Catch all log for quests!

[swordfucker]

Who: Guren & various others
Where: Various places
When: Starting 5/3 and going through probably like 5/14.
What: QUESTS. Guren does quests with everyone that he can.
Warnings: None!

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DAVE

[swordfucker]

[Geese. He can't believe they're trekking through the woods to find geese. Not even just that, but they have to capture them? Capture doesn't imply murder like defeat does, and that makes this about ten times harder. Aren't geese mean as hell? Right now, they haven't found much of anything, but if it works just like everything else has, they'll run into them eventually. There's trees everywhere, but he doesn't think it even matters which direction they choose to go. As long as they walk into here, they'll probably find some geese. Weird, mutated geese.]

I don't suppose you're good with animals, are you?

SHOUTO

[swordfucker]

[Here they are, standing in the middle of Guren's mess of a room. Well, it's not that he's a messy person— a part of the roof above his bed still hasn't been fixed since the town began falling apart, his bed is barely useable with how run down it is, and the only other feature to the room is a shitty desk and a chair in front of it, where his laptop sits. All of the other furniture in the room hardly looks useable, let alone able to be decorated, and Guren keeps his few changes of clothes in his closet.

Already, Guren is feeling a little dumb for agreeing to this. But he was curious, and if it completes a quest...]

So... how did you say you learned about this kind of thing, again?

AKIRA

[swordfucker]

Do you want to learn something new?

[It was out of nowhere when he actually showed up in Akira's doorway, leaning casually against the door frame and asking this question. The quests had only just gone up a day or so ago, so it wasn't hard to figure out what he meant. But Guren was the one coming to Akira for this. He crosses his arms loosely.]

NANJO

[swordfucker]

This might not be as easy as running a blade through her. [Guren speaks up suddenly as they walk through the forest, eyes carefully running through the trees. Another mission to kill a whore spider. Well, he'd wanted to see how many he could get away with doing, what it meant, what would happen. How many would appear, when they'd never seen one before. But every time, without fail, when he went into the forest searching for her, he'd find one.

It was strange.]

Have you run across one yet before this?

IGNIS

[swordfucker]

[So, here they are, literally sitting around, bouncing ideas back and forth on how to complete this quest. Guren isn't sure if he has to be the one teaching or taught, but he'll try anything at this point, and there's no harm in it either way. The only problem is... they both seem to have a wide array of skills already at their disposal.]

No, I already know how to knife fight. The sword is my main weapon, but I was trained in a variety of ways to be strong. [He lets his cheek rest against a loose fist, squishing it there in his frustration. Hm.]

Let me guess: you already know how to use a sword, too.

JOSHUA & ESTELLE

[swordfucker]

Alright. This is serious, so I don't want to hear you two flirting the whole time, or I'm ditching you.

[Here is Guren, standing tall and proud and pointing at both Joshua and Estelle like he's pre-scolding them. He's mostly teasing, but it is a message for them to focus.]

What do both of you know about this thing?

[glaciers]

[Shouto looks around and then looks up. That... sure is a hole? He knows interior decorating, not carpentry work. If he wants that there's probably somebody better to teach him about it. Shouto is, unfortunately, not the right kid for that.]

I watched a lot of shows when I had time.

What do you want it to look like?

[unfatalist]

Hardly my preferred weapon of choice, but yes, I'm competent enough with it.

[Which doesn't fit the requirement, frustratingly enough, because the charge is to learn a new skill, not improve on an existing one. Hngh.]

Let's see. I suppose it goes without saying that strategy, battlefield tactics — those would be right out?

[brightlyshines]

Who's flirting?!?!

[Estelle scowls up at Guren, setting the hand not holding her staff on her hips, a slight flush to her cheeks. It's not like they'd let themselves get distracted on a job, geez...!!]

Honestly I don't know much. It sounds like a monster though. Joshua? What do you think?

[parodeity]

Uh...I can put them in my sylladex if we get our hands on them? Which is hammerspace. And they can't bite us from there, I am pretty sure.

[ that isn't a "yes". ]

[swordfucker]

[Ignore the roof hole, he's procrastinating on that.]

How should I know? You're the one teaching me. I just want my desk easy to access. Maybe I can move that bed out from under the hole, too.

[swordfucker]

Completely.

[They've got that covered. He leans even more into his own hand, tired of this.] Not that we can do much about it here, but what about driving a car?

[unfatalist]

Since I was sixteen years old. Though you're right, that's arguably a moot point when we haven't a car to begin with.

[Ignis's sigh is basically confirmation that the suffering here is mutual.]

Swords, knives, tactics, driving — I'm assuming that as a functioning human being of adult age, you're at least passingly familiar with food preparation, we don't have a violin...

[That's right, we're fully into "grasping at straws" territory.]

...I presume you know how to waltz?

[glaciers]

It's your room, you have to live with it. What did it look like at home?

[swordfucker]

Hammerspace? Seriously?

[Well, time powers... He guesses that makes sense if you connect time and space, but also it makes no sense at all and is kind of unfair. Oh well. It's convenient.]

They won't die in there, will they? [As if on cue, there's the distant sound of a goose honking.]

[swordfucker]

Why would I know how to—

[There's a pause, and Guren's words slow to a halt in realization. He drops his hand away and sits up straight, giving Ignis a flat look.]

No way. There has to be something else.

[unfatalist]

If you've a better idea, I'm more than happy to entertain it, but as far as I can tell we've all but exhausted our list of available options, save this one.

[The look on his face is something vaguely akin to a sentiment of "we have come THIS FAR we are NOT turning this car around now".]

What, precisely, is the objection?

[swordfucker]

Basic? It's just an apartment.

[Not very lived in...] I'm at work most of the time.

[glaciers]

Ah. Okay, we can work with that. You want something utilitarian without any frills. That's solid, and easy to do.

[swordfucker]

The objection is when the hell am I ever going to need to know how to waltz?

[He's flustered about this. This is embarrassment. He's embarrassed?? He's going to suck, he's going to hate it, why couldn't Ignis be a fool who can't wield a sword!!]

[swordfucker]

So... teach me. Where do you start with thinking about this kind of thing?

[This is so stupid, he feels ridiculous.]

[unfatalist]

I will venture to point out that there is nothing in the strict wording of the quest that indicates it need be a skill you intend to use. Only that it be one you've not yet learned.

[That's tsun, my dude, and Ignis has been hanging out with Noctis for like two decades, he is basically immune to tsun by now. Tsun-mmune.]

...To say nothing of the fact that it'll augment your existing skill set. A lover and a fighter.

[IGNIS NO]

[glaciers]

Usually you start with cleaning, and then you go out looking for things you like to replace the stuff you don't.

... Or things that are less beat up.

[swordfucker]

Never say that again.

[HE HATES THIS... But he pushes up from where he's sitting and jabs his finger at Ignis.]

Fine. But we're doing this where no one can just walk in on it.

[swordfucker]

Hmm. I don't know if there are things that are less beat up around here.