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[OPEN] IT'S THE PARTY ZONE

Who: Everyone on East Island (willingly or not)
What: It’s the Taaco twins’ birthday party, and they own an entire island now.
Where: East Island
When: 7/6-7/8
Warnings: Drugs and alcohol are a definite, as well as lots of screaming, maybe some fighting, and a dumb amount of expended spell slots.

The morning of the 6th opens with a well deserved racket.

Those living (or travelling) to East Island will find the place transformed seemingly overnight- every standing structure has streamers and bits of confetti and glitter line the walkways between destinations. One of the Love houses has been taken over and decked with food and drink, and different tables of snacks and refreshers are scattered throughout the island so no one has to travel too far for more food or booze. The Orchard, while full of fruits, has been designated The Weed Zone (with a lovely scripted sign nailed to one of the trees), and if you ask around, you can probably find some rolled and ready. And finally, the twins have taken the area around the Watchtower as their personal hideout, with signs and arrows pointing there as a place to leave gifts and tribute.

It’s the party of the year, suckers. And you’re all invited.

[ooc: this is a mingle log! Post toplevels for your characters, party on, do something dumb and have a good time!]

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[Hey, fuckin' rude, gosh.]

Yeah, I mean, not that I give a shit what they mean to you but were your parents not big fuckoff fire whatevers? Like just normal ass humans except their kid could burst into flames? Cuz like, holy shit, what a thing to find out and prrrrobably the hard way.

[With arson. Like how Lup did when she learned that spell. It was greeeeeat.]

Sunai monsters are created, not born, and there's only three of us, so not really a big litmus test for what normal means for us. I'd give you the specific details on how it all happens, but they're depressing, and you won't want to be bummed out on your birthday.

[Basically, there's a gigantic tragedy that includes lots of death, suicide, and destruction that upsets the balance of good and evil. Not fun to recall at all and hence why Sunai monsters don't celebrate birthdays.]

[Sunai monsters, huh? Forget beautiful rings, the twins definitely have a new interest in this man.

Lup finally untangles from her brother's side so she can step forward, circling around Leo, very purposely giving him a long look up and down. Besides the obvious, he looks so normal.]

Alright. So I have like, at least fourteen questions...

[Wow, Leo really made the perfect storm of getting these two to give a shit. Get 'em talking with gifts and then tempt them with magic they don't understand. What a one two punch.

Taako moves the opposite of Lup, also walking around him in the other direction, he and Lup crossing behind his back.]

Uh, make that like 27 and let me check this biz, okay. You gotta teach me how to do that.

[Fuckin' transmutation wizards, amirite? But he wants to part time as a cool fire monster, what the fuck.]

[He's distinctly starting to feel like a seal with two sharks swimming around him as the twins circle him. Is it a good thing he now has their attention?]

I can try to answer, but there's no guarantee they'll be good ones.

[He turns his head, trying to keep them both in sight.]

Wait, teach you how to become a monster? Not sure that's something that can-- [He whips his head around to the other side.] --be taught.

[Could be good, could be bad. It's really up to how this all plays out. The twins are notorious for playing the game to their own advantage, however that works.

They circle him, perfect mirror images of one another in their movements, Lup's finger tapping out a curious beat on her pointed chin.]

You'd be surprised how easy it is to become a monster. [Look. It all goes down to definition.]

What I really wanna hear about is your whole magic deal. How it works, where it's from, how you control it. Is it a spell you cast to shift between forms? Or is it just a transformation you can tap into anytime?

[Yeah Leo, don't worry, it'll all end up okay as long as they get what they want.

Though uh, that might be complicated.]

I mean, I could become a monster anytime I want, I meant more like incorporeal being of fire. It's rad as hell.

[He snaps his fingers as Lup picks up, like he's thought of something he just has to add.]

Yeah, is it purely an innate thing or can you cast it, like-- is it only racial? If you know it because you're a big fire demon, sure, but can other people learn it in other ways? Also we're deffo gonna need a rundown of all the cool shit you can do, stat.

