[ Someone has been hitting the eggnog pretty hard. In her defense, she didn't realize there was rum in it and... still doesn't if the cup she's carrying around (dribbling around) is any indication.

If you thought she was a little bit of a pest on a regular day... She's a very friendly drunk now. Pink-cheeked and loud, she will be trawling the Gardens for people to pester (for attention.)]


[[ooc; Open for mistletoe shenanigans too, she's likely to try kissing someone regardless. I am also a super duper slowbro, so backtagging is a thing.]

[video]

[Opera hasn't shown up too much, but she decides to make an appearance today, looking a little less than pristine-she's sopping wet-and greatly annoyed.]

These "wild places" don't do anything to be warned about. It's just a-

[Her face twists, softens, and her tone does as well.]

It was kind of exciting to see it.

[Her eyes widen, and she looks down at herself, back to the snappish tone.]

That was not what I meant to say at all. I was trying to say that they weren't that spectacu-

[And again, with the change to softness.]

They're beautiful.

[She shakes her head, moving to end the post, but before she does, it can be heard:]

...What the hell?

[[ooc: Her wildcard is the inability to lie for 24 hours.]]

At the Tohno Mansion
[A certain someone had returned home, looking a little disoriented and a bit confused. After experiencing her first death in the gardens, she had admittedly stayed away for a short while, still a bit confused about the whole thing. That and she had to sort out her own feelings on certain things. Hopefully Akiha wouldn't mind too much that she was gone for a couple of days?

Whatever it was, she walked into the front door a little dirty but nothing worse than that. Maybe she could sneak in without being noticed.]


Video
...did I miss something? I feel like something important happened and I wasn't there for it. Or maybe I was...

I don't really know.

[She tilts her head, as if trying to recall something, probably something she had attempted to forget, but lingered there with a sense of detachment. Suddenly, excitement pops back into her eyes.]

Aside from that, I'm feeling like something big! A big cake...the biggest one here. How do I get someone to make that?

[[ooc; Viv has switched with drinkswithminors]]

[There's nothing pleasant about Akira Satou's expression today. In fact, she looks as if she may be a bit nauseous; feeling dizzy and irritable for a reason she doesn't quite understand. Hands go into her hair, pulling and mussing.

She gives a frustrated little growl.]

Why am I so heavy?

[She jerks, as if her muscles have twitched against her will, arms wrapping around herself.]

I can't breathe like this.

[ Vivi is looking... unusually sedate. She's on the ground, both feet, her hands folded neatly behind her back. She's standing in front of the Abbey, admiring it's architecture... or something?

When she speaks it's calm and quiet. ]

Opera, what do you think about staying in here? It looks sturdy and spacious, there's a number of good points to scout from.

[ She starts motioning to the high roof. ]

I had been camping out, but maybe it's time we picked a headquarters.

[ Wow... Someone has been hitting the Earl Grey's, hard. ]

As for everyone else, I hope you're doing well after that tough fight. You all need to get back to training, the whole thing was a disgrace.

[Somehow, Alessa has made her way to the new cafe, and is now sitting in her wheelchair at an out-of-the-way table, a half-eaten cupcake in front of her. Unusually, she's feeling serene and unafraid- to the point that she's even checking out the other patrons and even smiling shyly at some of them. Truly, this is a magical place.]

[So! Lambda has been thinking over her plan to socialize with others for a while now. And in the absence of more gatherings along the lines of the beach party that happened a while back, she has had to determine the best way to initiate such contact herself. Now, after so much pondering, what has she decided on?]

[She has decided she is going to approach people at random and try to hold conversations with them.]

[It doesn't matter where you are, what you are doing, or whether or not she knows you. Today... Today, you are going to be approached by a robot. A socially awkward one.]

...Hello.

[You cannot escape.]

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[When the Vine unfolds, it reveals a young woman standing there, hands folded behind her back, several scrolls in a neat stack on the grass next to her. Were it not for the blue hair and the lack of piercings, it would be entirely possible to mistake her for someone else. She is composed for now, a politely neutral expression on her face.]

This is Opera, checking in, and if possible requesting clarification on the current situation. Though these scrolls tell you much, there are some points that remain cryptic.

