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TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE

TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE


Arrival



This time, you come out of the water. While the Augur reboots, the Nameless Island's own inherent energy draws people in. It's like being suspended between realities and walking through a rift in dimensions. It may make you sick, or that might be the motion of the ocean, lifting you and carrying you to shore.

Waterlogged and covered in sand, new arrivals will be greeted by robots who welcome them with towels and bracelet devices. The A5 card is already loaded up. Inventory will be found a day later, wrapped up haphazardly and delivered to each person's makeshift home.



I. Feel the friendship!



Recent arrivals and visitors to the beach may notice a sudden influx of hundreds of bright red crustaceans crawling (and coupling) across the sand. It's crab mating season, as it turns out, it's a regular invasion! To keep the beach a pleasant place to gather for the island's inhabitants, the robots are offering credits to especially enterprising crab-catchers. Grab a bucket and get to work! Be sure to watch out for their pinch, mind you. Their little claws are tiny, but that doesn’t mean they don’t hurt.

Surprisingly, there is another effect that even the robots don't anticipate: islanders who are pinched by the crabs find themselves feeling instantly buddy-buddy with the next person they spot. Did you just become best friends?! Get pinched one too many times, however, and those feelings may sour into a crabby mood, indeed.

If you are feeling particularly vengeful (or just hungry), the little crabs do make for delicious gumbo. Once cooked, they have no side effects whatsoever.



II. Phallus Phestival



Although the Augur is offline and supplies are scarce, the robots of Erku are still eager to make their run-down little island a welcoming place for the new arrivals. To that end, they have arranged a three day festival to boost morale and promote the generation of plenty of Eros energy to assist in the restoration of the damaged and decayed parts of the city. The robots claim that this celebration was once a cornerstone of the long-lost civilization of the island. By the dawn of the first day, every island resident will find at their doorstep (or tent flap, mobile suit, etc) the traditional costume of the ancient islanders to wear to the festival. It appears to be... a giant sheet? There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sometimes garish colors and patterns of the fabric, but at least the robots have uploaded instructions on how to wear it to your bracelet device.

Attendees will find food (mostly crab-flavored), confections, and household necessities in rather suggestive shapes, as well as goods you might find handy to complete your A5 squares: sex toys, pervertibles, sexy maid outfits, and the like. While islanders are welcome to set up shop on the festival grounds and sell (or charge) whatever they like, all items from the robots are offered up for free to those who wear their traditional island garb!



III. Fireside Adventures



Each night of the festival is wrapped up in style with an enormous bonfire on the beach, where drinks, fruity cocktails, and lively music appropriate for dancing is all provided at no cost by the robots. Even if you’re not usually much of a dancer, the longer you stand by the fire and allow it to warm your limbs, the more you feel like moving! Not only that, but everyone is looking quite beautiful by the firelight, are they not?

If you’ve grown tired - or if dancing just isn’t your thing - you might prefer to sit back and swap stories on one of the many driftwood log benches the robots have prepared for seating. Or, maybe you’d prefer to rough it for the night in one of the beachside canvas tents. Better claim one quick, though, or be prepared to share… there’s only one sleeping bag!


N A V I G A T I O N



philanthropy: (but in the end i still pretend)

Takuto Maruki | Persona 5 Royal (spoilers herein!)

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-19 04:27 am (UTC)(link)

i. feel the friendship

[ For whatever reason, animals don't seem to care for Maruki too much—that's been his perception over the past couple of years, anyway. But when all's said and done here, it's probably just that, well, these are crabs, and crabs skitter all around, don't they?

He won't lie -- he can't immediately recall the last time he's eaten, and they... don't look unappetizing. Still, he's not the sort of guy who can bring himself to personally slay one or more of the poor innocent creatures just to sate his appetite, so it's a moot point.

...Until he comes across the first whiff of actual cooking, which may or may not be the same person to emit the yelp he hears from somewhere along the beach. Be awfully convenient if it was, though. ]


Hey, is everything all right? I thought I heard a noise just before. You're not hurt, are you? I'm not a doctor, but -- er, well, I am a doctor, just not that kind -- um, anyway, hope everything's okay over here.


ii. phallus phestival

[ All right, look. They do this in Kawasaki every year, and it's fine. Maruki's no anthropologist, but the other social sciences aren't wholly unfamiliar to him, either, and anyway, he remembers enough Freud from his undergrad career that... you know. He gets it.

