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Due to unprecedented high demand we are temporarily unable to check you in to your reserved room. We apologize for the inconvenience. We have arranged for a temporary room while we work on processing your reservation as quickly as possible. We appreciate your understanding.
As a special wedding gift from us, we have arranged for you and your new spouse to stay in one of our junior penthouses while you wait. Congratulations on your new marriage. We are so pleased you have chosen our resort for your honeymoon.
You will be notified as soon as your official reservation has been processed. Your comfort and happiness are our utmost priority. We hope you enjoy the provided amenities and lose yourself in marital bliss. 】
EVENS
EVENS: NEW CHARACTERS
Music plays. Instrumental, the tune gentle enough not to disturb peaceful rest. The sudden insistent beep of the Watch is a cutting cacophony across an otherwise sweet lullaby. Upon opening their eyes, new arrivals will quickly discover that something is wrong. The quilt snug across their body is weighty. Crystals glint in a weave of embroidery and cotton shimmers with threads of silver. Dozens of decorative pillows surround the bed. The gauzy curtains of the canopied bed are drawn, obscuring the rest of the room.
Extravagant for a kidnapping. Too extravagent. What’s more, these new guests will find something even stranger than this new diamond-studded suite tucked into bed beside them. Someone else. Who are they, what are they wearing? What happened last night?!
Guests are encouraged to explore the resort from here! There are paper maps available for those who would like and staff are happy to recommend locations if they have any preferences. Enjoy your honeymoon, you lovebirds!
ODDS
ODDS: SPECIAL RE-ARRIVAL
Never trust a hallway in the Golden peacock.
Cross the wrong threshold and time begins to slow. A short hallway becomes long, sheds its doors, only leading to turns without end. Guests too eager to explore the resort have gotten lost before. For how long always varies, dependent upon capriciousness of the resort. Hours? Yes. Years? Yes. Every guest caught in the winding hallways has reported the same thing: time is different there and too difficult to discern.
Some wayward guests have been caught in the endless hallways since the FIRST TDM. Weeks pass before a single doorway appears in the distance. It creaks upon opening before everything goes topsy-turvy. These guests have been let out of a trap door in the depths of Crane's Respite.
All water corridors will eventually lead back to the populated areas of Crane's Respite. The waters are warm, the scent of bath salts returns, and staff are wild with joy at finally finding all of you. They have been beside themselves searching ever since you vanished!
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Because we love all of the new characters premiering on this TDM, we kindly request that our Evens prompt be top level exclusive for new characters. Current characters are encouraged to tag in to these prompts with the caveat that they’ve been picked up from their assigned suite (or wherever else they were before) and dumped into the new arrival’s bed. We would like for new characters to have this prompt unique to their top level comments!
▶ Players are welcome to have their current character riff off of these prompts in the log community with the exclusion of the new arrival element. This request is just for TDM top levels.
▶ Current characters and new characters are both welcome to freely mess around with the Odds prompt with the exclusion of the arrival element. For new characters, players may participate with the idea that their character is exploring Crane’s Respite after their unique arrival in the Evens prompt. The Odds arrival element may also be utilized by current player characters who may have been on an unofficial hiatus in January and did not tag as much as they would have liked, to explain any long IC absence.
▶ Octopi may be killed. If a character decides to eat one of the octopi they may find themselves taking on some of its traits. Which traits are up to player discretion.
ELEVATORS
ELEVATORS
The house has recently ordered a full changeout of art in all high traffic areas. The elevators in particular have received special attention with many different famous artworks and portraits studded to the walls for guests to admire. These artworks are treasures of the modern world that one would typically see behind glass at a museum. Guests may even find works from their own world hanging in the elevators. Even famous works that maybe have been lost to time. So this is where they ended up. Is that Vermeer's The Concert?
Guests may find their elevator suddenly stopping without warning. The portraits on the wall stir, curiously studying them, but there are three main portraits calling the shots. The portrait that controls that particular elevator will make their demands known with the threat that, if they are not obeyed, you will be trapped forever.
