yogen | may missions

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may missions

Who: Alice Yabusame, B.B. Hood, Childe, Dito, Himeko Inaba, Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Nene Yashiro, Noah Ebalon, Rantarou Amami, Rio Ranger, Shin Tsukimi, Sou Hiyori
What: mission time
When: May 20, 2000
Where: various
Warnings: tba.

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[It's a good thing Noah has probably endured worse (?) given that Elrios is how it is, but — but ow?? Still, he's pressing on, because if this thing is tearing him to pieces, there's no way he's letting it get anyone else. He hack-hack-hacks with sickle-Clamor and shadow magic until it hopefully stops moving.]

[It’s much faster to manually throw the next hydro arrow rather than waste the time it takes to nock it and draw the string back, so that’s precisely what he does. Because according to the Genshin fandom’s mathematicians, he can throw those suckers at 75mph. Winding up and tossing it towards his target, aiming for the center of its chest once more, a slight smirk crossing his face as he does.

It’s been a while since the last time he had a good fight, and it feels a little like getting to indulge after withdrawals.

He hasn’t noticed Noah’s predicament just yet, but as he turns his head and does just that that smirk immediately slips off his face. The moment he’s sure Nen is safe and they’re not still under attack he’s gonna rush over and check on Noah.]

[ They're clearly fortunate to have Noah Ebalon on their side, fending off that creature despite its unrelenting attacks, but how long can anyone keep this up? Even his abilities don't make him impervious to harm...

A broken floorboard stands no real chance — all the same, at some point before everything finally stops, Alice flings it at their opponent's head in frantic, frustrated desperation. ]

Damn you...!!

[ And then, when it's quiet at last, that becomes worrying. Are they even safe now? Nene Yashiro and Childe Tartaglia may be unharmed, but... Alice glances in Noah's direction. ]

( fuck the painting, boyfriend is hurt- nene runs over immediately, whining quietly as she fusses otherwise quietly. thankfully mod-narration says it only... feels? like being ripped apart? but ALSO YIKES )

[well first and foremost I hope the thing is dead BEFORE Nene rushes over and also

how fucked up is Noah right now? ~~I hope he's actually torn the fuck up a little bit~~]

[ The thrown arrow will in fact do the trick! The second shadow fades out, and it's as though that space had been empty to begin with.

Their combined efforts are rewarded. The thrown floorboard does knock it off balance, and that should be enough to assist Noah, and the end result is that the room is as empty and quiet as promised. There is the group, the canvas, the supply closet, and a pile of ashes.

But this isn't the first time a body of a student council member has been hidden in here.

Noah is fortunate in that the damage isn't extensive. It was without a doubt painful, but between the clumsy movements of the creature and Noah being a more skilled fighter than most, he's able to avoid the worst of it. He'll be left with scratches that didn't break the skin, marks that will later turn into bruises, and nicks on his skin. He'll find himself sporting a lacerations in a few spots as well (or possibly more but a few swipes of claws is the minimum the blood god requires today,) but fortunately they seem to be relatively shallow.

Do try not to bleed too much. ]

[Noah honestly takes a second to fully come out of combat mode, eyes darting around like he's expecting more to pop out at him. He does not, in fact, register the worried group of friends (and probably doesn't register NPC-sickle Clamor yelling in his head either) until a solid minute after the fight is over.

That's when all of the pain actually starts to kick his ass a little bit. Hi, hello. Wow! He never liked Maya and then her mangled shadow-corpse kicked his ass and that feels bad. He got the last hit in but still. Anyway, he stands there for a moment to assess damage...]

I'm alright.

[Everything hurts but yeah. He's alright. He wants to say "I've had worse" but that probably won't help, and he shuts his mouth when he sees everyone's faces. Wordlessly, he starts trying to heal the larger cuts, though it's gonna take him a minute.]

