Quest Mingle: August-September

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Quest Mingle: August-September
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Quest Plotting!

• These quests are valid from start of August until end of September.
• 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.

🚨 Emergency Quest 🚨

Going Gorgon

A massive monster has been spotted in the Jungle of Judgement (Summer Segment). It has been feeding on the native fauna and even people! It looks like a giant snake lady with wings. Some have identified it's name to be "Gorgon". We can't have this monster feeding on everything that comes even close to the area of the Jungle its at, so we need people to take care of it! We will pay 2000 Moon Coins for your efforts of somehow solving this problem - may it be destroying the monster or just getting it leave!

OOC: This is a player made quest that won't last for two months. More information on it in this post. To suggest a quest, please leave a comment on the Player Suggestions page.

Log for the Gorgon Quest is here!

City Quests

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

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Blind Cooking	Local TV channel is looking for participants for a new type of reality cooking show. In the show one person is blindfolded and the other is giving them instructions. This is very much a trust building exercise for the participants, as well as entertaining for the viewers. Of course, any and all injuries will be healed by a team of specialists on set.	Upon entering the set the producers will do a spell that will determine how well the two people know each other. The closer they are the less likely they'll be allowed to work together. The goal is to find people who barely know each other to take a leap of faith in cooking. Of course the spell can be fooled by keeping your thoughts neutral about the other person while it's being cast.	500 Moon Coins, a free self made meal
Emotional Art	Amberfall artists have set up giant blank canvases all over the districts (even in Frostreign) with plenty of different painting tools (brushes, spray cans etc). The task is to paint with your positive emotions and make pictures that radiate with positive energy. The tools and canvases are all magical so trying to enforce negative emotions into the paintings will lead to the paint disappearing once it's been on the canvas for a while. These works of art are meant to uplift the spirits of the citizens and just let people have fun with painting.	Characters may learn an instant spell for cleaning their clothes from paint (and only paint) while they're participating in this quest or can be provided with overalls. Occasionally the paintings will be changed to a new blank canvas to give people more room to paint, but the "finished" canvases can be found from various places in the city.	100 Moon Coins, a watercolor set, watercolor paper
On a Magic Carpet Ride	The Research Center is always looking for fun new ways to travel. Now they are looking for people to test out the newest ones. It's a magic carpet meant to be ridden by two people. One of them powers up the carpet by singing (anything goes, even songs thought up on a whim) and the other steers the carpet. The test drivers are asked to complete a course where they need to pick certain items throughout the city and then return back to the Research Center.	You are free to come up with simple items (fruit, special tokens, stamps - anything that won't be too heavy to carry) for the course. If the character in charge of singing stops, the carpet will gently float down to the ground (or whatever is beneath it) until singing continues again.	700 Moon Coins
Pipe Express	Mysterious turquoise pipes have appeared all around the city. Some natives have entered them out of curiosity and ended up in a completely different place. Turns out they're warp pipes, a new way of fast travel! However, some of the warp pipes have an extra challenge that will take them to either a grassy terrain where you get chased by small dinosaurs that breathe fire or a pool with fish called Toe Nibblers. Some have even found just a room with a bunch of gold coins! Please help us label all of the pipes and where they might lead.	Fire Breathing Dinosaurs are the size of a house cat and can look like various different dinosaur species. Toe Nibblers are various fresh water fish that nibble on people's toes and aren't generally very dangerous. There's 1/10 pipe chance to end up in either of the enemy pipes and there's 1/50 chance to drop into a room full of gold coins.	300 Moon Coins
Undercovered CW: Gang Activity	After the opening of the Underground Mall, there has been an increase in criminal activity and shady people, especially in the center district. The police are very understaffed, so we're asking otherworlders to go undercover and infiltrate these crime groups (but only those on the surface). Any information provided is important and will help towards making the city a safe place to be in.	You're free to come up with different motivations, reasons and plans the minor crime groups may have and use the local Law Enforcement to bring them down with the help of your character. Some groups will hand out simple flower pins (imagine small, like hair accessories) to characters out of trust towards them.	2000 Moon Coins, possible flower pin

Winter Segment

Lights, Snow, Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Invisible Maze	Throughout the Winter Segment, invisible walls have appeared. These walls form a maze and occasionally one finds themselves stuck in an invisible dead-end. They're very hazardous and make traveling in the Segment difficult. We ask that you find whatever is causing this maze to exist.	Passing through the maze will lead to finding an invisible Mime Monster (a bipedal, masked ermine creature). Once the characters reach the Mime Monster it will turn visible and attack. All its attacks are invisible but you can predict what they are by participating in a game of pantomime. The Mime Monster doesn't need to be killed if you show it a pantomime it can't solve.	400 Moon Coins
Just Around the Riverbend	The rivers and lakes of the Winter Segment are flooding due to giant monstrous Snow Beavers making dams all over the place. These beavers are the size of human teenagers and their coat looks like powder snow. You don't have to kill the beavers, just get rid of their damn dams!	Snow Beavers usually travel in groups of four and make dams on any watery surfaces. The dams are strengthened with ice, but shouldn't be too hard to destroy; it's just that there's a lot of them and the Snow Beavers will try to bite anyone who attacks the dams.	600 Moon Coins
Snowed Out	The Summer Districts want to make ice and snow sculptures in the city to cool the areas a little bit. To accomplish this, special snow and ice need to be delivered from the Winter Segment. Any snow and ice that glitters like the northern lights under sunlight will be perfect for the task as it won't melt. Bring as much of it back as possible.	Sleds and other means of transport are provided for the task. Snowmobiles can be rented to pull sleds easily through the snow.	200 Moon Coins
Yet We Must Fight	A group of Giant Yetis have emerged from the forests of the Winter Segment, looking to destroy anything in their paths. They have weapons made out of wood that they use to hit opponents with. They've been making steady progress towards the City Barrier, attracted by the masses of people inside it. We believe the barrier will hold, but the natives would likely get spooked if they saw them banging on the barrier so chasing them away is important.	The Giant Yeti max height is 6 metres / 20 feet. They don't have any other abilities other than their size and their wooden weapons. Killing them is optional, they just need to be chased out. Usually by fire.	900 Moon Coins

Spring Segment

Breezing through quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Cats Need Catnip Badly	Local animal shelters have run out of cat- (and other creature-) nip due to not being able to visit the Creature-Nip Meadow regularly for the past two months (due to a certain quest). Now they want to fill their storage with as much of the herbs as possible.	Eating or otherwise ingesting the various herbs in the Meadow may turn people into the creatures they're meant for (cat nip -> cat). At the least they will make the person act like said animal for a few hours.	200 Moon Coins
Farming Life	The Research Center has provided barrier stones. These stones can be used to protect farming plots where you can grow various vegetables and herbs. The barriers don't protect them from normal animals, but they do protect them from various natural disasters and monsters. Place these barrier stones around the various abandoned farming plots and maybe get into farming yourself!	The barrier stones only cover plots of 5 x 5 kilometres / 3 x 3 miles. There can be multiple next to each other. Various vegetable and herb seeds are also provided by the quest givers.	200 Moon Coins, fresh vegetables/herbs later
Movie Inspirations	A movie producer needs references for a fight scene and wants people to defeat local Spring monsters in the flashiest way possible and get it on camera. Camera provided, of course, with enough film for four different takes.	Any Spring Segment monsters in particular will do the trick (even slimes). Cameraman safety is not guaranteed during the quest and they may have to tend to themselves.	100 Moon Coins per clip
Panda Picking Season	It's the time of the year when Giant Pandas tend to feast on the Bamboo Labyrinth in large parties. This is a necessary cycle to keep the labyrinth in good shape. However, the panda babies tend to run off. Please protect them and bring them back to their parents. The grateful mama pandas will give characters golden bamboo shoots they find from the ground as a reward.	Golden Bamboo Shoots are a special type of bamboo that will upgrade the Spring Power Holder powers when added to regular food. If a non-spring holder eats it they will just feel a lot lighter for a few days. It also tastes delicious. Please refrain from taking the baby pandas away from their parents. If you must adopt a panda, adopt the whole family at least!	Golden Bamboo Shoots

