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

[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?!

[good_ideas]

[The question should actually be: You’ve been alive for 16 years and only started cooking now?!]

Well.... yeah. Everyone else here knows how to cook and I don’t cook back home either.

[troubadamsel]

We're all supposed to be working together, you shouldn't mooch off other people like a freeloader!

[tsk tsk, young lady.]

[good_ideas]

Working together means doing things you're good at though. [Never mind that she could cook just fine since being a psychometer gives her a lot of insight into food, temperatures, seasoning levels and other things like that.

The problem is mostly that she's lazy.]

[troubadamsel]

[Eyeing her-]

So you were repaying those who helped you with your skills?

[good_ideas]

Of course. Did you think I was just letting them do stuff for me?

[She kind of was.

But she also makes up for it by being a special esper for the government?]

[troubadamsel]

It never helps to be sure, but I am glad to hear otherwise.

[you wouldn't lie to mari, right?]

[good_ideas]

[She already has, and probably will again.]

What kind of person did you think I was? I help out! [By heckling people in the kitchen, that is.]