of it. Since the vines that surround the place were made by potions, they're impossible to cut through by normal means and making a potion to counter this one would take time. Use your imagination to deal with this problem without burning the place down. Anyone who burns the clocktower will be arrested.	Due to the excess amount of potions that fell on the tower, the vines regrow over time, making this quest be available for the whole two months even if someone manages to solve the problem right away. The vines are also alive and will try to grab anyone who tries destroying them and keep them as a meat shield.	100 Moon Coins
Who You Gonna Call	A group of mischievous ghosts have possessed some of the trash bins all over the city. Some of them have grown large enough to consume two people at once. They're not really in danger, just stuck in the trash bins. Help the people stuck in trash bins and try to chase the mischievous ghosts out of the city.	One way to get ghosts to evacuate the trash bins is to make them feel uncomfortable with temperature changes or shaking the bins enough (you might want to rescue the people before attempting these). That way they will find something else to possess or leave entirely. Ghosts can only be seen if they possess something, unless you're a Winter power holder.	100 Moon Coins
NSFW Quest Stranger Burglaries	Nightwake Center and it's Red Light Sub-district is in chaos. A group of burglars have been going around stealing people's lingerie. Any lingerie left unattended has been swiped and anyone has needed to go home commando afterwards. The natives that frequent the district and the staff members of clubs are all asking to get to the bottom of this.	The burglars are regular perverts who want to use them for magical enhancement purposes as the power of intimacy will work wonders for intimate items, or so the rumor goes.	500 Moon Coins

Winter Segment

Lights, Snow, Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Bridge of the Lost CW: forced truths	At exactly noon, the bridge crossing the biggest river in the Winter Segment shines a peculiar light. In the past, it was a way of natives meeting their lost loved ones one last time. No one knows what would happen now, with the changes in the world, so we are looking for brave souls willing to go to the bridge and see what happens.	The Bridge only works now if people go on it in pairs and there are three possible scenarios that can happen: 1) The characters who entered the bridge will see each other as someone they lost. 2) The characters will see their worst enemy in each other. 3) The characters will see themselves in each other, but either an idealistic version of themselves or something they would never want to see themselves become. The barrier around the bridge will disappear once something truthful about the person they see in front of them has been said.	70 Moon Coins
Bone Sucker's Coming to Town CW: Gore, Death	Some natives enjoy going to the Watcher's Tower to look at the Winter Segment from a safe place. Unfortunately, bodies of the natives have started to turn up. They're all in the same condition: all of their bones in their body have been sucked out. Everything else is completely intact. Solve the mystery and bring peace to the lost ones.	The monsters behind the case are called Warlock Skeletons. The suck bones out of living things with their dark magic to make skeletons that move and do their bidding. They can be killed as long as the powerful jewel on their neck is destroyed.	200 Moon Coins
Harvest the Colors	In the evenings, by the Unfrozen Lake, various Northern Lights colored winter animals appear. These animals have absorbed the light and magic of the beautiful multicolored night sky. If you manage to befriend one, the animal will accepts pets. Touching the animals will lead to dust sticking to your hands and that dust can then be put into an empty bottle. Please collect a few bottles for the Tower of Potions to use.	The dust can only be collected by being kind to the animals. Being mean or killing them will make all of the dust around the area turn into regular powder and make the other animals flee. The Northern Light dust can be used for different power enhancing potions and medicine.	50 Moon Coins, a bottle of the dust
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's an... Orca?	One of the rarer visitors of the night skies of the Winter Segment is a species called the Sky Orca. They usually appear once a year and seeing them is a sign of good luck. The guilds are encouraging people to visit the segments to pay a visit to the Orca offspring that want to play with people and to protect them from the dangers of the segment while they are here. After a successful playdate, the mother Orcas will drop clouds down that can be used as comfortable beds.	Seeing and playing with the Orcas will literally boost anyone's luck and make them less likely to get into accidents for a whole week. On the flip side, if someone would kill any of the orcas, they would experience nothing but bad luck for two weeks.	A comfy cloud bed, or 100 Moon Coins for giving it away
Test of Courage	A few times a year, a mysterious house appears near the border with the Spring Segment, close to the Flower Yard. No one knows how or why it appears, but for decades it has been used as a "Test of Courage" site. It appears at nightfall and disappears before the sun rises (on several nights for several weeks). There have been times when someone has walked into the house and didn't get out on time... and had to spend the whole night until next in there. They weren't the same after that... Otherwise the house is safe, even if very spooky. How about a test of courage?	The house is very much a haunted house. More accurately it's a house that has been possessed by several ghosts so they make the house move on its own and move things to spook people. They just want to have fun and don't do this out of malice. The only danger is staying in the house when the sun rises as the house will disappear into a void space with anyone inside. What happens in void space? The ghosts start showing characters' greatest fears on display for anyone inside the void space to see and make fun of them.	20 Moon Coins

