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The Original Character Meme
The Original Character Meme
This is the meme for everybody who loved their OCs. The prompts have been taken from The Random Scenario Meme, linked at the bottom of this meme.
[The Rules]
1. Post as your characters, and write down the name, canon (if they're fandom OCs), preferences, etc. Please also add an blurb or explanation about what the character's all about.
2. Choose a prompt, or any combinations of prompts. You can just make up your own prompt, too.
3. Tag away, and be excellent to each other! No wank, please.
[The List Of OCs]
1. Original Story/Universe OCs
2. Fandom OCs
3. Original Mascot Characters, etc
4. Original versions of personifications of websites and other things, etc
5. Anything Else That Fits The Theme
[The Long List Of Prompts]
TYPE OF SCENE.
① Action → Gun fights, bar brawls, fights to the death are all possible scenarios.
② Angst → Characters suffer emotionally or physically from relationships breaking up, death, injury, etc. Hurt and comfort themes are included.
③ Crack → Genderswaps, super powers, sudden compulsions are all possible outcomes.
④ Fluff → Something that is devoid of angst. It's light-hearted and might have the overtone of romance.
⑤ Gen → General fun, things that didn't fit in the other categories.
⑥ Sex → First times, kinks, even dubcon are all possible themes of sex related scenarios.
⑦ Your choice → Think of your own scenario, choose one of the above or make a combo even!
ACTION.
① Zombies → It's the zombie apocalypse, lock and load!
② Bar brawl → You had one too many drinks, said something wrong, and now you're being asked to take it outside.
③ Chase → You're caught in a high speed chase.
④ Gun fight → You're caught in a big shoot-out.
⑤ Fight with a friend → You're fighting with a friend, all out.
⑥ Interrogation → You're being interrogated for some offense you've done.
⑦ Aliens → Aliens are attacking and you're not going to take your probe laying down!
⑧ Final battle → This is it. The battle that will end all the fighting for you. Will you win? Will you get that peace you want?
⑨ Training → You're not actually fighting, just training for the inevitable.
⑩ No hope → You know this fight has no hope. It's not going to end well for anyone involved, but you can't turn away.
⑪ Sneaking in → You're stealing a diamond or sneaking in to kick some bad guy butt, but whatever it is, you have to practice stealth.
⑫ Blue wire → You're faced with a bomb that needs to be disarmed.
⑬ Fight for honor → You've been disgraced or someone you care about has, so it's time to fight for honour.
⑭ Showdown → Time for a cowboy-style showdown. Whoever draws the fastest wins.
⑮ War → You're caught in the middle of a war here. Remember to keep your chin up and keeping fighting.
⑯ Apocalypse → The apocalypse finally happened and now you're left to scavenge and fight for whatever is left.
⑰ Sabotage → It's time to sabotage someone's plan! How is entirely up to you. Do you set up a bomb in their toilet? Do you double cross them at the last minute?
⑱ Big damn hero → You know you have to handle this one alone, so that means disarming or knocking unconscious the person who wants to join you.
⑲ Fight club → You know the rules... you're in an underground fighting ring and you're fighting with all you've got.
⑳ Threaten → You've just been sent here to rough them up a little, threaten them into behaving.
ANGST.
① Injury / illness → Your character has become injured or ill! To what extent is the mun's choice.
② Last moments → You character has been gravely injured and this is their last chance to say their last words.
③ Depression → Your character is depressed, what actions they take is up to the mun.
④ Betrayed → You character has been betrayed by the other. How do they react?
⑤ Tortured → Your character is being tortured and needs rescuing or at least a sympathetic ear to help him through it.
⑥ Jealousy → Your character is feeling jealous and must deal with it, how will they do it?
⑦ Breakup! → This relationship has gone as far as it can, it's time to breakup.
⑧ Broken → For whatever reason, the character is broken, mentally or or physically.