He... he gets it.

And it's to help this world heal itself, isn't it, so...

In no way do any of these realizations prevent him from being any less bashful as he observes the festivities from the edge of one crowd, pink flush in his skin plainly visible against the stark off-white of his toga. He's worrying his bracelet in the fingers of his other hand, dimly aware of the cool slide of it up and down his wrist, up and down, not enough of a distraction to matter -- but enough of one to make him jump when a friendly robot brandishes a distressingly large and anatomically correct candy-pink lollipop that he feels way too pressured not to take.

For some time he's sort of just standing there, helplessly holding the thing. The moment he locks eyes with another person he glances anxiously from them to the penis on a stick in his hand and looses an embarrassed chuckle. ]


U-um, please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't suppose you're hungry? I... can't possibly carry any more of these.

[ He's got like three of them tucked into his toga already and he doesn't know what to do. ]


iii. fireside adventures

[ Liquor and a bonfire. Perfect. This is definitely more Maruki's speed. To his credit, he's done a really good job keeping it together up to this point, especially when you consider how he's still reeling from his best laid plans crumbling around his ears only hours (or days?) before this.

Though he seems to be less bruised now than he'd feared, the combination of the firelight and exposed skin seem to bring out their color: a muted purple in most places, excepting the sickly green-blue-black at the back of his neck -- a groaning tenderness he can't see for himself but feels very, very acutely, where something once sunk deep inside but has since left. Deeper still, Maruki feels a yawning emptiness where his persona should be, an echoing silent ache.

It might've been better if he hadn't had the chance to let his thoughts catch up with him. He drains most of his drink, sighs heavily, and only then does he realize he's not alone by the fireside. ]


Oh--! Didn't see you there. Or, I guess it's more correct to say I wasn't paying attention, ahaha... Don't suppose you're as new as I am?

[ By no means is this person the only one he's failed to take notice of tonight, but, well, he's... got a lot on his mind. ]


iv. wildcard!

[ You know what to do. \o/ ]
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iii

[personal profile] stripsearch 2020-08-19 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, the bonfire is really fun, and it's just kind of a fun way for people to mingle. Rise's actually spent the past ten or twenty minutes dancing around the fire, but the heat and exhaustion has set in, and so she's sat back down to enjoy the bonfire, wearing a bikini with a light white windbreaker over her shoulders.

She looks up when she's spoken to, and gives the man a quick shake of her head.]
Sorry, nope! I've been here a couple of months. I'd be happy to answer any questions if you're a newbie, though~

[Doesn't she look like that one pop star? The one whose poster is all over Tokyo?

Nah, too young.]
philanthropy: (incessantly declining any pleasantries)

i'm blessed =u=

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-20 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's good to see some people are making the most of things here. Well, young folks are resilient that way, aren't they? The truth is, he has noticed her over the last half hour or so -- he's not exactly well-informed on what's popular these days, but he'd be ill-equipped without some idea of what (and who) students are into these days. She does look familiar, but then again, does it really matter in a place like this? ]

Oh, well, that's quite generous! "Months," though... that seems like quite a long time to be away from home, doesn't it?

[ He beams a little automatically at her as she settles nearby, elbows resting on his knees and absentmindedly swirling the remains of the drink in his hand. ]

—I'm, um, Maruki, by the way. Takuto Maruki.
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[personal profile] stripsearch 2020-08-29 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
It is, but... whatcha going to do, right? Not like any of us can choose when we go home, so we'd better make the most of it.

[She pulls her jacket a little higher over her shoulders. Weird how it can get so chilly with a sea breeze, even with a fire like this not too far away.] I'm Rise. It's good to meet you, Maruki-san.
corvidant: (9)

i (spoilers, so many spoilers!!)

[personal profile] corvidant 2020-08-19 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The smell of cooking does, indeed, come from the same direction as the yelp-- but with a caveat! Or two. Maybe three?

So yes, Akechi may have gotten a bit careless in his task, and sure enough he may or may not have been pinched a couple of times, but it's not like he needs the added incentive to get snippy because, well, here's a walking pile of revenge-- and self-worth issues, and... daddy issues? Too many issues-- in his natural habit, going on a rampage against whatever offending crustaceans that happened to cross his path; that's your first caveat.