Spring Segment

Breezing through quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Can You Dye With All the Colors of the Lake	The annual fashion show is in June and fashion designers are looking for new inspirations. In fact, they are all looking for unique colors for their fabrics. They are asking for people who would be willing to travel to Prism Lake to dye their fabrics into new creations. They are given a potion that will make the fabric permanently absorb the color - but before using it, it's easy to test out different combinations. As a reward they will make you any outfit, either out of the colored fabrics or something else.	The biggest threat on this mission are the rainbow dyed bears that will occasionally come to find delicious fish from the lake. They aren't anything special, just normal bears that have been dyed by the lake. Characters can also fall into the lake and get a new coloring... but it's only permanent if they drink the potion. There are counter potions for it, however.	50 Moon Coins, free designer outfit
Duck, Duck!	Lately, anyone who has been going into the Spring Segment has been bombarded by none other than ducks. Not just any ducks, but magical Kung Fu Ducks. They're ducks that know Kung Fu and can use wind powers with their moves! We don't know where they are even coming from, but somehow I blame Jeffrey.	There have been catapult prototypes that have been stolen from The Research Center scientists who came to test them out. The Kung Fu Ducks are using these to launch themselves to fight opponents bigger than they are... since they're no larger than normal ducks. Still, they can be pretty menacing.	80 Moon Coins
In the Eye of a Hurricane	Lately, a lot of tornadoes have been forming around the segment, especially near the safe zones. Unfortunately, this means people are getting trapped inside tornadoes, unable to get out of them. The tornadoes are stubbornly staying in the same spot for a long time, almost as if challenging people to break through the wall of wind and get people out. Which is exactly what we're asking people to do.	The tornadoes are mostly normal tornadoes, expect for the fact that they can stay in one place for a long time, almost as if someone would be controlling them. And they are, by a group of Hurricane Birds that fly around the tornadoes. They look like eagles that are made out of steel. Their weak point is their stomachs. Chase them off or kill them, as long as you get them to stop making hurricanes.	100 Moon Coins
On the Wings of a Butterfly	Once a year, for two month period, a group of giant butterflies arrive. They offer lifts for anyone who need them and they are very fast flyers. Due to their size they're also not affected by the strong gusts of winds. The butterflies will help anyone harvest fresh cherry blossom petals from the Cherry Blossom Park without getting in unnecessary danger down below.	Cherry Blossom Petals can be used for various cosmetics, food, drinks and potions. Their magical qualities lies in prolonging life, making them important for medical departments to have.	100 Moon Coins if you sell a bag of your cherry blossom petals or just cherry blossom petals
Slime Desserts	Everyone knows there are slimes everywhere in the Spring Segment. However, only a few know that there are special slimes called Dessert Slimes among them. Their essence, the slime they produce, is a great ingredient in many cakes and desserts. Depending on the color it can taste like chocolate, fudge, liquorice and many other things. The best part of it is you don't have to kill them - just collect some slime residue. A chef in Nightwake has requested a variety of flavors and promises to pay anyone who is willing to collect some slime.	Slime Desserts are the same as slime: very weak and easy to intimidate. They are, however, rarer than the normal slime and only their scent will be an obvious way to tell them apart.	30 Moon Coins

