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Quest Mingle: April-May

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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[Eva heard Hijikata calling- what was wrong with him?? She was still there! Wait- had she just-

Before she could think about it, the door was burst open. The butterfly darted quickly into a small corner behind some dusty old jars, cowering there whilst she listened to the ghost's taunts. And then there was the thud as Hijikata slumped to the floor.

If that idiot let himself get killed I won't let him hear the end of it...!

The spooks, thankfully, seemed to have missed her, and soon dispersed out into the kitchen proper to try and hunt her down.

...She fluttered out of her hiding place just enough to get a peak at her companion- ah, yes, his chest was still rising and falling, there was no blood-

Wait did he just pass out?? Seriously!

Not that she could talk, given she'd been spooked herself. And thanks to that, she...

Well, she soon found out what it had done, once she caught sight of her reflection in his fallen sword. A butterfly...she'd changed form? She could shapeshift with her Seasonal powers as well??

...Eva heard the ghosts move inside the kitchen, and quickly darted back into her shelter. What to do, what to do- if they came back to move him she might be able to follow, if they just left the room she could turn back and try to sneak him out-

Dammit, wake up already!]

[He doesn't wake up in time.

While the ghosts are frustrated when their search for Eva is fruitless, they soon enough turn back to the one victim they were able to secure, and after some discussion decide to bring him into the attic. The large man levitates the swordsman's unconscious body out of the pantry and kitchen and up a staircase the two explorers hadn't gotten to yet (leaving the unsheathed sword behind, but with the ominous plan of "doing something fun" with it later).

The "cocooned" creature disappears, apparently in agreement with the others - Eva can't know, but the ghost responsible for that particular apparition simply drops the illusion it was upholding, immediately turning invisible without it, and floats away through a wall to search for her elsewhere, so it won't spot her in her butterfly form if she dares to follow the other two.

The transport takes a while, but eventually the creepy beings set Hijikata down in a dusty, moth-eaten armchair in the creaky attic.]

There! He's sleeping like a baby... we should leave a few surprises for him, don't you think?

Definitely. How about the cursed mirror?

[The larger apparition - apparently the only one between them with the levitation ability - moves an old hand mirror onto Hijikata's lap. Both of them snicker.]

That should make him scream enough to alert us once he wakes up. Let's help look for the kid now!

[They leave the room, closing the door behind them... all of a sudden Eva is alone with Hijikata, who doesn't look like he'll wake up on his own any time soon.]

[Eva did spare a glance to the sword but...well, there was no way she was going to turn back to carry it and risk breaking her cover! Sorry, Hijikata, hopefully that sword wasn't important!

But once the strange creature disappears through the wall, she darts quickly after Hijikata as a butterfly- strange that flying came relatively naturally to her, like this- and soon found herself in the attic, darting behind a beam in the ceiling.

She was still trembling...what if those things saw her? They were real ghosts, weren't they?

...even once they'd left, she could not bring herself to move for a good few minutes, twitching at the howling wind outside- and they were looking for her, still.

Slowly, slowly...it's okay, there was no one else here now, right? Those things were gone-...

She fluttered down next to him, letting a golden light come over her form as she shifted back into her human form. And held her breath. Waiting just a split second as if she were afraid to move before rushing to shake Hijikata by the shoulders, voice spiking even as she tried to keep it quiet-]

H-hey...! Wake up already you idiot...!

[And well, if that doesn't work, he's getting a slap. Sorry, Hijikata.]

[The slap does the trick. He startles awake, then shoots Eva a hurt look that says What was that for?! before the recognition of their situation replaces the offence and confusion in his eyes with fear and alarm - and yet a tint of upset almost immediately slips back in.]

Where did you go earlier?!

[He's massively relieved to have her back with him, but how could she leave him alone with those monsters?! He then notices the mirror in his hand and lifts it up to inspect.]

What's this?

[His expression gradually twists as he looks into the polished surface... he lifts a hand to touch his face.]

Eva... please tell me that I look alright.

[Hey, at least he has the sense to ask her! If he'd woken up alone and seen his grossly zombified visage in the mirror he might just have screamed loud enough for the whole house to hear, but since Eva has been acting normally he's able to think quickly this time.]

I didn't go anywhere...! I shape-shifted so they wouldn't spot me- you, you should have done that too!

[Acting like she definitely did this on purpose and that it wasn't just a fear response on her part.

...More importantly, though, he was staring at the mirror like he was seeing something truly horrifying.]

...What- what are you talking about? You look fine.

Good. Good.

[He puts the mirror on the armchair face-down as he gets up, nervously looking around the unfamiliar attic and still touching his face with both hands, just to make 100% sure it isn't rotting.]

Are the monsters gone..? What did you transform into, anyway?

[He cautiously opens the only door, the one he was carried through earlier while unconscious - it really is unlocked. But being all the way up here means they'll have to go down through all floors, however many there are - two, he thinks - to get back out of this haunted house!]

They went out to try and find me. Said they'd left a little surprise for you-

[A glance to the mirror, before turning back to him.]

I think they're still lurking around on the floor below us. So we can't talk too loudly.

...And I turned into a butterfly.

[Surprisingly cute, for someone with Eva's sort of personality! But no, she couldn't resist reaching out to take a peak in the mirror-]

[A butterfly, huh... no wonder they overlooked her. He turns back to her - and sees her picking up the mirror. Shit. If she screams now--]

You look fine!! You look normal, like me. That mirror is cursed!

[Hopefully his words will suffice to reassure her that the rotting face she sees looking back at her isn't real!]

