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:
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Comments

[vroomkeeper]

[ Marik takes a few paces back. Truth be told, he's...having to reconstruct what he did automatically, just as Jonouchi had said, but Marik Ishtar's memory and analytic ability are second to none. He can definitely determine what his body did on its own, then describe it for the less inspired. ]

Focus. Have you ever been asked to concentrate all your awareness on one part of your body?

[ Meditation? Physical therapy? Anything? Marik got a lot of practice doing this himself when fine-tuning his control over others with the Rod, but he understands that's an exceptional circumstance. ]

Send your consciousness into your wings.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Uhhhhh.... No-

[oh ok cool he's getting instructions anyway-

Welp, Jonouchi just starts to think about those words, pauses, starts to try and say something realizes even HE doesn't know what words you say to that, and finally.

Tries to send his. Consciousness??? Into his wings???

...Largely all that happens is Jonouchi looks increasingly more bewildered and frustrated, and also his wings do jack shit.]

[vroomkeeper]

[ Marik sighs. Fine. He'll rephrase. ]

....Think very hard about fluttering them.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Hnnnnnn....

[He's thinking...he's thinking...he's-

-sproing-]

OH, hey!

[He stretched them out!!

....

THAT IS ALL HE DID.]

[vroomkeeper]

[ ...It's a step. Marik reminds himself of that. It's a step.

(He misses Rishid. Rishid never needed instructions. Rishid was the only person on the planet who never needed instructions.....He always knew just what Marik wanted, how Marik liked things....he was the only person Marik rarely felt the need to critique....

.....he's never gone this long, nearly a WHOLE DAY, without Rishid....

No. That's not what we're thinking about right now.) ]

Can you flutter them?

[ You know? Wiggle the bones? Contract the muscles consciously? Anything???

O mighty Ra, great god of the sun, permit him, as last heir of the Tombkeepers, to formally apologize for what this "Heaven" has done to Your image. ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

Uhhhh...

[bad news Marik, apparently Ra's just laughing

the consistently low rolls on his ooc dice ain't helping]

Uhhhhh..... ...I mean I guess they kinda feel like...arms..? So...

[The tips twitch, right about as Jonouchi makes two fists with his Actual hands.

He immediately winces in pain.] Nh, alrigh', tha' wasn't great-

[vroomkeeper]

[ UGH DOES HE HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING HIMSELF

OF COURSE HE DOES, HE'S MARIK ISHTAR, THE ONLY COMPETENT PERSON ON THE PLANET ]

.....Close your eyes. I'll help.

[luckydragonsfoot]

[marik you were inside him he can't trust like that]

.......................help how?

[vroomkeeper]

I'll give you something to focus on.

[ Least suspicious answer ever. ]

Now.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Nhh-

Tha' just makes it feel ev'n less like a good idea-!

[Though there's time enough while he's looking away from Marik for, perhaps, a way out, that it may as well count as Jonouchi closing his eyes.

Quick, a Distraction!]

[vroomkeeper]

[ Yep, here come Marik's hands. He's going to try to grab one of the joints in those wings - not hard enough to hurt, but enough to draw Jonouchi's attention. ]

Here. You can feel how the muscles connect now, right?

[ He is fully expecting to get swatted at with wings or some other retaliation. Doesn't matter. If Jonouchi gains awareness of his new appendages, Marik's plan will have succeeded!

He's so smart. ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

[What occurs is a chicken noise.]

WARK-

[Maybe? Maybe. What do surprised falcons even sound like?

Marik surprisingly doesn't get swatted, but the wings did move a good bit just in alarm, and...well.]

...Huh. [Huh.]

U-Uh...yeah, I think...man, tha's weird...

[Experimentally, he does try moving the joint he can feel Marik's hands on. A slow, hinge-motion, pulling, pushing, able to focus on the fact that whatever he is moving, it's the spot where someone else is.]
Huhhhhhhh....

[vroomkeeper]

[ O Ra.....he's glad his sister isn't here to see this. (And vaguely incredulous Jonouchi hasn't been struck by lightning again. They really are in a new world.) ]

Awareness is half of any physical feat. Practice moving your wings. Both of them.

[ He taps the same joint on the other wing, then steps back. Can he do it without Marik's hand as a focal point...? ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

[Miraculously, yes he can!

Everyone is in for a wild ride if Jonouchi ever says a word about Ra in his world.

Glancing back at his wings, he first squints at the one that Marik had been touching, and then manages to move the opposite wing. From there, both are slowly folding and unfolding, a rather impressive wing-span revealing itself in the process.

Alright...Alright, this is something!]

[vroomkeeper]

[ Progress indeed. He's actually starting to look like a sun falcon! If you must bear that visage, Jonouchi, do it justice.

Marik smiles, approving. Good. Good.... ]

Can you feel the wind in your feathers?

[luckydragonsfoot]

[It's a tragedy that Marik did not see what he looked like while pinning Kaiba to the ground to slug him in the face.]

Hnnnn....

...Kinda..? Not much 'f a wind goin' t' be fair, but...I c'n feel somethin' at least...

[vroomkeeper]

[ ....Yes, but he was also punching Seto Kaiba, which sounds entertaining as hell to witness, so that might have evened out. Marik likes watching Sister punch Seto Kaiba and she only does it with things like "words" and "microexpressions". Actual fists? HILARIOUS. ]

Concentrate on that for a while. Adjust your wings. See if you can get the wind to catch in them.

And when it curves them up just right--

[ Okay he's launching himself back into the air with his own wings now to be a stupid fucking showoff but he's marik ishtar what did you expect

besides, this is for jonouchi's BENEFIT! he's leading by EXAMPLE!

all hail marik ishtar. ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

Mnnh...adjus'...an' cu-

[there goes marik]

AH- OIII!!!

[Lucky (???) for Jonouchi, he flaps so hard in protest, that he's actually airborne in seconds, chasing after the guy.] Oi oi oiii what kinda lesson is tha'!!!

[ONE THAT WORKED, SUCKERRRRR]

[vroomkeeper]

You're flying, aren't you~?

[ Yes, there was a tilde. And he tries to drift juuuust out of Jonouchi's reach. Go on. Keep flying.

Notice just how good a job he did at helping you. Be amazed.

Marik Ishtar! What a guy. ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

[Flap. Flappy.

F...Flappy....]

...............................oh.

[Oh he's high up. Oh....]

S...So I am...H...Heh...

[Kinda. Scary this high up.]

[vroomkeeper]

It's all right.

[ Reassuring, confident, suave grin! ]

I won't let you fall.

[ He's just rubbing it in at this point. And a bit confounded that someone who is flying would be scared of heights. Doesn't the ability to do the former automatically cancel out the latter....??? ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

NHhHHH- Ain't you goo, what 'f I jus' fall through yah!

[It's fine Jonouchi!! You're not falling!

...

YET.]