you need a bloody shower [post-event mingle]

[bloodyashes]

Characters: Any and all!
Setting: Floor 77, sauna
Format: Action-mingle - start your own threads!
Summary: The event is over and everyone who was stuck in the dorms needs a serious bath.
Warnings: Post-event shenanigans? Also baths so p much everyone is at least partially naked.

And so now that you've made your way free of the hell that is the dorm rooms -

This floor mimics a sauna--there are three entrances: one for men, one for women, and one for mixed. Inside each room is the wooden interior one would expect. Outside each area is a small changing room with lockers--if you look, you'll find one with your name on it. The locker will only open up for you. It might be a good place to store things, actually...

- it's time for everyone to take a bath! There's both hot, steamy stalls and large hot spring pools - but you'd better hurry! It's gonna get crowded in here kind of fast.

And hey, keep that towel closed, there's children in here!

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[Mixed Hot Springs]

[falseidentity]

[A bath sounds wonderful. So Kachessa has moved into the hot springs where the bathing is mixed. Good conversation with any sex is fine with her, she just wants to relax. And, thankfully, the hot spring pools means rocks to rest against so no one can see the scars on her back. For right now, she's going to relax and bathe because all that time stuck in the room made her feel grimy and clean is a good thing. Besides, steam if good for clearing your head.]


[[OOC: As always, if you do not want to be tagged by Kachessa in the future, let me know. This also lists the warnings of things that may come up further down the line when it comes to CR with her!]]

[heavenscorpse]

[V/V knows very much how you feel. Actually, when she enters the mixed area, Kachessa is the first one she spots and the one she approaches.]

Oh, Kachessa! I'm glad we're all okay.

[Womens]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[While being trapped in a room by herself for five days wasn't nearly the worst thing to happen to her in her life, Veronica was still glad when it was over.

And being trapped along for five days didn't do wonders for your hygiene unfortunately. So Veronica made her way to the sauna floor, or whatever it was called, and got to work. She found a hot springs and started diligently scrubbing herself down. She gave a silent thanks that it was currently empty, this whole public thing wasn't something she was used to.

To those who comes across Veronica two things will be immediately apparent. One, she's really small without her cloak on, thin with lots of muscle tone. The second thing is that her entire body is covered in hundreds of scars, some medical, others not. In some places, her skin is more scare tissue than actual skin. Go ahead, ask about it.]

[fionnuisce]

[Dammit guys he just wanted to be left alone and clean up, for god's sake. Waver stepped off the staircase, took one look at what appeared to be a gathering crowd, and rather quickly started backing off. Hell no. Heeeeeell no.]

[Apparently someone's embarrassingly shy. Care to stop him?]

[firstnothing]

[Xemnas, having already determinedly nearly scrubbed himself raw and then settled, soggy and betoweled, into the sauna to relax for at least a little while before moving on, slits open one yellow eye as Waver slams to a stop and begins reconsidering.

Whether Waver was a room victim or a digger, the Nobody couldn't tell from here. But it doesn't stop him from speaking up, his usual pleasant baritone voice sounding distinctly tired.]

You can either stay and clean up or run off and hope you don't get any dirtier. I'd suggest the former, while the water's still not terribly crowded.

[miseris_socios]

[There's a shove behind him towards the pools.]

You need a bath. Go take one or I'll drag you myself.

Mixed Pool

[firstnothing]

[After being trapped for days with the Holiday Team in a room with no real ventilation to speak of and nothing to wash with, even a Nobody can feel absolutely disgusting. Which meant the lamentable loss of his only pair of socks (the ones Ganta gave him even), and everything else being set aside carefully to be BURNED.

Then cleaning up. This involves a whole heck of a lot of scrubbing. Soap. More soap. Scrubbing.

By the time Xemnas actually reaches a sauna to soak in, he's almost more red-tinged than brown thanks to the determined effort to get rid of the feeling of not washing for days on end. A hot spring pool is selected, simply so he had something a little more comfortable than a wall to lean against, settle nose-deep into the steaming hot water and for all appearances go to sleep, his soggy silver hair a curtain.

He's not actually asleep of course, but it sure does look comfortable. ..Save for the abrasions. He'll go looking for the littles once he didn't feel like a biohazard anymore.]

[men] [mixed]

[miseris_socios]

[Well, Ken seems rather happy to be in the pools. He's floating around in both the men's area and the mixed area, depending on how he feels. He doesn't look like he's got a thousand-yard stare after this time, so he's probably okay.]

[And of course, he's open to being talked to.]

[fionnuisce]

[look to your left, ken]

[you have officially gotten a magical aristocrat to sulk]

[because he's pretty sure he got put in his place by a teenager and he is Displeased about it.]

