⇨ SHABONDAMASHII

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 92 - Day 99
Where: Shabondamashii Bathhouse
What: With the Silver Mirror claimed and the animals of Eden relocated, it's time for the carnival to kick back and enjoy an interdimensional bathhouse and the surrounding festival city. Meanwhile, the scattered shards of the Mirror have an unexpected effect.
Warnings: Dark/Light halves acting weird.

THE BIG CLEANSE↴ As the carnival recovers, the Ringmaster has brought it to the gates of a famous interdimensional bathhouse to rest. She won't be joining you for most of it, though she will be checking in frequently and available by radio. She's fixed a large portion of the Silver Mirror after it shattered, but it seems like pieces are missing. She doesn't want to rest until the missing shards are dealt with, and the Mirror itself is locked away safely. ► YOUR OTHER HALF: The shards missing from the Silver Mirror didn't just disappear - after breaking apart in Eden, fragments of the object embedded themselves in the spirits of those not already touched by its powers, and those that had been the most fae-touched. That means, your characters. The effect of this, explained in more detail on the plotting post, is that some characters will be splitting into two versions of themselves: the Light, and the Dark. This doesn't mean good and evil, of course, it's far more complicated than that. Splits can start happening at any time after arriving in Shabon, and initially characters won't know how to rejoin with their twins. Later on, it will become apparent that they need to reconnect via the shard of the Mirror they share... of course, in order to rejoin, you have to have both halves, and not all twins will be as eager to go back to the way things were before. This plot point is optional. ► SPA DAY: When you're not engaging in metaphysical division, you are free to enjoy the many luxuries that Shabon offers. Things will mostly have an east-Asian bend, like what you would see in the movie Spirited Away, but as long as it doesn't affect the setting much, you can honestly have whatever spa-type services available that you want. Food is served both in restaurants and 'buffet' style. There are also well paid sex workers here, if that is your thing, but make sure to tip well. ► FESTIVAL TOWN: The city surrounding Shabondamashii is largely meant to catch the business of interdimensional tourists. There are frequent parades and other events held, and the architecture is very closely packed. It's easy to get lost if you leave the bathhouse, but it's definitely worth it if you like party. You can pick out a few outfits for yourself and some fun nick nacks, but nothing that would normally require mod approval.

Comments

[lmpatientdefense]

The three constants in life; death, taxes, and crazy. And for some people, alcohol's involved in all three.

"Uh, you know, pretty normal." She spreads her hands in a wide shrug, to encompass how weird this situation has been in comparison. "More normal than this, anyway. Maybe not that normal," she admits, her voice dropping to a more defensive tone, before lightening again.

"I was traveling on a job for this... literally underground crime boss. We were this little... I don't know, brand new mercenary band, we were taking odd monster-slaying jobs from the government and whatever else caught our attention. It was going to be some pretty good money."

[kingsroads]

"Considering that my world doesn't have monsters, I'd say that isn't normal in the slightest." This is Strange teasing. He's got no qualms about the mercenary band killing things nature of Beau's work: he's a soldier, he's got to be fine with that sort of thing. He's just teasing her a little because he can and because he's got a feeling she'll find the monster-less state of his world so friggen weird.

"What sort of things did you kill?"

[lmpatientdefense]

"What, none at all? No, uh, no manticores, no giant fucking spiders, no rats that explode into poisonous gas?"

Her teeth flash in a brief grin, because she catches the teasing tone but it's not like her to keep smiling for long. "None of those are normal, but they're... around."

It would be so weird. Nobody has any compunctions about killing some four-legged acid-spitting beast that's killing livestock, like many do about killing people. Monster slaying flies a lot better. Even if toting the remains around freaks out a lot of townsfolk.

[kingsroads]

Strange shakes his head as Beau rattles off a whole list of creatures. On the one hand, obviously it's a good idea to live in a world without rats exploding into poisonous gas. On the other hand...that would be so exciting. And Strange is always a sucker for the exciting and the possibly dangerous.

"Obviously it would be best if my world didn't have things like that. But even just the idea of seeing a real life manticore sounds so tempting."

There's a bit more novelty when you don't have to deal with the manticores, giant fucking spiders, or explodo rats every Thursday.

[lmpatientdefense]

Fortnightly, at the most frequent, really is preferable. Gives you plenty of time for recreation and travel between getting beat all to hell.

"Hold on, wait a minute. You didn't have manticores, but you know what they are?"

Somebody mentioned the translation magic that makes it so it's like everyone's speaking Common, but she runs into occasional concepts that she's too unfamiliar with to parse - like the initial explanation of the radios, or the power behind the rides, or that kind of thing. So this gives her a little pause.