[ JOB LISTING ] Treatment Center [ DIFFICULTY LEVEL ] gaia_stargaia_star [ TASK ] Aid spa specialists in their innovative treatments by helping handle and feed the wholly organic swarms of healthful helpers provided by nature in all its mystery. (Warning : Insect & Worm Prompts)
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The human staff has gone tragically missing, but all new ventures are bound for a few hiccups. The treatment keepers have taken to pulling in any idle horsemen found at the spa or even in the Dusk to come spend a shift helping feed and care for the spa's special swarms of cultivated insects and unusual plant life.
Roll 2d6 and complete the 2 prompts You're set to supervise a tank full of leeches. It's an incredibly boring job until the leeches begin to grow. And grow. And grow until they're the size of a fat man's leg. The tank breaks. They're surprisingly fast and wily for leeches and it's up to you to catch and corral them all. Roll 1d10 until you succeed by getting a 6 or higher. The Moth Room needs cleaning and it's not a very glorious or interesting job until you start to hallucinate and the walls begin to melt. The Music Room allows you to enjoy a peaceful shift feeding its inhabitants as they are trained in their next composition. The tapeworms need to be taken for discreet walkies. This process involves placing leashes and collars on tapeworms and then walking them around, whispering encouragements to help motivate them to be their best wormselves. Roll 1d10 until you succeed three times by getting a 3 or higher. The Nagev Garden is full of helpful plants that wont just melt away fat but also clean the bones underneath as well with an enthusiastic efficiency! Feeding them is a pleasure if you life watching meat get torn apart and some of the plants will even let you pet them after. Roll 1d4 to determine how many fingers you lose during this shift. (Don't worry, they'll grow back by tomorrow.) The maggot farm has gone missing and the spa needs your help in finding out where it's gone off to. Was it stolen? Did their Fear Makeup get altered in an experiment, transforming them into something new? Did something eat the whole thing? You don't have to roll for success, you just have to tell a story to the shift supervisor.
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Darkjay had been minding his own business in the dusk when he was approached, asked to help in taking care of 'helping with the special treatments for the human corporation.'
"Huh?" He rose a eyebrow in response. He wasn't sure exactly what this involved but...why not. He shrugged and followed them into the human world and into the corporation. Apparently the human staff members had disappeared. He figured someone must have murdered them.
He stepped into the building, directed to go into one of the rooms and start cleaning it. As soon as he stepped inside he stared, realized he was dealing with bugs and swore loudly. He stepped back out and said he'd wait for some others to come help him out
Because ******** this he wasn't dealing with this s**t by himself.
Kagerou peeked in, his red eyes squinting against the lights. He had no idea what he had gotten himself into. Due to his lack of excellent social skills he could hardly say no as someone had come to him in ask for aid. The Conquest Horseman tugged tight against his fur scar, nuzzling his face against the soft material. This shouldn't be too hard right? But just as he thought that he witnessed another Horseman back out of one of the rooms, a dreary look on their face as he mentioned about waiting for someone else. Bitting down on his lip, Kagerou slinked over
"W-what kind of job is this?" he asked and showed him the note he had received with a room numbers on it (see dice roll).
Without even knowing the other's name. He had just hoped Darkjay knew what they were getting themselves into. Kagerou's lavish and high-class conquest standing certainly pinned him as a type that didn't enjoy dealing with bugs.
Name: Kagerou Kitsu Arcana: Wheel of Fortune Division: Conquest Horseman General appearance: Frail body structure ♦ Hidden by loose red silken clothes and an exquisite faux fur scarf.
Yuki, being the only one of the trio to have experience with insects, figured that any job in this place was going to be a cakewalk. He was fond of several species for their usefulness, among other reasons like the beauty or potential danger of some. Of course, it was only natural for one of famine clan to be very used to insects and arachnids.
He was actually pretty amused to see that Jay was there before him, and it showed from the fact that he couldn't help grinning. "Something wrong, Jay?" He looked a little white in the face, so it could only be assumed that he'd already seen some creepy crawlies that didn't settle well.
