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yamato nikaido ([personal profile] dadsandals) wrote in [community profile] lunaecalamitas2024-04-16 06:58 am

do you believe in magic in a shared bath's heart?

The bath at the mansion really is extensive -- probably more extensive than a lot of them have seen, considering there are literally multiple pools of varying temperatures, probably statues and indoor plants or something for atmosphere, steam rooms, complimentary bath things (everything in the manor is kind of complimentary but shshhh) and whatnot.

On this particularly fine and nondescript day, though -- there's a bit of a commotion whenever you wander in butt-naked for your soak or whatever you like to do in here (you can hang from the ceiling like a bat or something we ain't the judge of you); there's two enterprising wizards flitting about poking at things.

The thing with 🪄 Cid Kagenou 🪄 is that he is Very Into Baths, and Very Into Magic, and thus the Bath Magic is one of the few areas where even his li'l old self can shine. Or not shine, given that they've all been here for 2.5 days (extremely rough estimate) and the miracle is nobody has blown up the mansion trying magic yet. But there is definitely magic happening! Since there's already steam and everything.

And then there's 👓 Yamato 👓. Yamato is Here and enabling himself by watching Cid experiment with various things in the area. Initially he probably would've tried to stop him, but seeing what Cid's been doing has made him want to try some magic experimentation of his own. Pairing a teenager who kind of knows what he's doing with a man who has no idea what's going on makes it even more of a miracle that the mansion has not been blown up yet.

But if you look even closer, you'll spot various small differences:

🛁 all of the water has bubbles in it; the hot bath in fact looks like it has small duck-shaped bubbles just sort of trundling along, occasionally a duck pops and releases a puff of scented air (scents may vary at your discretion)

🛁 the cold water bath keeps turning different colors, maybe they should stop experimenting with it before somebody ends up blue for the week

🛁 some of the statues and potted plants have been slightly altered; nothing too outrageous, but at least one or two statues have been turned into roomba replicas and there's a potted plant with leaves that look like people in the manor's faces in miniature

🛁 the steam room is letting out an intermittent screaming noise that sounds very human, but there's no one in it

🛁 some of the bath soaps are extremely bright and keep on changing colors, as if they were colored like a disco ball (rave! in the bathhouse!)


............. Enjoy your bath!

(OOC: This is backdated to before the South mission so South Wizards get in on the fun too!)
dyingtohealyou: ([Sweat] they're transparent)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-25 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Dude............]

It's kind of impressive how bad you are at this.
dyingtohealyou: ([Sigh] If there's a heart)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
After several tries.

[Damn, dude.]

Good luck reverting the rest.
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[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-25 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, just going to leave a mess for someone else to clean up I see...

[The adults here are so irresponsible...]
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[personal profile] foresightis2020 2024-04-25 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jing Yuan just ends up yawning.

Wow rude. Anyway, this is extremely funny, and if he were far more immature he'd use more colorful language for further teasing purposes. ]


I believe you.

[ Jing Yuan says in the exact tone that implies otherwise, lol. ]
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[personal profile] foresightis2020 2024-04-25 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rest easy he does, as he usually is in the habit of doing.

But, that being the case, he does listen patiently for when Kurapika offers elaboration swift enough. ]


...Therefore, the idea of indulging is something that you were not accustomed to even before taking on your current job.

I'd wonder if living comfortably was part of your motivation for taking on such hard work, but seeing as you are not too keen on luxury, that wouldn't be correct, would it?
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State of the bath

[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-25 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[WHY IS EVERYONE HERE SO MUSCULAR Phil is dying for multiple reasons...

Meanwhile, he is very much bathrobe-clad and not looking like he's about to take it off, though he will sit down on the hot water side and let his legs dangle in once he's sure that the water isn't going to dissolve his legs or something else equally horrible.]


If there had been invitations, I would have known to come later...

[He wasn't exactly expecting a crowd while trying to just take a nice, relaxing bath!]
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[personal profile] foresightis2020 2024-04-25 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, he's laughing. ]

Plan B it is. It's always good to have a surplus of options available on hand.

[ He is still amused that this guy conceded to a jest. Though, considering this is the first they've met... ]

...Oh, by the way, you can call me Jing Yuan. It's a pleasure.
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-25 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ khun turns to phil with a friendly smile. ]

You're not that shy, are you? [ he doesn't enter the bath just yet because he has to hang up his towel on one of the hooks. yes he has no qualms about having this conversation while he finishes undressing to become fully naked. ]
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-25 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Now you're just making fun of me...

[Phil isn't so socially inept that he can't realize when he's being teased given how many years he's spent around Marcus! He is fluent in teasing as a second language. Most of the time.]

... a-anyway, I didn't mean to stare. It's just...

[Even with the bathrobe on, it's quite obvious that Phil is very much on the skinny and non-muscular side. A totally innocuous reason for gaping the way he was, surely!]
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-25 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[HELP HIM

He spins to look away so quickly that he almost loses his balance but manages to catch himself before he ends up falling into the water. Nice save, at least?]


N-no, it's just... I don't really know anyone here, so...

[... that would be a "yes, he's that shy."]
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-25 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
My name's Khun. And now that we're acquainted, join me. [ he totally caught that, an amused huff at phil's flailing.

time to enter the water, completely at ease as he does so, even as he stares at Phil the entire time. that was not an ask~. ]
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-25 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
... Phillip.