Summer Segment

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Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Hope You Have a Landing Strategy	Since the Mermaids have invited people to The Great Ocean Lake (see the Rain Dance quest), we have come up with different ways to get people there. There's, of course, the airship but for those who want to get there faster there's a big catapult waiting at the Dayrise Bridge. It's strong enough to throw anyone over the forest and beach, straight into the lake. It should only take a few hours through the sky, maybe even less! Scientists will pay anyone who is willing to use it.	The landing may very well end up getting them a bit too short and landing onto the beach instead, but with a right landing strategy there shouldn't be any problems. Right? Right. Use any powers available to make sure your landing is safe or depend on others for to help you out. Getting back from the lake is definitely a different story.	100 Moon Coins
It Only Stings a Little CW: scorpions, willing poisoning	Coldreach's Tower of Potions has made a request to go to the Deserter's Desert and find a specific scorpion species there that produces a poison that will make them sick (high fever), will also make them invincible for as long as the poison is in their system. The poison needs to be harvested by letting the scorpions sting someone, so bring a partner who can help you come back from the Desert.	There's a time limit of 72 hours to get the poison out of someone's system before they pass away, which is why the members of the Tower have made a safe place to treat patients near the Summer Flower Yard. Doing it yourself is also an option, if you know how.	200 Moon Coins
They Lava You CW: Lava, Fire, Possible Burns	A larger group of Lava Lizards have left their home of the Lava-Ridden Land and are now terrorizing everything at the edge of the Jungle of Judgement. They're spitting lava at everything and anything, making the area dangerous to walk in and burning trees. They are steadily walking towards the city barrier. The larger pits of lava they manage to make also attract the Wyverns, so the fight may get dangerous and fast if something isn't done about it.	Both the Lava Lizards and Wyverns are tough skinned and hard to fight with. Wyverns also breathe fire so things may get very heated, very fast. Some of the lizards are also chameleons and will mask themselves to ambush their prey. Mermaids will send pillars or water with their magic, as well as work on the Rain Dance to put out fires (see Rain Dance quest).	500 Moon Coins
Technical Move: Rain Dance	The Summer Segment is known for its rough droughts. The Mermaids of the the Great Ocean Lake have decided to do something about it: a special dance called the Rain Dance. They need a lot of help though and are inviting everyone to participate either in the water or on the beach nearby. As a prize they will give you a special seashell necklace. Be careful of the Sirens though because some may be pretending to be mermaids and will try to drag you with them underwater.	The seashell necklace will release a temperature altering bubble when used underwater, making the water around the user a pleasant temperature and also lets the user breathe under water. Out of water it's just a pretty shell that you can put on your ear and hear a whale sing. The necklace needs to be powered up by touch energy and it lasts for 12 hours per charge.	Seashell necklace
Temple of Frustration	The Temple of Life has been a mystery for the longest of time. For some unknown reason all of the monsters avoid it and no one has been able to figure out why. We would like to investigate what's inside so use any methods possible to break down the temple door. If that doesn't work, please leave our measuring devices there so we can monitor any changes to the temple. Enter the Jungle of Judgement from the Spring Airship Station side for the easiest route.	The Temple of Life's door remains closed no matter what you do to it. It seems that something really powerful is protecting it. The Research team will pay for a full report of all the methods characters have tried of accessing the temple and for leaving their measuring technology on the scene. Otherwise, the Temple will surely be important later. If your character decides to wander to the Jungle of Judgement, please let us know and we will let you know what to expect.	50 Moon Coins

