[RP] The Inn of Peace - IoP (Open to all)

[Gren_Eckener]

"I'm as okay as I can be." he groaned. "Violet's drawing stuff from King's future. By coincidence."

He shook his head, crowning her piece. "I don't mind my place...it's what I'm best at, after all." He looked over the board with a a somewhat hopeless smile. "I'm definitely going to lose." he said, moving a piece.  

[Astra_Senpai]

Kyou nodded, "I am very serious. If someone else could see them, perhaps I could identify them easier. It would be nice to share seeing them with someone.."

A crash and WHUMP from the kitchen. Honey laughing loudly. Licking her lips, picking up the pieces of exploded paper, "Pow'ered suga'! Lord abo'e!"

Kiran nodded, "I d-d-do w-w-on-nd-der h-how... i-if i-it w-will w-work. I a-am c-cert-tain-nl-ly h-hop-pef-ful."  

[Azana Brown]

"As long as you're not giving up," Marilyn grinned, jumping another of his. She didn't want him quitting, but at the same time...yes, she had this in the bag by now.

"No such thing," Azana muttered, now understanding Sosol's reaction. He was the best person to talk her down right now. If she was seeing things, he could relate. If she wasn't, he could let her know how it happened...if she let him. "Well, I should probably get suited up and join the fray before long...fashionably late doesn't really apply to gang wars."

"Then consider it built, if it is at all possible," Tyler smirked. "I haven't had a good challenge in a little while."

Violet sat on her bed, curled in a ball as she tried her best to explain her drawing fits. "I just...I get inspired, and I have to draw it. It's like...like a compulsion. My therapist gave me that word a while ago. I...I didn't know. I had no idea I was--"

"You didn't have any way of knowing," Sosol frowned, rubbing her shoulder lightly. "No one double-checked your work. However...if you'd let me, I can double check now. I can see how you're doing this, if you want to know."

"Y-you mean..." She held a hand to her head before looking away. "You don't want to be in there..."

"I saw some of what happened already," Sosol confessed, frowning. "It's how we found you...when I shook Ernie's hand, I saw the ones who had died, and I saw you. I just didn't know it yet. I can handle it."

"..." Violet nodded, removing her bracelet and setting it aside. "O-okay...I...I...I can do this...right?"  

[Gren_Eckener]

"Well, no, I can't do that! Felix said that'd make me a sore loser." he pouted, moving a piece in defense. "That's against the rules."

Remy sighed, nodding. "Yeah...my problem can wait, this one can't. Want me to come with?"  

[Astra_Senpai]

Kyou smiled, "Wonderful! Where to begin on a project as such?"

Kiran would nod, turning back to his work... what was up with all these teacups.

Honey came out of the kitchen, looking like a ghost and toting a massive amount of fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Whether or not it was asked for Honey proceeded to give every person in the room a sandwich. Even Remy because she didn't want him to feel left out. Flopping on a couch, a poof of white sugar fluffing around her, with the extras as those people had disappeared Honey began to eat.

Kiran stared at his as if it was some mysterious treasure.
Kyou's eyes went wide and the sandwich was bitten into before even a question of what it was exactly.  

[Azana Brown]

"Well, this'll certainly keep me going a while," Azana said, suddenly having a sandwich thrust upon her. "I can send a couple of those upstairs, Honey...I've gotta change anyway. Remy, I'm sure the Von Helsons wouldn't turn down your help."

"Research, usually," Tyler answered, letting some code compile. "I need to analyze a mushi, find out if there's anything I can isolate to make it visible. After I'm finished with this program, we can begin." He was back into the swing of things...and it felt pretty good.

Sosol leaned forward, resting his head on hers as he began to peer into her mind. He tried to keep it as non-invasive as possible, for her own sake and in order not to be shoved out.

Violet twitched...she had never felt quite like this before. It was weird, but not unpleasant. Such a deep connection...

"I should meet your Felix some time...he sounds like a good influence on you," Marilyn said, pushing in for the final few jumps...  

[Gren_Eckener]

"All right...but hey, I'm askin' if you need it, not them. It's better to go in teams."

Malachai beamed, sitting up. Felix was a great thing to talk about! "He's tall and handsome and really nice, with a long white tail and sharp, sharp fangs!"  

[Astra_Senpai]

Honey, hopped up, handed the stacked plate to Azana and returned to the couch. She'd left a white footprints everywhere. "T'ank 'ou, Lo'e. I's no goo' to le' t'is ge' 'oo co'd."

"Would the dormant mushi work? If it does not I have many captured in my room. Or you can use the.. materia to draw them."

Kiran set the sandwich down, picked it back up, set it down again. He stared at it, then his gloves. He removed his gloves and winced, looking over the still tattered flesh, ears drooping. Someone sounded horribly nervous... maybe it was just him. He picked up the sandwich and took a huge bite from it. The red tufts of his ears flared and bristled. He mmm'd almost too loudly.  

