Event Log: Extinction V.2

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Extinction event!
Where: All around the city
When: July 22nd-July 29th
Warnings: Fighting, the cruel slaughter of innocent monsters who definitely don't want to eat you, wholesale destruction, and maybe some painting

On July 22nd, Hope puts the call out for a little help with this monster problem he's been having - for the second time. In exchange for some prizes, he'd like you to go into the caves and kill him a few monsters! He'll be keeping an eye out and rewarding you for each kill, so grab a friend and a sword and get to work. Just try not to get lost in the caves - they're pretty extensive, and no one seems to have a decent map. Also, you know. They're full of slavering hellbeasts.

If you're not a fighter, don't worry! Hope also wants to clean things up around the city a little. There'll be caches of cleaning supplies, tools, paint, and other various piece of beautifying equipment available to find in the shops, and he plans to reward people for the time and effort they put in there, too! His sense of artistry is not particularly advanced, so don't worry about impressing him. You'll probably get an A for effort regardless.

For those characters participating in the beautifying portion of the event, please comment here with a brief description of what your character will be doing - for example 'painting three buildings and cleaning up the roads around the clinic'. If your character will be killing some of the monsters, please comment here and let us know how many they've taken out - for example 'three cacodemons and one troll'. For reference, here is a list of the amount of each monster that can be found in the caves:

Monsters Bereskarn (10 1) Blobs (3 1) Cacodemons (14 0!!!) Coeurls (4 0!!!) Deathclaws (6 1) Hunters (1 0!!!) Malboros (9 1) Mimics (11 4) Rodents of Unusual Size (15 0!!!) Skulltulas (12 5) Smokers (5 0!!!) Taxxons (8 2) Trolls (12 1) White Walkers (2 0!!!) Wraiths (8 6) Yeti (2 0!!!)

► This log covers July 22nd-July 29th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If you happen to lose a monster fight or accidentally drink some paint, please notify us of your death here!

Comments

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[foundafamily]

It's not that Firo isn't glad to be spending time with Muscovy--he likes hanging out with the kid. He just might've chosen a different activity, personally.

Painting--especially flowers--is just unmanly. Ungangsterly. Firo already has enough trouble getting people to take him seriously; he can't start painting cutesy things. He certainly can't start painting cutesy things in public.

But the kid seems to like it, so what can he do? Stand around with his hands on his hips--keeping them in view means people can be sure he doesn't have a paintbrush in his hand--and only take on the tasks appropriate for a chaperone. Carrying the paint is good. That's manly. Standing off to the side and just chatting is okay too, as is looking over his shoulder every few moments to make sure nobody's watching them.

The question Muscovy asks is the one he's been bracing himself for. He smiles and tries to play it off. "Why? You're doin' just fine on your own."

[muscovy]

"But I cannot paint higher up, and there is a large ugly patch up there that needs to look nicer, yes?"

He points to a spot that is about five to six feet above ground, so within easy reach for Firo, from what he can tell, where the structure of the house that they're currently painting is there and stable, but all the paint has come away so that it is a glaring ugly hole in an otherwise light-blue-or-flowery wall.

[foundafamily]

Firo considers the spot where Muscovy points. It does look pretty out-of-place, not that he's much the type to care about these things. But it probably is the kind of thing Hope had in mind when he asked everybody for a hand. Firo shrugs. "It doesn't look that bad."

He looks back down at Muscovy. He figures that answer isn't what the kid wants to hear and that he might easily argue against it. So he needs another reason. "And I could give you a boost."

[muscovy]

"But then I would not be very stable up there and the flower would get crooked and I would get paint over both of us because I would need time and your arms would get tired and I would not be able to move like I normally do because you would be holding me. And it would be harder to get new paint on the brush."

And it will just be plain awkward to paint like that. If there's no other option, he will do it, but it would be very silly because it is not necessary. Firo is right there.

[foundafamily]

Firo holds one hand up and shakes his head. "Okay, okay, slow down."

That's a lot of reasons. And to make matters worse, Firo's not even sure how to argue with most of them.

He really is going to get dragged into this, isn't he?

"Muscovy... Do guys paint a lot where you're from? Like, adult guys."

[muscovy]

"Yes."

That is a puzzling question. Of course they do. Who else would do it? It's like hunting and knitting and being a sellsword. Very much men's work, because of the circumstances that it comes in - having to travel a lot, and alone to a degree, living independently, being away from your family for a good long while. Even if there are women who do shepherding and fighting and decoration, it usually takes different shapes.

[foundafamily]

"But I mean, like... like cute things. Like this." He waves one hand at the wall and the work Muscovy's done so far. It only then occurs to him that Muscovy might be insulted--Firo knows he would.

"Not that I don't think yours look nice. Or that you can't do it or anything. It's just... guys my age don't do this kinda thing. People'd laugh at me."

Never mind the fact that there are currently no people around to do the laughing.

