MUSHI DISASTER

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Who: Anyone and everyone; it’s a mingle-style log!
What: A sudden spike in the mushi population brings some trouble to the carnival.
When: Around day 87-90
Where: All around the carnival
Warnings: Illness, potentially some minor body horror, and so on



[Following the recent disappearance of Ginko and Tanyuu’s mushi repellent, there will be a sudden increase in the number of mushi in the carnival this week.

This is a mingle-style log, so just post a toplevel, tag out, and have fun with mushi disasters! Event information and questions are here.]

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[flashover]

Shima had gone up the mountain quite some time ago... Rin figured that he was probably ok on his own. He was a big boy, and a Myoo-Darmoney or whatever, so he was capable! But with these weird mushi things around... well, it never hurt to be a little more careful.

Rin sent Kuro to look elsewhere on the mountain, warning the cait-sidhe to be very careful! That they didn't know what these little creatures could really do. Rin's new little friend, a green mouth with stubby legs named Nosh, has stolen Kuro's usual spot on his head for the time being. She snaps at snowflakes and makes cute little "mah!" noises. Rin still isn't sure what she is but golly he likes her a lot.

Shima's shout catches his attention, and he sees a boulder-sized snowball coming his way!

"YAGH!!!" Rin braces himself and... explodes. Just explodes outwards with blue flames, knocking the snowball apart before it can run him over. Nosh whimpers.

"Jesus! Who's rollin' these snowballs up here?!"

[perverses]

He can take care of himself, all on his own! Usually! Most... of... the time. Y-yeah. Ugh, even so, he's glad to see someone else has trudged up here, even if Rin's probably going to make fun of him after all this is over. He does give a snort of laughter of his own at watching Rin get smacked by a snowball that big, though.

"Pff," he stifles the laugh, waits a tic to get that under control, then calls out again. "It's those things infesting the carnival! One of 'em keeps rolling those up, I think! Either that or someone's playing one hell of a joke on me over here..."

Because those things are all over the place.

[flashover]

Even though he managed to melt and explode it, he's still wet from the snowball and that makes him cold. Poor Nosh chatters her teeth. He growls and surrounds himself with enough flames to evaporate all the water on him.... and also melt a hole down to the ground level. Which he now has to climb out of. Ugh.

Meanwhile, a few of the tiny pieces of the busted snowball begin rolling away, apparently uninjured by Rin's little shitfit.

"What the hell!! I don't understand these things at all! Why are they rolling snowballs?!"

Rin grumbles and makes his way up to Shima. "Are you stuck?"

[perverses]

Rin's trials and tribulations against the snow only has Shima trying to stifle even more laughter. He gives a snort of a laugh against his hand even as Rin gets up to him, but he'll manage to answer without laughing right in his face.

"Uh, yeah," he admits, a reminder of the pain in his knee and the fact that he really, really is kind of stuck. "I was plannin' on getting rid of these snow things. Mushi or whatever? They don't really make a lot of sense, but..." But someone has to clean them up! "Something happened to my knee. I don't even know what!"

[flashover]

Jerk. He comes to rescue you, and THIS is how you repay him? By laughing at his suffering? Maybe he'll just leave you here on this rock.

"These ones aren't really doing anything... as long as people stay off the mountain anyway." Rin shakes his head and shrugs his shoulders. "Whatever.. can you walk at all?"

[perverses]

"Yeah, that's why I figured it would be the easy job," Shima just outright admits it. He thought, hey, whack some snowballs, call it a day, looks good on his resume? But no, of course, it's never that simple. Regarding if he can walk or not, he grimaces and looks back down at his snow-packed knee.

Icing it has done absolutely nothing so far...

"Think I'd still be up here if I could? No matter what I do, it just keeps getting worse!"

[flashover]

Rin shakes his head in disapproval (as if he wouldn't have chosen the lazy route himself!) and Nosh jumps down, chasing after the smaller snowballs like some sort of demented green Pac-man.

"What did you do to it? Did you, like... twist it or something?" The snow isn't that deep. Either way, Rin clambers up onto the rock and turns his back to Shima. "Well, hold on, I'll take you to the medical tent."

[perverses]

"Twist it? Nah, no way. I didn't even get hit by any of these things until it started acting up," Shima can at least be adamant about that point. "It just started hurting as I was heading up here, but a little mountain climbing shouldn't be any problem for me!"

He's lazy, but he also grew up around mountains. The idea that he'd hurt himself just walking up a trail is unbearable to even think about! Of course, that problem aside, he can't really help but finally take note of the weird green thing that goes chasing off after the smaller snowballs.

Uh...

"Okumura... What the heck is that thing?"

[flashover]

"Huh... that's really weird, you know? We should definitely have it looked at by the medical people. And Ginko-san! What if it's related to these weird mushi things? You never know!"

Rin hoists Shima onto his back as easily as an empty backpack, then follows his line of sight to Nosh.

"Oh! That's Nosh! She's a pokémon called a Trapinch. Lookit her go... paku paku paku...! She's so cute, isn't she? Are you saying you didn't take a Pokémon home from Alola?"

They spent most of their time on totally different islands, so Rin didn't see much of Shima on the tropical islands. But he thought for sure his heart would get stolen away by some cute elemental creature! ... Or maybe not everyone is fucking Snow White, Rin.

[perverses]

Right, on Rin's back. This would be embarrassing if Shima actually cared enough to not look like a huge wimp, but with how much his knee hurts? Screw dignity, he just wants off this dumb mountain! So he hangs onto him, still giving the Pokemon a side-eye.

"Weren't the hellbats enough...? Now ya got some weird green giant mouth monster," he says, sounding like he just can't believe this. "But nah, I didn't take one. I don't want to be saddled taking care of a pet! Besides, the one I did have, uh... Kind of didn't like me... so..."

Rejected by Pokemon. Oh well.