Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

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[fellheart]

[ a very mild smile. ]

Now, are you sure that you really want the answer to that specific question?

[ this isn't stalling. it's giving day a chance to change his mind. ]

[troublereduction]

[ ...

Day is taking this as a chance to brace himself. ]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[shortleash]

( AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA )

What's so funny?

[shortleash]

( rubbing his face rubbing his face rubbing his face (VISIBLY EMBARRASSED) )

[shortleash]

Can you do it without getting embarrassed!? Why are you so dead set on making me admi— say it, anyway? ( Rephrasing it as if he can deny that it's true, when it is, ) You've asked, like, two entire questions like that!!

[dyingtohealyou]

How else are they going to know how you feel? If anything, I'm doing you a favor!

[shortleash]

And why do they need to know how I might feel, even??

[mirristry]

... I'm sorry.

[It comes out in a rush, breathless and strained, his voice tight with emotion.]

I know you don't... f-for one thing, I'm too old, and...

[... and I'm not going to live for that much longer. That part he knows he doesn't have to say out loud, not to Day.]

... it's just an old man's selfishness. Please... just forget about this.

[He turns away, not wanting to let Day see the tears in his eyes yet again.]

[dyingtohealyou]

...Because we won't all be here forever.

[shadowkin]

[He waves back!]

Dare it is.

[He has decided that enforced truth is too easy and therefore he's going down with this dare boat. Or something like that. It's quite hard to live a proper mob life when you aren't allowed your mob trappings.....

But improvisation is the soul of both dilly-dallying and daring, so here they are.]

[shortleash]

( Wh— )

... You better not be talking about dying off.

( Just to be sure. But... the alternative - going home - is not something he's considered on a broader scale, even, for everyone. )

[dyingtohealyou]

There's always a chance - but no, not just that.

The only country with a mission left is the West. If we recover all the original wizards, there isn't a reason for us to remain here.

[shortleash]

( that's rough buddy dot gif

Mika isn't totally familiar with these concepts - there's no such equivalent in his world, really - but he can make the logical connection between an excess of power and corruption. )

... Mmm. Then what? You just live out your lives like humans do?

[shadowkin]

[Grimeowbin is so much. Cid just blinks at him a couple of times....... uh...]

Were you this kind of guy...?

[You'd think he would figure out the dare thing but no, this is too startling, his single braincell has been bambmewzled.]

Besides, you shouldn't be encouraging eavesdropping, doesn't that defeat the purr-- purpose of the game or something?

[He does not trill. But the rrr's are kind of contagious, heaven furfend.]

[shortleash]

( hold on, )

Wait, what? You guys've found the original wizards? When?

( guy who has not been paying attention to plot literally at all, )

[dyingtohealyou]

...

Do you remember seeing glowing lights and hearing someone thanking you after you purified the moon rock, or were you too busy being feverish?

[shortleash]

( what

Okay, hold on, he's... thinking, give him a second. )

... I think I remember lights, but... I don't know if we got thanked...? Were those not spirits or something?

( Easterners are too antisocial to thank people, turns out, )

[dyingtohealyou]

So far the southern wizards and central wizards have definitely been returned - just comatose. I don't know if anyone's been able to track down the locations of the eastern or northern wizards, but there's no reason they should still be missing.

[fellheart]

[ a wry laugh, something dark in the sound. ]

Hardly. Or at least, that's not my experience ... and given that of some of the others I've known, not theirs either.

Some are deified. Some are captured and enslaved, made to perform petty tricks at the whims of the worst of mankind.

[shortleash]

( what??????????????? )

Comatose where? Did they just pop out of the ground?

( tf. But also, knowing how they were just "suddenly" found would be a great pointer as to figure out how to find these other missing wizards...??? )

[shadowkin]

I forgot about it.

[He forgot about it.]

... That is pretty obscure, though. Sounds like a combination of two different words... Gun and musk? Gull and tusk? Gum and husk?

[dyingtohealyou]

I don't have the details on how they appeared, but I know at least some of them are in the Central castle.

Try to keep that to yourself, though. There's probably a bunch of political stuff wrapped up in the representative Wizards' current state.

[fellheart]

If you think I will settle for mew-re half steps in regards to a dare then you really do have the wrong estimewtion of me...ow.

[ he somehow says all this without breaking stride in the least. ]

But go on. What is the purrpose of the game, and why would it be defeated if someone listened in on another's confursation?

[dyingtohealyou]

...Try not to get yourself or any of us killed.

Anyway, it's an old word from my country.

[shadowkin]

I don't think I'm that weird... we're just from different worlds?? In a couple different ways...

[Look, normally he doesn't care what people call him but don't!! Look down on his mob life!! He has his pride of being Extraordinarily Ordinary to look after--

Who knows how the truth magic takes this but the truth is kind of a pretzel sometimes it's fine.]

Ah, we're almost the same age. That's kinda funny... You've probably had a longer few years than me, though. Just, mentally.