[center][color=00a99d][h1]Asta, Paragon of Change[/h1][/color][/center]

A sound soon came from somewhere behind the newest arrival, a strange sound.

[color=a0410d]*Schlop*-*Plop*-*Schlop*-*Plop*...[/color]

Of course, a simple glance would reveal the source to be some poor fool walking right through the nastiest muddy muck of this rank and rotten swamp that hosted such an interesting gathering, the fetid mess that others would have avoided like the plague, for it may very well contain exactly that. Yet they continued to trudge through the knee deep muck, repeatedly and with noticeable effort extricating their leg from it, only to bury it back within only a single step farther, yet they somehow managed to make good progress despite it's thickness... perhaps it was the wetness that seemed to be leaking off of them into the muck and softening it up for them.

[color=a0410d]*Schlop*-*Plop*-*Schlop*-*Plop*... *thnk*[/color]

Finally something that wasn't mud seemed to meet the mud covered boots and they glanced down, or seemed like it, the strange eye-like helmet made it difficult to tell, then let up a cheer in a most delighted tone [color=00a99d]"Huzzah!"[/color] They rose up at last, perhaps standing upon a submerged root, and then began to trudge along it until finally passing the surface of the muck entirely, where-upon they leapt up, grabbed one of the branches of the very same gnarled tree, and swung 'just' far enough to land on more solid ground. At which point the wettened muck on their boots began to ooze away and get left behind as the newest stranger approached the bonfire gathering.

Without a hint of hesitation he wandered on into the group, smelling strongly of excessive sweating and BO, which was most likely nothing compared to the ever present stench of the swamp, and walked right up to the bonfire itself before stopping and... well, stopping, he almost seemed to not even be breathing under that unusual out-fit, the wetness even ceased... Then suddenly he spoke at last [color=00a99d]"Goodness, but I feel like I've walked into a gathering that I'm late for! What could bring such a fascinating assortment of strangers together in this most unusual, and unclean, of places?"[/color]