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Noelle's September Quest Ho-ho-home [Catch-All]

Who: Noelle & Shoka, Archnemon, Bigby
What: Quests! (Scholastic Decisions, No Pain No Grain, A Dour Struggle)
Where: Icefall Lake, around Death Blood Murder Skull Town, the woods
When: Mid/Late September
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), potential references to death/disassociation

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Just a girl, her platonic gal pal, fluffy soft snowfall, and... a hovering ghost-sword looming over their every move. Well, at least the scholar- Aegislash- is quiet and unobtrusive. She honestly doesn't know why something so powerful-looking needs her as a bodyguard, but if it means getting to earn favor with the guild- and spend time with Shoka- then she'll proceed without complaint.

She's always loved the cold. In fact, as soon as they cross the threshold to Icefall Lake, she does a little prancing in the snow and shakes the accumulated snowflakes off her head, looking back at Shoka with a wide grin (revealing slightly more prominent than usual front teeth for a Deerling).

With that said, it's already starting to get to her after just a little walking, and she tries to hide the fact that she's shivering. She wishes she had her scarf or her coat from home. Aegislash seems completely unbothered, and Shoka... well, Noelle is curious if that disguise keeps her warm. Does she even get cold? A part of her wishes she knew more about what Shoka looked like under that disguise, but the thought makes her blush (for some reason????????) and look away.

[After doing a little questing with Shoka and Emporio in August, along with some training, Noelle has started to build up her confidence a little. She's even begun to learn some new moves! She's grateful that strange Hatenna lady encouraged her.

So when she's assigned to a quest with Archnemon- not that Noelle knows her by that name- she's happy, but nervous again, as seems to be her perpetual state. She hopes she lives up to Hatenna's expectations!

Noelle waits for her at the edge of the woods. The Deerling is wearing a little knapsack for carrying Barley.]

Miss Hatenna...! How have you been doing? What do you think of, um... [She sighs. Who gave it this name????] ... 'Death Blood Murder Skull Town'...?

[A pack of skull-themed hellhounds stalking the borders of a place called Death Blood Murder Skull Town... this is straight out of a bad creepypasta.

And yet, when she sees Bigby signed up to fight them off, Noelle signs up on impulse as well. He might've spoken like a strong, gruff man, but he was only a little hamster! What if he got hurt? And... despite everything, Noelle still wants to become stronger. She needs to become stronger.

She's very clearly apprehensive and second-guessing herself as they walk into the woods beyond Skull Town, but she won't turn back now.]

... I won't get in your way. A-and I'll back you up out there, okay? I've been, um... training.

[As they speak, Noelle doesn't notice eyes peering at them from the thick brush. Several of the Houndour already begin to surround them.]

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