03 | I apologize

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph, you, and special guest Mara!
Setting: Any floor of the tower. Any.
Format: Starting with action brackets, will match anything.
Summary: Aleph lets his demons out and about sometimes. This includes Mara.
Warnings: Mara is a giant green penis in a chariot.

[During your stay in the tower, while going about your daily business, you run into this. It nods its... head... in acknowledgement of your presence.

What do you do.]

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[blankplatform]

......................uuuuuh.................

[Staring... at it... and just... staring... I... guess.]

[alephbet]

[Soon enough an actual human shows up, looking embarrassed.]

Sorry, he didn't give you any trouble, did he?

[technologic]

[What.

The.

Fuck.

April would say something but she's too paralyzed by "OHGOD WHAT THE HELL IT'S A GIANT DICK IN A CHARIOT" to do anything but stare.]

[alephbet]

[Aleph pokes his head around a corner and approaches.]

April. I can explain.

[technologic]

[It takes a moment for her to hear Aleph over her internal screaming, but when she looks over at him, she looks torn between horrified and really unamused.] ... W-what the fuck, Aleph? I-is this one of your d-demons?

[alephbet]

...Yeah, this is Mara.

[absolute_perception]

[Going about his routine with his cart, he just emerged out of the bathrooms and turned the corner. The rumbling of wheels from the cart almost masked the presence of that... thing. If it wasn't the chemicals messing with his head, it's the creeping mushroom spores or something. The little person young teen just walks on by with a shake to his head.]

[alephbet]

[Aleph watches him go and sighs. That was one awkward conversation he didn't have to have.]

[technologic]

... Right. [Deep breathes, April. Don't panic, don't panic.] And... w-why is your giant dick in a chariot out? Y-you do realize that people might get... uneasy or something.

[alephbet]

My demons don't like to be cooped up for long periods of time, and if I let one of them take a breather, then I have to let all of them get the chance or they start bickering about it.

[absolute_perception]

[Deadpan, as if this isn't new to him at all as he pushes the cart past Aleph.]

Your Alter needs work.

[alephbet]

Alter? [Blink blink.]

[absolute_perception]

[He doesn't bother to look at the thing. Seeing it once was weird enough.]

If you are questioning it, then it's not that important.

[He sighs and explains it anyway.]

It's the decomposition and reconstitution of matter through psychic effort. However, there are only a small percentage of people born with this ability. At last count, five percent had this ability.

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno seems to be bottling his latest round of moonshine in the cafeteria.


Was that a giant green penis monster in a chariot that just rolled by?

Yes. Yes it was.


Shrugging, he turns his attention back to his task at hand.]

[alephbet]

I don't think I have any psychic skills, last time I checked.

[alephbet]

[And following it, Aleph stops to look at something more interesting.]

We finally have alcohol?

[grislytragedian]

[Doot dee doo just minding his own business, wandering the tower and l-- dear god that is a giant green penis in a chariot what. What.]

[John rubs his eyes, maybe this is some really, really bizarre hallucination or something. Nope. NO there is definitely still a chariot-bound giant phallus in the middle of this hallway.]

[What does he do? Fuck he has no idea. Just stand here and be baffled, I guess? Is it a monster? Should he attempt to...punch...it? Yeah no he's not touching that thing. Dammit hammer-scythe, why are you still broken? It doesn't seem to be attacking though so maybe it's...a friendly penis?]

[midgarhorizon]

[Oh, there's someone behind the penis. Figures. He doesn't even look up as he's pouring the liquid from a large pan into the separate bottles with a siphon hose.]

Huh, what do ya mean 'finally?'

[alephbet]

[When Aleph pokes his head around the corner - crap, it's someone young. He is the worst Messiah.]

Mara, why don't we have this conversation without you right here? Thanks.

[With another nod, the giant dick disappears in a burst of light, back into Aleph's arm terminal.]

...Right. Um. I'm very sorry.

[alephbet]

As far as I knew there was a serious shortage of it.

[papadojima]

*Okay. Okay. He was just minding his own business, coming back up from the cafeteria, when he came face to head with... this thing. Now he had seen Yu used strange creatures as his Persona, but never something like this at all.* Uh...

[technologic]

[She glances over at Mara, and then rubs her forehead.] I... That makes sense... Though I-I hope you don't mind me saying that a dick in a chariot was something I had never wanted to see.

[midgarhorizon]

Oh. Yeah, still is. I got tired of not bein' able to get drunk every night so I started making it myself.

[Pause]

You must've missed otherme's network flier about the bar up in the 38th.

[alephbet]

[Coming up from around Mara.]

...So this is awkward.

[alephbet]

I must have. That's good to know, I think I'll check that out later.