Elevators will function after the portrait's demands are met. Guests that hold out and refuse may find themselves trapped upwards of twelve hours. Guests with the ability to do so may crawl out of the top emergency door, free to go wherever they want from there.
GREAT TIT!
GREAT TIT!
Great Tit! is the Golden Peacock’s popular dessert bar and cafe. With its bright pops of color and whimsical treats, guests simply can’t resist stopping in for a butt shaped cookie and hazelnut coffee. After catching wind that the resort has decided to celebrate a dessert shop's most lucrative holiday, Great Tit! is ready to impress the masses. Advertisements for limited edition drinks and desserts rain the main lobby; one can’t go three steps without slipping on a neon pink coupon for 10 percent off nipple buns. Guests that decide to pass by the cafe will find themselves assaulted with confetti cannons and eager employees ushering them inside.
Guests will find a temporary communal shower room upon exiting Great Tit! where they can wash off after a fun day of rolling around in sugar. All guests will be gifted a tee branded with a, CHOCOLATE IS MY LOVER logo.
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ This portraits prompt has been triggered by several characters expressing interest in and investigating the lore of the resort paintings. This is just dipping a beginning toe in, but congrats to all for poking around!
▶ Portraits in the elevator should not be destroyed, purely for continuity’s sake. If a character would go far enough to attack one of the portraits, the portrait will slap them back with ghostly power.
▶ Characters may also figure other ways out of the elevator if they have specific abilities to do so. While the portraits can control the elevators, they cannot control your character(s). Any destruction to the elevator itself is liable to result in a rush of security dragging the culprit(s) away to the Iron Net.
▶ Great Tit! is running a massive sale! Even characters who are on the broke end of the spectrum will be able to afford to join in on the fun and indulge in sugar at these prices.
▶ Players are encouraged to make up any other elements for the Hall of Chocolate. If it’s a dessert and edible, it’s there. Enjoy your sugar coma!
▶ While the chocolate boxes are ICly limited due to Alessandro’s skills as a chocolatier, this is only an IC mechanic. There is no OOC limitation on this prompt as far as chocolate rarity goes.
THE NEST
ALICE AND THE PARROTS
Fashion boutiques are a dime a dozen in the Nest. The shopping hub is massive, lined with stores all trying to aggressively appeal to guests. A challenge in itself — but the guests of the Golden Peacock are no ordinary people. Used to being pampered and fed excitement, if these boutiques don’t bust their bottoms to appeal to the fickle nature of their patrons, they won’t be in business for much longer! One particular boutique, Alice and the Parrots, is riding winds of romantic thrill and churning out a couple of brand new fashion lines sure to draw in loads of chips.
Guests are welcome to try on clothes in Alice and the Parrots' dressing rooms. These dressing rooms are small and can only accommodate two people sharing at a time. Such is the life of a small boutique store. Sharing is no big deal, right? And there’s no way you can buy clothing this expensive without giving it a test first.
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Players are encouraged to make up whatever cute outfits they would like for this prompt.
▶ Wedding clothes do not have to be cute and frilly; this section accommodates tastes of everyone.
▶ Alice and the Parrots is more expensive than Love Dove. Their clothing quality is excellent but their price tags are high. Staff may watch low ranks extra diligently to cut off any stealing. Thieves will be chased by NPC security! Anyone caught gets a day in the Iron Net.
CASINO CHAPEL
CASINO FLOOR
A Pop up Chapel has appeared in the Phoenix Casino. Guests are delighting in playing out weddings and pretending to get married — and a few guests are even tying the knot for real. They aren't worried about the sanctity of marriage; they can divorce tomorrow if they get bored of each other. And everyone knows that getting married doesn't mean you can't fuck whoever you want!
Since the resort isn't keeping track of how many marriages a guest has, all guests are encouraged to marry as many people as they would like. The more the merrier!
Wild wedding events will continue all throughout the month of February, until the guests find it's gotten stale. A divorce rush will round out the fun at the end of the month.
NOTES
PROMPT NOTES
▶ Weddings are not legally binding. Birdvis is not registered as a real officiant, but he does have an excellent beak and pompadour.