Summer Segment

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Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
All These Mummies CW: Mummies, Skeletons, Mind Control	Areas near the Deserter's Desert have recently seen an increased amount of Mummies. They have certainly appeared from out of nowhere (or from sand, we suppose). They're a menace... but not in a fatal way. Instead they're trying to wrap bandages around people to turn them into them. The bandages do have a 1/50 chance to actually make someone completely act like a mummy (walking in a trance, wrapping bandages around people) that can be canceled by taking the bandages off. They should be dealt with as soon as possible.	The mummies are otherwise mostly harmless, but the Research Center would appreciate if someone captured a few of them so they could study them! Actual mummies have skeletons underneath all the bandages but nothing else. If they're stripped off their bandages they will comically cover their genital area and run away.	300 Moon Coins
It's Raining ... Fire CW: Burns	The Summer Segment is a place where it rarely rains outside the Rain Jungle, and when it does rain it can be something other than your regular water. Like fire. Recently observational team has noticed fire raining down from the skies. The source seems to be Wyverns circling in the skies (their scales, when falling, turn into fire). Put out the fires before they spread too far and dodge the unpleasant rain.	The Wyverns can be fought, but they're danger level 10 and even killing one is a very, very hard task, especially since they're cloaked in Dark Energy most of the time.	400 Moon Coins
Pirates of the Great Lake	Mysterious ships have made an appearance on the Great Ocean Lake: ghost ships and pirate octopi ships. They're disturbing all life on the lake, throwing explosive and other things into it. The Research Center has provided ships that can be taken to the waters and some pirate outfits to fit the theme (optional). Destroy the enemy ships and restore peace to the lake!	Ghost Ships are ships that don't seem to have any members onboard (or they can only be seen by the Winter holders). Pirate Octopi are octopi with eyepatches (and some even have mechanical tentacles in place of normal ones). The ships rarely fight each other but they don't consider each other allies either.	700 Moon Coins
❗High Risk Quest❗ La Va Land CW: Burns	New creatures are emerging from the Lava-Ridden Land. Monsters made completely out of lava and rocks and are slowly making their way towards the segment and burning their way through everything. They're especially headed for the airship station, though we are unsure if they'll be able to cross the Forever Fall, but we don't want to risk them actually passing through it. Defeat them, however it takes or chase them back beyond the barrier.	Lava Monsters are extremely dangerous and will burn anything they touch. They're closely shaped like slime and other blobs, making hard to tear apart as they will just reform themselves. Their weak point is the lava core, lodged deep inside their bodies. Breaking the core means the lava creature will dissolve.	8000 Moon Coins

Autumn Segment

Maple scented Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Leaf Me Alone	Majority of the autumn leaves have turned magical and have started to cause people to fall into a state of sleep whenever they hit someone. Luckily, most people have fallen asleep on the safe zones, but there are those who did not. Be careful not to get hit by the leaves and try to get rid of them instead, all while saving the people sleeping in wrong places. As long as a leaf remains on someone they will either sleep or feel very drowsy and the more leaves they have on them the more potent the effect is.	The effect is less effective through clothes, but will still make one feel sleepy/yawn a lot. With enough layers of clothes the characters will be able to collect the leaves for extra potent sleeping potions. However it's not recommended to eat the leaves as they are, as it might lead to a comatose state instead.	300 Moon Coins
Migrating Foes	Over the course of several weeks, some (Spring) slime and (Winter) Gem Biters have made their way to the Autumn Segment and are now eating special mushrooms near the Mushroom Sanctuary (but not inside it). These mushrooms grow them in size and now we're dealing with human-sized foes. Slime are still relatively harmless, though now they can cover someone in their slime drool, but Gem Biter bites may actually be dangerous. Fight these creatures and either destroy them or bring them back to their original habitats (the effects of the mushroom will fade with time).	Eating a mushroom will make someone grow triple their current size (clothes will transform with them). The effect will fade in a day. Used in potions this mushroom will help with plant growth.	400 Moon Coins
Silent Streams	In the woods, near the Silent Mountains, people will find they lose their voices. In fact, all the sounds disappear. However, it's also the place where you can find one of the purest of water sources, needed for a special potion. The quest is simple: obtain the spring water and bring it back, but be careful of the dangers you cannot hear.	While the area around the spring is relatively safe, sometimes Spirit Animals wander around, attracted by the emotions of those in the area. They will only attack if there are too many different emotions in the area at the same time. There are also actual bears and wolves wandering the woods, but they rarely come too close to the Silent Zone.	100 Moon Coins per water container
❗High Risk Quest ❗ Rest in Pieces CW: murder, drowning	Lately people have died or gone missing near the Abandoned Graveyard. A new type of Kelpie specie has emerged from the Flooded Woods: the Ghoul Kelpie (or Ghoulpie). It can't enter the protected area, but it will haunt people right outside of to either immediately feast on them or take them with them back to the woods to drown them. They're extremely aggressive and attack anyone on sight. They need to dealt with as soon as possible to bring peace back to the area.	Ghoul Kelpies have a sticky fur that anything sticks to. Their teeth are sharp and venomous and their mane turns into vines that poison or stun their opponents. Their weakness is that the more dry they get, the more vulnerable they are to attacks so they occasionally need to retreat back to water.	8000 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
Sex on Air	A new airship is looking for workers for their opening months. The airship cruise that circles around the districts and segments is meant for pleasure and pleasure only. Employees will dress up in sexy lingerie and serve customers drinks, food and entertainment. It's much like a sexy host club on air. There is also a chance of trying their new spell: actually having sex while floating in the air. Just make sure not to fall behind the airship or you may be in trouble.	Of course anyone is allowed to just be a customer of the airship - or why not both, with occasionally doing work and occasionally being served. The Airship leaves evening second evening from the Nightwake Central station and returns after two days. Think of it as a luxurious cruise.	900 Moon Coins per cruise
Shibari Lessons	Due to the last month's Freezing Heart incident, local sex shops have opened up workshops around the Underground Mall. They are teaching characters magical shibari. Every knot tied around someone will represent an emotional or physical block they have. Once all knots are in place a spell is cast on them that will relieve them of their burdens for some time (depends on the person, how fast they will grow these burdens back in their minds/bodies). May also cause arousal to doing this with a partner you know and trust might be a good idea.	The spell doesn't completely erase the burdens, it's merely meant to bring temporary relief and pleasure. The spell is a customized for every person, but it has to include the words "release you from your burdens", but otherwise it can be worded however the one doing the spell wants (for ex. "With my love and care towards you, I release you from your burdens"). The spell has to be one full sentence, but it can't just be "I release you from your burdens".	Shibari Spell, Shibari Rope

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Comments

Archer (EMIYA) - Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works - Mid-August onwards - OTA

[unknowntodeath]

Blind Cooking

[Archer had already decided to become someone who helped people learn how to cook. So he had ended up taking on this potentially chaotic quest as well. By default he was opting to be the one giving instructions.]

Are you ready to start? You should feel around your workspace so you find everything. Be careful next to your left hand, there's a knife there.

[... but he can also be the one cooking.]

I'm ready to start whenever you are.


Pipe Express

[The task of labeling the pipes seemed easy enough. At first entering a pipe and quicky emergencing from another place did disorient him a little - but he got used to it pretty fast.

In one of the pipes he comes across the fire breathing dinosaurs, immediately engaging them in battle. They're all able to dodge his attacks quite well or make him back out due to getting fire blasted at him. Even any arrows and swords he throws at them are blocked with a barrage of flames.

It's not that he's weak, there's just an overhelming number of them to deal with and their teamwork is excellent. Who would have thought.]


Just Around the Riverbend

[Well, if there's something his various skills are good at, it's destroying things. All he would need is a bit time to make the attack happen... and to clear the Snow Beavers out of the way, because if he doesn't need to kill them, why should he? They're just animals doing their jobs, after all. Surely they had some meaning to life...]

Help me chase them out of here. I blast the dam out with one shot once they're away.

[Of course the quest companion would also need to be further away.]

Pipe Express

[tethered_roamer]

Do you need help?

[Cole could hear the skirmish as he neared the mouth of the pipe, so he's actually just peeking out and observing for now. After all, he's more than a head shorter than the average person with a weight to match. Picking fights he doesn't need to is not recommended.

But he can, or maybe just get the guy to safety. Safety would be good.]

Asami Sato - Avatar: The Legend of Korra - OTA

[soundsperfect]

Emotional Art

[Asami was not really artist, but she did often draw blueprints. So when she heard about the task she decided to give it a shot. After all, she did have a lot of positive energy to go around. Most of her art resembles a lot of the blueprints worked on at the Research Center: the giant robots, the various airships.... but decorated with flowers to make them more energetic.

She's completely covered in paint and she doesn't mind that at all. She's having a lot of fun and that's what matters.

With Asami there's a female Pikachu who is also very much covered in paint and leaving paw prints on the canvases, giggling as she goes.]


On a Magic Carpet Ride

[Of course where there's a new experimental vehicle, there's Asami. She's looking the carpet over, looking both curious and excited.]

So... I'm not really a singer, so could I count on you to do that? I can definitely steer!