[Thankfully, his voice reaches her before she screams- but horror does dawn on her expression as she sees the rotting face staring right back at her-

It looked old, too, old and decayed and pale with a crazed look in the eyes and wild grey hair- A twisted smirk of one wishing to lay a curse. Of one who had long since rotten on the inside-

With a sharp breath she hurriedly slammed the mirror down onto the chair- thankfully, the cushion dampened the sound, and turned her focus back to Hijikata.]

...Yeah that's- that's-

[With everything that was going on, it had almost slipped Eva's mind that the ghosts in this place could play off any lingering fears they'd come across. Even though they were alone now, the mirror's image had set itself in Eva's mind.

It looked like the image of a witch.

One that lurked in the forests of Rokkenjima, as per her Father's ghost stories, and ruled the island at night- and as she glanced to the wooden beams rattling above them. That's right, it was still nighttime, wasn't it...?]

[The mirror, while still playing on the scariness of decay, certainly had picked up on Eva's specific fear of witches! Hijikata reassures her once more in a steady voice.]

You look fine. Don't fall for it.

[He peeks out of the door once more, but nobody seems to be coming up the stairs... good. Sure, those creatures could potenially just drop through the roof, but the two of them just have to bank on that not happening.]

We'll have to be incredibly careful going down the stairs. They're old and look creaky as hell.

...

Maybe you can transform again.

[He should try that, too... but he's only ever transformed into a cecaelia and a shark merman so far, nothing else - certainly not into a small animal. Still, it can't hurt to try, right?]

Let me give it a shot, too.

[He closes his eyes. Something small. Something quiet. Something that can hide in any nook or cranny. He mentally goes through the list of animals summer power holder can feasibly transform into...]

[A turtle, hell no. A toad would also be too goddamn slow. A snake... hm. He tries hard to imagine himself as a snake - a limbless creature, walking on its ribs... and he can feel his body change.

When he opens his eyes again, he's on the ground. He can feel his body wriggle... why isn't he moving? And why does his vision - his entire head, really - feel as always...

As he turns his (still human) head it flips his entire (snake) body over on its back.]

Oh, shit--!

[How did he fuck this up?!]

[Eva took a shaky step back to give him space to transform, thinking deeply as she tried to figure out how exactly to repeat what she'd done. Downstairs, it had been a reflex. A panic response.

How could she replicate that now...?

She was still breathing quickly, that image of the old (familiar but completely unrecognisable) witch laughing seared into the back of her head. That fear. She could use that. Focus on that...! Imagine the witch would get her if she didn't!

Hijikata was focusing too, and whilst she gave the door a quick glance to make sure nothing was coming, he started to change- good! Good, it was working!

Now she just had to do the same. That golden light. See if she could recreate that, let it flow through her body and-]

Edited 2023-06-27 15:27 (UTC)

[Just as a light glow rippled through her, she glanced to her companion. On the floor, with a snake's body and a human head. Flopping around.]

What- what did you- how did you even do that! You look like some sort of messed up Nure-onna-

[She kept her voice low, even if it did spike with the uncomfortable mix of panic and laughter all stirred up together.

...Just. Kneeling down by his head and trying to work out what to do. How could they fix this?]

Okay. Look. Focus on it going all through your body, okay??

Edited 2023-06-27 15:29 (UTC)

Okay-- okay.

[This is mortifying, but the situation they're in is too scary for him to dwell on being castigated by an exasperated kid! He simply closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and follows Eva's instructions to the best of his abilities.

He tries to imagine being a snake, complete with a flat little head, round eyes, and a split tongue, and channels his magic into that... and luckily for the two of them it does work out this time. Eva is left with a small black adder with dull blue eyes, looking at her in expectation. You transform too, and then we get out of this place!]

[Phew...phew, that seemed to work! Once again, Eva focused on channeling that golden light. Call on a power like that of a Witch. Just like last time, she could do this...!

The glow started to spread. Starting at her outstretched hands and flowing into her body, just a little more.

Thankfully (?) a bang of the spirits looking around downstairs startled her! And with a frightened jolt and a flare of that light- a small golden butterfly was left in her place, fluttering a little erratically until it settled itself.

Yes- time to leave this awful place.]

[Hijikata curls up on himself at the bang - but when he looks at Eva again, she has transformed! He gives her a little nod, then slithers towards the door. The coast seems clear... but the staircase is suddenly a lot more intimidating. He hesitantly leans forwards and down, more and more, until his chin almost touches the next stair while his hind end is still sitting on the top step-- and then he loses his balance and tumbles down. Luckily his small body only makes a soft sound, not alerting any ghosts.

Ugh. Shit, I should've turned into something that can fly, too! But birds are eyecatchers, and I never practised any insects. He blinks a few times to clear his vision from the tumble, then continues his descent downstairs at an increasingly more self-assured and speedy pace. They manage to get down the (luckily adjacent) second staircase as well, making it back to the ground floor!

What now, though? The front door was mysteriously locked behind them, but maybe it's open again now..? However Hijikata neither puts much hope into that, nor does he intend to leave without his precious Muramasha. He slithers towards the kitchen, staying close to the wall! And then the ghost appears. It's the long-haired woman, moving through the room with narrowed, searching eyes. He makes it behind the leg of the dresser he had almost reached and presses himself behind it, body contorted for the utmost merge-with-the-furniture effect, his little heart hammering in his chest. Please don't see us!!]

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Quest Mingle: April-May

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Channel your Servant's inner snek- too late (1/2)

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Think we can wind this one up in a couple of tags too~

NOT SO FAST... his sword!!