[ SEPTEMBER CATCH-ALL ] we will welcome summer’s ghost.

[passio]

WHO: dextera and the crew
WHERE: all over!
WHEN: september… the whole 30 days.
WHAT: quests and whatever else crops up over the course of the month!
WARNINGS: nothing yet!


( i’ll put top levels in the comments for a variety of things, and as always, if you want to do something, you can PM this journal or ping me on plurk! )

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MINATO | QUEST 26

[passio]

[ what’s better to clear the air than a little fairy destruction? with any luck, it won’t be as gruesome as some of the past “defeat” quests have been, though dextera knows better than to hope for too much when it comes to this town and fighting.

all the same, he and minato have coordinated this little outing, and dextera can only hope that neither of them will be too terribly enchanted.

once minato arrives at the designated meeting place, there’s one other little thing that somehow has never gone addressed between them. dextera doesn’t mind it, of course, or else he wouldn’t have invited minato along on this journey, but he feels like he needs to mention it. ]

…can you fight?

[messianic]

[The real marvel is that in six months together, this has never come up... neither has the Evoker, Minato is starting to realize with something a bit more like dread.

Uh.

Hm...]

... Yes, I can.

[Minato pauses, hands shoved deeply into his pockets...and then he sighs.]

I should warn you about it first, though, before we get deep into this.

[passio]

[ …hm. that sounds ominous.

dextera doesn’t want to make any assumptions, though, so he slowly nods—willing to hear minato out on whatever has him concerned. ]

What’s wrong?

AKIRA | QUEST 26

[passio]

[ “defeat the fairies.”

it sounds straightforward enough. dextera noticed just a little while ago that yusuke had disappeared from the town, and although he wasn’t close with yusuke, nor is he close with akira, it feels like he should make condolences in his own way. it’s too awkward to message akira with something like “i’m sorry for your loss,” but a quest is a good reason for anyone to get together.

so he waits for akira at the edge of the forest. ]

[theshowsover]

[Akira has been trying not to dwell on Yusuke's disappearance too much. Of course he went looking, just in case the town was messing with them, but he hadn't been successful. Yusuke's text had gone dark, as well.

Hopefully he went home. Akira prays for that.

He shows up at the forest on time, raising a hand in greeting. He's ready for fairie fighting, though he currently looks unarmed and a bit sloppy.]

[passio]

…?

[ did dextera pick a bad time to meet up? akira surely would have told him if he wasn’t feeling well… or maybe he wouldn’t have. dextera doesn’t actually know enough about the type of person akira is to make a judgment like that. ]

Are you ready?

[ a sincere question. ]

RYO | QUEST 24

[passio]

[ this should be easy. it should be, but nothing is ever easy in chroma.

ryo is the smartest person he knows, though, and a red to boot—he’s the perfect person to ask along on this quest, dextera for once being the one to reach out. maybe he’s guilty for ratting ryo out to guren, but whatever the reason is, he’s even more willing than usual to do whatever ryo asks of him. ]

Do we need anything else?

[ he brought a jar? ]

[apocalypticist]

[ Unsurprisingly, Ryo's wealth of knowledge extends to bees. Not mutant bees, but he has a general idea on what they need to do to get their hands on the honey without dying horribly to a swarm of angry bees. ]

A knife to open a hole in the hive, and a container to light a fire in. [ And he's brought both, so let's go. ]

Smoke will mask the pheromones that are released by guard bees or injured bees, interrupting the colony's defensive response.

[passio]

[ fire… it sounds cruel, doesn’t it? ]

…

[ dextera doesn’t feel like arguing, though. he can hear ryo’s cold response in his head now, saying something about how this is a quest and this is the most efficient and caring about the bees would get in the way. something like that.

so he just nods. ]

Have you done this before?