Panda Picking Season

[It wasn't often that Asami wandered into the Segments, but this seemed like a simple task. Chasing after baby pandas sounded like a fun time indeed! And the pay was great as someone who was a Spring aligned person.

The task itself seemed easy, at least. But the baby pandas were surprisingly... well... slippery.]

Oh come on now. Don't roll away, please! I'm trying to get you back to your mother.

[Panda baby rolling down a slope! Please help.]

On a Magic Carpet Ride

[noodleboi]

[Magic carpets?! This place really did have everything. He nodded to his partner when she asked.]

Oh I can totally sing! Yeah. And I can just sing anything. Right? Sure. We got this in the bag. Bet we break a record while we're at it.

Homura Akemi - Puella Magi Madoka Magica - OTA

[alljustforher]

Farming Life/Panda Picking Season

[Homura decided to do a double take on quests for the Spring Segment. One was placing the barrier stones, which was a simple task to do. She's carefully putting the stones in place before taking a picture and adding the farming plot to an app that showed where it would be for anyone who wanted to claim it.]

That's one... where's the nearest next one...?

[She's looking around for the next plot. She still has four more barrier stones to set. Of course she's also keeping an eye on any enemies so she could warm/protect others who were there, too.]


[Once all the barrier stones she had were put up, she continued her way towards other areas. She had prepared to stay a few nights on the Segment to help the baby pandas. Which is what she was doing very soon, after finding a few baby pandas around.]

Alright, alright... it's a bit far to your mother's put please hang on...

[The babies were... surprisingly cuddly. Sticking close to her when she sat down to rest.]

...

[They were definitely adorable.]

Farming Life into Pandas?

[silver_eyes_rose]

And that's another...!

[Ruby had figured this would be an amazing way to help build up their food supplies. This way even Nia had things to fall back to. As she continued to lay her stones, she spotted a familiar face and happily waved at Homura.]

Homura-saaaaan!

Jean Kirstein - Attack on Titan (Empatheias + Isle of Avalon CRAU) - OTA

[rustyhonesty]

Emotional Art

[Recently Jean had started to focus on learning art again. As a pre-teen he often sketched things, like his dream girl, but as he got older he stopped doing that as much (mostly because of lack of time). So when he saw the art quest he decided to test it out.

It was also a good idea in terms of wanting to see how it would affect his mood in general. He had been feeling better, thanks to recent anniversary and all, but there were still clouds hanging above his head from time to time.

It doesn't take long for him to be partially covered in paint. He's using his height to an advantage to paint higher than most people do, to give them more space down. His pictures are very much animal related, since what was better for lifting your mood than cute, cuddly animals?

And he was really having fun. It was definitely one of the most enjoyable quests so far.]


Panda Picking Season

[Jean is out with his horse, Ace, to travel through the Spring Segment. It made traveling a little faster with no need to stay out there too long, even if he wasn't alone (he would never go out on a quest alone again). Now he was taking a break, Ace very much chilling and eating grass, with a fussy baby panda on his lap.]

There, there. It's not long now. We can almost see the labyrinth already.

[The baby panda calms down, eventually falling asleep in his arms.]

Phew... if they get this sad over being away from their family, I wonder why they run off...


Migrating Foes

[Why did it always have to be Slimes? Jean stares at the human-sized Slime and Gem Biters, preparing himself for the upcoming fight.]

Last month it was Slime Toads, now it's just giant slimes. Gross.

[Of course he's not on his own on this quest either, which makes him feel better. More confident, too.]

I wonder how we can damage those Gems. Any ideas?

art

[roundandaround]

Wow, that's great! People are really gonna love it!

[Rinku is drawing... actually, what is that? Cats? Blobs? Is this some kind of abstract art?]

I wonder what kind of art will work the best?

Makoto Naegi - Danganronpa - OTA

[hopelesslyaverage]

Blind Cooking

[Naegi is waiting for the program to start, the stage where they should actually choose their roles on the show. He looks a bit sheepish.]

Would it be alright if I gave the instructions? Unfortunately I turns into a monster if I accidentally cut myself... so I'd rather avoid that.

[He doesn't trust himself with knives blindfolded. He doesn't usually trust himself with knives even when he can see!]


Cats Need Catnip Badly

[This is Naegi's first time at the Creature-Nip Meadow. It's amazing just how many herbs he can see just from standing at the very edge of it.]

Alright, I have the image files of the herbs they wanted us to find on my phone... There's five different ones. Too bad these aren't in any categories, right?

[Organizational wild meadow! Why couldn't that be a thing.]



All the Mummies

[Naegi is currently running away from mummies who are trying to make him into a mummy. He's running as fast as he can, but it feels like they're gaining on him!]

Why is this happening?!

[All he tried was using water to make them turn back where they come from. They hadn't like that...!]

blind cooking

[startraveler]

[What an interesting program. Aether is good at cooking, but would he be able to do it blindfolded?

He looks at his partner, who seems to have no confidence in whatever may happen if he's the one doing the cooking. Aether definitely can believe that giving him a knife when he's so stressed would be a bad idea.]

No problem... but I hope you know some first aid in case I end up with a cut or two.

[His tone is mostly joking.]

Mamoru Chiba - Sailor Moon (Isle of Avalon CRAU) - OTA

[reincarnatedprince]

Emotional Art

[Mamoru didn't actually consider himself very artistic, but the quest had sounded fun, so he decided to try it. Besides it was for the good of the city, so why not? His primary art object is flowers, but he does try to draw a few dogs here and there. And deserts (?). All of them are packed with his positive energy, which is what mattered.]

This is quite fun, isn't it?


Farming Life

[After Avalon Mamoru had gained an interest towards various plant life - farming was one of those aspects which he liked to test out. So once he had set the barrier stones, he was tending to the plot he had protected, making sure to label is at someone's before getting work.]

Hmm... let's see. We have quite a bit of vegetable seeds. Some herbs, as well. All of them sound like a good idea to grow.


Panda Picking Season


[Since he regularly visited the Spring Segment to farm anyway, he ended up helping with the baby pandas as well. Some of them had managed to travel all the way to the farming plots, which was surprising.]

Oof... aren't you a big one. No wonder you're this far away from the labyrinth.

[He does have a large panda in his arms. Still a baby, but very big.]

panda

[roundandaround]

Yeah, they're so cute, aren't they? [Rinku claps her hands.] I know pandas don't usually do much, but they make people so happy!

Ozymandias - Fate/Grand Order - Mid-August onwards - OTA

[pyramidsmash]

Yet We Must Fight

[Ozymandias wasn't intimidated by the size of the creatures he was facing. Instead he stood in front of them with confidence. He may not have fire to scare them off, but he does have lasers, which he fires at the feet of the Yeti, making them back down a little.]

You shall not take a step futher, Yeti.

[It's a commanding tone. Though that's followed by a slightly more whiny one-]

It's too damn cold here.



All the Mummies

[Desert is a Pharaoh's turf, so of course mummies sometimes came with the territory. Ozymandias is gracefully doding any attempts to mummify him and laughing.]

I'm far too young to be buried yet, morons!

[He sends a rain of lasers at them, making them scatter to various directions. Their bandages are coming off a little - some skeleton parts showing from underneath.]

Skeletons? Dressed up as mummies? Ridiculous.



Pirates of the Great Lake

[Ozymandias is a Rider, so controlling a ship on water is no problem for him. That's why he decided to take on the quest to deal with the pirates that had been disturbing the peace of the lake. He has fond memories from there, so he'd rather keep it peaceful.]

I'm more used to air and land vehicles, but this will work... All hands ready for sea battle. I will get us close enough so we can engage them in battle.

Yet We Must Fight

[mayoninofukucho]

[It feels weird to be hanging out with Ozymandias, even now that Hijikata temporarily moved into his house. But given that they're working together and the pharaoh is directing his haughty remarks at the white-furred enemies rather than at him, it's more bearable than usual... and of course Hijikata is simply grateful that he gets to leave the city.

Despite his usual bloodlust he's leaving the battle to his quest partner right now. Why should he interfere? Surely the sun pharaoh has everything under control. Instead he steps up to Ozymandias at his complaint and puts his palm on the centre of his back to channel warmth into his body.]

I thought Servants didn't get cold.

[Granted, Medusa also prefers the warmer Segments and city districts... Heroic Spirits probably just don't get sick like humans do.]

Ren Jinguji - Uta no Prince-sama (Prismatica + Isle of Avalon CRAU) - OTA

[saxsongs]

Blind Cooking

[Ren liked both cooking and challenges, which is why he decided to take on this quest. As a professional idol he's getting some makeup done before the show as he reads through the various recipes they might get (it was randomized).]

