paixaorpg | Foundation Day Festival: Food Tent

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Foundation Day Festival: Food Tent

Character(s): everyone in the food tent
Content: food, and lots of it.
Setting: Joco da Crianca Fairgrounds, food tent
Time: all day~
Warnings: Multithreaded posting format (please include time of day and sub-location in your comment's subject line)

The food tent is the second biggest structure at the fair, next to the Ferris wheel. It's a large white tent set up near the far end of the grounds. Inside, the majority of the tent is filled with long tables (with white plastic tablecloths) and benches for seating.

The food, along one side of the tent, is set up buffet-style. They have a wide variety of hot and cold dishes, and it's all good stuff, having been catered by Café Ersesat. It's always well-stocked, too, somehow; if they run out of anything, it's replenished within a few minutes. There is also a small bar, where alcoholic drinks and cocktails are available upon request to anyone who looks old enough.

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Alice turned to the little girl. "A rather simple sounding solution, don't you think? It would only work if the Organization didn't see him, or weren't looking for him. From what I heard, these aren't very nice people, and to underestimate them would be a mistake. You can be shirty with me all you like, but it wouldn't change the fact that you need protection, would it?"

Alice watched as Death walked away, giving him a curt nod. She trusted that whatever he was doing was vital to their mission. In the end, she was glad to be reunited with him again. There was something rather comforting about being around a being she had been close to ever since returning to Wonderland.

Though really, what WAS that girl thinking, trying to stop Death like that, mistaking him for an Organization member. Did she think that her yelling at them and trying to prevent them was the smartest thing to do? Honestly, the lack of precautions people took in this place was astounding.
Alice turned to the other two, curtsying slightly, as well as to Flonne. "Forgive my manners, and my hosts' as well, as he has things to do at the moment. My name is Alice. How do you do?"

Jintetsu barely noticed Kit's disappearance, as he hadn't been looking at him and had barely noticed he was even there. He tensed at Death's reaction to it, though. He already didn't like the sound of that voice, even though he could never remember what exactly it sounded like - maybe that was why.

He recognized the dark-haired girl from the other day, though, and nodded his head to her. That was the sorceress who'd just about crushed them all under a pile of flaming rocks. So her name was Alice? He hoped she wouldn't have a reason to defend herself while he was around; that really wasn't how he wanted to die again.

He'd have to let Marona make any introductions, though. Checking Haganemaru at the entrance was turning out to have been really inconvenient.

With Death now gone Marona could get a better look at what, or rather who had been blocking the enterance.

Her eyes widened a little at the blonde haired girl, at first glance there hadn't seemed to be anything too particular about her till you realized she had wings and a tail. Marona was certainly a little curious of what she was, but quickly shifted her gaze away to look to the dark haired girl who introduced herself as Alice.

"Um... Hello!" Marona greeted, awkwardly as she clasped her hands, bowing a little. She side glanced a moment to Jintetsu but he remained silent as he had since they'd entered. It wouldn't be polite to not give their names when Alice had, so she continued the introduction herself, "Ah um, this is Mister Jintetsu, and I'm Marona."

Normally, Flonne tried to give everybody a chance. After all, everybody was capable of love: demons, angels, humans, everybody!

But right now, she was very tired and very worried about Laharl, and she was rather upset that someone would go so far as to berate her for trying to protect the people she cared about. Under all that, she was finding it very difficult to find anything to like about Alice.

So she was taken completely by surprise when, after giving Flonne yet another set of reasons as to why what she was doing was pure idiocy, she curtsied and introduced herself. Trying to shake off the last of the shivers from Death's voice - had she really just witnessed one of the disappearances? - she nodded. "Hello, Alice-san. My name is Flonne."

She was much more excited at a greeting from the other girl, whom she'd only just seen. "Oh!" she exclaimed happily. "I didn't know you were here, Marona-san!" Remembering her manners, she turned to the man Marona had introduced. "And it's nice to meet you, Jintetsu-san! I'm Flonne!"

Niceties taken care of, she returned excited attention to Marona. "When did you get here, Marona-san?" she inquired, then finally realized something was off. After all, you never saw one without the other... "And, uh, Marona-san...where's Ash-san?"

Alice could tell she was getting on this girl's nerves, and, appropriately, tat was the last thing on her mind, especially when Kit had seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. Alice turned to the three.

"It is very nice to meet all of you. I suppose these aren't the best circumstances, as I've lost two people today. At the point, I'm a bit nervous, considering all my weapons are currently in someone else's employ, and my companion has seemed to have gone missing."

In truth, Alice was starting to get quite agitated having all of this happen within a very short time span. She had just been getting to know Kit and he was gone, Chizuru was starting to make her feel happy and SHE was gone, and now she had no weapons and no way to protect herself.

She was NOT a happy camper, and it was starting to show on her face.

Jintetsu caught all the names (though whether he'd remember them later was another story), but missed half of what Alice said, having noticed Flonne's ... wings and tail. Or at least that's sure what they looked like. He could swear they were moving.

Of course, between the silence and the odd staring, he was probably coming off as a lot ruder than he meant to, but toseinin weren't exactly known for their refined manners.

Marona was rather surprised when the wing and tailed girl, who introduced herself as Flonne, seemed to recognize her. Surprise soon turned to utterly confused and lost as it became apparent that it was more than just recognition. Flonne knew who she was and even more surprising, she seemed to know Ash. It... was like that boy she'd talked to once on the journal. He'd seemed to know her, and it had baffled her.

"I'm pleased to meet you both," she managed to utter to both Alice and Flonne, but her attention quickly centered on Flonne for obvious reasons.

"I-I've been here for a couple weeks now, I think, but... Um, I'm sorry, I don't remember ever meeting you, ah, Miss Flonne," Marona finally said, trying to sound as polite as she could.