Autumn Segment

Maple scented Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Blood Bloom CW: Blood, Blood loss	A species thought lost to the darkness has been spotted around the Autumn Segment. It's called Treanpire and it's a living, walking tree that also has the qualities of a vampire. It uses its roots and vines to suck blood out of all living things. After a feast its branches will bloom different colored flowers, depending on the blood it drank. They're dangerous and like to stalk people around the Airship Station and the Flower Yard. Take care of them.	The flowers on a Treanpire can be used for various blood related potions and medicine, but they can only be plucked out when the Treanpires are alive. When they die, the flowers die with them. If plucked before death, they remain good for potions.	500 Moon Coins
Chef Needs Maple Syrup Badly	A chef working at Coldreach has sadly run out of maple syrup for his restaurant that sells creations made out of maple syrup. He has requested that people would travel to Maybe it's Mapleline forest in the Autumn Segment to gather some more of it. He warns that staying there for too long might be a bad idea, so just quickly take some maple syrup from a tree and run (yes it comes as ready to bottle maple syrup).	Maybe it's Mapleline is a mysterious forest that turns anyone partially into a maple monster when they spent too much time there. It's said seasonal power holders are more resistant to it, but eventually the forest's power will affect them, too (in around a full day in the forest). Normally herbivorous animals that live there are now carnivorous and the other way around, so try not to get killed by a small, cute, maple squirrel.	50 Moon Coins per jar of Maple Syrup
The Graveyard Shift	The Abandoned Graveyard needs some maintenance every now and then. Cleaning the graves, sweeping some fallen leaves and leaving fresh flowers by the graves as a memorial. The natives would usually do this themselves, but with the increase of monsters and catastrophes, they're asking for otherworlders to do it instead.	A part of the graveyard is flooded, but it's still safe as it's inside the barrier made by the whole graveyard. However, if someone goes outside of the barrier and near the water, there are vicious Skelefish waiting outside. They're believed to be related to piranhas, but they're made out of sharp bones.	30 Moon Coins
Thunderbolts and Lightning, Very Very Exciting	A group of Research Center staff has been interested in the thunderstorms over the Autumn Segment. Because of that they are looking for volunteers who would wear a rubber suit and stand in the storms to collect some data on special thunderproof devices. It should be safe with the specially made rubber suits. They're not the comfiest to walk in or do anything, but it's better to be safe than sorry!	During the thunderstorms a species called a Storm Surfer (foxes made out of pure electricity) will appear. They're playful and curious and will likely try to take off anyone's rubber suit by using the zipper on the back and if they touch someone who isn't resistant to electricity they will most likely paralyze them.	100 Moon Coins
With Great Power Comes Great Frogs	The Research Center has a capture quest. There is a species called "Almighty Frog" that's living in the Autumn Segment that they have taken an interest in. It's a frog that can wield all the basic elements (water, wind, fire, earth). The scientists are curious as to why a native frog can use all elements without everything going to hell, but native humans cannot. It's important the frogs are captured alive and brought back to the Center... but they're hard to catch and challenge people to a duel.	Almighty Frogs are the size of an infant, so larger than normal frogs, but still relatively small. They still pack quite a punch as they are agile and can use all elements simultaneously. Usually they are pacifists, but they love challenging people to battle. They mostly live in the swamps near the Pumpkin Spice Trail that drains seasonal magical energy (ineffective against the frogs) so they need to be lured out to fight.	200 Moon Coins

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graveyard shift

[dreamsofwings]

[ Eren just needs some way to be useful. It's easy enough to be destructive, and at some point he will probably be that. He doesn't know what to do with peace anyway.

But in the interim, he knows how to keep things clean. The captain made sure of that. And while he can't talk as a titan, he can carry his quest partner where they need to go. He also brings his Pokemon, Yamask (he doesn't know its name, alas), along for the ride. He figures it's a ghost, it will feel at home in a graveyard. Logic?

At night, Eren goes back to his human form for camp, then they do it again.

Finally…the graveyard.

He's not sure if Yamask actually feels at home here; the little creature always looks kind of sad and weird. But it doesn't seem to be afraid or out of place. Good enough, Eren thinks. ]

All right.