▶ Prizes from easy mode slot machines are automatic and do not require mod thumbs up to claim.
▶ Chip prize from difficult mode slot machines is automatic. The special prize is 5 reward points to add to your bank on rewards. Players who wish to claim the special prize should link the finished thread (the kink in question has been completed) under their rewards header with the header, Wedding Slot Machine. If you do any combination of 6/6 (finger hand lol) we ask you somehow make this sexy or involve a climax in order to claim the points.
BLANKET CW: Aphrodisiac; Compulsion; Costumes; Dubcon; Entrapment; Foodplay; Gambling; Lingerie; Matrimony; Tentacles; NSFW Images and Language; NTR; Nudity; Roleplay; Sacrilegious Themes
▶ All new characters on the TDM are WILDCARDS, which means they have not yet been assigned a card value. The house is still observing and deciding. As rank and suits are assigned upon acceptance your new character's suit will not manifest until they are accepted into the game.
▶ All TDMs are game canon. This TDM acts as the game's February event.
▶ Current characters may top level on the TDM. Please make sure to review the arrival prompt notes! Any current characters posting to the TDM should note they are current in their subject header.
▶ The top level directory is for new characters only. We want to make sure new characters are priority and receive attention!
▶ If you aren't satisfied with the prompts on this TDM please feel free to check out our LOCATIONS to explore more of the resort.
▶ Smut threads that take place on this TDM can be used for rewards. If both parties in the smut thread join the game, you may retroactively apply the character's initial card values to your 52 bank. If one character does not join the game the thread will not be applicable toward rewards (as that character would not have a card value). The character that does join would still receive a small payout for the encounter. Hopefully it was a fun thread anyway!
▶ We ask you to kindly add content warnings to your threads as appropriate.
▶ If you do not currently have permissions and kinks listed in your character’s journal we suggest leaving a note in your top level of any limits or boundaries for other players to reference.
▶ Thank you for spending Valentine's Day with us! You're our sweetheart this year. 💕
[ And there he was, grateful to see someone else in these dark, damp caverns... only to be snubbed by this beautiful prince on this, the day of their wedding?!
Okay, so maybe Esikko isn't the one he woke up next to earlier, but look, they're in what was surely nice wedding attire at one point, down here together. It has to mean something. Or so he'd thought before he was left to trip like an anime maiden and land face-first in the water. There's some flailing and hysterical bubbling as he finally breaks the surface again, half-swimming and half-scrabbling up to the same ledge. ]
Umm! [ COUGH ] Well — [ SNIFF... don't mind him as he just reaches up to try and get a hold of Esi's dress hem... ] I lost count after a while?!
( No, no, he likes this dress, actually!! Esikko's legs shift back from the reaching, even kicking one of those hands back. But when it's clear that he's going to keep insisting on reaching for him, he shifts and leans down to grab at his arm with his own hand. )
You—
( Can't lose control of himself, here. Not like he does with Kirma. He breathes in sharply, through his nose, focused, and pulls the guy up. The ledge is narrow and slippery, and the tentacles splashing towards them are swinging left and right, searching for their target.
This seems impossible.
If he sacrifices this guy, will it even be enough to distract that number of them...? )
I don't have anything to work with, here...
( Muttered to himself, in regards to his magic, he slips a foot along the edge, wincing at the way it continues to slide. He grabs at the wall, at the stranger next to him, and inhales as a thick tentacle slaps wetly against the wall right in front of him. In the darkness, he sees an eye below the water.
His hands are occupied, but he stares intensely back at this anime maiden he's happened to pick up. Be quiet and still. )
[ Listen, once the tentacles start getting up into the higher double digits, you kind of stop paying attention to the finer details and logistics. Not that the fact that this man seems ready to drop him into the amorous tentacle pit is lost on him — in fact, that thought has rooted itself right in the base of his throat. Not that he thinks he'll die, necessarily... but there are probably fates worse than death.
Kizuna swallows the feeling just in time to hear the big wet slap of the tentacle way too close to his body for comfort. Of course, that sort of hollows out when Esikko focuses on him, the command illuminating bright as day. He sucks in a breath and holds it.
