(open + closed prompts on demand)

[usurpers]

Who: eren jaeger + you! (also some closed prompts)
When: august
Where: clothing stores mostly but u can tell me where
What: eren needs new clothes for new armwings, and a good eye for cloaks or ponchos (that’s you 👀). closed quest prompts and others— if you’re interested in a quest or something else i’ll be glad to start it off!! just hmu to plan out what (liberos or owlie#3609)!
Warnings: n/a will add as needed


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[ eren can be found outside of clothing stores, stalls, any of them, all of them, dispatching employees to choose pieces at his own discretion— because he has no clothes.

mostly no clothes! he only dawns with him pants and his new tailored shoes (but only because it rains). any fabric from the waist up is nonexistent, leaving a chizzled back, abdomen and chest spread with black and scarlet scales to freedom. regular shirts have become an imprisonment to the titian membranes that anchor along his ribcage, webbing across the elongations of his elbow and forearm and forming limbs that aren’t dissimilar to a bat’s. it doesn’t restrict much movement, just takes up more space, and requires some getting used to beyond growing pains and stretch sensations where there shouldn’t be.

he’s gotten some suggestions from a young, enthusiastic fashionista that’s attempting to fit some of her homemade pieces onto him every so often. she’s like, thirteen, though. and seems way too excited that someone has (quietly) agreed to model her wild ideas. she’s aware they’re crazy! but that’s the beauty of it! she proclaims. it made her day. she almost cried.

hence eren’s (quiet) compliance. it’s a goddamn kid living her dream and he doesn’t want to be the one to shatter that in her.

you’ll see eren removing the garments and setting them brusquely on top of a mannequin, before coming to you with saturated scales— a telling sign that he’s feeling a pique in his emotions. laces intricately weave onto his horns and how his growing hair is braided into a loose bun . . . it is and isn’t a look for him all at the same time. ]

I just need a cloak.

[ free him. ]

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[lonewanderer]

[ The words of the librarian echo through her head, the idea that the cave had been a failed Wilder outpost creeping up and feeding into her suspicion - which in turn is likely leaking into her Bonds with the two of them. The Wilders should have known. The Coven should have known. But no one said shit, and people were injured. People nearly died - and while she had saved Steven from being eaten by a giant spider, she hadn't been there for Caster, and that doesn't sit too well with her.

Her own nightvision is fairly decent, thanks to the parts of her that are fox; good thing, too, because Lex doesn't dare use the flashlight on her Pip-Boy right now. She takes in the sensations from Eren, passing them along to Caster like a chain - and feeds both of them the scents and sounds that she is picking up, in turn. Dogmeat is settled in next to her, and Lex is in tune to that as well, watching him for the slightest change in body language. ]

Takes longer if you're used to it, [ she murmurs back to Caster, ignoring the urge to twitch her claws. Adrenaline was one hell of a drug, if shit hit the fan. ]

[usurpers]

[ there are quite a few things that the coven knows and doesn't say, eren has realized. for the most part, caster's warning goes ignored— completely ignored, lex would find— all in favor of his pointed ears flicking up once he hears murmurs from a pair of witches.

they stray farther from the runes, yawn and speak of food, how they missed home, before eren quickly lifts his hand in a "listen" gesture. the rooms, the area— they've all stayed clean, they say, despite none of them having actually cleaned them, neither have they trimmed the trees at any point in time.

more than confirmed at this point that they know about the cave. they've been here before. ]

For what, though—?

[futhark]

[ It takes a while to notice that not only he feels Lex, but he is also being passed other sensations— Caster still feels pretty new to this whole Bond things, but he adapts well.

"Suspicious, it's all suspicious" is a general message that bleeds over pretty heavily. The message he agrees with, Lex already told him, it was a trap, and he can only agree. Question is, set by whom ]

Outsiders, or is there a spell at work— [ Wouldn't Coven witches be able to trace magic residue though? Wouldn't they be able to tell something like this is going on? That's an unsaid question that lingers as he looks at Lex and lowers his voice ] Wonder if we could take a glance at those rooms.

