[OPEN] April Catch All!!

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WHO: Elda Marker and you!!
WHERE: Viea Village around her house, Bosuma, Respatrum, other parts of Recollé
WHEN: All over the month, though the prompts would be focused on like the 10th onward-ish? It's important to note night or day though! The Bosuma one is probably much later in the month.
WHAT: Elda's house has been replaced and then later on she reverts in memory to being a proper vampire if anyone wants to deal with that!
WARNINGS: Please hit up these permissions if you tag in though! In the fourth prompt (the Bosuma one) she'll try to attack people for blood (it won't kill them!) potentially and if people manage to have civil conversation, genocide might come up.

1: Ticketed Mail (Recollé City Prompt from event log)
[ Elda Marker goes out to get her mail this afternoon and... Well. Honestly she's not used to seeing mail in there these days it's just this thing she does in the late afternoon, pretending that her life can still be normal even as she needs to wear a wide brim hat and a parasol just to make it to the end of the driveway without breaking out in hives from the sunlight. That said, she does make it and finds...

A ticket. For in front of the Wiffle-Waffle, the mailbox? ... Well. I guess it's sure time for challenge accepted! She sets out in the late afternoon such that while the sun is still out, she'll make it back in time for making dinner for Toushiro and the sun not totally killing her. The thing is-

She does not expect biting envelopes of teeth on the air coming towards her. Or mountains of packages. As it turns out, her car is blocked by a pileup. So the rest of this quest? She'll have to be on foot! Will you be her stalwart companion? Will you be someone else she runs into who has their own quest? Let's survive. ]

2. Well that's... a house.

Oh hell.

[ Is what Elda Marker says when she makes it back to her manor in Viea Village. Or well, where it once was. If you're in the area, you might now notice that there's a new somewhat large forested hill right smack dab in the middle of a wealthy area of the residential district. There's a road that goes up the side of the hill at least! But ... it sure is dark, spooky, and a big-ish (maybe 50 meters in diameter and 20ish tall, plus trees) hill that is now here in a residential district with a new road leading up/around it to get to side streets and...

Maybe you're getting lost on the winding road up because you're curious? Maybe you see her? Either way, at the top of the universal-displaced Sekima Hill. But at the top of the hill is ... one house. Well, one manor. And it suits the vibe a lot here on top of the hill. Fortunately, all of Elda's furniture was put into the new house, but the electric is turned off for some reason and... well, stuff needs to be moved around.

... So you might also be following a Help Wanted sign she posted for people to hell with that. ]

3. Desiigner Shopping (Respatrum prompt from the event log)
[ So a whole new manor and while it's furnished with much of what she had around before, it's bigger and demands some more fineries. So let's just. Shop for new items. Some of which she does in the city - Towers, etc - but some of which... well. Respatrum's been good for her finding various set pieces and designer goods in the last month or two, so she's going there now defiantly.

... Which involves her climbing that later in the middle of the night, or at least after sunset. There's no way she could in the sun. Hope nothing she buys is possessed! Or nothing possesses her once she's there! Or you don't happen to be possessed with her! All of that would be awkward. ]

4. What's in a name? (Bosuma prompt from the event log)
[ Why is she out in Bosuma?

... Honestly, the reason is lost to her. Lost with the rest of her memories when she ventures too far inside. She takes the deal to fill in the holes of her memories, but the end result just leaves her confused about a few things. Why do her senses feel so dull? Why was she out during the day? And how dare this witch give her his challenge?

It was asking her to interact with humans. (actually it was demanding more than that, but... no.)

Well, first things first, she was going to get back to the city (... what was its name again? None of this was familiar?) and - well, she's not sure why she feels to groggy, but first things first, she needs to eat. So she'll be actively stalking out for someone who matches her blood type to get them. Silently, callously.

(feel free to notice her while she's doing that, either to you or someone else. Note that I don't want her to bite and get the blood of some NPC so that'll be a PC or not at all, I'm okay with both ways! Please note replying to this doesn't necessarily mean you have to lose blood because in fact she needs to resolve things peacefully to get her name back) ]

5. Wildcard
[ I'm more than open to play anything else with you guys!! She'd have every reason to go to Pesgare or Magatus as well and I'm more than down to work out more specific prompts with people. Contact me (bigdamnhero) or just hit me up with something if you have an idea ]

Comments

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[ . . . Yeah, his blood'll be useful somehow or another. Maybe not to eat it herself, but she can store it for James, right? The familiar large syringe wasn't in the purse she found on her in the swamp, but she did have some smaller ones there for some reason. No bottle, but she can at least get some.

Now it's just a matter of waiting for him to be in a alley or isolating himself. ]

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[Maybe he's not going to walk down a dark alley on the way back home, but there aren't a lot of people out on the city streets at this hour. But does he want to go home? His bed and blankets were waiting there for him, but a couple shots of espresso says that if he tries to go to sleep he'll just be looking at the ceiling tiles for a few hours. Maybe a nice long walk would be just the thing. Maybe Cloud could climb the ladder to Respartum... no, that would chafe his hands.

Maybe the Recolle Woods. That was dark and quiet. As long as he stopped before crossing into Bosuma it should be fine. If Cloud was lucky he'd see another one of those little bunny creatures. Maybe, if he was really lucky, he'd follow it all the way into Bosuma and get his identity erased like everyone else. That might make things better.

He shouldered his gym bag with wooden sword and headed out.]

