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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[shortleash]

( Mika shrugs. )

... I don't like having to talk to most humans. ( And that really is the truth! ... Well, the charm forces him to slip that "most" in there. Ew, nuance. ) I'm not outing this to any politician.

I have no idea how we'd just find the other ones, then. We didn't see any on our mission. If some of them are in Central castle... I don't know, doesn't East have a castle, too? ( Blanchett Castle. ) I don't think the "castle" part is key here, but maybe there's a couple being taken care of there.

[shadowkin]

Do people usually die in party games where you come from...?

[He kind of trailed off because he started imagining what would happen back home and yep, never mind, let's not even think about Shadow Garden dealing with this type of game under most circumstances.

Just a throwaway thought about it is alarming enough.]

Wait, it's just one word.....

[Why does he sound disappointed.]

[fellheart]

All right, then.

[ he stretches, catlike, before settling back into his seat, propping his head up on a hand. his smile is almost warm. ]

No one. That is to say... [ because he'll at least throw day a bone here, ] There may be those that I have some favor for, and some that I may go out of my way to assist, and a handful of terribly persistent few that may call me friend...

But I don't know that I'd actually use the word myself.

[dyingtohealyou]

Maybe it's something to do with important locations in each country...?

[Hm.]

In any case - we won't all be here forever, so if you want to be understood, make sure to actually tell people before they're gone.

[shadowkin]

Now that you say that I somehow feel like I should have seen this coming, which is worse than the dare that I just learned about.

[Who did this. It's kind of funny but also kind of scary how smoothly it's happening. Even Zeta can't pull this off and it's at least somewhat adjacent to her specialty.

He's glad she's not here to see this. Anyway........]

Purpose of the game... partly an icebreaker, partly to mess around in the bar, I'd guess. So if you're the one to start something, it makes sense for you to be the one to finish it. Otherwise the rules would be different.

[dyingtohealyou]

[if only someone taught Ahito the word "tsundere"]

[leewards]

[Enjoying the chaos from a distance.

You're welcome!

]

[fellheart]

[ we thank the moon that akira has not ]

[1145pm]

A daring feat!

[1145pm]

[ IT'S HARD ]

Hmmm... Okay! Do you count, Ginger?

[ He places a hand on his shoulder. ]

You care a lot, you're very kind, and you have a really big heart. Ahhh... You're such a nice guy.

[ Patpat. And he walks away to find others... ]

[shortleash]

( He snorts. Exceptionally wry: )

... You could say that. Humans ended the world when I was 12, I lived as livestock for vampires until I was killed at 14, lived as some vampires' pet until I was 16, and as a bonus I find out me and the only surviving family I have left have both been subject to human experiments the entire time. I finally find him again, then I get killed thanks to some jackass, bastard, backstabbing human ( fuck you guren ) trying to experiment on that last member of my surviving family again after shoving a stupid angel and demon in him, ( fuck you guren!!!!!!!! ) and I ended up here.

( The worst four years of anyone's (un)life, really. He left out a bunch of details, but he's being saltier here than he is emo, so no sad exposé, just the things that make him angry. )

Sure. I'll bite. What kind of place are you from, then?

[troublereduction]

[ Oh. Oh no this is going in a way Day wasn't hoping for. He thought it might break the awkward atmosphere, not this. He sets his drink aside because, in true Day fashion, he'd rather have his hands free for whatever he's going to do next.

Which is to say he's going to reach over and try making Phil look back at him. ]

Hey, Phil. Remember what I said 'bout how you'd only be second or third youngest after me where I work? [ Too old, his foot. ] I've got colleagues who're centuries old. 35's small potatoes next to that. And...

[ ...He knows what Phil didn't say out loud to him, and that he'd rather not let anyone else know. So all Day will say, somewhat obliquely, is: ]

I wouldn't still be here if I couldn't love things that will be lost one day. So if you're bein' selfish, I'm bein' selfish too.

[shortleash]

... Could be. Central went to Granvelle Castle, and there's some wizards there... I don't remember where South went, but maybe there's some wizards there? We went to City of Rain, and you went to Town of Ice. Wouldn't be terrible places to start looking, I guess.

