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[MOD] Opening Mingle Post!

[You've woken up somewhere unexpected.

Maybe you don't realize it until you've looked out your window, since your apartment's the same, or poked your head out into the hallway. Maybe you've found yourself in a world you've never seen before - or else, one that looks just like home. But whatever the circumstances, it can't be denied: once again, someone's having a good laugh at your expense.

Should you venture into the lobby of a certain apartment complex, however, you'll find a banquet of breakfast treats laid out by unseen caterers. There's meats, eggs, pastries, rice, more pastries, yogurt, various juices, mimosas for those of age, still more pastries...

What can I say? Lots of you are Bakurae.

Enjoy the spread! But be careful. Four kinds of food spark a day-long event in your head.

Turkey sausage: Can't talk turkey! You're incapable of lying.
Cherry danish: Couldn't be sweeter! You'll crush on the first person you see after eating it.
Hot chocolate: Take it easy! You'll find yourself relaxing, taking life in stride.
Tabasco sauce: Fired up! You're full of energy and ready to explore.

Apparently you all aren't off the hook juuuuust yet.]

[[ooc: aaaand we're OPEN! Feel free to thread out mingling at the buffet in the comments below or posting for your characters anywhere within any of the various worlds. There's no set place where characters have to appear in the setting - if Amaryllis wanted to appear in Ancient Egypt, so be it, though there'll be a door nearby for those in branch worlds to return to the main one. This post is just for the buffet in the lobby, however, so if you want to start elsewhere just put up a post!

Please tag both entries you create and entries you comment into with the appropriate character tag. <3 I think I've created them for juuuust about everyone - and if I missed some of the later additions, everyone should have the ability to create tags.

LET'S DO THIS, PEOPLE.]]

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[Whoopsie! Do not look up, Candy. There's a boy just like you in nondescript wear and vague expression making a rather un-noticable pass behind you.

Sure, he's confused as anyone where he is. More so, given he was in the city of Madril last he checked. And Anzu's gone. And he's never seen a building like this. Or that much food-]

Forget the food, slave! You hear me? There's a GIRL over there!

[Oh, what could be so distracting about that, voice from nowhere?]

-ehh??

[She straightens in mid-munch; it wasn't the talk of "slaves" that got her, but rather a mention of a "girl".

She glances behind her, but isn't quite sure who just spoke out in protest....looking about for the subject, now.]

Ah - sorry...did I do something wrong???

[The voice draws a curious side look - and proper stare - from the fellow, but it doesn't stop his chewing of some sausage so much as slow it.

Making it obvious that he's not speaking. As his shadow shifts and bends and lifts into a shaded, wispy, bat-winged double.]

You tell us! Why do you look like my slave, huh? Is it some illusion spell?

[Wha--wha--

Her attention isn't really grabbed by anything until that shadow moves, at which point her Ring feels funny. Almost as if it twitched, antsy, and got a little warmer...

Though that could also just be Candy's imagination. I-is it just her, or has the whole place gotten a bit warmer? Which is funny, because aren't ghosts - she's friends with a ghost, they make things...cooler...

yeah, that's funny, hee.]

Th-that is so cool!!!!

[A look from said double, to the shadow, and back again.]

Sorry, I'll answer in a minute, I'm just a passing double, but --

H-how do you do that? Magic? You're really living in his shadow? Hi double!

[A wave to the Ryou but her attention is allllll on mister dark and mysterious spirit.]

Amazing.....

[Blink blink. Times two.

And that's all Moon Vine has to add to the occasion, but boy. Whatever this girl is, just listen to her! Which, Nightshade promptly doesn't, letting out a cackle.]

HA- You hear that? Now why can't you appreciate me like that, slave? And all the bidding I allow you to do for me, not a word of welcome. Fake or double or whatever, maybe I should trade you in!

[Except, well. That'd make direct possession awkward, but even if it's tempting. And he can at least enjoy ~~bloating up~~ answering her.]

