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]

Comments

[erythropoiesis]

It's not terribly complicated, as it's mostly done via channeling aether to a familiar created for this endeavor. This does mean it can be quite draining and put a toll on the caster, but it's a simple process once the familiar is created.

[Which doesn't answer how easy it is to do but he's not sure how such concepts would translate to Ithaqua's world and magics... But in theory?]

It could be easily replicated, or it could be quite difficult. It's hard to say without attempting it.

[divineth]

Very well...

[After a moment of thought:]

Ithaqua, I would have thee speakest like myself for the remainder of our conversation.

[Does he just want to hear old english come out of Ithaqua's mouth? Yeah...what of it...]

[divineth]

[His mysterious, stoic image...slowly diminishing...]

[leewards]

[He can't see the way Ithaqua's eyes sparkle behind his mask, but he can certainly see his smile widening.

Challenge accepted. His accent is already there, after all.]

Thou hast finally requested such of me? [His other hand comes to pet Urianger's arm.] T'would not be a difficulty, thy voice echoes in my ears even in the most inopportune times... But what, pray tell, is an inopportune time to ever hear the voice of one so sweet?

[lustro]

Mmm. Truth.

[leewards]

What are you so scared about, when it comes to you and Mikaela?

[Right into the heart of the matter. He'd be nicer, but Ginger and Mika have been spewing their issues all over the place during the party...]

[lustro]

[ That’s not what Ginger thinks when he imagines devotion, but - what does he know anymore? ]

Then I suppose I am those things. I’ll tell Mika later.

[impacter]

I would like to see it now, if you could. That was part of your dare.

[lustro]

Myself. [ That’s easy. ] And - Yuu. But that doesn’t matter because I’ll have him anyway. I can’t - won’t let him go. No one in any world loves him like I do.

[divineth]

[Hydaelyn help him. He expected Ithaqua would be good at this, but it's somehow even better than he could've imagined.

He brings their raised hands up so he can plant a kiss atop Ithaqua's knuckles.]

Thou hast listened well. I would think thee a natural, had I not been the one to request this of thee. Though I must admit, I wonder what utterings thou hast heard of my voice when I am not around...

[leewards]

[Who the fuck is Yuu--

No, that doesn't matter right now because he can really tell that's an oversimplification of the issues they're facing. Yes, Ginger is certainly the root, but... What else?]

Perhaps you two just need to talk. [He reaches out and pinches Ginger on the cheek. Thankfully, he's not wearing his gloves, so he has to claws to prick anyone with.] You two have been puppies mooning at each other for so long.

[And he thought it was smooth sailing for them?? Why else would Mikaela slept over at Ginger's room for so long???]

/2

[lustro]

…………

[ He doesn’t want Mika to see him struggle to say these things. They can come out of Solomon’s mouth, but what about Ginger’s? Mika has such tender feelings for him sometimes; this would hurt him. ]

Alright.

[leewards]

[Frankly, it's not too difficult for him-- all he needs to do is change a few words most of the time.]

Murmurings so sweet, an imagination borne from a desire to see thy face whilst we are apart. [And a bit racy, honestly.] No small amount of encouragement for when the work laid out for me eludes my understanding, but enough that I needn't come crawling to thy door every time I would feel the weight of tension, in need of ministration.

[There's a double entendre there... or two.]

[impacter]

[jesus christmas, they're just flirting like this in front of god and everyone

don't mind him quietly chuckling into his drink glass]

[leewards]

Ah... [He scratches at his head, mussing his hair.] Alas, I believe that solution is too oddly specific to be translated into the terms of other worlds.

[shortleash]

( you're an otaku idk if u can be mysterious and stoic to mika now that he knows this (but congrats on the riajuu, literary otaku man) )

[shortleash]

( Definitely gross. Thank god he and Ginger are gross in a much more acceptable way [citation needed] [mika getting into an edit war with other editors]

Anyway, he doesn't seem outwardly bothered by the PDA - if it's one thing the vampiric decay has aided him with, it's keeping that kind of thing off his face in front of people who can probably skewer him easy - however, Ithaqua's phrasing, in this moment and the moments prior, can't help but draw his attention to the subject Ithaqua's appearance once again.

He has seen it, as it used to be - and Ithaqua looked perfectly normal then, though the stark shift in his skin's tone and his apparently unnatural eyes suggest his look has changed. That, and how he never seems to remove his mask, if he can help it. )

... The sum of all your parts together, but not your appearance?

( The sum of all his parts - it sounds as if he intends to brush past an individual piece or two of himself he may not quite enjoy, given Ithaqua had already pieced out his appearance as an exception earlier.

Frankly, it's rude to ask, but Mika is rude, so. )

[leewards]

[it's fine, it's not as if anyone but ye oldes understands what the fuck they're saying.]

[leewards]

[Ithaqua's response is... quite neutral, honestly. He and Urianger have touched on it briefly but it's nigh impossible to undo what's been traumatized into you.]

Behind my mask is a horrendous visage, made uglier if I were to wear any sort of expression. [Which is often! Because he's an expressive fellow.

It just so happens that he's quite a nasty person when he wants to be (which is often), and that twists his face all sorts of ways.]

[shortleash]

( Mika takes note of the impromptu history lesson, and considers with vague amazement the concept of simply removing a god. Is that truly a god, then, if they can be bested by man?

At the very least, he cannot fathom how one could close the curtains on the God he knows, unknowable; unreachable; inscrutable - sequestered away so far from the hell that comprises his earth, that He cannot be struck, nor felled.

It would not change the world's end, though, Mika decides. It would not change, for the same reason it had not changed the nature of man in Robin's world. )

... The issue lies within humans' hearts.

( Following his series of questions, Mika finally takes a stance. An expected one, but a stance all the same. )

It's not in their nature to change; it's not in their nature to do good. They think about themselves, and their wants, and they think they're justified and righteous, and they will do anything it takes to achieve it. Anyone hurt, anyone lost on the way becomes just "a necessary sacrifice."

( A beat, as he glances across the crowd - toward no one in particular. Humans in a crowd like this... does not provoke within him hope, for precisely these reasons. )

... Some can overcome their nature, even if only somewhat. ( Some can be different - some are protagonists, after all. ) But... that's not enough to change the whole. Nothing is enough.

( And so often they are taken advantage of; so often they drown, as Robin described. )

... I don't know ( or care, really - sorry, Solomon, ) if this was the right choice, but vampires where I'm from were organized into coalitions to remove these categories of surviving humans— not that their motives were good. Cults, churches, armies; self-righteous and violent instigators. Through their deaths, the decline of humanity slowed.

( Mika was just a foot soldier in these operations. He does not absolve himself of the loss of human life, though. He does not wash himself clean of the blood on his hands. )

... Not that the remaining humans didn't come to turn on each other again, eventually. Even with these external fire starters removed, humans seek out harm naturally. Again, and again, and again.

[shortleash]

( Oh. So he sees himself as a monster? Or perhaps he truly is. )

... Did something turn you?

( You had a normal face before, after all. )

[leewards]

I turned myself.

And you have seen the memory. [He points at Mikaela with an unnaturally long finger.] You know that part well, do you not?

[Him, his twin, their faces. The way his twin twisted his expressions so.]

[fullspbar]

Not like it's something I'd touch normally, either.

[ He was surprisingly a decent teen...if you discount the, y'know, smoking and back-alley fistfights. ]

I worked at a club for a while, so I've seen enough drunks to know.

[jorunna]

Truth or dare?

[troublereduction]

Hmm, a truth first.

[ He'll let Comet have a dare later.]