video | un: yan_zongzhu

[xinmoline]

[ This creepy lighthouse has a bathing room, but does it have a huge, fancy bath strewn with flower petals? It does now.

Yan Zhengming is standing in front of said bath (with his clothes on, fortunately) and asks, petulantly: ]

I need someone to take a bath with.

[ A beat ]

Someone good-looking!

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un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[scrapgege]

.... Is there a reason why you can't bathe on your own?

[xinmoline]

Because I...

[ ...keep wanting to drown myself?

No no no, he can't admit to that! ]

I... I just want the company!

[scrapgege]

I guess I could come over.

... I mean, if I fit your criteria, of course.

1/2

[xinmoline]

[ He recognizes Xie Lian's voice, and the man does indeed fit the "good looking" category. ]

All right, just...

[ But recognizing the voice doesn't mean he remembers Xie Lian's actual name, bless him. So he squints at the username, which should say what it is, right? ]

[xinmoline]

"Deft hand of little..."

The hell?

[ He draws back, grimacing. What kind of pervert is this guy anyway????? It just goes to show, you never can tell with people!!! ]

[scrapgege]

Hm? Oh, that's the name the crystal came with when they first gave it to us. Is there a problem with it?

video; un: xunxian

[topoiran]

[ ... an arched eyebrow. ]

Quite the proposition, that.

1/2

[xinmoline]

[ He's fucking checking the username before he replies, even if the guy does have an acceptable face.

Ok, whew! "Xunxian," that's normal. ]

Wait, proposition?

[xinmoline]

I didn't mean like that!

[topoiran]

[ Ah... heh. ]

Well, baths do tend to be rather intimate. Pulling our shields down, pulling most of your clothes off, and relaxing, vulnerable. A joint bath tends to be suggestive.

[xinmoline]

You —

[ Of course, at that very moment, his brain presents to him a lovely image of Cheng Qian washing his back. He'd had a fever dream when he'd first arrived, that his shidi was here, returned to life. It was an unbelievable story; he should have known that it wasn't real. But ever since then, his mind has wandered off to... places it never had, before.

He swallows hard. ]

I just wanted a little company, you... you're the one with a filthy mind!

[topoiran]

[ Oh, oh my, that contemplative expression and the reaction after it. ]

I do own the best establishment for... entertainment, where I come from.

[ To put that delicately. ]

Some things do come with the territory.

un: daozhang | audio

[binghua]

[Well. That's quite the request.]

I imagine you have your pick of us. Has anyone met your requirements?

[xinmoline]

[ With feeling: ]

No, they haven't!

[ Because they're all perverts!!! ]

[binghua]

[Ah, yes, he's still very...yelly.]

I see. Do you have any secondary requirements, then?

[xinmoline]

[ It took him a minute, but he remembers this voice also: the man who went out and got food and water for other people, using him as a cat's paw to pull chestnuts from the fire. This person is probably the farthest thing from a pervert he's spoken to, this evening. Even his username is acceptable.

He draws himself up and calms his breathing, so he's able to sound more like the sect leader he is, with a low and sonorous voice. ]

Only a heart like clear water, pure and unimpeachable.

[ ....as soon as the words leave his lips, he realizes, he himself doesn't meet that criterion either. That damned Xunxian! This is all his fault, him and that other pervert! ]

un: absterge

[downswing]

( They are no brothel, sir. However: )


You took a wound?

[xinmoline]

No?

[ He thinks about it a moment longer, and can't figure how this person came to that conclusion. ]

No? If I had, wouldn't I be asking for a doctor? I just need someone nearby while I'm bathing, that's all.

[downswing]

The recovering wounded require assistance in bathing.

You... require a nurse?

[xinmoline]

I just said I wasn't injured!
So, are you good-looking or not?

[ As far as he recalls, he hasn't met an "Absterge" before. ]

un: xianxian of yunmeng jiang

[weifinder]

Ah, wise plan, wise plan! One must be wary of bears.

Even here, who knows, there could be one, hiding in some corner on one of these levels. There has been everywhere else.

[xinmoline]

[ .....

He's just about to tell off this latest example of weirdoes I don't want to take a bath with, so help me, when a sudden thought occurs to him. ]

Are you... seeing something in your bathwater, too?

[weifinder]

( this answer tells him far to much given the oddities which have been occurring, but he chuckles, answering blithely: )

Only the dead, what of you?

[xinmoline]

I haven't seen anything but a reflection, but I presume the man's dead, judging by how much he wants company.

[ video; un: cloud_on_the_wind ]

[badlypoisoned]

How bold. Though I suppose you don't have many choices since there are no flower houses here, but did you really have to ask in public?