2769/Bog Hog Dog, Bog Was the Witch

Bog Hog Dog, Bog Was the Witch
Date of Scene:	17 September 2025
Location:	Hotel Augusta
Synopsis:	A noodle incident of a witch fight happened offscreen..
Cast of Characters:	Usagi Tsukino, Mamoru Chiba, Rashmi Terios, Amanda Faust

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Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Why."

These are the words uttered by Sailor Moon as the labyrinth dissolves around them, taking with it the familiars with their wet, rubbery hands and the bog body witch herself, vanishing the sprawling, clammy labyrinth of acidic wetlands and the reek of decay, but leaving Sailor Moon still splattered with rotting vegetation.

"Why?!"

The first why had been deadpan, but this one is plaintive, "I want a shower. I want so many showers. Why isn't Ami-chan here to douse me in regret!!!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Because," says the boy whose tuxedo is clinging and whose white tie is no longer white-- in fact all of his bright-whites are sort of tea-colored now including his mask, "you're already doused in regret. This is regret and it's liquid and we have been doused. Drenched. Dripping nastiness."

Tuxedo Kamen isn't grinding his teeth, he's just crouching on the ground and spreading his corpse-tea gloved fingers to touch it, literally grounding himself after the labyrinth. "Anybody hurt?"

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"What I want to know," Rashmi whines -- and yes, her voice actually carries the sort of high, whining pitch that only someone who has been doused in a bucket of dumpster juice can attain -- "is *why the bathtub.* Bathtubs are for getting *clean,* not holding swamp muck!"

And she tries and tries and tries to shake the filthy reek off her arms, to no avail.

For a moment she seriously considers turning her fire magic on herself, and the only thing stopping her is the fact that Mamoru would take the sight... poorly.

"...I mean I'm not any more beaten up than usual, but I kinda wonder if Mt. Fuji's still active after the Spirit Ember thing? I may take a dip..."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Why?!"

    Amy says it at the same time, looking similarly unhappy, nodding.

    "I didn't think it was possible to feel grosser than wet-swimsuit-on-dry-land... Oh wait there was under-water-but-its-oil Witch... But this is way worse!"

    She shakes an arm, which uselessly splatters some droplets of filth around and does not meaningfully decrease the amount on her.

    "At least after the ice cream and candy youmas it smelled and tasted nice... euuurgh some of it got in my mouth... pt-thff... ptooie!"

    With a disgusted groan, she walks over to the grief seed and picks it up, wiping off her soul gem and cleansing almost a third of corruption away so it shines ruby red once more... through the smeared muck. u_u

    "Rashmi, I don't suppose you have like... a bunch of water stored in Nichomachea...?"

    She shakes her head -- doused long hair flicking behind her -- at Tuxedo Mask's question. "I was, but I regenerated the wound when we hit the bog -- or the bogs hit us, whatever -- because... eugh."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"I am," Sailor Moon agrees, shaking herself like a dog to ill-effect - the muck clings. "I am doused in regret and I want to be clean."

They have fought so many gross things. There was that giant Silver Crystal Lollipop monster, for one thing. But this.

"Is it polluting if we just - throw ourselves in the river? We could just throw ourselves in the river. I'll get swept all the way to the bay, if it means being clean."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Well," says Mamoru, starting to laugh, "aside from the Witch magic aspect of it, the muck we marinated in was all natural," he's stepping toward the river, "and the environment in peat bogs, underwater, is not only acidic, it's totally anoxic. And if you noticed the moss, there's sphagnan in the water as well, meaning that bacteria wouldn't even have a chance to thrive in the lower depths of the bogwater. So truly the deeper you got dunked, the safer your wounds would have been--"

He's standing with his back to the river now. He is pulling his gloves on tighter. "Ugh at least we're already cold. The river's probably warm in comparison, right?" He turns and steps down the bank in his dress shoes, and climbs carefully over wet stones, and just. Legitimately just walks into the water. "Oh it's nice," he calls.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
"...I tried that half a dozen times on the way here," Rashmi moans in answer to Amy... then pauses, perking up as Sailor Moon suggests throwing themselves into the river.

"...I mean... a little? But I won't tell Coco-chan if no one else will..."

...And Tuxedo Mask just goes ahead and *does it,* and Rashmi is surprised enough to throw a shocked look at Amy...

...Then launches herself into the river, using the magic of her Flier Fin to get a good high-speed wash going.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Damn." Amy comments when Rashmi explains her inventory mechanics can't save her here, let alone the rest of them.

    Amy blinks as Mamoru explains why the muck is not the terrible infection risk she expected. "...Good to know. Wait, no, I hope it isn't, I hope I never need to know that."

    She holds out her arms and looks down at herself. There are no gender feels from this; only regret.

    "I don't think it's polluting, it's a big river and little us... and Mamoru said it's all-natural muck anyway..."

    When she sees him start walking into the river, she runs after him, and leaps into a deeper part of the water where she can fully submerge. Sploosh!

    When she surfaces she's in a white-and-black one piece swimsuit and looking considerably less mucky, although it's still a lot to get out of all that hair... "Oh that is so much better... it's so cold and how is it warmer than the muck eugh..."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Mamoru gives a little lecture on bogs, that Usagi listens to - not bored, not annoyed, just with the loveydovey expression of someone who loves to watch her partner info dump. ...Then he walks into the river.

