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Oh today I'm just a drop of water | April Catch-all

Characters: Pepper Potts, Devin Parker, and you!
Date: Throughout April
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Pepper is enjoying shopping and some gourmet meals, and Devin is decidedly not enjoying a sudden flood of attention. Neither is especially bothered by the rain.
Warnings/Rating: None yet, will add as needed

A. [Pepper] Arts 5 | Throughout April | Open

Pepper will basically never say no to free food, especially food that is gourmet. Sure, there are some things that she's not all that familiar with as far as ingredients, but she's been assured that nothing being served can kill her (probably). With her skills in persuasion, she's also managed to let the cook bring a friend along each day, so long as they know they will be expected to give honest and helpful critiques. And there's no rule it can't be a different friend each day - this actually seems to delight the chef, who is getting a wide variety of testers without having to do the work of recruitment. Come join her for lunch!

B. [Pepper] Dreaming Bridge | Bakura

It has not escaped Pepper's notice that Bakura is a bit… distant? She's not quite sure that's the right way to describe it, but something is on his mind. Her insatiable curiosity is there, as always. Over the past two years of living in this world, however, she's learned it was sometimes better to be gentle and subtle about inquiries than acting like a battering ram. They'll be moving out of the Bridge soon, which is an event to look forward to in a number of respects, not the least of which is privacy.

"If you're not careful, I'm going to make all the decor decisions," she teased, waving her pencil at him. Her notetaking with Tony the previous month had only expanded beyond apartment features to budgeting for furniture and the like. The departure of the Bresilykians was an opportunity Pepper intended to take advantage of, too.

C. [Pepper] Renewal Festival | April 1-15 | Open

Anyone who knows Pepper knows that she loves shopping. The rain doesn't bother her too much; it isn't the torrential downpours New York got yearly, and the temperature isn't too bad most of the time. The festival reminds her of Keeliai, in some respects, and while she doesn't go diving in the vernal pools she does go shopping. Mostly window shopping, because budgeting is a thing that needs to happen, but the brightly colored rain gear and artistically decorated umbrellas are lovely to look at. She's got a decent coat to deal with the weather, but Pepper can be seen trying on a few different hats or chatting with merchants. Any chance she gets, she will definitely invite people out to the markets with her.

D. [Pepper] Metaphysics 3 | Miles

Pepper is no stranger to weird Dreaming shenanigans. They happen a lot. This, though, is new. All she was trying to do was go back to her room, but she gets about halfway into the lobby when she's suddenly yanked upwards. It feels a lot like she's just fallen, but fortunately Pepper doesn't hit the ceiling too hard. Enough that she may end up mildly bruised, no more.

"Ow," she grumbles, 'sitting' up and staring at the floor. "Okay, this is really freaky."

E. [Devin] Crime 1 | Kit

Devin swears he does not get into fights on purpose. In this case, he's not even remotely involved with how it starts, seeing as he's on the other side of the bar when the first punch is thrown. This isn't his favorite establishment by any stretch, but it quickly turns into an all-out brawl when others unsuccessfully try to resolve it and brawls are not fun for anyone. Sighing, Devin puts his drink down and dives into the fray, moving faster than anyone has a right to and separating people with what might be casual boredom.

F - 1. [Devin] Arts 4 | Open

There is a reason that Devin does not use social media, and that reason is so no one can find him who he does not want to. He also doesn't have time for flame wars and diatribe, and the sole reason he would ever consider an account on any platform is to keep an eye on other people. There are no vampires here to track, but he has a Xa Xa account with zero pictures or information on it just in case it could prove useful to access.

The sudden influx of messages and, disturbingly, offers to do things like model for more photos - when did he model in the first place? - has him grumpier than average. The written letters that arrive for him may be well-intentioned, but the fact that people know how to find him feels… threatening. He's going to find the artist and politely but emphatically tell them to stop.

F - 2. Closed to Leo

It quickly becomes clear that a candid shot Leo took of Devin with his new pet inan draped across his shoulders is the cause of this uproar. He's not thrilled. He's also aware that it's not actually Leo's fault, but given that the young man has such a large following on the network, perhaps he can exert some influence to make this attention go away. The knock on Leo's door is curt.

G. [Devin] Petrichor | Around Aifaran | Open

Devin is among those who take well to the near-constant drizzle over Aifaran. It reminds him more than a little of England. Though he claims nowhere as home, he has a certain fondness for the country that he belongs to whether he would want it or not. Trying to write notes about the city in this weather is nigh impossible unless he can find a different kind of paper, and so Devin wanders. It's nice, in it's own way, to just be in the city and the rain. Luthien occasionally joins him, but the inan usually ends up hiding in his coat to avoid the drizzle. He's not happy, exactly, but the pensive look he wears is less harassed than in previous months.