[ He unpacks the cleaning supplies. It isn't much, mostly just things for dusting cobwebs off of graves. ]

I wonder why this was so important they had to ask us to do it.

[mayoninofukucho]

[Hijikata actually enjoys fighting and the adrenaline it brings, but that's exactly his problem at the moment: He's stuck as a traffic cop, with no chance of a promotion until he proves himself capable at it, and he sucks at the job (which is horribly boring to him). It's a never-ending source of frustration, and the quests, especially those out in the Segments, are a diversion he's grateful for.

He doesn't really know what to make of Eren's Yamask at first. He knows what pokémon are, at least, having had a run-in with another trainer not too long ago, but this one in particular... it gives him weird vibes. What's that mask thing it's holding? Why does it look so sad? He opts to avoid asking those questions, all the more now that he sees it eerily floating around between the graves.]

I guess it's just sentimentality. This place has been abandoned ever since the whole area went to shit, but people's loved ones are still buried here.

[He understands how it'll bring the people in the city solace to know the graves were tended to. Whether Eren can relate, though, he's not sure. He can only assume that people who fall victim to titans on his homeworld are usually devoured, so graves are probably reserved for those who die of other causes... which has to be tough to deal with when you're a soldier. Eren, on the whole, seems a good bit more quiet and reserved than Jean, but Hijikata can't tell if that's just his nature, or a result of what he's seen and experienced back home, and he has no intention of prying.]

...

On second thought let's put up the tent later when we're done here.

[He doesn't want to sleep right next to the graveyard, but he also doesn't want to split up from Eren to set up camp further away, even if everything looks peaceful and calm right now! So he gets over himself and enters the burial grounds through the open gate, only now noticing that the whole southern half is flooded by the adjacent body of water (is it a lake, or a swamp... he isn't sure). He lets out a put-upon sigh.]

How're we supposed to clean back there? I guess this only happened after all the people left.

cw for death/horror/dismemberment

[dreamsofwings]

[ Eren doesn't really know the answers about Yamask anyway. He'll learn them eventually, since there are Pokemon experts in the city, but for now he's just sort of here with his creepy little guy. ]

At least they get graves, I guess.

[ Hijikata's assumption is right; most people Eren knows didn't get graves. There was rarely enough to bury. He remembers people coming home in pieces, their families in anguish. There were rarely sites to put gravestones after the wall came down, though sure, people died of other things too. Eren admittedly doesn't think too much of them, though his dad was a doctor. For someone with as many other people's memories as Eren has inside him, his world view can be extremely narrow.

He raises one eyebrow at Hijikata's change of mind, but…well, that's fine.

Of course Eren isn't bothered by death or graves or the idea of ghosts, which he doesn't even believe exist, so he slides in the open gate as well. ]

Let's just do the ones that aren't underwater. It's too bad about the other ones.

[ Eren isn't devoid of empathy, but these people are dead! What are they gonna do, drain the lake? Please. ]

[mayoninofukucho]

[Hijikata nods in agreement. Them trying to accomplish anything in the sunken part of the graveyard would be futile - even if they managed to clean the algae off the graves there, no one would even be able to see that, and new ones would grow in no time. But then again couldn't the same be said about the graves on dry land? Ultimately this place will remain abandoned and overgrown until, hopefully, they somehow manage to restore this world to how it used to be. He lets out a small sigh.

Usually he'd wander around and talk about whatever strategic topics come to his mind, leaving the work to Eren, but right away he feels guilty for even considering that approach. It's easy to leave the work to his numerous subordinates back home (and honestly, even there he does participate in the shared domestic chores when there's a real need), but Eren is only one person. Besides they already had plenty of time to discuss both the overall situation on Ellipsa and the best approaches to the various quests during the journey here. He takes off his uniform jacket, hangs it up on a branch, rolls up his shirt sleeves, grabs utensils, and starts scrubbing the nearest grave.

For a while they simply work away in silence, each left to his own ruminations. It's only when a strange, sigh-like sound wafts though the graveyard that Hijikata pauses and sits up.]