( It can't be that easy though, can it...

Ahito bringing them back on track, though, makes him purse his lips.

... )

... I just don't see why. It's not like I'm expecting a gold medal for... caring.

( The idea of being cared for in turn or establishing an actually positive relationship is difficult for him to parse as possible for him. Those are things that happen to other people... surely. )

[leewards]

[Hmm. To be as mean as Kurapika, or to give him a break...]

Ballroom dance by yourself for a whole minute, regardless of whether there is music. Khun is not allowed to assist, else I consider your efforts void.

[shortleash]

... That does sound very human.

( Wry, himself. )

Why not kill them, then?

[fellheart]

[ oh, he's pretty sure he took some unintentional collateral damage from one of the things day's saying in specific.

breaks another mana rock for his glass, takes a sip. ]

[impacter]

[1) wow all the easts are really a mess huh. note to self: drag phil to emotional regulation magic practice

2) lol. lol. 35 as old. Lololololol oh honey.

Anyway get his ass Day!]

[jorunna]

Oh, okay.

[ A mischievous smile. ]

Hold still.

[troublereduction]

[ ... ... ...

Oh, so this is more or less how he expected it'd turn out. ]

I see. So they're just people you care about?

[shadowkin]

[Eh, did he do something to prompt a backstory dump??? Is this guy sensitive about his age or something?? Well, considering how different the worlds are, he probably fucked something up at some point but there is just no way to know.

This, too, is a part of life as a mere student.]

That's rough, man. Uh, I hope your angel-demon friend guy's doing okay.

[It does explain some things about the general attitude, though! And he does appear to have listened attentively, on his end. Also, holding up his hands momentarily like a peace gesture.]

Sorry, as you might have guessed, I'm a lot more boring than that. The most Midgar's got is a lot of bandits running amok, and the Church has some dark sides going on, but the vampires're pretty peaceful. So it's mostly just humans messing with each other, and a few kingdoms got half-destroyed in the political struggles, you know how it goes. Me, I'm trying to keep up with my studies in between extracurricular activities.

[leewards]

[Ithaqua just smiles underneath his mask. With a little fang, of course. How else do monsters communicate but by posturing first?]

Heheh! Satisfied with his answer?

[mirristry]

I don't think I'm "running out of magic," so to speak. It's... it simply isn't working when I try to use it.

[And he's got a pretty good idea as to why, but he's not going to say as much because he really doesn't want to point fingers at anyone here *cough*Mika*cough*]

[shortleash]

( He just. Deeply and frustratedly exhales when Cid extends his best(?) wishes to Yuu. He actually really appreciates the sentiment! +10000 relationship points for cid (jk not that many) (but he likes it when people are nice about yuu, even if indirectly) He just... doesn't know for sure how Yuu's doing, obviously, since he died. )

... He has good friends and a new family now, so I hope he is.

( Genuine, if a little... frustrated. It's not easy knowing you've been replaced, but he prefers that to Yuu being alone without him. Yuu's ... going to be okay, he thinks. He hopes so. )

... Why do humans insist on having a school sort of thing when everything else is terrible? They tried something similar where I'm from, too. Just do literally anything else.

( It wasn't a real school (just a weird writing choice, but that's too meta), but the fact that the demon army in particular chose that as its way of busying humans and picking out experiments instead of putting them to work on actually useful projects - even ones beneficial to the army - will always escape Mika. Humans are so weird. )

[leewards]

Hmm? [Oh. Well. He supposes this is what he gets.]

Very well then. [Then he sits down on the nearest chair. He might not be wearing stilts, but Comet is shorter than him, still.]

[shadowkin]

Not even with all that new mana stuff we're supposed to be using, huh...

[Amulets, mana areas, focuses, incantations, they've stacked so much magic stuff that Cid would be suspicious about it being possible to forget how to use magic under all the new mechanics if it were earlier in their introduction to the wild world of wizards. Still!! There are possibilities.

This would probably go easier if he remembered more details about the Eastern mission but alas. He does not.]

Did you touch a moon rock?