heckinooc | TDM 004: BACK TO SCHOOL

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A: Garden Level - Fall IN!
[The garden is full of fruits and overflowing with milk and honey as usual, truly a paradise. But gasp, what's this? A PALLET CHANGE? Instead of the typical lush green, it's taken on more Autumn colors for Aesthetic^TM. It's still pleasantly warm as usual though, for current denizens and newbies alike, and it's gosh darn nice to hang out in.

But speaking of newbies and passerbys! If you pop in, you'll find yourself landing in a pile of colorful leaves. But these ain't no normal leaves!! Depending on the color, you may experience the following:

Yellow- Get energized nerd!! Despite just dying, you're suddenly filled to the brim with joy, and far more amicable to the first people you see.
Orange- Ever heard of love at first sight?? IT'S HAPPENING NOW. You may become absolutely smitten with the first few folks that help you out of your pile.
Red- Or the complete opposite! You're filled with the POWER OF AGGRO and ready to argue or fight with whoever you see first!

Or maybe you fall in a pile of mixed leaves that give you a combo of effects, or nullify the effect so nothing happens! Up to you. ]

B, Hell Level: Spooky Scary Skeletons
[Down at the HellRaiser hotel, it's already practically halloween 24/7, but now even more so! The standard hellish hotel amenities are available--massages, hot saunas, all the booze and drugs you could ever want, room service, etc!

But the perpetual night life is where it's at. In celebration of the most unholy season of the year (citation needed), the clubs are HOPPING and playing music loud enough it could raise the (un)dead. . .literally! You could be walking on your way back from getting a burger, and skeleton or zombie bursts from the ground! They might attack you or. . .try to get you to dance with them. Weird. Either way, don't linger too long, or they'll try to get you to go back further into the depths with them. . .

Alternatively maybe you're just accosted by some normal party demons/imps and dragged into a club. Have fun!]

C, Heaven Level: The Holy Spirit Halloween
[Heaven-side, the heavenly hotel is its normal, pampering self, complete with every luxurious amenity you could imagine. However, it seems some parts of the hotel are decorated with more. . .demonic accents??

It's not just the hotel either. Outside, spot angels in all sorts of costumes, ranging from black cats to silly godzilla rubber suits. That's right, TIS THE SEASON, and it's the only time angels get to indulge in more silly ~sinful~ desires! Is this cultural appropriation?? Don't worry about it.

As for you, if you're not chillin' at a cat cafe or the gorgeous beach or a coffee shop, you may find a cherub stuffing you into a silly costume. When in Rome!! You may also come across huge golden depots full of costumes, so feel free to shop around! The cherubs within will also see to your every need, as if they're extensions of the hotel as well]

OOC NOTES:
-"Ash this TDM seems kinda half assed" i don't have any excuse this time i'm just tired
-This TDM is open to all! You do NOT need to join the comm to play in it!
-Post questions for the mods here
-Remember, playing in the TDM does NOT guarantee your entry or app being accepted into the game proper later down the line!
-Apps open!! Be sure to read the rules linked there and check the current taken list!
-For current players: TDMs count as game canon AND threads may be used for AC if you wish!
-Remember regardless of your alignment, you are free to travel to whatever level you wish!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I'm not familiar with that one. I've time traveled past the 16th century, and I was the only one in my lands to have contact with the outside world, but for the most part is it's after 1582 Japan, it's all a mystery to me. [Though it gets STICKY with demons, ans magic, and he had correspondence with Maximilian II, but Oda still wouldn't recognize Faust explicitly by name.]

Opera was only recently introduced to me here by an imp friend, funnily enough. It's rather like Noh, isnt it? [Opera wasn't really formalized until 1597/8] But I'm very interested. He will probably will be too,: Moxxie, if you run into them. Or on the network.

Damn right. What's your name again? Or is that part of your contract?

[ A time traveller? If one could do that, why stay so far in the past? Imagine seeing space travel far in the future! Different strokes, maybe, but... well, he'd personally love to meet composers of old. ]

No, that just required signing in blood. I'm Winslow. I never introduce myself, old habit of being legally dead.

[Because he has absolutely NO control over it, or he would. He literally died by trying something wildly dangerous and unstable, and ripped a small hole in the multiverse... and it wasn't even the first time. Ask him about all the different apocalypses he's seen!]

Oh yeah. Well... everyone's kind of legally dead in some form or another here. That's the fucked up paperwork involved I guess.