[muscovy]

He would point that out, but there is a much more important thing to address here.

"But I have seen adults paint or draw flowers, and nobody laughed at them for it. Painting a flower is no different from painting a lion or a person." ...That was back home, though. And sometimes people change in silly ways. "Would people from your place think that you are less strong if you paint a flower?"

[foundafamily]

Muscovy seems to be getting it. Firo nods, pressing his palm against his forehead. "Yeah. I mean, I'm not weak or anything. But when you do stuff like this... people get a certain impression. They think you're weak, and then they think they can get more from you. It just causes trouble."

[muscovy]

"So then you should paint something strong looking. Like a lion or an eagle."

Clearly that would solve the issue. Because nobody could consider someone weak for painting something like that.

[foundafamily]

"Strong-lookin'?" He sighs and opens his mouth to explain further. Painting flowers is probably the worst, but painting anything is still sketchy.

...But Muscovy seems to really like this. Firo scans the area behind them again just to be safe, then he reaches for one of the paintbrushes.

"Lions have all the hair, right?"

[muscovy]

...He's seen a lion once, in a manuscript. The hair didn't stand out to him in particular. But he has to admit that having seen it once doesn't make him an expert, so he will leave that up in the air and state the one thing that he does remember.

"They have very big feet."

....Firo. Firo. Do not trust the medieval kid about lions.

[foundafamily]

Firo pauses with his paintbrush poised over a can of yellow paint. He's almost struck by the feeling that they might be talking about different creatures...

Then again, he's no animal expert. Maybe Muscovy knows more than he does.

"Big feet..? Like ducks?"

[muscovy]

"No."

He thinks hard, trying to remember what he saw a long time ago.

"More like a badger with longer fingers. Their paws are just very big."

[foundafamily]

"Fingers?" Firo stares at Muscovy as he tries to picture this creature.

"I think we're talkin' about two different things. Let me try." He dips his brush in the paint and, with a few hesitant strokes, manages to construct something kind of like an oval. He puts a circle on top of it and then draws four lines sticking down from the oval.

"How's that so far?"

[muscovy]

"We agree that lions are strong, though."

So they cannot be talking about entirely different things.

He'll let Firo do his thing though, taking a step back to watch him. ...With growing confusion. But then, he's never tried to draw an animal himself, or watched someone do it, so maybe this is how you do it.

"So you add the black lines after, yes?"

[foundafamily]

"Yeah, that part makes sense..."

Just saying it's strong doesn't narrow it down very much, though.

Firo sticks yet another line out the back of the oval. It's a tail! "Black lines? There aren't any lines."

He puts two dots on top of the circle as ears. By now, the whole thing just looks kind of like a blob.

[muscovy]

"But you need black lines to make it clear where the lion ends."

Outlines is what he means, though he doesn't know the word. ...Firo's lion would probably benefit from that. At least it doesn't really look like anything to him yet.

[foundafamily]

"Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. I thought you were talkin' about tigers for a second there."

He sets his yellow brush down on the ground and reaches for the one they have in the black paint. The strokes he starts painting are rather wide and flat and only make his lion look more like a blob of paint.

"...I don't think it looks right."

[muscovy]

"I couldn't have, because I have never heard of a tiger, yes?"

And thus even if he'd seen one he wouldn't know about it. Though he assumes that it is just another one of those future things.

"...You should add a mouth and eyes." That will probably help. Maybe?

[foundafamily]

"You haven't? Huh. I think they've got them at the zoo, but I've never been. Seen 'em in movies, though. They have stripes."

And so ends the wildlife lesson. Focus on the painting.

"Eyes, huh?" Firo thinks he's got this. He pokes the brush delicately at the lion's face, now smearing the still-wet pet.

He frowns, his chest deflating a little.

[muscovy]

"Maybe we should let the paint dry first."

He's rather surprised by how badly this is turning out - Firo doesn't really seem to do anything wrong, from what he can tell. It's just... no good.

[foundafamily]

"I guess you're right, but I don't think that's gonna help at this point."

Of course, Muscovy could be talking about next time... But how much of this is Firo going to be expected to do?

At the same time, now that he's tried it, he realizes it wasn't as bad as he thought. The fact that he's absently running his brush up and down a blank piece of wall may hint at that.

[muscovy]

"...You could try again. If you do things more than once, they will become better and better, yes?"

It's suggestion, though, and Muscovy is still mostly occupied with the misshapen blob in front of him. Maybe... "Maybe I could turn this one into a flower, and then people will only see the one that is better."

[foundafamily]

And so Firo sees himself falling farther and farther down the painting rabbit hole. "I can try."

"And I guess, if that's what you wanna do..." It makes Firo an accomplice to flower-ing, but he supposes that that can't be helped.

In the meantime, he starts going for the outline first this time. It still looks like a bunch of circles stacked on top of each other, but progress, right?