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Her conversation with Caleb about installing a hot tub in the garden hasn't gone forgotten, but in the meantime Jester decides to take advantage of the one in the bathroom. It's there, it's a shame not to use it, right? Caleb said nobody really hung out in it together, which Jester guesses is fair since there's also a toilet in there which automatically makes it awkward. But she wants to at least give people the option!

So she grabs a big stack of towels, sets them on the toilet lid, and then pillages the kitchen for a few assorted trays of food. Painstakingly, she assembles what amounts to a Shirley Temple and sticks a fancy straw in it and a cherry on top before bringing it all back to the bathroom. She opens the windows to let in the night breeze and let the steam escape, fills the tub with hot water and some nice scented oils she found on the shelf nearby, and then throws on an undershirt and a pair of clean undies before sticking her head out over the banister and shrieks:

"HOT TUB PARTY STARTING RIGHT NOW OKAYYYYYY?"

Great! Invitations are sent! Now all that's left for her to do is slide into the steaming hot tub with a hiss of satisfaction and sip at her fancy drink.

TaptaptaptapTAPTAPTAP. The smattering of feet is the only warning before a naked Molly barges in with a huge grin. The hot tub is close to his room, so there's no way he could have missed that shriek, and an invitation to his favorite thing? You know he'll be there.

"I'm so here for this!" Molly purrs, brightening even more when he sees how lovely she's made all of it. He tosses a towel in the sink and then slides into the water next to her.

"How are you doing, dear?"

"Woo!" Jester hears the rapid approach of feet, and looks downright jazzed when Molly appears in the doorway; she pumps both fists up in the air. The jets are bubbling away already, perfumed steam rising up from the water's surface as Molly gets in with her.

"I'm good! I missed doing this, I always forget how relaxing it is." Her tail sticks up out of the water, the spade tip flipping back and forth lazily like a cat's. "How have you been, Mol-ly-maaaauk?" She stretches his name out like a piece of taffy, fond and happy.

"I can't believe this just came with the house upgrade Caleb asked for. Our personal bathhouse!" Molly breathes a big sigh of relief and pleasure as he's all surrounded by warm water and nice smells. Even better is the company, so he gives Jester a grin as she says his name like that.

He loves it.

"Oh, I've been just fine! Spending most of my days sparring or talking to people on the island." He's bruise central because everyone is stronger than he is (lvl 5!) but he's doing his best. "How are you settling in?"

"It's so perfect," Jester agrees, letting her eyes wander over Molly's visible tattoos for a second. It's still so jarring to see those eyes, knowing now what she does about them, but she has to remind herself that as far as they all know, Molly is safe from their influence.

"Is that why you look like you got run over by a horse cart?" Gesturing towards his bruises, she shrugs off his question almost too quickly.

"Just fine, you know, trying to stay busy and not worry too much about back home and stuff."

Those tattoos are joined by Molly's new ones, so he's a lovely artwork for her to look at as they relax. There are no whispers in this lavender tiefling's head, no movement of those red eyes and their beholder powers. Just a messy, chaotic creature with a big goofy smile.

He can tell that she doesn't quite want to talk about settling in, and that's fine. It sucks to be suddenly trapped here, and Molly's blissfully unaware of anything else.

"People here are stupidly powerful and I keep getting my ass handed to me, but at least I think I'm not as rusty as I was before. Barely had to touch a blade in six months."

His tail flicks a bit, sending a little wave in their comfy water.

"Met any friends? There are two other tieflings on this island, even if they're not from Exandria."

Jester's heart swells a little as she gets a full look at the new tattoos on Molly's other arm, the waves, the lightning, the amber lights...and the lollipop. That someone would miss her enough to get a tattoo for her is huge, and in turn it makes her think about Beau and Yasha, and how much she misses them, too.

"You'll get stronger," she reassures him, flipping water right back at him with a giggle. "We had a lot of practice fighting monsters and bad guys and stuff."

She nods enthusiastically at the mention of the two tieflings. "Yeah, I met them both the first day! Oran and....the orange one?"

"I better, I refuse to be the weakest one here."

He can't help in the future possible Augur battle if the rest of the Nein have more power in their little finger than he does! (Grinding those levels... slowly.)

The fact that she mentions Oran makes his smile, happy to hear that she's met the other two infernals. "Eren. He's a wizard, doing some kind of interesting name magic."

Whatever the fuck that meant. He has no idea.

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"You definitely aren't. I bet you could beat any of the, like, normal human people here, easy."

Jester takes a long sip from her mocktail, twirling the little umbrella around in her glass. "It seems like you're pretty happy here, Molly. Aside from being, you know, stuck."

"Tell that to the Vox Machina fellow that beat the shit out of me to the point where I was asked just how kinky sex I have around here because of the bruises," Molly replies with a chuckle. He's pretty sure his quick explanation saved Percy from an Eldritch Blast to the face.

