#event: optimization

Grimm couldn't help but wonder if willing participation was truly what they meant. What if they decided to punish those who refused to help? He'd hate to have something terrible happen to Nautilus, so the only answer is... well, make sure she gets taken care of in the first place. So he called her over to the quest hub in Fibonacci.

“Like I said, I’ll give you your present after we land~” Their bag awaited there, after all. Kyrie didn’t want either of them to land on it.

“...I am getting sick and tired of all these mazes.”  Shadow mused to himself, trying to gauge which way to go.  The hedges had casted enough of a shadow for Shadow to use that to his advantage to get a bit ahead.

“Hey, don’t mind me!” Carmen enters the shop in a rush, and immediately dives behind the counter. It was the closest building, hopefully the shopkeeper doesn’t mind helping her out.

“So, if an angry ofiuclone walks in here, you haven’t seen me, OK?” She holds up a video game case with a deer on it, smiling sheepishly.

Kay stomps her foot on the ground, letting out a huff of frustration as she finds herself back at the entrance to the dumb factory. Stealth is supposed to be her whole thing, how does she keep getting caught by the guards?

She’s got tears stinging the edges of her eyes, and not just from all the steam in here. There’s nothing she hates more than failing a mission, but she doesn’t want to give up the quest now that she’s started it. Instead, she sits by the entrance, near another person, trying to cover her eyes so it doesn’t see her crying.

“Do you want to know something funny?” After almost a year in this city together (for Lucretia, at least), she’s managed to fall into a comfortable rhythm with Barry again. Things aren’t how they were, exactly, but she can talk to him again, at least, and it feels really nice.

“I think I might be worse off fighting-wise now than I was when we started our journey. Sure, I picked up some fighting tips from Magnus along the way, but I always did prefer magic.” Still, it’ll be interesting to see how long the two of them can hold out against the spirits at Savior’s Respite. If nothing else, it’ll be a good training exercise, right?