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OPEN MINGLE
WHO: EVERYONE...
WHERE: the garden area generally!
WHEN: all month but particularly evenings
WHAT: pumpkin carving & trick or treat. also the skeletons are like There i guess
WARNINGS: probably badly carved pumpkins
He's also supplied carving tools (finally, a fucking use for his Pile Of Knives, thank you harpy quest) and some paint so people can trace out what they want to carve or like...just Go For It. Or paint the pumpkins. The world is your oyster.
It seems like the entire garden area (which takes up maybe two plots of land at this point) has been surrounded with a crude and somewhat shoddy fence, but it seems to be capable of keeping the skeletons out of the garden. It does look like the shambling skeleton horde sort of walked all over the strawberry patch before Dave put up skeleton defenses, though. Bummer.
The trick or treat trail has an actual trail with places for treat givers to hand out treats, with little signs posted in the various areas. There's the Strawberry Kingdom (with sadly trampled strawberries), the Onion Grove, and so on and so forth. People can even pick up really shitty maps for the trick or treat trail, even though you can literally see the entire thing just by glancing. The map sells the experience.
You can:
1) Carve pumpkins! There even seems to be some sort of pumpkin carving contest going on? The prize is a pet rock, though, so like. Maybe don't get too excited.
2) Paint pumpkins, if you're a loser who doesn't want to carve them.
3) Hand out treats!
4) Accept treats!
5) Pull tricks if you are so inclined?
6) Shore up the garden defenses if a shambling skeleton manages to finally knock over some fence. Please protect the plants, we eat those.
7) Just like, gaze at the shambling skeleton army outside the fences. It's a very nice view, maybe.
8) Do whatever you want, basically.
WHERE: the garden area generally!
WHEN: all month but particularly evenings
WHAT: pumpkin carving & trick or treat. also the skeletons are like There i guess
WARNINGS: probably badly carved pumpkins
He's also supplied carving tools (finally, a fucking use for his Pile Of Knives, thank you harpy quest) and some paint so people can trace out what they want to carve or like...just Go For It. Or paint the pumpkins. The world is your oyster.
It seems like the entire garden area (which takes up maybe two plots of land at this point) has been surrounded with a crude and somewhat shoddy fence, but it seems to be capable of keeping the skeletons out of the garden. It does look like the shambling skeleton horde sort of walked all over the strawberry patch before Dave put up skeleton defenses, though. Bummer.
The trick or treat trail has an actual trail with places for treat givers to hand out treats, with little signs posted in the various areas. There's the Strawberry Kingdom (with sadly trampled strawberries), the Onion Grove, and so on and so forth. People can even pick up really shitty maps for the trick or treat trail, even though you can literally see the entire thing just by glancing. The map sells the experience.
You can:
1) Carve pumpkins! There even seems to be some sort of pumpkin carving contest going on? The prize is a pet rock, though, so like. Maybe don't get too excited.
2) Paint pumpkins, if you're a loser who doesn't want to carve them.
3) Hand out treats!
4) Accept treats!
5) Pull tricks if you are so inclined?
6) Shore up the garden defenses if a shambling skeleton manages to finally knock over some fence. Please protect the plants, we eat those.
7) Just like, gaze at the shambling skeleton army outside the fences. It's a very nice view, maybe.
8) Do whatever you want, basically.
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The inside of his pumpkin is scraped clean now - scraped with so much power that the walls of the pumpkin got rather thin in places. (Oops.)
Taking up a knife Tonbokiri again gives cutting the pumpkin his complete, focused attention. Unfortunately this has the side effect of making the conversation die out, but by imitating Asano he's making good progress on the eyes.
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He doesn't hold it against him, though; it's just a moment of internal bitterness. His hand would have never fit inside the hole Keigo cut, anyway.
Keigo's eyes come together nicely, and it looks like Tonbokiri is doing just as well.
"You're a natural at this!" He thinks he may be, too, but the supposed expert keeps that to himself.
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His cheeks feel warm- the compliment about his carving, even if it's a pumpkin and not wood, touches him more deeply than he thought it would.
"Thank you. My former master enjoyed wood carving later in life. Perhaps I was able to carry that part of him with me."
Focusing on the positive, there... but that is fine. There is no need to dwell on anything else right now.
