Don't Skip Your Flu Shot

[purrtagonist]

Who: Everyone! It's a mingle post for the first week of Struxta sickness!!
Where: All around the temple
When: During the first week of the sickness
Rating PG?? At most??
What: Curry, blankets and pillow forts, and other assorted sick things

[With the Struxta illness sweeping through the temple like a wildfire, and with so many new arrivals trying to get adjusted to temple living, it's probably no surprise that things around the Astoria's little pocket of space have gotten a little hectic. Feeling under the weather? Looking for something warm to soothe that scratchy throat? Just want to curl up underneath a pile of blankets and not move for like, seven hours or so? Never fear! A Mysterious Helper (TM) has you covered]

A. Curry in the Kitchen

[The kitchen smells extremely nice during lunchtime this week, the only meal of the day that isn't pre-prepared by the misty servants. Like the scent of coffee intermingled with complementary spices. Those who take the initiative to investigate will find something pleasant waiting for them. A few pots of fresh made curry and steamed rice; a few pots of miso soup (a. . . little on the salty side, sorry); and some freshly brewed coffee already poured into individual mugs, along with cream and sugar and whatever additives your heart desires. It's all strewn out across the counter tops with a handwritten note pinned against the wall above the stove:]

Help yourself, and get well soon.

[There isn't any sign of the mysterious chef when you enter the kitchen, and if you arrive near the end of lunch hour, some of the food and coffee miiiiight be a bit cold. But hey! This might be a good chance to mingle with some of your new coworkers who are also seeking out a warm meal to help quell some of their cold symptoms. Just please don't sneeze into the curry pot, thanks. . .]

[Lunch will be laid out in the kitchen every day at lunchtime for the entire first week of the sickness. Help yourselves!]

B. The Temple Hallways

[THERE ARE BLANKETS AND PILLOWS EVERYWHERE]

[. . . no, seriously. For some reason, it's like you can't even walk down a hallway without tripping over a bundled up blanket or a pillow. What's up with that! For the most part, they're normal bedtime accessories, although you may find a bundle of pillows and blankets stacked up into an ENTIRE PILLOW FORT if you're lucky.]

[Pinned to the walls of the hallways (not every hallway, but enough of them that it should be easy to find one of the signs without wandering for too long) are more handwritten signs:]

Whoever can build the tallest pillow fort will receive one (1) high five as a grand prize. Good luck. Blanket provider is not responsible for anyone accidentally falling asleep in the hallways and blocking your route back to your bedroom.

[Hm. Well, that's weird. Anyway! You can build a pillow fort if you want, grab some blankets to take back to your room, or. . . nap in the hallways. Or do whatever! They're all free for the taking. Maybe you could even team up with another Circle member to try and win that extremely coveted high five??]

C. Wildcard

[Don't feel like interacting with any of the above? That's okay! Make your own prompt based on the event stuff over here, or just use this post for. . . whatever you want! It's totally and completely open for mingling for new and old characters alike, so. HAVE FUN ♥]

Comments

[oculusriffs]

[it's true, if Dave is really good at anything, it's blazing through quests or grinding for mats really quickly — he can't use time travel here, of course, so he's powered mostly by impatience instead.]

Oh. [he sets the camera down on the counter and reaches into his back pocket, pulling out a photo he'd printed out earlier. it's blurry. it's of ... a bird.]

I've been trying to get a shot of those weird 12-eyed birds in the forest. [yeah ... he jammed two important forest quests into one trip.]

But it's no problem, dude. Do you just throw it all in a blender or what?

[spellweave]

[Man, Dave and his birds...

Twelve eyed birds sound... mildly concerning? He examines the photo curiously. That machine captured its image? How odd! He thought it was a drawing at first but it looks a bit too real, doesn't it? It is surely not that. He can't tell whether or not it has twelve eyes though because of how blurry it is.]

I... cannot say I have ever seen them nor was I aware the forest had such types of wildlife. I've only observed fairly plain looking ones myself. [But now he's really curious and might go looking for them.]

Ah... if only it were so simple. Doing that would destroy them too much to be of use. I will have to grind them down by hand so it retains as much of it as possible. As you might imagine it will take quite some time. [He just barely sleeps anymore. It's fine.......]

I can show you how it's done, if you're curious, but I'll warn you it's a laborious process.

[oculusriffs]

[birds ........ are great. he's already had a rant or two on how six sets of eyes don't even make sense from an evolutionary standpoint, like he's actually any sort of authority on the matter — because he isn't, he's just very familiar with crows.]

[you know what else is great? sunglasses. because they hide the way his eyes sort of cross at the mention of it being a "laborious process." he wasn't expecting this quest to have a waiting/cooldown period, Alphinaud!]

You got any finished stuff lying around? [which might sound like a weird request on the surface, considering he doesn't really sound sick at all.]

[spellweave]

[Davesprite would probably agree with him about that, if it's any consolation.

Welcome to the MMORPG grind, Dave! No EXP unless you watch all the cutscenes.

The question is definitely strange and he cants his head slightly towards him, confusion on his face.] Aye. I keep some with me from my first successful batch. [He does this to ensure he gets it right in the batches that follow. If the color doesn't match then he didn't do something right.

He produces a small glass vial of the liquid from his pocket for him to see. It's dark green as any good leaf juice would be, one supposes...]

[oculusriffs]

[hhhhrrggghglllh maybe he'll actually climb a god tier or two, at least???]

[but he pauses, giving the vial a quick once over. Dave's only experience with leaf juice is the one or two cups of tea that others in the Circle have given him, or, like. Snapple. Apple Snapple. because that was the first thing he ever rhymed into existence.]

That's it? [wow ... rude, Dave. and if you're gonna accept a dude's quest like this, it probably wouldn't hurt to at least elaborate on how you plan to cheat at it.]

Yeah, all right. Let me think it over — but now that I've got an idea on the building block plants and an actual end result, I can probably speed up stocking your pharmacy here.

[spellweave]

[That unimpressed reaction though. He just smiles.] That's it. Impressive that something so simple could do so much, is it not? [He's a nerd so Dave just has to deal with that. Medicine is fascinating, okay!!

He assumes the "speed up" of the stocking he mentions comes from the fact that Dave now knows what the leaves look like. He cants his head slightly in confusion anyway.]

I see. Well I won't oppose that kind of help either if making it is not of any interest. You've already helped tremendously. [Which he doesn't blame him for either since it's a pain.]