Quiet and still. He can do that now. Silently, his strength seems to reorient and he clamps his hand over his might-be savior's arm for balance. ]
( Tense. He feels so incredibly tense, and it's strange that the hand on his arm somehow brings a sense of comfort. Is there comfort in not being alone? What if he gets grabbed?
The one slapped against the wall waves right, and then left, secreting some sort of substance that runs down Esikko's arm. He inhales sharply, trying not to react outwardly in his disgust— but that feeling begins to shift.
It doesn't matter, anyway. Another two tentacles lift from the water, an eye gleaming in the darkness focused on the both of them. They can see, after all.
Esi lets out the breath he'd been holding as he realizes, and he half pushes at Kizuna to move. Back this way, go, they're going to have to get off the ledge—!
One limb curls lightly around Kizuna's ankle in the process. )
[ It's a perfect storm, the two of them just happened to be in the eye of it. Quite literally. With that newfound (but ultimately shortlived) comfort, Esi's push and the realization that they aren't safe in this alcove comes roaring in — Kizuna is this close to linking with him uninvited to see if there might be anything that would help...
But the sudden intrusion of a tentacle on his leg makes him audibly gasp in shock. ]
NO! [ With a sudden surge of strength, Kizuna rips his leg upwards, taking the whole octopus out of the water with it. ] DON'T SUCK ME!!
[ It flails as Kizuna whips it around and hits the wall with a big sloppy splat. Momentarily, it's stunned into loosening its grip, the rest of the tentacles gripping weakly to the cavern wall in a daze. And in the chaos of the moment, it seems the octopi down below have scattered. ]
( This guy may be the worst one to have gotten stuck in these tunnels with. At the same time, this outburst may have just saved their lives. His own body certainly can't handle this many octopi adults, and he doubts this guy could, either...
Even if that swing of his leg to smack the thing against the wall was pretty impressive. If he hadn't opened his mouth, it might have been cool.
No time to consider his tunnel partner's failing, though. Despite his own earlier temptation to abandon this guy to the creatures, he's decided to grant him mercy, and that means they're in this together. So, he grabs his wrist in a tight grip, yanking him as he jumps to slosh down through the water and away. )
Keep up!
( Esikko can't run with any impressive speed, but with the tangle of dizzied tentacles taking up a portion of the tunnel, it's the perfect chance to leave. He recalls the layout of the tunnels before this near perfectly— a route on the right, and one on the left further down...
Enough turns that if they take one quickly enough, they can get far enough down to hopefully lose these things. That's the plan as he runs. )
[ This is Kizuna's problem: he always has to open his mouth. (heh) ]
N-None, cross my heart —
[ That much comes harried as Kizuna follows the yank on his wrist with a surprising amount of physical dexterity given his earlier blubbering. It seems this new ill-begotten chance at escape has somehow righted his brain chemistry, and while it would be of more help to have someone like Maya around to borrow offensive skills from, the brief pulse of connection makes Kizuna attuned to the route Esi is navigating so as to not cause any more resistance. ...When it was just his holes on the line, he could afford to be a little more cavalier, but now it's someone else's holes...
Anyway.
A route on the right, and one on the left further down... ]
Wait! Wait.
[ As the left turn opens up into another splintering network, dimly illuminated but full of calmer waters, Kizuna glances upwards. ]
( Esikko pauses, taking in that information first before the realization sets in. He can't hear a thing. Can't see any evidence of it. But he hesitates all the same, their hands still linked. )
How can you tell?
( It's not the time to ask that. He shouldn't be asking that. But he wants to know, as that's incredibly curious, and so he can't help the question falling out from his lips, even as he adjusts their path. )
[ His demeanor has shifted now that there's an end in sight (he hopes...), gaze roving about the cavern's ceilings. The light and shadows web across the gnarled stone from the movement of the water, and Kizuna's grip is still tense but at least seems to have filled out with a purpose now, if he can steer them both out of here. ]
As for how... [ Though he follows, he gives subtle cues, tugs and pushes, to the right way up. ] Let's say I have really good hearing~
[ Not the truth and not a lie. He changes subjects: ]
( Good hearing? That sounds like bullshit, but he's not about to call him out right now. He needs to calm down, to settle after the excitement of those creatures and go back to his usual mode of people-pleasing for appearances.