⑨ Fight → You can't even be in the same room as your friend or lover without arguing anymore.
⑩ Lost → You lost the biggest fight of your life and now all you can do is try to pick up the pieces.
⑪ Worst nightmare → Whatever you fear the most is now real or maybe you're just trapped in a dream together, but whatever it is, it feels too real.
⑫ Addicted → You're addicted to something, alcohol, drugs, sex, whatever. It's destroying your life and you can't do anything to stop it.
⑬ Hurt you → You're being forced to hurt someone you love either by betraying them or even being forced to shout things you don't mean. It's for their own good in the end though.
⑭ Separation → You were forced to leave this person for their own safety and while you've been miserable without them, you really didn't mean to run into them again... maybe it was by accident or you were watching them from afar this whole time.
⑮ Becoming a monster → You are slowly changing, becoming a monster: vampire, zombie, demon, something you can't recover from and no-one can help you.
⑯ Frozen → You are entirely helpless, frozen, to stop some kind of disaster.
⑰ Prison → You were very bad and now it's time to pay the price by turning yourself in or maybe the law just finally caught up to you.
⑱ Fear → You're not sure why, but you are suddenly terrified and you can't deal with it. You need help.
⑲ Hated → You are now hated by the person you loved the most.
⑳ Down and out → You're living on the streets, you've hit rock bottom, and you don't know what to do.
CRACK.
① Sexswap → Uh-oh, you're suddenly the opposite sex!
② Forced confessions → No matter what it is and no matter how hard you resist, you're going to be compelled to spill some deep dark secret!
③ Mind-reading → You've suddenly got the ability to read minds!
④ Animal → You're suddenly part animal or transformed into an animal!
⑤ Awkward pick-up lines → You're compelled to use bad pickup lines on whoever is closest!
⑥ Back in School / Graduated → You're suddenly back in school! Or if you were already in it, you've aged and long since graduated!
⑦ Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! → You're suddenly a vampire, werewolf, or zombie! Maybe even a demon or a devil, whatever creepy crawly you can think of. What do you do now?
⑧ Ghost → You're suddenly a ghost or at least invisible. What are you going to do with this new ability?
⑨ Awkward conversations → So did you just fart or what? Any conversation goes, as long as it's embarrassing and awkward.
⑩ Crossdressing → For whatever reason, you're suddenly dressed in clothes of the opposite sex.
⑪ Suddenly naked → Oops! Your clothes are suddenly gone.
⑫ Suddenly a kid → You're a kid again! Have fun with that second childhood.
⑬ Fortune cookie → You've suddenly received a note with something that will happen in the future, either precise or vague.
⑭ Super power → And suddenly you're like Superman! Any power goes.
⑮ Bodyswap → Somehow you've changed bodies with the other person.
⑯ Back in time → Somehow, you wound up in the past again. Do you try to correct something or just sit and wait for time to jump? Maybe it jumps to various points in your life or maybe you actually think you're back in the day. Have fun, run wild with the idea!
⑰ To the future → Is it everything you've dreamed? Is it horrible? Whatever happens, you're here to witness what happens to you in the future. Either you take the place of your future self or you're just there to watch. Might cause some confusion if people start seeing double though...
⑱ Angels, mermaids, and fairies! → You're not necessary something dark or evil. You're just something different. How do you deal?
⑲ Locked in a closet → For some reason, you're locked up in a closet with someone else. Do you make nice and try to figure your way out or what?
⑳ Finger trap → You're caught in a Chinese finger trap... with somebody else! You can't figure out how to get loose either... have fun with that.
FLUFF.
① Cuddling → For whatever reason, characters feel like being close and cuddling.
② Pillow talk → After the main event, characters are up for some pillow talk.
③ Celebration → Anniversary or some other big event is taking place and characters want to celebrate!
④ Love confession → Someone has finally decided to confess their love and today is the day!
⑤ Appreciation → You feel the need to show appreciation for that person closest to you, even if it's just a pat on the back.
