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[espersions]

Who: espersions, belfire, moribound, popsometags, their cr, their cr's cr...
When: Early April
Where: Source Below: Cerealia's most surreal karaoke bar
What: How do you come to terms with death and disappearance? Get hammered and sing about it, obviously.
Rating/Warning: alcohol, hot tubs, death mentions, and j-pop


Ket Whiss is gone for good, and Minato has returned from his PLAYER ONE GAME OVER moment, courtesy of a hungry monster. And there's the residual trauma of everyone's jungle/elemental adventures.

So, well. Why not have a party?

Source Below is Cerealia's most popular — and most surreal — karaoke bar. It features a costume closet, with hundreds of outfits to try on, for that full idol experience. There are themed rooms: one with overflowing candy, another built to resemble the interior of a spaceship, one full of robotic cats who yowl in time with the music, to a pitch-black room filled with pairs of enormous, glowing, slowly-blinking eyes....

But Team Catastrophe's party isn't in any of these, because none of these losers made a reservation. Instead, they got stuck with the only one left, covered in white tile, with a hot tub in the center.

This is a bad idea on so many levels, but it's not as if that's ever stopped anybody.

(ooc: open to any extended cr, feel free to handwave how you heard about it. the more the merrier!)

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[adminproof]

[Lo and behold, Hiro's alien keeper has finally arrived, if for some strange reason, anyone here has ever wanted to interact with him. He's merely standing nearby, a silver tray of drinks hovering a few inches above his hand. Don't worry; the drinks are also hovering an inch above the hovering tray. That way, he's sure nothing will spill.]

Is there anything else you would like?

[...Saiduq doesn't even work here, and it's made obvious by the fact that his own outfit is so markedly different from the uniform they have here. i'm so sorry kevin What is he doing??? Keeping an eye on Hiro, really. Making sure no Bad Life Decisions are made by his liege tonight, while of course, making sure commerce still flows and they're all properly paying for what they order. Or break.]

[popsometags]

[ Alright. He's decided, now is probably the best time to ask. This guy's holding a tray in a really suspicious manner, so he'd probably be the best person to ask...! ]

If... if we ask for more towels, will we be charged extra?

[ Swing and a miss. ]

[adminproof]

[you tried.jpg]

I believe so, incurring a cost of 2 credits.

[To cover the cost of laundering, collecting, distributing, etc.]

You would have to ask someone who works at this establishment for a more certain answer.

[And he, uh, doesn't.]

[popsometags]

We don't need them. We'll try to dry our towels over and use them again.

[ Said almost instantly afterwards. Oh. Wait a second. ]

Never mind. I thought you were one of the concierges here. [ A beat. ] In that case, forget I asked about the towels. Everything's fine.

[adminproof]

Are you sure? ...A good number of you are inebriated.

[...Stealing a glance at Kazuya in the hot tub.]

Heavily inebriated.

[popsometags]

I'm positive. There's more than one way to clean up after ourselves--

[ Backtracking, go. ]

I should have brought plastic bags. If he throws up in that hot tub, we're done for.

[adminproof]

...Do you want me to retrieve some? I do not think you will be charged for those.

[Since they're just...plastic bags...

Lord, Kaz throwing up in the hot tub might be the end of this whole party, though.]

[popsometags]

Please. I have to keep an eye on the equipment, or something terrible will wind up happening to all of us.

[ They'll get thrown out, and they'll lose their clothes in the process. THIS HAPPENS. ]

[adminproof]

[He won't even question it, just disappearing out of sight in the blink of an eye, only to reappear a few moments later with a couple of plastic bags in hand, and offers them out to Rinne.]

Will that be all?

[What a good not-waiter/concierge/butler/servant.]

[popsometags]

Yes, thank you-- ah.

[ Rinne points over at Hyoubu, not breaking eye contact with Alcor. Why, you ask? ]

He'll have your tip.

Current Condition: pants are still missing, his bloodstream is just alcohol now

[belfire]

Waaaaaiter~ Waaaaaiter~

[Cheering from the hot tub, waving his hand exuberantly to try and catch Alcor's attention (even though the alien was standing almost directly in front of him that it was unnecessary), Kazuya smiled from his position behind a short, glass wall created by a worrying amount of empty bottles and cups]

More drinks, please! The green ones, espeshially~ Or, reds... no, changed my mind! The red ones!

[adminproof]

[...He should probably clear those empty bottles and cups. They could fall onto the ground and create a harmful situation if the glass were to shatter all over the floor with drunken patrons everywhere. Alcor telekinetically hovers some of the bottles and cups onto his tray, only gesturing with his fingers.

Thanks, stardad.]

I'm not a waiter.

[Just to clarify. But he'll get things anyway, because that's what he does. Fortunately(???), he's been observing this shitshow long enough to know what drunk Kazuya's talking about when he talks about the "red ones".]

The Bermuda Rose, yes? How many more would you like?

