October Catch-all!

[good_ideas]

WHO: Shiho and you! Yes, you!
WHERE: A few places
WHEN: During October!
WHAT: Questing, shenanigans, let's just do things
WARNINGS: Shiho with a bigger knife than strictly necessary for carving pumpkins


a. pumpkin option
[Shiho is not an artistic person by nature. Being able to borrow the tools of an artist and using psychometry to make really good forgeries was not the same as art.

Which is why she tried, destroyed her first attempt and is now sitting on the porch of her new house in Ruga, surrounded by pumpkins with a message scribbled over the front of one (with a knife sticking out of it):]

Stupid Squash Free to A Good Home
Knife Sold Separately

[Actually the knife is just stuck. Come laugh at her! (If you don't value your life...) Or offer to teach her maybe?]

b. the prompt where skeletons are only about half a step up from ghosts
[The scariest thing about the skeletons was definitely that they shouldn't be able to move.

Shiho could handle a real skeleton. Or even a partially skeletonized anything. But dealing with something moving around that shouldn't be able to?

She's out, rounding a corner to get away. And as she does? She runs right into you and pulls back with a scream, closing her eyes and pulling gun on you. At least she hasn't pulled the trigger...?

c. the sacrificial option
[Maybe you were just minding your business somewhere. But either way Shiho is coming up to you with a smile:]

I need you to be the witness for my sacrifice.

[She's carrying a small bag which seems... suspiciously bulky? (It's one of her flower crowns, dried and carefully preserved for the past month but now? She's going to use it.)]

c. wildcard option!
[I'm up to doing anything, honestly. Maybe they can clean the library since someone apparently started waving their swords around in there? Let me know either on plurk or discord!]

Comments

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[troubadamsel]

[wh... WHY WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT]

Pardon me?! Did you just say... sacrifice?

[good_ideas]

[Shiho raises the bag with a cheerful smile:]

Yes? What did you think I said?

[troubadamsel]

What in the world are you doing?!

[VERY CONCERNED]

[good_ideas]

Sacrificing something~

[This is so funny]

[troubadamsel]

[THIS IS NOT FUNNY]

For the love of... What are you sacrificing?!

[good_ideas]

[Where's your sense of fun and adventure, Maribelle!!

Shiho keeps smiling, fishing around in the bag for a moment longer than strictly necessary before very, very slowly pulling out a:


Flower crown~]

What did you think I was sacrificing?

[troubadamsel]

... Giving someone a present is hardly a sacrifice! You scared me!

[good_ideas]

But that's how the quests were putting it, right? Sacrifice something. And I'm going to throw this into the well.

[It would feel kind of like littering if she didn't actually like this flower crown a lot.]

[troubadamsel]

You could have worded it much better!

[hmph.]

... If you're going to sacrifice that, they'd have better give you something great in return.

[good_ideas]

But I was trying to be misleading. [For no other reason than because she thought it would be funny.]

And I better get something good for this. [After all, she's going through all this effort and Keigo had gone through all the effort of making this too.]

So are you coming with me?

[troubadamsel]

... If only to make sure you don't pull this prank on anyone else, then yes.

[good_ideas]

[Maribelle would have to follow her around all day if that's what she's trying to do.]

How kind of you. Then... let's go? [With that, Shiho is leading the way, flower crown still in the bag since it had been delicate to begin with and was only more so now that it was dry.]

[troubadamsel]

[Don't think she won't.

Anyway, Maribelle follows close to her side.]

... Who made that for you? Or did you make it yourself?

[good_ideas]

It’s from some loud guy. [She almost calls him Keigo-chan which she’d picked up because he hated it.] Lives in Bluo, overreacts a lot? [And she makes a gesture with her fingers, pantomiming the flip at the end of Keigo’s hair.]

And wouldn’t it be really sad if I made this for myself and thought it was a treasure?

[troubadamsel]

Oh, him.

[Yep, no mistaking that style...]

Well, it'd still be a sacrifice, in a personal sense. Besides, making with your own two hands can be very satisfying.

[good_ideas]

He means well. And he did try with this flower crown. [Which is why she had kept it with all the other ones.]

I don't really make things so I guess I don't really get that kind of feeling.

[troubadamsel]

I admit, I don't do much of it as well, nor did I do too much of it back in my realm. I am a bit... spoiled, you could say.

[good_ideas]

Same here. I kind of wish I had done more of this stuff back home though. And you can always do more of it here.

[Maribelle has always seemed very capable, after all.]

[troubadamsel]

Well, there's nothing preventing us from doing it now. We're bound to learn all sorts of new ways.

[good_ideas]

True. I'm learning right now, actually. But just a little bit though.

[Because she has to balance that and her desire to be seen as lazy and awful.]

[troubadamsel]

It's better than not at all. One must be grateful for all steps taken.

[Love yourself, dammit, she can't load this all by herself.]

[good_ideas]

I'm just learning how to cook, you know? [It's not a big deal!]

[troubadamsel]

... Just now, or ever since you arrived?

[good_ideas]

Just now. [She's been getting other people to cook for her before this.] I invited Minato over for dinner so I thought I should learn how to cook.

[troubadamsel]

[If this was an anime, she would have fallen over.]

You've been here for months and only started cooking now?!