existentialcrisis: (Statistically no one loves you.)
bunnylord phd, doctor of extremely good philosophy ([personal profile] existentialcrisis) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2016-11-20 12:06 am

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Who: Ukoku and friends (I'm sure they're friends)
What: luring people into his hell temple to do bad magic for bad reasons, nice conversations
When: some days
Where: aforementioned hell temple
Warnings: crows in a literal pie




[ The enchantment was a little too much. His fault, maybe, for being economical (see also "lazy") about it, but it doesn't really matter. It worked, and it's still working. The question, now that things have changed, is whether it's still useful.

But there's no benefit in being quick to throw away Ni Jianyi. So he shows up at the temple of Dionysus, not a priest (a not-like-the-other-old-guys professor, at best, with a hoodie over a dress shirt and his stupid yellow monkey hair tie wrapped around his wrist on top of an incongruously sober black watch), and knocks.
]




[ Generally, nothing she does really surprises Ukoku—but the text asking after his hangover (as if he had no experience handling them) came close. That was a week and a half ago. He's never expecting her, strictly speaking, but now, less than ever.

The temple has changed since she was last there. The boxes around the perimeter of the atrium are gone, as are the sigils—and the pool in the center. It's been replaced by a crater with sharp, curving edges.

Ukoku himself is out in his makeshift lab, behind the temple.
]



[ It's been days since the pool disappeared, and the most Ukoku has said about it—in passing—is that he made a mistake with some magic. Nothing to worry about! He's been busy, too, either out of the temple or in the greenhouse (which now has zero plants) when Guy's not, and he may or may not be inconspicuously checking whatever easy, boring lab work Guy chooses to do for him.

On this particular day, though, Ukoku actually makes a point to locate him as soon as he gets back to the temple.
]

Guy?
erogappa: (deadpan -- what)

[personal profile] erogappa 2016-12-12 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Notes? So there's stuff written on the rabbit if he unfolds it? Stuff like the previous dayglo letters and figures that were all over the house? Let's find out! ]

That a fancy word for ghost?
erogappa: (angry -- COCKROACH RAGE)

[personal profile] erogappa 2016-12-13 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Wha--?

[ For all that he's been straight-up accusing Ni of being a suspicious bastard, he didn't actually expect to be attacked. The cigarettes to the face take him off guard, and as Ni leans forward Gojyo pulls back, clutching the little origami rabbit to his chest purely on instinct.

At least, until his chair goes all the way back and he finds himself flat on the floor. Ow.
]

What the hell?!

[ He throws the rabbit at Ni (not that it goes far -- poor aerodynamics, Sho, -3 points), legs flailing as he kicks himself back up onto his feet. ]

What th'fuck is wrong with you?