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[ Bosuma... That's several hours walk! But more to the point, as he's leaving the city limits, or at least heading up past the university and towards the woods with that wooden sword she begins to get a little bored with the young man. Though he did have a spike of sounding delicious...

Oh, there we go.

Right ahead there! She leaps ahead of him a building ahead and then, silently, drops down to the side of him. As he goes to pass...

Well, one arm with super strength shoots out to grab him and pull him up behind a tree. ]

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"...Hey!"

[Cloud grabs at his attacker's forearm and tries to pull free. He was heading towards the gloomy isolated peace of total mental oblivion, damn it! Why was someone interrupting this solemn undertaking?]

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[ The woman is tiny, she's 5' and generously 90 lbs given how thin she is. However, her strength is iron-gripped and more than enough to pick up and throw Cloud if necessary. There's basically no chance of him breaking it as she makes - with a smile - to pin him to the wall. ]

Hey yourself, buster! Now, am I going to need to knock you out?

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What... the hell!?

[Cloud doesn't waste too much effort struggling. Somebody here has supernatural strength and it's not him. He's still going to grip her wrist, even though he can't pull it away.]

What do you want?

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Can it, human.

[ She says with a smirk, one which exposes her red eyes as they turn cat-like. Her fangs aren't as pronounced as in the icon. She's still... well, she's not fully a vampire. But the gaze is meant to be piercing, silencing. the grip on him also tightens.

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[The weird eyes and teeth are pretty impressive, but she isn't the first person Cloud has talked to who suddenly developed weird eyes and teeth. Just the first insane one. Same with the super strength, but that was actually dangerous instead of being just an interesting cosmetic effect.

Cute touch, though, calling him "human." Cloud was starting to have trouble breathing from the force of her grip. He stills, but he continues holding on and glaring at her. He whispers harshly with what breath he has.]

What... Do you... Want...

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[ The eyes, still distinctly inhuman, just lock on his and - well, the hand not holding him shoots out to press a palm towards its forehead. Once close, the hand glows with a soft light. And then, well. She intends to both make things easier for him and knock the man out by way of blasting apart and erasing the last thirty or so minutes of his memory. She has no need to respond to a human.

The idea of it is disgusting, really. ]

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[Cloud's attention is drawn to the glow and he looks up at it, curiously, then collapses like a dropped marionette. The human will not be giving her any more attitude.]

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Good, there we go.

[ Okay, so we're in the shadows and she doesn't have a bottle on hand, she ends up feeling around his body as she takes out the syringes, testing them to make sure there's no issues with them because no need to kill him.

... Right?

... This isn't helping her objective to get the name back, but this also isn't her concern right now. So instead she just considers taking a bite, thinks better of it, and -

Oh, he's got his own bottle! That's good, let's empty it out. ]

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[It's a relatively large water bottle, too, about a liter. If she fills it most of the way full then that would be about the limit of what a healthy young man of his build could lose and still be able to get up and walk away when he comes to. It doesn't look like this is going to happen anytime soon, though.

Then again, Cloud never could manage to stay fully unconscious as long as he was supposed to. With his eyes open a tiny fraction even though he wasn't registering anything with sight, some part of his mind was trying to puzzle out why the scent of cold dirt had anything to do with the all-pervasive ringing in his ears.]

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[ Good, good. She still feels kinda weird but ... her fingers ate still steady. The process here is involved and honestly this space while in the shadows might be too open if anyone were to come past but...

Well. This is fine, whatever, she'll just conk them out too if they make a scene. So instead, humming a little about James (why is she getting so many gaps about James...?) she makes to use the syringes to get more than a few samples of his blood to at least partially fill this bottle. It's make shift, but this is fine, right?

Right! ]

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[Needles, not being able to move, feeling like his head was being held down in a swimming pool full of Jello? It's all pretty bizarre, but Cloud is completely convinced there's nothing to worry about. His body is lying limp, there's no sign that he's going anywhere or getting upset about the situation. When he speaks, it's quite slurred and dissociated.]

Wut's... da lights...?

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Christ boy, you're actually awake--

[ Oh wait, good, he's not. She blinks once and then twice and then...

Makes to pull his jacket or shirt up over his face while she finishes the work...

logic. ]

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[He lolls his head to one side in an attempt to get away from the cloth, which also manages point his face in the direction completely opposite from where she is.]

Not 'wake... S'still dark...

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[ Nailed it! Well, she'll let out a somewhat haughty and cruel but soft old lady laugh and... Wwell, whatever. HE won't remember this for anything anyway! She'll just finish her business here with his blood and that'll be that. Not like his arms are flailing. ]

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[It was green Jello. The distant laughing reminded him slightly of a cackle, but it had nothing to do with him anyway.]

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[ Goooooooddd.

Okay, blood has been gotten and! A pat on his chest and she's off! Later. Hope you don't mind being knocked out and memory erased here ]

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[What's Cloud doing in the woods in the middle of the night? He sat up too quickly and felt slightly dizzy. Shiva, had he really managed to pass out from too much expresso? At least there weren't any witnesses. He tried to pull out his water bottle but he'd managed to lose it. Probably left it at the dojo or something. Carefully, he picked himself up and dusted off some of the dirt, then made his way home as dawn broke. This crazy caffeine high would end up taking days to recover from. Mentally, Cloud put espresso in the same toxic category as tequila. He wouldn't go on another bender anytime soon.]