Interesting... I hope we get the more spicy ones.

[There was no guarantee for that, but hey, one could hope.]

Oh... are you my partner? Which role would you like to play?


Emotional Art

[When there was art there was Ren. He didn't mind getting dirty while working, but he was wearing white overalls because it fit the mood well. His choice of "weapon" currently was a spray can and he had a mask to avoid inhaling it.

Of course he's drawing hearts and roses all over the place, along with musical notes. Some might even find a song "written" with paint if they knew how to read notes.]

This is great! I'm so glad they came up with this idea.



On a Magic Carpet Ride

[Ren heard "singing" and signed up to help with the magical carpets. He's waiting for anyone who might want to test out steering a carpet, since he didn't think to ask anyone to join him. He smiles at someone approaching.]

Want to test this with me? I promise I will sing from my heart.

Blind cooking

[likeiron]

( Weird how you could work for a guy and barely know him. Then again, Nina had been kind of distant with most everyone lately given everything going down between her and the gangs. So maybe it wasn't that weird. )

No idea. I'm great with my hands but terrible at taking orders. ( a combination ripe for hilarious hijinks. ) So I can be blindfolded if you think you can handle my bitching.

Sisu - Raya and the Last Dragon - OTA

[turneditin]

Emotional Art

[Sisu was loving every moment of the painting quest. She was either in her human form or in her dragon form, but either way she was having a blast making rather abstract art. They were all in bright colors that resonated her positive attitude.]

Surely not all art has to look like it looks like something, right? I like this style of mine quite a bit. Hey, hand me that orange paint? I'm gonna go dragon and slap it around with my tail...!


On a Magic Carpet Ride

[Sisu was able to fly on her own, but she was very, very curious about the magic carpets, so she was hanging around the test starting site, grinning ear to ear in her human form.]

Hey, hey! Want to try these carpets with me? Please? It looks so fun! I can sing if you don't want to!

[She can sing, but she never claimed she could sing well.]


Snowed Out

[There's a dragon rolling a giant northern lights colored snowball in the Winter Segment. She seems to be humming as she does. Just how large is she going to make the ball anyway? Surely that wouldn't fit a carriage...]

Ruby Rose | RWBY - Prismatica + Voidtrekkers CRAU | Spring | OTA

[silver_eyes_rose]

Pipe Express

[Ruby had heard that there were pipes that were transporting people to other places, so she had to experience this herself!

One pipe is an amazingly simple one, spitting them out in another part of the city.

Yet, another is going to spit them into a pool filled with Toe Nibblers.

And a third with those weird fire-breathing dinosaurs!

Which one do you want to investigate with her?]

Panda Picking Season

Ahhh! Wait, don't run off!

[Ruby couldn't help but decide to help keep an eye on the pandas in this area. They were so cute, she had to! Of course, the baby pandas were quite slippery, rolling off somewhere else, away from their parents]

Your mama's gonna be worried if I don't bring you back!

Rest in Pieces (CW: Violence?)

[There were creatures that were dragging people off to their deaths. Those people didn't deserve that fate at all. Ruby knew that had to be stopped and she recruited someone to join her in putting them down.]

Are you ready? This is gonna get tough.

[Ruby set Crescent Rose around to a new setting, the laser gun from the temple now added to her sniper-scythe gun.]

I hate to do this, but no holding back, but don't get careless.

Wildcard

(OoC: I have a plotting post here if you wanna do any other events here!)

RIP

[healerscorned]

I'm not new to elimination missions, Ruby. Garfont mercenaries got them all the time. Trust me, if they think they can drown me they've got another thing coming.

[Nia's sword forms in her hand, and a single sword of water rises up, joined swiftly by a floating sword of flame.]

Sun Wukong - RWBY (Prismatica CRAU) - OTA

[totallycalledit]

Pipe Express

[Sun was having a blast! It was very fun to just jump around from pipe to pipe, slapping a label on where it went and going to the next one. Sometimes he event made an elaborate looking trick jump into one.

And sometimes he came back all wet and a fish stuck in his tail.]

What the hell was that pipe all about?!

[Shaking his tail. Shaking!! The fish lets go and drops back into the pipe.]


Pirates of the Great Lake

[Sun knows nothing about commanding a ship, but he's definitely been on ships before. He's keeping guard on one of the masts, holding onto it with his monkey tail. He's wearing a pirate hat just for the occasion, but otherwise he figures his outfit is fitting enough.]

Ahoy! I can see out first target...! ... it looks empty, so I guess it's a ghost one?

[How do they fight ghosts? Well, he's sure they'll figure something out.]


La Va Land (High Risk)

[Sun is watching from afar as two medium sized Lava Monsters were slowly making their way towards the Great Crossing. It would take hours for them to get there, still, but the sooner they started fighting them, the better, probably.]

So... my clones can interact with them without me getting hurt. Otherwise I have telekinesis, so I could try lifting the smaller one up or keep it from moving.

[His element was fire, so that wouldn't be too much help.]

Otherwise I could shoot them, too. But I'd need to get pretty close to do that.

pipe express

[hometown]

[ Reiner isn't as outwardly enthusiastic about the pipes. No backflips, at least. However, he diligently documents each one, writing down coordinates and noting any irregularities in a small notebook.

His eyebrows rise as a stranger pops out of the nearest pipe. A stranger who looks to be around Reiner's age and height, with an athletic build and hair just as blond as Reiner's. What are the chances?

And then there's the tail. An actual tail. With a fish hanging on it.

… Well. Reiner can turn into a fifteen-meter-tall armored giant. Maybe he shouldn't be too taken aback by a tail. ]

Let me guess, [ Reiner says as the stranger successfully shakes the fish away. ] It took you somewhere totally different before bringing you here?

Saya Otonashi || Blood+ (Imeeji CRAU) || Summer

[sangreine]

La Va Land - early August

[ Saya's about to step back into the Research Center for more experimental treatments, and who knows how it will go? This could be her last chance to earn some money to leave for her housemates, which is deeply important to her. She wants to leave some tangible benefit to the people she loves instead of just the painful burden of having known her. ]

[ Hence why she picked the riskiest, and thus highest paying, quest. ]

We should probably have a game plan before charging in there. I can handle burns pretty well, and if I fly around that should keep me from getting too injured. But I'm not much help with freezing them up or whatever. What've you got?


Emotional Art - late August/September

[ So... things didn't go great. Everyone probably saw what happened (watch the network on August 11 for details!) -- Saya lost her memories. She got them back quickly enough, probably because she only slept for 5 days, but she lost something more important: time. Now she has a matter of weeks before hibernating, and she's sad and exhausted. ]

[ She's trying to get some small things done while she can, though. But as she paints, her ink keeps vanishing. ]

Hm. I guess I'd better buck up. [ As if it's that easy. ]


Snowed Out - late August/September

[ Going out into the Winter segment to collect snow wasn't the most well-paying gig, but it's something. And Saya so badly wants to do something. She should be fine for just this. Surely. ]

[ Whenever someone comes upon her, they'll find Saya curled up against a mound of snow, asleep. ]


Wildcard!
[ I'm happy to write a starter for you! Plot with me on the plotting post or at lenainverse! ]

Snowed Out

[silver_eyes_rose]

[Ruby wasn’t entirely sure if she should focus on this job, but hey, at least it was in the snow!

As she looked for a good mound of snow to dig up and take back, she noticed the sight of brown hair sticking up in a mound.

Investigating, she blinked as she saw Saya there.]

Saya…?

[She’s gonna go over and shake her shoulder.]

Sun Wukong - Lego Monkie Kid - August onwards - OTA

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Just Around the River Bend

[Destroying beaver dams feels kind of mean, but if they're causing everything to flood...and besides, he could use the money in case he finds a place that sells his peach chips.

So he's on his cloud and floating near a dam, just observing the beavers working for now.]

Huh, they definitely don't look unmanageable, the big cute furballs.


Yet We Must Fight

[This is more his speed. If he's gotta work, he can stick to what he's best at. He's on the defense against one, dodging or blocking its heavy club swings. No sense in putting too much effort into this. He's not aiming to kill anything, so knowing his opponent is important.

On the next swing, he blocks catching the full swing with both hands]

Okay, I felt that one. You've got some muscle big guy.


Cats Need Catnip Badly

[Okay, so he knows that he shouldn't have tasted the catnip, but he was curious about the mint-like herb...so of course he HAD to try it. The consequences have hit fairly quickly too. Where there should be a cheeky monkey happily collecting catnip, there's instead a blocky-pawed orange cat with a heart mark on his chest. Said kitty is currently happily rolling around in the catnip and chewing a few of the leaveves.]