"And... H-How do you know about Ash?" the Chroma questioned the fallen angel quietly.

Luxord was feeling rather pleased with himself as he portalled into the fairgrounds, near the mess hall where he knew Larxene would be. She could cause all the chaos she wanted - his fun would be to watch and to keep people from interfering. It was her show, after all.

So he kept an eye out for the blonde girl who had seemed so unbelievably happy that she'd gotten her precious Laharl back. Oh, there she was. Presuming to be standing guard - how cute. "Pardon me, miss," he said with a smile, his blue shirt and khakis an innocent enough outfit to go with it - no cloak for him, he'd rather not give the game away right from the first deal. "I seem to be lost." He knelt and took her hand, turning on the charm full force in an attempt to distract her. She'd be the most worried about that annoying Overlord and therefore the most attentive to the events inside the tent, and he just couldn't have that. "I wonder if a kind young lady such as yourself might show me my way?"

Flonne barely had time to register surprise that Marona didn't remember her before both her attention and her hand were captivated by a man who seemed to have appeared from nowhere. "I-uh-" she stuttered before managing to gather her wits. "Where are you trying to go, stranger-san?"

She didn't hear his reply over the sudden commotion coming from the food tent behind her - screams, and what sounded frighteningly like...lightening? Laharl was in there! Suddenly, the plight of the man in front of her just wasn't important to Flone anymore. "I'm sorry, stranger-san, but I really have to go!" she squeaked, trying to pull her hand out of his grasp. It was only when she tightened his grip on her that she realized his purpose may not have been as benign as originally thought.

Morality and politeness battled with worry and urgecny, and in the end urgency won out. She summoned her staff to her hand, screamed, "Let me GO!" and swung hard, connecting with a loud crack to the side of his head. That was all it took for him to release her and she was off in a dead sprint into the food tent. She had to help Laharl! She had to!

Alice smiled. The commotion was inevitable. It was sure to be the filth in black, the cloaked fools. They dared to come about, act so suddenly. Well, that fool girl might have wanted to fight them head on, but Alice knew better. Things had to be planned, actions had to be felt.

THEN she would attack. That fool girl would know what stealth meant.

"Beetle J," Alice said in a singy voice. "Might you help me with something?"

Upon acknowledgment of Alice's request, a thick green smoke began to roll into the tent. It quickly made it's way toward the group, lingering around their feet for a moment curiously. Compared to what smoke usually suggested though, this smoke in particular proved to be rather cool when brushing against the skin.

Laughter began to arise. It almost sounded as if someone were dying, gagging for air while choking on something. It rose louder and louder as the smoke itself began to rise around Luxord, curling around his limbs as it's colour faded. A familiar pattern hit ones eyes, blacks and whites, curling together to form pinstripes.

A figure formed over the man, resting on his shoulders, although the weight oddly lacked. A sinister smile was the first to be seen through the clearing smoke. The teeth held a yellow shine, termites crawling around them. They appeared as the only real hint of colour on their owners face. Aside from the dark, black circles surrounding his eyes, of course. Although, black was only a shade. The real colour in to his appearance belonged to his long red nails.

The demon wicked smile never left his features as he wrapped his arms around the organization members neck, clinging to him lovingly.

"Hello, kids." he greeted. "Stick around, we're gonna have some laughs."

Jintetsu reeled at the thing Alice had summoned, instinctively stepping half in front of Marona to make her less of a target. Good grief, that woman was doing it again? He didn't hold with all this preternatural crap anyway, and the last time he'd seen her use her magic, he'd been very lucky not to be flattened by it. The screams and strange noises suddenly coming from inside the tent reinforced his anxiety, too.

Laughs or not, he wasn't sticking around to get killed. While Beetlejuice's attention was (hopefully) occupied with Alice and that unfortunate bystander she was apparently targeting (why, he didn't know or care), Jintetsu abruptly grabbed Marona by the wrist and started walking away from the tent.

Yeah, Flonne knew the girl, but like hell they were going after her. If she was still alive by the time they left the festival, maybe he'd leave Marona with her then.

The cries from inside the tent instantly sent Marona into alert. What was happening? She would have followed Flonne inside, but without Ash what could she do? She could heal a bit and... well that was really about it. Marona hated to not be able to help.

Before she could look to Jintetsu to see what he wanted to do her attentioned was distracted as the girl who introduced herself as Alice had seemed to... summon something. A... phantom? Marona's eyes grew wide. She wasn't sure, but the man that appeared didn't seem alive to her, that much was certain. But Marona was baffled, he was solid, but she'd seen no object for Alice to have confined him into. Was it like Ash who could make himself confined as long as she was nearby?

All these questions filled the chroma's head, but for now she didn't have time for answers. He was giving her a bad feeling, so when Jintetsu grabbed her hand, she very willingly allowed herself to be led off. In fact she was right beside him on this one.

Hopefully Flonne would be okay. Marona truly hoped so. She would have to try to communicate with her later.

((Okay, Jintetsu and Marona are out of thread now. :) ))

Evidently today was not meant to be Luxord's day. To begin with, his plan to keep the blonde girl from interfering with Larxene's fun had failed, and painfully so. It wasn't as though Larxene couldn't handle her, though, so it wasn't too much of a loss.

Now, however, he had a rather annoying - no, this thing couldn't be human. Perhaps he was a specter, or something the proverbial cat had dragged in - hanging off his neck, trying to be witty. "'Laughs,'" Luxord replied placidly, the sarcastic quotations around the word nearly visible in the afternoon air. "Is that so."

Well, maybe it wasn't too late for him to get his fun after all. He turned the charm back on, a smile bordering on a smirk on his face. "In that case, I wonder if you might be interested in a game?"

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