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riverviewlogs2018-03-26 01:54 pm
spellslots) wrote in riverviewlogs2018-03-26 01:54 pm
[open] remember when i put meaningful things in subject lines
who: taako
what: monster fighting + general nonsense
when: late march
where: around!
warnings: violence for any flooding threads
on this week's episode of River Monsters ; ota
[It's been a while since Taako's really had to stretch his magic out; there was the stuff with the cult, sure, but that was a minor little mess and this is like, a bunch of river monsters. Totally different ballgame. If he's being honest with himself, this is something he kind of misses about being away from Fearun and out of the cycles. Because yeah, it's a lot safe not running around fighting random monsters or possessed arcanists or whatever, but blasting shit with spells is just a little bit fun.
There's been enough time since remembering Lup that he's stopped relying quite so heavily on fire spells, especially when he doubts fire will do much against crocodiles and lizards with thick skin. He relies on lightning and energy instead, a few necromantic spells to drain the life out of the creatures, with the occasional confusion spell thrown in, turning them on each other.
At one point, one of them moves a little quicker than anticipated while he's dealing with another, and suddenly Taako is knocked aside by a scaled tale, disappearing into the underbrush with a startled yelp followed by a roughly exhaled hachi machi.
But it’s okay! Because instead of his regular adventuring gear, he's got a sweet as hell superhero costume, courtesy of one Cisco Ramon, coolest person in the Quarantine. It's made from similar material as the Flash's costume, just in purples and blues instead of red and yellow (because really, red and yellow? Pick a better palette, Barry). There might have been some arguments over exactly how fancy it needed to be, versus actual functionality, but at the end of the day Taako trusted Cisco enough to give him most of the creative control. What really matters is that it means he can take a hit like that and only lose maybe 15 HP, allowing him to get right back up again.
Now he's gonna toss a fireball, just because he's kinda pissed.]
day to day ; pre-existing cr
out and about
[Taako is a social creature. He can handle being alone, sure, the ten years in Fearun made that abundantly clear, but that doesn't mean he likes it. It's much nicer to be surrounded by attention and affection in the form of friendship. And after the last few shitty months, he's aware that he hasn't exactly been present in other peoples' lives. Sampremi and the kigu party rectified some of that, but a one off catch up doesn't quite cut it. So he slips back into old habits eagerly, sending out texts to anyone who's company he's fond of. It's often as simple as an offer to join him for lunch/brunch/dinner/coffee, though occasionally he does tailor requests to someone's interests, a mention of a new store they might like, or a band playing he thinks they'd be into. After spending the last months feeling bitter and trapped in the Quarantine, he's reaching out and reconnecting in an attempt to remind himself that it's not all terrible.]
around the house
[For anyone who has the amazing privilege of being welcome at the IPRE (minus Lucretia) residence, Taako tends to flit in and out during the day and night, not really beholden to any particular schedule. He's pretty content with an even mix of getting out and being a homebody, though it tends to tip more towards the latter on days he has a lot of orders to get through for work. Spending several hours in the kitchen isn't much of a struggle for him, but it does mean that once he's done he'd prefer to just chill out watching a movie or listening to music, rather than going out.
There's enough to do around the house to keep himself occupied, especially considering the place is full up these days. If Merle or Davenport show up, they're gonna have to look at getting a bigger place.]
what: monster fighting + general nonsense
when: late march
where: around!
warnings: violence for any flooding threads
on this week's episode of River Monsters ; ota
[It's been a while since Taako's really had to stretch his magic out; there was the stuff with the cult, sure, but that was a minor little mess and this is like, a bunch of river monsters. Totally different ballgame. If he's being honest with himself, this is something he kind of misses about being away from Fearun and out of the cycles. Because yeah, it's a lot safe not running around fighting random monsters or possessed arcanists or whatever, but blasting shit with spells is just a little bit fun.
There's been enough time since remembering Lup that he's stopped relying quite so heavily on fire spells, especially when he doubts fire will do much against crocodiles and lizards with thick skin. He relies on lightning and energy instead, a few necromantic spells to drain the life out of the creatures, with the occasional confusion spell thrown in, turning them on each other.
