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WHO: Sampo, Caelus, Noctis, and Gilgamesh
WHERE: Inside Gil's teapot, mostly.
WHEN: Just after the mid-month zodiac post
WHAT: Sampo having Noct and Caelus come stay over while things in the city aren't so hot. Chaos probably gonna ensue.
WARNINGS: Just general nonsense of four chaos goblins in one house.



[ 'Meet me outside of Poundland' isn't exactly the best sentence to say to ANYONE, and yet it's a sentence Samuel had to use today. Thinking back on it, he really wonders why the owners of this establishment decided on fucking THAT for the name of their store, but.

It did fine for a meeting place--especially given the 'place' he was staying was hidden in plain sight in the shop nextdoor. The shop that, in Undertown, many had wonderings if it was the front of some money laundering group. Which was hilarious.

Sampo can be found waiting--looking enough like "himself" to be recognizable, but with a mix of grey and blue hair instead of his usual ruffled brown.

He'll wiggle his fingers when Caelus and Noct finally approach, before throwing his arms out wide with a bright smile. ]

My friends! You. Uh.

You weren't followed, were you.

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[illucesco]

[There's a ribbon seal in the pond.

Incidentally, Noctis is no longer at the table downstairs and his laptop is closed, so he's gotta be somewhere around here, right?

The ribbon seal cracks an eye open as Caleb goes exploring around him, then simply...rolls over, as if to keep an eye on him from his pond. Lazy ass just isn't gonna move unless Caleb comes anywhere near the edge of this little island.]

[actnormal]

[Caleb hardly notices the seal at first, not until Neptune spots it and waddles over to check it out. That draws Caleb's attention, so he starts to make his way over to the pond.]

Huh. Sam didn't mention animals living here.

[He flops down next to the water to watch his Dewott inspect the seal.]

Too bad I don't have any fish...wait, do seals eat fish?

[illucesco]

[Noctis briefly considers telling Caleb it’s him, but then the Dewott comes sniffing around and Noctis leans his head towards him and. Gently nudges him with his nose. Get out of the light, buddy, he’s trying to nap here.

At the mention of fish, his head pricks upward, and he just rolls his jelly-tube body over in Caleb’s direction and gives him a long, sad look. Yes. Give him fish. He worked very hard and he deserves fish.]

[actnormal]

[Caleb laughs.]

I just said I don't have any fish! And I'm not Noct, I don't like fishing. Sorry, buddy.

[illucesco]

[The seal seems to mull something over for a moment. Then:]

I looked in their fridge. They’ve got fish.

[Hi. Your cousin is now a black-and-white tube of lard who is not going to fuckin’ leave this pond for anything less than an emergency.]

[actnormal]

[Hi. Your cousin screams like a small child and flails until he's flat on his back on the lakeshore.]

What the fuck?!

[illucesco]

[Gently splashes some water in Caleb’s direction.]

They have fish in their fridge. I checked. [This is absolutely normal what are you talking about seals talk every day.]

[actnormal]

Why does the seal sound like my cousin?!

[Asking the heavens at large as he just lies there, slightly panicky.]

[illucesco]

It’s me. I took a break.

[Another splash.]

The water’s nice, so I figured I’d go for a swim.

[Handily not explaining why the hell is he a seal now.]

[actnormal]

This answers nothing, Seal Who Sounds Like Noct.

[illucesco]

I am Noct. I just also turn into a seal sometimes now.

[A beat.]

Anyway, you have a raccoon tail.

[actnormal]

Prove that you're Noct. Turn back into him right now.

[They are not talking about the tail.]

[illucesco]

[The most tragic look.]

Do I have to? [That requires so much effort. He’s got to haul himself out of the pond. He has to dry off. He has to take off the pelt.

Noooooooooo.]

[actnormal]

Do it or I'm telling Sam a ghost seal ate my cousin.

[illucesco]

Fine, fine. [grumbled while hauling 220 lbs of fat out from the pond:] Where did you even get the ghost seal thing from anyway? There aren’t any ghosts.

[He’s just gonna try to dry himself off best as he can on such short notice. It might take a minute.]

[actnormal]

Because I don't know what else would eat my cousin?

[illucesco]

Daemons bigger than houses have tried and failed, you think a seal’s gonna get me?

[Yes that was a past life but still. Anyway, he’s dry now, so he’s just gonna take this pelt off. He’s still wearing the same clothes he came in with, although now the jacket’s gone.]

See? It’s me.

[actnormal]

[. . .

Caleb sits up, squinting.]

Are you a selkie?

[illucesco]

Have been since last month, thereabouts. I found out because I took a bath and turned into a seal in my own bathroom.

[actnormal]

[Snickering now, yep.]

Seriously? You somehow missed you were a selkie until you took a bath?

[illucesco]

It was kind of hard to miss when suddenly I was a seal on my bathroom floor when that never happened before.

[Gathering up his pelt and just tying it around his waist like it's a sash.]

...it actually made fishing a little bit easier.

[actnormal]

Of course that's what you care about.

[Nerd.]

So you weren't born a selkie?

[illucesco]

Nope, and it isn’t a past life thing either—apparently it was, uh, “written in the stars,” or so that shopkeeper said when I asked him what the hell.

[Whatever the stars are writing right now, Noctis has the sneaking suspicion it’s some kind of terrible comedy.]

Anyway, last I checked you didn’t have a raccoon tail either, so what gives?

[actnormal]

[Hm. Stars. Was the shopkeeper from his past life?

Anyway. Caleb just shrugs.]

I was coming out of the thrift shop by the park, with all the really good stuff, and suddenly I had a tail.

[illucesco]

…by the park. [A pause.] Was this during the time the fae were running around kidnapping people?