Good to know everyone's on the same page. In that sense, anyway. I was expecting more Biblical Hell, after what happened... but this is nice. Purgatory, I guess.

[ And absolutely no sign of the devil that he signed a contract with. Good. ]

That's what I said, but they gave me shit for that too. "Silly Demon King Purgatory's not real." [He is... god awful at mimicry by the way.] Bitch, none of you are supposed to be.

[Someone stop giving him memes.]

[Nobunaga just... shrugs. Demons. Angels. What can you do, right?]

This might be a bit rude, [But he IS rude...] but is your contract that you'd finish your opera before dying? [Waves a hand, to explain it:] That's how it'd work in my realm. [His own contract to get enough power to remove Japan from Hell etc.] It's a little different here, but try to resist the temptation to enter any contracts like that again, you can probably do better staying free.

Sort of - it was more that I could never stop. Ever.

[ There's a long, tired, static sound; a sigh, moving through both his mouth and his voice box. ]

I know better now. I was a fool. A damned idiot. Though I imagine a lot of mortals say the same thing, every time.

Oh well... damn! That's a pretty bad contract!

[Holy shit. Whatever he was expected was definitely surpassed by that!]

[Although he then completely chokes at the last line.]

[Hey. Hey. Listen buddy... There's only one Fool of Owari here!]

[Oh wait. No, he does NOT want to compete on really bad terrible deals with demons, NOPE.]

Uh.... no. Not... not that often actually.

I.... really have to know why though. Why the hell did you make that deal? I know this one idiot, fool, brazen, brash ambitious moron... [Himself.] Who sold his soul, but it was for the future of his kind, a bet against the whole fabric of reality. And even that was -- Not smart.

[But at least it wasn't writing a nonstop work of music and art --]

[.... WELL IT KIND OF WAS BUT ONLY BECAUSE NOBUNAGA IS INSANE AND CHOOSES THAT PATH ON A REGULAR BASIS. That doesn't count. It so much doesn't count, EVEN THE DELUSIONAL CHUUNI REALIZES IT DOESN'T COUNT! That's seriously saying something.]

How else do you begin to make it big in the entertainment industry? I wanted my music heard. And then a dangerous guy heard it. That's the start of the tale. Same as Faust, really... now that I think about it.

[ Life is strange, isn't it. ]

Next thing you know, you've been used and abused and now you've got nothing left.

[ He gestures at himself: do normal people end up like this? Come on. ]

This can't be that interesting, if you're a demon. Aren't there serial killers with horrifying stories or whatever?

[Shakes a hand through his hair.] Completely opposite in my Hell. In mine, entertainers were dead bottom. Untouchables. Outcasts. Too poor to own anything, no family, no ties, only the road. I was working to change it, and I've heard I did, but no one who has anything to lose would give that up for that life, it's what people did when they have nothing else to lose except themselves.

I am the serial killer. [Head tilt, almost like he's a puppet held up on strings.] But like I said, it's still opposite. People trade for power or gain. Though there's something poetic in that too.

[ Huh. Well, when in Hell... he assumed he'd be on a pretty low, unimpressive rung of the ladder. Not enough to talk to... uh. Whatever the man counts as. ]

Hah! [ His voice box makes a sudden sharp noise as he laughs, bitter. ] The ones who do all the work, make something for the soul and the people, make life worth living and put the experience of it to the paper... of course they're nothing.

[Dark grin, but his eyes are murderous and fiery instead. It is his biggest flashpoint, an where he once used to be able to laugh it off, after seeing the future everyone coukd have, he's more frustrated than ever at the impediments and castes holding people back.] People take it for granted, and religions and cults convince people that everything should be charity, rather than prosperity and growth, and ignore the physical realm, acting like meaning to life and being human is entirely theirs to control ans manipulate.

[That somehow got dark and weird, and what Nobunaga blithely refers to as his "demon king aura" lets a little loose, kind of ominously belying his earlier fool of Owari / fanboy half.]

But it was good to see that it changes, though I guess some things are harder to eliminate than others.

Far enough into the future and everything is music and dance and laughter.

For humans anyway. Now that I'm back in Hell I have the same battle ahead to make that the case even here.

Don't work yourself too hard, okay? You'll want to make even more music here than before. Hell needs it more.

TDM 004: BACK TO SCHOOL

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MISFIRE AAAA

XD I was entertained

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