Tattoos?!

[failgoyle]

[Shortly after the return to Liminal Space, there's screaming over the psychic network again. Surprising no one, it's coming from Jules.]

WHAT IS THIS WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, I DIDN'T DO THIS!

[And surprise, there's a visual, since someone's using Sensory Livestreaming in his panic! Jules is in a bathroom in the Workshop, angling around at some mirrors to look at his own back. Because this is what he's seeing through his own eyes, his Mask isn't a thing--he looks like his normal purple gargoyle self, horns and tiny wings and all.

What is not normal is the fact that between the wings, a tattoo starts. It's a waterfall topped with twelve stars! And down the waterfall is a sunglasses-wearing pink pelican surfing down the waterfall on a heart-shaped shield with the symbol of Venus inscribed on it. The waterfall then segues into three very large roses, which are much, much lower on Jules's body, and...

...yeah. That's his butt. The stems of the roses look like they might continue onto something, but he dropped his tail in his panic. In fact, he's waving the limp tail around in front of his face now. There are thorns around the base of said tail]

I noticed the thorns, and then this, and WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

... oh my God.

[Starts laughing hysterically. Which is a bit disconcerting to have in your head.]

[failgoyle]

It's not funny!

[Said with as much of a whine as he can manage psychically.]

[summerorange]

What happened to you?!? And what is that thing??

[Forgive her, she's still in recovery mode.]

[failgoyle]

I got some crazyass tattoo without realizing it, that's what happened to me!

[He has completely failed to pick up on the fact that the whole purple gargoyle thing he's got going might also be a big deal for some people...]

[awitchdidit]

Either you got very, very drunk, or Empress got very, very enthusiastic...

[failgoyle]

I wasn't drunk!

...and the who got the what now?

[amadine]

An object lesson in the evils of mixing rotgut and alchemical potions?

[failgoyle]

I didn't mix anything!

[claudiometer]

......What the fuck, Mei.

[Yeah, Claudia's also laughing.]

[failgoyle]

Who the hell is Mei and what does she even have to do with this?!

[awondrousplace]

Looks like you got yourself Marked, darling.

Quite lovely. Both the ink and the arse.

1/2

[failgoyle]

MARKED?!?!

2/2

[failgoyle]

...and...uh...th-thanks?

[thornsofmalkav]

He really does have a much better ass than I'd expected... [said thoughtfully]

[hiding_honor_in_darkness]

You are again yourself then?

-=not that the differences were all that great to begin with, but the disembodied tail helps give it away=-

Are you in pain?

[failgoyle]

Yeah, yeah, I'm me!

...and no, no, the tail does that from time to time. Doesn't hurt. The tattoos don't hurt either, thankfully.

[forcechanic]

Well Jules I think you're the first person to ever beam their rear end into everyone's head...

[failgoyle]

Focus on the tattoo, not what the tattoo is on!

[Why. Why this? But he kills the streaming.]

[happyhalloween]

I like the pelican, Papa Jules!

[failgoyle]

...at least someone does?

[...she saw his ass, why, why?]

[mytearsaremine]

Okay, uh. That... is that what a Mark looks like? Do they all look like that? Cuz that's kind of... massive.

[Jolie is a little late to the party, since she kind of took a moment to be super embarrassed at seeing a man's butt, so she's heard some of the previous chatter already.]

[failgoyle]

I don't even know! It just happened!

[amourtician]

Well. That's a lovely view— er, dropped tail excepted. Does it often do that?

[failgoyle]

Only when I get really, really nervous, like now.

[runawaystory]

[snickers very loudly. yes, even over the network.]

I'm guessing this is one of those newfangled marks I've heard so much about?

[failgoyle]

APPARENTLY!

[Someone's getting a little punchy here.]

[dino_zarf]

Hope you're ready for the fact that Empress tends to be one of the more... enthusiastically involved Trumps in my experience.

[She is in fact one of two Trumps he has any experience with]

[failgoyle]

But I don't want enthusiasm or involvement or anything, and I just want off this ride...

[solvethepuzzle]

That's a terrible mess. [Totally unfazed.]

[failgoyle]

No shit, Captain Obvious!

[And we've moved on from the initial panic onto being snappish...]