[Childe stops short of rushing over himself, allowing Nene to handle that front instead. He doesn’t want to intrude on their moment, and Noah seems like he’s alright… Shaken and a little roughed up, but nothing to be too concerned over. He huffs out a sigh of relief, tossing the bow aside and allowing it to dissipate into a shower of mist.]

Thought she’d gotten you pretty good there, kiddo. I was afraid you were losing your touch. Told you that’d come in handy. [He motions to Alice’s handy dandy floorboard, the ghost of a smile on his lips as he idly reaches down to hook his thumb against the edge of his Vision. With a careful push it rotates, the blue of the Hydro symbol sliding around and out of view as the maroon-red of his Delusion takes its place.

He needs it right about now so that he can be faster, especially if he wants to keep up with protecting everyone as best as he can. He stoops down to pick up the discarded paintbrush, reaching up to slide his mask down and over his face as he does.]

Seems like quite a fuss to kick up over a modern art fixture.

I've fought worse. Titania dropped a whole building on my head.

[Which is ostensibly worse than a flailing mutant corpse shadow thingy that's just really really pointy. Noah's quite busy making sure he's not going to bleed on the floors, though, not wanting to set off another round of shadow hands.

He does look up at Childe as Childe does his Delusion shift and thinks to himself, Childe-hyung is so cool. Anyway, back to healing.]

Will you guys check the painting? Maybe it's... I don't know, relevant somehow. I'll check the pile of ashes and see if there's anything in that when I'm done.

[He doubts it, but weirder things have happened.]

( nene does not squeak sadly at the thought of noah getting a building dropped on him, but she does seem reluctant to leave his side. but... the painting. right. she was doing that. she might as well get back to that. what's the painting hold for us, boss? and will spirit sight differentiate anything? )

[ The paint is still drying on the canvas. It shows the wisteria tree at night. It's a completed version of Aiko Okane's final painting, which now hangs in the dorms. When one looks at it, a lonely and wistful feeling overcomes them. It's the sort of nostalgia that comes with remembering better days that have long since passed and the regrets that accompany missed opportunities.

Spiritual sight will reveal that the wisteria have a faint blue glow to them, but that may just be one of the oddities of the other school, or perhaps it's just that whoever made it put a piece of themselves into it. But it will reveal something else, a shimmering object hidden among the colors and tools. There is another mirror fragment here, cool to the touch but providing a small shine and glow in the darkness of the school.

On the other hand, the ashes are warm to the touch, like the ashes left behind by the final burning embers of a fire. Hidden amongst them is a key to the student council room. ]

[When Noah is done gluing himself back together (he ignores the non-bloody scratches and the bruises because like... whatever, you know) he'll rummage in the ashes and pick that key up.]

Found a key. [He shoves it into his coat pocket and makes his way over to the painting.] Did you guys find anything cool?

A key?

[ Like the second mirror shard, the item is something concrete to focus on, welcome after the scares and their aftermath, and how casually Noah Ebalon mentions a whole building dropped on his head. With his floorboard retrieved and tucked under one arm — Childe Tartaglia is right! It may not be amazing magic, but it has its uses — Alice straightens up from studying the painting. ]

Which door does it unlock...? [ As for finding other cool things... ] This painting is quite haunting, I suppose. There's also another mirror piece left behind here...

[He spins the paintbrush around in his fingertips, letting a gentle current of purple electricity arc and wind around the wood as he mulls over what they’ve got so far. Truthfully he’s never been one for puzzles or mind games, as he much prefers the direct approach above all else. In an ideal world he could simply fight his way through until the answers he wanted fell into his lap through sheer brute force alone, but that wasn’t exactly possible.

Not for the first time he found himself wishing the Traveler were around. They were fond of these sorts of puzzles, and he would have been more than happy with trailing alongside them to fight at their side between bouts of intellectual musings.

Unfortunately, when it came to finding those who hailed from Teyvat as he did, he continued to be stuck here on his own. Which left the puzzling for him to participate in. Which was fine. He just wasn’t the best at it.

