estoria | OPEN

Who: [OPEN] Nesso (

sisconning) & ANYONE -- multiple options
(One prompt closed to Elza (

lionly)
When: Sometime around today (IC: December 18th...ish)
Where: Around the pleasure district
What: Nesso ~~the cage dancer~~ works hard for the money, okay? Even if a proper knight can't help but be a little mortified hanging around the pleasure district
Rating/Warning: Body glitter. Oontz oontz oontz.

[Option 1: In the Club]

[It's not that Nesso really enjoys his job. In fact, he's only now starting to get over what can only be called stage fright. Give him a sword, give him an enemy, he'll manage it without batting an eye. But dancing? In front of people? Wearing very little save hot pants and body glitter?

Mortifying. But it pays the bills, and his little family here is important. So he does it.

Now he's waiting for his stage call, sitting back and nursing a beer, robe drawn loose about him and making his attire at least a bit more decent. Or at least a bit less indecent. It's with a heavy sigh that he glances to the side,] This really is a normal place for people to come, in the modern world? [Feel free to discuss the merits of exotic dancing with Nesso. Unless you're a familiar face. Then he's just going to stare and blush mortified.]

[Option 2: On the outskirts of the pleasure district]
[Nesso makes his way out of the more scandalous district quickly as he can, but just within it, he's realized something fairly crucial is missing.

A frantic patdown of his coat and pants and pockets and he begins turning in quick circles.] Ah... where is it? It's not...

[Any passersby will be stopped with an apologetic,] Have you seen a keycard? I know I just had it. [No his keys his money this isn't good.]

[Option 3: Closed to Elza]
[Another night of work is finished, and with a fully relieved slump of his shoulders Nesso makes his way off of his little platform, done with dancing. He's ready to shower, rinse away the glitter and the sweat and make his way back home to make sure that Elza and Zara and Mary are doing well.

His mind is already running over it -- and the few errands he thinks he ought to do on the way (they're out of bread, he thinks) -- so he's distracted enough that he very nearly bowls straight into the man in front of him. But he stops just short, starting on an apology before the identity of who he's encountered strikes him.

Oh. Oh no. Nonono. Not good. This is his biggest kept secret ever. Okay? EVER.] E-Elza?! [He's blushing a shade redder than even his hair and wondering if this is perhaps a nightmare. It feels like one.]

Threaded | Flat

[He doesn't always get to pick where he works at nights, no, that's up to the security company that he works for. Sometimes it'll be a bar, or a club, or a more decent establishment. Tonight it's a club in the pleasure district and by the end of the night he's tired but wide-awake.

He wants a drink before he goes back, really, hoping it'll be good enough to help him to sleep, and swings into the nearest place without caring and thEN

there's his captain dddddoing a thing annnnnnd what and they collide before he even has a chance to process and]

[why is totsuka in the pleasure district, that should be the real question here, but he's on the outskirts too and close enough to be hailed by Nesso --]

I haven't seen anything like that around, but -- [he comes to a stop, adjusting the strap of his guitar case more securely over his shoulder before] Do you remember the last time you had it?

[ Shuu is mentally five years old, there's no good reason at all for him to be in the Pleasure District..

But near it? Well, sure. He enjoys wandering around quite a bit, after all, although he does blink when a human he only vaguely recognizes speaks up to him. What, does he look like he's open to helping you?? ]

A keycard..? [ Nope, he hasn't, if his tone is anything to go by. Although even if he had, he might have said he didn't and threw it into some body of water lately just to make stuff harder for this guy, whoops. ]

Wha-t.. are you saying you lost it?

[ If only Peggy was actually interested in hitting up the host clubs in the district, but, alas. She has no real interest in such things and nary a mission to send her there. Instead, she'll just take pause at the young man a few feet down the road from here and clear her throat. ]

Did you happen to lose something, sir? Perhaps I could help you look for it.

[ because while it may be suspicious that Peggy is still out and about at this time of the night but, in truth, she's just an early riser. All the better to get some work done, wouldn't one agree? ]

[ Leanne hardly, if ever, goes to the Pleasure District since the last time she had gone. And even before then she always kept her usual walks to the outskirts, which is how she happens to come across an unfamiliar face. ]

A keycard? Hm.. can't say I have. [ But she's not going to just leave at that, fortunately. ] I wasn't paying too much attention though, you lost it around here right? I'll help you find it.

[yo wassup Nesso, Tenka normally doesn't even wander around here but he as probably chilling with one of his bros and even now, he's faintly buzzed when he's approached by the other]

Hmm? Nesso-kun?

[and now Tenka's just rubbing at his eye] What're you doing here anyway....

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