( open ) summer/fall catchall.

[scriviner]

✿ who ✿ Alhaitham and you!
✿ what ✿ intro with open prompts!
✿ when ✿ latter half-ish of summer
✿ where ✿ around
✿ warnings ✿ n/a!

a. scavenger hunt

[ Games like this don't really interest him, when they're nothing more than contrivances to get people to learn things about others that they didn't really care to know in the first place. However, if it's to get seeds, he'll go along with it.

More seeds means he can give them to Kaveh and keep him out of the house more, which means more peace and quiet indoors for him. This is a flawless plan. If Kaveh doesn’t want the seeds, Alhaitham will simply have to point out to him how the seeds will go to waste if he doesn’t plan them, and that should hopefully to the trick.

To that end, he hands passersby in town a clipboard with a list of scavenger hunt questions on it. ]

Fill this out, if you will.

[ It’s not too far off from collecting surveys for research. Not his favorite academic pursuit, but it makes the task more palatable. ]

a. in the library

[ After becoming aware of a library in town, it’s where Alhaitham begins to spend most of his time. Relatively quiet and away from the hustle and bustle with plenty of new literature to get his hands on. A lot of it is pointless fluff, sure, but even that can grant him insights on this island and its goddess.

Anyway, if you happen to be there, too, he eventually starts piling books on the desk you’re reading at. He offers a quick explanation: ]

Ran out of room on my own.

[ Indeed, the desk he’s been sitting at is piled with books, and instead of putting any of them away, he’s just going to use someone else’s space, too, natch. ]

c. happy hour

[ Another Alhaitham book reading prompt…but this time he’s at the bar! It’s Happy Hour, but he doesn’t seem keen on socializing, even if the drinks here are decent.

Should someone sit down next to him at the bar, he’ll lift his gaze from his book just enough to give them an appraising look, as if deciding whether or not to say something and strike up a conversation…but no. He just goes right back to reading. Don’t take it too personally - the god of wisdom herself could sit down next to him and he would be hard-pressed to start a conversation.

Then he fiddles with his headset - turning up his music, perhaps? ]

d. wildcard

[ Bingo card is here and he is available for any gen prompts. He will put up with a little socialization to fix his roof, thanks. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to plot something specific! ]

Comments

in the library

[meowst]

[ Faust had expected to have a quiet, peaceful day in the library. He's not about to go out and socialize... yet. He plans on it; his magic depends on it, after all.

Instead of reading alone, there's someone piling books on his table. Faust looks at him, eyes narrowed with displeasure. Actually, he's more than offended, akin to someone snatching the book of his hands and tearing it to shreds. ]

Hey, if you're running out of room, you should put some of those away instead of bothering other people.

[scriviner]

No, I don't think I will.

[ He responds, already cracking open another book and peering at the stranger from over the binding for just a moment. He looks annoyed, but if anything, he should be grateful. Now he has more things on his table to read. ]

I might need to refer to those again later.

[meowst]

[ He's lucky that Faust respects the library and its books enough to not simply knock the books off his table, not unlike a cat. ]

Then I suggest you find a bigger table. It'll be distracting if you keep coming over to grab a book. Do you have no respect for your fellow readers?

[scriviner]

Then I would need to move all of my books, and that's time consuming.

[ He makes it sound so perfectly logical and reasonable. Alhaitham crosses his leg over his knee, clearly not intending to stand back up right away. ]

You weren't using that space. I fail to see how that can be considered disrespectful, unless you were the owner of that desk.