[BOND]

[luckyheart]

Who: lucky + unfortunate bystanders
When: day 43, afternoon
Where: the dining area

[SO TRAINGOERS. You may still be having water gun fights or you may have gotten bored of it, but if you're heading into the lounge to relax (or the kitchen to refill your water gun), you'll have to get past Lucky! He's taken over the table nearest the entrance to the car, dangling fairy lights from the ceiling and sprinkling silk rose petals on the table and the floor around it. There's a hand-scrawled posterboard hanging from the table's edge:

KISSING BOOTH
FREE
for good luck!!

If you try to pass he'll call out, so good luck trying to escape. But hey, if you play along you'll get sparks...

Or, y'know, you could be doing something totally unrelated in this post.]

Comments

[bowtiedbones]

[returns with two ziploc bags with instructions on them in sharpie. each has about two tablespoons of conditioner in it.

lori has also joined her, perched on her shoulder and peeking out from under her hair]

Here. Use this one while your hair is still damp. It's a leave-in conditioner but it works well as a detangler. Start from the end of your hair and work your way up, use your fingers instead of a comb and try to use as little product as possible since it's going to be heavier than a detangling spray. Use this other one next time you wash your hair, it will help against the weather and the saltspray.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Was going to take the offered bags, but freezes as she sees Iori.]

[And jerking back because HELLO MOVING SKELETON???]

[bowtiedbones]

[clacks her beak :V]

[eliza just waits, holding the baggies out]

[daydreamshimmer]

There's....a skeleton on you.

It's moving.

[bowtiedbones]

I'm aware.

[daydreamshimmer]

And you're....okay with that? You DO know cursed beings can turn feral on a bit?

[bowtiedbones]

That's a new one. She's not cursed, this is necromancy. She's mine.

[daydreamshimmer]

[ U M ]

[There is a very long pause with the most unsure look because necromancy is....isn't that dark magic?]

[Except then she's THINKING about dark magic and]

[....she....]

[She kind of knows a bunch apparently??????]

[ U M ]

[Excuse her, she's trying to wrap her mind around that]

[bowtiedbones]

[shakes the conditioner bags. plz. lady, plz.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Excuse her, she's having a bit of a Time.]

[She knows dark magic. Nothing quite relating to skeletons, a little about bounding spirits though and changing things and gateways and memory reading and]

[Hayseed, that is a lot.]

[But why? Dark magic is bad, that's why they call it that.]

[Or maybe...maybe it's just power?]

[And humans....well, humans are apparently extremely violent and bloodthirsty.]

And....what's the point of her?

[She's not even really looking at Eliza, staring hard at the ground.]

[bowtiedbones]

She's my familiar. She helps me do even greater feats of necromancy.

[would it be mean to bring out the other two


that would PROBABLY be mean]

I have two more.

[but probably better than running into them on accident one day]

[daydreamshimmer]

...I see. And as a familiar, you can control them?

[bowtiedbones]

She has absolute loyalty to me, yes.

[daydreamshimmer]

I see.

I...

Am focusing on shapeshifting magic right now. May. Get back to you on that later.

[Once she's got her head wrapped around a few things.]

[bowtiedbones]

Sure.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Will finally look up and]

[Oh right.]

[Will. Tentatively take the baggies, still eyeing Iori with caution, but also intrigue because]

[Yeah]

[Yeah, everything is just gonna be Like This.]

[bond]

[bowtiedbones]

[lori clacks her beak again]

I don't know if that's instruction or a gift, but it probably counts for one of those. Check your account, you'll have 100 sparks.

Re: [bond]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Jumps a bit. Why this, why anything.]

[Will pocket the baggies and check her Chain, though she keeps glancing up at Iori. Clacking beak is unnerving.]

...huh. So it does do both.

[bowtiedbones]

Yep. Bonds are a connection, they wouldn't work if they were set up one-sided.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Frowning.] That is how it's supposed to work...

[bowtiedbones]

It's how it does work.

[daydreamshimmer]

Except you didn't get anything for the bond. Just sparks.

[bowtiedbones]

That's fine. Sparks are currency. I can use them to buy an item, save up for something else, and the running tally contributes to the rate that I get my powers back.

[daydreamshimmer]

But isn't the bond supposed to be making the the sparks?

[bowtiedbones]

Yes?