⑥ Apologies → You made a mistake and now it's time to make it up in some way you know the other can't refuse!
⑦ Get back together → Why did you break up again exactly? Whatever the reason, it was a huge mistake and you both know you can work through it.
⑧ Date night → You've planned for a wonderful night together and you can't wait to get it started.
⑨ Family → You've either found out you're pregnant or you've already got that addition to your family.
⑩ Marriage → You're just about to get hitched or maybe you're enjoying your honeymoon. Maybe you've been together for years now! Whatever the case, it's time for that next big step.
⑪ Meeting again → It's time for that happy reunion finally!
⑫ Love at first sight → For whatever reason, you are now insanely in love with the first person you set eyes on.
⑬ Flirtation → You can't resist to do a little bit of harmless flirtation all of a sudden.
⑭ In the snow → Look outside! It's a winter wonderland, so why not go out and play in it?
⑮ Engagement → You've planned it all out and now it's time to finally pop the question.
⑯ Friendly games → You've set up the game station or board games for a friendly competition!
⑰ Gift → Time to give that special someone a gift just because.
⑱ Recovery → You're taking care of someone who's just recovered from some illness or injury.
⑲ Healing → Time to help mend that someone who's been through hell and back.
⑳ Better than ever → You've finally got everything you've ever wanted here. What is your ideal life and who does it include?
GEN.
① Nice meeting you → It's your first time meeting this person! You bumped into each other on the street, in a bar, at work... whatever!
② Drinks → You're out for drinks! Or just chilling at home with some beers. Wherever!
③ Lost → You're lost and you kind of need help finding your way to where you're going. A little help with directions?
④ Costume party → You're at a costume party, both of you are wearing masks. Do you keep the anonymity or take it off and see whose company you've been enjoying?
⑤ Wrong number → Oops, actually you didn't mean to call that person...
⑥ Drunk → You're already drunk! Drunk dialing, stumbling into someone, showing up unexpected... what type of drunk are you anyway? Aggressive, loving, happy? How does the other react?
⑦ Old friends → you haven't seen this person in a long time!
⑧ Rivals → you're suddenly rivals! Or maybe you have been all along...
⑨ Problems → you've got a problem with each other, just got in a huge fight, whatever. Try to work it out!
⑩ What are your intentions... → This person? They're dating a close friend, family member, etc. You need to find out if they're going to hurt them! Or you need to discuss your friend/family's dating choice.
⑪ I saw you → you saw the other person doing something bad and you need to confront them about it.
⑫ Sorry but no → the other person has feelings that you just don't share. They don't necessarily have to be romantic... maybe you just don't agree with their sudden desire to quit their job and start a business making tiny, fuzzy teddy bears.
⑬ My hero → you need to tell this person how much they mean to you. They've been your best friend or your role model your whole life and they need to know.
⑭ Enabler → you're enabling the other (or each other) to do something bad, really bad. Addiction, stealing, killing, or just any other self-destructive behavior.
⑮ Cooking → Time for an impromptu cooking lesson!
⑯ Oh, sure, I remember you... → It's that awkward moment when someone comes up and seems to know you, but you have no idea who they even are!
⑰ Rescue! → One of you was in trouble, but you came to the rescue!
⑱ Boss → One of you works under the other. Is your relationship good? Are you scheming things? Or do you hate each other?
⑲ Perfect crime → You and the other person have just pulled off the perfect crime... or you're planning to! What are you doing? The heist of the century, an assassination?
⑳ Movies → movie night! Maybe it's a sleepover. Whichever the case, it's time to eat a lot and have fun.
SEX.
① First time → it's your first time together or your first time ever! Enjoy the awkward times!
② Bondage → You and your partner decide to experiment a little with ropes or handcuffs or whatever you'd like to tie your partner up with.
③ Rough / Aggressive → Your characters want it rough.
