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The Onsen, Monday

It was a beautiful day outside!

Nina's explorations hadn't yielded anything strange or bitey or dangerous that wasn't usually strange or bitey or dangerous around the island, when it wasn't messing around with their locations, and she'd sent out an email, on Friday, after all that meant now that it was definitely looking really great for the week?

ONSEN PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What was that? Island-wide texts were obnoxious?

Well, like, whatever, the water was great! The sky was back! There was no possible way a party like this could go wrong, right?

… Right?

Well, it wouldn't go wrong today, anyway!

[~~Please to be waiting for the~~ OCD is up, up, and away! And yes, yes that text hit up everyone.]

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Don't forget, you've got to wear bathing suits!

Do not ask how Nina got this party catered on, like, two seconds real notice. But she managed it, and all the ~~moddable~~ food was great! And well away from the water!

Who doesn't want to hang out and party in an onsen? Really now?

For those who, like, don't want to hang out with a bunch of party-goers, I guess!

[For the use of anyone who would like the use the onsen without the party bit, yo.]

As per my understanding of this week's infections, you've actually got to touch the water to get infected, yo. So the Arrive/Mingle and Food threads are party threads but not infection threads. If you want to get infected, hit up the Onsen Party or the Not The Party threads!

Ah, yes, don't forget about the bathing suits...

How could Sidon ever forget about the completely irrational, nonsensical, completely arbitrary (in his esteemed opinion, anyway) requirement for bathing suits in the onsen, which also did not even allow you to swim much, or, at the very least, they gave you very firm glares if you so much as flicked your heattail and splashed a bit?

But far be it from him to not enjoy the occassion for a party held by his dear little sister in light on the island going back to something a little more everyone's speed, especially when said party specifically involved water. So Sidon was there, looking a bit ridiculous in the pair of swim trunks he'd gotten specifically for occassions such as these, but determined not to let himself feel as ridiculous as he figured he very much likely appeared.

Swim trunks indeed!

(They were very nice, though, and the red and white blocking could almost match his natural coloring enough that, at first glance, perhaps one might not even notice...)

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Nina was here and there and everywhere and totally, like, willing to talk to everyone as she flitted about making sure, like, everything was perfect.

Her bathing suit was an eminently tasteful and cute pink one-piece. Nina had taken a couple of looks at the bikinis and... and... no, definitely not, she was a lady and in her world, ladies didn't flash that much skin, like, ever............ and she still felt rather embarrassed at the idea that others might, like, wear them.......

"Siiiiiiiiiiiiiidon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, beaming happily up at him. "You made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"But of course!" said Sidon, pumping an enthusiastic fist and beaming happily down at Nina, before gesturing with his arms open wide in appreciation for what she'd set up here. "How could I possibly miss such a grand and, quite frankly, quite necessary occasion? Parties with your hand involved are always exceptional, too, Nina, and I could hardly pass up any momentous event wherein I may so easily combine two of my favorite things in one fell swoop: enjoying the marvelous waters of our very own onsen as well as the company of my most magnificent friends! I must extend a gracious appreciation to you for inviting me!"

And, yes, he knew that she'd invited everyone, that wasn't the point.

Well, thank the gods the week leading up to this was a week without much food available, which really sort of helped Prompto out a little bit in the whole self-conscious about his body thing. He wouldn't be feeling like he was wearing, instead of a shirt, evidence of every extra splurged calorie there on his otherwise svelte frame. And, sure, he'd worked hard for that svelte frame and was stupid proud of it, but he was still too much of that chubby kid at heart to ever feel completely comfortable about it, especially surrounded by other people. So he was planning on spending as little time with the whole arriving and mingling thing as he could and just going pretty much straight for the cover of water.

Warm, blissful water that wasn't over their heads or leaking out of the one thing that separated them from it.

Fresh air, blue sky, no feeling of being locked in and trapped. Prompto didn't even need the water to relax him in that moment, but it was a nice touch, and he breathed in a deep, appreciative sigh as he closed his eyes and settled in against one of the walls, putting his arms up on the edge (those, after all, he was unabashedly proud of and sort of needed to take the chance to show off, even if he did twitch his hands at the wrists on occassion because he'd decided, after a long debate, to eschew his gloves because that would be ridiculous, but he still had a terrycloth wristband over his tattoos. He doubted anyone who didn't already know about them would even notice, but he just felt significantly more comfortable with them there).

This was nice, though. He could almost forget to even be anxious like this, and was so, so grateful for what was shaping up to be an actual normal, nice week after that last one.

Besides, like, she'd only invited everyone because she hadn't wanted anyone to feel left out.

Nina would be… very, very surprised if everyone showed up!

"I would never throw a party without you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said earnestly. Which was mostly true, unless she threw a girls-only party for some reason and even then, like, Sidon had come along with all of the other girls to Neclord's castle… "I'm just, like, glad that the island cooperated with today's festivities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Um, yeah, Nina was definitely not hosting a party at a hot spring and then not going in the water. That would be beyond ridiculous.

And, like, the water was so nice and warm and oh, maybe she'd just never leave it, that sounded great! Besides, like, what was the point of a bathing suit, really, if she wasn't going to be in the water while wearing it?

Nina relaxed against one of the walls, blissfully happy.

Nina, like, wasn't going to start a splash party at the onsen, not when that would get them kicked out (most likely) by the staff that had been super accommodating of her last minute party, but she was going to take a moment to admire Prompto—he did really have nice arms, it was true—before sending a smallish sort of splash his way with a gleeful laugh.

Just because she could.