[lonewanderer]

They should have known about this place, [ she murmurs, so quiet that she almost feels like she's barely speaking at all. It makes her bare her teeth a moment later, agitation running up her spine, but she forces herself to relax. Despite the suspicion running through her bonds, she's still here with Eren and Caster. She's faced worse with less. ]

Some of the rooms where were we found the alchemy and magic books. [ Cwyld ingredients and masterwork enchantment and abjuration spells... the rooms are likely worth looking at closer, but it runs the risk of them being discovered. Besides, with the books already gone... ]

Librarian thought it would be an outpost. But that doesn't tell us why the Wilders didn't say shit about it. They should've had a record.

[ So either it was hidden from those who went, or it hadn't been sanctioned in the first place. ]

You think enchantment or abjuration could keep things clean?

[usurpers]

[ eren doesn’t quite know how to answer that question, so his eyes fall on caster to answer for them. he does have one thing he wants to comment on, adding onto what lex was trailing after. ]

There’re no records of their expeditions to Dewaint, either.

[ if they knew about that— he’ll be glad to spill what he gathered. ]

[futhark]

[ Caster's the local Witch right now, so it is up to him to give the best answer he can get. Abjuration is not his school of magic, but even if he barely touched spells from it, doesn't mean he skipped on the theory. And Enchantment... that has become somewhat of his specialization. ]

Absolutely, those two schools would form a really powerful combination. [ Sudden fridge logic: if he wanted to create a Bounded Field those schools would be the ones that he'd use ] A mystic boundary line that separates the inside from the outside, preserving an area or hiding it away... maybe add Illusion or Transmutation on top of that for different effects... hm.

[ Okay, now he's thinking-out-loud. Cut off on the magical mumbo-jumbo, no one needs it. ]

I'd use runes to keep the field up, but a powerful Witch probably doesn't need that. They could anchor the Enchantment straight into the architecture of the place. Especially with leyline just below.

[ A beat and a sudden shift of the topic. ]

They miss a lot of the records, don't they? Wilders, Coven, Collage. Everywhere we look missing books, lost names and forgotten facts. That Dewaint survivor is like an exception.

[ What he can offer on the Bond line is... calm. Maybe a little doubt in it, but still, a calm mind to answer the agitation. He puts his hand on Lex shoulder in soothing gesture. ]

[lonewanderer]

Missing or kept hidden, [ she murmurs, claws twitching at her sides. The calm that Caster is exuding helps, but it isn't enough to completely stop her own paranoia, or Eren's. ]

They might be doing that with the wall around Aefenglom, to protect from the Cwyld, [ she muses; she is, at least, momentarily distracted by magical theory. ] Makes sense that they could do it here. If it were corrupted, though... I mean, the pools are. Were?

[usurpers]

Hidden. That's a fact.

[ that was . . . interesting, though. the pools, and how they may be doing something here because they couldn't in aefenglom. the magic and such.

it's the hidden part that makes him go wild. not because it could be something wrong, fuck that. it's what this will cause and what kind of effect it'll have on them and their stay, or, their leave. ]

I heard someone at the Parliament say that they're allowed to keep secrets, [ a gesture ] but that the Wilders didn't have the right to do the same.

[futhark]

So Wilders are expected to disclose everything to the ruling body? I thought they were more independent

[ King and his advisors should know everything, but that makes their secrets even more important... Metaphorically speaking, since it's Parliament that rules here not king. ]

I didn't get to see these pools but Archer took some blurry photos— [ Back then he didn't pay too much attention to it. Too busy nursing himself back to the commission. Falling into the trap of cramming only Enchantment and runes though he suddenly makes the connection. How disturbed he got definitely can be felt on their link ] Think we could get access to them again? If the Cwyld can infect enchantments.

[ Infect spells themselves. Wouldn't that make the wards walls essentially useless? ]

[lonewanderer]

Or that's just what Parliament wants, [ Lex mutters. ] Knowledge is power and all that.

[ Secrets. Politics. She hated them both, especially together, and it made her scowl deepen. ]

Probably, though. If they haven't already cleaned them up. Might be guarded or blocked off, since they seemed to make people want to enter them, but... [ A half-shrug. ] We're already here.