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

[dadsandals]

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!)

Comments

[discomposer]

[ Leo, who cannot be normal for 5 seconds, is making bubble sculptures in the hot water bath. They're not great. Sometimes he's modeling them off of people. They look mostly like blobs...snowman blobs...

He also periodically leaves offerings (?) for the roomba replica statues. Someone make him stop leaving crumbs everywhere.

Also can be found trying to harmonize with the steam room screaming. Because see the first sentence of this toplevel. ]

[revengier]

[ Kurapika is also here! Fully clothed in a shirt and shorts, but he's here nevertheless.

And he is also here to see Leo leaving offerings at the roomba statues. ]

So you're the one leaving crumbs all over the fourth floor.

[discomposer]

[ Leo's Japanese and used to bathhouses so he's not clothed, whatever. ]

Huh~? Oh, the treats for Musashi-tan! Of course~! ♪

[ Somehow he causes problems for Kurapika even when they're not hanging out, help. ]

[revengier]

[ At least Leo is comfortable! Though Kurapika's level of never-nude can be more than enough to cover them both. ]

You don't need to feed a vacuum with treats.

[ Leo!! Please!! ]

[discomposer]

"Need" and "want" are different!

[ He WANTS to feed the vacuum! ]

[revengier]

...

[ LEO.... ]

Why in the world would you want to?

[discomposer]

Because~ he's a good and sweet boy! ♪

[ It's a vacuum. ]

[revengier]

Don't you mean a vacuum?

[ He knows arguing about this is fruitless but here he is anyway— ]

It's probably going to run out of battery any day now anyway.

[discomposer]

Can't we recharge that with magic~?

[ He...THINKS? Magic seems to be the answer for most things, okay. ]

[revengier]

I hope not.

[ It keeps bumping into his door!! ]

If we can, Yamato will have to figure that one out himself.

[discomposer]

Eh, I'd help him out!

[ That's not surprising.

Anyway, he grins at Kurapika. ]

I feel like you might too, in the end?

[revengier]

No way. That thing is too annoying.

[ Yes, he would help. ]

[discomposer]

Awwww, why don't you like Musashi-tan? He's so nice!

[ It's a Robot ]

[revengier]

It interrupts my reading and training.

[ That's it. ]

[discomposer]

It goes in your room uninvited?

[ Leo can relate. To going into rooms uninvited, that is. ]

[revengier]

It knocks up against my door and along my walls.

[discomposer]

Maybe you should ask Nikai if he'll wrap a towel around the outside edges to buffer him a little?

[revengier]

Wouldn't the towel gather up dust in that case?

[discomposer]

No, no, like around the edges of it! Up above the wheels! So when it bumps, it'd have padding?

[revengier]

...You know, that might not be a terrible idea.

[ It might gather up dust on the walls, but that's what doing laundry can mitigate. ]

[discomposer]

I am a genius, you know~?

[ He just acts dumb.

Like, he's silly, but he's also brilliant thank you - (he mostly only shows the silly side help) ]

[revengier]

[ He sighs. ]

You never act like it.

[ Though, that isn't to say he doesn't believe Leo either. Geniuses tend to be eccentric, and well, Leo fits the bill. ]

[discomposer]

Oh~? You want me to be super serious, Pika~?

[ He'll drop it for a second if he gets a yes, but do you want that. Do you really. ]

[revengier]

You make it sound threatening.

[ Which only makes him more curious, honestly. So, he shrugs. ]

If you want to, go right ahead.