spellbinders | open shenanigans

Who: dave strider & open to all!
Where: around about the planet!
When: days 15 - 20!
Open/Closed: perfectly open with some closed prompts. just pm this account or pp me on plurk if you would like a specialized prompt rather than anything here!

07/22 (day 15) fruit juice acid trip apparently

[ fruit juice is basically dave's favorite drink (he has yet to hit upon apple juice here but he lives in hope) and he's bad at turning people down sometimes; so when juice is pressed into his hands he'll gamely take a sip and will get...

well, hyper dave apparently still looks mostly chill, but there's more of an actual visible smile than usual and he talks a lot faster and is a little more...affectionate? if he recognizes you he'll sling an arm around your shoulders and immediately burst into: ]

So anyway I'm thinkin' jobs may be a thing everyone needs and film seems to be a huge industry so what if, like, as a group we make a movie and market it? It could be fun. I can write a script. It'll have the dumbest plot imaginable, or maybe on that like, is subversive - but no I'm feelin' "dumb" just now. Hey, do you want some?

[ SHOVES JUICE AT YOU, CHEERFULLY. say no. it lasts only fifteen minutes thankfully, but. ]

07/22 (day 15) time travel...

[ ...alternately, maybe you see dave drag someone off chatting a mile a minute and hear a sigh from the side. dave, despite clearing dragging someone in the opposite direction, is standing there with his arms crossed, frowning. ]

Do you know how much worse regret is when you know you technically have the capability to take back a stupid thing but you don't actually because you didn't really?

07/25 (day 18) cooking mama

[ so the palai brought them lots of raw cooking materials. dave...doesn't seem to know what he's doing exactly, but he's sorting through shit looking for any familiar fruits and vegetables. mostly he's looking for apple-like things, honestly.

still. ]

Hey. I think I'm gonna try to make a sandwich? [ hesitantly for some reason. do you want one also? it's kind of the most effort he's put into feeding himself so far, since usually he just relies on being dragged to meals or handed things, but. may as well.

it seems to be open for everyone to use, anyway... ]

07/26 (day 19) the arts

a. art gallery
[ this is fun? this is fun. dave's never actually been to an art gallery before so he's taking his time and viewing every single painting and sculpture and creation. while he doesn't really talk about them much he does seem to reserve like five or ten minutes to a piece to kind of eye this way and that. some he likes better than others; he doesn't try to buy anything, though.

what he likes best is a weird avant garde scenic view of the city, all angles and weird lights, and that's where he'll stand the longest. ]

Cityscapes are kind of fuckin' awesome, even on alien planets.

b. play/film screenings
[ while he just wandered into the galleries in a group, he actually needs to find partners for this kind of thing; anyone new he doesn't know or anyone he recognizes and likes gets flagged down, with a simple: ]

Want to go see a thing together?

[ alternately, maybe you're already sitting down and he just dips into a seat beside you with a quick "sup". ]

07/27 (day 20) solo practice

[ after trios are assigned, dave can be found kind of perusing the script he got tossed, which contains three roles (one for each palai gender) trying to solve a mystery about who ate the last head of lettuce. he's just muttering lines to himself and occasionally making hand gestures, and seems completely involved in it for all that the script and resolution are pretty bare bones. ]

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Anything? Even if you just draw a straight line?

Yeah. I can make like...wooden shape blocks if I really want? It kind of matches...skill.

That's definitely interesting.

[The way Dave hesitates before saying skill suggests to Waver that there might be some well, things to be desired in terms of individual ability on Dave's end. He doesn't prod on that matter.]

Does it then animate and come to life or...?

I haven't really drawn living shit aside from fruits and things. I feel like it'd be...mean? Uh, if I messed them up. But I can show you somethin' real quick. Is there an item you particularly want?

Let's go with fruit. That can't cause any trouble.

Ok, do you have a favorite fruit? I'm best at doin' apples, though.

I think you should play to your strengths then. The apple'll get eaten.

Good point.

[ he pulls out a pen with a bunch of color tabs (more than shown) and clicks down. the tip begins to glow with light, and he starts to sketch an apple in the air. the addition of color is kind of nice - and the colored light kind of hangs there, hazy, until he finishes the drawing.

the red-yellow apple drops into his hand, and actually looks well drawn!

THIS IS LIKE THE ONLY THING HE CAN DRAW WELL. GOD. ]

My friends and I made the pen usin' all our abilities together.

[ he offers waver the apple! it feels and looks real. it also tastes real too ftr. ]

[Waver watches, making sure to give Dave some space. Being crowded never works for any mage, and he doesn't want to do that here. Especially since there's so much art around.

The whole process is absolutely fascinating. It's similar to some of the process Waver takes with his own magic, but he doesn't get to eat the result in the end.

Which, when Dave does hand him the apple, Waver takes a bit of. He nods in approval while chewing, then once he swallows:]

That is incredible.

Thanks. Apples are kiiiiind of what I do best, I, uh. Am not the best artist? And basically it's how I draw what I draw so...it...can not work out great if I fuck up how I draw it.

[ any skill has drawbacks. ALAS. ]

Also, I can't draw shit if I don't know how it works, I think. Like...I drew a crossbow, but I don't know how the firin' mechanisms work really, so it showed up but it didn't work right. So, like, planes or machinery I'm not clear on ain't an option either.

Hm. I bet blueberries would be easy, since they're just blue circles.

[Somehow, bananas seem prone to errors.]

So if you had a blueprint of something and traced it, would that work better? Just, in theory.

I could definitely try it. Like, if you have a blueprint of a thing you wanted to be a thing?

Well I mean, not on me. But maybe you can find a few here? Or just trace an entire bicycle or something, to see if the concept works.

I don't see why it shouldn't. It does make it kinda less useful on the fly, technically, since you can't stop to whip out blueprints like mid battle or whatever, you know? But if we got blueprints for shit we wanted back at the island...