④ Romantic → Slow and gentle, meaningful, that's how characters want it.
⑤ Dubcon → Character A wants Character B and it doesn't really matter if Character B wants it as bad or not.
⑥ In public → Characters feel like taking a risk and doing it in a public place.
⑦ Roleplay → Naughty nurse fetish? Pirate kink? You and your partner decide to try it out now!
⑧ Healing → You've both fought hard or gone through a rough time and it's time to get some R&R in.
⑨ Last time → This is the last time you're going to this because you're breaking up or maybe your lover is running off to sacrifice their lives in some heroic way. The possibilities are endless, but you better make this one count.
⑩ No strings attached → You're just friends with benefits. Nothing wrong with that, right?
⑪ Anonymous → You met in a restroom or bar, any location of your choosing, but you don't even know each other's names.
⑫ Toys → You're eager to try something new, so why not toys?
⑬ Aphrodisiacs → You've been slipped a strong aphrodisiac somehow and now you absolutely cannot control yourself.
⑭ Show → You're putting on a show by either doing it right in the club or filming it for a bunch of people.
⑮ Ménage à trois → It's time for that threesome you've always dreamed of.
⑯ Non-penetrative → Frottage, handjobs, whatever you want to try out.
⑰ Controlled → You are under mind control and must do whatever your lover asks of you.
⑱ Hate sex → It's not just rough or aggressive, you absolutely cannot stand each other.
⑲ Extreme → Fisting, knife play, whatever you can think of so long as it tests the boundaries.
⑳ Fantasy → This is just a fantasy, a dream, and you know it, but what is your ideal fantasy and how willing is your partner?
The prompts in the long list of prompts have been taken from the THE RANDOM SCENARIO MEME 3.0 here
2.1 for ~wildnobility
But the white light of the sun will be on his face soon, and Moritz is in any case adorned in many layers. Undershirt, leather armor with metal studding the most vulnerable parts, a tunic over all that... He treks through the woods swiftly but hardly silently, his hard-soled shoes crunching undergrowth with the limited skill of one who has never needed to sneak up on others.
It's about two miles down the road that his whistling slows and then stops. There's a dark shape up ahead, curled under trees to the side, and Moritz wouldn't have even noticed if it hadn't been moving. Away from him, or towards the road it was so clearly in hiding of a moment before? He stops and nearly stumbles as he's brought out of his head to focus on the land. Is it a beast or a man?
His sword is an afterthought, but his palm finds its hilt quickly. No more silent than before, Moritz thumps over rapidly, realizing it's quite certainly a fellow person, not a felled deer or a wounded cougar.]
Sir? Sir, are you-- are you all right?
Re: 2.1 for ~wildnobility
Well, ideal, except for the Banelar that live there and have just spawned some very temperamental and hungry kin.
Who mistook Alastair for dinner.
Being pups, our musical hero got away pretty lucky -- however, there had been five of them. Shame he had to kill three of them, but he left one stunned and threw the last of his rations as a distraction to make a crippled-runaway attempt. Dark and caught in the marsh's lush and stifling grip, he trekked all night to find the plains once again.
Where he is now, he is quite unsure -- but it is open, mostly flat, and there are trees for him to lean against when his filthy gnawed legs ache too much to walk on. He isn't sure if there's dirty water or swamp gunk from the Banelar's mouths caught in the open teeth marks, but it hurts like hell all the same. At least they've stopped bleeding. Stay positive, Alastair.
Half of his belongings are lost to the swamp, thankfully none of the treasures he intended to trade off in Arinan, but basically everything else including the half of his potions that would actually be useful right now.
Thumping, crunching, running approaches him but he hardly notices over the sound of his own tired stumbling through the moist grass. That is, until he hears a voice⌡
Hehh? ⌠Alastair moves as if he meant to whip around to the source of the question, but only his neck cooperates with the command. Eyes narrow under a sheen of wet on his forehead, and it's difficult to tell if it's pond water or sweat.⌡ I...ssss-- I'm fantastic!
