Reverend Reverend please come quick 'cause I got something to admit

[unpocoloco]

Who: Ernesto OR Héctor + TWO Mingle spaces
What: TOUR AND A MOVIE PART TWO; STARING YOU? + NECROMANCY; HONEST EFFORTS (a.k.a, Héctor's failed revival this month is a truth spell.)
When: April, late in the month
Where: A filming location in Soliel, Daybreak Academy
Warning: N/A
Notes: People affected by Héctor's accidental truth spell can also bring this into the movie mingle. Have you ever lied without actually lying? Now's the time to learn!

TOUR AND A MOVIE

Filming is ramping up.

Just as before, Higher Daybreak faculty are encouraging participants to see this as a way of learning to use their magical skills in a way that is discrete and ensures the protection of the Veil. It's spoken of as a chance for students to better learn how to hide their abilities while still putting them to use, disguising them as various other talents. In turn, they'll be credited in the film's production once it's complete, as well as receive extra credits in related courses. And of course, besides the great publicity, what better way to make a hit movie than adding a magical touch to it?

While work around the set continues to be welcomed and encouraged, this month filmmakers are particularly keen on finding those who can fill a newly opened role for an extra! Daybreak students are being to the very rare and special opportunity to audition in, without even going through the gruelling ordeal of terse agents, discouraging phone calls, and dull waiting areas! Just line right up and give it your best!

The following roles are open:

-Kindly and Adoring Town's Person Number Five

-Irritable Officer Number Two

-Overdramatic Restaurant Employee (or Customer, adjusted to match ages)

On top of this extraordinary opportunity, the winning student will be treated to a day on the town with De La Cruz himself.

On top of all this, with the improving weather, more scenes are being shot outside and in the heart of Soliel. It's quite possible to wander on set entirely by accident! Just remember that maintaining the laws of the Veil during this important project is still of utmost importance.



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HONEST EFFORTS

Nothing happened. He took precautions, he followed the spell, he did everything right. He double-checked the runes and then triple checked the cage he'd set himself up in. There was light, there was energy, a whole burst of it shooting up around him and then darting out past the walls (and over the campus). And then nothing. He was still just as dead as before. He wasn't even a different kind of dead like his usual screw-ups led to. He made a flashy light show and nothing more. In a fit of frustration, he scraped the whole circle, packed up, and settled in to go back to work the next night.

But, with that morning, students and faculty alike around Daybreak may find themselves afflicted with a sudden need to be a little more candid than usual. Maybe a lot more candid.

The urge for honesty may manifest in being suddenly unable to lie-- either directly or at all. It might mean talking way too much. Maybe it means confessing things you've been bottling up, or simply showing who you are inside when you'd normally be inclined to hide it. It might just be something small and simple going throughout the day. Or, it could build into something so overwhelming it becomes impossible to bear until the truth is out. It varies from person to person and does, eventually, go away.

But it also may be intensified in those who might be just a bit too close to a certain someone...

Comments

cw for body horror

[redskytakewarning]

[There's a pause, and.]

Um, no, we shouldn't-

[Another pause.]

We shouldn't- Even asking would-

[And then her neck just sort of. Twists 90 degrees.]

[notbornguilty]

[Weiss just sort of. Blinks. There wasn't any crack, and she's still standing, so that probably wasn't something psychically breaking her neck. Still, best to ask.]

Are you alright? Does this sort of thing happen often?

[redskytakewarning]

I'm-

[Her shoulder pops, and suddenly, that arm is long enough to touch the ground.]

Vampires? Should we kill it? Both of them? Why are you fighting back, that's what you do to vampires, you should know that.

[notbornguilty]

[Well, that doesn't bode well. Weiss forms a glyph behind Ruadh, but doesn't actually activate it yet.]

First of all, I am, again, a dhampir. I'm only half vampire. Second, there are several full vampires on campus who don't cause anyone trouble. Third...

[Weiss looks Ruadh in the eyes, and her gaze seems like that of a predator.]

The third thing is, my father is mine to deal with.

[redskytakewarning]

[In the eyes? That's going to be hard, because, well. Which eyes?

For some reason, her normally gray eyes look, well. Different. It looks like a layered effect, almost- Like a dozen irises overlay her own, each a different color, a scintillating rainbow of colors.

Her mouth also splits wide, wide open. Much, much wider than a human should, and it's teeth all the way back.]

Who cares about trouble? Hey, if I deal with you first, Whitey, then I get him by default. That's how this works, shut up, Ruadh, you think she's annoying too, this whole school is annoying, why don't I just wipe it all out, I'm going to do it, I'm going to-

[Her elongated arm lifts itself, fingers stretching out, as if grasping for something that isn't there...]

