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lunaecalamitas2024-04-16 06:58 am
dadsandals) wrote in 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:
............. Enjoy your bath!
(OOC: This is backdated to before the South mission so South Wizards get in on the fun too!)
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!)
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... Some of the victims I met begged for death. It was the only thing they could do anymore.
( Vague memories resurface in his mind - children used in the experiments he'd seen; the states they were in... )
... I was also lucky. The orphanage I was in was part of a series of experiments, too. I didn't realize they were doing things to me while I was there. But... I can't say for sure if all the orphans "adopted" out really made it away.
( Which frustrates him more than he lets on, but not as much as it used to, when he had his full breadth of emotions available to him. )
What magic was worth the risk of your life, to them?
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...Healing. But just giving someone that magic wasn't the only objective.
There was a girl my age who'd been in a pretty horrific accident. Her whole family died - she was the sole survivor, but just barely. Apparently, the accident triggered her magical potential.
[He leans back in the bath, staring at the ceiling - or more like, staring somewhere far, far from here.]
They were trying to accomplish multiple goals. Giving someone magic who previously did not have the talent for it, offsetting the cost of that magic, and acquiring whatever power she had.
...It was considered a failure, in the end.
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On all three counts?
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Two. Offsetting the cost, and acquiring her magic.
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So there's a cost, and they're using her. ( Or they took her magic from her? ) Did she survive?
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...No. The price of my magic is me - my own health. The surgeries they performed couldn't restore what I'd lost, and after a while they couldn't keep up with the damages, either.
[He raises a hand to his right eye, though he doesn't really react to the proximity of that hand, either.]
It activates whenever I look at anyone sick or hurt. Eventually, just glimpsing her caused me to collapse, unconscious, for three whole weeks.
[Precious time that, in her condition, she simply did not have.]
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[Funny, right?]
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... Are you sure you shouldn't tap out of this moon battle thing entirely?
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Maybe Tatara knows how to release you from duty. Not send you home, though.
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That's it that's the tag.]
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Mika just ???? )
What? Not a fan?
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What did you try to ask him?
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[Conveniently leaving out the part where he was also super aggro about it.]
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( As far as he can tell, Tatara probably only knows what he was taught, briefly, before the lot before them went missing - and whatever's in the journals, which is the same thing they all have access to. )
But he did get a few tips from the sage before him. There could be a handful of things he does know, if you want to bother. ( He shrugs, tho. ) ... I don't know if he's the type to keep secrets, though.
( More a vibecheck than anything based on evidence, he will admit. )
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I might be better off just doing my own research.