The second one is that he's not quite helpless, and the yelp might have turned into more of a raging scream. Why? Combine all his issues with his (literally) God-given right to summon a manifestation of his soul given shape and supernatural abilities and the result?

Well. ]


Does it look like I'm the one who needs help?

[ Maruki will be treated to the sight of a blazing trail of crabs, some of which are still aflame, but most have dwindled to a nice, toasty mess. Caveat number three? It's not quite cooking, but hey, it's a free-for-all open seafood barbecue? ]
philanthropy: (repelling any potential friend)

\o/

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-20 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maruki's only regret* is that he never had a chance to well and truly tease apart all the many complex layers that make up Goro Akechi -- his problems, his worries, his desires. He's like a millefeuille of pain.

But, uh, clearly he's got things under control at the moment, or whatever might pass for control coming from a bundle of seething anger who's seemingly been hard at work roasting a half-dozen or more crabs right in the shell.

*[citation needed] ]


Akechi-kun...

[ Which is more than Maruki can say for himself at the moment, eyes wide and lips parting in uncertainty and confusion and a little bit of hope when the sight of him really sinks in. Because, Maruki...

He'd failed, hadn't he? He was so sure.

The crabs smell amazing, to be honest, and Maruki's stomach chooses that moment to growl loudly enough to ruin any gravity the moment might've had. ]


—a-ah, well. Um. How -- how have you been?

[ A lot better now, by the look of him. ]
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[personal profile] corvidant 2020-08-20 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ By his turn, Akechi doesn't give much of a damn about Maruki's regrets, or quite frankly, about Maruki at all. The others might have fallen for his good intentions and his compassionate act, but to Akechi, that's all it had ever been: an act. Nothing more than self-righteous bullshit to further his own personal agenda. And Akechi...

Well. Akechi would have been content with disappearing as easily as he had slipped back into existence, the poof of smoke right out of a magician's hat which both casts and ends an illusion. For once, he would have been in control of his own fate, rather than a puppet in someone else's hands, and yet--

I have been, is what Akechi wants to answer. He has, and continues to be, when for all purposes and intents, he should not. Just a faded memory, at most. But what he says instead is: ]


Much better than them. [ A motion of head towards the crab slaughter in his wake, a surprising amount of calm in his voice that just reeks of cynicism. ] If you were going to try and save them, I'm afraid you're a little too late.

[ Shido once saw them as rats, so it makes sense Maruki had, too, at some point, just experimental lab animals to test his powers on. There was no true salvation at the end of his goals, only a god-like complex inherited from a fallen deity. ]
philanthropy: (but in the end i still pretend)

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-21 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Iiii... can't particularly say that I was trying, but, uh... I'm... glad to hear you're doing well, anyway. [ An awkward beat. ] Hmm.

[ He found Akechi close enough to a set of tents arranged in a half-moon around a small cooking fire, it's no wonder he'd assumed there was actual food on somewhere. He peers down ruefully at a bright red crispy critter plopped in the sand a couple feet in front of him. There's a whole like, shallow pail that's gone untouched right nearby and everything, leaning up against one of the tent supports. ]

I'm sorry to say it doesn't look like our difficulties stopped when we left home.

[ Slowly, like he's trying not to aggravate a rabid animal, Maruki bends down and begins delicately shaking the sand off of the roasted crabs in the immediate vicinity and then laying them into the bucket. ]

I hope you don't mind; I was told recently that it can be hard to find food that isn't... w-well, you know.

[ He peers up and over at Akechi from his place down on one knee sunk into the sand, white toga fluttering in the sea breeze. In a way, it isn't all that dissimilar from the last time they saw each other.

Then he's silent for a spell, momentarily bereft of any fight at all. ]
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[personal profile] corvidant 2020-08-21 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Our difficulties didn't stop when we left home, the man says, and Akechi wants to answer that with more than a pointed roll of eyes. There isn't anything about his life that hasn't been difficult, that he hasn't had to fight tooth and claw for, scraps of what others could so easily indulge in-- acknowledgement, a name, affection. But Maruki never saw him as more than a tool to granting a wish, and Akechi doesn't feel particularly inclined to share more than he has to.

