sleepover sleepover SLEEPOVER

[phantasmagorial]

[ With the handful of new Executors awakening after the first batch, Rei's starting to get a little bit dithery. They're getting to be a big group now and while she's more than grateful for the help (and the company), she still finds herself worried about the group's cohesion. After all, Lion had admitted that he'd lashed out when he'd first awakened, Kingslayer and Pariah were at each other's throats and Iris wasn't even sure she wanted to be here at all.

Not that Rei could blame her.

But if they're going to be a team, then they at least need to be civil with each other. And getting in a bit of bonding before they have to go down and potentially double-die couldn't hurt.

So Rei borrows one of the hotel suites – a 'luxury' suite, according to the receptionist but to Rei's eyes, it just looks tacky as all get out. But it's big enough for the whole group and after spending an afternoon dragging in all the blankets she can find (and a few mattresses – thank god there aren't any other actual guests here to complain about her pillaging their rooms), Rei makes one final trip to the conbini to get... pretty much everything she can carry. Alcohol is right out (sorry, wine grandpa) but she brings back bulging bags of sodas, sweet drinks of all kinds and pretty much anything that looks made to be chugged. After that comes everything vaguely snack and candy-like in the store and a few things that might not actually be good to eat, and Rei feels confident in saying she's done.

She'd mentioned to a few of the others that she was having a bit of a get together that night, so all she can really do is wait for them to show up. She's in her pajamas, she's looked up sleepover games in the library and snacks, there's a TV mounted on the wall and she has... never held a sleepover before.

This is gonna turn out just fine. ]

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[discutio]

We should. Perhaps I've just a bit of a focus on the longer term rather than the moment at hand.

[schardynfreude]

Time and a place for it. We could easily spend all evening fretting over the children as two presumably reasonable presumable adults, but we could also spend it getting to know them and one another.

[discutio]

And ourselves, I would dare say.

[schardynfreude]

True enough! I suppose if one wanted, one could debate the idea of innate psychological and personality traits even when one is completely amnesic or if one becomes a different person with the addition of memory, but...seems a mood killer.

[discutio]

Contemplating the deeper meaning of whether we are who we were does indeed seem poor party chatter, indeed. Regardless, I do falter a bit for much of worth in a conversation.

[schardynfreude]

[He does not suggest that Rei may have been reaching a bit too far in the idea of throwing a party to get to know each other better when they don't know themselves at all.

But he's definitely thinking it.]

The typical icebreakers do seem to be off the table, and even idle chatter about the weather would be redundant. Though games could still be played. Movies to listen to. Food and drink to discover.

Trouble to get up to, I'm certain of it.

[discutio]

I do hope you've nothing too troublesome in mind.

[schardynfreude]

[He presses a hand to his chest, and even still, his voice is just dripping with mock offense.]

Troublesome, me! Why, the very idea!

Accidentally open a locked portal farther into the afterlife full of monsters, and suddenly you're a troublemaker, goodness.

[discutio]

...

[Phoenix turned in his direction with a flat stare he probably shouldn't have been nearly so good at.]

Really.

[schardynfreude]

It was an accident, and Lion can attest to it. We were simply trying to fix the fountain in the center of town.

[discutio]

So you're why I was warned against tampering with the fountain.

[For some odd reason, he wasn't surprised.]

[schardynfreude]

Technically speaking. Yes. That would technically be correct.

[discutio]

That certainly illuminates a thing or two.

[you seem like a disaster, buddy.]

[schardynfreude]

Lion found the sword that needed inserted, and...

...

Alright, so when confronted with a stairway into darkness, I decided to go on ahead and suggested he get something illuminating from the store in the meantime.

[discutio]

...I think it safe to assume you are--or were, such as it is, not possessed of an abundance of sense.

[schardynfreude]

I was not going to go far. I assumed I would still be seen instead of disappear completely through a portal.

And the darkness didn't frighten me.

[discutio]

I would suggest you look around at what I am told is a laughably impossible landscape and then tell me what part of pressing onward like that seemed logical to you.

[schardynfreude]

Someone had to find out what was down there. [He does not say it was logical.]

[discutio]

Alone. And largely clueless. I'm surprised you didn't end up dead a second time over.

[schardynfreude]

I only descended a few steps! And, no, I'm not claiming what I did was terribly smart of me. Where most would fear pitch blackness, presumably, I instead did not and went blindly ahead.

[discutio]

...Really.

[He wasn't upset by the phrasing, but the flat tone did a good job of making it sound like it.]

[schardynfreude]

Oh, you know perfectly well what I mean. [Don't be touchy!!!] I won't argue that it was smart. It wasn't. But it's what happened, and I hadn't much questioned it as I did it.

[discutio]

[Phoenix smirked faintly, betraying any irritation for the light joke it actually was.]

Do take care to manage such reckless impulse from here on, if you would.