( OPEN ) AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES...?

[regression]

WHO: Whoever wants to be involved!
WHERE: Serene
WHEN: Before the imminent jailing, leading up to the jailing.
WHAT: An open house for Han Sooyoung Corporation, which is an apartment complex renovated for fellow Restless! While Sooyoung, Dokja, and Joonghyuk have invited a few for the initial wave, they want to see if others may be interested which may be followed with a public network post later in the month after all the event things.

As a note, while this is a light-hearted gathering where Joonghyuk, Sooyoung, and Dokja consider housing logistics, the Hierarchy guards will come in and arrest criminals somewhere midway... Sometimes you drew blood and must face the consequences.

If characters found interest in joining just from the open house alone, feel free to submit a form, but as Sooyoung and Joonghyuk will be jailed for a portion of the event, Dokja will be the contact for house things.

This post is also FFA!

WARNINGS: will be updated if anything comes up!

STOP BEING HOMELESS TODAY!

Wherever you are in the Stygia, you'll find a flyer that notes a refuge for Restless from other worlds. It is better to combat the Netherworld, its curses, and its beasts in numbers, no? Hopefully here you can form bonds with those who share the same space, that is what the flyer tries to sell you. An address is penned after its pitch, a building found in the calm of Serene.

The building towers over, floors overtaken by vines with no end and hanging plants, but it seems to be spruced up a bit compared to other forsaken lands. The yard has been manicured with grass leveled like someone bought a lawnmower for this occasion (they didn't). The doors are open for those who wish to take a tour of the floors, granted they will find Floor 3's Suite 1 locked. The rest are free for perusal and they are in good form, though empty aside from wild greens and beds.

Most of the action is on the yard, anyway... What with the wafting aroma of food, the sound of popping kernels, and the wonky projector that plays some movies from Mirth's notice board.

NETFLIX & FEAR?

The projector isn't the best quality... It really did seem like someone haggled their way to get it, however, and it plays while being attached to someone's phone which somehow has a USB slotted in. Netherworld technology really is interesting? Swathes of blankets are placed on the floor for all to lodge and enjoy the movies with sweet and salty popcorn (maybe tomato flavor, there are a lot of flavors) to munch.

The movie list can be found here (with whatever you can think of):

✦ Paranormal Activity
✦ The Blair Witch Project
✦ It
✦ The Ring
✦ Cargo
✦ Black Swan

✦ Us
✦ Nope
✦ The Cabin in the Woods
✦ Beetlejuice
✦ The Interview with the Vampire
✦ Shark movies (Jaws, Sharknado, etc.)

Outside of popcorn, there is stew and bread available for feast. It's delicious despite its simple presentation. While a bowl warms the heart and the stomach, it won't be washing away whatever jealousy y'all fostering. Weirdos. There are also dumplings, though one out of every twelve is extremely spicy.

No, there is no alcohol unless someone else brings it with them.

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Remember that the Hierarchy will be busting in later in the open house to arrest people, just to reference in threads if necessary! For characters interested in joining the house, feel free to submit a form to this page or wait until the network post later in the month.

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[boarwitness]

[observes him]

[damnpire]

[Observes him in return quietly.]

[boarwitness]

[gives the barest of nods in acknowledgement]

[damnpire]

[Oh... Polite. He can respect that. He inclines his head in a return nod.]

Hello.

[boarwitness]

[oh, unoffensive...]

Hey.

You're in the basement.

[he probably saw him in passing]

[damnpire]

Yes. [They are both just basement goblins now.] So are you.

Will you be guarding us?

[He has two swords...]

[boarwitness]

If anyone is foolish enough to attack us.

[then yeah, absolutely? give him a reason?]

And you? Why are you here?

[at the movie night? the building? who knows.]

[damnpire]

I see.

[It's SO FUNNY to me that the basement is probably one of the most well-guarded places here.]

Yoo Joonghyuk offered me a room. I came to see who all was staying here.

[Scoping the tenants...]

[boarwitness]

He did the same to me.

[and came to this party for the same reason. also, his phone was hijacked and he wants it back after.]

What do you go by?

[damnpire]

[Felix, your phone...]

D. [Just... a single letter. As annoyingly cryptic as he looks aesthetically.] You?

[boarwitness]

Felix.

[less cryptic, just a name.]

Do you use a weapon?

[damnpire]

[He sort of regards Felix fully. The man with two swords. This feels like an on-brand question.]

Yes. A sword.

[And some wooden throwing needles, but that's mostly a professional secret and also feels less relevant in answer than the sword.]

[boarwitness]

[he nods, clearly satisfied with the answer.]

Do you train daily?

[the implication that he does is pretty clear.]

[damnpire]

[The answer is "no" technically, but he gets the impression this won't appease Felix, and there is some context missing. Like being a dhampir and also a bazillion years old.]

My body doesn't need to anymore, not like how your body does. [Is this cheating?] I'm not human.

[boarwitness]

[this answer is fascinating, and only succeeds in making him want to fight D immediately.]

What are you, then?

[damnpire]

[Felix…]

A dhampir. [Most people have been like what? so he just adds:] Half human and half vampire.

[Here is where I describe to you his very unnatural beauty. He is definitely not human.]

[boarwitness]

[vampires are real??? this is ludicrous, thinks the man from the fantasy world where some stones transform the person holding them into monsters if they don't vibe correctly.

also felix doesn't want to bang him so I will slide my eyes past this description and pretend I didn't see it. felix is also unmoved by his Extreme Beauty—on the contrary, he's a little unnerved by how symmetrical he is. pleasing to the eye but at what cost...]

So if you don't need to train, are you preserved, in some way? Immortal?

[damnpire]

[The cost of being a monster, it’s true.]

Something like that, yes. My biology is different. It’s why I’m a vampire hunter.

[boarwitness]

If you're part-vampire, why do you hunt them? Some kind of self-loathing?

[damnpire]

[Thinking about how Sylvain warned him Felix is very straightforward. It’s tracking. You can’t just ask people if they have self-loathing, Felix!!!]

Their time was coming to an end. If they didn’t have so many weaknesses, perhaps they would survive.

[boarwitness]

[you can if you're not a coward!!!]

So you were just putting old fossils out of their misery, then? Did you have some design on vampire society?

[damnpire]

Something like that.

[It was basically like that, but he's too polite to say it that way even though he just insulted them for having a bazillion weaknesses. He really said "get good."]

No, I didn't.

[boarwitness]

Just community service, then.

[breaking down old, shitty traditions. D is great actually.]

Did one of them send you here?

[damnpire]

[Yeah. Wait--no.]

No. I was trapped in the dream of a young woman who had been bitten by one. She finally confronted me to try to get me to kill her since there wasn't anything else I could do.

[boarwitness]

So you don't know how you died, either.

[incheresting]

Did you kill her before you came?