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The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Holas everyone! Wonderful posts, one and all! I'm going to get to work on a post right now :D

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Like Rex has said, I think the chapter's pacing has been going along really nicely so far and I'm enjoying the interaction downtime a lot. I couldn't hazard a guess as to when a time would be good to draw it to a close, but I think we're doing okay right now and I think just exploring the spa and interacting with each other and the hotel's staff atm works fine. I think we'll know when it'll be good to start wrapping things up. ^^

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Cuttersbury: Drych Lake Spa: Docks

Rowing his small boat back to shore and hopping from it with a flourish twirl and onto the wooden docks, Gramps lifted his head up and blinked his eyes as he looked all about him. As he was pulling back into port, he had discovered a most beautiful woman standing back on the dock’s deck, looking out at him! That had only helped fuel his need and desire to row back to the Spa, and now that he was here, and able to see the lass in front of him, Gramps nodded sagely to himself, once again confident and assured in his senses’ abilities. Even at his age, the ability to know when beautiful women nearby had never dulled.

Quickly tying the boat to the docks, Gramps began to saunter his way towards Nani, whom had been watching him approach. The man was quite small and wide, almost hunched over in body statue, as his age approached mid-eighties. He had very fine, whispy white hair trailing from a moustache and beard, and big, bushy eyebrows. As the man clad in fine, black robes, trimmed with white sleeves and boots approached Nani, he offered a wide, cheerful smile and saluted the pirate girl.

“Hello this, Miss! How are you? One of the Spa’s guests, I presume? My name’s Gramps! What, may I ask, could be yours?” The old timer walked up to Nani, and put his hands on his hips as he looked up at the much taller (in comparison) girl. “Are you staying with us at the Spa, today? You look like you could do with a good massage or two! Would you like one?”

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Cuttersbury: Drych Lake Spa: Hot Springs: Male Section

“Yeah, Lute, Quentin’s right! Don’t be afraid of getting naked!” Tobi’s voice from behind drew the attention of both the water mage and virtuoso, to reveal a completely buck naked marauder behind them taking off his boots with one hand, and swinging a towel about and onto his shoulder at the same time. For whatever peculiar reason, Tobi had decided to take his clothes off before his boots… an interesting challenge, no doubt.

“C’mon! Last one in’s a rotten egg!” Tobi laughed, whipping his towel off his shoulder and whiplashing Lute’s behind with it, as he ran straight towards the steaming springs and dove straight in. Marcus, Quentin and Lute were left speechless as they watched, until a sudden wolf whistle could be audible to all. A certain wolf whistle emanating from…

“…Lute?” Asked Marcus, whom had now finished changing and wore a towel around his waist as well. The virtuoso went beetroot red. Sometimes he hated his partner.

Tobi, meanwhile, started swimming back and forth.

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Cuttersbury: Drych Lake Spa: Hot Springs: Female Section

Estelle couldn’t take her eyes off her.

As both she and Aria got undressed, Estelle looked at Aria and was simply amazed at the girl’s skin and physique. She looked absolutely immaculate and beautiful, and Estelle could only wish she’d have skin that fine when she was a little bit older. But, considering all of the fighting she did, and the scars she bore, she wondered if that was even possible. But then again, Aria was a Guilder too, and she had her fair share of small scars too, so maybe one day…?

“Wash our backs…? Sure!” Estelle beamed, smiling widely and following Aria’s lead towards the springs. A part of her wished that more of the others were here to share in their excitement of the hot springs, but that was okay. She could simply come back again with them all later as well!

“Woooow~” Estelle gaped in amazement as they stepped out of the changing room, and into the outdoor hot springs proper. The outdoor area was furnished rather nicely, with a range of faucets and buckets to the side in a rinsing area, and giant rocks, peppered with potted plants and quaint, stone statues lining the edge of the steaming hot springs. Estelle couldn’t wait to enter the spring and find out what it was all about…!

And then she suddenly stopped, seeing someone very unfamiliar standing in front of her. A large, broad shouldered and lean, youthful man with messy hair, wearing an expression as shocked as Estelle’s. At the same time as the swordswoman’s own, his cheeks grew incredible red.

Estelle screamed.




“Ruff!” Jasper jumped and barked, sloshing more water from his bucket over the floor as Estelle screamed. His little tail wagged from side to side enthusiastically, happy to meet and talk to new people. His companion, Harvey Jr, however, said absolutely nothing.

"I- um, we weren't aware that the bath was being cleaned-?" Aria asked, readjusting her towel. Harvey took his eyes off Estelle to look at Aria, and recoiled back in surprise once again. He grew ever bashful, and averted his eyes to look directly at the ground. He then began to shuffle towards the changing room and exit, moving as quickly as he could to get out of their way and bare them the peace they deserved.

“S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-ssorry,” Harvey Jr stuttered so very meekly as he stopped at the exit, bowing deeply, and then rushed off again out of sight. Jasper in contrast, barked another, more jovial goodbye, and bounded after his best friend with a much more enthusiastic spring in his step, leaving an utterly confused and stunned Estelle and Aria behind.

Emerging into the reception, Harvey Jr stopped as he looked at the reception desk and saw the ‘Closed for Cleaning’ sign he had gotten out, ready to put over the Woman’s area, but having forgotten to do. The flustered man shook his head from side to side and buried it in his hands, before rushing off elsewhere. He needed to go find somewhere else to clean, and think about what he’d done, and the best way to apologise to those two ladies later.

