TDM 005: Ch-ch-changes!

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A, Garden Level - Autumn Celebrations!
[It may be November in the real world but when you're dead time is fake! So this week/month GARDENFEST is happening...........aka a bootleg mishmash of Oktoberfest and an Xmas Market. In general: PARTY TIME.

Drinks! Foods! Bad singing!! Drunkenly built gingerbread houses! You're thrown in a festive identity clash of imps and cherubs in the garden playing music that doesn't match or shoving drinks at you. Don't worry, if you don't want a mug of beer, it might just be gingerale! Anyway sorry you died but PARTY PARTY JOIN US JOIN US--]


B, Hell Level: ICE to meet you!
[Down at the HellRaiser hotel, the hellish amenities await your every need, but spooky season is over. Aside from the usual, er, allure of Hell, it also seems to be slowly freezing over. Ruh roh. It's not much now, but occasionally you may be hit by a teeny tiny icicle as you explore, awww. Other times it's a whole fucking STALACTITE crashes down on you. Better dodge or hope someone pushes you out the way!! Look out for slick sidewalks too!

Otherwise, hey have some fun in Hell!! Go to a club, get some drugs, go to a casino, win and get mugged!! Ever have a drink made out of literal MAGMA? Go on, try it!! Slaps hell's cobbled brimstone you can fit so much chaos down here!]


C, Heaven Level: Spice, spice, baby.
[Heaven-side, the cherubs are ready to welcome you and give you the VIP treatment!! Massages! Manipedis! Lavish outfits and attention! You can raise your hand and just get a fucking cat sat on your lap! Truly, this is bliss!!

Oh, but it's also cozy season in Heaven! So along with the best fits for the chillier weather, There are an assortment of beverages being offered by angels for you to sample (CW Mind Manipulation):

Apple Spiced Latte- Tasty and earthy! But you suddenly feel more subservient.
Cranberry Spiced Latte- A bit tart but it works. This might make you sassier than usual.
Stuffing Spiced Latte- There is no effect. Why would you drink this you monster.

For the TDM you can find small cherub-run kiosks with these drinks on any level you prefer! If that's not your cuppa joe, feel free to explore the beauty of Heaven per usual! The beach! Boardwalk! All the cafes!! Whatever heaven should have, you can likely find it.]

OOC NOTES:
-I KNOW THIS TDM IS BIT LACKING SO TBH FEEL FREE TO PULL PROMPTS FROM OLDER ONES TOO, DO WHATEVS
-This TDM is open to all! You do NOT need to join the comm to play in it!
-As a reminder, THIRD CHARACTER APPS are now street legal!
-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!

Comments

[effortaverse]

...Yeah, I ain't takin' your bait, either.

[grumble.]

I ain't your maid or your pet snake, Kalim.

[broasis]

[Damn, he's good. That would have worked on a lesser man.

Fine. Let's try a different angle. How does Ruggie get Leona to do anything? Hmm, hmm, hmm.

Aha!]

...You don't have'em, do ya?

[If he doesn't, Kalim can just leave him alone-- which would have been the case if Leona had just said so in the beginning, but noooo. He wanted to do this the hard way. If he does have wings and he's just choosing not to show them off, well... then Kalim knows what lengths Leona will go to to stay lazy and he can learn from that.

Either way, he's not done here! Nobody says "no" to Kalim Al-Asim without leaving with a SIGNIFICANT headache-- just ask Jamil!]

[effortaverse]

[S t a r i n g.]

Funny, you're startin to sound like someone who wants to get their ears grabbed again.

[WHERE IS THIS KID GETTING HIS SASS FROM. WHY IS EVERYONE SENDING HIM THESE SASSY KIDS! Maybe he doesn't like the wings!! Maybe he doesn't want to show him shit!!!]

[broasis]

[Laughs, stepping just outside arms reach.]

C'mon, Leona, relax! I was just messin' around. It's not like I'd expect you to do something beyond your abilities or anything. If you don't have wings, you don't have wings! I'm not judging!

[He just thinks its wild that somehow everyone else ended up with them but Leona didn't... now he wishes he could figure out how to give him some so he's not all by his lonesome!]

Besides, you got horns, and those are actually way cooler. [You just can't fly with them--]

[effortaverse]

[Not judging him, no— but that's not the problem. Kalim is overestimating himself, putting himself in Leona's territory with the wild abandon of a child underestimating a beast.

At least he backs up, but Leona steps forward, looking down at Kalim with his chin high.]

Tell me, Kalim. Where did they send you when you kicked the bucket?

