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[voxnocte]

°     ☾     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ hyun loves his life. loves his career. there's very little about it he would change. "...so this is our last week together for this year. you won't even be here when i am - why did they sign off on those dates?..." except this. this he would change in a heartbeat because he so deeply hates this separation. from piper. from his family. it's the first he's done it since his group began to grow in popularity, "am i even a member of skyhouse at this point? with how much i'm gone. " there's a deep, irrational sadness and fear bubbling up in him that he's trying his best to keep down. but the miswiring of his brain makes that a challenge.

"Oh, that's exciting." Though, Piper wasn't sure why they were going again. The team barely got enough time to rest, it was so important to care for your well-being. She didn't want to be overbearing, but if she was worried, she could only imagine their CEO. "I'll...be in Canada this year for Christmas. My cousin's getting married, so I promised, you know? We can still facetime all the time."

[voxnocte]

blog heavily under construction. carrd should be up and running this weekend and then i'll be up to interactions ✌️

[voxnocte]

°     ☾     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ "we're going back on tour." no better way to get the news out of the way than to just say it. naturally, he's excited. but there's a bittersweet component to it. he'd only been home a week since the first leg of the tour had ended, " - more dates got booked. and we're leaving next week. i'll be back for christmas but...after that we won't be back til february. "

( @retroromancez )

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ if she knows meli, it's surprising how little she knows about ethan and leia. he didn't expect her to know about namgi and his dealings in the realm, but to not know anything at all about who ethan is, who leia is - who meli herself is - its odd to see a two star 'family' member so seemingly detached from the supernaturality of the place and the people around them. she asks her question, and suddenly he feels a twinge of something in the pit of his stomach he can't quite identify. but it's an urgent feeling. he had more words prepared, more spectacle to earn her trust. but none of that seems to matter now, " there's usually only two reasons for someone to see me. one - i'm helping them move on after they've died. or two ... i'm warning them so that i don't have to help them move on before their time. right now, for you, it's the latter...but your family is worried that i'll have to come find you again soon for that first reason..." his voice trails a little, hoping his point is clear.

"Ah...." But wouldn't that mean she was still....technically dead? She wonders until he clarifies. Oh, so she's a guest in this realm, and she's still alive. At least there's that. At least she hopes she is, her father would be devastated if she died. "That's....I know his wife. I don't usually see Meli's dad. But I know her mom, Meli came to my debut stage. Ah....what's going on here?"

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ " no, you're not dead. where you are right now - you've probably heard it called "purgatory" or "the afterlife's waiting room" - something to that effect. it's the space between life and death, where spirits linger before i help them move on. the living can't get here except with my invitation - or ethan's, i guess. that note was from me - i called you here. korain just delivered it for me. "

"When....what?" She blinks, staring at Namgi with a concerned look. "I got a note....but I was just in Salon Auntie's shop....." She blinks widely. "Am....am I dead?"

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ she really does seem so young. to young to be facing the potential fate ethan saw for her. no wonder everyone came rushing to namgi for this. to die so young before your time would be incredibly cruel, "...i wasn't much older than you when i died. so that's why. someone gave you a note, i assume? or an invitation of some sort." he says softly. he doesn't know how she'll respond to such a statement, or an explanation of where she is. years of this kind of work has taught him to be gentle and patient with those who are lost. for the moment, acacia is no different from a wandering spirit.

"Uhm...." She just kind of assumes she's now in some sort of magical situation, though she's grown up around a lot of magical people. Maybe he's a fan? She always had to be careful of that, never wanting to make FLORA look bad. "You know appa? You don't look much older than me...."

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ she must not realize that she's passed on. namgi rises from his seat to further console what he thinks is a very lost soul. it's not until she says 'dragon' that the autopilot in his head finally kicks off and he realizes who he's talking to, "ah - you're acacia. they didn't tell me when you'd be here. or even what entrance you were coming through - you're jinwoo's daughter. "

"Wandering? I mean, if walking into auntie's shop and into a library is wandering, then I suppose I did." Huh, what did he mean by that? "It's not really all that overwhelming, I just lost my way to the door. This place is really beautiful, though. I could get lost reading all of these books, but I do have to get back to my group so if you could point me in the direction of a very naughty river dragon who tricked me."

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ though he'd been informed he'd be meeting acacia, namgi didn't know this girl was her. the instructions he'd been given to help her hadn't included a description of her appearance, when she'd be coming, which entrance she'd come through - he'd been given surprisingly little to go off of. and so he assume her to be a wandering spirit and he begins the interaction as he has nearly every other for the past 30 some odd years of his afterlife - poking his from behind his book with the assumption that someone recently past has found their way to him for guidance and assurance, " welcome - this is probably really overwhelming but it's fine. you're here - and it's the safest place you can be. how recent was it? you haven't been wandering for to long have you?"

Korain...where had he sent her? This didn't exactly look like Auntie Byeol's salon. She should have known that the dragon was just being a trickster in more ways than one. She twists around as she looks. It's a library, a gorgeous one actually. She'd loved libraries as a kid, all they offered. When she stepped back into the back room, she wondered if Auntie Byeol had also tricked her.

"Hello?" She looks around, staring at all of the books around her. Well, she could pick one up but would it be smart? What if there was an issue with a book? She knew about cursed objects thanks to Korain. "Anyone here?" She opens her mouth again until she steps into a clearer area with a circulation desk. "Oh, perfect! Excuse me?"