Kagerou wasn't nearly as familiar. Yuki stared at him for a moment, trying to remember if he'd seen the fellow horseman more than in passing. Probably not, but perhaps. Best not actively ask for an introduction and potentially be offensive... Yuki just stepped up closer to the two and peered at the paper that had room numbers on them.
"I know how he feels about insects," Yuki said to Kagerou with a tilt of his head toward the war horseman, "I hope you're not bothered by them as well?"
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Name: Yuki (Journal) Arcana: Strength Clan: Famine Appearance: Take this guy, make him very thin (not quite emaciated) and grumpy. Jagged facial wound from just above left brow to the curve of the lower mandible. Wound is old/decayed and open to reveal bone, teeth and an empty eye socket.
It was lucky for the war horseman that the recruiters had been busy, and others had turned up to help.
"We have to clean up bug s**t first." He said dryly to the newcomer. " I haven't checked the other room yet but it's probably worse. Because ******** famine and their stupid - DAMMIT".
Of course Yuki would be here. He was already smirking at him. "One word you bony a*****e and I will smash you." He stomped into the moth room, grabbing a broom and started swinging it across the floor in the most half arsed attempt at cleaning and ignoring the famine horsemen.
"Why are you here anyway?" He asked Kagerou. "Seems a dirty job for your clean a** clothes." He swiped the broom across the floor at a chunk of moving debris. That was seriously moving. He blinked, rubbed his eyes and watched it morph into a dust bunny and run around the room.
"...The ********?" He looked up at the walls that were now oozing. He stumbled backwards, picking up the mop as strange fluffy rabbits started jumping out of the oozing walls. "THE ********?!"
Kagerou swiveled his head around as he heard another approach them. His eyes fixated on the Famine Horseman. It would seem that something caught his fancy, Yuki had this luscious hair and persona to him. If a Horseman could feel admiration this would be it.
"H-hair.. I mean.. a bugs lair doesn't really fit me" Kagerou said, resisting the urge to reach out and lay his hands upon Yuki's locks.
It wasn't until the other horseman loudly interrupted Kagerou's train of thought did he look away. Darkjay paled in comparison to Yuki as his attitude just left a bitter taste in the Conquest Horseman's mouth. His competitive nature starting to flare up
"I bet I can do a better job of cleaning the room than you, after all we Conquest horsemen are known for our excellent standards". His stutter completely gone.
Kagerou was about to approach Darkjay in and get in his face, a little too close for comfort with a broom of his own in hand, when his head started to feel light. Stopping him just inches away from the War Horseman. He didnt say another word, instead a bit of droll started to drip from his lips, until he fixed his eyes back on Darkjay
"Hey you aren't a Famine too are you?" he asked, tilting his head as the blond's skin seemed to melt right off of him. Kagerou looked down to his clothes as he felt his skin crawl, suddenly seeing hundreds of bugs eating away at his pants. Frantically the Conquest let out a squeal
"NO! Not my clothes!! Anything but that" for what was a Conquest without their garb. Quickly Kagerou stripped off his pants, and like any traditional oriental dressed person, he too wore a fundoshi underneath. If Yuki were to walk in at that moment he'd see Kagerou standing there, half naked, flailing around his pants in the air to try and get bugs off of them.. but thing is there were no bugs. And Darkjay still looked completely intact. The only sort of bugs that were in the room were the occasional moth that fluttered around.
Name: Kagerou Kitsu Arcana: Wheel of Fortune Division: Conquest Horseman General appearance: Frail body structure ♦ Hidden by loose red silken clothes and an exquisite faux fur scarf.
Yuki made eye contact with Kagerou, seeming not to be unnerved by the way he was being stared at. If anything, it was flattering to know he wasn't being looked at because of scars. After all, he had logical reasons to keep illusions up around here... Back at The Dusk, not so much. The famine horseman easily managed a pleasant smile toward him, as though he hadn't just been insulting the other man present.
"They're not bad, and they should be contained and fed well enough here." The suggestion that unfed insects were a threat, whether he thought so or not, was left untouched. "Just remember that they're just trying to figure you out if one of them lands, jumps or crawls on you. They're probably not going to hurt you if you don't try to swat at them." Probably? Well, at least he was honest.
