It's like the fun never ends.

[mansionstaff]

Who: Errybody
What: HOT SPRINGS: HOTEL EDITION
Where: The hot springs RESORT.
When: March 25th - March 29th
Warnings: Hotel shenanigans.

After a relatively normal bus ride, you find yourself at a secluded mountain resort.



The hotel is all-inclusive, with every manner of amenities and activities (skewed toward the relaxing--with saunas and spas and hot tubs aplenty) to keep one occupied for a full five days. Time for some much needed R & R.

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!

((OOC: This log is for all interactions taking place in the hotel. Event info is here! Please remember to note location/time in your top level comments, and link back and forth when you threadhop! Spring shenanigans go here, and please don't hesitate to contact a mod if you have any questions. Don't forget to TAG YOUR DUDES.))

DIRECTORY:
| Banjo | Blaze | Chili | Cyrus | Daisy | Eirika | Eggman | Ellistree | Girls' Sleepover | Goombella | Gordon | Green | Haytham | Ishimaru | Jin | Jolt | Lucca | Lyra | Mac | Mary | Naoya | Noel | Nyx | Pit | Red | Rick | Riwane | ROB | Schezo | Shadow |

Comments

[caincarnate]

"Hmph. Good for you." Sarcasm, of course. Naoya scanned him up and down, a sour look in his eyes. Even if the kid appeared happy-go-lucky, any practitioner of the dark arts, no matter how inexperienced, was still potentially dangerous. It would be unwise to underestimate him just for his youth and attitude.

All the same, Naoya had no willingness to indulge the kid on his curiosity whatsoever. "Regardless, it's none of your business."

[cruelcurse]

That was strange. He didn't want to tell him? Curious as he was, he could understand: some people just behaved this way. "Well, alright~ If you insist. I won't try to bother you about your curse if you wanna keep it."

That's just the way he thought of it. Most everyone else he met with came to him because they either wanted a curse set on somebody or needed a curse dispelled. He'd met plenty of people who needed a curse dispelled at sometime or another. "Still, I'm gonna keep being curious. I can't help its alluring power~"

[caincarnate]

"As a matter of fact, I do want to keep it," Naoya replied with a wry grin. "It has its uses."

The Mark of Cain did afford him some form of protection. And as torturous as his eternity could be, it was also instrumental in giving him the time and knowledge to fulfil his ultimate goals. No matter what happened, he'd just have to keep trying, over and over, through countless lifetimes.

Though truthfully, he had no idea what would happen if it was dispelled. Would he die on the spot? Or live out the rest of this life? No doubt his soul was destined for Hell, that much he was certain.

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone about it - but I have a feeling that's too much to ask." This dark mage didn't seem like the discrete type, somehow.

[cruelcurse]

Henry made a motion, as though he were sealing his lips shut. "Mmmhmm!" Then, he dropped his hand. "Sure thing! I won't tell a soul, not anybody. Living or dead or even the undead," he promised. Whether Naoya believed him or not, he meant it, and Henry wasn't the type to go back on his word, nor was he the type to lie.

"It's pretty rare, y'know? To find somebody content with their curse," commented the Plegian mage with a smile. "Usually they'd jump at the opportunity to free themselves of it. Is there anything so bad about a little hex here and there? Hee hee, I don't think so~"

[caincarnate]

Earnest as Henry sounded, Naoya wasn't in the habit of taking people at their word simply because they said so. It might have been true that the kid had yet to lie to him, but that didn't mean he was good at keeping the truth out of the reach of others' either. That meant, he supposed with some ire, that he'd have to keep an eye on him...

Sternly, Naoya told him, "I don't suggest trying your luck by giving me any add-ons." There was definitely a threat somewhere in the statement, and after a beat he asked, "...Your name. What is it?"

[cruelcurse]

"I'm Henry. Nice to meet you~" he chirped. Add-ons... well, he could try to avoid placing any hexes on him, at least for this guy. He was already dealing with something pretty big, right? But still, he didn't offer the threat much thought and just swept it aside in their conversation.

[caincarnate]

Hmph. Well, considering Henry's eternally cheery attitude, it was a long shot to keep trying to intimidate him. Resigned, he turned his attention back towards his laptop, doing his best to ignore the boy - but not before he gave his own name, with a dry, less-than-delighted tone. "...Naoya. A pleasure."

[cruelcurse]

So now that they got the subject of that curse out of the way (which Henry was still dying to know about the nature of its extremity and the like), Henry figured it was as good a time as any to resume regular conversation. What regular entailed, one could never be sure.

"So, Naoya, are you somebody from Smash Academy?" Well, it was only polite to ask! "I'm going to be a student there."

[caincarnate]

"Yes." Naoya had returned to typing code now. As far as generic introductory questions go, this was easy and straightforward enough to answer while only paying Henry half a mind. "I'm the IT technician and programming teacher."

[cruelcurse]

Henry laughed. "I don't even know what those things are," he said, amused by the foreign words. "What do you do with those things? Programming, like schedules? You've lost me."

Yeah, the word programming as applied to technology was not something he considered. That wouldn't make any sense.