Parthas Memes ([personal profile] fxckingaroundandhavingfun) wrote2023-01-26 07:33 pm

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This Mess We're In The city sun sets over me...
You awaken slightly disoriented on a beautiful, smooth stone floor. A look around will tell you that this place is a hilltop temple with a good view of the beautiful city below. On opposite sides of the temple are genderless depictions of deities. One is clearly powerful, made of onyx, held up in an imposing stance with one hand holding a gilded flogger and the other outstretched with an open palm as if to enforce a command. The other, made of polished white marble, has taken a knee to the dominant statue across from them. One of their hands is a vase for fresh flowers and you can see that new ones have been placed there today.

The music of an unseen harp begins to play and a golden light permeates the temple. Suddenly, you know what is happening here. The duality that is worshipped here, the figures in the temple, they have a name. The onyx one is Ceannasach and the marble one is Cuiristeach and together with their combined power they are the ones who have brought you to Parthas.

What is Parthas? Parthas is paradise! You have either been brought here because Ceannasach believes you contribute to your world in some glorious way and deserve to be honored and served or because Cuiristeach believes that you would be excellent in a service role, perhaps they even feel sorry for the state of your life back home and want to show you something better.

The deities here also brought you because they need lik which is the energy that allows them to exist. Lik is created in small amounts when you interact with other people, in greater amounts when you grow fond of certain people, and in greater still amounts when you begin to use physical affection. However, when you orgasm, that creates the purest form of lik there is.

Ceannasach and Cuiristeach reward you in a special way. When you have sex with your soulmate or your hjarta, your vördr, or spirit, leaves your body in a time-frozen moment to commune with the deities and ask for something big or small that you might like. Sex carries on as usual and only you will know that you asked for something. If you ask to be sent home, the deities will send you into a hyperaroused state when you least expect it. Hey, you offended them.

The deities also believe you should know of something they have placed in Parthas for your benefit. There is a river in a valley in the middle of housing that will give and take anything you like from your body if you should so wish. This can mean a illness, sadness, a memory or anything else, but be careful because this river runs on fickle magic.

As the harp music continues, you become aware of a new power of yours. You can hear any thought that any other person sends your way, even the ones sent accidentally, and you can see images and moving pictures, as well. Don’t limit yourself to one person! Send that thought to everyone!

The harp music comes to an eventual end and you are left with the knowledge the deities gave you. Your intuition leads you down a southbound path towards a city where a celebration seems to be taking place, if the colorful banners are any indicator. Welcome to Parthas!


Dancing Barefoot She, intoxicated by Thee; She has the slow sensation that He is levitating with She
There is indeed a celebration going on in South City as this is the month of Feabhra. Where it was daylight when you left the Main Temple, now that you have reached the city the only lights are colorful paper lanterns strung up across smooth stone roads. The warmth of the daytime has cooled, so it might be smart to snuggle up with someone in one of the city’s various gazebos – each of them has a swing made for two (or three if you snuggle close enough.)

Harps, flutes, guitars and drums play lively music for everyone to dance to in the city square where garlands of brightly colored and white flowers hang for people to do with as they will. A stately woman dressed in black and wearing a brooch with the face of Ceannasach stands off to the side, her dark hair pulled back in a chignon. Whispers circulate, getting to you and informing you that this woman is E’ara Fraoch, owner of the most successful brothel in South City, and she is paying 50 gold pieces to the best dancers and 100 more if they will come work for her at Where The Wild Roses Grow, her establishment.


I Feel You I feel you, your precious soul, and I am whole
Food and drink is plentiful at this celebration and some of it is even free! The vendors believe that this is a good promotion for their stores during the rest of the year. They wheel their carts about, humming jaunty tunes and offering delicious things to you, the new arrivals, and everyone else in the city.
There is a man named Sam wheeling his cart of beverages and chocolate dipped waffles through town. If you catch him, he’ll probably suggest you order the alcoholic drink The Spirit of Feabhra. This drink does not come without side effects. It tastes like a fancy gin cocktail, sparkling and sweet with the flavor of berries and mint hitting your tongue, but the moment you get close to someone you actually have feelings for, you start to feel it… Them. Their thoughts, their emotions, their dreams… It’s as if they have melted into you.


