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[tropism]

Who: giorno et al. some toplevels specific to people but the log is otherwise OTA.
Where: everywhereeee
When: september
What: catch-all log!!! check out the headers for more info.
Warnings: nnnnone atm.



A QUEST

FOR ZELDA: FAIRIES

[ when he meets with her, finally, his brows are furrowed as he thinks about the forums again, and then he asks, ]

Did you read the other one? About 'ruining someone's day'.



FOR MICHAEL: BEES

[ setting up meetings like these are quite common now and he's starting to settle in their routine. he feels, if nothing else, like he's a bounty hunter for hire. it's really more a lateral move than anything else.

still, many things aren't what they were and finding a routine is one of the ways to make them bearable. so. here he was. doing another quest. ]

I'll share the reward with you. They always give us rather interesting things in return.


OPEN: QUEST 27 + ANYTHING ELSE

[ if you wanna try your hand with this one, go ahead! giorno can be found wandering here and there, most notably the community gardens, the library, or tending to the things he's growing around his house. you might also find him near the waters, just brooding and generally making crappy sandcastles idk. whatever you want!

ETA. i'm all good with the fairies quest, i won't be taking up anyone on that anymore! ]

FARMVILLE CRAP

[ if you've got anything you wanna talk to him about the farm, hit him up! from this post giorno has included a set of directions to his place so you can stop by and chat anytime. i've got permission from the mods to have the farm set up in an open area in flavo but if you got any other ideas hit me up at ilium @ plurk or pm me. u_u

this won't be a monthly thing, but if you wanna do something related to it i can set up something every now and then, just let me know. ideally i think the farm would take about a month and a half to get set up ...! ]

OTHER

[ this is open all september so if you wanna do something that's not in the options above, just let me know, let's work something out. ]

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Quest 26

[glaciers]

[Here they go again, doing the quests that popped up on the board. Still, this can't be as stressful as the pit quest. It's better than just sitting around and doing nothing.

He looks over at the first person who happens to cross his path as he walks towards the forest.]

Want to defeat the fairies with me?

[tropism]

Why not. I've never seen them in person before. Have you?

[ defeating the fairies sounds positively shakespearean. ]

me

[withwisdom]

I hope that isn't a request.

[ mostly teasing, but giorno seems like he'd be the type to do it just out of the sheer curiosity. but anyway, she has her bow slung behind her back, and she'll lead the way to the forest. ]

henlo

[tropism]

[ he laughs lightly. ] It's not. I'd be very sad if that came to pass, especially since I've met so many interesting people since I came here.

It's just an odd thing to turn into a quest. How do you reward someone for doing that?

[glaciers]

I think they were there in the pit? I don't know, I was busy whenever I ended up there.

[Does he count this as revenge? They might not even be the same fairies.]

hewwo??

[withwisdom]

I'd be more welcomed to being perplexed toward it if I wasn't so annoyed at its existence. Quests should encourage the growth of our bonds, not try to dismantle them.

[ seriously, why put people through it? she's usually very adamant about quests needing to be complete, but frankly she'll be disappointed if anyone actually completes it. ]

[tropism]

Really? I didn't see them at all. Must've gotten lucky.

[ instead, the last time he was in the pit, there were hornets. and the reason they were there was because he put them there for poor rin to suffer through. but he doesn't say it at all, and anyway nobody has to know he condemned someone to being stung just because he can. ] Fairies use magic, right? Wonder what kind.

nerd

[tropism]

[ well ya better not be disappointed in the next couple of days. ]

Seems to me like someone put it as an exit, then. [ rather thoughtfully: ] For someone who either would want to preserve themselves or rid themselves of a relationship, this is a good way to absolve them of responsibility.

[withwisdom]

[ that's her secret, giorno: she's always disappointed. ]

...You're not wrong. But then I would question the motivations of the person in question far past the simple completion of a quest.

[ the way she sees it, it would turn "wanting to complete for the sake of completing" to "an act of cowardice." ]

[glaciers]

They were very loud. Apparently they like fighting... or just watching us beat each other up.

[It'd be good for them to get a taste of their own medicine then. He doesn't have to feel particularly bad when he freezes them all solid.]

Illusions, I think? Maybe there's more than just that.

[tropism]

[ a shrug. ]

You never know what'll push someone to hurt someone else. Who knows, maybe they'll find a middle ground in the end and things will be better.

This town is very small - you can't just avoid someone here forever. Even if they ruined your day.

[withwisdom]

Precisely why we shouldn't be making a concentrated effort to do so.

[ ruining someone's day by accident? fair, maybe something happens and it hurts, that's forgivable. an intentional act of malice is not. ]

I want to hope no one will do it. Then again, we can't predict how everyone will behave. Frustrating as it is.