Panda Picking Season

[There was absolutely no way that he was missing this job. Pandas are never not adorable and mobile baby pandas are at least 10x as cute. So of course he's come to coo over them and make sure the wayward babies get back to there mothers. Right now he's even on the ground, letting a curious baby play with his tail and being very vocal about his thoughts.]

Ooooo~ You are officially the cutest thing I've ever seen! So fluffy and soft~ Who going to grow into the most handsome fluffbear ever? You are~


Pirates of the Great Lake<

[Wukong arrives on the ship, jumping off his cloud to land gracefully on deck. He's dressed in pirate garb, head bandanna, trousers, boots, a shirt open just enough to show the heart-shaped fur on his chest, and a vest...he's even got an eyepatch that he's currently adjusting.]

Sup? I mean, AHOY THERE MATEY, or however that goes. [He grins wide.] Soooo, you know how to sail one of these things? Because it's definitely different than a little raft or a rocket ship, so I got nothing.

panda picking

[kerontribution]

Be careful. They pull pretty hard for babies.

[As evidenced by one of the pandas that has a grip on Oryou's very long hair. She doesn't look in pain, just mildly exasperated.]

Jill Warrick | Final Fantasy XVI | Winter

[wardenofice]

Yet We Must Fight

[Jill is running after the Yeti in earnest, a wave of her hand conjuring large ice spears that rain down to distract them and block their path. Torgal is at her heels, glowing bright blue with electricity crackling from his fur.]

Stop!

[Several of the Yeti turn to look at her, their weapons raised as they charge at her. She takes a step back, a large ice wall blocking them from her. It wasn't sturdy enough to stop all of them charging it at once and she immediately leapt back, rapier drawn and Torgal dashed quickly to her side, growling. Frantic, she looks around for either others to team up with her against the group of Yeti or else some means of stopping them.]

It's Raining ... Fire

[This beast was quite out of her league alone. Try as she might, the flames it spit out were too hot while she wasn't Primed and even Torgal was finding it difficult to defend her with his own power. As it rounded on her yet again, she created a wall of ice, but it wasn't thick - not nearly thick enough to stop flames. It was only meant to slow them so that she could evade again. If she could just get near it...]

Torgal? [She had lost sight of the canine in the fray, but then she spotted him staring somewhere off to the side of her. He growled for a moment and then whined, running a circle between her and in the direction of what or whoever was coming.

The Wyvern capitalized on the distraction and she very nearly becomes charcoal. On instinct, she draws upon the power of her Eikon to protect her - the flames immediately dissipating when faced with the sheer cold around her. A pale glow surrounds her, white cloth at her back as well.]

Who is there? [A stronger ice wall spreads in front of her, the ground beneath her becoming frozen as well. This wall would not hold indefinitely but it would serve to slow it down better than her previous attempts.]

La Va Land

[Firing off Icicles in quick succession, Jill attempts to slow them down by stabbing them, or else the ice landing in their path. She runs towards the danger, attempting to avoid being burned. Torgal is at her heels as well, snarling and growling in his pursuit of the monsters in an attempt to lure them back.]

Torgal, wait! Don't get too close to them.

[She fires off a series of icicles again to enclose them in a circle, even if that might be difficult. Unless she decided to at least try to prime, she would be getting nowhere. Even worse, she's angered them so they would soon surround her instead of the other way around.]

Wildcard

[ooc: want to do something cute instead of fighting? Want to plot something else? Feel free to dm me on discord or plurk!]

(hallelujah) - also preemptive spoiler warning for ff16 -

[reviven]

[ The flurry of ice appearing and quickly snuffing out the flames before they can set the land below ablaze alerts Joshua to the fact that he may not be the only Dominant in this world. Even before that, he'd sensed her rather faintly (which in itself had been strange considering he was sure she had surrendered Shiva completely to Clive) and had more or less followed the proverbial breadcrumb trail to reach her and Torgal. As he spots her in the distance, doing her best to avoid being burnt, he's immediately relieved that his senses hadn't led him astray –and less so relieved that she's in danger.

His legs move before he can even will them do, cutting through grass and shrubs as fast as he can until he's scrambling down a hill and sliding into a rough landing next to her. A magical shield wraps around her, Torgal, and himself to absorb the brunt of the damage as he wheezes slightly before answering– ]

Only me, I am afraid, but there are far worse rescuers who could have appeared in my stead.

[ And far better. Clive, for instance... ]

We can exchange greetings later. Take cover first.

[ Would that fire wasn't raining down from the heavens so they could have a proper conversation. Where is it even coming from? ]

Rui Kamishiro | Project Sekai | Spring | OTA (+1 for Ayaka specifically)

[curuiosity]

I. Blind Cooking w/ Ayaka
Its wonderful to finally meet you, Ayaka-san, and what an interesting way to meet too. Quite the novel idea. I'll be in your care.

[Rui feels out the counter in front of him tenatively.]

II. On a Magic Carpet Ride
[Rui is looking around for some poor unfortunate soul on their own. He came by to help on his own, figuring that he can't be the only one coming without a partner. And if he is, then he'll just snatch someone off the street to help him.]

I need someone to steer the carpet for me. You'll do nicely. I have a good voice, so don't worry about that.

III. Pipe Express

Aaaaah!!!!

[Rui isn't normally one to scream, but things change when you're being chased by a fire breathing dinosaur. In his panic, he may have also forgotten that he has powers.]

Someone help!

IV. Cats need Catnip Badly

[Rui is helping gather nip. When he took this quest he was warned about the consequences of eating any of the plants. Which meant that he had to eat some of the plants. There is now a purple and blue cat playing amongst the nip.]

V. Pirates of the Great Lake

Ahoy there, matey! Are ye setting sail with Ol' Captain Blue Streak?

[Rui is in full pirate gear, and is yelling from on top of the boat. Captain isn't a role he usually would play, unless the captain was a villain, but a change of pace is nice.]

Come aboard if yer not a yellow bellied landlubber!

[mistsplitter]

[ It truly is interesting, and she's pressured to do well so she doesn't disappoint! A good impression is something she should make here, after all. ]

I'll do my best. It's just following the recipe, after all.

[ And she has the book in her hand! Now then... ]

How experienced are you with cooking? I will do my best to describe things. Especially when it comes to handling the knives.

Amy Rose | Archie Sonic | Spring

[freedomfighterhammer]

Pipe Express

[Amy felt annoyed at the whole pipe thing. Pipes that travel to one place to the next? Why did that sound like something plumbers would do? But, she let out a small sigh and decided to take the plunge.

And plunge she would, as the pipe she went into sent her into a pool of water.]

*GASP!* A pool of water! Well, that sucks! Well, I know where- OW!

[And Amy looks down to see a Toe Nibbler biting at her leg as a few others work her boots off.]

H-Hey! Stop that! Those are mine! Stop! OW!

[And now they’re nibbling on her toes.]

Movie Inspirations

C’mon! This’ll be so much fun! We can show off and everything!

[Amy had wrangled someone in on the idea of making movies fighting monsters in the Spring Section and finishing them off in fancy ways.]

We can just cut loose and be cool! Isn’t that fun?!

[Amy certainly thinks so!]

It’s Raining… Fire

[Amy wasn’t a Winter user, but she wasn’t going to let the Summer Segment burn up! Amy used her Spring magic to blow away what fires sprang up, but there were so many thanks to those dragons!

And that’s when she got careless. One of the fireballs got spat at her while she was tending to a passerby and it struck. Even with her Safety Pin, it HURT! Once the fire died out, Amy collapsed in pain.]

Migrating Foes

[So it seemed Slimes and Gem Biters were making their way near the Mushroom Sanctuary. And now they’re huge. Granted, about six feet in size at minimum, but they’re huge.

Wanna know what else is huge?

The nine foot hedgehog girl fighting them off, swinging her mallet at them with just as quickly and skillfully as she normally does.]

Hey, this is actually pretty fun! I never realized how easy being tall was!

Wildcard!

(OoC: Got any other idea for prompts? Hit me up here or at AshBlaze!)

migrating foes

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline is still 5'2" and finds herself craning her neck to look up at Amy, in between cutting down slimes with her scythe.]

You look great!

Cho Hakkai | Saiyuki + Deer Country CRAU | OTA

[knowsvinewhip]

🌿 BLIND COOKING
What a perfect opportunity. He knows only a small handful of people here, and even then, not terribly well - but cooking? Honestly, he could do that with his eyes closed. So it is with utmost confidence that he picks up the blindfold, rather than the person he's paired with.

"I believe we'd have the best chances this way. Don't you?"

Hakkai, they don't. Know you. You have to elaborate better than that. But he doesn't, he just smiles blandly.