[A DAY LATE - Mixed]

[bloodyashes]

[Dying does not mean that you get a bath, because Jason is a dickbag that way. Even if his body was clean, Asch would probably still feel incredibly dirty from the whole affair - he can practically still feel that last brief impression of being coated in blood, his own, Sheba's, Xion's, Van's.

It's a hell of a thing to wash out of your mind, especially coupled with yet another, longer stay trapped in his bed. He's doing his best, though, so he's here in the baths, sunk all the way up to the nape of his neck and his red hair already soaked from a couple of dives deeper into the water.

At least the rush is over - less awkward for everyone. Still, if you want to hassle, feel free. He'd probably appreciate it not being so quiet.]

[seekinganswers]

[He'll hear footsteps as Sheba approaches the spring - not loud, because she's barefoot and mostly just padding along, but they're there nonetheless. She's another who's died and whose arrival here was delayed, but -

Even though she's woken up with a brand-new body, she still remembers -

But she doesn't want to. She wants to wash the memories of what happened in there away along with the (now nonexistent, but still too easy to remember) blood. She's keeping her eyes on her feet as she walks and then lowers herself into the water, so she doesn't really notice Asch is there until she's already submerged and looks up.]

Oh... hey. [She chuckles a little weakly.] Looks like we had the same idea. [She had a longer wait before she could move again, though. But that's to be expected.]

[mixed]

[floreatnoctem]

[The thing about Chidori is that, despite being in the mixed bath, she's more or less made herself unnoticeable unless you can sense body heat or have some other sort of extra-sensory perception-- so if you're not careful, you're likely to trip over the half-dozing redhead with her hair piled up at the back of her head in something of a bow and held up with the two small, sword-shaped hair ornaments she always wears.

...though really, tripping over her might be a good thing, depending on how long she's been in there.]

[schrodinger's bath aka either mixed or womens]

[sageprincess]

[Under normal circumstances, Zelda would not even think about being in such a state of undress around so many.

These are not normal circumstances.

The Princess of Hyrule looks decidedly human as she slumps against the side of one of the hot springs, her head nestled in the crook of her folded arms. She may not have been one of the main diggers, but she's scaled and descended this damnable Tower more times than she's ready to count over the course of this past week, and she's tired. Propriety can go stuff it - the warm water feels far too good on her aching muscles to care.]

[falseidentity]

Careful you don't fall asleep. I'd hate for you to drown.

[A young woman has arrived at the mixed baths with her. It's where Kachessa is most comfortable, but she's worried the princess will fall asleep and slip under the water. Still, Chessa herself will sink under the water.]

[mens]

[altitonant_emperor]

[ After five days of hallucinations, pissing into a truck, injured or violent people, and being trapped in a small, enclosed space that couldn't be called absolutely hellish by the Tower's standards, but had been decidedly uncomfortable and unhygienic, Hidetoshi felt absolutely disgusting and dirty. Plus, he was fairly certain he smelled by now. He wanted to brush his teeth and scrub his skin raw. Naturally, once that was done, it meant slumping down into the water and doing nothing as a crowd began to file in.

He rested against the side of the large hot spring, droopy eyes half-closed.

It was pleasant to settle down in the heated water and relax aching muscles for awhile; he doesn't seem in a hurry to get out. Forget caution, he was tired. ]

[alephbet]

[Aleph is covered in a small layer of dirt as he enters the water - for once he doesn't have the visor on. He sighs, paying very little attention to the people around him, then after a while notices Hidetoshi.]

Clearing rubble, or in the dorms?

[ mixed ]

[chainsawn]

[ Urotsuki is there yet not. She didn't even mind being locked up or anything, she didn't even mind the slight wound she received before. That kind of pain is easy to deal with compared to other pain. Pain that can't go away as easily.

Even now, she still sees the flashes of the hospital. She still sees the boy sitting there. She still hears herself thinking-- "maybe I should just finish it myself."

As Urotsuki sits in the bath, she slowly slips further and further into the water, like she isn't paying attention at all. Someone might want to pull her up before she completely sinks under. ]

[notagiraffe]

[Small hands reach out to grab her and stop her slipping] Sorry... um... you were falling... [Once she's upright Taiki let's go and scoots back a bit]

double Lancer time! [mixed]

[puppy_lancer]

[Cu Chulainn hadn't expected the crowd when he dragged his brother over to the sauna floor so they could make up for that week locked in the room with some relaxation. However, he's quick to adjust, shedding his clothes and wrapping the right spots with towels.]

Come on, Bro!

[He calls to Diarmuid before hurrying over to a hot spring pool and all but jumping in.]

[Closed]

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid is less enthusiastic about visiting the sauna than his brother is. The dragging had almost been literal. There are other things he wanted to be doing. If nothing else there was someone he wanted to find. Someone he could have sworn he heard screaming during the last few days of their entrapment.

Or had that just been part of whatever had caused them to be seeing things toward the end?

