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Octeuril Catch all [Open!]

Who: Everett and anybody!
When: Throughout Octeuril
Where: Aefenglom
What: Gardening, Kittens, Quests- many OTA prompts inside!
Warnings: NSFW in some threads, will mark individually as needed.

[All prompts in header are OTA! Closed prompts will be below and marked accordingly. New and established CR both welcome, plotted or not! Will match format, if prose is preferred over brackets!]

Rainy Days, Here to Stay
A. Gardening for fun and competition

[Everett's cottage was a welcome sight, coming back from Dorchacht. He hasn't been a mirrorbound for long and yet, it felt enough like a home to him. His garden had been well taken care of in his absence, but after gaining so much more experience with his magic in Dorchacht, he was ready to really expand. He could let his neighbors have the more beautiful garden, after all!

He'll be happily recruiting any who wish to help him, offering them garden boxes of herbs and tea plants to take home with them in repayment. His tobacco plants he's protective of, but the lilies are off limits!

If gardening isn't in one's skill or knowledge set, that's just fine, Everett seems to be new to it himself, mostly relying on his magic to grow and maintain his garden. All the same, he didn't want to keep draining himself, so there is a stack of literature bought and borrowed on the subject. He's happy for others to take a look, or to write out instructions transcribed, for home care of gifted plants!

They just need to be mindful none of those books get wet. Everett enjoys working out in the rain, but it's difficult to not trek in the water and muck straight into his tidy cottage...]

B. Shelter from the downpour (aka The Kitten Giveaway)
[Throughout the month, Everett will be out and about his yard. He's landscaping the front portion with verdant rose bushes and hibiscus and ivy to crawl up the front porch of his cottage. Soon enough, it's overtaken with more green and blossoming flowers than it is wooden structure. HIs front gate is always left wide open and welcoming.

On this day, it's really pouring. He spies someone stuck out in it, waving to them from under his porch. There's a basket in his arm and he's stuffing it full of... kittens? Seems a family of strays was taking shelter and he felt a need to help. The neighbors keep feeding the local cats, but this was the first Everett saw of little ones. They should really be brought in.

As should the poor person out in the rain! Everett waves them in, warmly greeting even a perfect stranger. He's always happy to make friends.]

This way! My cottage is warm, do take shelter. It really is coming down today!

A Questing We Shall Go
A. Garden Troubles
[Everett loves him some fresh preserves! He's also just a very helpful man, aiding the old woman with her troubles would be on his to-do even without reward. He's happy to see someone else willing to indulge her. He's glad others are so kind!

He does not expect the issue to be puppies of all things. The same from the dream, even! Same kind of creature, at least. Everett was already very fond of the petal wolves, so he's careful not to harm any while shooing the majority away. One remains and it's a particularly pesky one, he's in need of the other helper to chase the pup into his arms. He catches the dog around the midsection and swings the creature up in his arms, looking it over appraisingly]

Caught you, little one! This is no place for you.... [it whimpers at him and. Oh. Huh.

He could understand just what it meant! How curious that is.]

B. Habitat for Refugees
[While he's more than happy to be out of Dorchacht, Everett is not content to leave the refugees without assistance. They're in real need of support and mentorship, autonomy is a frightening prospect! Everett does not want them slipping back into familiar habits or finding new, worse ones. Aefenglom may be a better place, but it's not perfect and these monsters could easily be taken advantage of if they're not well looked after. Everett is assisting on two, main fronts.

Firstly, thrifting! He's happy to gather some money up of his own and kind donation of other volunteers, using every coin of it wisely. With so many yard sales around the city, it's easy to get practical goods and furniture at a bargain. The housing for the refugees should be well stocked with living essentials in now time! Of course, assistance hunting down good deals and even just moving so much furniture would be very helpful to him.

Second, he's doing much the same as he did in Dorchacht, brightening up the neighborhood with plant life! His focus is on planting herbs, tea plants, and fruiting trees. Plants the refugees can easily tend to themselves and harvest for the local market or keep for themselves. Everett's eye is steadfastly on providing the practical!]

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Yeah. There was nothing about this magic that existed in my home world.

[ He had a whole different type of superpower, which was being a Rider and sending enemies through the walls with his kicks. Wataru never thought he could miss that, of all things. ]

As for my heritage... I was what I would be commonly defined as a Dhampyr. I had a human father and a... vampire mother. [ Fangire, but he'd like to use a more common term that describes the similar kind of monsters. ]

I see! [Everett is not too phases to hear this, but that sort of arrangement isn't wildly uncommon in his world. There weren't many Vampires, but they were renowned beings.]

Vampires seem to exist in many worlds and in all sorts of varieties. Those of my world are peculiar sorts of immortals. What are yours like?

The ones in my world are also immortal beings, and are monsters who can take the appearance of humans.

[ He muses, rubbing the underside of Dahlia's chin. ] They can also function perfectly fine in the sunlight, and can have regular lives like humans.