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"I'll bet you'd be even better with wood! When you cut off a piece of wood, it doesn't try to take the rest of the stick with it." He had a nervous moment when the inside of his second eye didn't want to come out and almost pulled the pumpkin forehead along with it.
Keigo starts in on the nose, making a similar triangle to the eyes.
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"... I don't know that I will carve wood. But thank you. If I do, I shall show it to you."
He gives Asano a small smile before returning to carving his pumpkin. Should the nose be smaller than the eyes...?
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They continue their nose carving in companionable silence, and it's right as Keigo looks up at Tonbokiri again to give some suggestions about adding the mouth, when he sees it. The skeleton army!
Okay, it's two skeletons, but more than one is a group and a group is practically an army!
He screams and throws his pumpkin aside to point at the invaders.
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Get back, Asano-dono!
[Not that he needs to tell the boy that, but he says it as he strides forward to meet the... slowly lumbering attackers. They have weapons but...]
...What is this?
[As he unsheathes his spear he pauses for a beat, watching the skeletons carefully for signs of aggression.]
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Why is he asking what it is, though? Isn't it obvious?
"It's the skeleton army! Like the quest said! What are you waiting for? Fend them off!"
Also like the quest said.
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So best to dispatch these now. He strides forward and with quick strokes of his spear cuts the skeletons to pieces.
Tonbokiri remains in his battle stance for only a moment more before blinking down at the remains, bewildered.
"That was... nothing. They offered no resistance - they didn't even defend."
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"I think I could have fought them off." It's not like he's going to go out looking for skeletons to fight now, but it looked like a solid push could have done them in.
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For while he had been fending off the two, it seems they'd caught the attention of a third, which is now lumbering up behind Asano.
The thing is still armed, so Tonbokiri is ready to jump in at a moment's notice, but he wants to see if Asano-dono can take down one of these skeleton 'invaders'.
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"Ah!" Keigo flails out with another yell. It's pure reaction, and not an attempt to go on the attack. Nevertheless, the swing of his arm neatly decapitates the skeleton and it crumples to the ground like its army-mates.
"I did it?"
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"You did it! Well done, you also repelled the skeleton army!"
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He really did do it! He doesn't care how it happened, the important thing is he defeated a skeleton.
"Two quests in one day! Not bad." If they get back to the pumpkin carving. Where did his pumpkin go?
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He joins Asano in retrieving the pumpkins and... Tonbokiri lets out a sound of dismay as he picks up his.
"Asano-dono, the side smashed in when I dropped it..." (The walls of the pumpkin got scraped way too thin, after all.)
He holds up the pumpkin for the boy to inspect. Although it's not an out-right hole, it is clearly broken and one of the eyes is damaged ... It looks like such a mess, Tonbokiri is rather downcast over it.
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"I'm making a cyclops pumpkin!" He stares intently at Tonbokiri's bashed in side. "Maybe you can push the side back out on yours, and we'll find something to make an eye patch with to cover up the messed up eye and make it a pirate!"
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"Ohhh! That's the professional Asano-dono for you! With your guidance, we shall not only finish, but it shall be even better."
At least, he has a vague idea about the pirate thanks to the town's books, so he has equal confidence about the Cyclops.
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"Eye patch, eye patch, eye patch... How about some paint on a leaf?"
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Putting down his knife, he turns his attention to Asano's musings.
"That sounds good. Certainly better than just a grey leaf. I'll search for one of the right size now." One big enough to cover the damaged eye shouldn't be hard to find.
Sure enough, it's not long before he comes back with a rounded leaf. He holds it up to his pumpkin and looks towards Asano-dono for approval.
"Would this do?"
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"Yeah, that's exactly like I was thinking!" But now there's another problem. "I don't know how to make it stick to the pumpkin." He doesn't think he's ever seen any glue around here.
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"There, it will stay like that."
(Leave it to the spear to think of stabbing it?)
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"Two fine pumpkins!"
For some definition of fine.
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"You are satisfied with my first attempt at carving a pumpkin, Asano-sensei?"
It's not as teasing as it might seem- Tonbokiri really is looking for affirmation from the one with experience.
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"It looks good to me! The only reason it's not perfect is because of those stupid skeletons!"
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"Thank you. My first time carving a pumpkin is a success because of you. ... So, now what do we do with them? Leave them here?"
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