"Well, I won't tell Coco-chan! What she doesn't know doesn't hurt us!"

Everyone else has launched themselves, so Sailor Moon takes a brief hup-hup-hup launch forward... and super jumps into the air, so she cannonball into around the center of the river.

SPLOOSH!

A splash of water flies up, and then Sailor Moon slowly floats up to the surface on her back spread-eagled and relieved, her long twintails turning into grasping tendrils of blond.

"This feels so much better already." Doggy paddling over to her friends, she hums in response to Amy - "Well, it's still kind of summer, and the sun's been on the water all day!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Tuxedo Kamen doesn't get water to the face again until the superjump cannonball, and-- he coughs and sputters, then laughs ruefully. "I think," he says, "I'm okay to go to the beach now."

He walks the rest of the way into the water, disappearing his mask; he's simply Endymion in white tie and a cape. He dunks his head underwater and scrubs at his scalp, disappearing his gloves because they're in the way...

When he straightens up again, it's by flinging his head back and letting an arc of water splash away from him through the air, and then he starts wading back out, shaking his hair out and dragging his soaking cape with him. "Don't go in over your heads unhenshined," he says like a dad, only dropping his own henshin until he's fully out of the water and on the rocky bank again. Now he's mostly dry, even, bent over to wring out his hair a little more.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
The water glows faintly golden, as Rashmi -- not having heard Mamoru's advice, but heeding it nonetheless because great minds think alike -- torpedoes to the surface, and breaks with a large splash, whipping her hair back and gasping in a deep breath. "...Okay that was probably the best bad idea anyone's had in a *while,* thank you Mamo-kun."

Her hair bobs behind her, still tied in its plait and thus resembling a ginger-colored, ruined fishing net more than streamers or anything remotely elegant.

"Also good to know about swamp water... Nicomachea, make a note in case I need future reference?"

        << *BONG!* >> << COMMAND INPUT EXECUTE >>

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy watches Rashmi surface and do the hair-whipping thing. "I didn't de-henshin, what if I had to numb the cold?" Amy looks back to Mamoru and kicks at the water to push herself up, and taps her soul gem, presently set into the chest of the one-piece. "Or if something happened, yeah..."

    And then she takes a breath and ducks back under the water, then surfaces and tries to dramatically whip her hair back, but it's not in a plait like Rashmi's, just loose, and kind of gets stuck in the water and just falls on her face. "Ackpth!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Wait. Nicomachea-- Bog water, not swamp water," Mamoru says half-casually, sitting on the bank after ruffling his hair, letting it air-dry with river water in it. "Swamp water isn't acidic it's the other thing. Still wetland, but a different type. So are marshes and fens. They're not all the same-- I just can't remember all the differences off the top of my head."

He has the grace to look sheepish. "Sorry, haha. I don't do great with directions in labyrinths, that's why I fell in..."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"The water's not that cold yet," Sailor Moon laughs, doggy paddling around Amy and splashing her for fun. "You wouldn't need to numb yourself! If you did that, you wouldn't feel all the fish and then they'd end up in your pockets."

She says this sagely, as though this has happened to her. It hasn't, but it could.

"Even if the river probably isn't the best to swim in, I'm so glad we're clean. Can you imagine if we had to walk back to school like that?" It would have been beyond tragic. She paddles until she can walk, then clamors onto the shore and drops her own henshin - she's mostly dry too, with just a bit of damp hair that she starts fingercombing in advance of a braid or two.

"Is anyone down for a snack after this? Mamochan's treat!" Shameless wife is shameless.

Rashmi Terios has posed:
        << *BONG!* >> << ACKNOWLEDGED, GUEST USER 'Mamoru' >>

Amy's hair travails cannot *help* but be observed with a snicker from Rashmi, but before the sound even dies, she's swim-flying through the water to loop one arm around Amy's back, ducking her head to drape one of the Puella's arms across her shoulders. Lifting the pair of them a bit more out of the water, she uses her free hand to tug Amy's hair aside and out of her face. "Yeah, that uh... that's something for people with shorter hair than us to do. You're just lucky that the face you slapped was your own."

Her head perks up sharply, when Usagi looses the siren call of snacks. "Food? Yes. Yes I am always down for food. But no algae chips please, I think I've had enough for the next forever. Amy-chan, you ravenous too?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy blushes, but she can't help smiling and almost laughing at herself, too, and knowing her friends won't think lesser of her for it helps. She looks briefly surprised at being lifted up, but isn't complaining! "It's okay, I'll figure it out." She smiles, "Sitting in a skirt took multiple tries, too..."

    She mutters, "still mess it up sometimes..."

    Amy just sort of... blinks at Usagi. "But I don't even have pockets right now... when did... did that happen?"

    Walk back to school like this?! Amy looks over to Usagi with determination. "We'd figure something out. Maybe something in your barrierinth could clean us..."

    She looks much more excited at the suggestion that follows: "Oh, food?! Snacks? Hell yes, let's like... make a happy memory of snacks with friends to offset..."

    And then she shivers and stares into the middle distance. "...The Bog Witch..."

    She mutters again, "So many feral bogs... so many eyes..."