yayoi season of fallow catchall

[nightwild]

Who: Yayoi, open
When: Throughout the Season of Fallow!
Where: The streets of Menthward, the Castle Grounds, and others!
What: it's a catch-all what do you want from me
Anything else?: Shouldn't have any big warnings. Yet.

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Mid-January, Menthward, The Promenade

[nightwild]

[There's a new little booth tucked away in the side of the Promenade. It would be hard to miss... except that, for as small and out of the way it is, there's a motorcycle parked behind it, and a huge magic mirror hanging in midair next to it.

As for the booth itself? It's, well. Cheap wood, easy to take apart and put together. There's a sign at the top: "FORTUNES & DETECTIVE WORK - 2 CROWNS". Which is useful.

Yayoi's herself sitting behind the booth. She looks... well, remarkably nervous! This is probably why she doesn't seem to be having much traffic. She's looking around in anxiety, not sure how to... well, get business.]

Should I have made it only one crown...?

[steel_over_blood]

I think it's more like you look like you don't believe in what you're selling.

[ He clinks a couple crowns down. Money does not exist to be hoarded; it's healthy for it to pass from person to person. ]

Here, show me what you've got.

[nightwild]

Huh? Well... I don't.

[JUST ADMITTING THAT, BUT. Okay, sure!!]

What kind of fortune are you looking for? General, love, work, something else?

[steel_over_blood]

Ha ha ha, that's a terrible sales pitch!

[ Yayoi continues to be Yayoi. ]

Love, of course!

[alchepistol]

[ .....The girl from the Wilting Festival. The time for such festivities has ended, and yet she's set up a booth of her own? Advertising.... ]

.....You're a detective?

[nightwild]

[And then this person was...

...

... who was she?]

Yeah. Usually about monster stuff, but I'll handle whatever you need if I think I can do it.

[alchepistol]

And you seek to aid Rosavelle by reestablishing your practice.

[ To give back to the Everbloom? To fill the days? Regardless, it's not a bad impulse. ]

[she_wears_short_skirts]

[Here comes one potential customer coming Yayoi's way! Although, well, don't mind Cheria using the magic mirror to quickly check her hair to make sure humidity — or anything else unforeseen — hasn't gotten to it.]

[nightwild]

... Should I be charging for that, too?

[Her voice is a little deadpan. She has no clue what she's doing here, honestly. Though given how long her own hair is, maybe she should be doing the same thing as this girl...]

[liedol]

Ooh, what a cute little setup!

[ never mind that the person behind the setup so obviously looks like she wants to sink into the ground. Ai's got enough enthusiasm for both of them! ]

What kind of fortune telling do you do?

[nightwild]

Huh...? Oh!

[ITS THE CUTE GIRL... Yayoi straightens up. She seems... really enthusiastic! This should help, right?]

It depends on what you want. For stuff like romance that wants a clear answer, I use a kokkuri board, and to find lost objects or find out someone's lucky directions, I use... People here called it dowsing? And for more general ideas, my mirror can do most of it.

[uncommonsense]

[ oh, it's her again! it was hard to miss her even with how little the booth is. it's shabby and haphazard, and the girl herself doesn't look that confident in herself at all.

humming a bit as she overhears yayoi's murmuring, she shrugs her shoulders. ]

It should be one crown each. If I have to buy the fortune, I'd have to also have a mystery to solve to make it worth it. At that point, I'd wanna solve the mystery by myself though.

[ but that's just her. she wants to be a detective too! ]

[nightwild]

Huh? No, the mystery's separate. Fortunes are that cheap, detective work takes way more time and work!

[goldship]

Ya gotta have some confidence in yourself, Azukichin!

[ Speaking of which guess who's saddled on up and is just, offering Yayoi a bag full of recently homemade daifuku. Gold Ship picked up her bestie was up to something and figured she deserved a snack! ]

Don't sell yourself short, yeah? You're a heck of a detective, your work's worth the cost.

[ A pause, her ears flick as she realizes something. ]

Didn't know ya did fortunes too though. S'that got somethin' ta do with how ya tracked Darin?

[nightwild]

Yayoi.

[I'M NOT A BEAN..... but she takes the daifuku. she ain't gonna complain about food!]

It doesn't matter if the work's worth it if there's no work to be done, you know? There's no monsters, and I'm not even sure there's stray cats to track down.

[The fortune, huh. She takes a moment.]

Not really? I mean, I used my mirror for both, but... Tracking power signatures like that is real. Fortune telling isn't.

[fortune telling is fake. signed, person offering fortune telling.]

[gal_paladin]

...huh. Alesha steps to Yayoi in the booth, looking around at all the trappings, the bike, the mirror.

"Is that your ride?" she asks. "I'm no biker myself but it's beautiful. Hikaru would appreciate it more I think, but he's a mechanic."

And she sighs and places two crowns on the table.

"I think I'd like help sorting out how to help a - let's not mince words. Someone I like. Not naming names."

[nightwild]

That's right. My Machine Gekkou.

[She sounds so proud of it. The best bike that ever existed, if you asked her. She listens to Alesha, but...]

Someone you like....? Tell me some more?

