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Jude had nothing to say when Eva suddenly punted the male imp like a very red football. He just kind of stared at the group around him like they'd all grown an extra head, and possibly a couple of extra tentacles to boot. He just kind of cleared his throat a bit, "Maybe...We should...go?"

...Should they go?

...Why were they here again?

Please don't kick him, Eva.

Maybe they shouldn't go? Ariane had only just got here but... What if the imp came back with reinforcements?

"I suppose you're right. It would wiggle, or maybe scream," Jordan nodded, and took another bite. "Delicious."

He wasn't actually sure the golem could fly, but he'd heard Tracey talking wistfully about flight while the weapons were in golems. "It's unlike anything else," he answered. "Screamercoasters come close, a little, but nothing like the real thing." He half-unfolded one of the wings so she could have a better look.

When she told him what she was, he kept his instinctive recoil suppressed. Instead he said, "I've never met one of your kind before. How very interesting. Are you all so friendly?" He smiled sweetly. "Tell me more."

The Skark stared in fascination as the familiar tentacles appeared, and let out a squeak of happiness when Riley gave her approval. Her eyestalk bobbed side to side as she considered the best way to climb the tentacles, and then the little monster was scrambling up them. She was careful to use only her feet and antennae to aid in her climb, her tail was held close to her back, and used to balance her movements.

Once she'd climbed her own personal Mt. Riley-more, Canon settled herself carefully onto her friends head, roosting much like a chicken, her tail curled carefully around her legs. Her eye was completely preoccupied with the view, however. She was so high up! Even in her humanoid form, she was so short she couldn't see the forest for the trees. Being able to look down on a bobbing sea of heads was thrilling!

"Oh! Thank you, Riley! This is amazing!" she said, eyestalk dipping down momentarily into her friend's field of view.

You could easily cut the tension in the air with a knife; perhaps it was because she knew that Shun's father was not a nice person, but everything he said sounded fake to her - a front that he was putting up... It was not difficult to see why Shun never spoke fondly of his father.

"There's no need to worry about the kind of company that Shun is keeping, Mister Kaitou," Lizzy beamed, sparkling a little due to the high level of Fear in the air. Also because apparently most people found sparkles to be quite disturbing, even if it did not involve any glitter, "Sending him to Amityville Academy might be one of the best decisions you've ever made."

Hel had returned to her room after getting her lip split by her dear older sister, but upon hearing movement from said dear older sister’s room, Hel didn’t want to be around.

After cleaning up the blood and changing out her tunic top for a simply gray one, the reaper returned to the party. It was easy to lose oneself amongst so many beings after all. It also wasn’t hard to spot her friends all grouped together…and a lot of them didn’t look uh…happy, despite the festive setting they were in. Hel’s brows furrowed a bit and she immediately pushed her way through others to approach the group.

“Oi!” She called out to them, drawing closer. “Why are you all so glum? Seeing any ancestor ghosts this evening?” The ghoul stopped as she was finally close enough to look around at everyone, and her gaze immediately stopped on Shun’s father.

Oh.

Well then.

The reaper was quiet for a moment before she boldly thrust her hand out at the older reaper to shake. “Hel Brynhildr!”

Between Lizzy’s sparkles and Hel’s usually boisterous self…hopefully the atmosphere wouldn’t be as tense.

"R-Reminded you...?" Mort's face wrinkled with confusion, half because he didn't imagine a lot of zombies looked quite so blue, half because there was something striking in the whining voice that felt...familiar. Weirder, there was no strong emotion coupled with it like it had for Alex and Be- and her. Just a soupy, vague mix.

Rubbing his head, he glanced at Alex before saying, "Sorry. Instincts kicked in." No pun intended. "Do we, er, know you?" He highly doubted as undeads that they were fast friends with an imp, but with his mind so spread out he couldn't take a chance of insulting someone accidentally.

Alexander just continued to believe that the imp that had assailed Mort was drunk, and was further convinced by it's odd almost slurred speech..though he supposed a lot of that could have been as a result of getting kicked too hard in the head.

In any case, Alex just couldn't deal with this. He didn't want to deal with being at this festival, surrounded by happy people and music when he had no idea what exactly had happened to himself except that he had died, and now he was back. He had told Yin to call his family if the worst should happen, and really, didn't dying fit in that category quite nicely? He needed to get in touch with the boil, as much as he wished to avoid doing so for at least a little while longer, if only to find out if he'd made that call, and hope to jack that he hadn't or Alex was going to have a lot of explaining to do.

Alexander just shrugged in reply to Mort, looking unhappy and possibly a little bit like he might start to retch again. His stomach did flip flops every time he thought about how he was going to have to find Yin, and talk to him. He knew that what he'd done probably hadn't gone over well, but...

"Mort, I actually think maybe we should leave." He gave the imp another apprehensive look. There was something the zomboil needed to do, and it would probably be better if he did it sooner rather then later.

Ooookaaay, that had gone...better than she had thought it would. Eva lifted a hand over her eyes to watch as the imp soared away, and once it was out of sight, she propped both of her hands on her hips in satisfaction. She was kind of going to miss this body when they were back in Deus Ex.

Glancing down at the tug, she grinned at Otto, returning the thumbs up with one of her own. Robert simply received a wry smile and a shake of her head, and then she turned to look at Jude and Ariane.

"I dunno, maybe you're right. I guess we should start going back now. But first..."

Rushing over to Ariane, she suddenly grabbed the other girl's hands, placing them on her bare chest. "Check it out, Ariane! I have abs now!"