So, he guesses they're going to just keep holding hands for now? It's better for support, and in case he falls...
Esikko steals a glance down at his wet ends of his dress. )
If it's damaged, it's the water that's done it, to be fair. It must be of enough quality to handle a proper washing...
If it's not, then I'm not very interested in it, anyway. ( Bougie... )
A man of taste, then? [ Yeah, what he said. Bougie. ] I wonder if their dry cleaning is as magical as the rest of it.
[ Fantastical as it is, getting lost in octopus-infested caverns below the surface of the glitzy casino high on its own debauchery... surely they can save a nice wedding dress from such perils.
Kizuna gives a cursory glance downwards at his own attire. He left his jacket somewhere in the hornty abyss, leaving him in his dress shirt and vest, pants hastily rolled up to give tentacles less traction on him. With a sigh, he waves his free hand. ]
I changed, but I don't think there's any saving this one. Let's hope my future ranking is kind.
( Ranking... Right. They're "wildcards," whatever that fully means. He's gotten enough of an impression from the way the hotel is laid out, but he's not fully sure if it's true, or if he's assuming correctly. He glances down at the watch on his wrist as if to check, but it feels foreign and useless right now. )
There's no lack of high quality clothing, at least from what I've seen so far. You should be able to grab something.
( Put yourself together. )
Now I can hear others up ahead. ( His eyes land back on Kizuna, suspicious. Curious. ) We have quite a story we can tell.
Before that, I think I'd like a bath... [ He is slimy in several places still, a detail he's purposefully left out of their trek thusfar. A feat considering his previous blubbering ] But we might finally be in luck, huh?
[ There are voices now, echoing with a comforting clarity that can steer them back upwards towards the casino proper. Feeling Esi's gaze on him, Kizuna takes a chance and looks back, a knowing playfulness pressed into the corners of his eyes. ]
It could have been worse. You were a big help. [ Strangely sincere... ] Do you think they know about this place?
( It's strange, how those sincere words settle in the back of Esikko's mind. Immediately, there are alarm bells playing— Why thank me like that? What does he want? Analyzing as much as he can doesn't bring anything up, though, and that's only more uncomfortable.
It makes no sense.
He puts on a charming smile despite his thoughts. )
I nearly thought I'd get us in more trouble.
( He nearly ditched him, but both things are true... Anyway. )
In any case, I suppose it depends on who you ask. Some might. Others... Most, I'd guess, might not.
( But all he can think about is taking a bath, too. He's been trying to since he got here... Waking up next to a filthy dog... )
[ Even being painfully aware of the fact that this pretty boy would have fed him to the wolftopuses if it benefitted him in the end, Kizuna is left with this sum: he didn't. So, hand in hand, he takes the current situation for what it is and chooses not the dwell on the what-ifs.
His thanks is just that, to take or to leave or to ruminate over as Esi sees fit. ]
"Most" meaning people like us, I assume? [ Coming up on another fork in the road, Kizuna leads with more confidence now. ] As for everyone else, it'll probably come down to how receptive they are to our return.
[ Thoughtful, just plying at their options conversationally. ]
( That's right. They hadn't really had the chance to do any formal introductions. One minute was danger, the next was yelling... Well, it was understandable in a situation like that, he thinks. )
And yours? You'll have to forgive me for letting it slip my mind. It seems like we're in the clear now, at least.
( Of course, when they reach the end of this apparent path, it... looks to be a dead end. But the voices on the other side are unmistakable. Esikko moves forward to examine the stones carefully, his fingers pressing here and there, testing. )
Ahah, nothing to forgive. [ He was being an incorrigible anime man, after all! ] It's Kizuna.
[ He prefers being on a first-name basis with people if he can help it and so provides only that, instead focusing on the way Esi approaches the cavern's wall. He can only stand out of the way so as not to obscure any of the meager light, but his brows do raise in wonder. ]
Is there a way out from here?