[ Many of them used that as an advantage to approach and then hunt humans for their life essences, but he's making no word of that. ]

That's very intriguing and far from how I know them. While it's unlikely they'll perish from sunlight alone, the Vampires of Myddvai will lose their immortality if they linger too long beneath the sun's magic. [he hums, considering how different both those are from Dazai's ongoing vampiric transformation]

Different still from here, where they cannot be beneath the sun at all. Curious, the differences in details, but similarities in titles.

They have their nuances depending on which world they're in... like the other monsters, for that matter.

[ Now he feels kind of lucky that he wasn't given vampire features here, in spite of his heritage. ]

Fauns were one of the few who didn't exist back home, however.

The Faun-like creatures of my world are called Giants. I was not one of them, so it's quite the shock to be becoming something so similar. Though their domain of magic was sleep and dreaming, not nature and growth. Have to say I prefer the latter, for my own use.

[he's enjoying his garden very much, going into the dreams this place inspires has been... less thrilling, save the rather pleasant one in which he met Wataru]

[ ... Sleeping doesn't sound that much productive than being related with nature, so Wataru silently agrees about preferring the latter. Moreover, he can't imagine fauns being related with giants at all after he took his first look at Everett. But it is what it is at the man's home and he's not really about to make a judgement of that. It's just a silly hot take he made in his mind. ]

Did you own a garden in your home world, too?

My family had very impressive gardens, but not one I ever maintained for myself. I was an aristocrat in my youth, it would have been seen as below my station... [Everett doesn't sound too fond of this time, but he's not bitter or disgusted either. Merely stating a fact.

What he does sound fond of is his work]

When I became a diplomat, I traveled too much for such a thing. The change of pace is rather nice, here. Settling into a cottage with a garden all my own. [and while he'd appreciate help with it and running a business out of it, he'd still always be doing work himself, not one to sit back on his laurels.]

[ Wataru nods along, listening to Everett as he narrates about his family and past work. He could quite tell the man has manners fit for an aristocratic, but none of the evil or arrogance he'd see in a Fangire King or similar. Everett just wants to raise a garden and manage a florist shop, which Wataru is more than happy to help with. ]

You were a diplomant, even? Was there a lot of conflict where you lived?

[ He's probably making too many questions, but he's quick to beat his self-doubts into the curb. ]

To the contrary, Myddvai was a very peaceful place. My people, however, where very secluded sorts. The Springtide do not often leave the Below Lands. I had hoped to change that, to forge new alliances with the rest of the world, left strained from ages old conflict.

[he sighs, wistful, in a very casual oh well manner, not too fussed at all]

I'd done a decent enough job of it, though now I am here... someone else will need to take up the mantle, if I do not find my way back.

[ Lack of knowledge about Myddvai aside, Wataru can understand how the job of a diplomat is fundamental to form ties between clans, moreso urgently with secluded ones. He's glad that the situation isn't as bad as the eternal conflict between fangire and humans he'd been just recently successful at quelling for the time being. ]

Mmm. [ He nods slowly. ] I sincerely hope someone else will pick up what you've left.

[ Dahlia steals his attention with whinings and puppy licks... he looks down at her. ] Are you hungry?

Hungry... [Everett echoes, having not thought of that before. He looks to Daisy and asks, directly, not knowing what a pup like this might eat]

What do you like, little one? [he gets a quick answer, which makes him laugh] Yes, yes, food! I could guess that. What kind of food? [BARK BARK]

OKay, okay... mushrooms! It seems, is what they enjoy. I do remember the old woman mention her mushrooms were first to go. [Everett.... thinks he will go get a book on these animals soon enough, to check in on this. Apart of him is suspicious that if you asked a child what they like the eat, they'd say CANDY. Of which a healthy diet would not make. He's got his dad instincts on high]

[ Thank goodness for Everett understanding puppy language because Wataru had no idea what to gauge from the little barks Dahlia was giving him in response. He really needs to pick up the slack and look into any magic that allows him such a feat, so he could even chat with his pet sometimes.

Mushrooms, then... and he muses softly, rubbing Dahlia's tummy and causing her to twitch her leg in bliss. ]

I suppose you have mushrooms in your garden? Oh, but they must have already eaten in their rampage. [ Naughty babies!!! ]

Not too many, but enough for a snack. I shall need to start a mushroom garden, next! Perhaps I should dig out a cellar for them....

[that would be nice, he loves to be beneath ground after all! Mushrooms are a staple of Springtide diets, it would be nice to have many more growing in his care]

I agree, so long as there are enough barriers for them not to get any access. The mushrooms would be gone before you could even harvest them.

[ He's seriously concerned about that. Moreover, those babies will grow up in future weeks. ]

I may need your help puppy-proofing my garden! Keep these young ones out of trouble... I believe a proper burrow will sate them, given winter is so near. They will likely calm once their environment is safe and comfortable for them.

[You know, probably.

