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Greetings always followed by sweet goodbyes [Open]

Who: Majima Gorō and OPEN
When: June!
Where: Everywhere!
What: Giant chickens, runework, plus quests and basically a monthly catch-all.
Warnings: Violence in the sunbear fight thread. Salty language, maybe.

A: I'll call you Nugget

[ Whoever had said 'don't go borrowing trouble' had been a smart guy, a wise man indeed, but the thing about being told you could potentially learn to transform yourself into a totally rad magic animal was that Majima wanted to do it immediately. So it was a quiet day in the Haven, sure -- up until, with a brilliant burst of magical fireworks, a giant, six-foot tall feathery menace descended upon one of the courtyards, stalking through the garden. ]

Fuck.

[ Someone get an adult. ]

B: Runetchers

[ Majima looked up when the shop door opened. It was a slow day, which meant he'd been making progress with the pile of scrolls and other orders for enchanted items. It also meant that his fingers were cramped, and a little distraction couldn't hurt. ]

Hi there, welcome to Runetchers.

[ He stood, gave the potential customer a little bow in a show of impeccable good manners. ]

Are you lookin' for anything in particular?

Research Required (For Justine)

Oh, I... yeah. Is there any way we could skip that part?

[ Apparently, no one had told Majima that this particular research was going to require Bonding. Hey, don't get him wrong -- connections were important, and so was emotional support? But getting himself magically attached to someone when he still hadn't made peace with the idea of sticking around long-term didn't really strike him as the best of ideas.

...especially since he wasn't sure if he wanted to get un- magically attached. He looked around for a friendly face, wondering how the hell he was going to bullshit his way out of this one. ]

Pastoral Pursuit (For Iramaat)

Hey, uh. For what it's worth, I'm sorry about your ears.

[ Look, maybe while they were wandering out into the woods looking for some stray sheep was not the best time to bring this up? But hey, Iramaat's ears had been kind of cool, and she knew how to nab foxes, and Majima knew if he'd had to give up one of his favorite features, he'd be pretty pissed about it.

With no outward signs of change, it was fairly obvious what side of the monster-witch coin that Majima had ended up on. He climbed over a fallen tree trunk, careful not to stave in its soft trunk. ]

Wildcard

Feel free to hit me up via Tetradecimal or PM for plotting!

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No, I—

( turning a small circle to better take in the store that she's come into, she pauses upon a glimmer of recognition and her sentence becomes an entirely different one: )

We've met, I think?

( it occurs to her a moment after saying it that she's not certain they exchanged names in the doing, and has a brief moment of excruciating embarrassment that she crushes and sets aside. a great deal happened very quickly, and small lapses are surely forgivable.

she lifts a finger, a loose gesture to encompass the shop— ) I am most interested in runes.

[That's quite the impressive chicken.

But, also, why is there a chicken.

The gardens outside the abandoned mansion Kaede supposed she (and...others?) lived in now were still in a state of neglected disarray, but Kaede had at least wanted to fix a little of that and wanted to get it right first. So she'd been tending to a small corner, tucked away mostly out of sight of the main house; the plot had just a few daylilies and marigolds, gifts from the gardening class. And some of the rows were crooked, but that was background information to a whole ass rooster that had appeared over the wall.

Quite a bit bigger than that, really. But its appearance was so sudden that Kaede started back, kicking over a bag of soil as she stood. Her horns were longer than when she'd met Majima last;--almost twice as long, with a little antlerlike fork starting on the left one. And her posture was still hunched over, but that might just have been because Kaede was Alarmed yet undecided if she wanted to be defensive or to run off yet.]

What was that?

[Did...it just talk? Or was she just imagining its squawk sounding like a word?]

[ Why is there a chicken in their courtyard? Why is there a chicken easily a head taller than her in their courtyard? Walking through the gate with grocery parcels in her arms, she stares up at this fowl creature, blinking owlishly as her brain attempts to catch up. Should she be running in terror right now? She should probably be running in terror right now. And yet... ]

...Ah, are you lost?

[ Look, after walking through some weird magic mirror into a land of magic and monsters, acting surprised every time something weird happens gets tiring after a while. But this definitely ranks top 10 weirdest things she's seen this month. ]

I've had a bit of time to get over the loss.

[ Iramaat sighs, perhaps a bit dramatically. ]

I did love them. Do love them. But I suppose it can't be helped and I certainly can't lie around all day and mope.

[ Although she absolutely would if she thought it would get her the attention she wanted. Instead, she's out here, being active and trying to be as forthright as she can. She hopes over the tree trunk and gives him a sly look. ]

I suppose you haven't had any changes...?

Need a hand?

[Justine's voice is light and warm as she steps next to Majima's side. She'd been hoping to see him again after spending the afternoon exploring the city together.

She glances at the quest that Majima is interested in and genuinely considers helping him. It'd be a way to pay him back, after all, he's done so much for her. Even if he doesn't realize it.] If you don't mind bonding to me. [She looks up at him, her smile nerve wavering.]

It can be temporary.

[She doesn't mind.]

[ Most people, upon seeing a giant rooster descend into their courtyard, might be thinking 'what the hell' or 'that's a really big chicken.' Yako being Yako, the first thing that pops into her mind is: that's a lot of meat.

Which may or may not explain the slightly feral look on her face as she approaches, fingers raised and half-curled as she tries to figure out the best way to grab and disable it might be. It doesn't look like any of the monsters she's seen so far -- for one thing, it's completely not wearing clothes at all! -- so it's not sentient, right?! ]

Heeey Mr. Rooster. Are you lost or something? Come over here and let me have a look at you...

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[Sorry, Majima, but the first thing that Cloud thinks upon seeing giant chicken is "cockatrice". Even when the other talks, Cloud has his hand on the hilt of his sword.

Is this really an enemy, or...]

.....

[How is he supposed to respond to a potential thing to kill saying fuck.]

[Chandra was just minding her own business, training in the courtyard, running through a series of martial exercises with a spear, trying to keep herself in shape and keep Gideon's training fresh in her mind. She was content, more or less, until that gigantic hellbeast arrived, descending from on high...]

Eternities, what the cluck is that?!

[She rushes towards him, spear in hand. Shit-eating grin on her face.]

Don't tell me you called this thing...

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b. runetchers.

A

excuse me what the cluck

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Research Required

a. you'd make a good fried chicken, majima

A - And they say chocobo are giant chickens...