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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!)
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-26 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Wah!

[Okay, now that was just plain unfair. Phil gets nailed right in the forehead, but at least it gave him a head start on washing his hair?

He reaches up to push his dripping bangs out of his eyes, a very evident pout on his face.]


I didn't "forget" about it... mirristry-- magic isn't meant to be used for things like that in my world.

[So of course he wouldn't think to use it for things like that here either!]
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-26 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ cocks an eyebrow, unimpressed. ]

What's it supposed to be used for then?
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-27 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
... for the good of the people.

[And for just a moment, his mouth thins into a line. Seems like he's got some thoughts about that.]
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-27 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
And you're not people?

[ he punctuates that by conjuring up another stream of water to hit phil in the forehead with. ]

Think about how your bathrobe feels.
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-28 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
[THIS IS BULLYING

And that absolutely was not a squeak.]


I meant... other people. Not me. I don't need to be expending energy on something like that.
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-28 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I see.

[ stares at phil for several long seconds. ]

You're clearly expending all of your energy being as embarrassed as a schoolgirl, so that makes sense.
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-04-29 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
That's--!

[Busted, and he can't even protest because Khun hit it right on the head.]

... well, you aren't exactly wrong. I'm not used to bathing around so many other people outside of hot springs, so I'd been hoping the bath would be empty when I came here today.
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[personal profile] lighthaus 2024-04-29 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't this basically the same thing?

[ like yeah they're inside, but. ]
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-05-02 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I suppose.

[A quiet sigh.]

This would be why Marcus is always telling me that I need to stop spending so much time with my books and start spending more time with other people instead.
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[personal profile] mirristry 2024-05-03 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
You could call him my partner.

[Okay, so Marcus bosses him around, but technically they're both the leaders!]

But I do have to admit that he does far more of the day-to-day work than I do. He's always been better at that sort of thing.