Of course!! But, ha- you think using this kid's shadow's the end of my power? [That is, limit of his curse?] That's just for starters with the Great Evil King!

[-aaaaand, Moon Vine's back to eating.]

[What's with this guy? He's like the bad guys on TV...but....

Evil demons and monsters and things that possess people really exist this is so exciting. Candy stares up in flushed adoration, tongue-tied.]

I knew it...I knew it was all real. Ghosts and now - shadow demon - kings....

[She takes a step closer. G-gosh, she should...what does one say to....

She giggles and grins shyly.]

It's...all really interesting...

Huh? What, you some country kid that's lived under a rock? We're all over the place!! Ghosts, that is- Kings are rarer, and will be one of a kind before I'm done...

[His highness is a little too busy chuckling to himself to notice the "personal bubble" being invaded. Besides, really it's Moon Vine's bubble, so he's looking up. And pausing at the look on Candy's face where Nightshade doesn't.

-surely not...]

Oh - no - I know a ghost!! He's....really nice...

[She looks away almost guiltily for a moment but can't stay focused on Pac-Man for long. Not with ~his majesty~ here.

She shivers and grins.]

But y-you....you even give the little speeches....

[Oh gosh this is so embarrassing she can't have a gigglefit! Not here. Not like this!! Candy stuffs her mouth full of muffins to keep from completely losing it.]

[Come on, girl! Forget the kid more than used to crush-witnessing of crushes! There's a king riding high on your admiration! If, getting a bit baffled and missing the point.]

What? I'm just stating the facts! There's no point in speeches, not until we get rid of every last fake out there- Then I can do things like bask in my victory!!

[And, as the Evil King basks, Moon Vine is craning his head around the see-through shadow to inspect Candy. And pat a back if she needs it.]

[She nods vigorously, swallowing her mouthful of muffins.]

Right, right! Just like that! I-I'm sure....you're a wonderful king, and you'll emerge victorious...

But you have to be careful. The heroes' strength is always in numbers, and too few Dark Masters remember that.

Or....sorry, what am I saying? I don't have the right....

[She hangs her head, bright red. How could she start talking about Monster World with a real, live evil ghost? She is the biggest dork ever and she can't keep her mouth shut when she's excited.

Wh-why is she this excited.]

[Instant, utter confidence.]

HA! Like that would matter. And what makes those fakes qualify as heroes, huh? They're just incompetent! I'm the one that will make an army and-

[And. Hey wait, she took it back. Since when do his doubters do that?

Poor, already awkward girl, there's an evil king staring baffled at you. So, does it mean, he wonders why you're acting this way, to-]

What's a dark master? Hey, you said you don't know about real magic!

A-ah, I don't...it's a...

[She looks down at her feet and plays with the hem of her shirt, putting down her plate.]

It's a game. A-at my home. I guess double doesn't play it, huh.

You - pretend - to be this tyrant....and the heroes try to stop you....

But you're talking about something much realer and more important than that! I shouldn't compare.

[You made a cute girl miserable, Nightshade. Now apologize. ~~or gloat.~~]

[-actually, no. The nearby-to-Tenel resident doesn't get a lot of games, after all. He namely muses over books, himself. Or explores the area around town.

But like he gets to say that. Or help his double. The something-approach-fearsome ghost looks like a baffled kid, staring at Candy.]

Well, I'm not from any game! I might be that master if I were, though, because I'd smash those heroes trying to get in my way! Hmph, who decides the 'heroes' anyways...

[Come on, human. You things aren't supposed to turn that red!]

Well, it's - oh, rhetorical, haha...

[She scratches the back of her head and looks around. What to say. What to saaaayyyyy. (He looks so - almost human, like that....it's kind of charming.)]

Being the Dark Master is the most fun, though. Because you're always in charge of the story. You're the one who goes out and does things, and the heroes just react!

But. We don't have to talk about heroes, if you don't want to.

[-in the process of that, even if his slave had something of an intrigued look, Nightshade's was ruined but the wondering if that does lineup or not.

