[CLOSED] Sizeable Stomach Slams Seventy Sausage Servings

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Who: Nora & Sundry
When: Before & after Black's Clues
Where: Caissa & the Lasker Flyer
What: Catch-all for various shenanigans. A stray doge drags hapless passersby on a whirlwind sausage tour of Caissa. Meanwhile, a stray dinosaur and a bearded rabbit walk into a bar(k-inducing ferris wheel).
Rating: Language because Nora is Nora.


[Prompts will be in the comments as per usual. Scatters bacon across the log.... I guess food is going to be a theme in these placeholders. IT IS EARLY MORNING AND I HUNGER.]

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[Hakuno hadn't really intended to get caught up in this clue business, given that she was still slightly convinced that it was all some scam to take advantage of new arrivals. Still, while wandering around and trying to get a feel for the city, she ends up smelling that sausage. Her suspicion and uncertainty are almost immediately eclipsed by her empty belly.]

Um, Mister?

[Suddenly, Hakuno is right up in there, gently nudging Nora aside and looking up at the vendor with big, dark doe eyes.]

Even if it's for Caissa's sake... is it really no good, after all? We can't?

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This IS me asking nicely, who the hell do you think--

[Honestly, telling him to ask nicely by the common definition of the word is probably a little like asking a bird with human arms to fly. It can do an awkward and bumbling approximation of a glide, occasionally, if it bends over backwards and grows a tail or something -- but it's never going to be the real thing.

So Nora probably would've picked a fight over actually getting help and ruined all of Ed's well-meaning hard work if: A. He wasn't distracted by the sausage smell, and so only gets halfway to being riled up about things, and B. Hakuno hadn't chosen that moment to pop up somewhere around his elbow like a strangely sparkly daisy.]

... Who the hell're you?? [but she's helping, why is everyone suddenly so helpful, it's actually weirding him out a little; he turns back to the owner, though:] You've got enough sausage for all of us, don't you? You waste any more time and there's gonna be MORE of us.

[... leave it to Nora to turn everything into a threat, really. The owner's chefly hat is a little askew from being ganged up on by three Heroes all at once, but he stands his ground, demanding to see proof that they're Heroes at all. Now what?]

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[Now..? Now we're getting somewhere.]

It's okay, Nora. [Patting him on the shoulder, with a smile.] Businesses don't exist to just give everyone free food. That's what the cafeteria is for.

But proving we're heroes? That should be easy. Um... [Ed takes a few steps back, pointing his staff upwards.]

One of us just has to demonstrate what their weapon can do, right? Er--in a non damaging, completely neutral manner that isn't a threat to anyone o-of course. [Which. means.]

Can someone else do it? I... mine is.. I don't know how to turn it down...

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Ah...

Hakuno.

[She frowns more firmly, raising a knuckle to her lips in thought.]

Well, I have a bow, but the only thing that sets it apart from a normal one is that you can use mana on it and infuse its arrows with a flesh-rotting poison, apparently.

[She hasn't actually tried it out yet.]

Not exactly the best fit for a friendly demonstration... Are the uniforms not proof enough?

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We're not just everyone, ya moron! [Ed gets a slap on the hand for trying to be overly friendly and comforting... which to Nora just comes across as patronizing because he's a suspicious jackass. He dismisses the upheld staff with a snort and a wave, also.] We're supposed to be some kinda Heroes or something, so start actin' like one even if you suck at everything, including talking!!

[... He's also already lost patience with Ed's fumbling, fidgeting manner of speech, unfortunately, having been raised around people who mostly either said what they meant or punched it into you. Well, and he didn't have much patience in the first place.

Hakuno gets a whole separate dose of side-eye -- actually, both Nora and the shop owner take a deliberate step away from her, as though expecting her to just whip it out like Ed.]

... And I don't care what your name is, keep it away from the food! [for once, somehow, the shop owner is nodding in agreement with the guy who was menacing him; Nora yanks irritably at the distinct, heavy collar wound around his neck before making another angry noise] And it's not like this thing's any use with any of you here, what ABOUT the uniforms?!

[--Apparently, though, the uniforms are a no-go: the owner does step back a little, to reveal what looks like a whole wall of framed pictures featuring people in Hero uniforms...... it looks like Heroic cosplay has swept the nation in more ways than one. Oh, dear.]

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[That's a surprise, and yet he's not sure what he expected. He puts his staff back down, decidedly against making his mana drill right out here in the middle of people.]

[He nods to Hakuno with an apologetic and strained grin, and then laughs awkwardly. There's still one thing.] Ah. W-well. We could do magic. I'm not very good at it since I've only been here for part of a day, but... I-I could try. I should be able to call something, I'm a mage b-back home..?

I-I-I mean, it's just an incantation and willing something really hard... and that I can do. But I just got here, s-so..! Weeh..!! [It's just kind of a noise that he makes when he's surprised or his feathers are otherwise ruffled.] I-I'll try..?!

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[Hakuno returns Ed's smile with a polite tilt of her lips, just as she reaches over and flicks Nora hard in the ribs.]

I literally just said I wouldn't use it here. And sorry, it was my mistake; I didn't realize 'Who the hell're you?' had some colloquial meaning here other than 'What's your name?'

[She lets her hand fall, and turns to watch Ed curiously. She could count as a mage or wizard, technically, but without Code Casts, Formal Wear, or the first idea about how to use magic here, she's more or less out of luck.]

Well, it can't hurt to try, can it?

sorry for the wait!

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Keh, those ain't even really good fake costumes, what do you mean-- Ow! [maybe it's a good thing Hakuno smacked him in the ribs, because Nora was well on his way to jamming his foot or possibly his entire leg in his mouth, as usual; that doesn't mean she doesn't get an amped-up stinkeye, though] What was that for, I don't care about your NAME, I care about why you're here!!

[Obviously!!! He's. Not the best at communication, to put it extremely diplomatically.

... Meanwhile, Ed's hemming and hawing gets him an elbow in the ribs, which isn't at all Nora passing the painful buck because he feels like making sure someone else shares his smarting ribs or anything. It's just:]

Whatever, by the time THIS guy proves he's a mage, us and the sausages'll be rotting and done for! Is that supposed to be an incantation or what?! Besides, if it's magic you're after, just leave it to me!

[Whereupon he promptly yanks the collar off his own neck with a quick, slightly clumsy but deliberate movement that ensures it never actually is entirely off him; throws out the arm that the collar is now on with enough flourish to put the nearest street performer to shame; and with a yell (I declare Anemos Magia, Heavy Thunder Flash!)--

Well, first of all, there's now a small crater in the wall, a few smoking, sparking bricks... and the shop owner's proud mustache is standing on end like a hairy, two-pronged fork. Whoops.]

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N-Nora!!

[He can deal with being elbowed in the ribs, though he rubs his side with a grunt and a frown. Destroying someone else's store, though, isn't cool!]

You can't just leave craters in people's walls! We're asking for a favor, not sh-shaking someone down! [He bows to the shop owner quickly and repeatedly.]

I-I-I'm very sorry about that. Please let me try fixing your wall with an application of earth-healing admixture magic to just regrow the brick and mortar that's been destroyed--I-I promise it should work, and I'll be careful--really..!

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Then you should have said that in the first place.

[She's a bit annoyed by how blatantly confrontational this guy is, honestly. she has literally done nothing but answer his questions, and have her answers thrown back in her face because he is apparently completely incapable of actually conveying what he wants.

Without being a destructive menace, apparently. Hakuno covers her eyes briefly.]

...what part of that seemed like a good idea? Hm?