Whoosh, they'll be at Everett's cottage in no time. It's impressively grown at this point, front year overflowing well past the front gate with roses and hibiscus bushes. He keeps it open, not minding those who wish to wander to the front porch look at his magnificent, natural displays. He welcomes Wataru to the front door and unlocks that, leading into a tidy, quaint cottage.]

Make yourself comfortable, shoes best left by the door. [he'll be kicking his boots off and setting down the pup. They'll be curiously looking around for a while, he's sure. Glad they're girls, suddenly, they should go about marking the place.... he would not be pleased about that, what bad manners!]

[ Wataru positively responds to the idea of assisting Everett with making the garden safer for the pups. Since he's in the job now, he'd like to do what he can to keep peace and be useful to the other man.

And then they finally arrive to destination. Such display of nature being beautiful has Wataru stare for a short while until Everett takes him into the cottage and he can finally set Dahlia down. She quickly goes after Daisy into exploring the place, while he can have his arms free while conversing with his friend.

He nods, takes his footwear off and steps in, following after Everett. ]

It looks really nice... was it an abandoned building or did you build it from the ground up?

Granted to me by the Coven, one they cleared out for Mirrorbound arrivals. I was fortunate enough to get one all to myself. A most generous arrangement. [he chuckles, gently, moving when he sees a flash of movement, knowing it's Clementine skittering away from the puppies. Everett reaches to pick her up, the rat nuzzling into his hands affectionately]

Though I hardly enjoy for the solitude that grants! Between the animals I keep and the company I invite over, I'm rarely that alone. This is Clementine, she arrived with me, a pet from home. [he's clearly very proud of her]

[ He listens to Everett up to the point where he sees the quick small animal scurrying past him. When he next sees it, the rat is now snuggled within the faun's hands. That was quick. ]

I see... hi, Clementine. [ Wataru is mild in his greeting, tentatively reaching over to rub his finger over her head. ] I lived in solitude for so long, I don't think I would feel that comfortable having housemates of my own... that's why I seeked a small house, for myself and my familiar.

A familiar? That's an esteemed term, in my world! What manner of creature is yours? [Everett's fascinated by the concept, it was something reserved for the Beast Masters of his world, humans that held special bonds with animals. A bond that wasn't inherent, but earned through trust and care, a very special sort of magic that only Human's could manifest through effort.

Not many could claim that, in Myddvai, though a few of the Vaughan's had managed, in raising their rats into familiars. Everett hadn't managed that, but he thought he probably could, one day... He doubts it's the same for Wataru, since worlds had so many differences, but it's still intriguing to compare]

[ In truth, nobody ever called Kivat his familiar at home, but his function is pretty much the same as one. However, the irony of labeling Kivat in a world where he can't transform into Kiva is not missed. ]

His name is Kivat. He's a speaking bat-like creature whom I've known since I was very little. I can almost say he's been a parental figure to me, though we're mostly friends.

[ In order to describe Kivat's whole function he'd have to share his other identity, which is something he's still rather relucant to do. But he won't stop himself if Everett wants to know further. ]

And he came along with you? That's very fortunate, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to leave someone like that behind. A fine companion to have along for such a strange journey as we find ourselves in, as Mirrorbound. He must be a comfort to you.

[Clementine was certainly that for him, Everett would be terribly worried for her if she hadn't come through the mirror, too. Those he knew, back home, they'll get by without him. A benefit to him never staying in one place too long, he had little responsibility he left behind.

Everett's not exactly rushing to get home, because of this, clearly enjoying this adventure for what it is]

He is. Because of that, I can't say that I'm completely alone. Besides... it's better he is with me, instead of finding out one of my other friends was also taken here.

[ Wataru still felt he had so much to do at home, and this sort of setback doesn't make him very happy. At least he's not left completely powerless. ]

If ever you are in need of support, please contact me. I am ever the helpful sort. [Everett offers this easily and breezy. Wataru seems like a well motivated sort, even if he's adrift as a Mirrorbound in this foreign city. Everett believe those who fell through need stick together. While Aefenglom and the Coven have been so very welcoming, who is to say that will last... they may just need each other.

And even if they never need, it's still nice to have those connections. Everett is ever the diplomat, after all.]

Feel free to take a seat and relax by the fire. Should I put on tea? [he clicks his tongue, considering the time]

I had planned to cook myself dinner, there will be more than enough to share if you wish to stay for a meal.

Thank you. I really do appreciate your offer.

[ It feels nice to have all this support from Everett, and not only him - some other people he had met shortly after his arrival. He's still heavily nervous about the magic he must learn, and he has yet to wrap his head around the concept of bonding, but that can be all worked with in due time.

With a nod, silently thanking the man again, he makes himself comfortable and sighs softly as his body recovers from all that workout. ]

I don't wish to take up your time or food, but it would be rude leave so soon, I guess... [ He's just arrived, and the two puppies are still scurrying around the cottage. ] I had no idea it has gotten this late. Sorry for intruding.

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