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[pursestrings]

(cha boi okuya$u)

hey big news
first of all if any of u guys are trying to find mr. F we should do it together
makes more sense & maybe no one'll fucking die cuz this asshole has nothing better to do but tell people to do stuff that'll get em killed

second thing
something's real screwed up about the well
nothing new so nobody panic
but if u try messing with it it's gonna mess right back
so i guess everyone who told me digging under the well was a dumb idea: u were right but not cuz u knew what u were talking about
lucky guess

["don't @ me" - okuyasu nijimura, 2018]

third thing
how do u set up a bonfire??

oh and this is okuyasu if u never saw me on here before
sup

[Hmm, yes, all very illuminating Hot Takes.]

Comments

[pursestrings]

Uh, okay... So what do I do? Just hold still and don't blink?

[Why would blinking not be a thing?? Who can say. What does he do, detective boss lady.]

[good_ideas]

If you want.

[Though that’s more for show than anything. All she has to do is reach out and pretend to pick a piece of fluff of his shoulder or something.]

Try to think back to digging the hole. [Because that makes her job easier since she won’t have to dig through too many memories to get to the right one. Hopefully anyway.]

[pursestrings]

Gotcha.

[He will indeed stand still and think about digging the hole. It's a very basic memory: he decided to dig, picked a spot and went to town; what stands out is the emotional focus, as he goes from angry about basically everything to suddenly and abruptly very confused, having apparently forgotten what he was doing there in the first place. The memory has him just as abruptly turn away from the well and wander away, and true to his testimony, he makes it all the way to Flavo before he blinks himself back into regular focus, like someone flipping a switch.

Very strange. The end of the memory, when memory Okuyasu remembers what he was doing before Flavo, will just take them back to the now-filled hole, but she's already stared at that.]

[good_ideas]

[She waits for him to start thinking before she reaches out to brush a hand over his shoulder. One pat, two pats...

...Shiho follows along with his train of thought, with his feelings about the situation then... a sudden burst of very, very strong magic or something along the lines of it, and he’s confused.

Taking her hand away she stares first at him then at the ground then back at him.]

......Something happened. It must have. [But she can’t see anything other than that feeling of magic.]

There’s... traces of magic on you. [She was also a magic expert’s apprentice.] Really strong magic.

[pursestrings]

What, for real? Ew.

[EW... surely this must be Gross Magic, if it messed with his mind enough to do what it did. And also fill in a hole with mystery dirt. Okuyasu frowns, lifting a hand to kind of nudge the side of his head with his palm, like he's trying to get water out of his ears.

It's dumber than that.] How do I get it off?

[good_ideas]

[It probably is gross magic but unluckily for him she has no idea how to deal with magic of any kind.

Though she has a guess it’s probably not how he’s choosing to do it?]

I don’t know. All I can see is that there was magic, I don’t know anything else about it. But I’m not sure that’s how you get it off. [Or that it’s something that can come off in the first place.]

[pursestrings]

[How could his great plan not work? He thought very hard to come up with this. Or, he stops doing that, frowning.]

You know anybody that's a... witch or something? I'll even take a magician.

[good_ideas]

...what about Maribelle?

[She isn't a witch (as far as Shiho knows) but she does seem to know a lot about magic.]

[pursestrings]

For real, her? [enh....] She already thinks I'm a dumbass who's not worth her time. You got a better witch?

[good_ideas]

I don’t.

[... is this the same Maribelle they’re talking about??]

But... why does she think that?

[pursestrings]

[This town is sorely lacking in witches for a town that runs on fairy tales. Get it together, Mr. F.]

Dunno, 'cause she never listens when I talk to her? Not really my problem.

[good_ideas]

[....does she have to be the adult here...?

Well, Minamoto would have. Probably...]

Let me ask her then.

[pursestrings]

[She IS the boss!!]

Shit, really? Thanks! I gotta get this crap off me ASAP.

[good_ideas]

[Being boss means she should get to delegate tasks like this to actual adults!!]

Of course. And you’re welcome. I’m kind of curious about this anyway.

[pursestrings]

Yeah yeah, we're all gonna learn new stuff. Just lemme know if I gotta do something.

[Like stand still again... he's so good at it.]

[good_ideas]

You might have to show up and stand still again. Or maybe we’ll make you do a handstand to change things up a little.

[pursestrings]

Is that gonna help? I can't hold still too long doing that.

[good_ideas]

Then you better start practicing. We want her to get a good reading, after all.

[pursestrings]

I'm not gonna stand on my head any more than I have to. Nice try.

[good_ideas]

You’re no fun~

[Maybe she should tell Maribelle to tell him to stand on his head.......]