( open. ) firefighter calendar mingle!

[yuwon]

WHO: everyone!
WHAT: the firefighters put out a calendar every year and guess who is getting everyone involved.
WHERE: the venue for the photoshoot, somewhere in the city.
WHEN: within the first week of their arrival.
WARNINGS: nudity or partial nudity? will update warnings as they come.

The firefighters are looking for models to assist in their yearly calendar. Last year due to some mishaps, they missed the due date for this beloved tradition in the city, and so are not looking to really make sure everything is flawless this year. Since is no error for mistakes, they are even recruiting people to model as firefighters, as well as looking for people who can act as temporary photographers— in a city as busy as this one, it isn’t always easy booking a photographer for certain time slots.


1. As a photographer they are tasked to make the calendar spicy, but also unique! They figure one of the best selling points is variety. No more poses, the more avant-garde, the weirder even, the better! Like if your thing is posing with a carton of eggs, you do you!
2. Models are incentivized and even ranked (this is arbitrary, so I leave that all to you), so maybe this can also lift the competitive spirit of some! Or maybe you just really want to make some extra kryptos!
3. Outside of photographers and models, also looking for people who can enhance the overall experience. Do coffee runs for everyone, while also hyping or judging the models! Whatever they say fit! People can even stumble into these roles thinking they were here for a completing different reason! Or go out on an errand to come back and suddenly everyone is not as they once were.
4. Just have fun and free to make up your own scenarios! Even if it's walking in like 🧍‍♂️ I thought this was a pizza party.

NOTE: hi, this is the log for the firefighter calendar!

everyone is free to put up their top levels and tag around as they see fit. you can see it as you were messaged by someone randomly on the network about an opportunity to make additional kyptos, or they could have even found an ad. whatever works!

Comments

[wheft]

[ blud really thinks she said that 😭 whatever helps him sleep at night, she supposes...

the mention of killing does pique her interest, finally. she turns her head at him. ]

Mercenary? Huh. I guess some mercenaries can take up jobs like that if they have the looks for it... I think we're only allowed to kill the monsters of this world, though.

[assassinsgreed]

Don't matter. I have a place to live, free food. We get paid for the monsters we kill. I don't work for free. I'm kind of excited. It's interesting. Fascinating. I can't wait to tear them apart.

_{[ SIR THIS IS A WENDY'S... ]}

Everyone is pissed off about being here. I think it's better than where I came from.

<sub>[ He's got nothing to go back home to. No wife anymore. He doesn't have to take responsibility for his son. No friends. No family anymore since he left them. Most of all, he feels less of an outcast here. For once, more people have no cursed energy.

Just like him. ]</sub>

[wheft]

[ it's okay, ishmael is used to that kind of terrifying dialogue. she's slowly beginning to discover what kind of group LILITH had put her in if she keeps encountering guys like him who just talks about murder like it's the weather.

well, that's fine. it isn't like she doesn't have blood on her hands, nor has she experienced the exhilarating feeling of bloodlust coursing through her veins. she knew it all too well.

so she hums in acknowledgment, stashes both her hands in her pockets. ]

You aren't wrong about that. It is a lot better here, sort of. [ any world is better than the city she's from, lbr. ] What kind of place did you come from if it's that bad, anyway?

[assassinsgreed]

<sub>[ Toji's world itself isn't exactly.. bad, other than the curses running rampant and causing destruction, but what does he know about that? He doesn't have the powers to exorcise them; only the weapons. That may be what someone would think when they know about him, but Toji knows pretty much everything there is to know about curses and cursed techniques.

He was forced to learn.

Maybe it was just his circumstances that were bad. He clicks his tongue; it's pretty obvious he's not going to share that much. Toji loves enlightening conversation, though. ]</sub>

An unfair world with a lot of death. I'm just trying to survive.

_{[ but maybe don't listen to me, i'm ashu the toji apologist ]}

[wheft]

[ ishmael can spot his hesitance from a mile away -- a result of an unspoken taboo among sailors who don't want to share any more of themselves than necessary. she was like that too, once upon a time. burying her feelings for the other sinners was something she needed to do, and back then she would've accepted that kind of answer and left it at that. but that's rarely the solution, isn't it?

that and, frankly, his answer is way too boring. she raises an incredulous brow at him. ]

And? I think most of us came from worlds with a lot of death, and most of us were trying to survive just to see another day too. What's so special about yours?

[ she would know. and so far, none of the worlds she's heard about is as bad as hers. but maybe she's just desensitized from everything she's seen at this point. ]

1/2

[assassinsgreed]

_{[ the biggest.... loudest.... drawn out groan of annoyance. ]}

2/2

[assassinsgreed]

There's things going around causing problems. Killing people. You know.

<sub>[ He knows too much about curses and he doesn't really like talking about it with someone who probably wouldn't understand. Thankfully, the timeline he's taken from, he's unaware there's some dude out there trying to commit mass genocide and rid the world of non-sorcerers.

Ignorance is a bliss. ]</sub>

They're called cursed spirits and they come from people's negative emotions. Some people contain their cursed energy and use it to exorcise them. Help people who can't, I guess.

[wheft]

[ LMAO... at least ishmael understands. sort of. she hums in acknowledgment. ]

I know. There's plenty of creatures like that in our City too. Even the substance they usually leak out can be used as fuel.

[ or an energy resource, or even an addictive drug. that's enkephalin for you. ]

We can even extract weaponry and armor from those creatures for our own use too. Does that mean you have one?

