November+December Catch-All

[loopsiedaisy]

Who: Siffrin (Shinx) + Shoka, Laios, Cedric, Chara, Anasui, Parvati
What: The fallout of the Network Incident, and also quests. Sometimes both at once!
Where: Spire, Canopy, wherever various search quests take them
When: One thread backdated to October, otherwise throughout November (including during the snowstorm) and December
Warnings: Potentially Siffrin's warnings (definitely spoilers & alluded-to suicidal ideation in Shoka's thread), the usual quest peril

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Bone Appetit (Chara)

[loopsiedaisy]

[It takes Siffrin longer than they expected, padding along the cliffs beside and beyond the Spire and peering over the edge, to find some Wattrel nests - or rather, to find enough of them in one general area to make it worth climbing down. By the time they do, they've already nearly forgotten about the mask they've got strapped to their hat.]

[Alright. How are they going to approach this. They can see... at least two possible routes down, they think. But on the first they're going to have to hope there are some clawholds in the rock that aren't visible from up here. The other is less steep, and less rocky, but that's because it's at least partially overhangs made of nothing but compacted dirt. If their weight destabilizes those enough...]

[And then they're going to have to climb back up, too. Or take a dive off into the sea and swim, which they're not uwilling to do, but - do weird bird nests dissolve in seawater? Probably it'd affect the taste, right??]

[(They have, at least, remembered to once again borrow a harness with some attached saddlebags. Or they'd be stuck carrying one nest at a time...)]

[consequerer]

[ One might think that the guild made up of scholars wouldn't be so insistent on getting them to 'go outside, get some fresh air!' Ah perhaps that is just a tired, overused stereotype? Still, it isn't as if they don't contribute to quests, now and again, so really.

That said, the setup the other guildspokemon gave them really is rather amusing. Perhaps they won't inform the Shinx as to what mistake they might have made just yet; they'll allow it, this little myth of 'it's dangerous to go alone. take this! (and you won't count as being alone!)'

Now, the predicament they are in ... ah, that's an interesting choice. And that stray question, the wondering... Let's see, can they keep this fairly neutral and natural to start.

* They are normally held together by saliva, right?
* If it is that kind of bird, anyway.
* That would most likely dissolve in the seawater below if so.
* Better not to chance it. ]

[loopsiedaisy]

[Right! ...where did they learn that again, did they eat something like this at some point? No, that's expecting way too much of their memory, never mind all that.]

[So! It's even more important not to fall on the way back up. Then... maybe they take the looser dirt path down, see how stable it is, and scout out the rockier one as they're passing the sections they're not sure about?]

[...let's go, Siffrin. Get to it.]

[When they can, they go headfirst, hopping from particularly stable ledge to particularly stable ledge, but they don't trust it when they can't see what's holding a ledge up. Or when they decide something's too far to jump - something that's kind of a tricky line to draw when you don't have depth perception. (Considering that, aren't all these jumps really risky, actually??) Those sections have them digging their claws and climbing down.]

[Since there's no one else around (you know. obviously), they don't bother trying to keep the fur on their tail from poofing out, when dirt shifts alarmingly under their paws... but being nervous about this doesn't seem to stop them. There sure isn't a lot of self preservation on display here!]

[They may need to be "reminded" to glance over at the other route, on the way down... but if they are, they take a look (or several) without seeming to notice anything amiss about their thoughts. And somehow, eventually, they do safely get to the cluster of ledges that has all of the Wattrel nests stuck to it. They settle on the largest of these to catch their breath.]

[Instinctively, they twist around to groom their tail, smoothing the fur back down. Something about doing that gives them the same feeling as when they take a deep breath in and out.]