H. [Pepper] On kaa | Gene

Practicing with Shadow magic is something best done in open spaces, just in case, so a park on the edge of the city seems fitting. Pepper had previously assured Gene that his ka is still there and that they just need to work on getting him to this plane. She is not an expert by far, but at least she can provide advice and moral support and her own ka to give a little guidance.

OOC note: Let me know if you want a specific starter or feel free to make your own!

Threaded | Flat

Leo didn't have any clue as to why Devin was knocking at the door, but he figured it had probably something to do with something he'd either done, or did not do. Otherwise, the guy probably would've kept trying to avoid him.

Well, his eyes could see through the door so he could get his snark on a little early as he opened up the door. "So, who did you piss off this time?"

“Hey, that hat looks good on you!”

Ilda walks up to Pepper, grinning. She doesn’t know her, but that’s never bothered her; she’s a merchant back in her world, after all, so she’s used to striking up conversations with strangers.

But it’s nice to be the one doing the shopping for a change. Especially since they’ve been given enough rhinn to do just that.

Well, the rhinn’s not exactly just for shopping. But she has a good feeling about today. Maybe she can score a really sweet deal!

The fight breaks out over something fairly minor, all things considered, but one man's mole hill is another man's mountain, and so it really doesn't surprise Kit when his beer gets knocked over as the two hollering brawlers crash into him in their haste to punch each other up. He goes toppling from his bar stool and hits the sticky floor with a grunt and a grimace--and another grunt as a few pairs of shoes trek across him.

Just like a rowdy night ending in 'y' back in Dust Town, honestly.

He pushes himself up to his feet and does what he can to dodge swings and punches in order to pay his bar tab (because he's fucking done, all right), then turns around to start hauling these guys off each other before someone calls the Sentry. ...Someone has probably already called the Sentry.

When he spots Devin in the midst of everything, he almost snorts. What a show-off.

Bakura is presently draped across Pepper's bed on his back, flicking a rhinn coin into the air and catching it over and over. For a moment it's almost as though he hadn't heard her, before he eventually rolls over to prop his chin in one hand and regard her. "You say it as though that probably wouldn't work out better for all involved," he smiled.

After meeting the new resident god and learning some about both his world and his needs, Pepper had done a little research into the water supply systems in the city. It was fairly complex, but identifying direct sources was actually quite easy. The only way to find out if they would work was to go check them out with Yato; if they didn't, they'd have to search further afield.

She had a map with locations marked and some notes on the municipal systems, waiting for Yato to arrive.

Edited 2018-04-18 05:11 (UTC)

The Fool is not certain when Fitz vanished from Aifaran--only that he has, and that the last words they exchanged together were hostile, unpleasant. A discreet visit to Fitz's former lodgings in the Dreaming Bridge only confirm the Fool's unhappy conclusion. When he takes his leave of it, he brings a small memento with him: a carved bit of memory stone he'd gifted to Fitz after their last parting. If Fitz would not be here to reclaim it, then the Fool could not bear to think of it falling into other hands.

He has placed it on one of the windowsills in his apartment, tucked neatly between two potted plants, and has not touched it since--at least, not until this particular morning. He stands by the window with a cup of tea in one hand and his numb, despondent gaze fixed somewhere beyond the limits of the city. For a time, he leaves two fingers silvered by Skill magic resting against the stone, until he apparently cannot bear to look upon what he sees anymore.

It's then that there is a knock upon his apartment door, and that in and of itself is enough of a rare occurrence for him to startle. "A moment," he calls out, gathering his composure, and detours by a mirror in his bedroom just to make sure he doesn't look as though he's been on the cusp of weeping. (Eh. Good enough.)

But any thoughts he has regarding his own appearance are firmly put to bed when he opens his door and sees--

"Devin..!" It's the dramatic bruising that demands his attention first, and he can't mask his dismay. Quickly, he takes a step back and motions his friend into his apartment.

Thwack.

Before Miles can ask what happened, he's floating up, too. "No, no, no, Pennywise is a liar!" he shouts, scrabbling for a chair and halfway pulling it up with him. No dice. He practically slams up into the ceiling, the wind knocked out of him.

"Why?!"

Gene stands with Pepper in the park, looking utterly unbothered - only someone who knows him as well as she does would be able to tell at all that he's a little bit nervous. After all he went through to do this, after coming to grips with everything he'd needed to and then going back and then returning to Konryu, was Tolui even still here?

Pepper had said that the ka was. He hopes she's right.

"Okay," he says. "Where do we start?"

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F-2: suffer devin

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B.

For Yato

set sometime shortly after the park 'party';

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H. maybe we dont blow up this park