Meanwhile, back on the docks, Estelle’s scream could be heard even as far as here. To the wise and worldly Gramps, he knew exactly what it was and where he came from. He smiled. He knew taking down the ‘Closed for Cleaning’ sign would be a great idea for his grandson!

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Rightio, just woken up and feel a lot better. Will start catching up and writing a post now! Sorry for the inconvenience and wait!

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Have fun Rapid, and I hope you and your friend enjoy dinner and his birthday! 8D

Btw, guys, we shall prooobably be moving and starting posting on Iwaku whenever there's a good scene/transition point in the rp. Idk about waiting a month+ for moving, but it's up for voting.

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No worries. :)

Btw Pach is definitely feeling ill this is the album he's listening to atm

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Dinh AaronMk said
I've had a few cases where a guy doesn't show up to post. Even badgering him over his Steam chat to post didn't produce results. RP died before we could even get everyone to go off and do their own things. Letting everyone do whatever helps to identify those who'll commit versus those who won't.

This is why the group should just push on and persevere even despite people doing this. A good GM would set up a posting frequency and enforce it; and if a player didn't meet that frequency and thus leave the rest of the group in a lurch like this, the GM would continue to push the rp on and either control the player's character until the next opportune moment to remove them, kill them, or make them a general background NPC character that anyone could use and control. People will always drop out of rps no matter what which is why, no matter what the format of an rp is, the GM should and would be prepared for it.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Howdy all, how is everyone?

I'm feeling a bit under the weather today so I may skip posting for today, which I suppose is okay since I'd like to wait for Kathi and Rapid's post before I continue on with anything at the Hot Springs.

Btw, Aki, interaction doesn't need to be quick. Your post with Nani meeting Tau and then just quickly leaving him felt a bit rushed and weird. Lol.

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

8D

The Legend of Heroes: Tales of the World

Cuttersbury: Drych Lake Spa

“A wash sounds perfect, actually…” Estelle’s eyes lit up upon Aria’s offer, and the idea of a dip in a hot spring sounded even more refreshing tempting. After Marcus’ reminder, she went to check on her shoulder, to see how severe the wound was. Washing it would help with disinfection, but a long, leisurely soak in a hot spring could prove to be a bad thing and help cause it to bleed again. But, to her surprise, as she pulled down one of her undershirt’s sleeves to check on it (after removing her armour, like Moira had), the wound was completely sealed. Amy’s healing skill was growing day by day. It still felt sore though, which was something a good dip in the hot springs would help out immeasurably. “C’mon Ari, let’s go!”

After interlinking her arm with Aria’s, Estelle found the pair didn’t move too quickly before they were met by one of the three new Guilders Estelle had seen today – the sunglasses wearing, robed mage individual whom had initially hit on Marcus back at the girl, and had embarrassingly called himself Q.T. That initial meeting had done enough to irk Estelle originally, but after their unified battles against the Varren, her excitement at the spa, and her politeness in introducing himself to her just now… she was starting to forget all about that earlier encounter.

“Estelle Fenix!” Estelle shouted, slapping Quentin’s shoulder hard. “F Rank Extraordinare, and leader of the Pride, pleased to meetcha, Quentin! (Q.T was far too embarrassing). That was some skill you had back against those Varrens. You’re a water mage, I take it?”

“By the way, Estelle. Thanks for earlier, and I’m really sorry about that. It’s twice you’ve gotten your shoulder skewered because of me now,” Lute laughed weakly as he removed his handkerchief from under his nose, and joined the trio and their plans to investigate the hot springs. Estelle laughed and did the exact same shoulder slapping to him as she had to Quentin.

“Don’t worry about it, Lute, seriously! My shoulder’s all fine, and you’re safe too! Although… you could probably do with a haircut. That Varren’s claws nicked a bit off…” She ruffled his hair and patted the flustering virtuoso with a grin. She turned and followed after him as Lute led the way to the Spa’s Hot Springs, following the directions signposted on the walls.




As they did, they were joined with Marcus who wanted the opportunity to relax as well, and Tobi who had at first been deeply at odds with trying to decide whether to join Moira, Syed and Amy, or the Hot Springs quartet. He didn’t want to leave Syed alone with the duo and would have liked to catch up with him, plus the alluring call of alcohol was hard to resist, but he had to agree with the others, a nice wash first would be preferable. Anything to get that awful smell that was dealt thanks to Trixie out of his nostrils would be good, and lingering around Syed, with his arm the way it was… would not help. There’d always be time for drinks later!

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Cuttersbury: Drych Lake Spa: Hot Springs

The path to the Hot Springs entailed the group leaving the main spa building for a brief moment, grossing the soft grass beneath to another, small wooden building before them. A large fence extended out from two of the building’s walls, encircling the large hot springs inside.

Opening and walking through the front door, they entered a small lobby, absent of workers, with two entrances leading to separated male and female partitioned springs, clearly signposted. Inside the two rooms would be lockers and towels for changing, and the most gorgeous, famously renowned hot springs in all of the Artar Kingdom awaiting them.

On the inside of one of the two partitioned hot springs, a large, stout young man worked hard at the floor around the steaming bath, happily whistling a song to himself. By his side walked an adorably small young helper, wagging his tail to and fro and carrying a soapy bucket by the handle in his mouth. He would jump and cheerfully bark at particular moments during his best friend’s whistling, sloshing some of the bucket’s contents onto the floor by accident.

Unbeknownst to the Pride, both Harvey Jr and Jasper, two of the Spa’s most diligent workers, were actually cleaning in the women’s section…