#aftonightmare

“...So we are to place these beacons around this city. This is simple enough.”

Rei holds the kit they’d been given, pursing his lips as he looks down at it briefly before looking back up at the other two members of his group. Their team name was certainly... something, that’s for sure (he can’t say much, he agreed to it without hesitation), but it was necessary. He’d met one of these men before, but the other--William was his name, if his memory wasn’t already faltering on him--was a new face to him.

Well, this was a decent way to get to know people better, wasn’t it? And the weather wasn’t too sunny today, so Rei hopefully wouldn’t have many issues with traversing wherever they’d need to go.

The thoughtful look he’d had shifts into a smile as he hoists up the kit, preparing himself to head out. “Well, we’ve decided a name for our team and received this kit, so I suppose the next step is to begin placing them, yes? Surely we’ll be working together for the day, so I do hope the lot of us will get along, team... BADE.”

.ﾟ☆ﾟ.  ╼  pick up line meme.

oh? well, this is certainly new. he’s not exactly used to people straight up flirting with him, though he is aware that there was a chance it was going to be happening sooner or later.

he just didn’t expect it to happen so soon.

so, tony reaches a hand up and puts it on william’s cheek, a smile forming on his lips. he pats it a few times lightly with his hands, his smile not once faltering, and says--

   So she rests, pondering to herself why she was even in this place to begin with, but all this thinking was tiring her out faster than she could come up with an even remotely decent reason, so she nodded off, snoring all the while. Honestly, as nasty the smell was, it reminded her of the shortcuts she took to get to her village back home. And she started to dream. Dream of the Kaka Kittens, Torakaka, and all her friends. ...But such bliss was short lived as she felt a sharp pain at the end of her tail.

   “MEOOOOOOOOOOWWWWCH!!!” She hollered. Seems someone stepped on the poor girls tail while she was napping. It had been hanging off the mattress haphazardly, but Taokaka wasn’t about to let her assailant get off easily.

   “WHAT THE HELL, MEOW!! THAT REALLY HURT!!! WHO STEPPED ON TAO’S TAIL, MEOW!!”

“i can feel you staring.” 

there was quite a lot of things that tony wasn’t too big of a fan of - and one of those was minding his own business and having someone stare at him for god knows how long. for the most part, tony had been able to ignore it, but as he stares at the pocket watch given to him swaying back and forth and lightly pushing against the breeze flowing by them, he just can’t seem to ignore it anymore.

tony closes his hands against the pocket watch before he looks over his shoulder to the gentleman standing just a few feet away from him.

It had just been something that Mike hadn’t really bothered to care doing since he arrived in Spirale - looking to see where he’s walking to make sure he doesn’t bump into others. He had made his share of running directly into someone, but he would simply utter an apology with a halfhearted “I’ll look where I’m going next time,” as he continues on his path - and today was no exception.

Mike finds himself colliding into the back of someone far taller than him, hard enough to nearly knock the hat off his head. He had no clue why he bothered to still wear the damn thing in the first place, he was no longer a security guard during his time here. It was the closest thing he has to home, he supposed. He keeps his attention down to the floor below, reaching up to adjust the hat on his head as he lets out a quiet sigh.

“I’m s--” Yet, as he looks up to see who it was he had bumped into, Mike finds his words caught in his throat.

Never in a million years did Mike ever think that he would cross paths with him again. Well - actually, he can take that back. He knew one day it would come eventually, but did he expect it would come this soon? No-- never. For a second, Mike considers stepping back and running as far away as he can in that possible moment, but he’s already bumped into him and his wide blue eyes filled with fear meet those cold-stoned purple irises, and he knows there’s no turning back, now. 

Besides - if he were to even try, he knows that the man in front of him would only track him down and bother him. He didn’t think that he’d be running into him this soon - and the thought was horrifying to him, needless to say.

He knew this day was going to be coming eventually. Was he ready for it-? By god, no. He wasn’t. There was that voice in the back of his mind screaming at him to run away, turn away and never look back - don’t let this man get to you-- but he knows better by now. No matter how hard he’ll try, so long as they’re in the same vicinity, it was bound to happen eventually.

It would be better if he got it over with sooner than later, would it not? With a heavy sigh, Mike pulls his head off to the side and breaks eye contact with the man he had once considered his father, and crosses his arms. He gives his arms a light rub, his heart ever so slightly pounding against his chest as he attempts to speak up and say something, anything.

Welcome to scenic Isola Radiale, William!

You will be housed in CONDO 452.

Here’s a wooden knife.