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TDM 002 / MERMAY EVENT
A: Garden Level - CLEAN UP CREW
[WHUH OH YOU'VE DIED AND ENDED UP IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. A usually beautiful sight--this time it seems the water from heaven is spilling over! Watch your step or you might get a stream of ocean water cascading atop your head like a prop bucket.
The imps and cherubs are hard at work with a water pump tho!! They've got this, really. "Don't mind us, we're just--doing paperwork! Yep!! THAT'S ALL IT IS."
Reassuring. More alarming, you may have noticed that you've changed. Depending on your alignment, you may have more heavenly or hellish traits.............or just for May, you may have AQUATIC traits. That's not worrying!!
Well as some oldbies get teleported to the garden as well, maybe you can ask them some questions!!]
B: HECK-LING TIMES
[Now if you take the elevator down to Hell's Hotel, it's water free! However you may be IMMEDIATELY assaulted by some imps who try to jab you with a shiv. Standard hell greeting!! Maybe someone intervenes or maybe you can like, just punch them. The sheep imps ain't shit. The rest of the hotel is surprisingly nice though, and if you have a room assignment there, you'll find it honestly pretty accommodating.
BUT OUTSIDE? Oh buddy is it still flooded!! Some imps are working hard to pump the water out, but it has the added effect of creating whirlpools. Get sucked into one and not only will you be tossed and turned like laundry, but there's a chance a MEMORY will be tossed right out of you! This could be anything from forgetting your name, your bestie's face, where you live, whatever! Don't worry, the effect will wear off in a few hours, or until someone finds the memory and gives it back to you (in the form of floating seashells that will float near the whirlpools!)]
C: HEAVENLY SING-A-LONGS
[Take the elevator up, and you step in the luxurious Heavenly Hotel! And you may be IMMEDIATELY assaulted by sheep cherubs spritzing you with perfumes or colognes or dolling up your hair. They're here to serve!! Once you get rid of those pests though, feel free to explore the ludicrously divine amenities of the hotel.
OUTSIDE isn't nearly as flooded as Hell, though the local ocean has still expanded greatly, but instead there's a different problem...........there are crabs. And seagulls. And fish?? Singing. They're singing SO much.
You may find a chorus of sea critters at any point in Heaven abruptly bursting into a kiss-the-girl style musical, accidentally revealing a crush you might have, or a silly secret. Better hope passing angels and other residents aren't listening too hard! Of course you can just punt the annoying creatures away. Or eat them. That's an option too, sure. ]
OOC NOTES:
-All effects are optional and last as long as it's fun for you to play with them!
-TDM characters can have mermaid forms or not, up to you!
-This TDM is open to all! For now, you do NOT need to join the comm to play in it!
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[Nobunaga gets up again, signaling with his hands for her to wait.]
[At least he's numb and not crying or wibbly, gods he could not fucking live with himself to be that uncool after all that!]
[He returns with some drinks.]
There's no alcohol in it, not because of us being demons where we don't belong, [Aka: he didnt ask or care about age or drinking laws anywhere or when!] but because I try not to drink so much for my partner's sake. Though alcohol is every god's greatest vice, and some priests, and can banish certain weaker demons, we are not that weak. [Genuinely. Nobunaga can't drink enough to keep up with an oni, but he can definitely drink a LOT. It's just he also gets more violent and that's too stupid first day in heaven before he has his emotional support blanket/spouse, and he wasn't lying. Klaus had since substituted drinking for sugar with Nobunaga, so Nobunaga didn't drink either except very special occasions. He never wanted Klaus to miss out.]
[So he hands her a fruity mocktail all the same.] Kanpai.
Sounds like your friend is one of a kind, both good or bad. Which is a small shame, because maybe the world needs more like him. Then again, sometimes worlds can't handle just the one of us.
Equality is perhaps even more foreign in my time in Japan than in your world. We don't have magic after all, so circumstances of birth dictate far too much. [Aka no loli mages!!! And even the priesteses were kind of having it rough with the Buddhism. If he could go backwards in time he'd bitchslap certain people but as it is, his ultimate goal is to upend and do away with the birth dictating everything.] But the first friend I ever had treats everyone equally, even a demon king so it meant more than a world to me. [Small fist clench!] Still does.