Is This Desire? Is this desire; Enough, enough; To lift us higher; To lift above?
You have been told repeatedly throughout the night by smiling (creepy) faces not to wander out of the city limits into the wilderness, but now that you are here you just don’t get it. Lichens and fungi light up the night with a soft glow from the tree trunks, seemingly drawing you in.

In the forest, the music fades and the chittering of small animals creates a different tune. You don’t seem to be in danger. You might come across the healthiest, most beautiful apple tree you’ve ever seen. It is completely free of pests and only the dew clings to the apples’ shiny surface.

Should you pick one for yourself, you will feel a strange compulsion to bite it. Go on. Do it. If and when you have, you will find yourself incredibly aroused, but you won’t be able to bring yourself to orgasm – another must do it. If you didn’t bite the apple, maybe you gave it to someone else. In that case they will be unstoppably attracted to you with arousal to match. If you chose to plant it near your home, a tree like the one it came from will grow there and you will ICly receive a special reward.


Dead of Night When delirious fun; Has seriously begun; You'll be down on your knees; You'll be begging us please
Now you’ve done it. You’ve wandered into the woods without a spiritual guide from the temple. Now the vættir have been awoken and they are ready to fuck shit up… Sort of. Right now, these spirits kind of only want to ruin this party, but who knows what they’ll do later?

A low-lying cloud of black smoke crawls down the hills from the forest to the city until it covers the smooth stone roads and reaches up into everyone who is either of weak constitution or just simply tired and possesses them. It doesn’t take total control, but rather influences them, and causes them to destroy decorations, vendor carts, and do wild things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. Basically, these spirits want to cut through the façade and see you party like a rock star.

The only way to exorcise one of the vættir from a friend or loved one is to call on the deity of light – Cuiristeach. They accept demonstrations of service as the highest form of prayer, so get on your knees for your friend and get this done!

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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
"No flowers. I never got the whole flowers thing. Like, here, here's some dead things I want you to watch wither and rot. I prefer booze." And presumptive of him to assume a 'next time', but they were here in this weird fuck-place and it seemed likely that they'd bump into each other again.
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
"What's your poison, then? I'll come with a bouquet of...gin? I peg you for a gin girl."

Bucky used to be good at guessing a girl's drinks back when but he thinks half the drinks he used to order don't even get made any longer.
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
She made a buzzer sound, shaking her head. "Nope. Whiskey. Gin tastes like shit." Juniper berries. What moron made a drink out of fucking berries?
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Whiskey would have been my second guess," Bucky says. "And gin only tastes like shit when it's cheap and you don't mix it with anything. There was this club I went to back before the war where the gin was so bad it'd peel the paint off the walls but they always had the best bands. Bartender was shit so the Gin Fizz was always flat and the Bees Knees had crystalized honey but damn if I didn't pick up girls there.

He laughs and looks over at her. "You know, your look would have been a hit back then. Always did like a dark-haired girl."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Gin tastes like someone thought pine needle flavored booze was a good idea. They were wrong, by the way. Bees Knees? Was there actually a drink called Bees Knees, or are you just grandpa'ing some shit to laugh at me over?"

Old people and their weird prohibition shit. But it was good to hear him laughing, smiling as he talked to her. Good to know that she didn't sour everything she touched. "My 'look', huh? You mean goth bitch? It's not even popular now, Barnes."
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Bees Knees is a cocktail with gin and honey in it," Bucky says. "It's real, look it up. I'm sure nobody's ordering it right now in the modern world unless it's a throwback bar but it's a hell of a drink. My drink was always a Sidecar, though."

When she says goth bitch, he shakes his head. "Goths were glam in the 20s. No, you'd look great in Victory rolls and red lipstick. I'd buy you a Manhattan and take you dancing. You'd probably shoot me in an alley afterward, though. Good way to die."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I always thought it was like the cat's pajamas. Some weird old timey shit you guys said to sound cool but made no sense. And what's with all the weird drink names? Just... drink whiskey? Or beer. What's wrong with beer?"

He mentioned her all dolled up and she laughed, shaking her head. "Nope. I don't do 'glam' or whatever it is. I don't even do dresses. I would definitely knock your teeth out in an alley, though."
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
"It's to upsell the ingredients. If they have a fancy name, you can charge three times the price of what it is to make it and then you can turn profit. Beer doesn't make profit in bars, cocktails do. I'm not an expert or anything but it's just built into the business model."