Well. Nothing that isn't already out in the open, at least-- which the roasted crabs surely are. ]


I have no particular reason to let you starve to death, if it can be helped.

[ It's... not much of an olive branch, but at least murder boy isn't actively trying to kill him? Out of all his grudges, Maruki is definitely not the bigger one. ]

That kind of attitude is not going to do you any favors in a place like this, though. You might have to use your actual words.

[ Honestly, isn't Maruki supposed to be the adult here? What's with all the embarrassed act over the topic of dubiously consensual underage sexual practices? Akechi surely has done worse in his relatively short life. ]
philanthropy: (but in the end i still pretend)

smashes through the gd window

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-29 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's not just for me.

[ Maruki probably seems like a fool sometimes, it's true, but he's not blind to Akechi-kun's disdain. Not even a little -- in fact, it's the second most obvious thing about him, as far as Maruki's concerned, next to how very much he wishes to belong to something more than himself.

Or someone, maybe.

Maruki knows what that feels like. It's... a painful position to be in, sometimes.

His shoulders slacken a bit, momentarily abandoning his foraging efforts to just sort of kneel in the sand near the flagging fire, fine stones gritting into his bare knees. ]


I won't say I'm not worried for my own sake, but I've heard that unadulterated food can be tough to come by. I'd prefer people at least have a choice... if it's possible.
corvidant: (10)

yeehaw!!

[personal profile] corvidant 2020-08-29 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ That... actually gives Akechi pause. And not in the good way. ]

You would prefer people at least have a choice?

[ It pours from gritted teeth, his look narrow as he finally turns to face Maruki in full, so sharp that he might bleed if he dares step within striking range. ]

I suppose that only applies to realities you have no control over, no? Somehow, I don't think you draw the line at sexual favors.

[ He could even make a "happy ending" joke here, if it wouldn't make him puke. ]
philanthropy: (my secret social mission)

youre bluescreening him akechi

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-29 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Suddenly Maruki has the look of someone whose wound has been ripped open. It might be something for Akechi to savor. His gaze snaps up, wide and wild and pained, so surprised that he almost forgets for the moment that he's actually wrong about this. ]

That's not the same thing! People deserve a chance to feel happiness, and even if it's meant to do a little bit of good, to be forced into serving another purpose like this is...

[ Almost. It seems after a second as if Maruki is looking more through Akechi than at him. His voice is thin, nearly defeated. ]

Even if it might be for the best, even for many other people, to be forced into serving another purpose -- and know it...
corvidant: (5)

that's his job!

[personal profile] corvidant 2020-09-01 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ If Akechi cared about Maruki at all to even revel in his pain, that look might have been something to savor, yes; as it stands, though, he just thinks the man is pathetic. Not even deserving of a brutal yet quick ending like the countless shadows he has battled in the Metaverse; he is lesser than them.

He doesn't get the dignity of a swift death; he has to grovel for mercy. ]


That is where you draw the line, then? [ His scowl deepens, his tone taking on a lower rumble. ] At knowing? As if being a part of the blissfully ignorant masses with no sense of agency would have been any better?

[ It wouldn't. And Akechi wouldn't be ignorant, either; he'd be stubborn enough to see through the illusion, he's sure of it. ]
tricksterious: (Legion)

ii (probably spoilers sometime...MAYBE...he's very blase)

[personal profile] tricksterious 2020-08-19 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ At least someone is bashful, because Ren...IS NOT. He's been here longer, of course, so he's perhaps more used to the sex everywhere aspect, but also it never really embarrassed him since arriving.

He's hard to fluster. It's the five star stats all around. ]


Sure. I'm hungry anyway.

[ Just let him remove one of those edible dicks from Maruki's hands to take a bite. Being fed by Maruki is nostalgic...

...And he's being so casual it's hard to say what he does or doesn't remember (it's everything). ]
philanthropy: (incomparable with life)

ren... ren plz

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-20 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ama—?

[ So Maruki mostly just gapes like a ruddy fish as Ren sidles up out of nowhere like a spirit to take the dick right out of his hand like it's no big deal at all, like Maruki didn't just have his entire vision for their future gutted and cast aside, like he's not still wearing bruises here and there from that probably pointless scuffle of theirs. It couldn't have been more than a matter of days since all that, right?