⌠Don't be fooled for a second, as he strains through his words and hisses at the feeling of his punctured pants dragging against the open bites, torn sleeves pulling at his swollen forearms. He turns to prop himself against this tree and face this...whoever this is.⌡ Jus' strollin' through, me. Nothin' like the fresh air.
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This particularly stranger had clearly not had lying bestowed on him as an preternatural skill. Moritz's face crumples downwards in confused concern as the stranger turns and answers. A fleshy arm reaches up to point at red- and brown-splattered legs.] Fresh air isn't such a good philosophy for puncture wounds. ...Especially when you have twenty of them.
[At least twenty. Without being asked, Moritz is trying to inspect. He doesn't lay a hand on the stranger yet, but instead begins dancing around him, trying to peer at the cuts and bending and glancing as needed for the endeavor. He might be polite enough not to just grab, but subtlety is clearly beyond him for the moment.] What did-- what in the Heavens did you do, Sir?
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⌠Don't mind Alastair, he's just going to slide down the trunk of this tree and seat himself on the grass. Laid back exhaustedly, his breathing manages to grow notably more steady.⌡ Crossed paths with ah-- a great horned wyrm, thing must've been thirty feet long. Took the thing down easy, but not after a bit've a, heh...taste test. I'm no fodder, I'm the food that bites back.
⌠Check out the smarmy look on Alastair's face, looking perhaps more relaxed than he could manage on his own. He shudders slightly, as scorched welts are finally setting in from the Banelar's jellyfish-like tendrils set above their vicious rows of teeth. However, a more critical stare fixes Alastair's features, and he cocks his head back consideringly.⌡ You seem strangely int'rested, don't you?
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Doesn't mean he stomachs it any easier with time, just means he's good at recognizing different wounds.] Thirty feet, yeah? [He crouches down right along with the stranger, and when Moritz's sword hanging from his waist gets in his way of sitting on his heels, he just unfastens the entire thing and carelessly drops it to the ground next to them. What use does he have for that when there's an injured man nearby? Moritz just moves in closer when it's acknowledged that he's overly intrigued. That's like permission, right? Noting something? Did the stranger say 'no' yet?]
Not strangely. Genuinely. I can help if you'll let me, I'm shocked you haven't had someone help you yet! The swamps are a bit of a walk from here, aren't they? You stubborn man.
--But thirty feet, you said... It's got quite a small mouth, doesn't it? [All those little bite marks in circles not too much larger than Moritz's own palm, hardly what sort of head he would imagine at the end of a great big wyrm's neck.
More importantly:] Do you mind me touching your leg, Sir?
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Had, and whatsit matter 'xept that I didn't completely lose my legs? ⌠One great wyrm or three young Banelar, Alastair killed them all the same. He grunts softly, shuffling through the one bag of property he has left to his name. Should probably get comfortable, then.⌡
S'ppose not, can't imagine you'll do much worse. ⌠His chest is still heaving somewhat underneath layers of clothing; relaxing isn't lessening the pulses of hot pain just yet. Alastair quirks an eyebrow at a thought.⌡ You're...a healer, then?
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The stranger's leg. Moritz leans his head down towards the injuries, turning and pressing at the limb to take in all the angles and form a picture of the wounds he's about to Touch. When one of his large hands finally is comfortable enough to settle into place just below the leather covering the wanderer's knee, his tunnel vision abruptly broadens enough to just catch the last question.
With a faintly surprised look on his face, as if just startled during a private conversation, Moritz takes a moment before his expression splits into a crooked grin.] Yeah, of course I am! Otherwise what business would I have grabbing your leg?
Now, just take a deep breath and relax. This won't hurt much at all.
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But he wouldn't validate such a claim if one did such a thing...at least not yet.⌡
Shouldn't hurt much? What problem are you fixin' then, mate?
