darling, it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me

[anasty]

Your invitation under the door comes handwritten in varying calligraphic, but complimenting scripts:

Our remembrance takes place at the pool this evening.

Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur.

Don’t antagonize the eels.


The ambient light around the aqua centerpiece of the water is golden, thanks to what appears to be small will-o-wisps hovering strategically placed on the outskirts. Don’t try to touch them - they burn. Inside the water, there are indeed a pair of dark blue eels swimming around... but they're at the deepest reaches, at least?

Reigning over it all is a makeshift banner, comprised of several notebook pages taped together. In a careful calligraphy script:


ACTA EST FABULA, PLAUDITE!

There are three tables.

The first is food. There is first and foremost a decadent spread of fresh and dried fruit, as well as raw vegetables by some dip. Some delectable varieties of bread have been provided by Belle and are accompanied by some jam and cheese. For those that don’t want to put anything together, there are also triangles of monte cristo sandwiches from Oswald's suggestions. There is a simple, folded piece of paper acting as placard. The same elegant inking is there, if much more subtle: Consummatum est.

The second is drinks, the division between alcoholic and non-alcoholic made by another folded paper placard: Bibere venenum in auro. The alcoholic section is a variety of cocktails, but particularly a copious amount of wine pilfered from the Tip Top bar. The non-alcoholic side is predictably soda, water, and juice. There are also a few pots of brewed tea from Belle - get them while they're hot!

The final table sports every swimsuit that coat check and the pool room had to offer, along with sunglasses ( for what? Why, style of course ). The placard reads: Fortunae naufragium.

It may be a bit more lavish than Ratigan’s party, but there is one key difference - it’s all self-serve.

Comments

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[hellosalem]

[hello josh don't mind sarah she's gonna get. very close.]

You are a very attractive one...can I keep you?

[lusito]

[Joshua raises an eyebrow at the "virgin" comment, but uh... Hi Sarah.]

Why thank you, you're certainly good-looking yourself. [Though, Joshua only hums a little as he considers--] And that depends, would agreeing to that mean that you'd be able to help me leave this place?

[josh no]

[hellosalem]

That depends...perhaps we can go back to mine.

[practically pressing herself up against him tbh]

[anasty]

[ Oh hello, just sliding in to try to wrap a tentacle around Josh. If she butts against Sarah, fine. She's so very slight compared to the likes of Ursula. ]

He's not going anywhere, darling.

Unless the offer is for two.

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[hellosalem]

Hmm. I'm flexible, but I admit I've never been great at sharing~

[hellosalem]

Enough with your incessant flirting, Sarah!

[Sarah absolutely does not stop, still trying to get close to Josh despite the sea witch. Winifred raises an eyebrow.]

You seem like a more rational creature than this one here.

[anasty]

I don't think I flatter myself to say I'm a crowd pleaser.

[ Every end of Ursula's tentacles curl... Then one tries to provide a stalwart barrier between Josh and Sarah. Kiss her suckers, harlot. ]

Though... I can't help noticing you seem to be a woman of much more selective ends. I've already heard you're the Sanderson sisters, but who... are you?

[hellosalem]

You certainly have a degree of immediate charm.

Winifred Sanderson. The most charismatic of the trio.

[keyofimagination]

[Uuuugh is he really gonna have to stop a weird witch orgy tonight? Ugh.

Hello Sandersons, it's your buddy Rod.]

Hello again.

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[hellosalem]

...He's baaaaaccckk, Winnie.

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[hellosalem]

Hello there, Mr. Grayscale.

[hello darkness my old friend]

3/3

[hellosalem]

[eyes to ursula

eyes to joshua

eyes to rod]

All for me?

[keyofimagination]

Rod works just fine.

[He eyes Sarah.]

And I'm afraid we can't give you want you want, Sarah.

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[hellosalem]

Thou dost not speak for them.

[anasty]

Ursula, the Sea Witch.

[ She makes a half curtsy, her tentacles splaying... and the one trying to shove Sarah back in the process. ]

Winifred, I can already surmise you're quite powerful. By the tides, look at you! If I didn't know any better, I'd say you fared less than a century! Sometimes that comes with a little subjection to summoning, I understand.

[ She glances at the candle demonstratively. ]

But you know, I think I might just have the solution to that little annoyance. You look like a woman who has taken up every bit of magic the land has to offer, but the sea is another beast!

And I'm happy to give it to you all... if you can possibly solve mine.

[lusito]

[Joshua does absolutely nothing to reciprocate or stop her. He just continues smiling in his usual manner as he plays with his phone in one of his hands here.]

Oh? And where might that be, if you don't mind my asking?

[hellosalem]

Salem, of co- [and whoops here's ursula]

[lusito]

[Joshua simply shrugs like this is not at all alarming as he speaks.]

I hear Salem's a lovely place, though I've never had the chance to go there myself. [He then holds up his phone.] Would it be alright if I got a picture with you, Miss Sanderson?

[He's... already sliding to the camera tab and setting up the shot for a selfie here, despite the tentacle Ursula has put up as a barrier trying to keep Sarah from him here.]

[hellosalem]

...A picture?

[what is that what is a picture]

[lusito]

Something to look at as a reminder of this wonderful first meeting. Have you never had your picture taken before?

[hellosalem]

I have never heard of such a concept! You boys are so interesting~

[lusito]

Not as interesting as you are, I'm afraid.

[So how about it? If Sarah is cool with it, Josh is absolutely going to take a selfie of them here.]

[hellosalem]

[okay shes p happy about it at first but then there's a camera flash and]

IT IS BLINDING!

[lusito]

Oh... my apologies dear, I must have forgotten about the flash.

[Which, can be turned off as he snaps another quick selfie before moving the phone so that Sarah can see the result... if she's not still blind from the first photo being taken.]

[hellosalem]

I am beautiful!

[despite the tentacle that seems to be obscuring much of her body]

This device, it captures one's image?