He paused in any explanation as the war horseman went to start his cleaning after a snap at his presence, wincing through his wavering smile at the way he was sweeping the floor... Or not sweeping the floor, really.
"Alright, well..." he trailed off as the cleaning apparently turned into some sort of competition. "I'll just let you two handle this for now." Without stepping into the room with them, for at least the moment he hadn't realized just what sort of insects they were supposed to be cleaning up after.
He didn't even make it to the end of the hallway when he heard the both of them screaming. Profanities that were common of Darkjay, and the conquest horseman shouting something about his clothes. Yuki backtracked to figure out what was suddenly going on, half expecting to find Jay attacking the poor guy stuck with him for any or no reason.
He didn't expect what he found once he'd gotten to them - actually crossing the threshold this time and careful to actually shut the door behind him as to keep the moths (and yelling) inside the room. It didn't click at first, because he was more concerned with their condition than their species. "Stop swinging that around, you idiot!" Yuki shouted with all of the scolding anger of a parent witnessing an unruly child bullying their younger sibling. "Put the mop down!"
His attention turned to Kagerou, half expecting him to be acting as wildly as Jay... Which he was. But without a potential weapon. Or pants. Apparently he was going to swing those around instead. Yuki, wide-eyed, stared at him dumbly for several seconds feeling all sorts of awkward and confused.
That was about how long it took for him to realize what was going on. If only because he was vaguely aware that his head was starting to feel funny and also because the walls were starting to move and dissolve when he looked at them. Unfortunately or fortunately, his experiences also included bad trips on accidentally inhaled moth dust.
While the other two were losing their minds and flailing about in panic, Yuki started to laugh. It began as an amused little chuckle until he was laughing so hard that he probably looked just as crazy as the two of them, and he couldn't stop.
OOC
Name: Yuki (Journal) Arcana: Strength Clan: Famine Appearance: Take this guy, make him very thin (not quite emaciated) and grumpy. Jagged facial wound from just above left brow to the curve of the lower mandible. Wound is old/decayed and open to reveal bone, teeth and an empty eye socket.
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 2:13 am
Kagerou shouting about his clothes made no sense, nor did him taking off his pants. He wasn't phased by the strange garments or lack of clothing however. He spent most of his time barely covered. "Why are you taking off your pants?!" Darkjay shouted as he swatted at the rabbits who were not dancing around his legs, and the melting walls where shooting rainbows now. ********. Maybe the flailing conquest would smack away the rainbow bunnies for him. He still had no idea it was the moths fault.
Yuki finally made a appearance, but he was less then helpful. "How about you give us a hand you a*****e!" He screamed louder. "I'm not putting the mop down until these things are gone -"
And then he started to laugh. A small chuckle, which quickly evolved into full scale laughter that continued until Darkjay was about to lose it. "Ooooh, you ******** piece of-"
Having reached his limit, The war horsmen marched up to Yuki with his arm drawn backwards, and threw a punch right at the side of his jaw.
Kagerou was frantic about getting the 'bugs' off of his pants, to a Conquest Horseman their outfits had to be the best thing about them. How pitiful indeed. He had ignored Yuki's well thought out advice about the bugs just trying to figure out what the heck Kagerou was if they crawled on him, the conquest had no experience much with bugs and just automatically went to man-eating, clothes-eating, vicious things.
He saw Darkjay hit Yuki, momentarily his attention being drawn away from the illusions of bugs crawling on his pants. Instead he reached for Yuki, the sound of laughter drawing the Conquest horseman closer. Kagerou's breath caught as suddenly his eyes grew wide, tendrils of Yuki's hair started to grow longer, spiraling throughout the entire room until it softly entwined itself around his own body. He was completely still from then on, staring at Yuki, his body stiff looking as his hands were close to his sides. If others could see what he saw they might have thought it to be something out of a horror movie, but Kagerou...
Name: Kagerou Kitsu Arcana: Wheel of Fortune Division: Conquest Horseman General appearance: Frail body structure ♦ Hidden by loose red silken clothes and an exquisite faux fur scarf.
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