I'm here for you

[tosa]

(It's been a while since their last (and first) fight in the pit and this really means two things. First, they've had plenty of time to rest and second, Mutsu still remembers the offer to fight again. You can decide which of those two is most important but the latter is definitely why he shows up at Dextera's home ready to start something,)

Dextera! What're ya doing right now? Nothing? (Because it sure looks like nothing to him.) Let's go!

(Ever seen those old martial arts movies where some punk shows up at someone else's dojo looking for a fight? This is it.)

you saved my life

[passio]

Ah?

[ let’s go—where to?

he’s not opposed to running off on an adventure with mutsunokami, but it takes him a few moments to remember the promise they made the last time they interacted. he should grab his swords. god, he’s not even ready!! ]

Hold on. I need—my weapon.

[ it’ll be embarrassing if he’s misunderstanding the reason mutsu came to visit. ]

[tosa]

(He's not oppposed to running off on an adventure with Mutsunokami... how sweet.

He doesn't mind Dextera's confusion and doesn't even register it as confusion. In typical Mutsunokami fashion, he's ten miles ahead and not going back. He will, however, wait for Dextera to catch up and he does it!! He knew you could, Dex.)

Right, right, that's what ya said so go get it!

(SWORD FIGHT SWORD FIGHT SWORD FIGHT)

quest 27 in the best way

[osuni]

[It's a lovely day in the neighborhood to put foolproof actions in place, so whaddya know, Okuni is doing just that with her favorite type of trap to date -- the rope snare! She's set it close to the well in order to take advantage of all that greenery that grows around it, otherwise she'd have probably put it closer to civilization. But this is Fine too.

It's nicely made and more importantly, very nicely disguised -- perfect for any innocents who like to bumble around town for fun... Did Okuni learn at all from the last time she made traps and watched people fall into them??? Well, the rope snare trap shouldn't actually hurt anyone this time around!! Okuni is doing her best!!

She's also safely hidden some distance away from this particular trap, watching and waiting like the gremlin she is. Soon... soon!! SHE CAN FEEL IT, her punk radar is on high alert right about now!!]

1/2

[passio]

[ dextera has gotten unused to sneaking around in his time in this town. although in the tower, he’d become practiced at keeping his footsteps light around sleeping monsters, and he’d been all too aware of a variety of traps—especially the explosive, painful kind—this town’s brand of trickery usually doesn’t come in the form of any of that.

so he’s the perfect victim, when he’s checking the well since people often show up around this time. he has no idea anything is about to happen to him, right up until the moment where he steps on the trap and it wraps around his leg. ]

2/2, RIP

[passio]

[ in one embarrassing instant, dextera pitches forward—the snare has a surprising kick, and when he was resisting the pull anyway, naturally trying to continue his walk, he yelps and goes facefirst into the grey shrubbery around the well. ]

Aahugh?!

[ and then… he doesn’t move? ]

[osuni]

[Okuni will give that performance a 9/10, there was just not enough screaming or flailing happening to give it a perfect score, but she busts out of her hiding place CACKLING ANYWAY]

It worked! Well, I knew it would, but I haven't made this kind in forever so I thought I'd be a little rusty at it.

{Okuni just unabashedly revealing her crimes... She peeks at Dex's face just to check if he's maybe fallen unconscious....]

LUST WINGS (not clickbait—he’s horny)

[passio]

[ dextera knows, based on the blindness induced by his last pair of wings, that it is probably not a good idea to touch them. he needs to find out what they do, though, and he can shake it much quicker than guren could if he asked guren to try them for him.

as soon as he removes the pins from the board, he knows exactly what it is they do. he’s been here before.

the edges of his vision go pink, and there’s a seductive, welcoming laugh in the back of his mind—all at once, he can feel heat rushing to the core of his stomach and his pulse throbbing just under his skin. not here. not now.

a wing flutters gently to the floor, and leliel—who honestly just looks like a sexy woman moving really strangely to him—snaps it up before making off with it like she’s sure it’s food that needs to be hers, right now. his tendency to feed her from his hand at all hours of the day is currently backfiring on him, and he’s not even going to stop to consider whether or not his chicken can be affected by the lust. he can’t stop to consider it, honestly, because for him it’s just a matter of pursuing her and trying to get that wing back.