If this is some form of illusion immersion that is someone's idea of a joke, it's cute, but please cut it out.

[A vine would pop up and in the mirror was a white haired woman holding what remained of a sword. She had already changed into a white tunic with some armor that liked like it had seen much better days.]

This place reminds me far too much of Ionia. I should find my way back before they try to summon me back. With those summoners it is far more likely that they will summon another being from the Void.

[The woman sighed as she ran her hand across the remains of her sword which glowed green slightly at her touch]

I am fortunate I still have my blade. Though I wonder why whoever brought me here changed my clothes in the first place.

[So. Here's a pink-haired teenager fiddling with the vine, like she's setting up a camera to record and that's probably how she thinks about it. She does a poor job of acknowledging the reality of this place, still half-convinced she's on a training exercise for school. When she's satisfied that she'll stay in shot while she talks, she beings to.]

Hi! My name is Pegasus, student identification number 35854, senior student, and this is, uhm... you know. Sky-fighting 101.

[Her feet leave the ground, floating in midair.]

Your best friend when you're doing the up-up-and-away is definitely gravity. The higher you can get, the more momentum you can build on a drop. When you're fighting douchebags on the ground, it's super easy to just, you know, squish their heads! [She disappears off to the side briefly, dragging a pumpkin into shot.] Like so!

[She displays a medium sized rock before she heads upwards, everything still on camera for several minutes before that same rock comes absolutely screaming downwards, smashing into the vegetable and spraying its orange guts onto everything. Vivi reappears, grinning.]

It takes a while to learn how to aim and all that shit, but practice makes it way easier. I can hit shit from over 250 yards. [She takes a gun from a holster at her hip, it had taken her a while to find her clothes, but it had been amongst them. She twirls it deftly in her fingers several times before accidentally hitting herself in the face with it and scrabbling to catch it before it falls to the ground.] But we're not really fighting people on the ground because there's a giant pirate ship in the sky, I totally saw it and it's crawling with goonies. I'm pretty sure they can't fly though, so all you gotta do is toss 'em off into the sky, right? Gravity will do the rest. Gravity's a total bro-sis!

[She beams stupidly.]

So, like, grappling hooks would be awesome! Or, uhm, you know, harpoons. Harpoons would definitely be good!

Oh! And uhm. Don't use anybody you're carrying as a projectile? Unless they can fly. Or you're sure you can catch them. Or they're over water. Cause clouds are totally not actually pillows, people will just crash right through 'em and then they're dead. KER-SPLAT.

[...There is something morbid in glee right now...]

So, class. Uh. Any questions? Anybody want a demonstration? Cause I can totally demonstrate.

[She doesn't wait for an answer, still grinning that big ridiculous smile at she rolls into a complex set of drills, arms and legs lashing out in kicks and punches that whistle through the air, that damn gun of hers aimed expertly at invisible targets.]

P-P-Pirates?! I scoff at the very idea! Surely we are not so gullible as to be bought in by their ilk!

Tis a trap, I'll presume. No good can come from trusting a Pirate Queen.

[After Taokaka's last saliva-soaked adventure with the garden's many mirrors, the Kaka tribe;s finest warrior/goofball has take a much more subtle approach to addressing the her fellow ladies. Subtle for Tao being speaking through the mirror as if she was ordering fast food via a drive-through window]

Ok, I think I understand however things works here. Tao shouldn't lick the mirrors, try to eat the scary-monster-thingies, or play with the animals till their angry. But one things is still bothering me... What's a lesbian? All I know is that I can't eat it...

So can someone please explain this to me-w?

( Alessa awakens again )

[The Vine offers a new text to the residents. Unusually, the words aren't hand written, but singed into the parchment.]

Is this Paradise?

[So, you might have actually seen Vivi around the past few days. She got here and was actually kind of too excited to bother introducing herself... Only now has she come to poke at the vine to wonder,]

Isn't anybody going flying today? Come on it's all beautiful and stuff!

[She taps at the mirror insistently, and one might notice that her feet have lifted off the ground, her back arching so that her head and shoulders remain at relatively the same height, even as her butt goes ever higher.]

ANYBODY IN THERE?

[She grins and waves.]