When the night is come [Open]

[founderinglight]

Who: Izunia and you! And possibly also Ardyn aor Verity, depending on prompt.
When: Late July, various.
Where: See prompts!
What: Catchall, featuring tattoos, escape artist cats, and uh. Everything else.
Warnings: This Post Contains Airlocked, so standard murdergame warnings apply.

Lounge (outside greenhouse and hottub), any afternoon from 7/20-8/8 featuring burninglight

[A miracle is taking place behind the set-up paper screens that have suddenly appeared in the glass-walled lounge.

That miracle is "the Lucis Caelum twins, largely getting along."

There's also a tattoo gun involved.

Anyone who peeks around the screens Izunia set up for privacy at some point will find the younger twin stretched out on a tattoo chair, while Ardyn works on his arms or back. There's a light grey outline of the parts of the tattoo that haven't yet been finished - a greatsword that might look familiar down the left arm, a weird mechanical looking sword on the right, and six loops of chain hung between them, the lowest reaching almost all the way down Izunia's back to the waist. A handful of weapons hang in the loops, and there's a few notable gaps... Discounting the gaps of the broken links, there's precisely a hundred and fifteen links in all.

While Ardyn works, Izunia seems, mostly, to zone out, either with music playing for the both of them or something on a tablet in front of him, headphones in. For a guy getting stabbed repeatedly, he largely seems pretty relaxed, fiddling with his set of floating crystals idly.

Occasionally, however, one might happen by and hear the twins bickering, as they do...]

Rise, anywhere

[What's this?

Well, long-term residents of the Station will probably recognize the giant, fluffy silver tabby who butts against their ankles. Verity's on the prowl, looking for attention and/or snacks.

But... Where's Izunia? He doesn't normally let her out like this...

And that's assuming that she hasn't just suddenly appeared in your room. You closed that door for sure, right?]

July 30th, late evening, closed to Junpei

[Investigation episodes are always rough. And Ardyn did warn him that this one, in particular, had the black blood that comes with the Scourge.

Izunia's prepared for that.

He's not prepared to see Junpei, apparently dead, lying in a pool of it, and in the safety of his room, he very nearly throws the tablet across the room.

Actually, he does throw it - just into the Armiger in a moment of not completely losing his head, rather than letting it impact anything.

Time to hyperventilate.]

Anything else

[Nap grandpa is somewhat more absent for the next two weeks than usual, even given that he's spending half or more his afternoons spread out getting inked. If you're in his most prominent haunts, however - Fight Club, the kitchen on the doubles floor of the Rise, or the observation deck at dawn or dusk (especially dawn, lately, oddly enough for a Lucis Caelum) - he's hard to miss.

Also, if you're one of the handful of people he keeps a special eye out for - chiefly Prompto, Maddie, and Elize - you might find him turning up at your door after a tattooing session with a hot meal or two.]

Comments

best kitty friends

[moarlazersplz]

[Well who is she to ignore such an obvious order? Ruto grins and starts scritching with well-practiced skill, letting her fingers go right for the Good Spots, like behind the ear and the back of the neck and maybe under the chin should she be allowed. Without her entirely noticing it, she starts purring softly at her visitor.]

[founderinglight]

[Kitty is definitely going to allow it! Going for the chin scratches will reveal the dark blue collar with a small bell that she wears, though there's no tag on it to indicate her name.

Before long, there will be stereo purring.]

[moarlazersplz]

[Ruto checks the collar anyway under the pretext of getting the neck under where the collar rests, but no, no sign of a name or the name of her person. Well, it's not as if wandering around inside the Station is really all that dangerous, at least not as far as she's seen...

Still.]

How did you get in here, lovely? And do you have a friend who might be looking for you?

[founderinglight]

[Purr, purr, Verity is not a cat who talk. She likes the attention, though.

After a bit longer in the petting department, Ruto gets her answer in the form of the door buzzing.]

[moarlazersplz]

[Ruto isn't about to discount too many possibilities here, though half the time she's just talking aloud to hear herself. She's about to see about maybe scooping the cat up so that they can go looking for the missing friend together when her door buzzes.

Now the dilemma is whether to or not to stop petting the cat in order to go open the door. But there is a potential solution to the problem...]

Carbuncle, go get the door!

[Normally doorknobs would be beyond paws, even magical ones, but the doors here have buttons that make things easier. So the Ruby Carbuncle bounds over to the door to press the button in question and slide it open with a chirp.]

[founderinglight]

[The door slides open at the button press, revealing Izunia looking -

Well, confused, now, as he looks down at the Carbuncle. Hi?]

I don't suppose you've seen a particularly fluffy cat around?

[moarlazersplz]

[The Carbuncle squeaks and bounces back to where Ruto has still entirely failed to stop petting Verity. Not only is there a particularly fluffy cat, there's a fluffy catgirl too!

Ruto blinks up (and up) at the man, and then offers a smile.]

Hi! Are you this one's friend, then?

[There's something about his voice that sounds almost familiar...]

[founderinglight]

That would be me, yes. I'm sorry, I hope she hasn't given you trouble.

[Verity is content to get more pettings.]

[moarlazersplz]

No trouble at all! She's very friendly, though I'm not sure how she got in here. I haven't seen any hidden passages, but I also haven't been looking for them too hard.

[Only partially a lie. She'd set Carbuncle to scouting the room when she'd first moved in for anything like that, but she hadn't looked.]

[founderinglight]

That's just the question, unfortunately. It's looking more and more like she simply has some means of ignoring doors.

[Where would anyone even put a secret passage in this building, Ruto.]

[moarlazersplz]

Well, she is a cat, I suppose. Even Miqo'te aren't as good at getting into impossible places.

[Look, secret passages just happen. If anyone could figure out where they were or how to use them, they wouldn't be secret, would they?]

[founderinglight]

A cat who has been exposed to any number of strange magical energies at this point, no less. I suppose it's better than the ones trailing soot all over.

[moarlazersplz]

Yes, I've seen those around. Though at least if she was leaving a trail, it might be easier to see where she's going...

[Meanwhile, Carbuncle has hopped onto the little bedside table to be at something closer to the right height so that it can study both the cat and the man, and squeaks again, curiously this time.]