Right...?

Well, the heart knows what it believes the truth to be. And isn't that always how it is? For a moment, it's as if the entirety of this new, strange world has shrunk down to the head of a pin, and there he stands. Amamiya-kun. Like it's nothing at all. ]


But -- why? Why are you here?

[ The way he asks the question, he's really not happy or unhappy about it. But these circumstances do have a way of scraping open an aching set of wounds that haven't really even begun to close. ]
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he's gotta

[personal profile] tricksterious 2020-08-20 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I've been here for a while, actually. So I'd think that'd be more my question...but the "why" is really "just because".

[ That's the big truth he's figured out so far. There isn't a rhyme or reason to it, although they're technically here to save the world via sex.

But like, "why" still exists and the answer is still "just because I said so". ]


Don't worry about it too much, is my advice.
philanthropy: (my secret social mission)

wish u wouldn't, bud (jk he's perfect)

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-21 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Amazing how Ren can be so casual. He's only freshly triggered in Maruki the WORST EXISTENTIAL CRISIS OF HIS LIFE, THAT'S ALL

...is what a less patient and more self-involved person would say, but in this case, in their case, the first thing that actually happens is Maruki sort of gasps out a laugh -- a fragile sound, breathy and soft and a little bit pained -- and sags against the wall just behind him. ]


Haha... you really never change, do you? No matter what happens, you're always still just...

[ Because on closer inspection, Maruki actually looks like a bit of a wreck. Dejected, dark circles under his eyes. Exhausted inside and out.

He dares to glance in Ren's direction. What a time to have to do this. What a setting. Truth be told, he'd like nothing more than to shut himself away in a quiet room somewhere, maybe stay there forever, or however long it takes to sort his thoughts out.

When the Phantom Thieves turned all the others... is this what that felt like? There's a piece of him that wants to press his forehead to the ground in front of Amamiya's feet, to cry, to apologize for days. He almost does it, too; he can feel the weight of the words in his mouth.

There's another piece of him that genuinely wonders if this entire changed world isn't a sign that he succeeded after all. Somehow. So instead of apologizing to Ren like he wants to, he just says (tiredly, a little sadly): ]


You're... pretty amazing, Amamiya-kun.

[ Sigh. ]

So when you say "a while"...?
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[personal profile] tricksterious 2020-08-21 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Look, he triggers a lot of existential crises, it's fine. Ren himself looks...okay, actually. Calm and well-rested, so he's not freaked out about where he is or what he's doing, even if it wouldn't be his first choice.

He's not much for grudges in the very end. Sure, he gets angry sometimes, but...he's also a lot more willing to forgive than most people. Even when people try to murder him. It's an issue. ]


It's been a few months for me. The people here aren't bad, generally...

[ Ironically he's run into less messed up people here than back home! ]
philanthropy: (but in the end i still pretend)

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-29 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Shocked cutaway goes here. ]

M-Months--?

[ Trawling on in the background, irrespective of the gravity of the moment, a parade of dongs. Luckily, the absurdity of the whole scene seems to be just what Maruki needs to overcome his momentary dismay; hard to say whether staring gobsmacked at Ren with his mouth full of dickpop is better than navelgazing, but it... sure is something. ]

I heard the rumors... that things work a little differently here, that is. But I never really thought...

[ Maybe anything's possible here... huh. ]

Maybe anything's possible in a place like this, huh, Amamiya-kun?

[ Maybe this world's even more malleable than it seems, maybe -- maybe this is a bad idea. The wrong train of thought. ]

More importantly, though, how, um...

[ With a wash of something like guilt or shame, Maruki glances away for a minute before his gaze slides back and drags over Ren's inscrutable face. ]

...how has it been here? For you. Are you--

[ "Happy now?" ]

--doing okay?
tricksterious: (Silky)

[personal profile] tricksterious 2020-08-31 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, more or less.

[ He's always been easy to adapt, when it comes down to it. Being taken from everything he knows and thrown elsewhere...

Well, it's not the first time it's ever happened. And it's apparently not about to be the last, either. ]


I've been getting by, at least. I'll just assume you got the rundown already...
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III (taken from Okumura’s palace)

[personal profile] pussy_whip 2020-08-20 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She almost doesn’t notice him at first. Dr. Maruki is, all things considered, kind of a nondescript guy. Anyway, it’s not like Ann is exactly paying attention, either. It’s been a hell of a day, and she’s tired and sore, pinched half to death by the crabs she attempted to wrangle earlier that morning.