[tropism]

[ a sigh. ] Well, there were so many of them watching, back then. It took me a while to get out of there.

I don't mind payback. I just think it's odd we're going after them when there were many different creatures that day watching. [ rather thoughtfully: ] Do they forget faces easily? I hope so.

Anyway - we should hurry. [ a frown. ] I don't like staying here longer than we need to.

[tropism]

Don't think about that right now.

[ because they're going in deep in the forest and the thicket of trees is getting more and more dense. the sunlight right now is peeking through the leaves and branches and it's a warm feeling, but for who knows how long. ]

[withwisdom]

[ frown ]

You're the one who brought it up.

[ he is just the oddest boy. one moment he can be sweet, and the next he can be rude. but he is right that it's better to focus on the path ahead. especially as they start getting closer in and she feels the sensation of being watched. ]

Tell me, will your power come in good use in combat?

[tropism]

[ yes, well -

giorno purses his lips thinly. ]

Yes. [ a pause. ] Though what that means against fairies, who knows. I suppose we'll just find out.

[withwisdom]

...They're already here. Stay sharp.

[ she wouldn't have asked him to come here with her if she didn't have some trust in his ability. carefully she moves her bow up to the front and grips it, awaiting an attack. ]

[glaciers]

I got out fast the first time. The second was more of a fight. [He's just blunt about everything. It's easier that way.]

I don't think anybody I've ever met has forgotten my face. [It's unfortunately striking, with the split color hair and the huge scar over his left eye.] Maybe they don't pay that much attention to humans.

[At the prompting, Shouto just starts walking right into the forest. Getting right down to business, it seems. Now all they need to do is find one of the little nuisances.]

[tropism]

[ giorno moves in front of her, just to allow her to have her distance. he can hear them - loud shrieking noises and laughing that sort of reminds him of human voices but aren't quite so. it's a weird pitch. it's not at all the right tone. it seems to float and slither through the air in many directions like a fog, probably part of their magic, probably because they're flying.

when a few of them start making their appearance and darting in and out of his sight, giorno's stand whips out in a blur of gold. he places his hand on a sturdy-looking tree and waits until more of them get closer and closer until the tree he's holding on to seems to -

- fall apart. like a cloud of brown smoke, it fills and spreads out through the forest as an angry haze. hornets swarm and mob whatever fairies come by into a spot that makes it easier for his stand to come by, snatch one of them in the air, and punch it until it's unconscious. (and dead? maybe? he doesn't care.) ]

They won't be able to hide at all, so I hope you have enough arrows - [ he has to dodge an angry one throwing magic his way. ] - that was close.

[tropism]

I hope they mob us, [ giorno says thoughtfully. ] It'll be easier to take them down in one go.

[ the forest is full of trees that reach up to the sky and cover the ground with shadows and noises that fill the air with something else that's not quite normal. there is the regular birdsong but there is also something else. the quiet skittering of some animal here and there that's not quite what they're familiar with. the last time he was here, he nearly died being led astray by a harpy-looking creature with a lovely voice. ]

What's your - quirk, again? [ what an odd name. ]

[glaciers]

[Shouto looks around, but honestly he's a city kid. He just doesn't have the skill set for tracking down small game- or anything, really. Might as well keep his guard up before they run into something actively malicious.]

Half cold half hot... or just ice and fire.

[One of those is much faster to say.]

Fire from my left side, ice from my right.

[tropism]

[ well that's odd. like somebody stuck a power chip onto this kid and changed their mind last minute and now he has to deal with having two. ]

That's pretty useful. Was it difficult for you to train? [ since he'd have to deal with two elements at the same time. ]

[glaciers]

[If only it was that simple.

He just shakes his head.]

Learning how to use them wasn't hard. It's mostly instinct. [The training itself was hellish, but that's for a completely different reason.] ... It's hard to use them at the same time. [Read: He cannot use them at the same time.]

[tropism]

[ you could break somebody with that, giorno thinks. he remembers how they tortured mario zucchero and giorno thinks that exposing someone alternately to hot and cold can just physically ruin them, especially if using extreme temperatures to make the body melt and fold. how useful he'd make something out of that for passione.

giorno slips his hands into his pockets and hums. ]

I'm sure the older and more experienced you get, the more opportunities you'll have in making things work for you.

[ in the distance - once they move further up and in - the familiar sound of something not quite human. ] .... shall we follow that?

[glaciers]

[Shouto is unhappily and completely aware of just how dangerous his quirk can be. He can chill the air to extreme temperatures and then expose it to heat, causing explosions. He could trap somebody in ice and leave them to die or lose all their limbs.

Ever since a certain encounter, Shouto tries to be more careful. Less casually dismissive even villain's lives.]

I've been training to use them both.

[He looks in the direction of the noise.] It's our best bet.