🌿 REST IN PIECES
Well that's. New. A monstrous horse-looking creature. Not even Trench had been host to such a thing. They just look wrong, and the odd plant woven into their ratty manes is uncomfortably familiar. But there's a job to be done, an income to be made, and he bears a striking resemblance to a dirty rag, doesn't he.

Funny how that's what he recalls, even now.

"Hands-off would be a wise approach to dealing with it," he muses to his companion, whomever it may be. Hakkai doesn't appear armed, he just calmly rolls his sleeves up, keeping an eye on the creatures. They're approaching slowly, menacingly - bared fangs sickly looking in the graveyard light.

"I don't suppose you have a ranged weapon?"


🌿 SNOWED OUT
The backseat of Hakkai's trademark (? maybe?) Jeep has been covered in a tarp. Forming a neat little bed for however much snow can be packed in there. He looks to have started this on his own - like so much of what he's doing lately - but also seems to be speaking to someone while he hefts in shovels of white powder.

"I know, I'm sorry. But it's only for a short while. We'll switch to a different method after this batch..." Or when his hands are too cold to keep going. Someone didn't put gloves on, like an idiot.

Despite getting started by himself, he won't turn down assistance, if it's offered. He can make dumb choices, hopefully will snap himself out of it if pressed.


(ooc: plotting comment is here! Happy to match format or have multiple threads for prompts!)

ripperoni (rest in pieces)

[hometown]

Like Hakkai, Reiner is markedly calm in this situation, watching the creatures with caution but not fear. His vertical maneuvering equipment is strapped on, which can help him close in and get away quickly. A knife sits in a sheath on his belt. He also carries a bolt-action rifle, which he pulls from its place on his back.

"Yeah, I've got one." Reiner raises the rifle to his shoulder, lining up a shot. "We'll see how effective normal bullets are."

A pause, then:

BANG!

Reiner is no sniper. However, he's a decent shot, hitting one of the creatures squarely in the chest. It staggers, clearly wounded—and then its mane begins to float, vines twisting and wriggling in the air.

"… Well. Damn." Reiner lowers the rifle slightly. "I think that only pissed it off."

Still, he doesn't sound or appear perturbed. Turning into a Titan isn't exactly 'using a ranged weapon,' but it should do the trick. It usually does.

Deuce Spade | Twisted Wonderland | Any time thorughout the quest period

[majimekun]

Just around the Riverbend

[One of Deuce's favorite spells from back home has always been his cauldron summoning spell. It's almost an automatic cast for him because the first thing that comes to mind when you mention magic is a witch's cauldron. At least it is for Deuce.

And it has so many uses! A hiding place, a shield, a restraint, a cage, and a giant, metal-wrecking ball, as demonstrated by the way the beaver damn cracks as Deuce drops one right in the center. It's not enough to actually destroy the dam, but it won't take much to finish the job and the beavers are pissed..]

Crap, they're on to us! It's your turn!

Cats need catnip badly

[The scent of various herbs is super strong right now, but at least this job is peaceful. Aside from the occasional beast frolicking about, the two of you have been left alone.]

This quest doesn't even feel like a quest. We'll be done in no time.

[Deuce already has several baggies full of different kinds of nip. Maybe he should keep some for himself so that he can sell them later.]

Silent Streams

[Not being able to hear anything is weird as hell. It makes Deuce feel clumsier somehow because he doesn't have the feedback of his own footsteps and he can't just talk to his partner here.

That's why you both brought your phones along and set them to vibrate. Deuce takes a minute to quickly type out a text message.]

We must be getting close, right?

Wildcard
[ Anything mentioned here is fair game. Also, feel free to come up with your own prompts or request a starter from me. ]

i'm too sexy for my cat;

[somniacs]

[ It really doesn't. Silver laments not having chosen a more challenging quest to undertake, but he did want an opportunity to study this world's plants and herbs more closely. He just didn't think he'd be standing in a catnip field, trying to determine the subtle difference among varieties.

Sniffing them obsessively tells him absolutely nothing. ]

I am not sure which one is more potent. I've never had a cat before, so I have very little insight into their preferences. I would say they both smell...earthy.

Madoka Kaname 🌸 Puella Magi Madoka Magica 🌸 Spring

[healing_wish]

[Starters in comments! My plotting comment and contact info are here ♥]

🌈💕✨ EMOTIONAL ART 🌸🍡🐇

[healing_wish]

[ Madoka can often be seen all around the city drawing something into one of her MANY sketchbooks (no, seriously, she has one for just about everything here) and she's about to draw into them today too, she just needs to decide where she's going to sit drawing into them today...

But then a local asks if she wants to paint into one or more of those canvases instead and at first she's confused like are they seriously asking her??

Of course Madoka's answer is yes, because it's always absolutely yes, even before she hears that it has to be emotional art with her positive emotions. How does she even paint with those?? Just by focusing on her positive emotions? It's really that easy? Well, she came here to get her thoughts away from negative things, she happens to be aligned to spring and she doesn't know it but she's going to be a literal embodiment of hope in the future...

She starts by painting everything, that comes to her mind from spring and also random things, that just happen to come to her mind while she gets more and more excited about this quest. Eventually that includes colorful flowers, colorful butterflies, a bear and a panda playing together, flying puppies, void kittens, unicorn, pegasus, rainbows, pastel rainbow colored stars, cakes, at least one cherry blossom tree and its petals flying all around, bunnies, ducklings, pink roses... and sometimes there are quintents of different colored stars, hearts, flowers and other things grouped together.

If Madoka sees anyone nearby or approaching her, she smiles widely at them.]

Hello! Umm, would you like to paint too?

[Possibly with her? Unless they really want to be alone?? At least she sounds extremely friendly when she asks that.]

Tau Yumeno| Original| Spring | OTA

[veileddreamer]

I. Emotional Art

[Tau is staring at the canvas in front of her, watching the canvas fade back to white. She sighs and wipes her the paint on her hands on her overalls roughly. She is determined to make something nice, but her anxiety and frustration keeps bleeding through into her art.]

I can do this...I-I can...

II. Pipe Express

[At first, Tau was focused on her task of marking out the pipes, but when she got swarmed by fishes, she became distracted. Now she's squatting, careful not to get her skirt wet, with her shoes off, to let the fish nibble at her toes.]

Heeheehee~ It tickles~ Ah?

[When she notices someone else in the area, she tries to put on a neutral face, but a little smile comes through.]

There are... a bunch of cute fish...in this area...we are lucky...I think...

III. Panda Picking Season

Wait...Please...Come back...

[Tau is chasing after a panda. Occassionally, she makes a breeze to direct them properly, but it doesn't seem to be helping.]

Should I...make a wall? Would...that be too disruptive...

IV. Leaf Me Alone

[She is so tired. There are a couple leaves on her clothes, but she's still going. Slowly but surely. She sees someone resting nearby. That looks like a comfy spot actually. She has to remind herself that this is not a safe space.]

Ah...Excuse me.......You...should not...be sleeping here...

2

[roundandaround]

Yeah! Aren't they cute? [Rinku giggles.] Even if they're supposed to be monsters, they're not dangerous, are they?

Lisia| Pokemon ORAS | Spring | OTA

[contestidol]

I. Emotional Art

Wanna sit next to us? There's plenty of room!

[Her canvas is full of colors, but what its supposed to be? Who could guess? There are streaks and stripes of color, and also paw prints, and big blobs. Lisia is sitting, covered in paint, with her equally covered in paint pikachu and altaria next to her.]


II. Just Around the Riverbend

Ali! Aerial Ace!

[The altaria Swooped down, wings covered in light to destroy one the dams as he flew by with Lisia riding on top.]

Oh Whoops! You okay? I didn't see you there!

III. Panda Picking Season

I got this! Watch and learn!

[Lisia is trying to wrangle one of the baby pandas, and winds up falling face first in the dirt.]

IV. Pirates of the Great Lakes

Oooh! Ooooh! I wanna try! I wanna try! Wanna try with me? We can call it "A Pirate's Life: Setting Sail to Sink Our Foes"!

Pandas!

[silver_eyes_rose]

Lisia!

[And Ruby races to her side to help her up.]

Are you okay?

eren jaeger | attack on titan | summer | august - september

[dreamsofwings]

[ AS A NOTE, I prefer to handwave character introductions so feel free to assume they've at least learned each other's names if we haven't done anything previously! ]

BLIND COOKING OTA

Eren has been learning to bake a little from Rafal, so he somewhat naively signs up for this quest. It's one of those things where they expect you to be with a stranger, but he hopes that maybe that won't be the case. He also expects to be the one talking someone else through it, but he ultimately thinks better of that. He might just get annoyed doing it that way.

