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[Matoba is running 2 separate network accounts. Please specify which of his inboxes you are PMing! :)]
[Open Season profile/inbox are here.]

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[action] Dumb cuddling nonsense

[worldbent]

[Matoba Seiji would not call himself a lover of nature, but having grown up in the rural mountainsides, he was more than used to it. It was certainly far more a creature comfort than the opulence and manmade nature of the rest of the resort, and so somewhat reluctantly, he finds himself wandering the paths of the Vale one day.]

[The birdsong here was pleasant. There was a lack of trailing monsters, eying him as enemy or predator in the trees (comparatively). He finds his thoughts distractingly wanting to trail towards that subject lately- of being eyed as a piece of meat in a different sense than he is used to, of being ever more suspicious of all those who cast a glance at him.... but at least he's alone in them.]

[... Or, he was. He found himself a comfortable little gazebo tucked away at the end of a path, but before long, his thoughtful peace and quiet is interrupted by a lumbering, stinking presence he now finds himself exhaustingly familiar with.]

Hungry for more? [Maybe if he's annoying enough, he will go away immediately, and Matoba will not have to examine the strange, comforting serendipity in his presence.]

[action] date time!

[catmemes]

[ With absolutely no idea how one sets up a date even when not in a weird porn resort, Kai had left the planning up to his supposed wingman with just a touch of apprehension. Sure the entire profile thing had been awkward at best, but when he's still trying to find his way around how bad could it be? Besides, if it's something neither of them pick then it's one less thing for Matoba to be smug at him about. Hopefully.

So Kai slowly approaches the door he's been directed to, he's got absolutely no idea what he's going to find on the other side. And finds himself staring nonplussed as he steps inside to find a number of feline eyes suddenly fixed on him. A cat cafe. Hilarious.

A few of the cats in residence pause to give him the narrow-eyed look of judging a newcomer onto their territory but when Kai just eyes them back they return to whatever they were doing without much issue. Regular cats do tend to find him a little strange sometimes, but the ones here seem largely unimpressed with his presence. Maybe they're used to weird.

So he has no problem picking his way over to an unoccupied table and dropping himself into one of the seats to wait for Matoba. And definitely not worrying about the next issue--namely that he still doesn't have a lot in the way of money. He can just deal with that problem as it comes. ]

@tseng » @matoba

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Are you still open to additional negotiations?

[ let it never be said tseng doesn't get to the point... ]

Text | un: swords -> @matoba

[swordhardy]

Did you order something from the bakery?
It’s a big box…
You can’t be planning to eat this much alone.

( 12/25 ) — xmas ding dong ditch

[juhua]

[ on the morning of december 25, which hua cheng has come to understand is christmas day, a knock on the door will herald the arrival of a gift. it's nestled in a box and wrapped in paper of his signature crimson and tied with a gold ribbon, both very auspicious colors for such an auspicious(?) holiday!

when opened, matoba will find that the box contains a paper talisman imbued with a single use of hua cheng's cum cleanup spell, which he used in front of matoba back in october during the full moon ghost situation.

the box is accompanied by no note—hua cheng is confident matoba will know who sent it. :) ]

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[broca]

[ It takes a few days into this whole mess for Broca to message Matoba, but without powers of his own it takes a few days into this whole mess for Broca to realize that he might need to reach out to someone who does. ]

Hey.

[ Unfortunately, Broca is bad at starting conversations. ]

paper doll note

[paperpusher]

["Let me know when you are checked in," Matoba had said. Natori had planned to wait a few days in a fit of pique, but that was before he found his, uh. Gifts. In fact, the makeshift doll that finds its way to Matoba appears to be made out of the label off a wine bottle? Natori's scribbled his room number on it, plus:]

They gave me cake.

truth or dare network text

[paperpusher]

[It's a full day before Natori gets back to their truth or dare game, which is impressive given how much Chirpy has been screaming at him for leaving the game unfinished. (He even tried exorcising it, briefly but halfheartedly, before tossing himself into other games with other people so he could at least seem busy.)

The problem is that despite it being in the very name of the game, Natori hasn't been telling the truth. Sometimes it's simply not telling the whole truth, sometimes it's eliding the core of the question in favor of a literal interpretation, and sometimes it was outright lies. And so unbeknownst to him, his suit has taken matters into its own hands.

Maybe Natori should have noticed the outside influence on his mood-- but like the most insidious ayakashi, it's subtle enough that it doesn't feel all that foreign. A push behind what he's already feeling, especially when thinking about a person who he already has a complicated mess of feelings about. Once again a disappointment to the exorcist community, Natori snaps back to their game thread and picks up like it's a conversation he never left off, though it's not the one they were just having.]

Why are you still hiding things from me