eachdraidh | [video] Open to both courts | Backdated to the first. CHOCOBO PANIC.

[When the image clicks on, it shows Lumina standing in the middle of the central field of her ranch, her house in the background and a mostly empty set of stables in front of her. There is one agitated red chocobo tied to a post besides her, warking unhappily and tugging at his lead. Lumina is talking to two of her stable hands, gesturing wildly. She's bundled up in a heavy pink coat, and looks exceedingly unhappy.]

...know why they ran off, I can't talk to them! Try to catch them before they get too far!

[The locket shakes, and the imp holding it out-of-sight calls out Lumina's name, and the child spins around. She's clearly panicked.]

My chocobos are gone! Almost all of them! They just started freaking out and took off!

[As she talks, four imps and a stableman appear behind her, dragging a very unhappy looking Chaos the black chocobo towards the stables by his reins.]

If you see one, try to catch it please! [You can tell she's actually upset because she said please!] I'll come and get it but I can't chase all of them!

[There's a shout from behind her from the imps trying to pull Chaos, and Lumina turns away, then looks back at the locket.]

Just try and calm them down. I can't figure out what's wrong with them!

[And then she was running off to help and the locket clicked shut.]

[ooc: So basically, all the chocobos on this list except for Chaos and Burn have run off! They are fast birds and can defend themselves, and will be all over the region around Mair, for hundreds of miles in every direction! As far as the station after a few days!

People are welcome to find them and tell Lumina, and she'll come and fetch them! New friend cr! Or enemy cr if they try to keep them and she has to go and rescue her birds. :D]

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(The locket had been open the whole time Howard had been working, mostly because he wanted to see if anyone suddenly had an explanation for what the heck was going on. He'd heard birds near the station losing their minds, large plumes of the circling off, shrieking, though he hadn't found an answer to why, no one else seemed to know, either.

And then suddenly they're squawking again, this time from the locket, and he looks into it alarmed.)

I take it a chocobo is a bird? They've all been going crazy here, too.

[Lumina's imp opens the locket again when the message is received, to show her in the stables now, trying to calm down a very upset Chaos the black chocobo.]

Huh? [Lumina looked over, then rolled her eyes and pointed at the big black bird.] Yeah. That's a chocobo. Shhh. [This last part was to Chaos again, who warked despondantly.]

(Well that at least gets his full attention, setting down what he had been working on to pick it up, squinting into it.)

That's a big bird.

(But alright, he's got a crease in his brow ~~this place is going to give him wrinkles~~, and he's jotting down a note.) Do they fly? Are they dangerous?

[That astute observation just earns him a roll of her eyes.]

Duh.

[And then a shrug.]

No and yes. Sometimes.

(this is the first time he has seen giant magical chicken-things okay. his experience with that is an emu he saw at a zoo once.)

It looks like a chicken.

(Thoughtful, considering.)

I'll keep my eye out for one. How's the best way to calm it down and capture it?

[You are just saying all the wrong things, Howard. The child groans.] They're not chickens. They're chocobos.

[And then she shrugged.]

I'm not sure. They're usually friendly. And pretty calm. I'd say try talking to them.

They look like chickens.

(SORRY KIDDO. He is still not used to this whole thing, alright. But fine, fine, they're chocobos.)

Talking to them. Alright. Any food I can use to lure them in, too?

And you look like an ogre, but I'm polite enough not to call you one.

[Wait...]

They like grass. And green things. And cookies.

[She should really stop giving them cookies.]

Is it the moustache?

(He grins just a little bit there, and then nods.)

Green things might be a little hard to find with all of this snow, but I think they may have cookies around here. They have a lot of modern stuff.

Little bit.

[She just grins.]

At the station? That's where I swipe mine from, so they'll work!

(Alright, he has to grin a little at that.) It's more aimed for girls probably fifteen years older than you are.

(A nod.)

What do I do if I catch one?

So...it's a pick-up mustache. Ew.

[Lumina's been around a while. Sorry Howard.]

Just...try to keep it occupied and call me.

I'll pop over and get it.

Something like that. (Well. He just thinks the ew is because she's a kid. He looks very amused, though, so that's at least something.

A nod)

I...will do what I can? Is there a reward involved?

(he doesn't really need one, well he kind of does, but he's not going to demand one. That would be silly.)

A reward? [Well, right. It's what she would have asked if she had been on the other end of all this.]

I don't know. I didn't have time to think of anything.

Can I get a chick?

(Not the one he catches. But. A little one. He's mostly joking, though he wouldn't exactly say no.) Do they have little ones? Or do they just appear?

(ooc: ps i would love to have him trying to wrangle one at the station.)

There will be. But there are only a few right now and they're all spoken for!

[She shrugs. Sorry.]

[ooc: Hey, go for it! We can skip ahead.]

[video] Open to both courts | Backdated to the first. CHOCOBO PANIC.

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