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

Steam room

[chronosynthesis]

I heard it, too. [And he wasn't even interested in the steam room, previously, but now he's stopped outside just as Kiryu is coming back out.] Was it nothing?

[themanwhoerasedhisname]

Nothing except steam. Was it a spirit...?

[Kiryu, the spirits of the world have better things to do than spook people in a steam room.

Probably]

[chronosynthesis]

I suppose it is possible the spirits of this place can speak. [Whether they choose to or not is another thing entirely.] In that case, there must be a way to soothe it. OR you could just hope it goes away on its own.

[themanwhoerasedhisname]

I'd rather do something about it instead of sitting around to wait.

[Soothing spirits it'll be. Kiryu stares at the entrance of the steam room when another shriek happens.

Hm]

How does one pacify a spirit? Many years ago I remember something about having to use a holy rock and charging it by placing it inside a jar, but that was where I'm from. It might be different here.

[KIRYU THAT WHOLE THING WITH THE ROCK AND THE JAR WAS A SCAM YOU FELL FOR]

[chronosynthesis]

I'm afraid I don't have any experience, either. I am no necromancer. [He props his chin on his hand.] Where would one get a holy rock?

[If they don't have any other options. What's the worst that could happen?]

[themanwhoerasedhisname]

...I have no idea.

[From random people in the street, turns out. Hmmmmm...]

We have magic. We should be able to bless a rock ourselves?

[That's how it works, right...?]

[chronosynthesis]

I've never blessed a rock before. Wouldn't that require divine magic? [He pauses, considering.] Though, if our magic comes from natural spirits, perhaps that's similar enough?

[themanwhoerasedhisname]

That could work. We might need a chant, too.

[Just these two, standing at a corner of this bath place, holding a rock and chanting at it]

[chronosynthesis]

If we're casting magic, it would have to be our own, wouldn't it? [He was under the impression nothing else works, but maybe blessing things is different?] You've more experience in this than me.

[themanwhoerasedhisname]

[Kiryu stares at him for a moment, and he sighs]

We're bumbling around. We'll make this all worse if we're not careful.

[Later in another thread Kiryu tried to dispel the steam room curse and he ended giving it his voice by accident, so instead it was a steam room yelling like Kiryu]

[chronosynthesis]

My magic isn't that out of control. [Or at least he's very confident it's not.] We can grab a rock outside and go from there. The kitchen will have jars.