[notbornguilty]

[That would be when the glyph kicks in, pulling her (them?) to the wall with approximately the gravity of Jupiter. Another glyph forms and an armored arm with a large sword emerges from it and moves to take a defensive position between her and Weiss.]

I don't think you'll be doing much of anything right now. I don't mean to brag, but I'm one of the more powerful students in this school. Now then, are we going to continue this farce, or are you going to give control back to the fairly pleasant young woman I've been talking to?

[redskytakewarning]

[She... laughs? No, she's pinned to the wall, but she's laughing uproariously now.

She's sort of... smooshing against the glyph. Sort of... squishing and sliding along it. Gravity pinning her to the wall? Who cares? Gravity is for people who have skeletons to worry about. She just sort of... bloops her hand out. The bones seem to stay behind, and a vaguely hand-shaped blob of flesh reaching out for her.]

Oh, now that's interesting. What's this? Hey, what's this thing? I bet we can figure it out. Come on, Ruadh, figure it out! I wanna turn this back on this smug- Hey, stop fighting back, this is the first time I've gotten out in months- I haven't even killed anyone this time!

[Well. The handblob can't quite make it to Weiss, but she's trying hard.]

[notbornguilty]

[Weiss takes a step back, sighing in relief.]

Good, I wasn't entirely sure that could hold you. ...I didn't mean to say that. Now, are you going to calm down, or do I need to get a professor?

[redskytakewarning]

Do you think that's going to stop me, Snowflake? Ruadh's the one who wants to be here, not me. So by all means, call a professor, get me kicked out, get me killed. It's Ruadh who's going to suffer.

[notbornguilty]

Do you think that's what will happen? I can't say for sure about this, but it's possible that Daybreak's faculty has the means to seal you in Ruadh's subconscious so thoroughly that you never get control again. So I'll say this again: are you going to calm down, or do I need to call a professor?

[redskytakewarning]

[She pauses, sniffing the air. And then her nose just sort of. Stretches forward. Sniff sniff. Sniff sniff. Nose approaching Weiss as best it can.]

Hey, do you smell that? I smell some bullshit.

[notbornguilty]

Have you forgotten that we're under a truth effect? I couldn't lie to you if I wanted to. And even if that doesn't convince you, I'm still not letting you go until Ruadh is back in control.

[It's difficult to bluff under a truth effect, but not impossible. After all, losing control of the glyph due to exhaustion technically isn't letting her go.]

[bejustorbedead]

What is going on here?

[It was not hard to hear the commotion going on. Ruadh's appearance only gets a double-take. Ky moves in, to help keep them apart]

Would either of you mind explaining?

[notbornguilty]

I'm not entirely sure what's happening myself. She has another personality, whether it's a split personality or a daemon contract is currently unclear. That said, I'm quite glad you're here. Holding a shapeshifter like this is quite difficult and I'm not sure how much longer I can do it. And I didn't mean to say that, I hate this stupid truth effect!

[bejustorbedead]

Did not mean to say what?

[notbornguilty]

That I can't hold her much longer, I was trying not to show how difficult holding her like this is.

[bejustorbedead]

And why are you holding her?

[notbornguilty]

Mostly because she was talking about killing me. It tends to make me nervous when people plot my demise out loud right in front of me.

[redskytakewarning]

Ugh, seriously? Someone else comes in? Ever heard of being a third wheel? I'm tired, I'm tired of this. Will all of you just go away? All of you, all of you, you're so annoying, god!

[She's struggling against the glyph now, though her unfortunate continued existence of a skeleton means she can't really escape.

[bejustorbedead]

I'm sorry but as a member of the faculty, it is kind of my business to make sure things do not escalate any further.

Mind explaining things so we can get it settled?

[redskytakewarning]

Sorry, but I'm not the explaining one. I'm the stabbing one.

[She tries to lunge.

The effect is something like shaking a bowl of jello. It stretches a bit, it wobbles a bit, but ultimately she just sort of. Stays there, pinned to the glyph, flesh jiggling aggressively.

Where are her bones? that is a VERY GOOD QUESTION you should probably not think too hard about right now.]

[bejustorbedead]

[The lack of bones is weird, but he has other priorities]

Then you'll have to try. I would much prefer to hear what happened before I pass judgment.

[redskytakewarning]

[She's just. Aggressively squishing against the gravity, but.]

Why are you so annoying? God, inside and outside, everyone's so annoying, why don't I just kill-

[And then there's a 'pop', and one of her arms just sort of... retracts, withdraws, and it's a normal, bones-and-all arm.]