[He's pretty much backed himself into a corner here now, hasn't he? Phil is starting to realize the error of his ways, namely that there's no getting out of this one.]

Um, if you wouldn't mind looking away for a moment...

[Just long enough for him to get the bathrobe off and slide into the water, which he is most definitely not about to do with Khun staring at him like that.]
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-25 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ hand on his cheek. ]

You realize you're almost double my age, right? If you're that shy, get creative.

[ Phil will quickly realize that khun is not someone who takes orders well, or at all really. ]
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-25 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Phil.EXE has stopped responding (probably for the exact reason that he is in fact almost double Khun's age)]

R-right. Of course.

[Get creative. Okay. He can do this.

Stepping into the water, he starts to lower himself down into it and wriggle the bathrobe up and off over his head as he does so. It probably looks extremely stupid and the hem of the bathrobe gets more than a bit soaked in the process, but he does in fact succeed in getting into the water without flashing Khun or anyone else in the vicinity, so... success?

And then he promptly sinks down into it up to his chin and draws his knees up to his chest to make extra sure that no one can see anything at all.]
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[personal profile] positivize 2024-04-25 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[they can introduce memes to the general population too, itll be great

Anyways, she's sold on the idea. Besides, what's the worst that could happen? (laugh track)]


And we might even be able to make devices for everyone else. I'm so used to having my phone with me that I forget how inconvenient it is to get in touch without it.
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[personal profile] positivize 2024-04-25 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
R-Really? I think these things usually take some time, though... It's like bonding with another person. You learn more about each other by spending time together.

[...Well okay, she actually kind of got attached to Musashi pretty quickly, but it helped that Yamato treated it like a pet too!!]
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[personal profile] impacter 2024-04-25 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Does it? Well, I'm glad.

[Is he a little smug about that? Perhaps. His apprentice is his favorite, after all.]

Yes. I don't take very many, but I've been proud of what they've managed to succeed.
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[personal profile] revengier 2024-04-25 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
You're a lot more observant than you let on.

[ He's good at connecting the dots, too, and it makes Kurapika wonder what Jing Yuan's job is. ]

No, it isn't. I head a branch of an underground crime organization, though I mostly use it for intelligence gathering. That's my focus above anything else.
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[personal profile] revengier 2024-04-25 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ assigns maya this meme ]

So do I.

[ Says the guy who ignores a good portion of his phone calls—

Anyway. ]


It would be nice to have an easier method of communication. Even if phones specifically don't work, we might trip into something else that does.
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[personal profile] leewards 2024-04-25 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
It could be, if we deem it to be.

[Which is a noncommittal response, but the only one Ithaqua will give. After all, people have a different idea of what a meeting is.]
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[personal profile] shadowkin 2024-04-25 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Why yes, that is exactly what he's here for! That and doing sincerely dubious things to communal spaces and precious amenities; they say curiosity killed the cat but nobody talked about what happened to the other cats in the musical.

Honestly if the Steam Dragon of Dojima hollers any louder at this point it really is going to become some kind of musical side quest. Anyways.]

You know the saying, don't you? Never say never, especially when magic and baths are involved.

[That's absolutely not a thing, it's just a thing Cid made up on the spot but at the same time........ it's not like he lacks experience in these things. Be that as it may, he absolutely lets Kiryu be the steam room steam shield -- the place is still pretty overheated!! Maybe it's all the hotblooded curse going on in there.

Or, I guess, somebody's leaf face is the steam room shield. Peeking curiously...... hey, is that one of their duo of fine perhaps-hosts staring into the cloudy yonder? Let's be real it's probably an angry Wanderer foliage.]

... That's not a bad idea. Maybe you scared off the curse with the whole. Face thing.

[There's at least one or two exorcisms out there that rely on scaring away the problem! It's not a stretch!]
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[personal profile] shadowkin 2024-04-25 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Braincell-to-braincell communication....... or is it clown-to-clown communication, we just don't know at this point, even if they are currently surrounded by and/or participating in a whole steam circus.

Cid nods back gravely.]

Mmm, I mean... I guess a lot of mages and wizards and whatnot really like their mysteries-- [yeah, he kind of gets that part; you can't reveal all your secrets, so it's more like...] --so it's sort of like if you were playing poker with the foreign spies for the water, and then they really wanted to test exactly how you get your coffee.

Like a personality test.

[You shouldn't have enabled him because now this metaphor has busted out of its chrysalis and become a horrible moth of madness and mayhem.]

If all the magic sugar's any indication, though, I bet it's not that hard to pass.
Edited 2024-04-25 06:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] shadowkin 2024-04-25 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Tilts his head back like an owl. All the ye olde parlance comes way too naturally to him, which is probably why it's slipping into the conversation like a particularly egregious variety of Spanglish.]

Wouldst I.... uh... not the most successful.

[His dexterity stat (magic version?) got nerfed somehow along with everything else so it really is the wizarding terrible twos in here. He pokes at a bubble and it pops, releasing a bizarre mix of what seems to be green tea and baby powder.

Wrinkling his nose a little but eh. Waving it off (literal).....]

But it's a bit more than I thought we could get to right away. Usually with magic you get stuck in theory for a couple weeks first and even then they want you to, like, stick to motions instead of application.

[OK so maybe he got a little bored.....]

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