The Harvest Moon (OPEN)

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WHO: Jessica Jones and OPEN
WHAT: Harvest Event: Beating bandits, helping haul things in, looking into magic
WHERE: In and around the Moon Temple and its city, Kyst
WHEN: 14th - 22nd (First half of Event)
WARNINGS: Likely language, gratuitous violence, alcohol. Will update if needed. (Starting in prose, can match to brackets if preferred)

☪ Workload - (Moon Cities)

If there was one thing Jess could do, it was carry loads heavier than people thought she could. Trish would make some comment about it being figurative and literal, but Jess was trying not to think too much about Trish right now. She missed her. They were supposed to be getting back into their usual swing of things and then she'd found herself here. Now she'd been asked to fight -- however she could -- for a war that wasn't hers to keep her world safe. She didn't care too much about the world in general, but she gave a shit about some of the lives that still dotted it. So she'd play along for now. Watching kids wasn't something she felt either her or the children should have to suffer through, but hauling in heavy loads and moving fences and hay bales was easier for her than some others. So for anyone in and around the cities of the Moon Temple, Jessica Jones might be seen carrying a seemingly heavy load with ease, or possibly hammering a post down into the ground. The physical labor helped her not have to think about everything else that was going on. It was just easier to work herself into being tired enough to fall asleep.

☪ Bandits? Bandonts. - (Moon Cities)

She hadn't gone to the armory or weapon places here yet. Not really into learning how to swing a sword or fire a bow. She wasn't from the land of hobbits and trolls, after all. Of course, she'd never liked guns either. Weapons just weren't her style. Not when she could make everything around her a weapon. Even an apple could be a weapon if it was hurled hard enough, as one bandit found out when he was fleeing. Jess might not want to shoot him in the back, but she had a good arm and she'd knock his punk ass out while she took off after a few others who'd decided to raid a couple coming to the city with their kids. It was the kids she was doing it for, not the parents- that's what she kept telling herself. They hadn't looked hurt, but they'd been afraid, and Jessica was tired of people being afraid of goddamn bullies.

Any time Jessica heard of a bandit hitting an area near her, or came across someone scurrying from a house with people screaming, she could easily be found picking up the nearest stick, apple, or rock to go chase them down with. Even into the woods. Maybe she'll encounter a few other helpful types?

☪ Magic means - (Moon Cities/Kyst)

She hadn't had much when she'd come here, just her side bag and whatever had been in it. Fortunately, or unfortunately for her, that included her camera. Which wasn't going to be too useful in a place where no one had a goddamn clue what any of it did. She'd gone to the R&D department of the Temple, and after some oohing and ahing, they'd offered to take a look to see how to make it perform without needing a laptop or printer. But one of their suggestions had been to go look up some of the schools of magic. That there were ways to make things appear, to conjure, to make something out of nothing that she could tie in with her 'science'.

So Jessica could be found nosing around the Temple, nosing around whatever libraries she could find that might give her an indication, and even taking a mirror over to Kyst to see if there was more she could find out about magic there. And it all just seemed like bullshit to her. Magic... Jesus. Wasn't what she was bad enough? But she was here, it wasn't a dream, and she'd made her bonded promise to the Priestess. She might not want to go stick a sword in someone's gut, but she could gather information. Maybe it wouldn't come in as handy as she was used to it being, but her camera had been a part of her work for so long. It was as good a place to start as any. She can be found in any of the aforementioned places, possibly asking about or reading a book on, yes... magic.

☪ Wildcard - (Moon Cities/Kyst)

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