ninth shot ⊗ open july log

[flamekthunder]

Who: Eustace and anyone
Which: Open July Log (set after the beach party/moon viewing log)
Where: Various
What: Seagulls; boatbuilders+seafood dining; choya; teleporting and limiters follow-ups
Warnings: None just shenanigans


⊗ a: quest 703: herding seagulls

[Those seagulls are definitely a damn nuisance, especially when they're around his and Tifa's house. He just wants some damn peace and quiet!! But he'll also be taking to the riverfront where most of annoying birds have gathered to join in the efforts in controlling the invasion.

Now, while he could just electrocute them with the abundant amount of lightning he can wield at this point, he will try to be more...humane and instead use two of his corgis to try and chase them off and work on a bit of wind element while he's at it.

So anyone out on the Riverfront will see Eustace calling out to two corgis—a red named Idris and a black and white with a tail named Cadoc—to essentially herd the birds. Some are just chased away, but if there's a large group Eustace aims to capture them.

Idris will rush at any groups that are scattered, driving them to fly closer together and knock them up into the air by the wind the dog's speed produces. Eustace will follow up by producing his own wave of wind to force them to fly and tumble closer to the ground before Cadoc releases a weighted net from a canister. For the most part, they're mostly successful, able to capture up to 10 birds in the net and then send them off to others who will either carry them to the beach or...cook them. Look he's not going to judge, even if it's not the tastiest thing.

But sometimes a few mishaps might happen...such as—]

Ah—

[Someone either caught by Idris's wind blast, a stray seagull flying right into someone's face, or worse—there's a misfire from the canister and someone gets caught in the net instead.]

⊗ b: quest 704+5: ocean fishing

[Finding some amount of the materials isn't too difficult, particularly since he had to find some good wood for a piano... But testing a boat? Hmmm. Given that there are requests for some seafood, might be able to kill two seagulls with one harpoon.

1. Peace and Quiet. With whoever has decided to join him on this impromptu fishing trip, Eustace looks out on the ocean waters as they stay near the shallows for now.]

So far so good. The waters seem calmer out in the shallows so let's keep it simple and see what we find around here first before trying to go further.

[And what can they find...? From simple fish to curious squids to anything really.

2. Rough waters. But if things start getting rough, such as a large angry crab or really, really sticky seaweed that's trying to wrap around their oars or the boat itself, their boat might also start seeing a few cracks.]

⊗ c: quest 706: choya chop

[Eustace actually isn't here for the quest—around another time that he's trying to fish or exploring the are a little, he'll notice any chaos and commotion from anyone who is trying to do the quest—or just happened to accidentally piss off the choyas.

A crackle of lightning and a gunshot will ring out as he rushes in to aid, shouting when he sees those weird cactus things turning read and looking ready to burst.]

Get back, it's going to explode!

[At worst, if someone can't make it on their own, a sheet of ice will suddenly appear in front of them, acting as an impromptu shield that will block at least most of the carnage.]

⊗ d: teleporter and limiters follow-up (semi-closed)

[For those who answered Eustace's inquiry last month about creating some kind of teleporter doorway as well as power limiters, including use against nightmare energy, Eustace will be trying to follow up and see how things are going. It'll be a brief message, something along the lines of,

I'd like to follow up on our discussion regarding [___]. Let's meet at your earliest convenience.

With the [___] filled in for whichever topic they discussed.

If anyone else would like to speak with Eustace about these topics, they are welcome to use this prompt and either use a journal response or find him out and about in town.]

⊗ e: wildcard

[Open to other prompts! I considered him trying the dog sleds for vehicle testing Feel free to hit me up on discord, PM, or laenavesse for questions or further discussion!]

Comments

[recreator]

Well, with further testing of dreamotion and nightmare energy, I might be able to come up with a magickal formula that would make it possible to use one to cancel out the other and then tuck that formula into the vessel itself. Make a loop of it, if you would. I noticed whilst we were on the moon that the two act largely as opposites, much like darkness and light. However, we are speaking of advanced spell theory, not something that can be developed overnight.

[A slow shrug, and then a quirk of his lips.]

Shall we try it and find out if it breaks?

[flamekthunder]

[There's a quirk of his brow in return... But really there's no way to test it without doing such a thing so in the end he just nods.]

It's the only way to test it for certain. Do you have anything in mind?

[recreator]

Assuming neither of us wishes to volunteer as guinea pigs, I suppose a dreamotion construct will do. If we have my creation hold onto our prototype limiter, and then siphon power into it, we'll be able to see whether or not the vessel will indeed work as planned or if it will simply be crushed to dust.

[He considers a moment.]

Something simple. ...Perhaps an oreias. No doubt it'll be more than pleased to hold onto this stone for us.

[flamekthunder]

I'll trust your judgment on this. ...But what is an "oreias"?

[recreator]

A classification of soulkin, neither a fae nor sprite - but similar to both. Black-furred with long ears, beady eyes, sharp teeth. Although they may sound menacing, most would prefer to flee rather than fight. They've also a penchant for gemstones. Normally the type of gem would determine the creature's abilities, but seeing as we're only summoning something oreais-shaped and not the actual creature itself for our purposes...

[He's rambling, he realizes. And at last he simply turns, draws upon what he deems is the appropriate emotion for such a subject, and snaps his fingers. The resulting creature looks something like this, or you can simply use your favorite browser to bring up portraits of spriggans, as they are better known in the current age. While it may be relatively small, the toothy grin gives the impression that it's trouble.]

[flamekthunder]

[Eustace looks in surprise, both in how easily Emet-Selch seems to be able to create the creature out of what he assumes is dreamotion and...the creature itself...

.......]

Can't say I've seen anything like it in my world...

[And he's intrigued enough to want to inquire more about how much effort it took Emet for this, but that's not what is important right now.]

So we let it hold the limiter and we push dreamotion into it, correct?