Jester's comment about being happy here makes that amused look soften again, and he runs his fingers through the water.

"I'm not to bothered about this place. I don't like the pressure and the coercion, but the rest isn't so bad." The lavender tiefling leans back a bit, horns cradling his head against the hot tub edge.

"...and it's given me a little more time, you know?" A little more time being Molly.

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"Woah, what? Like, you were sparring him on purpose, right?"

Jester concentrates for a moment, seeing if she can summon a Healing Word...but no, it looks like she'll have to earn that one back. Shit.

"Yeah, I mean, overall it could be way worse. I'm super lucky to have you all." Beneath the water's surface, she nudges his shin with her toes. "And especially you, Molly. Having you here makes it all worth it, if you ask me."

"I was! Flat side of the blade, no magic. He was damn quick." Lvl 5 vs lvl 20, he's lucky he didn't die immediately by sheer accident.

Molly isn't quite sure what kind of concentrated face she's making for a moment, but nothing comes out of it. Must be as powerless as they others, then. This place really liked its incentives.

The nudge makes him smile and he leans closer to her with a sigh. Knowing you're about to die in a moment back home really isn't a great feeling, so every moment here is like a blessing. "A place based on sex is definitely worth a little more time to see my friends."

"Oh, good," Jester breathes, worried that some Vox Machina asshole was going after her friend for no reason. "I'm sorry you lost so bad, that had to have hurt."

She grins, and tries to hide the edge of sadness to her voice as she snuggles closer to Molly. "I agree. It seems like everyone has adjusted pretty okay, though."

"He's be very dead by now if that was the case." Molly says with a small chuckle. The Nein were kind of protective of him, after all - Fjord more than everyone, but he's not going to mention that.

Instead he coils his tail around Jester's and just enjoys having her close. He's missed her so much, two colorful hornheads against the world.

"More or less. It was messy at first for some, but now I think we're all just working to get out powers back. Fjord wants to kill the Augur and free everyone."

Not so sure that's possible or even going to help, but...

"That's true." There's no denying it; extraplatonic bonds aside, the Nein have always been fiercely protective of one another. She lets her tail and Molly's coil, almost like a secret handshake between them at this point.

"Of course he does. I think we just have to get way stronger first." The Augur seems like Vokodo on steroids, from what she's heard. They'll need a whole lot of raw power if they're going to stand a chance.

"Yeah... me too. It's probably part of why it steals some people's powers. Both as an incentive to fuck and as a precaution." It didn't steal anything from him, and that's probably because he's weaker and he has no problems with sleeping around.

Well. He had no problems.

"Screw that, though. Let's talk about better things. What is your favorite of the clothes I got you?"

"I thought all my powers were gone for, like, a week until Caleb asked me about them. I felt pretty silly when I realized I had just assumed they were all gone." Jester giggles, rolling her eyes at herself. "I don't have everything, though."

The change in conversation is a welcome one, and the smaller tiefling wiggles excitedly. "Oh. My gosh. I love all of them. But my favorite is the dress with the strawberries on it, it's so cute!"

"Some is better than nothing." He remembers how naked and powerless Fjord had felt without even a hint of magic...and the suspicions when they first met and he still had his powers.

The dress joy is a better topic, though, and he smiles as Jester mentions the strawberry dress. "I bet you'll look adorable in it... and sexy."

Jester chortles, clearly pleased by the compliment even as she waves it away like she's embarrassed.

"Oh my god, yeah, you're probably right," she laughs. But who is there to be sexy for? She very resolutely does not think about Fjord, whose boyfriend and mate she's currently hot-tubbing with, and instead lets her mind slide hazily over to Vax.

"...do you think Vax likes strawberries?"

Molly laughs again, warm and fond.

"I have absolute no idea," he says with a little, amused shrug. "I haven't spent a lot of time with Vax, unfortunately. We slept together once and he also taught me what phone sex was."

He sinks a little deeper into the hot tub, lifting a leg so he can look at his toes.

"Do you like him?"

Jester takes a big drink of her shirley temple as Molly answers, partly to hide her embarrassment over even having asked. But hey, this beats moping, so she'll take it.

"A little, yeah. He was my first, but he's also just...interesting. And super charming." Fucking rogues!

[ Molly smiles again at that, peering at Jester with amused and curious eyes. He already knows she slept with Vax (who is, indeed, one hell of a charming bastard), but now that she actually mentions that he was her first, he just has to pry. ]

How was it? Everything you thought?

"I have to be honest, it was pretty great."

Jester sinks down a little in the water so that everything below her mouth is submerged. "I didn't tell him it was my first time. I just didn't want it to be like, oh you're so precious and fragile, you know?"

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