Catrina's Over the Top and Rancid April and May Catchall

[gimmeeyeballs]

Who: Catrina and Anyone Unfortunate Enough to be Around her...

What: Catrina getting into no good tomfoolery and chaos...Mightyena please ground this candle..

When: Throughout April and May....Oh Arceus..

Where: The Bay, PARTS UNKNOWN, and more to be added as the months go on...

Warnings: Catrina being a walking CW of sorts, potential peril, and more to be added as the months go on...

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Blows the dust off this tag, coughs and sputters

[ba_boom]

As they reach the depths of the cave, Impmon doesn't actually interrupt her wild story, listening intently as he begins sampling random chunks of rock for any trace of something valuable. Yes, he apparently searches for rare ores by tasting them.

Unfortunately for Impmon, he is enough of a gullible idiot to completely believe Catrina's story at face value. Fortunately, he has at least written it off as unique to whatever world Catrina came from, so the specter of people-eating caverns doesn't actually alarm him.

"Why would anybody wanna hide treasure in a cave that eats people? That's just dumb. You could die just gettin' it back!"

Humans never made a lot of sense to him, but he was pretty sure the point of collecting treasure was to have the treasure, after all.

[gimmeeyeballs]

"I mean, if you're like my folks and myself being super ultra toxic as hell, caves tend to not like eating toxic things. So it's fine for those toxic or stupidly rich to hide treasures in the flesh eating caves."

GOOD SAVE THERE CATRINA! Catrina mentally gives herself a pat on the back with a really true statement, she's from a highly toxic species of amphibians beforehand.

Good news(?), Catrina wasn't toxic anymore save for Acid Armor and Smog. After witnessing Impmon tasting the ore first, Catrina figured she should try it too and starts licking some ore...

Yep...this is going pretty well by Catrina standards...

[ba_boom]

"Mmm, I dunno. Does-"

Mlem. Toss.

"Poison even work on caves? Might'a just been"

Mlem. Toss.

"Lucky. Probably shouldn't push it, if you ever head back home."

Mlem. Toss. Mlem. Toss.

"...Man, I'm gettin' nothin' over here. You findin' anything?"

[gimmeeyeballs]

"Good point, caves would likely be immune to the toxins."

Lick lick, this tastes of salt.

Back to the void this ore goes~

"I'd likely wouldn't push my luck with the caves either if I return home. You really cannot trust the captain eating caves at all."

Hmmm...moss with a touch of copper? That's an interesting flavor profile.

"I think I found something, it's sort've mossy with a copper under taste."

Catrina goes to hand the ore over to Impmon to lick.

[ba_boom]

"Wh- you want me to lick it? You just licked it!"

It seems his gremlinry has limits. Instead he's just gonna barge past her and fetch a rock of his own from the same spot, because clearly the limits of his gremlinry do not include personal space and good manners. He takes an experimental lick of his own, and-

"Huh. I think you got somethin' here!"

[gimmeeyeballs]

What? It's only...okay so Catrina isn't sure if it counts as spit or wax given she's a candle. The jury is out on that one, that was for sure. Who knows, maybe it's tallow of some kind?

If there had been any sort of pissed off at being shoved, that was throughly thrown out the window when Impmon gave the mystery ore a lick.

"Told yah! Let's gather 'em up and bring 'em with us."

[ba_boom]

Listen, back home his 'spit' is just digital data... and here, it might be spooky ghost spit or something for all he knows. That's not the point, the point is it's weird.

"Don't gotta tell me twice!"

He yanks his gloves off and flexes his claws, then promptly attacks the cave wall where the ore had broken off, beginning to dutifully extract more ore from the rock.

[gimmeeyeballs]

Hot damn, okay those are some sick ass claws and Catrina was living for them. Just holy shit look at Impmon go at extracting ore with them!

Catrina goes to cheer her fellow absolute gremlin on at this point.

"Fuck yeah you get that ore out with those claws! This is epic as hell to watch!"

[ba_boom]

At first, the praise fills Impmon with determination pleases him and seems to encourage him to work faster, and it doesn't take long before he begins accumulating what we will generously call a 'pile' of ore chunks freshly dug from the wall.

Only after he's got a few chunks piled up will he pause and go back to the first thought he'd had when he met her at the cave mouth-

"... Wait, you can't dig?"

He pauses a beat, and then-

"Well what'd ya take a job diggin' for if you can't dig!?"

[gimmeeyeballs]

"Cause free food, duh."

It seemed like a simple enough job, eat rocks and minerals. Clearly it was a job everyone could participate in, delicious ore nuggets waiting there for the nomming.

Catrina does look at her stubby wax hands in annoyance and jealousy though...she too would love to have murder claws too thank you very much!

Maybe that can be her next quest after the teeth....Catrina needle hands...oh sweet Arceus why!?

[ba_boom]

"You're just here to eat?"

Ugh, why him? He's done nothing in his life to deserve this, ever. Even he doesn't believe that, really, but it's what he's telling himself.

"Fine. Just start pickin' up the ore while I dig it out or somethin', an' try not to get hit by what I'm diggin' up."

[gimmeeyeballs]

"I mean, nothing is stopping you from getting a free meal too yah know."

Thank whatever divine force is overseeing this world as the rock and pinecone diet change is a far...FAR better situation to be in. No one wants to know what Catrina used to eat primarily....

"Fuck yeah, sweet! I can gather the ore and get them organized!" Catrina isn't too concerned with getting knocked in the head by ore, she's made of wax! Clearly being made of wax makes it so she doesn't feel pain (....Catrina that's not how it works...)

Seems like a good spot to /wrap?

[ba_boom]

Huh. Okay, that's...

Well, he certainly can't fault her enthusiasm, even if it makes no sense.

... also she wasn't wrong, the ore did kinda taste good. Maybe he'd sneak a smallish piece. Who's gonna know? Nobody's gonna know. (They're gonna know.)

"Yeah, you uh... you do that."

He shrugs and gets back to work.

This looks like the perfect wrap spot X3 Here's my wrap post :'>

[gimmeeyeballs]

No one was going to notice a few ores being missing (They definitely are going to notice some ore being missing). Catrina does as she said she would, getting things organized as the ore comes right on out of the cave via Impmon's digging claws.

Catrina...Catrina is definitely a magically awful candle beast of sorts. Also, delicious ore! It's a win-win situation!

Though Catrina does wonder...

What would crystal eyes taste like...A thought for another day.