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]

( ... Well, after he ratshook Ahito... fine... )

... Truth.

[dyingtohealyou]

Tell me all the people you care about most here.

[shortleash]

What the hell!

( He was going to ease off!!!!!!!!

Thankfully, the most stipulation shaves down this list a little. In no particular order because I scrolled up and down the taken list for this: )

Ginger. You. Everyone in East. Maya. Malice. Jing Yuan. Leo. Bruno.

—Seriously, what the hell!

[dadsandals]

[ haha ]

[shortleash]

( AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA )

What's so funny?

[foresightis2020]

[ 🥺 ]

[shortleash]

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

[dyingtohealyou]

[hehe]

What's wrong with saying you care about people?

[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??

[dyingtohealyou]

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

[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]

( 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.

[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...??? )

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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. )

[dyingtohealyou]

...What are you- it's not so you can get rewarded or anything. It's because there's people you care about who probably think you hate them because you suck at communicating.

[Simple as that.]

[shortleash]

( ...

He considers this. )

... It's fine if they don't think I care about them. Or... if they don't like me in turn. As long as I can protect them...

( Very Hachiko. But... Given what happened to he, himself, during the East mission - where he was so upset he could not accept the protection given to him from anyone - he can perceive some further nuance in this situation. )

... But... it would a problem if they don't let me.