But, don't matter! It's just some game while he is THE MOST FEARED OF ALL KINGS.

Fact.]

Ha- good answer, she-slave! Now, why don't you tell me, are there any kings, or evil lower beings here, in need of attention?

Uh...um....

[There's her neighbor who looks like Yuugi-chan's super cool superheroine self from back home! But she doesn't think that counts, and besides, she wouldn't want them to fight. If he's even still here, since everything's so different now! (But her Monster World board is OK. She checked.)]

...I don't know that many people. I'm sorry.

But....you can h-hang out with me....until you find some....if you like.

And you too, double...

[She offers him a little smile, feeling bad that she's just been ignoring him this whole time. L-lucky double has such a cool shadow!]

HA- Why would I want to "hang out?" I won't get anywhere if I don't go out and hunt them down myself!!

[And yet. The silent Moon Vine finally clears his mouth of food and takes his eyes off his colorful double to look up. And talk.

With a voice not that different at all, save all quiet and flat.]

I'll still need a place to stay to rest. It doesn't look like we can get back the way we came, either.

[Oh, wordless, wavy sulk of a protest. Troublesome slaves, all of them...

But he still unwinds enough to make some loud pointing to Candy.]

Fine!! Then until I find the way back, or a king here to squash- While I'm here, you can serve me, too!

[SUCH PRIVILEGE HE BESTOWS.]

A-ah....is it okay?

[A worried glance at her double, since this is their ghost-shadow-demon-thing....but he doesn't seem to have much of an opinion about, well, much. So she'll bow, hoping her hair will hide the new blush on her cheeks.]

Th-then.....I'll do my best!! You - you can live - wherever you want! The rooms are....free.....

Your, uh. Majesty?

[If she's playing the role of the subject, she needs to get in character!]

[~~Who would react to this bellowing after so long-~~ That is, Moon Vine just gives a sympathetic sort of stare, as Nightshade gives an approving cackle.]

Good good! Not that it matters if I'm allowed here or not. I'd make this entire city mine if I wanted-!!

But- you-

[The 'shadow' bends in a way that should for all purposes make him fall over, save there he is staring in her face.]

You've got a shadow, and turn red- You have some other uses my original doesn't?

[She at least puts more thought into being evil than her double...]

[A-aah...

You wanted to see her turn red? Here you go.]

U-uh.....I don't know.....sir.

I can - cook, and clean, and - I'm good at crafts and things.

And t-tarot....I do t-tarot readings. Does that count as real magic? It slipped my mind....

Whaaaaat- My slave can do that stuff! And what, you think I need food or housekeeping?! I want someone who can fight better! Or cast spells! Or fetch me stuff-

[-wait. His likely so helpful tirade at the colorful girl (which, while an interesting reaction, isn't the awed terror he prefers) is bypassed by sudden curiosity.]

Huh? What's "tarot" supposed to be? Is that like some trick?

It's....fortune telling.

I can do it with the normal cards, or...

[She pulls out her Duel Monsters deck, which she barely even knows how to play with properly.]

I wrote up rules for using this one afternoon, too.

A-and I'm very good at, uh. Fetching!

[She wants to be useful! So she can stay close....So he can compliment her again.]

[What, like the woman with the glass ball back home? That's useless!! She's always just going on about vague random prattle that means nothing!

But this.

A glance at those cards, and Nightshade's all over them. Enjoy the close company, Candy.]

Saaaaaaaaay, these are just like some of the lower beings we've walked all over before!

You can make them tell me things? Come on! They were nothing to fight, I want to see them tell fortune!

-he's not ready yet. He's not ready- pff, I wanna know which one~

assuming she can hear nightshade??

ooooh, yes. No point to the evil king unheard!

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meanwhile her ring is mentally eyerolling

Wonder why- Nightshade isn't the Doofenshmirtz of Ring Spirits or anything.

He's poetry in motion.

>D~

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