Afterparty IV: The Isle of Repeaching Mistakes

[heroicact]

[Another week, and another series of disasters and deceptions leading to the verdict; this time the web is wider and deeper and darker, as they're all slowly ensnared, as the fine points each of them make up in this cloud of connections is pulled ever tighter. Is it a noose, tightening around their neck, or is it a string wrapped around their finger to pull them forward?

Here on Onigashima under cover of night, no one can perhaps tell, and ever fewer people are asking.

For the first time in a little while Jack's throwing himself wholeheartedly into gathering people -- he's not forcing anyone to be there, but he drops words and written directions and cajoles at the tree slide if he must, mostly to make sure the little get-together is actually staffed. The island itself is a chore to get to, but may be the lake around it can provide respite for those who enjoy the boats and can ignore the possible body (bodies?) floating down there.

Festival food and regular drink is a-plentiful, though so much of it is still so foreign to many of them (Jack is pretty sure most of it is good, but); it'll do, because they've also brought like half the bar with them? Or at least enough to supply the guests and their two bartenders. Marcus and Makoto are here to provide drink and drink with you, whichever comes first, and honestly who can blame them?

Otherwise, there are always the festival games and fashion, so perhaps that too is a good distraction. Just don't fall in the lake, y'all.]

Comments

[scythegun]

What about them is creepy?

[...he asks, like he can't possibly imagine!!!]

[reallyfishy]

[Suuuure he can't.]

Do I really gotta spell it out? That mask! The way they act like mindless drones when they come swoopin' outta the shadows! Creepy with a capital C.

[scythegun]

I really can't explain the latter, they're all a bit odd.

[He just sort of inherited them after the last leader died under mysterious circumstances, they've always been like that.]

I like the masks, though! It certainly does make them look quite striking, ja?

[Creepy is a type of striking, obviously??]

[reallyfishy]

[The craziest thing is imagining an even weirder leader of Leviathan's Claw than Yeager.]

I guess it nails the assassin shtick if that's what you're goin' for... I wouldn't wanna run into 'em in a dark alley.

[He would kick their asses, probably. But he'd still be creeped out and that's the point here.]

[scythegun]

[That's exactly the point!!]

We are the assassin's guild, after all. We have a reputation to maintain!

[being creepy af unless you're the leader, in which case you're just a goddamn weirdo]