awashlogs | [OPEN/CATCH-ALL] I need out of my, out of my, out of my head

WHO: Prompto Argentum (#FFF59D), open!
WHERE: Bluo's harbor, Flavo's church, around Chroma
WHEN: Throughout August
WHAT: Ship-building, shooting practice, and whatever else!
WARNINGS: Will warn in threads

i. [QUEST 22]: Boatboatboat-boat boat-boatboat

Mmmmmmh, I don't really know anything about this stuff...

[But Prompto's a yellow, so in one way, he's as vital to the quest as the wood, saws, and shipbuilding know-how are--and that hopefully, whoever's asked him for help can provide. All he's got is his healthy twenty-year-old body and his camera.

He hums another long, uncertain note and turns his camera around so it displays a picture of a gondola.]

Something like this is too complicated, right? But I don't even know how to build something that floats. [He twists his mouth to one side and then sighs.] And it's not something you can figure out just by looking, huh.

ii. [SHOOTING PRACTICE]: Shoot for the moon and you'll probably hit a mutant duck

[Mornings are a wonderful time to wake up and smell the gunpowder. Prompto's offered to teach a couple people now how to use firearms safely, and the noise of it could very well draw the attention of those who haven't asked. He's set up back behind the Church and put up some warning signs in orange: DANGER: GUNS! There are empty cans full of bullet holes everywhere if someone wants to try for a smaller target, but he's painted some wide rings on trees, too. Sorry, trees.

Sometimes, when he doesn't have lessons to teach, Prompto can be found practicing trick shots of his own or re-familiarizing himself with the sniper rifle he brought out of his "home" during last month's event.]

iii. [WILDCARD]: Gonna be your man in motion

[Prompto can be found pretty regularly jogging through Chroma in the early morning. After that, he usually spends some time in that one empty cottage in Flavo, where at least his attempts to learn how to cook are no longer such a horrible fire hazard. He takes Sparky the baby chocobo around Bluo for walkies and socialization; Sparky's gotten to a friendly and curious age and may trot right up to say hello. Or kweh-lo.

Flower crowns are also happening, if that's your bag.

Point is, Prompto's out and about and available for whatever it is you need.]

iv. [WILDCARD x2]: All I need is a pair of wheels

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[That is the weirdest boat Roxas has ever seen, but at least it's a boat? Except...]

Where would we put the sail? Can't we just build a raft?

[He knows how to build a raft!]

Rafts have sails? ...Would a raft be easier?

[Prompto is so bad at this, he doesn't even have a concept of which boat is more complicated.]

Yeah. And we can put walls on it and make it look more like a boat!

[Looking at the materials they have, Roxas tilts his head.]

We need enough boards to hold two people.

So, like... four boards?

[Have we mentioned how bad Prompto is at this yet?]

... that's really small. We need more than that.

[Hmmm... Roxas tries to think about it but might need something else.]

I need paper to draw it out.

Uhhh.

[Sparkle-flash! Now there is paper, or at least one of the fairy tale storybooks floating around town. Prompto offers it to Roxas.]

Will that work? The inside of the back cover's probably blank.

[Roxas takes it, looking rather offended.]

I'm not gonna write in a book!

Ughh, I should've asked that guy for a notebook from his high school...

[Scrunching his face up, his eyes go a little distant as he keeps looking through his belongings in the Armiger. Finally, he finds--uhh, looks like a Chocobos sign from the friendship tournament way back when.]

Will this work?

[huff huff don't suggest he ruin another book]

.... better than the book, but this looks precious. Are you sure?

Yeah, it's fine! We can just ask the student council to put together another friendship tournament! We can see more colors around now, too, so we can make better signs.

Okay... [That means he's going to draw up a plan for the raft-boat. Or try.] I hope this makes sense.

[Akira looks just as lost as Prompto as he looks out at the harbor like it will provide a clue. Maybe this sort of quest wasn't the best way to randomly meet someone, but completing quests usually leads to good (or at least not bad) things happening, so he wants to do as many of them as he can.

And since he's a red, he needs a yellow for that, and so here we are.

The only problem is, the only boat Akira has ever been in is a swan boat (and a metaphysical representation of someone's desire to rule Japan but that's beside the point). He looks at the picture thoughtfully.]

Yeah... that's pretty elaborate. [It even has a motor! No way they can pull that off.]

Maybe we should just find something that can float and add sides to it.

Something that can float? Like... a tree?

[Prompto... do trees... float... do you mean a log...

How obvious is it that this boy is from a city?]

[Akira is from a small town but he's not exactly used to rural living. Still, he gets what Prompto is trying to say... he thinks.]

Like some logs for a raft?

Ohmygod, what is it, [comes a hushed whisper when Prompto is walking around with his baby chocobo.

Hunk stops and stares because no... it's so cute. What the heck.

It's kind of like a chicken, he guesses, but chickens don't exactly look like that. He'll just gawk, don't even worry about it.]

Huh? [Who's that whispering, what're they whispering about--ahhh, Prompto knows that look.] Oh, this guy?

[He brightens and immediately scoops up his baby and trots over so Hunk can see him. Sparky seems unperturbed, at least. Tired pop star voice: he's used to the attention.]

He's a chocobo chick! We named him Sparky. You haven't seen the big ones around? We've got three adults around, too.

I haven't. I can't believe I haven't.

[Hunk is giving Sparky googly eyes because look at this tiny adorable creature. He wants a million cameras or phones to take approximately one million pictures.]

How big are the big ones?

[ Noctis is squinting at the photo and the gondola, and as much as he appreciates the image, he knows that there are plenty of limitations. Like the fact that Noctis is probably only really qualified to build a raft with edges, for one. ]

Does a raft count as a boat?

[OPEN/CATCH-ALL] I need out of my, out of my, out of my head

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