january open post + catch-all

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Who: Yona (cutefaced) & you!
What: A catch-all for January with OTA prompts and closed starter toplevels.
When: Throughout January
Where: Mainly in and around Olympia; some visits to Wyver, too.
Warning(s): Nothing yet, but I'll edit if that changes.

olympia proper;

one - getting reacquainted;
[Before taking ill, Yona had spent much of her time in the market district - mainly because she's always been easily distracted by interesting things. As a result, she hadn't been completely familiar with other parts of the city before then, though she did make a few forays into the theater district.

No more. Now that she's back, she has every intention of learning her way around the city she and her friens have returned to.

Her wandering takes her almost everywhere - and as a result, she ends up hopelessly, uselessly lost. Maybe you'll catch her looking at her surroundings with a puzzled expression.]

...wait, was I supposed to turn right at the last street, or the next one?

[Help.]

two - weapons galore;
[You must never touch weapons, Yona.

Her father's words are fresh in her mind as she stands outside the weapons shop. Of course - she's already disobeyed him once, when practicing throwing daggers. But she can only keep "borrowing" from Jae-Ha and sneaking them back to him for so long, and they're his weapons, in the end; she needs to find something that suits her.

Sooner or later, she was always going to have to look out for herself.

So in she goes, although she nearly immediately looks a bit overwhelmed at all the different choices. Oh boy.]

There's so many of them...

three - order up;
[She can't just rely on other people to buy her things forever (although to be truthful, it's worked for her so far).

So, not long after they return to Olympia, Yona starts looking for work. Her problem is there aren't a lot of things she already knows how to do well - but part-time work serving food at a cafe seems simple enough, and she's managed to get a job as a waitress at the Wyvernest, which suits her just fine. One of the most interesting things about Wyver was the dragons, after all.

Now she's sort of got the best of both worlds - she can see the baby dragons while she's working, and can learn about them as she does. (The owner doesn't rebuff her when she asks for employment as some others have, but maybe that's because they remember she wore a Wyver pin at the gala. Maybe they think she knows more about dragons than she actually does.)

But at the moment? It's time to serve some customers! Yona looks up when she hears the door open and fixes the person who's just entered with a smile.]

Welcome to the Wyvernest! How many would you like a table for today?

the outskirts;

one - neutrality problems;
[The first time she borrows a mount to go exploring, she runs into some of the people who have left the city.

...up until that moment, she hadn't realized just how bad things had gotten. Sure, there were people who were vocal about wanting to keep themselves separate from the people of Wyver, and people who were talking about fighting with them... but she'd believed it was just talk. After all, when she'd gotten sick, the medicine that had cured her had only existed because they'd cooperated with them.

But, no. Apparently it is that bad. And when she hears that people on both sides have been refused help from the Sanctuary and the Altar of Volkkra...

Well, she can't take it. She really can't take it.

So, from time to time, she ventures out from the city on a mount for a "picnic," though what she's got packed is more along the lines of simple food for traveling, cloth cut into bandages, and other things she's managed to purchase with her earnings from the Wyvernest cafe. Some days, when she's gotten especially good tips, she has a little more.

Some days, when business has been slow, she's got a little less.

Either way, she's trying. And she could probably use a little help... be it with passing things out to people who need them, or actually providing effective medical assistance, or not getting mugged or attacked by wild animals or something.]

two - edrathe ruins;
[Is it foolish to be out here? Probably. Is that going to stop her from looking around? Probably not.

...except it really should have, because enough time has passed that Yona's borrowed mount has decided to head back to the stables and has definitely left her behind. She's wandering around near the entrance now, unsure if she's actually where she left it or if she's just gotten terribly turned around.]

Hello?

[...there's that strange rumbling noise; she jolts, then glances over her shoulder.]

Is someone here...?

a visit to wyver;

one - dragonwatching;
[No amount of tension is going to keep Yona out of Wyver - for the time being, anyway. But even she's not that stupid; when she does take off for the hotter country, about midway through the month, she at least has the sense to change the style of clothing she's wearing and smooth down her hair. It's perhaps not the most effective disguise she could have gone with, but at least when her hair reverts back to its usual frizzy state, she can use that as an excuse -

It couldn't have been me you saw! Do you really think I could get my hair to look like that?

Et cetera, et cetera.

Anyway, now that she's back in Wyver, she's going to be visiting some friends - but she's also going to be taking the time to go observe some fully-grown dragons. ...from a distance, of course; she doesn't want to be eaten. Still.