At one point, one of them moves a little quicker than anticipated while he's dealing with another, and suddenly Taako is knocked aside by a scaled tale, disappearing into the underbrush with a startled yelp followed by a roughly exhaled hachi machi.
But it’s okay! Because instead of his regular adventuring gear, he's got a sweet as hell superhero costume, courtesy of one Cisco Ramon, coolest person in the Quarantine. It's made from similar material as the Flash's costume, just in purples and blues instead of red and yellow (because really, red and yellow? Pick a better palette, Barry). There might have been some arguments over exactly how fancy it needed to be, versus actual functionality, but at the end of the day Taako trusted Cisco enough to give him most of the creative control. What really matters is that it means he can take a hit like that and only lose maybe 15 HP, allowing him to get right back up again.
Now he's gonna toss a fireball, just because he's kinda pissed.]
day to day ; pre-existing cr
out and about
[Taako is a social creature. He can handle being alone, sure, the ten years in Fearun made that abundantly clear, but that doesn't mean he likes it. It's much nicer to be surrounded by attention and affection in the form of friendship. And after the last few shitty months, he's aware that he hasn't exactly been present in other peoples' lives. Sampremi and the kigu party rectified some of that, but a one off catch up doesn't quite cut it. So he slips back into old habits eagerly, sending out texts to anyone who's company he's fond of. It's often as simple as an offer to join him for lunch/brunch/dinner/coffee, though occasionally he does tailor requests to someone's interests, a mention of a new store they might like, or a band playing he thinks they'd be into. After spending the last months feeling bitter and trapped in the Quarantine, he's reaching out and reconnecting in an attempt to remind himself that it's not all terrible.]
around the house
[For anyone who has the amazing privilege of being welcome at the IPRE (minus Lucretia) residence, Taako tends to flit in and out during the day and night, not really beholden to any particular schedule. He's pretty content with an even mix of getting out and being a homebody, though it tends to tip more towards the latter on days he has a lot of orders to get through for work. Spending several hours in the kitchen isn't much of a struggle for him, but it does mean that once he's done he'd prefer to just chill out watching a movie or listening to music, rather than going out.
There's enough to do around the house to keep himself occupied, especially considering the place is full up these days. If Merle or Davenport show up, they're gonna have to look at getting a bigger place.]
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That's not a strong point of his, which is why he takes his eyes off the prize for long enough to really get a look at Finn and it's not like... it's not great.]
Oh, fuck.
[This is bad, actually?
Taako hesitates for all of a second before he drops the spell, freeing himself up to run over to Finn, where he casts tiny hut over them to keep out anything dangerous while Taako works out how to solve the problem of All This Blood.]
Hey, hey, you still with me?
[He's got a hand on Finn's shoulder, trying to keep him steady while giving him a once over to see just how bad the injuries are.]
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Actually, that's valid. Finn is having a Time right now. He was just kind of chilling in a nebulous void of what happened and the lyrics to the YMCA that talk about picking yourself off the ground, which is hard to do when you're trying to remember which way is up. One of his hands is awkwardly pressed into his torso, which hasn't been super effective against the row of punctures left behind by Serrated McGee's Riverside Jamboree.
The gears in his more complex thought processes don't seem to want to turn. Things hurt and he can't get in a full breath. Taako's hand on his shoulder is like a weird anchor, like everything was in motion and then Finn came to a very sudden halt while the rest of the world kept on spinning.
Finn would probably very much like to be yelling or arguing or saying something sarcastic. Or, more realistically, because between some vague impression that his shirt is ruined and trying to blink his vision clear he's legitimately interested, asking if Taako's okay. What reality brings him is the ability to very eloquently slump over. Sorry fam send him the drycleaning bill tomorrow, he'll cover it. ]
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There's a steady stream of fuck fuck fuck that doesn't really need to be outside the narration. There are more important things to cover, like Finn being about as heavy as he looks (lighter than Magnus, heavier than Barry) which is cool for Taako's guessing skills but not so great for his attempts to make sure no one face plants on the ground. Taako's strength modifier is zero, but you know, he's trying his best to support Finn's weight.