He might get annoyed the other way, too, but if he does something stupid like cut a finger, it will just heal. That might not be the case for someone else.

He's tense as they tie the blindfold around his eyes. Maybe this was a mistake. He already gets sort of lost in time and all. But there's something to focus on here, and he better do that or whatever they make will probably suck.

"What exactly are we making again?"

[ Dealer's choice as to whether your character puts that blindfold on him or ~the quest givers~ do, so you could start there.

Also dealer's choice as to what we're making, but here's a couple ideas:

Pancakes!
Cookies? Have fun measuring that I guess
A complicated cake decorating assignment which will be a disaster
Pick a savoury option or something cutting fruit

If you have a preference on whether they succeed in what they're making or not, you can lmk at my plotting comment or on plurk at boywonder. ]

JUST AROUND THE RIVERBEND OTA
aka, the Titan option

If you haven't seen it before, the Attack Titan is 15m (about 49ft) tall and tends to be destructive. (You may have seen a version of this during the PacRim event, since the Attack Titan was one of the monsters that got projected around. Whoops!)

BUT destruction is the name of the game today, isn't it? The Titan can wreck dams really quickly. He has other power, but for this, he's just using physical strength. The beavers are a nuisance, though he can handle them. Still, help keep beavers off him for a minute while he finishes wrecking things? Help him wreck things? A secret third option?

Alternately, this quest can be Yet We Must Fight if you would like to fight yetis instead of beavers.

[ Feel free to catch him at any point during this, whether right as he transforms, when he's punching the shit out of dams, or after it's all clear. The Attack Titan can't talk but he can hear just fine.

He will NOT engage player characters in a fight unless he has no choice, but if that was a thing, I'd want to discuss it first. o7 ]

OTHER QUESTS

Pirates of the Great Lake here; CLOSED. If you'd like some piracy hmu and we'll do it.

Sex on Air here. NSFW, men only, 18+ only.

Shibari Lessons is an option, lmk if you'd like to do that and I'll write a starter on the post linked above.

Feel free to tag any quest starters any time in August or September! You're not too late dw.

blind cooking,

[wingbound]

[ Luckily for Eren, he's probably going to be snapped forcefully back into focus when he hears this particular voice. ]

Pancakes.

[ This is not how this was supposed to go. The spell was supposed to weed out people who know each other. But whether it was the Ackerman resistance to mind meddling, or simply Levi being a stubborn little bastard, when he says "Never saw him before in my life" and stares at the host, he's accepted without a stutter and soon enough ushered into the cooking space. ]

[ So it's all good unless Eren gives them away, which Levi decides to nip in the bud preemptively by leaning closer and lowering his voice to a whisper, intended only for his cooking partner. ]

Oi, brat. Play along and we've got this in the bag.

[ Yep. They're totally running a scam now. See, in Ellipsa, Levi doesn't need to worry about being a proper face of something bigger anymore, and that means he's more willing to entertain some of his (probably) old habits. Enjoy the less known side of the humanity's hero... ]

joie coultenet | ffxiv non-WoL oc | ota

[afflatusrapture]

On a Magic Carpet Ride.

[ This one seemed easy enough! Drive a magic carpet, make it to the end of the course with another passenger and an item? Sure! They could definitely manage that. Her and...whichever unsuspecting passenger decides to take this ride with her that is! ]


Pardon me, would you like to be my passenger?

Yet We Must Fight

[ Being a healer, Joie is both on the offensive and the defensive. She will join anyone in their fray and play support for them. Anyone who is hurt? She is more than glad to heal them back to fighting fit!

If she comes across anyone in the middle of the fight, she will call out to them. ]

Hey! Are you doing okay? You aren't hurt, are you?

Farming Life

[ Now THIS is what she is talking about. No monsters, no fighting. Just good old fashioned farming. She has a pile of stones near her as she is placing them around the plots.

If one would approach her, they may hear her mumbling plans to herself... ]

Carrots here, maybe some cucumber, potato...herbs too. Herbs might be good.

[ Were these her plots? Maybe not! But they were incredibly inviting! ]

ANYTHING ELSE?

[ If there is something I didn't cover or something else you would rather do, please feel free to contact me via my journal or on plurk at tigridia ]

Farming Life

[inspiteful]

Oh, Miss Joie? Are these your plots?

Toshirou Hijikata | Gintama (Prismatica & Isle of Avalon CRAU) | Summer

[mayoninofukucho]

[OOC: After the conflict that led to the 'Going Gorgon' quest Hijikata has had a lot to mull over, so quest partners may find him a bit subdued compared to his usual temperament, especially during the rest of August. He'll be doing the City Quests during that time and the Segment Quests in September (but of course we can already kick them off now)!]


1) On a Magic Carpet Ride (for sangreine)

[Between the Gorgon disaster that kept Hijikata occupied and the failed second hibernation prevention experiment on Saya's end, both of them are less energetic than usual as they meet up to test the magic carpet. Hijikata is restless and really wants to throw himself into battle out in the Segments to escape the many thoughts he can't untangle, but given his arrangement with Ozymandias this is about as good as it gets right now.

Nevertheless he musters a little smile for Saya. He worried about her when he saw her acting so unlike herself after she awoke from her sleep, bereft of all the memories that made her who she is... he truly thought that they all had lost the Saya they knew. Her memories returning felt like a rare divine mercy.]

Well, at least we won't have to argue over who sings and who steers.

[He heard her sing at the art festival! To say that she can hold a note would be a huge understatement.]

2) Pipe Express

[Pipes randomly appearing... what else is this place going to throw at them at this rate? Somehow Hijikata feels reminded of the Temple of Life. He tackled all levels back then! It this going to be the same kind of situation?

Well, if nothing else there are enemies. The dinosaurs that come running up to Hijikata and his quest partner may barely be the size of the starter pokémon many people got from the vending machine in the underground mall, but they're a lot more aggressive. Hijikata turns their fire green and harmless as he kicks at them to keep them at bay and, ideally, send them running.]

This only pays us 300 Moon Coins? This is bullshit! Did they say how many pipes we need to label?

[Sounds like he's considering phoning the quest in... what a bad attitude for a policeman!]

3) Undercovered (for likeiron)

[Given his job, Hijikata has seen some hair-raising reports about clashes between the local criminal organisations and otherworlders lately - and one person appears to have been involved outrageously often. There have even been fatalities (on the criminals' side) in incidents Hijikata strongly suspects Nina to have been embroiled in. His coworkers held and questioned her multiple times already, but it seems that the young woman is as stubborn as as a mule, and since there's been no conclusive evidence they ultimately had to let her go each time (it helps her case that the gangs generally refuse to cooperate with the police in any way, even to testify against someone who's troublesome for them).

Now that new groups seem to have formed (or, potentially, splintered off from the underground ones) and Harrison has tasked Hijikata to support those volunteering for the infiltration, he can't think of anyone better than Nina to reach out to. For a first meet-up he invites her to the Shinrin-Yoku in his home district Sunwaning. Nothing like a conspirative meeting in a private room in a traditional Japanese Inazuman teahouse!]

Well, then. What do you know about the groups that have started operating in the city centre? I read all the reports, but you probably have a better overview than my colleagues and I do at this point.

4) Invisible Maze

[Hijikata still has some lingering bad associations with the Winter Segment, give his disastrous mission with Jean and Mukuro a couple of months ago, but the quests there won't sort themselves out! Once September arrives (not that they'd feel the change of time, given the way Ellipsa is) and he's free to enter the wilderness again, no longer under Ozymandias' protection, he finds a quest partner to head out into the eternal winter with.]

Invisible walls... didn't anyone who investigated this share their findings on the network? If it's the ice maidens again--

[He gets cut off by the impact of the snowmobile against - what else would it be - an invisible wall. He and his partner get solidly jostled, but at least they weren't speeding to to the point of sustaining serious injuries or the vehicle being wrecked! Hijikata is clearly unamused as he (with the snowmobile properly turned off) marches up to the invisible obstacle and puts his gloved hands against it.]

It's a wall alright. Let's see how much it can withstand, shall we?

5) Just Around the Riverbend

[Hijikata isn't sure why the snow beaver damns are such a problem - there aren't any important structures around that might get flooded, right? -, but a job is a job! He observes the human-sized, white-furred creatures as they work on their home made of logs.]

I know it's not in the assignment, but wouldn't it be best if we killed the beavers? Otherwise they'll just keep building new dams. Or are they a protected species?

[Look at that, slowly but surely his latent bloodlust is apparently coming back!]