1/2

[assassinsgreed]

<sub>[ why are they talking like this is totally normal, like it’s the weather………

As she talks, he thinks he follows, but it doesn’t exactly sound like his kind of world. Honestly, he has a feeling he might would like it there, but he’s too distracted about the next thing she says. It at least wipes any annoyance off his face and a shit eating grin replaces it. ]</sub>

I don’t think it’s the same. Got something like that though…

2/2 cw: emeto and i close my eyes

[assassinsgreed]

<sub>[ It’s still really weird for him to actually see his cursed spirit since it manifested here; he always has some vague idea of what it looked like thanks to his heightened eyesight, but he was still a person with zero cursed energy and unable to see them as easily as a sorcerer would. Since coming here, he and everyone else can (unfortunately) see it.

He gives Ishmael a little bit of space and is even considerate enough to turn his shoulder to her but he is.. undoubtedly spitting up something from his stomach. It’s about the size of a walnut, but it gradually grows in size in his palm, taking the shape of a worm— and then growing until it’s fully wrapped around Toji’s broad shoulders, draped around his back and around his cinched waist.

why did you make me summon the worm ]</sub>

In here, I have a lot of weapons.

_{[ gesturing to the worm’s mouth… im sorry ]}

1/2 bless him 🫡

[wheft]

[ she didn't quite know what to expect. maybe she was just presumptuous as she lowkey egged him on. but while she's seen weirder manifestations of E.G.O (can't forget how kromer fuckin looked like she manifested hers), seeing toji hurl out a large, fat worm from the pit of his stomach is a little...

well. it's gross, sure. but she's so desensitized from what she's seen in her hellish journey so far that the grossness of it all doesn't even cross her mind. the Whales and the Mermaids are much, much worse in her opinion. instead, she's just -- ]

[wheft]

H-Hey! What are you doing?

[ instead, she sounds incredulous as she steps closer. not because she wants to see it up close, but it's a feeble attempt to divert any attention that they might get from regular onlookers. ]

I know I asked, but I didn't tell you to take it out? We're still in public, in case you haven't realized!

[ her priorities are so skewed... but that's not important right now. so much for keeping their covers intact!! ]

[assassinsgreed]

_{[ sorry that thing is just crooning “mama” at him and being disturbing as all get out.. he’s not helping by scratching under its chin. ]}

Do you think I care about keeping undercover? They brought me here. Whatever trouble I could get in can’t be serious. Calm down. We will be home before you know it.

_{[ Home, he guesses. He doesn’t know. ]}

[assassinsgreed]

I’m not typically a show-er, but I can’t help but whip it out when a pretty girl asks.

_{[ i hate— ]}

[wheft]

[ UGHHHHH she clicks her tongue. sorry toji, you can't rizz your way out of this one. she's actually more disgusted at the piss-poor attempt than the worm around his neck. ]

Hah, home. What a joke. [ with a sigh, she starts walking. she had already left her nest at U Corp, and she can't exactly call the bus a home either. she's got nowhere else to go but forward. ] You can show me your weapons back at the base and kill me with them if you want. Just don't flash your worm around like that in public again...

[ ya nasty ]

[assassinsgreed]

I don't do things like that, sweetheart.. killing without profit or reason. Did I give that sort of impression?

_{[ meanwhile wormy up there is just unable to keep it's unopened eyes off of her.... i'm sorry (again) ]}

Why would I rob the world of a nice girl? You're not that eager to die, are you?

1/2

[wheft]

I do have a name, you know.

[ sweetheart??? she is anything but. be for fucking real now. ]

[wheft]

And I was just exaggerating. Unless that's your piss-poor attempt at being a gentleman? You could at least give me an better excuse why you wouldn't want to use your worm on me.

[ fucker ]

[assassinsgreed]

It’s Ishmael. I already know.

_{[ Someone did research on the network orientation once the initial shock of being brought here died down. ]}

Nothing about me is gentleman-like; don’t kid yourself. I’m curious about you though. You have weapon knowledge and experience, then.

My other excuse is it would take too much effort.

_{[ No offense, but you seem feisty. ]}

[wheft]

[ oh wow, he actually did some research. but that means ishmael doesn't have to introduce herself anymore??? why would you take that from her wtf.

well, he did only get her name right so she'll have to do the rest. ]

That's because I'm a mercenary too. A Fixer, if you will. And before that, I was a sailor for a pretty long while. 'Course I need to know how to use a weapon to survive out there.

[ hence the sea salt. ]

[assassinsgreed]

That’s why you smell so salty.

_{[ don’t make her self conscious..! ]}

If that’s the case, I am eager to see you fight. Do you have a favorite? A favorite weapon.

[wheft]

Should I take that as a compliment?

[ because her personality's just as salty too, lbr ]

Usually I use a mace and shield, but I didn't bring them with me when I came here. I have my harpoon, though.

[ and some other weapons up her shield, but unlike him, she's not the type to whip them out in public... ]

[assassinsgreed]

Sure. Smells nice.

_{[ weirdo.. but he can’t very easily turn off his nose.. dude is overstimulated at all times from his five heightened senses.. ]}

Harpoon seems beneficial when fighting a monster.

_{[ but interesting choice. Vegan girls ask what your astrology sign is; Toji asks what your weapon of choice is. ]}

[wheft]

[ weirdo. she can't even tell if he's being sarcastic or not, so she'll take it as a compliment then. we take those. ]

Comes with the territory of being a sailor. The Whales... they're relentless and nothing like most fish you'd know. But you can't get oil and other resources from them if you're just sitting around, so someone's got to fish them out of the water and kill them.

[ it's horrible and traumatic. at least now she can keep her emotions in check, but she clenches her fist anyway to keep herself from shaking. ]

[assassinsgreed]

_{[ Well, (whale) alright, then. Toji would be lying if he said her homework’s doesn’t sound.. interesting, at least. He’s getting the vibe it’s not a very sunshiny or happy place to be— limited resources. ]}

Just trying to survive then, huh?

_{[ He gets that. It’s always been that with him. ]}