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(OPEN) TAKE MY HAND

Who: Souji Seta (

tarotcards) and literally anyone
When: Early April
Where: Capablanca
What: Eating diamonds and nails, catching fish, making bee puns, oh my | Job: Actually, It Better Be Raw + Obligatory Beach Episode
Rating: None

001 - DON'T YOU PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH

[ Souji doesn't necessarily call himself a "foodie". He doesn't go around looking to try exotic dishes to widen his palate, and he's certainly not a connoisseur. He likes to think that he's a decent cook, but he's nothing so sophisticated with food that he'd call himself a gourmet. However, he is always open to trying out something new to eat so when he's sent to a seaside town with a large food market, he takes a break to browse through it. ]

[ Everything smells great and looks even better. He certainly doesn't have a black hole of a stomach like his Persona predecessor, but he does want to try a little bit of everything. Who knows how long he'd be here anyway. Plus... he's always been as curious as those cats he loves so much so why not? ]

[ Unfortunately for him, curiosity also killed those exact same cats. ]

[ Any of the following things could happen while he's in the market: ]

[ A: He can be seen examining some of the cooked dishes at one of the stalls, standing there with a cat clinging to his leg (totally not bothered by it), and just randomly asking the person next to him: "What do you think? The lasagna or should I just skip right to dessert?". That or maybe the person next to him hears him mumbling, "at least it's not singing..." ]

[ B: He's just eating one of his meals quite happily when all of a sudden, he stops. He just literally freezes in place, grabs a tissue, and... spits out a diamond. Not just any kind of tiny plastic thing, but an actual genuine "probably would murder your best friend to get a hold of that diamond" diamond. Be there when he spits it out or when he just goes "uhhhhhh" after he has it in his hand. ]

[ C: It's the same as the above but instead of freezing in place, he suddenly jolts (and maybe bumps into the person behind him) and puts a hand to his mouth. He won't apologize right away to the poor sap behind him right away because he immediately spits out food in his mouth to reveal... rusty nails, glass, and blood. Someone call for a medic. ]

002 - PRESS O FOR FISH

[ Gathering food supplies is not that bad. It sounds decently simple and Souji would like to gather things without having to steal them from someone's backyard, so when he hears the whispers of it being fishing season, he takes off right away. ]

[ While Souji's not some food gourmet, he's, at least, a fishing champion. He's proud to say that he even caught The Guardian of the Samegawa Flood Plain back in Inaba (even though it meant that he often had to go out at night and stand in the rain for it), so catching a bunch of regular fish? Piece of cake. ]

[ He stands by a river, fishing rod in hand and with a bucket full of bait. Submerged in the river is also a mesh basket that seems to hold a considerable amount of fish, more than enough to take back, but he's not stopping. He just continues to fish, continuing to separate countless Flounders from their Ariels. When will he stop? No one knows. ]

[ No one. ]

003 - *STABS WITH TOOTHPICK*

[ You know what's great? Honey. You know what's not great? Getting stung by a bunch of bees. ]

[ Souji knows better than to just charge in there and pull off a wild hive off a tree. That's practically just asking a one-way trip to the hospital and for fussy healers to pull on your ear for doing something so foolish. However, he notices the change in the temperature and by the look of everything... it's likely that a storm is approaching, so if he wants to get any of that delicious honey back to that chef, he'd have to act fast. ]

[ He looks up at the hive and then to whoever's stuck here as well. ]

... May-bee we should work together.

[ Yeah.... yeah................... ]

004 - WILD CARD, BITCHES

[ Maybe Souji's walking down the beach and he's sweet talking a mermaid (no he's not). Maybe he's trying to get his cat down from a tree because she saw a bird and she had to get it (that's probably happening). Maybe he's still dying from the fact that he had a nail in his tongue (it sucks). Regardless, this is a wild card so feel free to do anything! ]

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[ He could feel it in his fur and in the way the air just smells... differently, like clouds and gathering moisture. Wukong definitely doesn't want to be caught out in the rain with the Goods, so to speak, which makes teaming up a very smart idea.

But after that pun, he's rethinking this. ]

Did you just...

[ Scratching his forehead, the monkey really wants to THWAP Souji for that, but that's not exactly making friends. He'll just have to live with the fact that this guy's humor might kill him very slowly. ]

Nevermind. You have any ideas?

[ Most of Wukong's involve hitting the hive, running real fast, and hoping bees aren't quicker than either of them. ]

[At first it's nice seeing a familiar head of silver after so long, and Arashi comes to meet him eagerly, more interested in catching up than eating, personally - and not a moment later that's probably a good thing, right there to witness the diamond's slightly gross reveal...]

O-oh! Yu! Where on earth - ? [There's no way diamonds are a delicacy here, is there?? Arashi's only in front of him faster, worried nee-chan mode activated, yet unaware of actually being a new face at such a close distance.] You didn't bite hard on that, did you?

[Vietnam on the other hand, isn't a fishing champion. But she is decent!

She's organising the equipment on the side for a while, before going up to him to see how he was doing. It should be a safe distance now to go watch.]

You're definitely into it!

[. . . . . . . . . .]

[the ellipses that follow Souji's misplaced pun are practically audible in the silence. Kaito stands there next to his fellow hero, arms folded across his torso, expression flat. he wants to get this portion of the job over and done with as soon as possible, especially with a rain storm on the way, but he also has standards]

Only if you promise that you won't break out any more "bee" puns while we're here.

[ As with any Obligatory Beach Episode, there has to be some silly beach shenanigans, right? And what could possibly be more comical than involving the locals. In this case, the locals include the mermaids, who were engaging enough during beach volleyball.

Unfortunately, Minato seems to be heavy on the side of wrong place, wrong time these days. In this case, the wrong place is the beach itself, on a towel, near the rising tide. The time is...high tide. And apparently a sleeping human is too much for more mischievous merfolk to avoid. After having months of being watched by a small incarnation of death and his robot waifu, Minato has learned how to sleep through everything. Which, apparently, includes a mild abduction.

Hopefully someone (wayward hero) will notice him being dragged in... ]

[Deadpan stare and...]

Go sit down before you hurt yourself, I'll figure this out.

[Did we mention she's sort of angry about everything?]

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