6) Snowed Out

[The quest is simple and straightforward: Go out, get snow, bring it back. But given the pitfalls of the Winter Segment Hijikata is accompanying his quest partner as a protective escort. He's one of the best when it comes to destroying snowskeletons (the skeleton type; the snowman type is tougher)! Of course there's plenty of time to talk on the trek back and forth and even while shovelling the snow into the transport sled.]

Are you just in it for the money, or are you into making snow sculptures? Back home we have competitions for that in winter, but people will build the damndest things.

7) Farming Life (for vennessa)

[Once more Hijikata signed himself up as an escort, expecting to be paired up with a non-combatant, and when he found himself matched with Vennessa instead it was a pleasant surprise to see her again. Given what little he knows of her background he's confident that she could have held her own out in the wilderness, but it's just a lot safer (and recommended, in any case) to not go alone!

He lets her choose the Segment and specific location, purely being in it out of restlessness himself. Having gotten side-tracked talking about recent events on the journey, he only puts his mind back on the quest once they're on location and placing the barrier stones.]

Do you want to use this plot yourself? Or are you just helping the locals?

8) Movie Inspirations (for icepatch)

[Hijikata wasn't particularly interested in the quest at first - he wants to fight monsters because they're causing problems, not because some movie makers want inspiration! -, but when he ran into Kaeya and learned that he was going for it, it immediately activated his competitive spirit. Before long the two of them find themselves out in the Spring Segment.]

We have enough film for four takes, that means two for each. What do you want to start with? A slime?

[That suggestion in and on itself is already half a challenge...]

9) Panda Picking Season (for angerintomiracles)

[Quests involving cute animals are definitely for civilians - but as always civilians need protection, especially if they're kids like Eva. (Never mind that at this point she could probably fend off most enemies with her cutting wind!)

Eva's had a tough time lately, Hijikata thinks, what with her arachne affliction, so he doesn't mind coming along. If they can get a golden bamboo shoot for her it'll surely make her happy. Given that it would haven taken them 6-7 days on foot, they instead took the airship, after which Hijikata called his winged bull to cut the rest of the journey down to half a day. They strategically unmounted in a location on the outskirts of the Bamboo Labyrinth where they spotted a baby panda from above.]

I just realised that we've got no way of identifying its parents, do we?

[What if this becomes a total panda odyssey?]

10) All These Mummies

[As usual Hijikata's hot and sweltering home Segment holds plenty of dangers for adventurers - perfect for a swordsman like him. He's confident that no mummy will be able to wrap him in bandages (nor his quest partner, not on his watch)! Now if only the Research Centre hadn't asked to get a mummy or several captured "alive"...]

It'd be easier if I just burned them! I mean, they're already dead, right?

[Well, before he can attempt that, they first have to meet one. But perhaps the mummies are not far! They are in the Deserter's Desert.]

11) It's Raining ... Fire

[As a summer power holder Hijikata doesn't possess any effective magic to face off against fire-resistent enemies - but that doesn't stop him in the slightest from venturing out into the Summer Segment yet again. Who cares that a pair of wyverns almost killed him and Medusa and forced them into their ill-fated Master-Servant contract, this job is just about their falling scales and the fires they cause! If nothing else, Hijikata's winged bull friend eases the scouting.]

There's another fire over there! Damn it, is it their molting season, or what? But it's always summer!

[Hopefully he isn't with a fellow summer power holder, otherwise they'll really have to get creative. Sadly he never learned the rain dance!]

12) La Va Land

[Since the lava lizards and wyverns clearly weren't enough in terms of fire-resistent threats, now there are lava monsters. Hijikata, ill-equipped as ever in terms of effective magical abilities, is nonetheless burning (haha) to get out there and intercept the march of the eerie new enemies.

After a comfortable enough airship ride and some help from his winged bull he and his quest partner have taken up position on the eastern end of the Great Crossing. Hijikata's grin looks just a tad manic.]

Just let them come. I've got unlimited ammunition for this baby.

[He swings... a keychain. This better be good, right?]

13) Leaf Me Alone (for hometown)

[Collecting people who've been put to sleep by magical leaves in the Autumn Segment sounded like a total civilian task, however Hijikata's been feeling a little guilty about not having taken his Tepig on any of the quests in the Winter- and Summer Segments, given the cold respectively the danger. This one would probably be fun for the little fire pig. A pokémon is a partner, right? That's what Director Clavell said. So it's fine if he goes with just his Tepig!

(It isn't fine.)

When Reiner sets out on the same task - either equally reckless, or maybe intending to stick to the safe zones only - he'll find himself approached by the slightly breathless Tepig. If he has his Turtwig with him it'll be happy to see it again, but only briefly before falling into the classic "pet asking for help for its owner in distress" behaviour.

Since Reiner is too nice/responsible/curious a person to not follow the fire pig, despite its owner being kind of a huge jackass, it ends up leading him to where Hijikata succumbed to the leaves. He's flat on the ground face-down, arms straight at his sides, and steadily accumulating more leaves. His Tepig tried to remove them, but couldn't quite manage it all.]

14) Migrating Foes

[Attack on the Mushroom Sactuary? Not if Hijikata has a say! He flies himself and his quest partner in on his trusty bull (unless said partner has their own transport), and the now human-sized foes are readily visible from the air.]

I think I can take all of them on with my bazooka. The slimes I can also just burn; it makes them shrink. Or do you have any other ideas?

[He doesn't have a bazooka on him by all appearances, but not to worry!]

15) Rest in Pieces (for corpsewarblade)

[Ghoulpies are about the last thing Hijikata wants to deal with. Regular kelpies would be fine (well, more or less), but these ones are half ghoul!! And they live between the creepy abandoned graveyard and the Darkness! This quest just has "bad news" written all over it!

But Mukuro is determined to tackle the problem, and Hijikata can't let his sworn sister walk into that kind of shitshow on her own. Besides he does feel the responsibility to act, given that the creatures have already killed people (presumably locals who used the teleport stone to visit the graves and were lured beyond the iron fence), and, well, the reward is really outstanding. He could buy so much mayonnaise with 8000 Moon Coins!

Onsite they first assess the situation, confirming that the graveyard's enclosure is still undamaged and the ghoulpies haven't been able to enter the safe area.]

So far, so good. Now how do we best take these creepy things out?


[OOC: If you'd like to hash things out, do hit up my plotting post!]

la va land

[acquirement]

{ the airship was much more comfortable to the heat of this segment, but luckily ayato's abilities with water mean they'll never go thirsty, and they have an abundance of supply against the herd coming towards them. }

I have to wonder, what is it that you plan to use?

{ they still have time before they'll arrive, and ayato has already cleared a forest from creatures like this before. granted, he was alongside another hydro user at the time so it was much simpler. }

Cole Harrison - Changeling the Lost - Mid-August onwards

[tethered_roamer]

Pipe Express

[Using the pipe system is pretty interesting. Quickly travelling from place to place isn't unlike traveling the Hedge back home. And he's getting an inkling that he could use this in combination with the fact his Hedge Gates here only go between places he already knows to get even more benefit.

That's part of why he's signed up to help map their paths. But also, it's one of the few jobs he feels that he can do and other people will need the information.

Popping out of a pipe, feet still soggy from a few pipes back, he frowns at the sight of three little fire-breathing dinosaurs as they stare him down.]

Great.


Panda Picking Season

[He had to take this one as soon as he saw it. Not because pandas are cute, but because the thought of any child becoming lost away from a parent is still too close to home. Paid or not, it's important to him that he help prevent that.

The nice thing is that this is a mostly chill jub, which is good because he's been a little tired lately. It also gives him time to think. About this world, about home, about his friends...about his parents. About the fact that even if he wasn't here, none of it really matters anymore. That part of his life is over and done, and as long as most of them stay safe that's what matters. He needs to focus on himself for now...which is easy to say, isn't it?]


Migrating Foes

[The nice thing about being Lost is having a potentially varied way of interreacting with threats. Cole turns his attention away from the Gem Biter, leaving it quaking and unresponsive where it sits. The only other things immediately around are slimes, but he's not sure quite how to get them out of the area without killing anything. Violence is almost never his first instinct where there are other answer, so this is a problem.]


Silent Streams

[Despite the unnatural silence, he actually feels a little at home here. Autumn is his element back home and he can clear his mind except for the task at hand. He's only got three containers with him, physical strength being an area that he's seriously lacking in. He might do this a few times though, just to enjoy the peace.]

Pipe Express

[noodleboi]

[The good news is Cole won't be alone for long. Suddenly the sound of someone's far off scream can be heard. It's also growing louder. Soon enough MK shoots out of the same pipe Cole came out of and lands on his face between the lost and the dinos.] ...Ow. That hurt.