Did you hear that?

[It was probably only the wind... surely!!]

[dreamsofwings]

[ Eren is mostly quiet dealing with clearing moss and debris off a grave. It's not a bad sort of silence, just…silence. Eren tends to get stuck in his head, stuck in the strange stretch of nonlinear time that he deals with. He's not entirely untethered right here and now, it's just a thing. He might seem spaced out for a minute.

He zones back in when the noise starts.

He turns to Hijikata right as the other asks the question. ]

I heard it. A monster, maybe?

[mayoninofukucho]

I hope it was a monster.

[A weird thing to say, for sure, but at least they can fight a monster! What can they do about ghosts? They won't even be able to see them! What if... what if they're already surrounded by ghosts? Hijikata can feel goosebumps spread all over his skin. He hurries up with the grave, then moves to the next one closer to Eren. He normally isn't even remotely a clingy person, but that changes fast when spirits come into play!]

...

Have you, um... have you encountered ghosts before?

[There must be many ghosts on Eren's homeworld - so many souls who died before they were ready, with unfinished business and loved ones who weren't ready to let them go so soon. He can't suppress a shiver as he remembers the spectres he encountered on the expedition to the Forest of Spirits (why, in hindsight, did he agree to go to a location with such a name with Shoto?!). While he couldn't see them he could hear their whispers. "Go back", "Fall apart", "Turn around"... it was so creepy!]

[dreamsofwings]

[ Eren raises an eyebrow at that comment. Hopes it was a monster? Eren is pretty neutral on the idea; he's a monster himself, after all, so whatever. He's not invincible by any means but he can generally fight off other monsters, at least for awhile.

Ghosts, well…he has no idea what to do about those since he's never encountered one.

He does notice Hijikata seems a little jumpy, though. ]

No. I didn't even think ghosts existed.

[ Do people back home believe in ghosts? Probably someone does. There are always stories, aren't there? People want to believe there is something else, something after death, all of that. Eren, who has seen too much of the future and too much of the past, believes in nothing at all.

But aren't his memories full of ghosts? Hm. ]

My Pokemon is a ghost type but I don't think it's a real ghost.

[ Not that he knows much about Yamask, but it's just a little guy! You know, with a creepy mask it carries around and cries about sometimes, completely normal. The creature in question floats out from behind one of the clean graves closer to Eren.

Somewhere further off, some branches crack and break off a tree.

Eren turns toward the sound but doesn't see anything. To him, it just seems like more to clean up, but… ]

We should probably hurry, huh?

[mayoninofukucho]

[Hijikata's eyes widen a little at the revelation about Eren's Yamask. No wonder it's been giving him strange vibes!! And of course it has to float in with its creepy mask, as if on cue!]

A ghost type, huh...

[Didn't one of Clavell's pokémon also look like a ghost (albeit inside a teapot)? What's up with that?! He thought pokémon were supposed to be cute (or badass, depending) animal-like companions, not sinister ghouls from beyond the grave!]

Yeah, I think we should hurry.

[When the ominous cracking of branches adds to the increasingly oppressive atmosphere he suddenly becomes extremely productive in his grave-cleaning endeavours, scrubbing as if his life depended on it (and it very well might!)]

S-say, Eren, don't you think you could do this a lot faster as a titan?

[Does he have the fine motor skills to clean the gravestones without breaking them? Hijikata has no idea if he himself could do it with such a big body, but it's definitely worth a shot before the ghosts possess or curse them!]

[dreamsofwings]

[ Eren speeds up a little, but he's not really that worried about a fight. He's not afraid of ghosts, having never encountered one anyway besides Yamask, which doesn't count. How bad can it really be?

Eren is pretty efficient at cleaning, thanks to Levi's impossible cleaning standards that he had to deal with when he was younger. So it goes fairly quickly, but he's just a human like this.

He stops and just kind of stares at Hijikata for a minute at that question. ]

I'd just…break everything if I were that big.