(in his haste, he fails to notice that she drops it almost as soon as she takes it, because it tastes bad.) ]

Hhhah…

[ by the time he reaches the outside, he’s still holding one wing, and there’s a desperate—for multiple reasons—look in his eyes. ]

…



( it’s exactly what it says on the tin; dextera is horny and handsy and this is a shitpost to the highest degree……… there will probably be a lot of touching but in an anime hijinks kind of way )

[apocalypticist]

[ Conveniently and unfortunately, Ryo happens to be on a walk in Bluo as these events are set in motion. When he sees Dextera, alarm bells immediately start sounding in his head—something about that look in his eyes seems... wrong. ]

Dextera.

[ He doesn't realize it yet, but this walk was a Mistake. ]

[passio]

[ dextera vaguely recognizes the voice, but really, his senses are so overwhelmed by everything else that he can’t really tell it’s ryo. what he sees before him is simply a beautiful woman—familiar, but slightly different, her blonde hair let loose and falling feathered around her face. ]

…

[ his face is flushed pink and he stares with a look that’s painfully… obvious? he’s undressing ryo with his eyes, here, except it’s not ryo so much as he’s seeing this woman who looks vaguely like ryo slip off her kimono. ]

[swordfucker]

—Dex.

[He can recognize a few things about the way Dextera looks right now, and that's... odd, considering he's just now walking up and Dextera is weirdly standing outside of his house. Isn't he normally just feeding chickens out here?

Whatever it is, Guren thinks they should probably figure it out inside, and so he moves over, putting a hand to his back to spin him around and usher him back towards the door.]

Come on, inside. What happened? What're you doing out here, anyway? [He'll see the wing... in a bit.]

[passio]

[ yeah, that’s guren’s voice, but his sensations are all mixed up. even guren’s firm hand on his back feels more like a gentle caress, and dextera wobbles slightly on his feet. leliel has escaped and is hopefully not half as horny as he is, but now his world has narrowed to this incident, right here. ]

Ah…

[ that sure is a laden sigh, and with guren pushing him, he’s almost boneless. his head lolls back, gaze sleepy and drunk, as he looks up at guren’s face. kissable… ]

[scooptimistic]

[ Maya is at least an adult who maybe should be used to the occasional lusty stare, but it's been way too long and it's Dextera, so when she catches sight of him on her way back from the harbor, it doesn't immediately click.

Actually, she just looks concerned. ]

Dextera? What's wrong?

[passio]

[ from maya’s mouth, it’s genuinely concerned. to dextera’s ears, combined with the coquettish smile he sees on the mysterious, alluring beauty’s face, it just sounds teasing.

she wants him to come to her, right? ]

…

[ with one hand still gripping the wing, he reaches out—woozy and lust-drunk, making the saddest little paw for her chest which is definitely not even anywhere close to his hand. they’re still pretty far apart. ]

[whereabout]

[ Who's outside and looking after the rest of the chickens? This guy.

And thankfully for those chickens, they've mostly retreated back to enjoy their freshly cleaned coop now that Joshua's finished sweeping it out, disposing of chicken shit, and generally making it clean and nice and ready to be messed up again. The chickens have a job to do, messing it back up!

They're gonna be glad they missed this, probably. ]

Hey, Dex. Is...something wrong?

[ He looks like he really needs...who knows what? Something? ]

[withwisdom]

[ it's about a day or two after their talk at the harbor and zelda's spirits are far better than the whole last week combined. she has an empty basket in arm and is planning to head to the woods to lizard hunt, but that gets cut short when she sees a friend out in the street. she can spare some minutes to chat. ]

Good day to you, Dextera. [ she says with a rise of her hand up. ] Have you been well?

[ nothing bad in the past couple days hopefully? ]