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[ open ] Quest Catch-all!

Who: Guren Ichinose & Various
Where: All around town
When: The month of September!
What: QUEST RELATED CATCH ALL. There's an open bee prompt since Guren is a red, so anyone is welcome even if you didn't plot with me! Newbies too, once they get in!
Warnings: None. Will add if necessary!

A. Bees to see - OPEN

[Guren feels as though he's been going a little easy on the quests lately. It's time to fix that. He's antsy, he's got an empty jar in one hand and his other on his sword, and he holds it up to anyone who might pass him by.]

[And with that simple line, they're off! Unless your character has any resistance, of course, but assuming they don't, Guren leads them right into the forest.]

B. Wildcard - OPEN

[If you want to hit Guren up for a different quest, even if he's a red, feel free! Try to ruin his day? Just see what he's up to? This is my generic space to say anyone can tag me even if I didn't plot things with them, so feel free, or hit me up at

zeloser to work something out, if you want!]

Closed prompts in the comments!

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[ACCORDING TO ALL KNOWN LAWS OF AVIATION, THERE'S NO WAY SMALL DOG SIZED BEES SHOULD BE ABLE TO FLY

It's a comical sight, honestly, but Guren doesn't have the time to truly appreciate it. As soon as she takes off, he rushes forward, slicing apart the one straggler that notices him and entering the hive.

From there, who knows what's happening? Well, he's scooping up as much honey as he can, but it seems that bees are smarter than you'd think. They didn't all leave, and Guren is juggling between scooping the honey and ducking out of the way of stingers.]

[ASH I S2G!!!!

Not all the dog sized bees want to hunt Okuni down, huh... The ones that are left are probably like what the HECK is this bee-stealing thot doing in this hive... Okuni's having a Time trying to dodge these bees and their cheater jrpg skills in the meantime.]

Hey -- you better not be taking your time on purpose!

[also DON'T GET STUNG BY THE JPRG SLEEP SPELL BEE (or do, so Okuni can go "i can't believe this is happening")]

I'm not! You're not drawing them all—!

[Guren sounds like he's busy, himself. It's a little muffled by how he's actually just full on cut his way into this hive, but there's angry buzzing and Guren's noises of effort, too. He's trying to focus on the jar, but he can sort of juggle the jar into one hand and reach for his sword with the other.

Swinging it around in here without completely destroying the hive is another issue. He stabs one bee, downs it, ducks another, but eventually, he gets stung.

It hurts, sure, but he's not all that worried about it at first.]

I think this is— [Enough, he was going to say, but something is hitting him. Slowly. His vision is spinning, and he blinks a few times, alarmed. Not poison, then, but...?]

Not good. Okuni— [That's all he gets out before he just, crashes. Falls right over, drops his sword and the jar and everything. Thankfully it doesn't break, but it's only most of the way filled. He was hoping to get it completely filled.]

[Okuni's least favorite words in the world are "not good", followed by her NAME!! Especially if said by the kind of person Okuni is sure would never call something 'not good' until he was half-dead from the exhaustion of trying to turn the situation around...

She immediately comes flying back to the hive, bees hot on her heels, but she doesn't care at this point -- she just sticks her head into the hive and sees Guren with his things scattered around him and just the sight of Guren on the floor of the hive without his sword in hand helps confirm her earlier panic.]

Guren! Hey -- !

[SHRIEKING AS SHE SCRAMBLES OVER TO HIM, a bee tries to skewer her face and she dodges, crouching down to stick her hand over Guren's face to check if he's breathing --
oh thank god, the relief that pounds through her chest is almost enough for her to stagger. She's seen him bleeding (seVERAL TIMES), wounded, barely able to keep on his feet from sickness, but there's something about seeing Guren just passed out that truly scared her for a moment...

She scoops up the half-filled jar and sticks it into her sleeve, then grabs Guren's sword and slides it into her obi -- then she grabs Guren himself by the ankles to drag him out of this hive fOR GOOD. A bee has the temerity to sting her on the shoulder, and she swings up her fan to kill it while swearing -- she can't carry him out like this.

so instead she just

pushes Guren out of the hive and watches him thud to the floor that's thankfully not far away but still, thanks Okuni. Escaping and defending herself from the angry bees is easier now, as Okuni snatches up a stick, lights it on fire with speed, and then chucks the whole thing straight into the hive. THERE, SUFFER!!!

Suffer as... Okuni resumes grabbing Guren by the ankles and dragging him some distance away from the burning hive and utter chaos that was their bee quest... She opens her mouth to yell Guren awake but wow,

that sting sure did Silence her, what the heck!!!

Okuni has no other way now... she reaches over and punches Guren in the arm to wake him up.... NICE]

[OW?