[ He does not, in fact, have very fine motor skills as a titan. Good enough, but not for cleaning something like this!

Wait.

Oh. ]

Are you…are you scared of ghosts?

[mayoninofukucho]

Me? Scared? Nooooo!!

[Very convincing, Hijikata. He said this with such a mix of fear and fake conviction that it almost looped all the way around into sounding sarcastic.]

I just, well, I heard stories about ghosts being pretty dangerous... I even saw a few instances first-hand! On the last world I visited spectres once possessed our king, along with the full-length mirror he was using, and made a bunch of copies that attacked everyone!

["Our king" he still says... he really was a loyal knight to King Arthut while on Avalon.]

And those same spectres attacked everyone, both combatants and civilians, when we tried to leave that area on another occasion! If they pass through you enough times they can chill you so badly that you die!

[His explanations come in a hectic, almost frantic voice as he moves on to the next grave to scrub at high speed. He is the most blatantly afraid person imaginable, yet he is too stubborn to abandon the task before Eren agrees to do so!]

[dreamsofwings]

Uh-huh.

[ Eren isn't convinced in the slightest, obviously. But he listens to Hijikata's reasoning. He's just…not easy to scare, himself. There is so little left that can really scare him these days. Maybe something can. Maybe a ghost face to face could under the right circumstances. But ghosts just sound like monsters, and why should a monster be scared of a monster? ]

There was some fucked up stuff like that in Folkmore. Demons and other monsters. Not…ghosts, I think. Sometimes copies of people or stuff like that. It wasn't always great.

[ Folkmore was a real weird time for him, in fact. ]

I won't let you die, even if there's a ghost.

[ He does mean that, as much as he can mean it. He knows better than anyone that no one can promise to keep anyone else safe, not really, not with any certainty. People die. Things go wrong. Even Eren couldn't see everything, even when he was holding most of the cards. And here, he can't see the future at all.

But he's always been determined to save the few people he's decided to care about.

He moves on to the next grave in the row, the one on the end, Yamask floating along as well. ]

I don't really know how it works, but Yamask can curse other ghosts. So…maybe it will help if something shows up, too.

[ Yamask looks up at him with its weird, tearful eyes. He has no idea if it actually understands him, but whatever. Someone should really teach him how to communicate effectively with Pokemon. ]

Let's go after this one. It's not like they gave us a quota.

[ And it's not like Levi is here to dictate cleaning standards. This is chronologically before Levi is here at all, in fact. ]

[mayoninofukucho]

[Even though it sounds like Eren's time in Folkmore was anything but easy, Hijikata can't help but feel a little relieved that he went through similarly weird experiences as him. There is, he thinks, a sort of kinship among the people who became repeat multiverse travellers.

The assurance that Eren won't let him die comes unexpectedly. It's a happy surprise, somehow. Hijikata is normally the escort and protector, or otherwise the fellow warrior to his quest partner, so he's not used to being protected. Honestly, in most other scenarios he might react with indignation and try to assert his capability, but right now he's spooked beyond belief, so he's earnestly grateful. The additional explanation of the Yamask's abilites make his eyes wander over to the sad-looking little creature once more. So it might actually protect them, huh? He immediately likes it better.

Just as he wants to remark on what a good idea it was to take the pokémon along on this quest, Eren's suggestion that they call it a day without cleaning up the entire place perks him up even more. His gratitude is practically written all over his face.]

That's right!! We did our share, didn't we? After all there's got to be some cleaning left to do for the other people who'll accept this quest!

[He normally doesn't half-ass mission, but if there are ghosts involved all bets are off!! As he finishes up the grave, a multi-voiced, drawn out moan drifts through the graveyard, and while he pretends to not have a strong reaction to it he nearly falls over himself as he quickly gets up and rushes to pack his cleaning utensils away.]

M-maybe you can walk us a bit away from here before we set up camp for the night? We saved time now, after all!

[They'll still have several hours until nightfall - enough time to cover a good amount of ground for a titan!]