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You can't want an infection. [That would be silly. So allow Moritz to grip Alastair firmly at the knee and ankle and close his eyes, abruptly shutting out the world and concentrating on the heat he feels under his palms. There's striations of warmth, the beginning of infections, dotting the leg between his hands. A prayer for Qotal slides easily from his mouth, soft but sincere, and it's like a cool breeze from his hands is diving straight into the stranger's skin. Alastair could feel any sort of pain of his flesh rapidly growing and shifting to mend, but he's lucky enough to have no broken bones that need settling.
It's quick, though, and while it drains Moritz of one of the spells he's gifted to use for the day he looks quite unbothered by the trouble when he re-opens his eyes on the stranger's visage.] Any better, Sir?
too inebriated lets do prose !!
Sharp breaths, hissing sounds, but Alastair is trying to be a big boy and not make a fuss when the infection and the welts and the flesh are all rectified and purified. It's cold and suddenly alarming, but he does remember to breathe.
Which is probably why for a delayed few moments, all Moritz gets in reply is breaths which were once panting, now calming. Alastair wasn't aware that he had laid his head back against a bark pillow until he needs to look at Moritz, and has to move his cranium to properly see him.
"Y-yeah," Alastair sighs genuinely, feeling the first waves of relief lapping at him like water. "Ah...yes. It is." It is much better, and Alastair confirms by running a firm hand down his thigh. It's...almost sore, as his nerve endings are still echoing the aching puncture marks that used to be there, with trails of no, no pain here, all is as it should be. Such instant relief is a luxury -- no, a blessing.
"Menelmara," he chuckles, breathlessly. "'Ve never 'ad a healing that...soothing. You been doing this very long?"
heck yeah
He watches the stranger's face slowly really relax, after all the hissing of the knitting-together tissues fades. "I'm glad." He gives Alastair's leg a gentle squeeze and clap before backing off to just outside of his personal bubble. Or, where Moritz's personal bubble is. Everyone's is different. ...Most are larger than his.
The compliment causes a slight hiccup in his routine, though, and a slow pink creeps down Moritz's ears and across his nose and cheeks. "O-oh? No? I've been doing this about six years, now. It's...it feels like my calling." Bit corny but believed with every fiber of his being. Moritz is worrying the back of his neck, not expecting such a positive review from this man who insisted on not needing help not too long ago. "I try to make it as gentle as possible.
"And...what's your name, Sir? Mine's Moritz."
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"Is that all?" Alastair asks, face falling to show surprise. His bardic training has lasted two years longer than that. He whistles, trying hard not to let a smile interrupt him prematurely.
Oh! Introductions...well, all right, what's the harm?
"Alastair." He gives a careless shrug, but only before a respectful nod. "Ey, thank you. I owe y' one. And I rarely ever do, so be aware that you've got a gift worth envying."
He's still rubbing his leg, both to drive his point home, and to really enjoy the feeling of this impeccable restoration. Feeling normal is a baseline, and Alastair now realizes just what that feels like. A thought strikes Alastair quite suddenly, and there is little pretense before he speaks because of it: "Where're you off to anyway? This road. Where's it lead?" Complete with a gesture parallel to this dirt path's direction. If you're going to remain useful, might as well tell Alastair where he's been heading all morning!
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Yeah, his motivations for hired mercenary work probably runs a little diagonal to most peoples'. He's not in it for the looting, the bounty hunting, or the storming-the-orc-camp-ing as much as he's in it for the firelit evenings and the adrenaline-pumper of the battles themselves - and their aftermaths.
But enough reminiscing - weren't you just complimenting him, Alastair? "Yeah, that's...that's all, I guess. I'm only so old, but I've got the rest of my life to get older." A lopsided smile for you, sir.
