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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[shadowkin]

Hm? Didja mess up a promise or something?

[Somebody had to ask at least one other question and he kind of wants to know. Maybe it is more casual coming from an almost total rando??]

[mirristry]

I... no. I haven't made any promises with anyone.

[You don't make promises when you have an absolutely abysmal track record of not keeping them!]

So it isn't... that kind of magic loss, at least.

[shadowkin]

Well, that means it's fixable, probably.

[Look on the bright side!! Since everyone else is yelling at the guy Cid is just going to look at this with the eye of a scholar. Philosophically and with great intrigue that he is mostly hiding.]

Tried eating rocks? Having somebody scare the pants off of you? Flying in circles on your broom until inspiration hits??

[mirristry]

Y-yes. Probably.

[Except when you have two decades' worth of trauma that you've spent the entire two decades running from or trying to shove under the rug, good luck with that...]

... rocks? Do you mean mana stones?

[Hmmm. His face falls even further at the mention of that, for some reason.]

[shadowkin]

Rocks, sticks and stones, mana lumps that aren't from the moon, right? If you're running out of magic that's probably your first stop.

[Sorry he does not know about this magic trauma you do not speak of and so Cid is just nattering on as he thinks things through. It's not as though he hasn't thought through contingencies in case of magic loss, it's just that he was more thinking personal magic loss and less community magic loss.

... Hopefully it's not communal and more of a one-off. Moon's haunted, though.]

[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*]

[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?

[mirristry]

[The mention of the moon rock makes him wince slightly, though he tries to keep his expression level.]

No, none of us did. We got near it, but we avoided coming into direct contact with it. Although... the way it felt...

[Like it was trying to tear into his very soul somehow.]