[OPEN] August: Prank Wars

[asgardmods]

Who: EVERYONE
What: The Mischief Not-Yet Managed house contest!
When: Day 314-315 (August 21-24)
Where: All across the city
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than this should be taken to a private log, please!

[ Starting Day 314 (August 21/22), the Travellers are feeling a little bit more mischievous than usual. The curse sets in full force by Day 315 (August 23/24), and at that point, it’s all out war. Go crazy, kids, and make Uncle Loki smile. ]

[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Mischief Not-Yet Managed event! There is a top-level comment for all prank submissions here, where prizes will be awarded to the God Houses with the Most Creative, Most Embarrassing, and Highest Victim Toll pranks. Please be sure to include your character's location(s) and [OPEN/CLOSED] in the subject line and let us know if you have any questions! ]

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[alternia_strength]

He mopped the sweat up and nodded, crunching it and swallowing. "That really shouldn't be too much of a surprise though. Traditional sweets are so needlessly decadent," he said.

[bestestfurrend]

"Traditional sweets are sweet and delicious," she counters, heading behind the counter yet again, but this time in search of her own personal store of goodies. "I hope you made sure they didn't get mixed up with any of the other sweets in the store!"

[alternia_strength]

"I would argue, but I know your opinions," he grumbled. "And do not worry. These are relegated to the bowl you see. I felt it behooved me to avoid putting them everywhere."

[bestestfurrend]

"Arguing is futile," she declares in a determined voice, hopping onto the counter once she has her hands and pockets refilled with sugary goodness. She pops one into her mouth. "Pfft, it really did! I wouldn't have liked to find one of those in my mouth at all, nuh uh!"

[alternia_strength]

He chuckled darkly, a thin and odd sound from his throat. "Yes, the idea was to surprise someone thoroughly. After all, I am not the sort who pranks people, am I?"

[bestestfurrend]

"...no, you're really not. Why are you trying to prank people in the furst place, Equius?" The chuckling is worrying her, because this is pretty different from her moirail's usual behavious!

[alternia_strength]

"I don't know," he said scratching his head and grunting. "I have been feeling... odd all day. It is very uncharacteristic, I think you agree. Maybe I drank something odd."

[bestestfurrend]

"Maybe you should go back to the hive and let Aurthour check you ofur," Nepeta suggests. It's weird and almost impossible to think of her STRONG moirail getting sick, but she guesses it's always a possibility.

[alternia_strength]

"I am not ill. He was quite certain of that," he said, scratching oddly at his hair. "Hmmm... do you think perhaps this is them playing games with me? I would be ... a little put out if it was."

[bestestfurrend]

The thought makes her frown, but at the same time it does make sense. "I suppaws it could be that! Even if it is you should purrobably still go home though, until it's over. Aurthour wouldn't mind as much if you pulled a prank on him as a stranger would." Also it would lose them a lot less customers. Nepeta knows the business is important to Equius and doesn't want him to get upset later on for doing anything to damage it.

[alternia_strength]

He scratched at his chin, rubbing it for a long second. Finally, he simply nodded. "Let's close up the shop. If you'd escort me, I think it best that I don't attempt any pranks on the way back home," he said. "There are excellent odds I would do so very poorly."

[bestestfurrend]

"Of course I will!" She'd been thinking of keeping the shop open and looking after it for him, but he's right, getting him home safely and without incident was a lot more important. "It shouldn't take long, and then we can go."

[alternia_strength]

He nodded and rubbed his forehead. Either way would probably have worked. At the very least, his problems were relatively harmless, even if they were more distressing coming out of him. "I am in no hurry," he rumbled.

[bestestfurrend]

She scampers off, tidying up the place and doing all the necessary things to close up shop. Once she comes back she grabs his arm and dangles off of it. "Ready to go!" she declares.

[alternia_strength]

He stepped away from the counter and moved out to lock up the door behind them, flipping the sign to 'closed.' Once outside, he rubbed his forehead. "It would be much easier to colorize this world if they would stop interfering."

[bestestfurrend]

"Do you think they do it on purrpose, Equius?" she says as she reaches out to take his hand, small yet strong fingers curling around his large and STRONG ones. "Because it would be silly if they did! It's like they're working against their own goals..."

[alternia_strength]

"I believe it actually is on purpose, but the pointlessness of it all confuses me. It is remotely possible taht they believe that any emotion is sufficient, so irritating us is considered sufficient," he growled out, shrugging while they started to walk, hand idly gripping those fingers, though thankfully not with undue FORCE.

[bestestfurrend]

"It's pretty mean of them if they're doing it to upset us!" She reaches over with her free hand to pat at his arm reassuringly. "But don't worry! I won't let them make you do anything you didn't mean to."

[alternia_strength]

He blinked and looked at her, cheeks going a faint shade of blue at the way she was mothering over him. "What did I do to merit a moirail like you?" he muttered, rubbing her hair with his fingers.

[bestestfurrend]

She's his moirail, it gives her the right to fuss! At the question she just giggles, squeezing his hand in hers. "I'm just as lucky to have you too!" she tells him, rubbing her head against the hand petting her.

[alternia_strength]

It did! Despite his odd sound, he was actually being affectionate about that. He chuckled and grunted out a mixture of a growl and sigh. "We both are, I think," he said as they departed.

(OOC: Fade? I'm going to post something to the big log later today I think.)

[bestestfurrend]

((ooc: certainly! :) I'll keep an eye out for that then :D Nep is posting to random people if Equius wants to be looking for her and jump into any of those threads.))