After undressing and donning a towel, he slowly walks to where his brother is, entering the water in a much more subdued manner.

At least his brother isn't going to ask him about the scars. Cu Chulainn has plenty of his own, after all.

He doesn't say anything after entering the water. Diarmuid just finds and edge as far away from everyone as he can and shuts his eyes.]

[Mixed]

[gradosfinest]

[Amelia had to be honest, that wasn't quite the worst week she'd ever had in the Tower. But it was up there. She was willing to bet it had been far worse for the people trapped in the rooms after all, but after spending nearly a week hauling debris around, marching up and down the stairs and even getting blown up on one occasion? She was going to allow herself something of a break here. Not that she likes to have her armor off, much less everything else, but there's still a towel wrapped around her when she enters.

That, and a fairly dangerous looking black axe she's resting on one shoulder, only letting it go to set it down on the side of the water behind her before dropping into the water, folding her arms and struggling to avoid looking as worn out as she really is. Despite looking like she might be taking a nap though she's still awake. A moment to relax is no excuse to drop her guard completely after all.]

One Day Later (For anyone who died):

[And she's right back here the very next day, this time looking a bit less tired and a bit more like she's sulking slightly, arms folded and sitting in the water up to nearly her nose. So apparently, trying to jump right back into her usual training one day after completely wearing herself out was a bit too optimistic, because unlike some people in the Tower she's not gifted with inhuman endurance or the ability to recover from near total physical exhaustion in a single day.

So she's back here, somewhat grudgingly, because the water really does help and the sooner she finishes recovering the sooner she'll be ready for whatever else is going to get thrown at her.]

day 1; sorry for the mix-up

[puppy_lancer]

Mm?

[Lancer himself is dangerously close to dozing off in the relaxing hot water. However, he opens his eyes when he sees the girl stepping into the water and relaxing.]

...Hey.

[He looks over at the outside of the pool to see the axe behind her.]

Nice axe.

[mixed]

[irreverence]

[Asagi isn't the shy type by any means. But too many people in the bath at once have pushed her to settle in a corner, head submerged to just below her nose so she can still breathe, heels kicked up on the edge of the pool. She's got a book propped up near the edge, and every couple of minutes she turns the page with a tendril of hair- apparently weaponizing the short black tresses has its fair share of uses.

She doesn't look sociable in the least, but hey. All the more reason to bother her, right?]

Re: [mixed]

[puppy_lancer]

[And suddenly, a hand is snatching the book away from the hair tendrils.]

Guess who!

Wherever the fewest people are...

[oathshackledbird]

[He's not hiding. Diarmuid just doesn't want to be here. That is why, once he manages to escape his brother, he's hanging out in whatever spot that currently has the fewest number of people in it looking a lot less happy than any person enjoying a sauna after being trapped in a room with six other people for a week really should.

At least being here lets him check on his friends--the ones that weren't trapped in the room with him--though since he's feeling less than sociable at the moment, he only watches anyone he sees instead of going up to talk to them.

Someone should really do something about that...]

[fionnuisce]

[he sees you, loser]

[Waver had been content to simply sulk in the water for a while, but when he noticed Diarmuid looking miserable he quietly shifted over next to him. He finally seemed a little less withdrawn; when it came to Diarmuid there wasn't any need to hide his scars from Avenger or the number of other smaller ones he'd collected over the past years.]

[It was clear something was bothering him, but Waver decided against asking straight out. Maybe a distraction would work better--it had done well enough with Ken the other day, after all.]

You know, I'm starting to think this place wouldn't be too bad to practice basic magecraft in. With how much water there is, having me in here is like putting anyone else in an armory.

[Men's/Entrance]

[bashfulshifter]

[The past week has been absolutely dreadful--not just because of all the explosions and various injuries he sustained and the intolerably retched psychoradiation-induced headache he's had the last two days, but the constant worrying about everyone that he couldn't find, the idea that they were all suffering somewhere beneath the rubble or behind it and he could do nothing to help them.]

[This would likely explain why, upon coming to in his room that morning, Rick's first move was to leap from his bed and track down the rest of the Tower populace, just to affirm that he was no longer alone. It doesn't take him too long to find them collecting by the sauna floor; he hasn't frequented here, but honestly Rick is too busy trying to find his friends to be modest about walking around in a towel (although not enough for him to brave the mixed area).]

[He'll wander about the men's area for the most part, although he might linger in the entrance if he sees someone he recognizes before or after washing up. His greetings are unusual for someone that's gone through what they have: he'll give them a wide smile, and an enthusiastic wave to beckon whoever it is he's found to come join him.]

[alephbet]

[Aleph is more than willing to follow the beckon.]

You're all right, it looks like.

[Mixed or Women's]

[heavenscorpse]

[V/V's definition of 'gross' is not the same as everyone else's, but that still was a trying experience, and she's still willing to spend time relaxing with everyone else.

