[Closed] Let's Help Some Moogles!

[timecrash]

Who: Serge, Corrin, Klonoa, Terra
When: Oct. 1-30
Where: Various
What: There's a bunch of moogles with problems around. Serge wants to help.
Warnings/Notes: As they come up.

I'm posting all five of Serge's prompts here. If you'd like to be added to one of them, send me a PM and we'll go nuts!

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[timecrash]

Serge shakes his head. "Nope! It's kind of exciting, don't you think? There's this place most people avoid and we get to explore it. Monsters... I think Bombs, but they're not that hard, just get rid of 'em before they blow up. And there's those frogs-"

Serge is cut off, unfortunately, by a trio of voices, raised in verse.
"-Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake! Eye of newt and tongue of frog-"
"It never was tongue of frog, it was toe."
"Don't you start with me, Sandy! Tongue of frog, says right here!"
"I reckon it was toes, dear. You know your 'andwriting ain't the best.

Serge... has to stop. Should they turn back? It sounds like they've interrupted something. He looks up at Terra, silently asking.

"I- oh, kupo nuts. Yes, yes, I see it, it was toes after all.
"You did at least bring one toe, didn't you?"
"I... I didn't, I thought we just needed the tongue-"
"Idiot girl. Cindy and I remembered to bring everything! We've been planning this evening for months and you've forgotten the toe of frog! I suppose you've forgotten slips of yew, as well!"
"Now it ain't all Mindy's fault, Sandy; now I think on it I think I've sat on me lizard's leg a bit-"

[wheretheresawill]

They don't...sound...like bad people? Maybe this was all just a misunderstanding. Terra steps out from behind the trees into the clearing.

"Good evening, ma'am - uh, ma'ams."

[timecrash]

Serge follows Terra, somewhat hesitantly, to find quite a scene. A trio of moogles, one quite small, a second tall and thin, and a third squat and stout, all adorned with tall, pointy hats. "Uh. Hi. We're not interrupting anything, are we?"

The three share a look, and the tallest gathers herself up for a scathing retort.
"Does it look like you're interrupting something? Use your brains, you-"
"Now see here, Sandy, there's no call t'be rude about it! And besides, could be they'd be useful, 'elpin' us in our hour of need and all that."
"Oooh! Yes! We could get them to find the things we forgot and everything will be fine!"

[wheretheresawill]

"We could do that," Terra offers. Then he thinks about item-fetching quests he has previously been given in his life. "As long as it's not anything bad.

"What do you need?"

[timecrash]

"Oh, nothing bad! We're making medicine! You can tell it's medicine 'cos it's got herbs in. Very beneficial, your basic herbal, er. Brew. Plus a few other ingredients."
"Yes! Like strips of yew! Which we're missing!"
"Oh, yes, and I did just mention sitting on me lizard's leg, goin' to need another one o' those..."
"And toe of frog! That's probably the most dangerous one, but there's tons of frogs around here! And, well. If you run afoul of one, come back here and we can certainly... sort that bit out."

Serge tilts his head, studying the three for a long moment. "Well... I mean if you're just making medicine-"

"Very important medicine. With herbs."

"-I don't see why we shouldn't help you, and those things aren't too hard to find, right? I think yew trees grow around here? And like you said, lizards and frogs all over..."

The tallest one, 'Sandy', clears her throat. "Hemlock."

Serge blinks. "Uh, sorry."

Thoroughly embarrassed, she adjusts her hat. "Root of Hemlock, dug in dark. I've forgotten it as well." She wilts, slightly, under the death-glares from the other two.

[wheretheresawill]

"Oh. Well, that doesn't seem too difficult. I'm sure we can handle a frog. Do you just need one, or a lot?"

Terra pauses and gets out his iMog to write this down. "What does hemlock look like? I'm not great at plants."

[timecrash]

Serge pulls out his own slate, searching. "Okay. This... I think I've got a picture. If we can compare it, and it grows in the area, I'm sure we can find it no problem. I know what yew looks like, at least, there used to be a bunch of it growing on our block, people liked it for hedges. So it looks like the biggest problem's gonna be the hemlock since I dunno if it grows here..."

He glances over at Terra, considering. "We should probably stick together while we're looking, just on the odd chance something nasty's around."

[wheretheresawill]

"If it doesn't, maybe we can make a trip into a town and buy some?" It's probably cheating, but as long as the moogles get what they need, it's fine, right?

"Sure, no problem." Terra figures he can make it on his own, but Serge might not be so lucky. "What are you good at, in combat?"

[timecrash]

Serge considers this. "Well, I am pretty good at hitting things with a stick." He grins a little, at the private joke. "I've been working on a Stave Master asterisk for a while now, and I just got one for Time Mage." He knows that more or less makes him a 'newbie', but what's the worst that can happen? "What about you?"

[wheretheresawill]

"I've been working on Paladin for a while, and Swordmaster as a backup." There's that other Job, the one he can't seem to get rid of, but he doesn't want to mention that. "What can a Time Mage do? I was never that good at magic."

[timecrash]

"Uhh. Well as of right now, I can kind of see like a second into the future but not really? It's not like it's a 'this is gonna happen' but more... It's weird. Time is hard and I'm still getting the hang of it."

He starts walking, holding his iMog slate in front of him with the pictures pulled up. Finding these plants can't be that difficult, can it? "The guildmaster I visited explained it in a weird way. It's not like a line, it's more like... a tree? With as many branches as you can imagine, only more, only just one of them's actually real and the rest sort of disappear as soon as you pick one, and the further up you try to look the less you can see so precognition further out than a few seconds is basically impossible and going backwards at all is really friggin' hard-"

He stops, looking up and shining the flashlight. "Hey, actually I think that's yew over there. Told you it grew in this area!"