text, un: rosaceae

[roseblooms]

You know, for all that "it was a dark and stormy night" is a hackneyed cliché, I have to admit that I really can't think of a more apt way of describing the state of affairs outside. There's already water collecting in the streets; I imagine it won't be long before the roads and walkways are covered over. And from the sound of it, this storm is going to get worse before it gets better.

Squalls like this weren't altogether uncommon in the place I consider to be my native land; it was a wild place where raw power governed, so it only seems natural that it would have weather to match. I can't deny that even now, I still find a certain raw beauty in the fury of it all. But all the same, these sorts of storms are not to be trifled with, or taken lightly — and they're far better experienced from beneath the shelter of a sturdy roof and solid walls.

If you're not already prepared to weather a deluge, I would recommend remedying that quickly. There's something that feels oddly vicious about this particular tempest, and I won't be at all surprised if trying to brave it becomes hazardous sooner rather than later.

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text / un: hiei

[jaganshi]

Well at least you are dry enough to wax poetic, Kurama.

I have cakes.

What was it you needed for that dish, again?

[ He totally didn't come out in the middle of this power-sapping storm to get a bunch of sweets, okay? He didn't. ]

[roseblooms]

Aburaage and mirin. And from where do you intend to get them, exactly?

[jaganshi]

The store?

Don't tell me I need to get them from Amegahara in this shit.

[roseblooms]

You decided to make a grocery run in this weather. For sweets?

[IT'S TEXT BUT YOU CAN JUST HEAR THE "OH MY GOD..."]

anon

[bolderfell]

People die in weather like this where I'm from. Never thought I'd be glad for the ridiculous height of the buildings here, but clouds and silver linings, I guess.

[roseblooms]

[...Random-ass anon poster could, in theory, be anyone. There's nothing really indicative one way or another. And yet...hmm. Well, why not, tossing a little bait in the water couldn't hurt.]

Yes, and with no telling when it might lessen or abate. We might as well try reading tea leaves, for all that we might hazard a guess.

[bolderfell]

[Wait. Wait, hang on. What did that kid do, which of these 'keys' does he press to make the--ah.]

:)

Yeah. Never know what you'll find if you take a good butcher's at your cup of rosie.

Guessing games aside, it's strange we didn't have any warning for it. Thought the scientists with their tecknology could see something this big coming for us. I've seen people predicting the weather on those big glass panels before.

[roseblooms]

[THIS FUCKING GUY oh well let him stay anonymous, at least now we both know who each other are.]

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes". Lunar Scientia made some sort of archaeological discovery to the south recently; perhaps we've robbed the wrong tomb, figuratively speaking.

un: camliax

[speakerstone]

I never really did see the appeal in this weather. I suppose there is something soothing about feeling sheltered from the storm, but it's mostly just inconvenient.

But yes, if people are reading this, be safe. The course of nature can change in just an instant. If you are able, stay inside, avoid stagnant water, and if you can't...well, I suspect you have far worse problems.

[roseblooms]

Well put. Here's hoping people are sensible enough to heed the warnings, unlike my wayward partner, who seems to have ventured out into the storm in search of sweets and cake.

[speakerstone]

Your partner sounds a little like somebody I know. You would think if we're meant to save the planet, they would have chosen more people with common sense to do it, but I guess it doesn't always work out that way.

I hope your partner returns to you safely. And dryly, for the sake of your desserts and your floors!

[roseblooms]

I'm sorry to hear there's such a rash of reckless associates around. Perhaps there's something about this place that attracts them.

He'll be fine, I'm certain of that. For all that I may seem concerned, I have the utmost confidence in him.

text | un: kishibe

[penpoint]

It always gets worse before it gets better. It's one of the predictable things about this place.

[ but, that's not why he's here, he'll just ask ]

What's your native land, then?

[roseblooms]

It goes by a few names. One of them is Makai. I don't suppose you're familiar with it?

[penpoint]

I can't say that I am.

[roseblooms]

Somewhat more colloquially known as Demon World. It's neither Dante's seven circles nor Milton's Pandæmonium, but there are comparisons that could be made, I suppose.

[sheisthewind]

I suppose it is the correct time of month for a particularly bad storm.

[roseblooms]

This sort of thing happens like clockwork, does it?

[sheisthewind]

Not the weather so much as trouble in general. If it's going to happen on a significant enough level to affect a lot of us, it will almost inevitably happen sometime after the end of the triple moon cycle and before the Sanguis cycle.

Text; UN: Verbatim

[jobshadowing]

I liked the story you were trying to tell better than the warning. Tell the story more about this "raw", unbridled power. I can live every day in this storm, but not in the story that sounds so much better than this.

[roseblooms]

No, I don't think I will tell that story, actually. What is it about it that interests you so?

[jobshadowing]

How disappointing. It seemed so exhilarating. There seems to be such a lack of excitement here, this storm doesn't seem too terrible if you're safely tucked away. Your story, however, sounds like a harrowing tale that builds up to so much more with words used like "...a wild place where raw power governed..." adding in paraphrase that it's commonplace. Are you just against storytelling?

text, un: KUWABARA

[machizumo]

Is is creepy. Like you expect something to crawl out of it. All slimy and shit.
I don't like it.

[roseblooms]

Well, woe betide the slimy thing if it happens to encounter Hiei, I suppose. He's out in this mess, at present.

You feel it too, though. Something...isn't right.

[machizumo]

Dumbass.

I mean the creepy vibe here happens like A LOT so maybe it's not a big deal but
You don't think the ocean can come up here and get us do you?