Heavenly Blanc Void Party

[starshower]

🥂 HEAVENLY BLANC VOID PARTY 🥂 Who: Everyone! What: Heavenly Blanc mingle and info exchange Where: The Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café When: "August 1"; but really, what is time Content Warnings: N/A Maybe you heard through word of mouth, or got an invite from the barista and barkeep directly, or spotted the handwritten paper invites hung up around the area, but there is a gathering happening at the Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café TODAY! So feel free to stop by, hang out, have some drinks, and share some stories. 🍺 DRINKS: Coffee will be served by Ren, and Tifa will be handling the other drinks. There's a wide variety behind the bar, ranging from alcoholic to the non-alcoholic, with delicious cocktails (yes, including virgin ones for the minors) to pick from. And before you ask - no, if you are underage, you may not have alcohol. Tifa will be very strict about it, and anyone who tries to bypass her imposed law will be subject to room temperature tapwater for the rest of the party. 🎲 GAMES: Various boardgames that came along with Le Blanc will be made available for all to play, including a Shogi board for the strategically inclined (and whoever knows how the heck to play it). Along the side wall are two pinball machines, and while they don't light up and make sounds, the mechanisms inside them still work, so they aren't completely out of the picture! Next to them, between the jukebox and the door is a dart board. Please do be mindful when throwing darts, as the light filtering into the bar through the front windows is very minimal. 🤔 INFORMATION EXCHANGE: The important part! When all are gathered inside the bar, Tifa and Ren will make a small announcement for everyone: "Now that we've all had the chance to take a look around and get our bearings, I wanna encourage everyone to exchange what you know, or what you've found. Even share it with the rest of us! Locations, ideas, theories - anything that could be useful in helping us all figure this out. We all come from different worlds, but we're stuck here, so we're in this together until we're not, yeah? Let's make friends and play nice, and most importantly, have fun today! Oh, and if you're coming and going, make sure to close the door nice and tight behind you." "It's nice to see everyone. Since we're stuck here together, let's cooperate well." ☕ OOC NOTES ☕ This is the open mingle post for the Heavenly Blanc void party! Please feel free to top-level and tag around. There is a top-level included here for you to post OOC notes of what their characters have discussed on the log, as well as their own thoughts about the world. If there is anything important that people should know, please reply to the top-level with the information, so that it's easy to find for everyone. General info posts about what your character will be talking about are fine as well. Just please try to avoid multiple edits if you can as you thread if you are going that route! for the sake of my dw inbox... Because this is an info exchange/mingle post, we encourage thread-jacking. However, we know that not everyone is into that kind of thing, so if you are okay with others hopping into your threads, please be sure to indicate it in your top-level. Questions about the log can be directed to the ooc post. Have fun!

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[abeautifulgame]

Grabbing the chair, Damien slides it over, and once it's close enough for his comfort, does, in fact, sit. He takes a moment following, to get comfortable, to stretch his bad leg out, and -- well, all the while, he's trying to decide whether or not he actually wants to admit to owning anything here. The time it takes him to settle is a good cover for that pause, for him doing the math.

On one hand, he doesn't want to give anything up directly, even if there's seemingly nothing to gain from keeping it to himself. People might start asking uncomfortable questions, if he tells them that the Merlaut is from his world, like what the place means to him, and he's not ready to get into that. It wouldn't be hard to lie by omission about it, if and when he's asked, like he has every other personal question anyone has asked of him, but the Merlaut is -- something else. The Merlaut was the beginning of the end, where his life fucking fell apart, thanks to Aiden fucking Pearce, and he really doesn't want to get into that, skirting the truth or otherwise.

On the other, though, it's just a hotel, and it might cost him more, in the long run, to deliberately, directly fail to mention it's from his world, if and when someone finds out. Sure, he could claim he hadn't seen it, later, maybe, but -- no. No, even if Bowser hasn't seen him there, other people have, and he doesn't want to get himself caught in that lie, later. It might make the others doubt everything he's said, so far, and then the whole house of cards he's building, here, falls apart.

That in mind, then, and once he seems to have found a comfortable position in his seat, he glances back to the door, then answers, "That building up on the cliffs near the lake? The Merlaut? It's half mine. It's a hotel in Chicago -- where I'm from." He pauses, pressing his mouth into a thin, sour line. "All the similarities stop outside of the lobby, though." The rooms inside, with the whatever-it-is in the sink, are not his, thank you.

[koopacrusher]

"The apartments?" Bowser asks, though obviously they weren't apartments in Damien's world. "I found a case in one of them, filled with coins and a couple decks of cards. It was definitely mine." It literally had his face depicted on it, after all. "Not sure why something I owned was there though, 'cause the rest of it definitely had nothing to do with me."

The information that the Merlaut is Damien's imprint is enough to satisfy Bowser on that topic. However, the mention of a place called Chicago gives Bowser new questions. "And Chicago's, what? Your world? Your city?"

[abeautifulgame]

"How curious," Damien murmurs, taking a moment to try and slot that information into the puzzle of a bigger picture he's putting together here. When he can't immediately make it work, and at Bowser's question, he shakes his head and lets it go for the time being. He'll work on making sense of that one later.

"City," he answers, as he comes back to the conversation. A pause follows, a wry smile, and then he tells him, "We creatively call our world as a whole 'Earth.'"

[koopacrusher]

Bowser hadn't been able to make sense of the case's presence either. What it meant had perplexed him since he found it. But what Damien says then also perplexes him. He had assumed that the worlds the humans came from would be named differently from his own. He does not say this out loud, however, and instead simply says "huh."

"The other humans here, are they also from this same 'Earth?'"

[abeautifulgame]

"It depends on what you mean by 'same'," he answers, shrugging. "Most of the people I've talked to -- the human ones -- are from Earth, but I'm not sure I've met anyone from my version of it." Akechi and Ren are the closest, but even then, their ideas of home don't line up. It's probably a blessing, really, all things considered.

"You? Anyone here from home?"

[koopacrusher]

"No." Bowser says, solemnly. Kamek, Peach, Mario, literally anyone in the Koopa Troop... hell, even Luigi would be a welcome sight at this point. But what really disturbs him, terrifies him, is that he hasn't seen Junior in what could very well be months. Which is why he has to return.