#* event : optimization.

[petalbursting]

          WHAT   better way to ignore Remnant Things than throw yourself into the latest spirale fiasco babey !  I’ll probably do an open (maybe) before it ends, but for now I’ll go ahead and put out an event starter call if you want me to throw our muses into a random quest. Feel free to DM me if you wanna figure something specific out, but otherwise I’ll cap this at 3. Castmates ignore the cap ! 

[petalbursting]

            IT   had seemed so simple. Go in, acquire the Baja Blast, marvel at Ofiuco’s excellent taste in beverage, deliver said beverage. She’s been on this island how long now ?  She should know by now that nothing was ever cut-and-dry ! 

           There was no sense in continuing to beat herself up about it, though, seeing as her first priority should be outrunning the nightmarishly fast Ofiuclone hot on her trail. She still only had a finite amount of activations for her Semblance, and it really put a damper in her usual escape plans— 

      ❛   There !  ❜  That’s what she’d been waiting for; an alleyway, adjoined with a shop that (thankfully) didn’t contain too many breakables in its display windows. Ruby skids along the pavement to slow her speed, but activates her Semblance the moment she turns into the alley. The streak of red splits into two, darting along the alley walls before rejoining in the middle of the store. Petals flutter in the air as she ducks behind an aisle, catching the pale spring sunlight that filters through the windows. 

      ❛   Phew... That’ll buy me a few seconds. … I think.   ❜   She ruffles a hand through her hair, but whatever cool exterior she’d earned from her little display was ruined when she nearly dropped the Baja Blast — the whole point of this crazy quest !  She fumbles with it a few times, the plastic tipping to and fro in the air as it bounced off her fingers; thankfully she managed to drop to the ground, sliding into place to catch it just before it crashed to the linoleum. She’s so lucky she had them tape shut the hole where the straw should be ! … Except now she feels eyes. A lot of eyes. Part of her hopes it’s just a bunch of Ofiuclones so she can fail right then and there.

     ❛   … Let’s just... pretend that didn’t happen.   ❜

@lxfemmerouge​ : for whom does the baja blast ?

[petalbursting]

        ❛   Seriously, though— a needle in a haystack ? I get the joke, but what do they even need it for ?   ❜   STILL   , the task was near her townhouse and it was... Something to do. Anything to push Remnant out of her mind, as she’s grown so used to doing. Even so, her hands occasionally trembled; it was almost like whenever she’d have that leftover adrenaline from a sparring match at Beacon, but... It’s been a couple of days now. Do those even last that long ?

       ❛   Okay, the way I see it, we’ve got two options. Either I start slashing through this hay...   ❜   She’s already hopping to her feet, Crescent Rose sliding easily from its compact space against her back. As Ruby glances over and up at a certain feathery companion, she hopes it doesn’t take her stance as a threat.  ❛   Or he helps us out. They’re good at finding shiny things, right ?   ❜

@dissevered​ : HAY THERE !