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[semi-open] 💣 they're gonna clean up your looks

Who: The PLUS ULTRA! crew & friends.
Status: Semi-open.
Where: The Mighty Explosion God Ship Bomb!! ship that is docked in Eltrut or Elah. Or the small cottage the crew owns in Elah.
What: A catch-all mingle log for March for the PLUS ULTRA! crew and any friends happening by. Some Manta Board quest prompts have been included too.
Warnings: Tba.

⛵ Like the rest of the ships around the docks lately, the explosion of sea slugs has taken over the hero's ship as well. It's covered in what seems like hundreds of playful and colourful sea slugs. They are all over the deck, climbing up the mast and leaving strings of sticky slime all over the place. The slugs will either need to be removed somehow or killed. And the sea slug slime mopped up...

If crewmates and friends are looking for partners to go harvesting underwater pineapples with the ship can also be found in Eltrut waters where the special pineapples can be found. Go swimming or diving to collect as many underwater pineapples for the ship stores as possible.

🌼 If not on the ship, the crew can sometimes be found at their small cottage on the paladin's leviathan, Elah. The cottage is small but happens to be well kept despite four very unruly and busy teenagers living inside it. They have a small garden growing outside as well as various plants and pots all over the terrace.

And they seem to be preparing to build some kind of new addition to the cottage soon too as there is a pile of stone and wood stacked up outside. And an apple-shaped sheep keeps walking around too. Baaah.

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[Oh. There's the shapple. Hello shapple. Kaveh's here just contemplating how his life wound up at this point, and how he's going to hide the bruise from Alhaitham.

...And then he hears Ranma start tumbling down the hill. Dammit. He'll have to get up to fix that.

Which he does. So the good news is, a great many vines are sprouting up to slow him down and direct him towards a safe landing.

Bad news: Kaveh selected a very nice looking...pond.]

[Everything is spinning, Ranma's hands are in so much agony he can barely catch himself, and all the while he's wondering how did he get to this point in his life. But as he's trying to focus, he hears the dirt beneath and around him give way to vines that start steering him to safety. For a second, since Ranma's not able to reposition himself, he's thanking Kaveh mentally for helping him with that plant magic...

... And then the next, once he got to see just where he's being steered to, he's cursing Kaveh's name for being a jackass and an idiot! The martial artist'd hit a big rock in the middle of the path, sending him flying through the air. Right where Kaveh intended him to go, which might be a relief to Kaveh but is anything but to the martial artist squirming and trying to do anything but go in the water.

As the law of gravity goes, what goes up must come down. Up went Ranma over the pond, down went Ranma into the pond. Taking quite a while to resurface...]

Ranma? Ranma!

[Well he's gonna have to do something soon, because Kaveh's tossed his cloak to Mehrak and is sprinting for the pond with the intent to dive in after him. With a concussion.

Sorry, bro, you can't defeat his genuine concern and well-meaning nature.]

[It's times like these Ranma wishes Kaveh was just like almost every other adult in his life. Of course, the vine stunt just now lines up with the adults of his world's 'good intentions' turning sour, so that's one step. Kaveh wouldn't be able to dive in after the teen he just knocked into the water, only making it far enough to see someone emerge out of the water...

... It wasn't the black-haired menace he had seen countless times by now. Out of the water, pulling herself to shore was a tiny redheaded girl. One that happened to have the same hairstyle, clothes, and recent wounds as a certain martial artist... Ranma got to her feet, stumbling and swerving in her steps. Head's still spinning some...]

Dammit... [Here she was, now realizing the irony that she once again made the same damn mistake again. Ranma couldn't even tell if it was the universe being an ironic asshole or if she's really a shortsighted moron.]

[Kaveh skids to a stop at the edge of the pond and...stares. Listen, kaveh is a smart man. The same clothes with the same damage and the same injuries? This girl who looks a lot like Ranma, but short and ginger and...a girl? The math is, in fact, mathing.

Honestly he's seen a lot weirder shit than this happen around water, why not.]

Are you alright? I couldn't see anywhere better to break the momentum.

[Just not gonna remark on this, Kaveh? Really?]

[Ranma was in the midst of wringing out water from her pigtail when Kaveh strolled up to the pond. If there were any doubts this girl was Ranma, the flat deadpanned expression she was giving him was a near dead-ringer to the one Ranma gives out left and right.]

Honestly, I'm more upset about the shirt than the everything else. [Not that she isn't bitter Kaveh chose the pond instead of a large bush or literally anything else!]

...There's a lot of 'everything else' to go around.

[He sighs a bit, but he'll pull off his cloak and just hold it out.]