[monsterdaddy]

No, no, for detective work? You should definitely be charging more!

[Whaddaya know, it's your good friend Yoojin. He grins and closes the rest of the distance, admiring her little booth.]

Hey, Yayoi! How's it going? You set up your own business here already?

[nightwild]

Oh, hey, Yoojin!

[SHE'S HAPPY TO SEE HIM, straightening up slightly!]

Not really... More like just trying it out. I figure there's not much use for a detective here.

Late January, Dawnfield Grounds

[nightwild]

[It's time to PRACTICE.

She hasn't had a real fight since that giant brawl. And even that wasn't a real fight. She's worried she's going to lose her edge if something happens... so she has to train. But she can't transform! People can't see a superhero training. So instead, she's got a training dummy out, and she draws her sword.

Her sword, of course, is a strange-looking katana with a blade shaped like a lightning bolt. And as she takes a deep breath, she swings the sword...

Lightning arcs behind the swing, an electric charge consuming the dummy. It's cut in half in one strike, an immaculately clean cut of a blade of unimaginable sharpness. And then, as the top half hits the ground...

The whole dummy explodes.

Yayoi, at least, seems just as surprised as everyone else, frantically looking around in alarm. Oh, god, everyone's looking at the explosion. Oh, god, there was an explosion. Oh, god, Nadeshiko's going to kill her.]

I- I- I didn't even hit it that hard!!

[catsgothistongue]

[Great fighty minds think alike. Thought alike, since Ranma's been using Dawnfield as his rudimentary training ground pro tem. He kept it mostly how it looked at their arrival, minus the occasional divots previous sparring sessions left in the earth. Unless they asked him to, he stayed out of the way of others doing drills outside of chit-chat and a hey, how're you doing? Yayoi was a new face around these parts but he left her to her own-

BOOOOOOOM!!!

... incendiary devices, apparently. While the other scatter and scram from the tokusatsu death explosion like cockroaches after the lights are turned on, Ranma only calmly broke way from his dummy as if going to investigate a bump he heard. He continues to be blasé and cool while striding over to the aftermath of Yayoi's nonhard-hitting attack.]

Whaddaya call that then, a lovetap?

[nightwild]

Yes! Maybe?! I don't know!

[She's SO alarmed. Probably more surprised than anyone else!]

It's not supposed to do that!

Early January, the library | Locked to Gold Ship and Callie

[nightwild]

[The thing is. Yayoi does not know how she ended up in this situation.

Oh, wait, yes she does. Gold Ship. Gold Ship is how she ended up in this situation.

It was Gold Ship's idea, and, well, it made sense. Yayoi should go distract the Princess. She's distracting, and she does want to get to know the Princess better, anyway. Not to mention, well. Gold Ship's been trying to teach her things. Confidence. So... go in there. Turn heads. Turn Callie's head, specifically.

That's how Yayoi ends up in the library in a particularly revealing Santa dress, trying not to turn so red she matches her hair. Just relax. Stay calm. The point is that Callie is looking at her. If Callie is looking at her, Callie is not looking at the evil and intimidating horse girl sneaking up behind them.

... Why are they kidnapping them again? Golshi had made a really compelling case for it, but now that they're actually going through, she can't remember.

Still, it's too late to back out now. It is, right? Is it not? Could she turn around and run? Maybe that's-

Except then she accidentally bumps a chair, making a pretty loud noise.

Crap. Nothing for it now. She just sort of. Waves awkwardly.]

U- Uh, hi, Princess. You've been in here a lot... What are you reading?

[NAILED IT. FLAWLESS. SUPER NORMAL SOCIAL INTERACTION.]

[neverbloom]

[ At the sound of the chair squeaking across the floor, Callie's head pops up from their book at once, looking almost like someone who's been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Once they realize it's Yayoi on the approach, they relax a bit. ]

Ah, good morning, Yayoi! Goodness, what a...

[ ... ]

... seasonally inappropriate outfit!

[ Ouch. ]

At the moment... I suppose you'd call it some self-study...? There is a forebearer of mine I am hoping to find some more information on.

[goldship]

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Now Playing: Intruder 3
Artist: KCE Japan Sound Team
Album: Metal Gear Solid Original Game Soundtrack
Year: 1998

OPERATION GET CALLIE IN THE SACK (platonic, literally a sack): START

Yayoi, dependable, lovable, stacked as hell Yayoi, she's doing her job admirably right out of the gate. Grab the Princess's attention, be the single most noticeable thing in the entire library. That's right, Calcal, take the bait! Pay no attention to the sunglasses and mask wearing umamusume who's slipped from one of the library stacks and is now belly crawling towards you from behind! They're not there! And they certainly don't have The Sack clutched in one hand and a length of rope in the other.

Golshi pauses and her ears twitch as she registers Callie's response. O u c h. Probably shouldn't be surprised since they've told her before they aren't sure where they stand on romance yet, but still...! Golshi was kinda banking on Yayoi's more than generous assets to at least provide some gobsmacking!

Oh well. Yayoi's still doing great. From her position flat against the ground behind Callie Golshi raises a hand and flashes Yayoi an encouraging thumbs up before continuing her approach ]