[wow how is THAT related to what Kalim's saying]

[broasis]

["Kicked the bucket"...rude.]

Uh... "heaven," I guess? [Leona you're so tall when you loom. He's tall always but ESPECIALLY when he looms.]

Why?

[effortaverse]

[Think he's tall now? It must feel like he's even taller when he leans over Kalim the way he does, getting almost nose-to-nose with him.]

And where, exactly, do you think I ended up?

[broasis]

[Kalim does not flinch at the closeness, simply turning his head side to side to scan the Heavenly Ass Beach around them before meeting Leona's piercing gaze again.]

...Aaaalso heaven?

[effortaverse]

You know, sometimes you make me wonder how you made it as long as you did.

[Leona leans back again, tapping Kalim on his nose, and when his finger touches Kalim's nose he unfolds big, big feathery wings— completely black on the underside apart from a flash of white ticking the ends of the outermost feathers.

The wings drip and ooze ink, and with them out and blocking the sun from behind him, Leona's face looks darker, his eyes glowing in the shadow. His horns look much more imposing, at this angle, and it's a bit clearer that the ends of his hair aren't going up in smoke— but in fading ink, the same ink his wings are dripping with.

With that cold stare and those details... well, he looks just as standoffish as he wants to look.]

I got put in hell. I just came up here for a nap.

[broasis]

[Ah. Well. Consider him shook to his very core. He stares with those big red eyes for a very long time, the sight of ink triggering that newfound anxiety of losing his friends to abject madness and blot.]

Ah-- uhhhh... O-oh. Okay.

[His wings are still very cool, if not incredibly scary, but he's gonna just focus on that first part.]

Well, s-sorry? I mean. [What's he sorry for? It's not like he picked for Leona to be the only one of them to not be an angel--] I-it's still, um. Pretty sick! Ahaha....

[effortaverse]

[There we are. That's what Leona wanted to see.

Fear. A clear line drawn in the sand between them... as far as Leona thinks, anyway.]

Learned your lesson?

[He folds those wings up, and with a twist of his shoulders, somehow manages to make them flutter back up and disappear as if they'd tucked themselves under his shoulderblades.]

[broasis]

[Blinkblinkblink.]

Huh? What... lesson?

[The answer is no. But is that really surprising.]

[effortaverse]

[Leona pulls in a breath to let out a long sigh.]

I'm too tired for this...

[He starts to walk away from Kalim and his abandoned latte, stuffing his hands in his pockets and heading back for the beach.]

[broasis]

Ah- hey! Where are you going!?

[Hopping along after him, pouting hard.]

Seriously? Not even a tip? Or a trick??

[effortaverse]

You want to learn so bad, figure it out yourself.

[Yare-yare ass.]

I'm sure you'll get there. Maybe. I dunno.

[broasis]

How am I just supposed to learn something I don't know!? I don't know it!!!

[effortaverse]

[Sigh.]

And how, exactly, did you learn to use magic, then?

[broasis]

[Sniffles.]

....A looooot of concentration and practice, I guess....

[Reaching out to grab onto his arm now that he's caught up.]

And I know that's what you're gonna say, for me to just do that! But it helps if someone teaches me! [And normally that would be Jamil's problem!! But now it's yours, Leona!!]

[effortaverse]

[Leona's ears flick to the side. The audacity of this cub???]

And I already told you, that ain't my problem.

I can't be the only one around who could teach you.

[broasis]

[He's not even that much older than him!! Shush!!]

But you'd be the best at it!

[effortaverse]

[. . .]

Hmn.

[. . . counter argument not found.]

[broasis]

You're really good at explaining stuff in a way other people aren't! It's easy to follow without being like, too!! I dunno! Dense?? Idia would use too many words I don't understand! And you knoooow Azul wouldn't show me how to do it without making me pay for it and Jamil says I should never pay Azul for anything!

[And frankly he just finished dealing with Vil and the VDC stuff and if he ever has to ask that guy for another favor it may be too soon--]

It has to be you.

[effortaverse]

[snrk.]

Well, he's right about that last one.

[And another sigh.]

You're not going to let me sleep until I do this, are you?

[Uuugh. He'd have almost preferred the prefect...]

[broasis]

I mean I guess I could let you nap if you just agree to teach me some other time?

[Isn't he the MAGNANIMOUS one, Leona?]

Like we can make it a date or something!

[effortaverse]

[A lift of his brow, but Leona otherwise remains cryptic as he weighs his options.]

...Fine. Some other time.