clouds came and covered the sun

[hairpining]

[You find yourself in a small, quaint little town. The architecture has a notably late-1800s bent to it, in contrast to the clean, crisp air you breathe – combined with a faint, flowery scent – it's almost as though it is not industrialized at all.

Which would be easy enough to believe. After all, there do not seem to be any people out other than you and your fellow spelunkers – in spite of the occasional whisper you might hear. Hushed and impossible to actually make out.

Far in the distance lies a towering building, similar in shape to a fairytale castle.]

(Castle Town | Atelier | Smithy | Castle Town Revisited |
Painting the Roses Red | The Golden Afternoon | Castle Corridor |
The Library of Babel | The Girl Without Hands | The Garden of Paradise | The White Bride and the Black One |
The Princess Sleeping in the Glass Coffin)

((BGM entirely for ~atmospheric~ and ~stylistic~ purposes and personal reference, feel free to listen if you want to!))

Comments

[kalahiki]

Really? I'd love to test that sometime.

[provocate]

[FFF LAUGHS]

There's nothing stopping you, darling. [You can come at me any time you please bb B)]

[kalahiki]

Hmm....~

[>Continue on like a rational man and fight with the alien later
>Wait for sneak attack
>Bufudyne

>>Execution Bufudyne

HOW ABOUT THAT SPEAR OF ICE BARON]

[provocate]

[WOW!!!!! HOW ABOUT NO]

[So he really... makes a point not to make it obvious, but the Baron is fucking fast so while he's taken a little by surprised, he turns on a dime and... well, still catches the spear across his back 8'| but it certainly isn't more then a surface cut and certainly isn't gonna slow him down]

[So yes... using his momentum, ducking and moving to... grab Sei by the knee?]

[kalahiki]

[The problem with that is Sei spent his formative years trying to survive as a hooker and then the time after that punching gods in the face. He survived by sheer force of 'fuck you i'm a shark'.

So sure, grab his knee. Sei'll just try to elbow you in the eyeball.]

[provocate]

[...ow well that's annoying??? Jerks away, hissing at him, but... he doesn't let go]

[In fact he'll jerk hard enough away that he can stand and... drag Sei with him, lifting him sorta effortlessly... Luckily he doesn't really need his eye to know where the ground is and]

[smash Sei into it 8'|]

[kalahiki]

[Ow son of a bitch let me diaharan myself sweet heals come to me

and maybe I'll just sweep your legs out from under you while I'm down here.]

[provocate]

[WOW CHEATER???]

[But no great success he hits the ground... but this happens a lot when he's fighting his kismesprit so lkajsdf this next move here is kinda... half instinctual, where his hand darts out to catch Sei... by the band of his pants and yank him closer. Gonna straddle your back if he gets you close enough bro lakjsdlfkjjk 8'|]

[kalahiki]

[That gets him to kick out hard, lashing out with a lot more violence all of a sudden--and summon his persona again to slash at you. tempest slash, to be exact!

...how does a shark slash something, anyway?]

[provocate]

[...idk idk I have no idea how personas even work tbh lskdfjlsdjf]

[BUT UH... YES, here is... a distinctly inhuman sound, this raggedy angry hiss as he gets caught off guard, but he recoils away from them both, retreating a few steps to clutch sorta uselessly at his chest. Ow... ow ow ow... ow]

[kalahiki]

[...stops.]

...You bleed purple?

[Okay wow hang on I need to stare at this have a diaharan.]

journals are hard apparently lskdfj

[provocate]

Of course I-- [LKJSDLKFJ??? Makes a sort of alarmed sound instead of finishing that, staring at his hand and his... chest... WH... AT... JUST... HAPPENED... Sorry Sei he comes from troll land where magic doesn't happen so this Suddenly Healing!!! thing has kinda blanked him out for a second ffff]

it's okay i still love you

[kalahiki]

...Are you alright? That should have closed it fully.

huu o///o

[provocate]

I... [Taps... his chest a couple times... and then unbuttons his shirt LKJSDLFJ so he can actually run his hand over where the cut was... And uh... he's got... scars... errywhere... across his front... btw...]

[But once he's satisfied that it is indeed gone, he moves to button everything back up, squinting at Sei a little bit]

What did you do...

<3

[kalahiki]

It's something my persona--that giant shark--can do. It's not even really the best for that, but it'll do in a pinch.

[He just fully healed-without even a scar or anything left that it was there--a deep chest slash and it wasn't that powerful.

welp. Also of note, Sei doesn't seem really bothered by the scars? Although he was eying them.]

<3 <3 <3!!!

[provocate]

[...welp. Yeah this is a pretty incredulous look here. Oh okay not the best for-- shut the fuck up Sei]

[But then he's just... smoothing his jacket out now that he's got it closed again, and humming curiously. Didn't mind the eyeing at all ('8]

What are its limits then, my dear?

[kalahiki]

I can't bring back the dead, and it doesn't work on someone who's so injured they can't fight. I can sort of get someone back on their feet, but they'll still be pretty hurt. It also won't cure any poison or other...effects on someone, and it only heals one person at a time.

I know people who can cure a whole group of people of everything and restore their health all at once with their persona. I'm just not the sort of person who's that much of a healer.

[provocate]

[..........jesus christ humans??? Where do they even come up with this shit good lord]

Seems rather useful to me, darling, even if it's not the best thing out there... [Laughs a little and idly wanders a step closer to him] What else can your beast do?

[kalahiki]

That ice was him. [Smirking.] And that cut. He's a manifestation of my own soul, so he makes me stronger and faster.

[persona users, man. just wait until you meet one of the asura.]

[provocate]

[kjad Sei stop smirking honestly it makes him want to slap you. But yes, this whole... little aliens with weird powers is sort of fascinating to him the more he hears about it]

[Kinda... eyeing him... and teasing: ]

So you were cheating, my dear?

[kalahiki]

'Cheating' assumes there were any rules to begin with.

He is part of me, all his powers are mine.

[provocate]

I suppose~ [Cackles, sidling up beside him as he talks] It still seems rather dishonest to me though.