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ the veil between realms is so much thinner than most are aware of. often people are face to face with wandering spirits making their way to the afterlife without even realizing it. and in some places - like old, hole in the wall establishments that no one really notices or the backroom of hair salon owned by close family friends - the veil is so thin that a small push can send someone right through to the other side. that push for acacia comes in the form of a note given to her by family directing her to 'auntie byeol's salon to meet someone to help'.

"back there, sweetie." byeol points to the back hall of her salon to a door that isn't...usually there, but appears from time to time as needed. and behind that door is a space that has no logical explanation for existing. ceilings so high they seem to go on forever into darkness, rows upon rows of books going off in every direction into - like the ceiling - darkness. a library that seems to exist infinitely all surrounding a singular circulation desk where namgi sits, his face in a book

( @moonlitfloorz )

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ shinhye keeps her expression neutral, but sits a bit more upright in her chair, pulling from her years of growing up alongside solbin to get a grasp on her 'character' as it were, " solbin just sort of stares at you. she arches her brow - you know how she does sometimes - as if challenging you. she flicks her gaze down, the back up, looking you over. she crosses her arms over her chest - 'if you didn't think i could do this with you, you shouldn'tve brought me along - '. you're standing there, having to deal with 5' nothing of stubbornness when that rustling from before - the rustling that made you want to investigate this path to begin with - seems like it's...louder now than it was before...."

"Roll for persuasion." Should be easy, right? It's a die, one through twenty, though he can't think of what he could possibly get. He's not that lucky. "Alright." He takes the dice, shaking it between his palms before he lets it go, rolling a ten. "I have a feeling it doesn't work...."

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ " that's so strange to me. i'm a disembodied voice in the background of your life...they don't know what i look like or anything, right? "

"They like you, they like when you chime in while i'm streaming." He admits with a laugh, watching Korain as he puts on school for his classroom of stuffies. "People always are asking for your opinions on things, I really like talking about you."

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ " what do you mean your chat likes me? they've only ever heard my voice like...randomly during your stream. what is there to like ?? "

@paridiseas (because fi being amused by this is canon)

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ shinhye turns in her chair a bit, reaching back towards the table to open her bag and pull out a small, silk pouch. from it she extracts a die. it's 20-sided, with a skull in the place of where the '1' would be. she puts the die in ezra's hand and motions for him to roll, " roll for persuasion. depending on how high you roll, that determines how solbin responds to your trying to convince her. and no - i won't tell you what number you need to be successful. "

"Oh, shit. Alright." He laughs a bit, tilting his head as he thinks. "I mean, normal situation I wouldn't touch her. That's Mikey's wife and he'd beat my ass. Uhm...still wouldn't touch her. I think I'd probably try to reason with her? Tell her that someone has to make sure our payload gets where it has to go and she's the smallest and fastest. She's got more luck of getting out of something alive."

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ how will he respond? casey expects just a quiet sigh, an 'are you sure?'. a gentle chiding. such is how he so often responds to him and his siblings, unless it's something worth getting loud about. but that's rare. his father has never been quick to anger. perhaps the romantic in him will win out, and support casey's incredibly selfish desire to keep jihye by his side for life, " i wanted to tell you first. " hands hang in mid air, fingers twitching slightly before continuing, " i asked jihye to marry me. "

@paridiseas (cont. from an old thread)

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ it'd already been discussed with management. with kt. with hyunsik. the other members. reactions were generally positive, though with some obvious sadness. several years of living together, a type of lifestyle that kept them only a footsteps away from each other would be hard to transition out of, " you don't have to help me. you obviously don't want to. " because who wants to pack up their friend's room? assist in the process of leaving what has been a comfortable and familiar situation for years now?

@paridiseas

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°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ " you're not leaving me behind !! " shinhye says, mimicking solbin's voice to the best of her ability. not perfect, but at least passable in her mind, " - solbin's the type to never back down from a challenge. and moreover...you go off on your own? and maybe even collect the whole bounty for yourself? she doesn't trust you enough yet. she moves into the path to block you...now what? "

Oh, she has the cutest laugh. It almost blinds him over her smile as well until he refocuses. Okay. Okay, he can do this. "W...Well...." He crosses his arms over his chest. "I think probably the first thing I'd do is make sure I'm armed, right? Even with just a heavy rock. And i'd go investigate. And tell Kit to stay with Solbin. Because I'm sure Hyojin would want to check as well."

[voxnocte]

°     🔅     ╱     ⋯     ⤻ he has all hallmarks of a new, terrified player - with a bit of anxiety and perfectionism weaved into it. a sense of 'i have to do this right or i've failed' pulling at his mind that she suddenly feels very obligated to address, " not 'supposed to', so much as you just...will--because you're new. " she laughs lightly, a gentle smile tugging at the corners of her mouth as she pushes away from the table and rotates her chair so that she's facing ezra head on, " and that's perfectly okay. here, let me give you a setting - you, kit, hyojin, and solbin are bounty hunters. you've been hired by a neighboring kingdom to go into the nearby forests and find the lair of a...rogue gang of -- i don't know -- goblins that keep coming into the kingdom and stealing things. you're leading the group into the forest and along a path that is very well traveled, almost manicured. but there's also some brush off to the side that looks like...maybe it's been cut back a little bit? maybe you see some footprints but you aren't sure. what do you do? "

"I guess that makes sense. Ah, so it's better to go in blind, essentially?" He definitely hasn't played anything like this, he'll have to read more about it. Maybe watch a few videos. "You're supposed to fuck things up? I'm sorry if I'm asking so many questions, I've never thought about this before. I'm....definitely interested in doing this."