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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!)
divineth: (🌒 16)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-04-19 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Urianger has just come walking out of there, relatively calm but still a bit perturbed by the screaming.]

A very good question. [He glances back toward the entrance.] 'Twas not present until today, nor could I find a source for it inside.
dyingtohealyou: ([Sweat] your face)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-19 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
This whole place has gotten weird. Did someone mess with the baths and everything?
divineth: (🌒 32)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-04-23 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeeeeah. Urianger was thinking the exact same thing.]

Magic practice gone awry, I presume...
dyingtohealyou: ([Sigh] If there's a heart)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-23 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Gone awry, or a prank?
divineth: (🌒 5)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-04-23 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
A...prank? Thou thinkest someone hath used their training to inconvenience us?

[Because Urianger sure didn't consider it.]
dyingtohealyou: ([Sweat] your face)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-23 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Why not?

[Doesn't seem so farfetched to him.]

I guess I can see how it'd be more fun than regular study...
divineth: (🌒 27)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-04-23 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Given our circumstances, I was hoping for this to have occurred as the result of better intentions.

[He's not trying to be a killjoy or anything, but guuuuys. Please be a little more serious.]
dyingtohealyou: ([Sweat] they're transparent)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-24 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
...Have you seen the people here?
divineth: (🌒 81)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-04-24 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Aye...? Am I to be concerned about anyone?

[He hasn't run into the unhinged ones yet, apparently.]
dyingtohealyou: ([Look] semi-transparent)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-24 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Just watch your back and be careful if you make any deals with the others.

[A beat, as something occurs to him.]

Absolutely no promises, though.
divineth: (🌒 40)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-04-24 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Promises... Yeah, the seriousness is not lost on Urianger.]

Thy advice is sound. Still, I was not expecting to be warned of possible duplicity so early.

[Can he stay out of it for once please.]
dyingtohealyou: ([Think] if I can't see any love songs)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-04-24 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[No, now go be friends with Khun.]

The selection seems pretty random. It would be more surprising if everyone followed the same set of morals.
divineth: (🌒 14)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-05-04 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[This is really funny in retrospect.]

'Twould almost be too easy, I suppose... But thou art correct. 'Tis almost a test in and of itself- a test to see how well we shall work together.
dyingtohealyou: ([Sweat] I was singing to)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-05-04 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Look it's not his fault Khun has not acted hinged since day one.]

...I don't know if that's even going to be possible in the time we have.
divineth: (🌒 54)

[personal profile] divineth 2024-05-09 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't be a downer already, Ahito.]

Perhaps not, but we must at least make an attempt if we are to succeed in our task.
dyingtohealyou: ([Sweat] they're transparent)

[personal profile] dyingtohealyou 2024-05-09 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm trying to get along, but I can't do much if some people decide not to bother.