When she says she'd knock his teeth out in an alley, he can't help but laugh at the image.

"Then you owe me new dentures if you get any ideas about knocking me to the moon."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
"You know quite a bit about bar business models. Planning on opening one?" What? It was a valid question.

"Fine. I won't punch your teeth out. You have a decent smile. I'll just kick you in the balls." Like that was a decent compromise. Jessica was aware it was not.
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah, just know a lot of random shit. Got 106 years of knowledge packed in here," Bucky says, tapping his temple. "Prison breaks, how to run a bar, obscure languages. Everything a Winter Soldier needs on the run."

He cuts her a look when she says she'll kick him in the balls. "You probably want me to sleep with you again and if you bruise my balls I'm not going to want to get my dick out. It's not conducive to our sexual arrangement, Jones."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Your dick will heal. Your teeth will not." It was logic, really. But as she wasn't exactly in the mood for either punching him out or kicking him in the balls, she opted to grin at him as she slid her hand down under the covers, tickling at the top of his thigh. "You'd rather no teeth than bruised balls?"
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd rather neither," Bucky says, smirking at her. "But if I've gotta choose, I guess I'm choosing bruised balls. I won Best Smile in high school and I've got to keep the reputation going."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
"See, and here I was voted biggest asshole, so I guess my trend is still running," she shot back at him, relaxing back against him as he conceded that bruises were better than broken teeth. "Pretty fucked that we're here, though."
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Didn't think I'd be forced to go to Sex World, no. I guess I should have known it was possible - we had aliens invade and shit like that - but it wasn't on my list of things that would happen this year."

Bucky sighs a little. "At least I can choose who I sleep with even if I can't choose when I'm worked up."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Apples, huh? Guess it'll keep a doctor away if he's worried about getting screwed by his patients." That just brought everything to light here, and she tipped her head up again to look at him. "You know, if you're... not cool with being under some kind of enhancement to fuck, I get it if you don't want to hook up again." Memories were tricky things, after all.
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah, I chose you," Bucky says. "And for hell of a good reason, apparently. I don't normally have that kind of luck and discerning taste."

He gives her a look. "You think you're getting out of fucking me again, Jessica?"
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, I'm giving you a valid out. I'm attempting to be nice here." She was an acquired taste, after all. Most might think she had a nice ass, but once her personality got involved, all bets were off.
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't need the out. You know who I am so I can save explaining why I'm the Tin Man and you don't feel sorry for me which makes you better than most of the women I've met since getting back into a life worth living. I'm not looking to let go of that," Bucky says.
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-01-31 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
Her brows rose as she glanced up at him. Well. That was a first. Someone seeing her as the lesser evil? Considering what he'd been through, that wasn't such a far-off idea. "Well then maybe one or both of us is going to have to play nice."
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-01-31 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Playing nice. Haven't done that in decades," Bucky says, shaking his head a little. "Might be a novel thing to do."
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-02-01 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
"That makes two of us." Though, her timespan was clearly much shorter than his in terms of just existing at all.
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-02-01 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Might be fun to give it a go. I haven't been a nice boy since I was in high school."

Bucky had always been a little bad, just because it made things interesting, but he'd never gotten beyond defending Steve at school or hotwiring a car to take it for a joyride. It had been the war that changed him, first, and then HYDRA. It feels nice to even think about being a fun person again and he wonders if he can manage it.
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-02-01 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fun is a four letter word." There were a lot of four letter words in Jessica's life. Most of them involved things she opted to not longer think about having. She'd stopped having fun before she'd run into a certain mind controller, but after, well... what was the point?
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[personal profile] ostavil 2023-02-02 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
"All the fun words have four letters," Bucky shoots back. "If it didn't get you in trouble saying it at church, it wasn't worth saying."

He grins at her. "What religion does the Smithsonian say I am these days?"
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[personal profile] assholic 2023-02-02 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Never looked at that part. Religion isn't something I give much of a shit about. I don't know your frozen dancing soldier boy's either." She'd gone to the exhibit, watched the reels, ignored most of it in lieu of making sure that Trish didn't go off and do something stupid to piss off her mom.

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