OPEN || Kinda Bug and Kinda Snack

[fractales]

Who: Turo & You!
Status: Open
Where: Snaxburg Island
What: Snaxburg Secrets MANTA Quest, exploring the town-sized island and taking everything in. Building up what is essentially a Snaxdex. Other shenanigans likely to ensue.(Prose or brackets, I'll match you)
Warnings: Will but any up as needed.

Exploration 🐞

A
[Really, this was just the thing to get into after properly resting after an incident last month -and fortunate he did rest, given the mess of things elsewhere- was to head to a newly discovered island. Even if on the smaller side, the rumored life there sounded absolutely fascinating, and reason there were several notebooks stashed away in his leather bag along with a few other items more meant for anyone else exploring he might stumble across as well.

Even the moment he started in, the darting sweetie flies of various kinds were eye catching, and carefully he was able to coax a glittering one that looked like rock candy on a stick to land on his hand.]

Well, you are magnificent little one.


B
[Turo had stopped to take pictures of a few Bugsnax that were marching along, a section which had fallen behind racing to catch up, when a rather glittering, brightly colored bugsnack practically leapt into view to strike a pose the moment the sound of the shellphone's camera had gone off. Rather excitedly as well.]

Oh. You... like attention?

[INSTA!] Ah, I see.

[This one would likely stay still enough for him to sketch out- even if it wasn't necessary, but easier to share like the pictures would be...]


Take It All In 🍔

[It hadn't really been too long into Turo's adventure before a couple of Bungers had taken to following after him. Bouncing along with every step, even rushing along as if to ensure a few more aggressive of their kind kept a distance.

More so when Turo had found a good place to sit that had so many varieties of them milling about so he could pull out one of the notebooks and start sketching a few groups amongst the pages that carried a few more individual pieces that had notes with them.

Even with a few of the somewhat larger Bugsnax flying around, almost at ease with his presence.

Even with things like Loaded Spuddies and a few Flapjackarak meandering around. Watching how they seemed to 'hunt' around here.]

Are you two not hungry?

[Bunger Bunger Bunger—]

Hm. If you are sure.


Wildcard! 🃏
[Bring your own take on a starter, or hit me up if you'd like me to write something a little more personalized ᓚᘏᗢ]

Comments

kinda wildcard?

[menaceunleashed]

[Questions of the day;

1. Are Bugsnax taming
2. Are they worth taming
3. Can you ride one into battle

THESE, AND OTHER QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED SHORTLY...one hopes. So Turo, sooner or later, will likely encounter this man not so much wandering about as...searching for traces, as it were, of larger creatures. All but ignoring the smaller ones, possibly even stepping on a poor Bunger-]

Take it all in

[telepathicignorance]

Turo?

(They're not exactly the most mobile right now, but they didn't really want to be on Eltrut in the wake of the disaster that hit it, and they don't have to worry about monsters the way other people do.

They can literally read the minds of animals, after all.

Anyway, they've got a cane and they've been hobbling around checking out the various food mimicking insects on the island and ...well. They probably should have expected to find the wildlife scientist, too.)

bunger bunger bunger--

[detectiveforhierophant]

Snack food bugs. It was all-- they were all snack food bugs.

Dojima firmly believed he was going crazy, or dreaming, watching them all scurry around, repeating a single word as their cry as they went about their business. He'd been mostly quiet as he followed Turo, not really able to say anything for a while.

"What did I drink last night...?"

He finally muttered to himself, watching as Turo was already pulling out those sketchbooks of his.

Exploration A - and a bit of fussing

[yuezun]

[As Turo began exploring, Daqiang appeared somewhere behind him in a burst of black smoke, sending the bugs scattering. His eyes caught their movement and followed them. If they were anything like most bugs, they'd be back eventually.

Unconcerned about them, he walked at a steady pace to stand next to Turo and look him over.]

Are you certain you are recovered enough to be exploring on your own? You spent so much time out of your bed while you should have been in it, this venerable one cannot be certain.

[multidisciplinary]

[ Now, Zelda isn't someone who is easily fazed by weirdness. She comes from a world of diverse peoples, creatures, and even monsters. And she's a scientist!-- She prides herself on being as objective as possible in the face of new and unusual things.

But this is a sandwich. A living sandwich, with two sad eyes and a slice of tomato lolling out of its... mouth? front...bread? ...scampering on sliced onion legs after a long line of its brethren. (Or perhaps breadthren would be more appropriate.) This has to be the weirdest thing Zelda has ever seen.

She has to follow it. How can she not Why is a sandwich alive? How is it alive? She's got to know!!

So Zelda is trailing along behind the Sandopedes, crouched down in something resembling a crab walk as she holds the Purah Pad out in front of her to get a ground-level picture. She's so focused that she doesn't even notice Turo sketching as the Sandopedes pass in front of him. So close... Almost there... Just slow down a tiny bit and--

-Snap!- The camera shutter clicks. ]

Got you!