And the continuation of one at Alastair's thankfulness. "Well Alastair, don't worry. I don't need payment, but favors can often come in handy--" and apparently Alastair needs another one. Well, Moritz is happy to oblige. "Arinan! A big city. I'm on my way there carrying a message from one church to another and filling out their request for more help." Surely it's obvious he's a cleric, surely it's equally obvious he's likely doing something for a church of someone. "You can come along!"
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So if he's lucky, one more day's worth of traveling. Ohh, Alastair's going to need to find food somehow. It's only a shame that there doesn't seem to be any farmlands in this area; Alastair always has the best luck coming to crop owners when traveling for a free meal in exchange of some entertainment or baubles. (And on the occasion, completely free.)
Until they can stumble upon a nice farming family, Alastair's going to have to keep an eye out for any roots or berries. No hunting, sadly, as his bow is broken and sitting in a swamp ten miles away.
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It's a shame Alastair isn't in the business of harassing his new traveling partner for sustenance, because Moritz doesn't travel light - and a bit of that weight is food he's be sent off with. Pelor's church is good to its adherents. "Your legs all good to go, Alastair?" He certainly looks ready to get going, and Moritz won't argue. A contented smile of knowing what's in store is on his face, happy to start leading his new walking partner through the scrub brush and occasional pockets of trees back to the city-in-the-valley.
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Tomorrow morning, then. The bard collects his things from the ground, chuckling. "Guess we're about t' see, huh?"
He's perfectly fine now, as it seems from the outside. Within, his muscles feel almost like second-day tension after hiking up the mountain range on the Dragon Coast -- only without the pain. Emphasis on the without.
The sensation is completely gone after half a mile's walk, and Alastair has picked up an arch-shaped, broken tree branch along the way. With the smaller sprigs snapped off, he walks with it like an extra leg, though dedicating no dependency onto it. He has plans for this piece of wood.
"So." Alastair chirps finally, almost a mile under their belt. "When's lunch?"
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But the jangling of equipment and huffing of steady breaths could only exist alone for so long. Soon there's a question, and an understandable one at that. Moritz turns up towards the sky first, as if he's confused about the time - which he is. "Well, it-- I mean it's a bit early for a stop, isn't it? Not quite mid-sun, and the ground's been kindly level..." The wonderings of why Alastair might be bothering to ask slowly catch up with him. His glance over is full of honest kindness at the new thought. "Oh! Unless-- are you hungry? We can stop now!"
Does he look like a man opposed to an early lunch break?
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"Aye, that would be why 'm asking." Almost too level and calculated to be entirely calm, but Alastair stops his trek to overlook the foliage around them. "So long as we stop at some point, but on the way there I need t'--"
With a soft sound, Alastair hops off like a fawn deeper into the forest. A couple of yards later he reaches the awkwardly sprawling bush, leaves dreadfully small and thin to leave warm-yellow berries vulnerable to Alastair's expert berry-picking fingers.
A squirrel, deep at the base of the bush, is startled by the bard's presence. Chittering angrily, it rustles part of the plant as it tries to climb up, either to confront the intruder, or to run away. Alastair mimics the creature, but in a calmer tone, to console the aggravated rodent, as he dumps berries into a previously emptied suede pouch. He isn't feeling exactly threatened at the moment.
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Moritz is turning to answer him once more, before being abandoned and facing only swooshing air. Alastair's leapt off their path and into the nearest tangle of trees. A string of near-giggles precedes Moritz turning to follow him, curious. When he sees that there's berries there, he pauses next to the bush to start rummaging in his leather pouch. "Aww, those'll go great with this bread. And-- maybe the cheese. Looks like a tarter berry instead of one that's too sweet?" He's not sure what the deep yellow means, as opposed to the blues or reds he's more accustomed to, but he'll happily eat it if Alastair says it's edible.
And-- now he sees the squirrel and registers that Alastair is talking to it. His entire face simply lights up, surprised glee overtaking him. "You talkin' to him?" It's a playful question, albeit yes, another painfully obvious observation.