next month maybe i'll do a catchall

[parodeity]

WHO: Dave Strider & Shouto Todoroki
WHERE: north-west from the town in the woods, etc
WHEN: backdated to the 5th!
WHAT: this quest for reference
WARNINGS: fighting harpies and stuff!

[ "hunt the harpies" is kind of extremely vague as a direction, but by now dave has already hunted some harpies with someone else, i am pretty sure. timelines. so he hit up shouto because he was supposed to, you know, teach him to dodge things mostly.

and like. real live enemies are always more helpful than just playing tag with a dude in red, so.

they're at the edge of the woods, and dave actually has his sword in hand. ]

Okay, so the goal is to not let them tag you, here. Because...dodging.

[ truly a greater teacher there has never been ]

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[glaciers]

[Shouto looks at him oddly for a moment... But honestly, that's the kind of teaching he'd do too. Aizawa would probably do the same thing with more words.

Probably.]

Aren't we supposed to be taking the harpies down?

[parodeity]

I mean, we can do that between not letting them hit us? In fact, one could say not gettin' attacked means we'd take them down even better. On account of managing not to get hurt?

[ clearly he has thought this through flawlessly (no). ]

[glaciers]

Fair enough. I'd rather not come back injured.

[Especially after he's given Midoriya some grief over taking care of himself. Best not to come off as a hypocrite about that.]

Do you know where they are?

[parodeity]

Yeah. Tracked 'em down with someone else...they're in the forest, northwestish. There's some cliffs, they have nests there. You okay with killing 'em?

[ should have asked that earlier, but. ]

[glaciers]

[He really should've.

Shouto frowns, but it was one of the quests on the board, wasn't it?]

... If they attack first.

[parodeity]

Oh, they don't like me. So they'll probably at least attack me first.

[ ...but also they're Not Nice, so...? ]

[glaciers]

... Because you attacked one of them first.

[parodeity]

No. Because I respond with lethal force to threats to my friends' lives. [ dryly. ]

[glaciers]

[Shouto tends to go for restraining over killing when he can, but that's where a hero's limits are. Going full force would actually kill somebody/thing and he's not going to take nearly as well as Dave seems to.

Fish are one thing.]

... Fair enough.

[parodeity]

[ hm. he just. stops walking. ]

...Bad idea, then? Let's go play tag instead.

[ he's not about to force or even encourage someone who seems unwilling to go that far into doing that, so...

he's no longer okay with the mission, lmao whoops. ]

[glaciers]

[Yep, bad idea.

Whatever stress was accumulating at the idea of having to kill something that had intelligence starts to seep out of him. Tag he can definitely do.]

Let's do that.

I hear you're fast.

[parodeity]

Probably among the fastest people here, yeah. If you can tag me once today we'll call it good.

[ and in the interest of keeping my action tag load reasonable, they went and played tag for a while! ]