More like a transformation. It's like my other form is hidden just out of sight and I just think about it and then the human looking one burns away. Not really sure if that counts as magic or not since it's all instinctive. The entire time I'm transformed it sort of feels like I'm falling and changing back is when I hit the ground.

[Why is he telling them all this? Next thing, they'll want him to actually transform, and that be one hell of an addition to the party, a ravenously hungry demonic-looking Sunai monster. Hope they don't mind anyone possibly having their souls eaten.]

The whole list of powers? We'll be here a while. [He's not joking. Sunai monsters are ridiculously overpowered critters. It's like whatever made them decided them needed to be as efficient at killing and indestructible as possible.]

Damn, son. That's choice as hell.

[Leo, naturally, is catching on quickly to their bullshit. Talk about your transformation all that you want, but the twins are gonna want to see it and soon. The transformation part though, about it just being his other form hidden out of sight, feels similar to Lup's lichness. Always there, like some kind of shadow trailing after her, ready to pop up whenever her physical body fails.]

S'fine with me. Wanna pull up a chair and come sit around our throne with us? Cuz we have all the time in the world. [Share a joint with them, get some stories out. It's all chill here in the Party Zone.]

Damn, dude.

[Yeah, this is all they want to talk about ever again. That's it, game over, do not pass go until they've engaged in some freaky monster shit.]

So do you control it when it happens? Is it like a werewolf thing? Or do you just fantasy hulk out and murder a bunch of peeps? Cuz uh no killing us on our birthday, that's party law.

[Even if he does deffo wanna see whatever cool monster form he's got in there.]

But y'know, don't skimp on the details.

Might as well.

[He doubts he's going to get away from these two weirdos anytime soon, and against all odds, Leo's kind of starting to like them. So yes, he will pull up a chair, and stay a while.]

I think killing you two might put a damper on the party.

[He says this in a bone dry tone. To say the least.]

There's two things that go into it: how hungry I am and whether I want it to happen. If I get hungry enough, it just happens whether I want it to or not, and keeps on going until I'm not hungry anymore, which is usually about a dozen bodies later. And I'm the weak one of my siblings, so take that as you will. [His sister is one step away from crazy at all times and can take out two hundred people when she shifts.] If I want it to happen, that's a bit easier, and I can change back faster. I used to use that out on patrol when things would get bad.

[Weirdos?? Excuse you, smoke monster.]

True dat.

[But for whatever reason, Leo actually gives them the information they are asking for, Lup leaning into her twin while the man speaks, one hand reaching down to twine their fingers together, her whole body tilted forward in obvious interest.]

So when you say 'hungry' you mean..?

[Uhm they're weirdo professionals thanks. But Taako watches with intent, mind already puzzling through scenarios and use cases. He takes Lup's hand without even looking, eyes fixed on Leo.]

So do you like, eat people whole? Do you need like, the meat or is it like a lifeforce thing? Cuz I kinda feel like if it was an organs thing there's like, way easier ways of doing that. Super simple to get somebody's kidney or whatever.

[There's the bizarre impression that he's talking to some two-headed snake for a brief moment as they both lean forward.]

No, I don't eat the actual body. Just the lifeforce that makes up the soul. It's all glowing when I take it, but I can filter out who I can eat versus who I can't just by looking at a person.

[He looks at the two of them intently for a moment.]

Would you like to know if you're sinners or not?

Yikes. [Leo says it so damn casually, but that's a pretty horrifying thing to reveal. Somehow Lup would be so much more okay with the man swallowing down bodies whole than fucking with other people's souls.

But then he's looking at them and then comes the question. Lup's eyes slide to her twin without pause, one eyebrow arching upwards.]

Pretty sure we already know the answer to that, right, 'Ko?

[He's already looking her way, an eyebrow arched in turn, having turned his head once Leo spoke up at all. Well that's hardly even a question, huh? You might as well have asked them if they were elves.]

Uhh yeah. I think it'd be easier to list the good shit we've done than the bad stuff.

[But now he's kinda curious how bright his soul is. If he's in it he wants to be the winner of it.]

Can you tell like, how much without the whole vore experience? Not gonna lie, kinda curious if I'm the worst you've seen.

