[open] I hear catch-alls are the thing

[asano_san]

WHO: Keigo and ?
WHERE: out and about
WHEN: June 3-9 for event consequences, any time in June for quest, others tbd
WHAT: Keigo's invisible to girls. Literally now. Also, he's happy to tell anyone all about his most painful memory that may have just been upgraded to "that time he was invisible to girls." Other things to come?
WARNINGS: shouldn't be any


Consequences

[For eating a handful of candy, Keigo's punishment is a sudden bout of invisibility. "All of the girls and women in the Town will be unable to see him. Every single last one. They can hear him, but they can't see him."

Right now, he doesn't know these specifics. All he knows is he started a conversation with someone, and he was invisible to her.

As soon as he can move on, Keigo is running up to anyone he can find to ask the following question like his life depends on it. Because it does! He may be a ghost now. Or something worse than a ghost!]

Can you see me?!

Quest 11

[Some people keep their most painful memories close, only revealing them to trusted friends.

Keigo will tell you his if you don't look away quickly enough.

Look, he's really proud of his ability to be successful at a quest.]


Other

[More to come (probably) throughout the month. If you'd like to do something more personalized with Keigo, hit me up at nolno or in a PM. He's not really cut out for fighting the Bogeyman, but he could try to shear invisible sheep. (He's not really cut out for shearing invisible sheep, either, but at least not likely to die instantly.)]

Comments

[asano_san]

Do you really think we could be stuck like this?

[A second later Keigo realizes - he's the only one stuck like anything right now, as far as he can tell.]

What happened to you that you want to go away?

[queenofminiskirts]

Honestly? I have no clue.

Oh, whenever I touch Ei-chan's--I mean, my friend's hand I get an energy boost and I get a sappy love song stuck in my head. It's useful, but I'd be bothered if it didn't go away at some point.

It's not as bad as what's happening to you but I guess that's because I didn't fail the quest.

[asano_san]

My roommate got a reward like that! His food tastes like something he really likes, but then it's weird when everything tastes that way and he doesn't even want to eat.

I thought rewards were supposed to be good! All good, not just sort of good!

[What's the point of even trying a quest? Not that they got a choice on this last one.]

[queenofminiskirts]

Well, usually they are!

[Well.]

But I think once people got these potions for completing a quest and some of them had weird effects too.

[Like making Kyrie hug people.

Also, she's giving his hand a final pat before she drops her hand again.]

[asano_san]

So if I make it through a quest and get a potion, it might do something great or it might make me grow a tail? Or both?

[The chance that it could be something good, or something good with a bad side effect almost makes it worse than if it was all bad all the time.]

Is everything in this town just here to mess with us?

[queenofminiskirts]

Well, you can always ask Shiho to check the potion for you. She was once an apprentice to a potions master known as the Half-Blood Prince! [No. Not really, but like. It's better than saying Shiho is a psychometer.]

I thought that was obvious since instead of leaving us on dry ground it decided to drop us into a wet, dark and cold well as soon as we got here.

[asano_san]

I know Shiho. [She has promised to protect him. He'll actually keep that in mind.]

On a rainy day, too! [For him, at least.] I thought that was going to be the worst of it, but it was barely the beginning.

[queenofminiskirts]

[Everyone knows Shiho, it seemed like.]

It wasn't raining when I got here, but there was also no one to tell us what was going on either.

[asano_san]

I got out of the well with the help of someone else who just showed up. [And his bird.] Maybe I would have been better off not knowing anything.

[He's been obsessively cleaning the house with no signs of any cleaning-related curse returning.]

[queenofminiskirts]

I don't think that's ever true. Knowing is always going to better than being ignorant.

[asano_san]

No way. If someone was making fun of you, wouldn't you rather not know about it? Or if there's a terrible monster you can't do anything about, isn't it better to never know about it so you can go about your happy life?

[queenofminiskirts]

Don't be stupid. [She says it with a sweet smile.] If I didn't know about it, I wouldn't be able to make them sorry for what they said. [She punches her hand as if to say, by beating them up.] And there's no monster I can't beat.

[asano_san]

[Maybe this is one person he doesn't mind can't see him, just in case she decides to turn that against him.]

You can know whatever you want! I won't try to stop you!

[queenofminiskirts]

[Wow, Keigo: rude.]

...Why are you saying that like I'm threatening you or something?

[asano_san]

Because you-

[He imitates her punching her hand, then remembers she can't see that.]

Because you did a threatening hand punch!

[queenofminiskirts]

That was for anyone who was making fun of me behind my back. And it was a joke anyway! I'm not really going to hit someone for making fun of me...I mean, not unless they were really crossing the line or they were some kind of pervert.

[asano_san]

No perverts here!

[Haha...ha. But to be fair, he's not having any perverted thoughts at all right now because he's too worried about everything else.]

[queenofminiskirts]

I mean, there's this one guy who gave me a knife and told me to stab people with it. I'm not sure that makes him a pervert but it seems like he's into some pretty weird stuff?

[Why are you so worried...? She knows generally people don't react to her powers the way other people here have been doing. But it's not like this guy even knows she can throw a tank so what's got him so worried, really?

...wait. Is this what the guys meant when they said she was cute initially but then fell in the rankings because she was too open? Should she...not talk about these sort of things so easily?]

[asano_san]

Why would someone try to make you stab people?

[He's had some weird things happen in his life, but at least no one has ever tried to make him stab people. This also makes him reconsider what she might consider perverted enough for punching. Maybe she would overlook a little flirting.

Maybe he won't test that today, though. He's feeling delicate.]

[queenofminiskirts]

[Honestly she wouldn't even know what to do about the flirting. No one really flirts with her so it always catches her by surprise.]

I have no idea. I think he was trying to be nice...?

[asano_san]

That's not nice!

[In what world would that be nice?]

Unless he thought you would have fun stabbing people.

[Back to being worried. At least an invisible man is hard to stab.]

[queenofminiskirts]

Of course I wouldn't have fun stabbing people! I said already, didn't I? He was really weird!

[Why is this even a question???]

I'm not sure he knew how to be nice so somehow giving out hand made knives was the only thing he could think of!

[asano_san]

][Maybe she's not that scary herself, then. Keigo knows all about having weird people hanging around.]

How did you end up being around a crazy guy like that?

[queenofminiskirts]

I met him on the streets and started talking to him.

[Because that's what you do. She shrugged.]

And then he asked me to hold my hand out and after joking about how he sounded like a suspicious person handing out candy, I did and he gave me the knife. [Then the story cycles back to the part she already talked about.]

[asano_san]

You shouldn't just talk to people on the streets!

[Says the guy who just talked to her on the street.

But things are different here! Not like some Tokyo back alley he's imagining right now.]

You're lucky all he did was hand you a knife!