She doesn't really like to soak her wings (they get super heavy), so she'll be sitting up against the wall for the most part, legs in the water but not much else.]

[Women's]

[pure_as_snow]

[Communal bathing was something of a novelty Irisviel, who, being raised in solitude deep in the German Countryside, was used to lavish porcelain bathing quarters and, to a lesser degree, the small bath attached to the mansion Kiritsugu had used during the Grail War.

Like a child experiencing something for the first time, Irisviel was all smiles and sunshine as she entered the bath. Soaking herself in the murky water, she occasionally splashes lightly upon the water's surface and giggles to herself. It was a small way to getting her mind off what had happened over the past month, even if just for a short moment.]

[culbutiri]

Communal bathing wasn't new to Nesir but sauna's and large hot pools were. But after being stuck in a room for a week she wanted to bathe forever and she was no coward that she wouldn't try a new thing.

So she climbed into the tub cautiously and glared as the other woman's splashing flicked water on her. "What did you be doing that for?"

[everywhere]

[bowandblade]

[Perhaps you are getting ready for the sauna in the locker room. Perhaps you're already in one of the saunas. Perhaps you're relaxing in the hot springs... Wherever you are, there is a smiling blond guy wearing a towel.

It doesn't matter if he knows you, if you're a guy or a girl... He's going to confidently declare a rating between 1 and 10 while looking at you.

What is that rating for? Who knows? Maybe he's just an oddball.]


[ooc: Choose any number and I'll roll with it! Archer is just going for reactions.]

[irreverence]

...what the hell are you doing?

[Asagi looks up from her book when she hears numbers being called out, expression somewhat befuddled.]

God please be something entertaining.

[Books were alright and all, but anything for something more interesting to do.]

[Mixed hot springs]

[no_longer_a_king]

....Arturia had never thought she would be so grateful for a bath before. If there had been anything of the modern era she truly indulged in besides food, it was hot baths and the ability to take one whenever she liked. A combination of managing resources and needing absolute privacy due to keeping her gender secret had meant she could not properly bathe too often as a King.

But in the modern era she had bathed daily, even if she thought she didn't need it. Truly whoever had made indoor plumbing so widespread was a hero of some kind, beyond that of any Heroic Spirit.

Thus the first thing Arturia does once she is released from her confinement and finds a free moment, is go to the hot springs for a bath. Something that she sinks into, a lazy almost catlike smile on her face as she sinks into the water up to her chin and enjoys the warmth soaking into her tired limbs.

[fionnuisce]

Why were there so many people around here? Not that he was shy or anything--or at least not that he'd dare admit as much. Waver was firmly insisting that his annoyance stemmed from the number of people and nothing more. The magus frowned in irritation and sank just a little lower as though hoping to disappear into the water or through the floor, arms folded in a gesture that didn't quite hide a pair of jagged scars from some sort of stab wound.

If nothing else, he visibly matched Arturia's level of contentment with his own level of irritation.

[mixed]

[notagiraffe]

[Taiki is happily sitting in the pools splashing around in the water, though he is very careful not to splash anyone. The last week had been really scary but it was not the worst thing that had happened and it had not ended with him horribly feverish from bloodsickness. It was good that everyone was here to get clean, this was something Taiki approved of.

At one point he slips and falls into the water with a splash, he's up again in a moment but the pool he is in is now filled with holy water, many apologies if you are a demon of any kind...]

Outside, on staircase

[frilliance]

[Oooookay, maybe now isn't a good time to take a bath when it'll be so crowded with people. For now, Edgeworth stands on the staircase, hoping that people he knows will pass by so that he can check on them to make sure that they are all right.

Feel free to drag him to the baths.]

Mens' or Mixed baths

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch is here, beside Lucifel, who seems to be sleeping at the moment. One of his hands rests on the archangel's back as he gazes at the bathers with haunted, sunken eyes. There's blood on his face that the steam has wet and caused to run pink down his face, trailing from healed, reddened scratch wounds. He blinks to keep sweat and blood out of one of his eyes. He opens his mouth to try to speak, but can't seem to think of what to say or to whom, so he closes it again.

Eventually he cups some water in his hands and tries to get the blood off his face. He should have done that before getting in, shouldn't he?*


One day later (for those who died)

*Enoch returns the next day, without Lucifel. It was comfortable here, and while the quiet didn't do him any favors regarding Eleven, it was worth working the tenseness from his muscles.

But...the people who died instead of him are here too. His 'cellmates'. He gives any who make eye contact a guilty look as he slips into the water. Should one of them approach him:*

I'm sorry.

Baths

[brbtalkingtogod]

[It's certainly the worst place he has picked to take a nap at. But with all the lack of sleep this week and the warmth of the sauna his body got sluggish and eventually he started to doze off.]