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bottlecaplogs2025-03-07 01:38 pm
bladeofnymeia) wrote in bottlecaplogs2025-03-07 01:38 pm
March Catchall - Goals and Quests
Who: Firoza and YOU! With a private toplevel for Firoza and Shoka
What: Firoza Istus has plans, and has things to do. You're super welcome to join her as she goes about on her own personal MSQ
When: The month of March
Where: All over Bottlecap Bay!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any, but I'll put them here when they come up.
[Well! After a stamp of approval, some advice on how to put some things into motion, and a month under her belt of living in this new world, in this new form, Firoza has some things about town she's focused on taking care of over the course of...what seems to be the Second Astral Moon? One, two, three...yeah, that'd be Second Astral.
(The Eorzean calendar can be a bit rough to remember when you don't grow up with it. But anyway.)
The Questboard is checked pretty often, and while her eyes linger on the exploration or rescue missions, Firoza knows her limitations. She needs practice in combat before she can effectively contribute to any of those. So, for now, the supply missions are what she's taking on. While she goes to gather berries and twigs with Emporio and Junpei on two separate occasions, she also goes back down to the Mines to help get some more cool rocks with Shoka. If you'd like to thread something out during those explorations, or even just meeting up outside the questboard to talk about joining up for that, you're absolutely welcome to! And you're super welcome to notice how pointedly Firoza's eyes linger on the other kinds of quests.
When not out gathering materials, Firoza can be found in one of two places. The first? A clearing in the Canopy, where a tired old stump has been left to be reclaimed by the earth. Must've been a big tree that fell over in a storm, by the looks of how the top is splintered, but some Pokemon probably tugged that huge fallen log away to use for construction long ago, because it's nowhere to be seen, and there's no beaten down path of grass from a recent effort.
But it's perfect as it is, this stump. After all, this is clearly a Level One Training Dummy.
Firoza's cries as she lashes out at the stump ring out from the clearing, as she launches herself at the wood in Scratches and Double Kicks, and even the occasional attempt at Poison Sting...but only if she's still and aiming very carefully. We don't need errant poisonings here. She works on lashing out on all fours, on rearing up on her hind legs, maintaining balance...it's all simple moves, more to train herself on how to move rather than building strength in her blows. That can always come later. If you want to smack a stump for a while, or are concerned when you hear yelling somewhere in the Canopy, you're welcome to come over! Absolutely critique her form if you know what you're doing, she'd appreciate it.
The other place Firoza often lingers is at a shop run by Spinarak, specializing in producing things made from extremely strong thread spun by the proprietress in question and other Bug Pokemon. They're all very bemused by this gentle-voiced Nidoran fumbling with a wooden sewing needle in her paws and her unrelenting persistence, and are very welcoming, considering her greenlight to namedrop Ribombee as the one who pointed her this way. Anyone can come and see her here...but Shoka is the one person who gets a personal invitation to come along one day, if she's interested.
Other than that? Firoza's staying at the Cheri Berry base, so her fellow guildmates are welcome to find her there! Feel like chatting? She's happy to listen! Think of this as your Wildcard option.]
What: Firoza Istus has plans, and has things to do. You're super welcome to join her as she goes about on her own personal MSQ
When: The month of March
Where: All over Bottlecap Bay!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any, but I'll put them here when they come up.
[Well! After a stamp of approval, some advice on how to put some things into motion, and a month under her belt of living in this new world, in this new form, Firoza has some things about town she's focused on taking care of over the course of...what seems to be the Second Astral Moon? One, two, three...yeah, that'd be Second Astral.
(The Eorzean calendar can be a bit rough to remember when you don't grow up with it. But anyway.)
The Questboard is checked pretty often, and while her eyes linger on the exploration or rescue missions, Firoza knows her limitations. She needs practice in combat before she can effectively contribute to any of those. So, for now, the supply missions are what she's taking on. While she goes to gather berries and twigs with Emporio and Junpei on two separate occasions, she also goes back down to the Mines to help get some more cool rocks with Shoka. If you'd like to thread something out during those explorations, or even just meeting up outside the questboard to talk about joining up for that, you're absolutely welcome to! And you're super welcome to notice how pointedly Firoza's eyes linger on the other kinds of quests.
When not out gathering materials, Firoza can be found in one of two places. The first? A clearing in the Canopy, where a tired old stump has been left to be reclaimed by the earth. Must've been a big tree that fell over in a storm, by the looks of how the top is splintered, but some Pokemon probably tugged that huge fallen log away to use for construction long ago, because it's nowhere to be seen, and there's no beaten down path of grass from a recent effort.
But it's perfect as it is, this stump. After all, this is clearly a Level One Training Dummy.
Firoza's cries as she lashes out at the stump ring out from the clearing, as she launches herself at the wood in Scratches and Double Kicks, and even the occasional attempt at Poison Sting...but only if she's still and aiming very carefully. We don't need errant poisonings here. She works on lashing out on all fours, on rearing up on her hind legs, maintaining balance...it's all simple moves, more to train herself on how to move rather than building strength in her blows. That can always come later. If you want to smack a stump for a while, or are concerned when you hear yelling somewhere in the Canopy, you're welcome to come over! Absolutely critique her form if you know what you're doing, she'd appreciate it.
The other place Firoza often lingers is at a shop run by Spinarak, specializing in producing things made from extremely strong thread spun by the proprietress in question and other Bug Pokemon. They're all very bemused by this gentle-voiced Nidoran fumbling with a wooden sewing needle in her paws and her unrelenting persistence, and are very welcoming, considering her greenlight to namedrop Ribombee as the one who pointed her this way. Anyone can come and see her here...but Shoka is the one person who gets a personal invitation to come along one day, if she's interested.
Other than that? Firoza's staying at the Cheri Berry base, so her fellow guildmates are welcome to find her there! Feel like chatting? She's happy to listen! Think of this as your Wildcard option.]
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[But she appreciates it, really.]
Now I've just gotta knot the ends... And then I can start stabbing this thing, right?
[This thing being the two small squares of scrap fabric she's trying to sew together for practice.]
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[Gentle and understanding with corrections, yet earnest and pleased by progress. Mama Istus really is the best.]
That's the gist of it, yes. [If a bit violent. But like, what is sewing if not many tiny stabbings?]
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[Basically a baby, she presumes, because this feels like being babied. The lack of bite in her tone indicates that she isn't really mad about it, however.
It must be working, too, because knotting the ends of the thread proves to be less challenging for her than step one. A couple moments later, she's successfully spearing the two squares of cloth with the needle.]
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[So basically at the beginning of her most solid memories, and when she could actually hold the tools.]
She was a weaver and seamstress by trade, and where we lived was very cold - it was an important skill to have.
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[She draws the thread through the opposite side of the fabric. Baby's first stitch, complete!]
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[She's still clearly not actually mad about it, though. She starts in on another stitch, placed unevenly beside the first.]
Has anyone ever told you that you're way too nice?
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No, I don't think they have. But I can see what you mean. I do not come from a wholly kind world, after all.
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... Well, guess you're doing wonderful, too, or whatever. Threaded that needle on the first try and everything! Like you've always had no hands! Go you.
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Well. Thank you.
[She thinks it'll be more impressive if she can wield it, but let's not backtrack into arguing about praise and all that.]