Nope. It's just an is or isn't experience just by looking. I could get you to start talking specific details, but I'd need an instrument for that.

[Of course, in that case, they'd be here all day...possibly all week if they really wanted to list it all.]

But I highly doubt you're the worst I've ever seen.

[He's eaten some pretty bad souls in his time. Serial killers, unrepentant rapists, people who had killed another over a can of food. Lovely.]

[Huh. Well, hard to say no to a deal like that. Lup's not even sure how much of a soul she has to read, all fused with raw arcane magics, death's hand always lingering right there at her shoulder. It shouldn't take much to see she's a lich.

But Taako on the other hand-....]

Fine. [She'll just speak up for her twin and agree to it for him.] Do your worst, shadow man.

[As much as Taako pretends to be an asshole, he's absolutely not on that kind of level. He's a jerk, sure, but still a jerk that saves kids and rescues entire planets. At his worst, he's mid-tier. But you won't catch him admitting that out loud.]

Yeah, c'mon, scan me! Do your weird magic, just don't mess the outfit, 'kay?

[Taako's at least the easier one of the two, having a pretty regular soul, albiet one that's died somewhere from 20-25 times. Good luck if that shows up on the radar.]

Alright. You did ask for it.

[He looks at Taako first. His shadow moves differently than a normal person's would. Leo knows what that means.]

I see a sinful soul on you. Not quite sure what you did other than it was one of the big ones people don't come back from.

[He turns to Lup and there's a moment's pause where he frowns.]

Have you had your soul yanked out before or something? It looks strange. Still sinful, I mean, but kind of loose, like it's not sticking where it should.

[Oh my god, Leo, you can't just call them sinful.

This is clearly a very serious affair and really the state of their souls should be taken with a less lightly, but the moment she hears that assessment, Lup is right back to laughing, one arm wrapped around her twin's middle while she throws her head back and cackles.]

Sinful! Holy shit, we sound like we're dark chocolate or somethin'. Sinfully delicious, that's us.

[Still, the man isn't wrong by any means.] Mmm, I'm a lich so like, for sure. Ripped that shit out years ago.

[Taako also looks like he's on the edge of bursting when Lup loses it, and he goes in turn.]

So what, you don't know like, what? Was it all the murder? I bet it was all the murder. I have killed a lot of people.

[And he certainly seems unrepentant about all that, whoops. He jabs a finger towards Lup as she offers an explanation for her displayed weirdness.]

Yeah, she's basically like, a spooky ghost playing her body like a bad puppet, but whatever, we make it work right? Or I mean, she does, I'm not a dumbass who does that shit.

Oh yeah, it was definitely all the murder. Can't get away with stuff like that and not darken a soul permanently.

[See that face? He is definitely judging you two internally. Usually is about the point he'd start in with one of his rants about the sinners of the world, but they get spared that because, well, Leo's actually started to like them during the course of this conversation.]

How do you even do and not, like, die?

[It's pretty fatal in Leo's world to remove a soul, so he's a bit surprised that doesn't happen in other worlds. Though ripping it out does seem to have had some consequence already.]

Whoops, guess we aren't going to fantasy heaven or whatever.

[Like either of them have ever cared about any of that stuff.]

If you want specifics, we can chitchat without my brother - [Lup twists a little closer to Leo, throwing up a hand to her mouth to stage whisper at him at just the perfect volume where Taako can still hear her every word.] - It makes him a lil' queasy. [She grins and twists back up into her original stance, right back at her previous volume.] But tl;dr, it took years of research and a super hot necromancer to make it happen.

[Sorry Leo, the twins are allergic to feeling bad about their actions. It's serious, actually, so. Fight them right here.

But Lup continues and Taako just scoffs, rolling his eyes.]

Oh, queasy, yeah, sure. I was there, dumbass. What did you think that was, a fun day at the park? Just a little side trip to become an undead skeleton? Honestly.

[He readdresses Leo, kind of feeling like he can get the other man on his side in all this.]

Listen, I may have murdered a bunch of people over the years, but I have limits. At least I'm not dumb enough to yeet my soul straight into the plane of magic and then use my first ever action to dab.

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