I think desires are all fine and well, but it's the actions that matter most. I told my second in command this constantly. Even if I want to burn my world down in a temper, what matters is what I do with the desire instead. And words are just words without the actions. Sometimes it's easier to be hated than not. [Ugh too deep and introspective and you'll not get him to life the veil that easily! Even Klaus struggled with it!]
I'll not underestimate him, of course, but thank you for telling me. [Nod!] I'll stay open minded, and I'm looking forward to meeting him whenever opportunity arises.
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Uhhh...
[She was going to ask if he was okay but then-]
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Nobody ever lets me drink alcohol!
[She's not grumpy... okay yes she is, but she's not going to pout over it! She's just going to sip her fruit juice cocktail... LIKE A CHILD!
Even if it's pretty good.]4/4
He just... uh... sometimes lets his desires compromise his principles which makes him less likable.
[She still wants to make sure he understands... the man can still be utterly hopeless at times.]
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Later. When I can oni rampage to my heart's delight. Sake is dangerous for me, and rum is even worse.
Men are like that, no matter what world or country. If Klaus were here I'd leave it to them to discuss, but I'd like to think people would say the same of me. No, let me correct that. I'd like to think Tayrey would say that of me. In general, I'm fine with people hating me. Tayrey's my second in command though. She's a lot like you, very brilliant, but often underestimated for being an astrogator instead of an enforcer looking type. Mage instead of crusader, but with star travel and physics, she's very skeptical. She doesn't get along with Mitsuhude either, but given how much she's like Hideyoshi in personality, I wasn't surprised.
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[She had also heard some people argue they were the first potions, but she's still speculative of that herself.]
I've never had alcohol myself, so I have no way of knowing what effect it will have on me yet. Perhaps when the time comes for a pre-combat toast in a battle I'm sitting out? A manly duel between you and some false god or goddess?
[Hopefully not Aqua, but one can never know for sure what that woman will think. It seems Megumin is too caught up on the whole booze thing now.]
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Sake usually tastes the best after you've earned it from such warfare, and there's only one god I'll ever drink with. [Yato. His "boss." Because Yato is the arguably lowest-ranked god of 6 billion in Shintoism, so of course Nobunaga latched onto him instantly.] It doesn't always increase battle lust. Sometimes it can put people to sleep if they've been working too hard. The dragon in my army [Remember: HE HAS NO MAGIC IN HIS WORLD?! Yes. That's important.] is often pranked by the kitsune, and goes out after one cup. Well, the dragon is always in high gear, and has a heightened sense of taste for food [Aka: he cooks.] so he's more susceptible to such things. The kitsune incidentally can't be tricked. You can't trick a trickster. But don't rely on waiting to see what effect it'll have. It's definitely better to find out casually before you need to know.
The monkey becomes completely honest. It's the only way he'll drop his mask of manners. But if it increased his battlelust, the world would be long since destroyed. The only thing holding my right hand back from killing everyone and everything is me. [That's... kind of true.] Incidentally, he's the one who'd be in heaven. But if he got drunk on peaches, he'd get himself kicked out like Sun Wukong. [This is getting silly. Er... sillier.] Ranmaru gets cuddly though. So you really can't rely on it. He's a demon general in his own right, and has a kill count higher than many demon lords we've faced, but enough sake and he relaxes into a state of childishness.
My first friend completely drank me under twice in a row in our contests. He's an explorer of the stars and the dark spaces beyond, so it's small wonder he has such a high resistance. ["Resistance." More like... doesn't know when to stop.] But he's the one who never changes his tone no matter who's he addressing. He'll say things like, [SUPER DRAMATIC POSE!] "What do I want on my tombstone? Pepperoni." And then I forced him to explain both pepperoni and "commercials," and did put that on the marker for his death.
I'm not very fond of the western drinks, wine or ales. They're too uncultured and unsophisticated for me. [He is genuinely a big SAKE IS THE BEST AND WE MUST MAKE IT CONQUER THE OTHERS kind of dude.] But rum isn't bad. It's nice and sweet. It's a little associated with pirates in the future, I think more for its location than preference. But avoid absinthe. I drank it when Crichton died and I first met Tayrey. I don't remember much, but I remember the glowing green cauldron and that I vowed never again. [... Dramatic but there you have it.]