"Well, how could it not have?" asked Sidon, with a laugh. "It would just have been terribly inconsiderate of it if it weren't to take into account these excellent plans of yours and make it difficult for us all to enjoy ourselves a little. It's the very least it could do, really!"

Sidon was hardly going to go to a party centered around being in the water and not go in the water, especially not when he'd gone through the trouble of appeasing that ludicrious swim trunks rule that they had here at the onsen! And he was also incredibly content in just sinking down as far as he could (and, really, all things considered, he was rather impressed that there was, somehow, space for him to even sink down as far as he could, though it did require a little bit of curling up), until nearly all but his head was delightfully submerged.

And now to just fight the urge to not just start swimming about!

...or to just fall asleep. It was quite a bit warmer than the sleeping pools back home, but it did rather bring those to mind, which was a terribly comforting and relaxing and soporiphic thought...

"Do you think, like, the island really takes our feelings and plans into consideration???????????????????" Nina asked, intrigued. "Though I did think, like, it was awfully nice of it to oblige me today, since so many people have been unhappy with what the island has been doing this summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She liked it, really, since it was neat to see all these other snapshots of how things could go.

Well. Who doesn't love a hot tub party? Even if that hot tub party didn't involve a hot tub, on account of it being less bubbly and less chlorinated.

Wayne wasn't sure if he'd really stay for long, but he had been invited and it was impolite to turn down an invite, especially if you didn't have a good excuse, but he figured if it got too awkward sitting around with everyone in their swimwear in hot, non-bubbly water, well, then, he could likely always slip out with a good old Letterkenny Leave.

His swim trunks, it should be noted, were not, in fact, plaid or flannel.

Wouldn't make much sense to come all the way over to the hot springs for a hot springs party and not actually get in the hot springs, now, would it? So Wayne was taking a spot, sinking in, and doing as he always did for these sorts of things, keeping his hands noticeably out of the water..

And as he sat there, he was taking note of how everyone else was sitting, because,usually, at these things, you had all sorts, and he was checking to see if they were all accounted for:

There was the guy who sat with his chin in the water, which he supposed he should have expected from the big fish fella, though he was wondering just how he made all that room when it wasn't all that deep.

A guy sitting there with his shoulders ouwt was usually a given, but the one with the arms definitely fit the bill for the guy who took up two to three times more real estate than everybody else because he's just, like....puttin' the vibe out there.

Someone, he was sure of it, was going to hop out in a second to be the Edge-Sitter, too. Always had to have an Edge-Sitter.

And he? Well, he was the guy who sits there with the hands out of the water so he could keep 'em dry so he could still dig out and light smokes.

Which meant he was wondering if they'd allow smokes in here.

And Prompto, who felt like he was being the perfect picture of meditative calm and relaxation just then despite being a big ball of internal anxiety, quirked one brow, then cracked open one eye, and gave Nina the cool, calculated sort of look that was weighing just how worth it it might be to get kicked out of this place due to excessive splashing and, yes, he would so go there...perhaps even dunking.

It would be worth it, he decided, but just...perhaps...not quite yet.

So he drew in a breath and closed his eye again and lifted his chin, shifting where he was as if to make it obvious that he was even more comfortable and unperterbed then before, clearly so Zen right now as to be able to rise far, far above such petty, childish silliness.

...until the fingers that were dripping in the water oh-so-subtly flicked a splash back her way.

"It has certainly been..." Sidon considered a good word for it, "intriguing, and I must admit, there is a very strong sense of excitement in not knowing what may come next. I know I myself have not been a fan of some of them, but the very nice thing about it is that it seems to be working on a sort of schedule, so if you find a certain change unfortunate or unpalatable, why, simply hold on and wait for a week, and you shall find something completely different with the next shift! It's all rather thrilling when you put it into that context, isn't it? And it does make me rather distrustful," he said it with a laugh, though, as if he didn't terribly mind, "of today's current peacefulness, but I am rather eager to discover if it truly is a bit of a break, or if there's something else more exciting in store for us as the week goes on!"

"Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!! Rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare you splash a lady?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

Never mind that she'd splashed him first! Nina was taking the chance to sound delightfully scandalized and running with it!

And, like, sending a wave his way—totally accidentally, of course—as she shifted to sit closer to him.

"I mean, like, last time we had a peaceful week, we got talking animals!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina pointed out. "I keep thinking that there's got to be something like that, maybe???????????"

Something fun and positive!

Glowing water, once the sun set, was totally going to make her go 'ooooooooooh, pretty!' and assume that was what the week's weirdness was.

Yeah that was… Nina tried, she really did, but eventually she just had to drift over to Wayne.

"Why are you holding your hands above water????????????????"

"I don't know what you're even talking about, Nina," said Prompto, all innocence and a quirked brow (and a crooked grin) as he opened his eyes and turned his head toward her as she moved in, and if he just so happened to need to take a moment to stretch those arms of his forward, lacing his fingers together as reached over the water, and pushed some water out, possibly her way, when he broke the stretch and went to put his arms back where they were, well, then, that was merely an accident. He shifted with a lofty lift of his chin.

"Only one I see splashing around here is the lady herself."

Sidon, however, who was likely to take advantage of not only the decent weather but the slightly different location along the coast, was going to realize from a more exploratory swim that, pretty as it might be, there was also something a bit...not quite right about it all.

Of course, that wasn't going to be for a while now, so, at the moment, he just grinned, chuckling a bit. "The talking animals were lovely," he said, "so I would certainly enjoy something to that effect again! I only regret that I didn't have the chance to stop in and ask Miss Dozy herself how she's settling in with you and Vette and Foomy, but I trust you had many opportunities to get to know your dear pets a bit better that week, Nina."

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