He lets out a soft sigh, pausing in his brush-spinning to offer up his input.]

Maybe it fits against the other shard we have? Like... Pieces of a broken picture, one we have to make whole again? [The key itself could potentially lead to another such shard. Or… It could just be a key.]

Seems sort of like nothing around here happens without revolving around that tree, doesn’t it?

( while she's like to take part in the conversation, she's a little focused- puzzles aren't her strong point, so she needs to give them her all. nene takes the mirror piece and examines it carefully. is it glowing too? and is there anything on the back? )

[ It is glowing! It seems to glow a little brighter now, albeit that might just be due to the relative darkness of the school. It does seem to match the appearance of the other shard that had been collected. It has a relatively simple frame, just a thin circle to hold it into place, and a simple textured back that seems to have faded with age. Even when compared to the rest of the school, it appears to be quite old. ]

Maybe we need to find multiple pieces.

( nene looks up at the others and then pauses, biting her lip almost. )

One of those things was forming when we came in here. We have to be careful when we go.

Maybe. And, I think this key is to the student council room. I mean... it was Maya, so... it's probably not her housekeys.

...

Let's try there.

[If standing too close to Childe, your hair might suddenly stand on end as he tucks the paintbrush away into his belt and summons forth a pair of daggers. Similar in design to the first, they differ in the sense that they’re a glowing purple color that crackles and pulses with electricity.]

Let me check the hall before we all head out. If it looks like trouble, I can hold the thing off and give everyone a head start to the council room.

[The prospect of more fights has excited the whale, who craves blood. He’s stepping forward to peer out into the hall to see what’s out there.]

[ The hallways is completely empty now. The shadow creature that had spawned seems to be gone for the moment, though where it went off to is anyone's guess. The shadow students have likewise disappeared, leaving the passage devoid of any life. For the moment, all is quiet. ]

[He gives a cursory glance up and down the hall a few times just to be sure, the mask covering his face hiding the slight pout of disappointment. No fights just yet then.

Soon enough though, probably.]

All clear! After me, single file.

[He spares a moment to ponder what exactly might have happened with the other shadow figures that are normally milling about. Maybe the hand monster ate them.]

[ Multiple shards to piece together into a whole... Like a jigsaw puzzle, then, once they locate all the fragments to collect — it's a logical objective. And here they have their confirmation that nothing else will ambush them, at least for now! ]

Really?! That puddle creature isn't hiding anywhere...? What wonderful news, Childe Tartaglia!

[ It is eerily empty all of a sudden... ]

[Giggling at Childe Tartaglia still—

Okay, no, he's good. Noah will resume taking up the back because guarding the rear is important, so everyone else gets to go first. Single-file.]

Alice-hyung, are you okay? You were shouting a lot earlier.

( while noah handles alice, nene gently tugs on childe's sleeve before he can get too far. once he looks behind him, she draws out the shape of the mask before signing out 'why?'? )

You don’t have to…

[The protest at being continuously titled “Childe Tartaglia” trails off into a sigh of acceptance. More pressing matters, after all. He can pull Alice aside later and explain that both are aliases and not the standard forename/surname. He lets his eyes wander as he leads the way, skimming the hall for any hiding adversaries and overall keeping himself on rather high alert.

He also continues to build bridges to help traverse if needed. These ones feel tingly when stepped on, and are liable to leave one static-y once vacated.

Childe only pauses in his surveillance at Nene’s tugging, glancing down at her long enough to gauge her question before he’s breathing out a quiet chuckle and motioning his pinkie to reference the Delusion on his hip.]

You can think of it as safety precautions of a sort. This here is… A man made device that’s prone to backfiring if one doesn’t take the proper steps to protect themself from the detriments. Now isn’t exactly the most opportune time to die, so I follow protocol.

[It’s a barebones explanation, but an explanation nonetheless. He’ll save the specifics of how a Delusion tends to literally leech the life and vitality out of its user for further elaborations.]

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