He briefly considers a) panicking or b) just fucking booking it out of here and pretending this never happened, but Taako isn't a complete monster, nor is he unaccustomed to dealing with injuries san a healer, or dealing with injuries while Merle is their designated healer, which is basically the same thing. It means he's fucking prepared, bitch. Rin left him a lot of potions, and the ones that are useful in combat situations are the ones he makes sure he has in combat situations.
A mage hand pulls out the flask and uncaps it, since Taako's hands are full of injured Friend, though he braces Finn's weight with one arm so he can actually tip the potion into his mouth.]
You gotta drink this if you don't wanna die, my man.
[He and Istus aren't exactly tight, but he'd like to leave a quick note re: Finn being conscious enough to swallow a mouthful of liquid. It's kind of important.]
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Shoutout to magic potions. He takes a hard swerve on actively dying out here. And he feels a lot less like he's actively dying, which is no small relief. He tries to breathe in again and it works, which is cool. Still working on making the world sit still.
He wonders if this is how Slip felt at the end.
Finn makes a very uncoordinated effort to do... something. It's either to sit up under his own power or to flail a hand around until he can grab any Taako-based surface. Kind of hard to tell, he really whiffs this one. Coordination who? Getting a full handle on what's currently going on who? He doesn't know them intimately. It's a work in progress. This day got real wild real fast. Things that take less coordination: speaking. ]
We need a bigger team.
[ That was basically the exact complaint he was planning to make before he got into hot water. He held onto it. Like, he knows for sure that was something he wanted to say, he's really sure about that. And now that he's probably not about to die, he can make good on his own salt. Half-salty, half-confused. Anxious about a lot of things, currently.
Actually that's really close to his normal Aesthetic. ]
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You need to not fucking throw yourself at reptiles, what the fuck where you thinking?
[It doesn't matter that Taako asked Finn to take care of the situation, he absolutely did not expect that would involve anyone getting clawed. Or at least anyone that wasn't him, he's used to taking hits like that, for all Magnus's attempts to get in first. Surprisingly enough, people tend to target the DPS of the team.
He's not going to say that Finn is right, they should've had at least one more with them, but Taako wasn't expecting there to be quite as many creatures as there were, and he's out of practice monster fighting.]
I can't heal, we're gonna have to call this one a day.
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Which is dumb, in his opinion. But he gets it. ]
I'm not the one who crawled out of a river to try to eat people! [ GAME SET MATCH? His flawed strategy wouldn't have happened if nature weren't being a dick right now. Don't @ him about this. ] You're okay, right?
[ ... he will not argue the decision to call this one a day. He's not gonna be much good for another round of PVP Living. ]
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[Speaking of things crawling out of the river, there's definitely something slow and slimy making its way towards them; Taako casts a glance at it, but is confident in his magic keeping them contained.]
Of course I'm okay, I'm Taako. [He's always okay, except when he's not.] We're going now, don't puke on me.
[This is all the warning that Finn gets before Taako casts teleport, taking them from the middle of the forest, to the front door of the clinic where he went after his first fight with Dodger. It's not the hospital because he knows these guys use magic as well as modern medicine and he trusts magic way more than he trusts doctors. It's just like that.]
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He didn't know that until just now. Learn something new every day. But he is going to very wisely squeeze his eyes shut and breathe through his nose just to really make sure that he's good at not puking. ]
So you don't need the umbrella to do that. [ Look, he distinctly remembers there was an umbrella tapping the first time around. That's where he's investing his attention. Petty bickering, not passing out, and not being sick. ] Good to know.
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[Like - it should've be obvious, Finnothy.
Taako moves to put an arm properly around Finn's waist, supporting his weight so they can walk the last little distance into the clinic. It's not the first time he's hauled around someone bigger than him.]
Come on, darling, let's get you fixed up.