[ He'd been aware of the direction, but beyond that... ]
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Okay, so maybe Esikko isn't the one he woke up next to earlier, but look, they're in what was surely nice wedding attire at one point, down here together. It has to mean something. Or so he'd thought before he was left to trip like an anime maiden and land face-first in the water. There's some flailing and hysterical bubbling as he finally breaks the surface again, half-swimming and half-scrabbling up to the same ledge. ]
Umm! [ COUGH ] Well — [ SNIFF... don't mind him as he just reaches up to try and get a hold of Esi's dress hem... ] I lost count after a while?!
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You—
( Can't lose control of himself, here. Not like he does with Kirma. He breathes in sharply, through his nose, focused, and pulls the guy up. The ledge is narrow and slippery, and the tentacles splashing towards them are swinging left and right, searching for their target.
This seems impossible.
If he sacrifices this guy, will it even be enough to distract that number of them...? )
I don't have anything to work with, here...
( Muttered to himself, in regards to his magic, he slips a foot along the edge, wincing at the way it continues to slide. He grabs at the wall, at the stranger next to him, and inhales as a thick tentacle slaps wetly against the wall right in front of him. In the darkness, he sees an eye below the water.
His hands are occupied, but he stares intensely back at this anime maiden he's happened to pick up. Be quiet and still. )
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Kizuna swallows the feeling just in time to hear the big wet slap of the tentacle way too close to his body for comfort. Of course, that sort of hollows out when Esikko focuses on him, the command illuminating bright as day. He sucks in a breath and holds it.
Quiet and still. He can do that now. Silently, his strength seems to reorient and he clamps his hand over his might-be savior's arm for balance. ]
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The one slapped against the wall waves right, and then left, secreting some sort of substance that runs down Esikko's arm. He inhales sharply, trying not to react outwardly in his disgust— but that feeling begins to shift.
It doesn't matter, anyway. Another two tentacles lift from the water, an eye gleaming in the darkness focused on the both of them. They can see, after all.
Esi lets out the breath he'd been holding as he realizes, and he half pushes at Kizuna to move. Back this way, go, they're going to have to get off the ledge—!
One limb curls lightly around Kizuna's ankle in the process. )
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But the sudden intrusion of a tentacle on his leg makes him audibly gasp in shock. ]
NO! [ With a sudden surge of strength, Kizuna rips his leg upwards, taking the whole octopus out of the water with it. ] DON'T SUCK ME!!
[ It flails as Kizuna whips it around and hits the wall with a big sloppy splat. Momentarily, it's stunned into loosening its grip, the rest of the tentacles gripping weakly to the cavern wall in a daze. And in the chaos of the moment, it seems the octopi down below have scattered. ]
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Even if that swing of his leg to smack the thing against the wall was pretty impressive. If he hadn't opened his mouth, it might have been cool.
No time to consider his tunnel partner's failing, though. Despite his own earlier temptation to abandon this guy to the creatures, he's decided to grant him mercy, and that means they're in this together. So, he grabs his wrist in a tight grip, yanking him as he jumps to slosh down through the water and away. )
Keep up!
( Esikko can't run with any impressive speed, but with the tangle of dizzied tentacles taking up a portion of the tunnel, it's the perfect chance to leave. He recalls the layout of the tunnels before this near perfectly— a route on the right, and one on the left further down...
Enough turns that if they take one quickly enough, they can get far enough down to hopefully lose these things. That's the plan as he runs. )
Now, no more screaming!!
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N-None, cross my heart —
[ That much comes harried as Kizuna follows the yank on his wrist with a surprising amount of physical dexterity given his earlier blubbering. It seems this new ill-begotten chance at escape has somehow righted his brain chemistry, and while it would be of more help to have someone like Maya around to borrow offensive skills from, the brief pulse of connection makes Kizuna attuned to the route Esi is navigating so as to not cause any more resistance. ...When it was just his holes on the line, he could afford to be a little more cavalier, but now it's someone else's holes...
Anyway.
A route on the right, and one on the left further down... ]
Wait! Wait.