She does a bit of a double take when she realizes just who it is she’s standing next to in a pink, floral toga. ]


Doctor? What are you doing here? I only arrived this morning.

[ Shes clearly surprised to see him, but pleasantly so. They’d had a nice chat when he was first brought on at Shujin. He seems just as befuddled by this whole situation as she is, at least.

Noticing the bruises on his skin makes her frown, however. What could have happened? Who would want to beat up the school counselor? ]


Hey, Doctor, are you okay?
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philanthropy: (obsession with myself that leaves a mess)

that usernAME......

[personal profile] philanthropy 2020-08-21 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maruki almost jumps a little bit, as if her voice has punched him out of some sort of reverie. ]

Huh? Oh! Takamaki-san...

[ And then for a second he just sort of considers her, almost as if he's... waiting for her to do something? Say something? The ice in his drink shifts with a soft, bright twinkling noise.

...And the moment passes by after that, along with the tension that drains from the set of his shoulders (toga-clad, partly bare, lightly sunburned in addition to the many minor injuries here and there). ]


Yeah, um, I-I'm. Of course. No need to go worrying on my account, haha... More importantly, how are you holding up?

[ He wants to be optimistic. He really does. But he can't imagine this was the happy reality any of them would've wished for. ]
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/fingerguns

[personal profile] pussy_whip 2020-08-21 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a brief span of time while he's looking at her that confuses Ann a little, like he's trying to figure her out but can't--not quite. She knows he's a psychologist, and trying to figure people out is kind of his job and everything, but it feels weird, different to all the times she sat in the nurse's office with him.

He looks almost expectantly, but she just sits there, blue eyes wide with concern until he relaxes. Maybe he's just weirded out because she ran into him on this weird sex planet? She has no idea, and her smile is sheepish when he speaks again. ]


Ohh, I'm... okay! Haha! What a crazy coincidence running into you here!

[ Yeah, she's clearly trying too hard there. Sighing, she shakes her head. ]

I'm not sure how to feel. This place is pretty strange.
blossomingviolet: (✧ i dream of only waking)

iii [P5R spoilers ahoy!]

[personal profile] blossomingviolet 2020-08-21 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ While she wasn't drinking anything alcoholic, she had come here since there were lot of people and they didn't seem like bad company so what was the harm in spending time here around them? She moved to sit down next to someone, but hadn't at first seen who it was until she'd settled in, brushing her bangs away from her eyes.

It's only as he spoke up did Kasumi look over and see him, eyes catching on the fading injuries he was sporting, her face shifting into absolute surprise and concern. She hadn't seen him since the new year started, then she was brought in here in the middle of infiltrating that new palace with Joker and Akechi. ]


Ah!! Dr. Maruki! Are you alright? You're covered in bruises!

[ A careful eye may let the good doctor in on something incredibly telling. Her mannerisms and attitude was still 'Kasumi' at this point, unawares of anything he'd done or how he had affected her.

Ignorance is bliss.. or at least it has been for some time here. ]
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i.... :eyes:

[personal profile] takeroot 2020-08-22 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucky: the person cooking is the same person who just yelped loud enough for half the beach to hear, over here by this convenient fire pit one of the robots helpfully dug out when asked very nicely. Less lucky: that person is Constantin, and boy, he cannot cook to save his life. His first foray into cooking over an open fire on a beach of all places should not be live crabs, but how hard can it be, right?

Just look— he even has a cooking pot! It even has some water in it! And the rest of the water is soaked down his front, and the crab is down on the ground, snapping at his boots before scuttling a few yards away. The cooking smell was a ruse, it was only the smell of a promising fire pit and a twinkle in Constantin's overly ambitious eye...

Now then, Mr. Doctor who is Not A Doctor: first of all, what? Second,]


I— I dropped the crab, if you can believe it. They are tricky little monsters!

[He's rubbing his hand, the side of which is sporting an angry red welt from Crab Pinches (tm). After a moment he sort of glances this Not A Doctor up and down and gestures... at him.]

Sorry, you are or are not a doctor?