[Azana Brown]

"...busted," Azana chuckled, plate in hand. "Sure...wear something you don't mind getting dirty." With that, she headed upstairs to deliver the snacks and get ready to go. Sol could always join up with them later.

"I would prefer exposure to multiple mushi, if possible," Tyler answered her, glancing to the screen momentarily. "The larger sample I have, the more likely whatever I build will be to catch most mushi in its gaze."

Oh, she had hit a sweet spot...Malachai loved to talk about Felix. "A white tail and fangs, you say...? Why would he have those?"

Sosol flinched, treading lightly as he searched. Even with as open as she had been so far, she was guarded, honestly afraid of whatever lay inside. I'm here with you, Violet. I have years of experience doing this...you can rely on me.

I-I know... came the timid reply, a vague sensation of the girl nearby. I just...I'm afraid...I don't know what's here...

Nothing but you. Anything you see is you. You create this place.  

[Gren_Eckener]

"You mean like all of my clothes?" he chuckled, picking up his portfolio and heading up the stairs after. "I'll tell Max and drop this off and we're golden."

"He's part cat." he nodded, tail perky. "Somehow. Because he's also part human, but this happens in his family? I don't know how it works. But he's really tall, and very strong, and very very patient."  

[Azana Brown]

"Your choice," Azana said over her shoulder before making her way to Violet's room. The door was still cracked, and she could see her husband in the midst of a trance. Quietly, she crept inside and left the sandwiches on the table before going to change.

"Human...and cat..." Marilyn hummed. She had heard of them, but never met one herself. "You seem very happy with him...I hope it's mutual."

I...create this place... Violet repeated, the presence beginning to solidify near Sosol. I create this place. I create... The previously dark and shaded space erupted into a meadow of violets, and a small smile twitched onto Violet's face.

Well, that's a lot better, Sosol smiled, looking around. Now, perhaps, we can move forward together...make us a path to what you want to know.  

[Astra_Senpai]

Honey watched Kiran for a few moments. Getting up, she made hot tea and flopped down at the table with him.
Kiran, fully invested in his sandwich looked at the hot tea with delight and sipped at it.
They both sat quietly eating. Honey swinging her powdery legs and Kiran finding peanut butter a fascinatingly difficult thing to chew.

Kyou nodded, mouth still very much full of sandwich, "I have.. eleven in my room but I can catch you more if you need them. I would only need a day or so. Though it would depend on if you wished for aggressive or passive mushi. Some are much easier to catch than others.."

Tamriel opened her door and leaned against the wall. Listening to those downstairs and in the halls, she worried at a small pendant.  

[Gren_Eckener]

"Of course!" Malachai beamed, glancing over to the table nearby, eyes widening at the sandwich. He slowly reached out and took his own, gingerly eating. "um~"

Remy slipped into his room, setting the portfolio onto the bed as he looked around the room. There were more, tacked on on the walls, plans laid out, information from Abigail and the locations of the skulls they'd collected, notes on Kaoru...a lot of things that didn't make sense yet. He sighed, closing the door and getting to Max's room. "Hey, babe? I'm gonna go an' fight with Az for this Halloween hoopla, okay?"  

[Azana Brown]

Marilyn took up her own as well, shaking her head at Honey's current sweetness. Now covered in powdered sugar, she was probably giving JIM a run for its money. She made a move, waiting on Malachai. Hopefully they could finish this...she was more interested in the conversation now.

There was no response from Max's room, and no tell-tale music to suggest she was even there.

The violet parted into an amusing yellow brick road, though Violet herself looked nothing like Dorothy. Shorter skirts weren't really her thing. Her steps were shaky, but Sosol followed her all the same. He understood the courage required to look within oneself, and he promised to be patient, even if he was dying to find out for himself.

"That's certainly a good enough start," Tyler nodded, typing the last of the edited code. He's still have to test and tweak, sure, but the lion's share would be done. "I just hope they show up on the scans..."

Azana looked herself over in the mirror. There was a reason she didn't wear orange often, and that was because she was wearing it now. Garb gifted from the king of Halloween himself over the past years...not without massive tributes of candy, but it still made for the best attire she could think of. Using Jack's gifts to fight mayhem that she still believed, somewhere, somehow, he nudged into being. This year, she would be taking on dark elves. Bringing a blade was impractical; they were adept with swords. Slashes and sparks it would be...  

[Gren_Eckener]

Zippo and Fee romped after Honey, leaping up in tandem and licking her face. Sugar snow!

Remy hummed, sniffing the air. Was she out, or just asleep?

Malachai seemed satisfied to lose as long as he had a sandwich, moving his last piece.