songerein | [OPEN] November Catch-All

Who: Toge Inumaki and YOU!
Which: Open Log
Where: Farmlands and Treehouses
What: Quests: Harvesting, squirrel wrangling, and tree pruning
Warnings: N/A, will update as needed!

Harvest Time
[Toge isn’t really much of a farmer, but he’s taken care of the gardens around the Jujutsu High campus, so he knows a thing or two about gardening. So when the call goes out to help out with the farms and harvest the fruit, Toge is there to lend a hand.]

[His short and lean frame doesn’t look like it would be much help with something as labour-intensive as harvesting, but Toge works quite diligently, filling baskets with salvageable vegetables and fruits and bringing them over with the rest of the harvest. He works alone for the most part, softly humming to himself as he works, and might not even be noticed at first due to his quiet nature. But if someone is in need of some help, whether it be needing help carrying baskets of veggies or pulling up weeds, he’ll approach them with a wave, before pointing at their task.]

Tuna mayo?

[By the end of the day, he can be found sitting near a pair of baskets full of food that he was allowed to take home, going through a couple small pouches of seeds. Maybe he can start up a garden closer to home…]

Pesky Squirrels
[Back when Toge had arrived, he had somewhat befriended a squirrel while exploring the rubble and ruins. That squirrel ended up living close to Toge’s chosen treehouse, and had become a familiar figure for Toge to keep an eye out for. So when winter began to set in, Toge decided to help the hungry squirrel, rather than chase it away like others. It was a friend, after all, so why not help it out?]

[The squirrel decides to use a little hollow in the side of Toge’s treehouse as a storehouse for extra acorns and nuts, which is fine; Toge doesn’t take up much space, so he doesn’t mind sharing. However, it seems as though, as “reward” for his help, the squirrel has been dropping off all kinds of trinkets and objects at Toge’s windowsill and door. Objects that most definitely belong to someone else. Toge’s grateful for the thought, but he should… probably return these items. So, he will put out a little PSA out on the journals.]

If anyone’s lost anything small, I might have it at my house. I have a squirrel living in my tree who’s been leaving me gifts.

Treehouse Pruning
[With winter coming, the treehouses have begun to get… interesting. They seem to be getting more excited, or at the very least warmer, which is nice for the encroaching cold but has also led to a couple nights where Toge has woken up sweating from the heat. Something’s gotta be done to regulate this.]

[After seeing a few people trying out their dreamotion powers on the trees to help cool them off, Toge can be found outside of his chosen treehouse, arms crossed and foot tapping. He’s just… gotta channel dreamotion energy, right? But how can he do so? Is it like channeling Cursed Energy? And if it is, will he suffer a backlash for it?]

[He knows the only way for him to test this out is to… do it. But there’s a hesitance to do so. There’s a reason he doesn’t venture out of his chosen safe words and commands very often, after all.]

[So focused on staring at the tree before him, he might not notice others approaching him.]

Wildcard
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Yeah, back at Baba Yaga’s. He found this ink monster.

I didn’t really peg him as a beekeeper.

[...Oh, that must be related to that broadcast.] An Eraser I'm assuming.

He only just started doing it here. He tends to pick odd jobs here and there.

Yeah, that's it. He told me about them after we explored Baba Yaga's hut.

He said he was a soldier though. It sounds weird for a soldier to do odd jobs like that.

[So he knows a samurai lawyer and a beekeeper soldier. Weird.]

Maybe. But I imagine when there's not a huge demand for your profession, you find other things to do.

I used to manage a tavern in the other world, eventhough I'm a lawyer.

Hmm... I guess so.

You managed a tavern? Woah. You're a real jack of all trades, huh?

I believe you can do whatever you want, if you put your mind to it.

And that tavern was sort of forced onto me, but it was something to pass the time.

That's true. I just never really thought of that. Like, I couldn't imagine not being a jujutsu sorcerer. So it's a little weird to think of doing something other than what I'm trained to do.

Huh... I bet it was pretty fun, though. Any thoughts on if you are gonna rebuild here?

Well, maybe while you're here, you could take this opportunity to try something you never had a chance to do?

I thought about it, but I don't have plans at the moment. [And a little pre-occupied with people from home suddenly showing up.]

Huh.... maybe. I mean, if a soldier can be a beekeeper and a samurai layer could run a tavern, why not right?

That's fair. There's a lot going on right now with the dreams after all.

And still the threat of the Story Eater out there.

Is there any sort of hobbies you enjoy?

That's true. We really can't rest too easily while he's still out there.

Hmm... Well, when I'm not training, I spend time online, but that's not really an option here.

Online? [His first thought is standing in lines? That's probably not what he meant.]

Yeah. The school I go to is outside the city so that people don't accidentally stumble across a bunch of jujutsu sorcerers training. There's not much to do aside from train or make a day trip into the city, but it's got decent wi-fi so getting on the internet's not a problem.

[. . . .What]

So this internet lets you do activities without leaving your home?

Yeah?[Wait...]

You've never heard of the internet before?

It's an unfamiliar term to me, yes. Some modern invention I'm assuming.

I thought you were a lawyer? Don't lawyers use the internet and computers for legal stuff?

Unless you're not from modern times?

What year is it where you're from?

Lawyers have existed long before that, you know.

Just the turn of the century. 1900

[Toge just stares at that for a moment because holy shit. After a delay, he replies back.]

Woah. No wonder you're a samurai and a lawyer.

I'm from the year 2018

So another century's worth.

I've learned a few things about the future, but obviously not everything.

That would make sense why you don't know what the internet is.

It's basically like a giant collective of all the world's knowledge that anyone can have access to. You can look up anything you want, from stories to videos to images to news articles, and can also do things like play games and talk to other people through it. I guess it's kind of like how we can talk through those journals of ours, only... were typewriters a thing in your time? If so, imagine typing on a typewriter instead of writing everything down.

Typewriters exists.

So it's sort of like an instant, interactive newspaper. I've heard of futuristic phones that you can carry anywhere that can hold that sort of information. Is that the internet inside those phones?

Ok cool.

Yeah, something like that. And you're right, for the most part. Most phones are able to access the internet in my time, so you're not out of luck if you don't have a computer handy.

A computer is a machine that also lets you access the internet, but it's bigger and has a keyboard... here, let me show you.

[And Toge takes a moment to scribble out a couple little doodles; one of a smartphone, and one of a laptop. It's not the prettiest doodles, but he also adds little notes like "the screen is a touch-screen, so you can just tap it to make things go" and "older computers were bigger and bulkier, most are sleeker and thinner now" and other little notes.]

[. . .This is a lot. And it may take Kazuma some time before he actually answers.]

So a typewriter with a screen that can display a newspaper or whatever you want. It almost seems too convenient to be true. Amazing how far technology will go one day.

Something like that, yeah.

Only for just as much information there is on the internet, there's also a bunch of stupid stuff too.

Like games and memes and people trolling other people for fun. Plus a lot of people fighting each other over opinions and stuff.

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