[ As the left turn opens up into another splintering network, dimly illuminated but full of calmer waters, Kizuna glances upwards. ]
There are people that way.
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( Esikko pauses, taking in that information first before the realization sets in. He can't hear a thing. Can't see any evidence of it. But he hesitates all the same, their hands still linked. )
How can you tell?
( It's not the time to ask that. He shouldn't be asking that. But he wants to know, as that's incredibly curious, and so he can't help the question falling out from his lips, even as he adjusts their path. )
We should head towards them, then.
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[ His demeanor has shifted now that there's an end in sight (he hopes...), gaze roving about the cavern's ceilings. The light and shadows web across the gnarled stone from the movement of the water, and Kizuna's grip is still tense but at least seems to have filled out with a purpose now, if he can steer them both out of here. ]
As for how... [ Though he follows, he gives subtle cues, tugs and pushes, to the right way up. ] Let's say I have really good hearing~
[ Not the truth and not a lie. He changes subjects: ]
I didn't damage your dress, did I?
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So, he guesses they're going to just keep holding hands for now? It's better for support, and in case he falls...
Esikko steals a glance down at his wet ends of his dress. )
If it's damaged, it's the water that's done it, to be fair. It must be of enough quality to handle a proper washing...
If it's not, then I'm not very interested in it, anyway. ( Bougie... )
What about your suit?
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[ Fantastical as it is, getting lost in octopus-infested caverns below the surface of the glitzy casino high on its own debauchery... surely they can save a nice wedding dress from such perils.
Kizuna gives a cursory glance downwards at his own attire. He left his jacket somewhere in the hornty abyss, leaving him in his dress shirt and vest, pants hastily rolled up to give tentacles less traction on him. With a sigh, he waves his free hand. ]
I changed, but I don't think there's any saving this one. Let's hope my future ranking is kind.
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There's no lack of high quality clothing, at least from what I've seen so far. You should be able to grab something.
( Put yourself together. )
Now I can hear others up ahead. ( His eyes land back on Kizuna, suspicious. Curious. ) We have quite a story we can tell.
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[ There are voices now, echoing with a comforting clarity that can steer them back upwards towards the casino proper. Feeling Esi's gaze on him, Kizuna takes a chance and looks back, a knowing playfulness pressed into the corners of his eyes. ]
It could have been worse. You were a big help. [ Strangely sincere... ] Do you think they know about this place?
[ and how they were LEFT to DIE ]
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It makes no sense.
He puts on a charming smile despite his thoughts. )
I nearly thought I'd get us in more trouble.
( He nearly ditched him, but both things are true... Anyway. )
In any case, I suppose it depends on who you ask. Some might. Others... Most, I'd guess, might not.
( But all he can think about is taking a bath, too. He's been trying to since he got here... Waking up next to a filthy dog... )
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His thanks is just that, to take or to leave or to ruminate over as Esi sees fit. ]
"Most" meaning people like us, I assume? [ Coming up on another fork in the road, Kizuna leads with more confidence now. ] As for everyone else, it'll probably come down to how receptive they are to our return.
[ Thoughtful, just plying at their options conversationally. ]
What's your name?
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( That's right. They hadn't really had the chance to do any formal introductions. One minute was danger, the next was yelling... Well, it was understandable in a situation like that, he thinks. )
And yours? You'll have to forgive me for letting it slip my mind. It seems like we're in the clear now, at least.
( Of course, when they reach the end of this apparent path, it... looks to be a dead end. But the voices on the other side are unmistakable. Esikko moves forward to examine the stones carefully, his fingers pressing here and there, testing. )
Let's see, it should be around here somewhere...
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got it. ]
Ahah, nothing to forgive. [ He was being an incorrigible anime man, after all! ] It's Kizuna.
[ He prefers being on a first-name basis with people if he can help it and so provides only that, instead focusing on the way Esi approaches the cavern's wall. He can only stand out of the way so as not to obscure any of the meager light, but his brows do raise in wonder. ]
Is there a way out from here?
[ He'd been aware of the direction, but beyond that... ]