As all the groups left the pier, the copies of Thy all rushed together, before splitting apart. Now, there were three Thys, one in a butler outfit, one in pirate getup, and a final one dressed as a maid. Except, the butler one took more feminine features, large behind, noticeable breasts and a pinched waist, while the maid Thy had massive arms and legs with bulging muscles to match March. The pirate was split down the middle, with one half looking feminine and one-half masculine. Apparently, Thy wanted to look as crazy as possible.
It was the pirate Thy that spoke first. "Yarr, welco to island. I couldn't give yar a vacation for this round, so I did the next closest thing maties!" Kat's translation ability inford her that Thy wasn't quite sounding that way, but they were trying to go for the realm's equivalent of a fake pirate accent so it was close enough.
The butler Thy stepped forward to continue speaking… except just to keep things mixed up their voice was even gruffer then the pirate's, despite the formal language used. "Now that you have been cordially invited to my island, I shall inform you that the first four rounds will be made up of a thematic set of three party gas. Nobody can go skip more than one round of participation, and nobody can participate in three rounds in a row,"
Maid Thy stepped forward, their voice was softer then silk, and seed to tickle the ears. Stan, the incubus on the middle team, looked way too interested after maid Thy started speaking, "Though there will be one event that I am specifically banning Kat, and perhaps Romilda from as well. To pre-empt the obvious question, it involves flying, or more accurately, falling while aided and the ability to simply fly instead of participating in the task properly is too much of an advantage. To compensate, I will allow Lily to participate in Kat's stead, though Kat and Lily will count as the sa 'person' for rules purposes.
"For Romilda, I will have to investigate if there is a suitable compromise. If you are willing to accept having your tal taken from you for the task, and returned later then I can simply allow you to participate in that event if you wish… or if that is unacceptable you will have to remain barred,"
Pirate Thy stepped forward to continue, "Yarr, it seems that simply giving Romilda the option is a mighty big compromise already. No offence to the wee lass, but while these activities are nothing serious, they are mostly test of physical ability. Of course, Kat will be restricted sa as last round, so perhaps swapping out will be fine,"
*Well I suppose that tells that the other demon isn't as strong as I am. I wonder if he will be restricted at all? Though I suppose there is also the chance that he just wasn't around for the previous round of events.*
Romilda floated around for a bit with a frown on her face, "I can't be separated from my tal, and I don't particularly like the fact that you're forcing my team to take a disadvantage because o' that fact,"
All the Thys just shrugged before one more split off into a dwarf Thy that then started to float… sohow. Lily, who had a small sense for things because of her space affinity, even if it wasn't properly active realised that Thy was standing on solidified space. Which was apparently a thing you could do.
"I accept your displeasure and return your displeasure with bit of information. I don't care. It is well within my rights to dictate the specifics of a task, and if you wish to get into the specifics, the task in question disallows anything that would allow for flight, or levitation. This ans if you want to participate you need to relieve yourself of your tal…
"Yet you don't see Kat complaining. She has WINGS for crying out loud. She could argue that her wings aren't a flight aid, as they are part of her body, and if she really wanted to press the issue, I might have to let it go and allow her the chance to compete regardless of my feelings on the matter. You may notice, that the boon I provided, the ability to allow Lily to swap in, is also technically allowed in the rules.
"Lily counts as a familiar according to the rules. The fact that Lily is completely sentient and basically a 6th person for their team doesn't matter. I'm actually placing TWO restrictions on Kat's team by forcing only one of them to compete in the events, but we all know that would be unfair, and once again, you don't see them complaining. Not even about the fact that Lily CAN remove her wings, so theoretically, if they used that line of reasoning, Lily could participate despite Kat's bans.
"Heck, arguably, the restriction bracelet that Kat is willing to wear isn't strictly necessary. The rules are really fuzzy about it. Especially in regards to if Kat can destroy it or not, and because I am actually a bit annoyed at your Romilda, I'll reveal this. Kat, according to the rules, if you can destroy the restriction bracelet during a round, you get to finish the round without one, before I am required to make another, tougher restrictor if possible,"
"Oh," said Romilda, not wanting to argue more, but not trusting herself to hold back from yelling if she said anything else.
"Oh indeed. I may be a bit unorthodox, but I already said I was trying to make this round of the tournant as relaxing as possible. That's why you'll all be staying here in what happens to be a new luxury resort! I'll be opening it up to the public later on, but I started a chain of them so that I could use them as a location for all of the teams, not just the five here," explained dwarf Thy.
*Huh… well I don't plan to make use of that information because getting on Thy's bad side seems like a horrible idea… and it seems a lot less fun.*
[Would you HAVE to for the Contract though?]
*Nope, because the Contract was never to win, it was just to turn up rember? And it hasn't really been renewed properly I don't think? I'm not sure how it works exactly, and I'd ask D.E.M.O.N.S just to make sure it hasn't been an issue, but I suspect it won't answer .*
[Let try]
D.E.M.O.N.S cannot answer that question right now due to restrictions.
[Should've listened apparently.]
Romilda floated back into her team, scowl on her face. It wasn't as though she didn't understand why Thy had made such a rule. Thy clearly had no idea how egregious of a social foe pare it was to even request such a thing. Sure it wasn't sothing that all of the world abided by, but surely soone as old and powerful as Thy would have seen similar situations before?
Romilda was of course overlooking the fact that Thy might know and not care, which was a bit closer to the truth. Thy had an idea of how precious the tal was, but decided that forcing a decision on Romilda was a great evil then asking her an uncomfortable question. Still, Romilda was fuming and Thy was annoyed with themselves for getting so worked up over Romilda's response. Apparently getting everything organised, both this and the initial preparations for the final round, was getting to them.
Thy breathed in and dismissed the dwarven copy. Trying to get in character for that aspect probably wasn't helping matters. Thy let the butler version speak, keep things formal. "For the mont, you are all cordially invited to explore your residence for the next few days. Each team has been assigned a wing, one half of a floor. The ground floor is a common room for everyone, and you each have a room to yourselves… though double beds have been provided,"
Quite a few interesting reactions to that statent were noted by Kat. Green and Gareth obviously had a slight blush, but so did a few other people. They were just individuals though, so Kat wasn't sure who the androgynous elf was thinking of spending ti with, nor the fae with orange hair, who both sported prominent blushes themselves, though Kat doubted they were paired up in any way. Stan did look excited, but considering Kat thought he was a Incubus, it wasn't hard to guess why. Perhaps Burgandy was dating him? The idea seed wrong to Kat's mind.
Butler Thy cracked their knuckles and continued speaking, "Food and drink will be provided in the cafeteria, it is located on the East side of the ground floor, though additional seating can be found on the roof and your balconies, so you will not be confined to the cafeteria for als. The nu can be found next to the serving station, and if you wish to make any requests, either for entire dishes or substitutes, you will need to provide with six hours' notice. et back here one hour after the lunch bell has been called for you first task,"
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