[belfire]

[Kazuya was a bit too distracted by the floating cups to immediately answer, staring at them with an expression of faint puzzlement, as if he was trying to understand how they were defying gravity that way. Ah. Wait. Who else could do this? Major Hyou-Kyou Fetish! So, then, was this Hyou-Kyou's long lost twin? A fellow esper?!

He turned his stare onto the red-striped man. The hair was the same... though, Hyou-Kyou certainly didn't have such lush eyelashes. Like, wow, those were seriously thick. Yuzu would be green be envy if she witnessed those, like, damn, how...]

Your eyelashes... they're amazin'. [he blurted, staring very intently at Alcor's face] Are you- are you Hyou-Kyou's twin brother who's, like, moonlightin' as a model, or somethin'? Like, your eyelashes... how...

[Seriously. Those eyelashes]

[adminproof]

Hm? My eyelashes are natural.

[He's a model, but he just doesn't know it...even months later...

Canonly confirmed beautiful eyelashes, too. And as for Kazuya's second question...]

I am not a twin brother of...Hyou-Kyou, either. I have no human siblings.

[septentrione awkward laughtrack.mp3

He's presuming Hyoubu's human, anyway.]

[belfire]

[Kazuya squinted very suspiciously at him]

You sure...? I mean, uh, you could be long lost, so, you wouldn't know about Hyou-Kyou... yes. Yes, I'm right! You're his brother! You have to be! You've got the, um, weird floaty powers that he has! Though, like, you're kinda prettier but, guess someone has to hog all the good looks in twindom. I think... that's how it works anyway...

[adminproof]

...Is that a compliment?

[HE'S NOT SURE............HE'S NOT SURE ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE.........]

As I said, I have no human siblings. That would be impossible.

[Saiduq might believe in humans doing the impossible, but that doesn't extend to doing Septentriones, okay. It's for the good of everyone involved.]

[belfire]

Nothin' is impossible! Since the lockdown fiasco, I've learned that everythin' is possible even if it's complete batshit crazy and defies all known logic and... and rules and... more logic!

[And this includes Hyou-Kyou's brother being Hyou-Kyou's brother. Somehow. Because, though it was impossible, this guy was Hyou-Kyou's brother because. He. Because.]

You're Hyou-Kyou's twin brother! This is fact. Law of the universe! The dreaded retcon! It's there. I said it! It's truth now!

[adminproof]

The laws of the universe can be overturned by human hands.

[Something about Record Breaker goes here. But very well, Alcor recognizes it'd probably be a waste of time to debate his siblings further, so he teleports out of sight for a moment, and then reappears with a glass of the requested drink, and floats it over to Kazuya in the hot tub. He never said how many, but one is probably a good number. If he wanted more, he could always order more.]

Here you are.

[belfire]

[Kazuya simply stared at him]

...why can everyone else teleport without losin' limbs and stuff?

[Seriously, it was so unfair. If Kazuya attempted demonic teleportation, it always went horrifically wrong. But Hyoubu, Ket, and now this eyelash model... they did it like it was the easiest thing in the world! So unfair... grumble, grumble...]

Swear there's shenani... Shen... cheatin' goin' on...

naked and juuuuuust a bit tipsy

[espersions]

[ Oh look, it's that weird creepy stalker guy who turned up inexplicably in his snow cave that time.

…

Still, he's brought drinks, so who's complaining? From where he's comfortably seated in the tub, he motions Alcor over. ]

You don't actually work here, do you?

[adminproof]

[At Hyoubu's behest, he floats over, the tray and drinks also floating along with him.]

Not at all.

[Not even bothering to hide it. He sticks out like a sore thumb, after all.]

Is that a problem?

[espersions]

It's fine. Al-kun, right?

[ With his own esp, he telekinetically grabs one of the drinks (some sort of orange liquid in a martini glass) and brings it to his lips. It's got dry ice or something in it, because white smoke drifts off down the sides of the glass, as he exhales. ]

Nice psychokinesis, by the way. Are you an esper?

[adminproof]

Al Saiduq.

[That's not a yes or a no...it is a mystery.mp3.]

An esper...that depends on your definition. It is true that I have abilities that would be considered paranormal by humans.

[But he's not human, and he's under the impression that espers are humans who happen to have abilities normal humans don't.]

[espersions]

[ "By humans." Interesting phrasing. ]

You don't consider yourself human?

[ He lets the question hang in the air for half a moment, before adding: ]

That's fine. I don't, either.

[ He takes another sip from his dramatic drink, and then sets it down on the side of the tub. ]

What other abilities do you have?

[adminproof]

...The manipulation of molecules, though it has its limits here.

[Matter manipulation, in other words. He won't say why and he won't say too much how, since it's just an...innate ability bestowed upon him. Call it one of the (only) perks of being Polaris's child.]

The construction of data here is markedly different from the type I am used to.

[Matter is data, and he's just trying to learn how the code here works.]