Here. Take that until you can get into something dry.

[It's at this point mehrak will come down the hill. Bearing the shapple.

Mehrak is making a >:| face.]

[No words, only a silent look of 'no duh' present on her face. She'll take the cloak though, wiping her face with it like it's a towel. As the briefcase-shapple duo made it down, the shapple soon turned from crying for Ranma's blood to turning a starch pale with utter horror at the sight of the little redhead that kicked another larger sheep into orbit. Ranma just shot it a silent glare and handed off the now dripping wet towel.]

Thanks... [She crossed her arms and slumped some, her tone sounding like she's heard the same thing over and over with her next words.] Go on and get the questions over with.

What, the questions you obviously don't want me to ask?

[Kaveh shrugs.] I've seen entire people made from water elementals, that's a lot stranger than this. If you wanted to talk about it, you would have, right?

[He turns, then, to stare at the shapple.] And you. What have we learned today, hmm?

[That's... honestly a bit of fresh air for the martial artist. It's been getting a bit annoying to have to go through the same song and dance again explaining this and that. Ranma relaxed a little, reaching into her pocket.]

Right. Glad someone gets it.

[The shapple tilted its head at Kaveh, confused why it was being scolded here. It blinked innocently at the man. What the heck did it do wrong?! Ranma opted to just ignore the shapple and its feigning innocence, pulling out her thermos of scalding hot water. The sight of it again did make the shapple flinch, but calmed down when Ranma doused the sizzling water onto herself.

In an instant, the short feminine frame of the martial arts shot up back to its usual size, every strand of scarlet red hair on his head returning back to its usual jet black complexion.]

[Kaveh sighs, and rubs a bit at his cheek where it's bruising, and turns to--

Well. Alright then.]

...I'm mostly wondering how you don't scald yourself doing that. Hand me the thermos.

[Ranma's in the middle of shaking the water out of his hair like a wet dog coming in from a downpour.]

When you've done it a couple dozen times by now, the feeling of boiling hot water doesn't hurt as much as it did before.

[Still sucks, and Ranma can't help but hiss in and out from it as the steam from the water subsided. The martial artist arched a brow, looking at Kaveh and his thermos.]

... If you wanted to scald yourself, you should've said so before I dumped it all out. [He's still handing off the thermos to the architect.]

It's fine...

[Right. If he's using this for boiling water then. Scoop some out of the pond, pour it directly over his vision, watch a bunch of bloom cores pop up around his feet.]

You and the little one are going to want to stand back a bit.

[Oh? Whaaaat in the world Kaveh's doing, Ranma has zero clue. Ranma stepped a good couple of feet back, calm as ever with an observant glint to his eyes. The 'little one'? Yeah no, it was going behind the nearest tree because it does not trust those things, no thank you sir!]

[Kaveh waits until they retreat, and then sighs, gesturing to Mehrak.]

Scan.

[And she does, sweeping around him in a circle.

Detonating every single one of those cores in a loud bang, while Kaveh's still standing in the middle of them.]

[!!!]

Kaveh!

[Sorry Kaveh, he knows you told him to stand back, but he can't when someone's getting blown up! He's a martial artist, he can't let someone get hurt or killed! So as soon as those set off, Ranma's dashing forward to try and 'save' the blonde man.]

It's fine, Ranma.

[The light from the burst clears and--Kaveh's fine? Kaveh is completely fine? The bruise on his face is...gone?]

Bloom cores heal me. I'm alright.

[As the light faded and Kaveh appeared perfectly fine with no signs of getting blown to bits and pieces, Ranma stopped in his track and relaxed some.]

Oh. Could've given me a heads up first, jerk.

[He thought you were about to blow yourself up! Not that he cares or anything.]

Sorry...I keep forgetting most people here haven't seen that.

[KAVEH YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON IN TEYVAT WHO CAN FUCKING DO THIS???]

It's fine, just a warning would be nice next time.

[Heal yourself by blowing yourself up with magic. Makes sense to him.]

...Sorry about your face again.

It was an easy fix, so it's fine.

[SHRUGGING. But he does pause, and glance to the side.]

Best you don't mention it anywhere Alhaitham can hear, though.

... And that is...

[He still has no clue who that is Kaveh.]

You tried to burn his fish, Ranma.

[Why are you both like this.]

Oh, the earrings guy!

[Like father like son?]

Earpieces--

[You ever visibly see someone decide something just isn't worth it. Kaveh just. sighs.] Yes. Sure. Earrings guy. Will not like hearing about my face, so we aren't mentioning it around him, got it?

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