Waking the Dead 2.0 || May 18, 2063 || The Mandatory Hot Springs Episode

[kawaakari]

[The skies are clear, the air is cool, and overall? Conditions are perfect for spending the entire afternoon and maybe even the entire night at the hot springs within Seigi. It's open to Zangyaku operatives and their families, along with any of their guests.

Oh, they're also communal. Surely no one minds? It's just skin, after all.

You're allowed to smoke, drink and eat while you're chilling out in the pools. You can also play cards, have a round (or several) of ping pong, flop around... anything goes, as long as you don't kill anybody!]



OOC Notes:
+ Make your own threads, plot out your own shenanigans and whatever else. Just remember: War Hounds and the rest were probably invited there after lunch, and are more than welcome to spend the rest of the day there. Y'all might want to specify the time. :3
+ NPCs are available on call beyond the threads I set up in here (if I end up setting some up, anyway)! Lemme know if you have questions.

Comments

[ferricwill]

Or when one needs to step in, bash some heads together, cut some things up, take some names, and roll back out in style.

[Ah, to be young and dumb and under Drake Badd's command again~]

[fidelias]

Yes. The one and only.

[And his momentary nostalgia disappears as quickly as it came when he notices what's happening to Taning.

Heh. Heh heh.]

Nice, isn't it?

[bladeweaver]

So basically... Be there, and not be there; be his, and not be his; obey, and don't obey; care, and pretend not to care.

[He shakes his head, a sad smile on his face.]

Not asking for the moon and the stars, are you? [He says that in an obviously joking manner, albeit really sadly now.]

Pardon me if this is taking liberties already, but... what I want to do for your brother, I realize I should be extending to you. I know, I know, you barely know me. But. One cannot be told such a thing without needing to do something about it. [He smiles, warmly, at the fox under his hand.] We Arrows are stupid like that.

[bladeweaver]

[Have a snerk, good sir.]

Haha, yeah, that too. Do you tell Brig these things? I fear he takes things too literally sometimes.

[He laughs, at poor Brig's expense. This fucker.]

[bladeweaver]

[Nice is an understatement. Wheeeeeeee~]

Hmm? Yes, nice, very nice.

[Turns to Tohru, and with the last vestiges of his self-control:]

Please, sir, if I start saying things like "you're the best", just... take it literally? This is a really good hit.

[Two seconds later...]

But man, you're the best.

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade laughs and places his pack in a spot where it'd easy for her to take a stick whenever she wanted. He takes a long drag and starts puffing circles. ] If I may, Ma'am, what's your secret to aging so gracefully? [ How she's immortal since she was born with Hikaru in his first life cycle. He knows she'll get it cause she's Setsuna. ]

I'm imagining something like the Budweiser "wasap!?" commercial happening. haha

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brig finally sees the Brand twins in a situation other than letting Yulia try to kill them. All he can think of is how they remind him of the loud, rowdy, beer-chugging groups among the men of the HECATON back in WWII.

He likes these guys already.

He goes up to them and carries with him (one under each arm and one in each hand) four cases (24 bottles each) of beer he'd found from the caretakers of the onsen.

He sets them cases down by the side of the pool, near the sake bottles, and then fishes from inside his yukata, four large bottles of sake.

He looks at them seriously and speaks only two words. ]

Beer? [ Holding out two bottles of beer in his left hand ] Sake? [ Holding out one of the big bottles of sake in his right hand ]

[bostova]

I had thought of the Senshi, but... [ No use in hiding it, right? And Hikaru might have already said something about it to Kasumi, after their conversation a few days ago. ]

I am also considering joining the Whisperers. [ Which could prove to be a challenge-- but wasn't that the point? To challenge yourself further? ]

[fidelias]

[Just as planned.]

Of course I am. You are not so bad yourself.

[Tohru is never, ever going to let himself get THAT high, but... this is good.]

[ferricwill]

I kind of like the fact that he does. He reminds me of some of my very good friends.

[Heh.]

XD

[thebrandybunch]

[And now you have the Brands looking like Christmas has come early in the form of a Promethean Santa Claus.

Their gazes swing, in unison, towards both offerings. What to pick, what to pick...]

BOTH.

[kawaakari]

Oh. A good decision.

[Nodding in approval.]

You have the looks, you have the grace, and you have the drive. I would be honored to have you under my command.

[sadame]

[Moving, putting her paws up on his knees. Looking at him.]

Thank you. It would be nice to have a friend that I can try to return to whenever I come around.

[sadame]

I had to die first.

[Saying that matter-of-factly.]

I have not been human for a while now.

Huzzah!

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade laughs out loud and cheers ] BOTH! [ He starts pouring sake into the mouth of one twin and beer into the other. He's not quite sure yet who is who or how to differentiate them.

Doesn't really matter right now. The only thing that matters is -- ] CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! [ He laughs inside. He's sure his Blademates will be surprised that he's not always so straight-laced. ]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade's used to this now. If he desensitized before Netsach, he's practically numb now, to things like this. ]

Could I ask what happened? [ He pauses and appreciates her lying there in his lap ] You still seem very human to me, Ma'am. [ Not in the physical-supernatural kind of way. In the kindness and good-heartedness kind of way ]

[thebrandybunch]

[FRIEND!

...And man these boys can drink.]

MORE, MORE, MORE.

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade empties the bottles and places them on the edge of the pool. He tosses beers to and sake each to the Brands ] On me. DRINK! [ Grabs a bottle of beer and sake for himself as well and joins the two in the chug-a-lug ]

[sadame]

It's all in the records, really.

[Sounding thoughtful as she's taking a puff. Whodathunk a fox could smoke?]

Aidan, Riley, Orin and I had to stop Nyx from coming once, a long time ago. Before 2012.

[atlas_shrugged]

I haven't yet had the time to read your file, Ma'am, I apologize. [ There is another reason behind that as well ] It's also because I've been trying to avoid the files until I get to speak to the individual first. It's been a see-saw so far.

I'm guessing I'll find that in the file as well? And that it's the reason you died and became a spirit, Ma'am?

[therealbrianna]

[ Interestiing... Now time to change the topic, because curious. ]

Soo. Why'd you come out of retirement? I mean aside from battlefield things and all.

aha!

[ktotheatothez]

[Kaz finds Alistair smoking (like that's not a thing), and goes over to join him. Since he learned that his former mentor kissed Hikaru, his perception of the past few days got cast in a new light.]

Mind if I join you?

oh shit.

[ktotheatothez]

[Kaz's smirk kind of drops. He's just remembered that of all the games, ping pong is one he's maybe no good at. He's got the ball and a paddle in his hand.

"You got this, babe.", he hears from his left. Nico's there. He blushes.

He turns back to Taning, only a little bolstered by the encouragement, before tossing the ball a few inches off his hand and serving it.]

[bladeweaver]

[He settles into a comfortable rally with Kaz, grinning vacantly the whole time.]

First to 5, okay? Loser gets truth or dared!

[And suddenly, have a slice-heavy high-looper that looks like it's going to Kaz's right side near the middle, but veers left and lands on the other side near the far edge.]

Hehe. Btw, the thread for mentor drinking is up for these two as well! Want link?

[mordechai]

Sure.

[Sitting up now, to make room.]

Not joining your blade?