There's no small amount of admiration in her eyes as she watches them.]

They really are amazing...!

two - lagoons;
[Before she goes back to Olympia, she has to stop at the lagoons. Has to. There's no two ways about it. They're one of the things she enjoyed most about the jungle country, and she doesn't know when she'll get the chance to bathe in them again.

The public bathhouses in Olympia are perhaps a little more elegant, but the lagoon has its charm, too.

For now, Yona lounges in one of the public pools, her hair fanning out across the surface of the water and preserving her modesty. But ultimately, a bath is a bath. There's a time and a place for being naked; this is one of them.

So she doesn't really think twice about it when she catches sight of someone's feet at the water's edge - she waves them over with a smile.]

Come in, the water's great!

wildcard;

[If none of the above works for you, just hit me with whatever! I just ask that you let me know when and where it's happening; I can come up with a justification for Yona to be wherever you'd like. Alternatively, hit me up by PM or at hungriest and I'll be glad to write a personalized starter for you.]

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[likethelight]

[ —and loud splashes and a pained groan... ]

I'm fine... [ Just fine. His voice only sounds a little thin and reedy because of the tunnel, that's all. This is going to be one of those kinds of places, huh..

One of those pitch black kinds of places, except for the light coming from above. Of course his night vision isn't as good as it used to be. Of course. ]

It's just a little wet.

[ Also it reeks. Does this feed into a swamp?! Are there gators... ]

[meinwaifu]

[Man it's a good thing he's a dog right now, so Yona can't tell how much he's grinning about this. Probably for the best he just fell into some nasty water, even if the classic spike pit would have been funnier.]

[Of course, now the question of how to get him out... naturally, Mephisto could do it in an instant, but Yona knows he can't blow his cover here! So, after an insult-to-injury bark down at Allen, he turns and looks at Yona. Does she have any ideas?]

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[Her first instinct is to call for Hak to get him out, maybe by holding his glaive down there to help Allen climb back up. Her second is to call for Jae-Ha to leap down and jump him out of there.

Neither of those is an option anymore. Asking Faust for help isn't an option, either. She has to figure this out for herself.]

...um... hold on. I'll find a way to get you out of there.

[Yona scans her surroundings. There had to be something they can use, right? Surely whoever built this place had worked in failsafes in case they fell prey to their own traps?]

Think, think...

[...oh.

Wait.

She's wearing a cloak for warmth; it's not the longest thing in the world, but between his reach and hers, it should do. She shrugs it off and gives a small shiver before she starts twisting it so it can form a more solid, rope-like shape, then goes back to the side of the trapdoor to ease it down.]

Can you reach this?

[likethelight]

[ Midway through trying to figure out if it would be a really good or a really bad idea to try and use his Innocence to claw his way back up... he blinks slightly when he catches that. Reach—what? ]

—oh! [ The light is winking off and on by what seems to be a... rope that Yona is dangling? He stands further on the tips of his boots with a look of Supreme Concentration (re: don't ask why sticking your tongue out a little helps you focus, obviously it does) as he reaches for the dangling cloak. Almost! But.. ]

Yes! But... [ concern ] Are you sure that's alright?

[ It's her and her dog and he doesn't mean to judge but... is it really safe?? He doesn't weigh that much, but... ?? ]

[meinwaifu]

[...well, he doesn't really want to make things harder for Yona. There's no way she'll be able to pull Allen up herself, and the chance of that cloak ripping is way too high!]

[So he gives Yona a little nudge to get her attention before winking -- planning to use his powers to float Allen up out of the hole while Yona pretends to pull him up.]

[...of course, it's possible she might not have caught that this was the plan, so instead they might just both wonder when the hell Yona got so ripped??]

[But perhaps more than that -- he can't mask his aura as well when using his powers. Which night just catch the attention of whatever spooky spirits are lingering here.]

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[Haha, yeah, she totally doesn't get it. She looks down at Mephisto when he nudges her, but misses the wink in favor of looking back down the trapdoor when Allen speaks up.]

I'm sure! Just hold on tight and... try to walk up the side of the wall while I pull on it. If we both try, I'm sure we can do it.

[She may not be able to just yank him up herself, but if they work together...

Well, it'll definitely work since Mephisto is helping out.

If there are any spooky spirits lingering about, they don't seem to be bothering Yona... but that's likely because they're more focused on the poor sucker that actually fell into the trap. They've learned by now that the frustration getting trapped causes in most people usually tends to lend itself better to possession.]