The punch does work, at least, since everything in him is struggling to wake up, anyway. The grogginess, unfortunately, will not leave him, and it takes way too much effort to open his eyes even halfway. He manages, though, groaning.]

What—?

[Happened?? Hello Okuni. He hasn't realized she's silent yet.]

[THANK GOD GUREN IS AWAKE, Okuni would throw her hands up into the air to say hallelujah if she could speak. Instead, she just looks vastly relieved, before she covers it up by looking cross and throwing up a hand to gesture at him (the non-stung one at least) as if this is answer enough. LOOK AT YOUR HONEY-COVERED SELF, GUREN!!!

It's not an answer at all, but Okuni is trying... She points to one of Guren's stings and then lifts one finger, then two, and three -- and then just looks at him expectantly as if he'll immediately understand that she's asking him how many times he got stung.]

[It's hilarious, but he's had a ton of practice in understanding charades with Dextera. He was good at that from the start, too. It's why they got so close! But...]

You're mute.

[The stings can do that, too? He eyes hers, unconcerned with his own, and tries (uselessly) to push himself up. It doesn't really work when he's fighting sleep.]

How many stings? One, I think. I don't know if I got more on the way down. [His eyes keep wanting to shut, and he gives up on sitting up.] I can barely stay awake. Are they close by? Following us?

[Oh, well damn, he understood her! Okuni's a little surprised at how easily he did that. She's used to silently communicating with her brother, but it feels strange to mime at Guren all the same.

She shakes her head at his question and slides a finger under her chin in the universal gesture of "DEAD". Then she shakes the half-filled jar out of her sleeve, and reaches over to scrape a glob of honey off Guren's........ hair.

Might as well get it done while Guren still looks sleepy, maybe she can get in a few more swipes before he yells at her.]

I guess it can't be helped.

[That this hive didn't make it. Well. He tried to be nice to the bees. That's disgusting though, and he makes a face at her doing that, but he only is able to sleepily swat at her once.]

Ugh, seriously? Make sure we have enough. Stop grabbing it from my hair.

[Okuni shrugs her shoulders as if to say ‘Your hair has so much in it though! It’s perfect, also you’re annoying even when you’re half-awake, huh?’. Truly, her single gesture conveyed all of that.

But she also leaves the rest of his hair alone and instead goes for his sleeves. SAFE!! And harder to swat at her from there.

It’s weird not being able to say anything to Guren who looks like he’s barely able to keep his eyes open, and possibly doubly weird for Guren that Okuni is being silent as the grave. She at least makes up for her lack of speech by her actions, like sometimes trying to pinch Guren to keep him awake.

Okuni closes the top once it’s full, then holds up the jar for Guren’s inspection. Is he still asleep! She snaps her fingers in front of his face, HEY GUREN]

Ugh—

[Yeah, he's still a sleepy boy, straining to open his eyes and shoving the jar back sluggishly.]

Yeah, yeah, that's good enough. Just give me a few minutes. [He just wants to Sleep... can't he just wait this off??]

[hmmm to quote yuu, "FUCK NO"

Okuni looks at him like she wants to say that, but instead she raises her hand to signal '5 minutes'. She'll take pity on him... also since this sleep is magically-induced and not the sign of something Bad, Okuni will let him snooze.

and she'd LEAVE like the punk she is, but they're still like on the outskirts of the forest. what if another giant horde of bees come buzzing through to avenge the hive Okuni set on fire... So she'll stay just for those five, sliding Guren's sword out of her belt and lying it next to him. with that done, she ends up probably picking flowers and arranging them in a circle around Guren like she's about to sacrifice him to the Elder gods. this is how Okuni cares.]

[Sure enough, he sleeps for those five minutes, falling deep enough to gently snore as he does. Look how cute he is while resting!

It can't last, though. He knows where they are, and his mind fights past the venom causing this enough to force himself to wake up again... Only to see her placing more of those flowers. He gives her a flat look, sitting up and slapping her wrist.]

Cut it out. [It's a struggle, but he can push himself to his feet with a little effort and minimal swaying, by now.]

Let's hurry out of here and call it done.

-- Hey, I wasn't even doing anything!

[WHY IS SHE GETTING WRIST SLAPPED for trying to sacrifice Guren to the elder gods?? wow

wait]

It wore off! Finally! [goodbye blessed silence, it was nice to have known you. she'll hand over this jar of honey to Guren, here] Here, most of this honey was from you, so you can have it.

[He takes that jar, immediately deadeyeing it.]

It's got hair in it.

[Disgusting. He'll take care of that later, he guesses.] Thanks, I guess. Come on, I said let's go, so let's go already.

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