Spark in the Gloom

[overbringer]

The Spark in the Gloom
A panfandom Smut Adventure RP Sandbox

Somewhere in the twisting paths between universes is The Archipelago. A world made of the flotsam and jetsam of a thousand different realities. An endless chain of islands, each one made from the seed of a different world. Local culture, weather, and even laws of physics can vary wildly from island to island. Without any kind of guiding will behind its creation, the Archipelago had always been a place of live and let live for the various people who found themselves there.

Until the Gloom arrived. This unnatural force of darkness coveted apathy and depression. Passion, pleasure, and happiness are its anathema. The islands over which it holds its grip aren't necessarily PHYSICALLY dark, but they always have a darkness of the spirit about them. The people it leaves behind are little more than mindless drones, performing the bare minimum to survive but lacking the energy to do anything else.

The Spark is an order of people from this world that have taken a stand, and they have chosen their primary weapon well. It is a weapon that most sentient beings know of. It is a force of passion, of creation, and pleasure.

The Order's weapon is sex. The very act of physical intimacy of any kind repels the Gloom and merely being NEAR anyone who is having sex or who has recently had sex causes the Gloom's agents physical discomfort. As some kinds of undead are to holy ground, the Gloom is to orgasms.

You poor lost souls were somehow lost between the cracks between realities. Maybe a sciece experiment or spell gone wrong. Maybe just a freak fracture in time and space. One minute you were home going about your life, the next you were in the Archipelago, and an agent of The Spark was pulling you out of the ocean. The Spark has the ability to send you home, but the Gloom is currently too strong and would surely block any such attempt. So if you want to get out of here, your best bet is to help The Spark in their fight.

Firebrand Island
The Spark's HQ is set up on a beautiful island deep in the nigh infinit expanse of the Archipelago. On the surface, it appears to be an enormous luxury resort surrounded by a thriving tourist town. A huge sprawling hotel/casino/shopping center forms the main body of resort, but with various smaller beach cabins villas, and other sattelite structures dotting the coast for miles in either direction. If you take the cable car tram going inland, you will find yourself going up the side of a mountain to a secondary resort, which instead of swimming pools and snorkeling tours, offers skiing and hotsprings.

Regardless of where you go on the island, you'll find the locals have very little in the way of a nudity taboo. Public bathing, sometimes of mixed gender, is the norm (In some neighborhoods, the houses don't even have their own showers, with everyone sharing one centrally located bathhouse.). You might get some weird looks if you started going at it in the middle of the street, but in general the people here aren't very judgey and will let you get away with whatever.

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The Order of the Spark
The Order is well known on Firebrand Island. It's something of an open secret that beneath their fabulous resorts are elaborate underground facilities devoted to tracking the spread of The Gloom, training their field agents, supplying them with state of the art equipment, housing planes and ships for traveling across the Archipelago, and other such things. The Order might use non standard weapons, but they are still fighting a war. They have to be READY.

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The Gloom

This supernatural force of darkness and depression has been slowly spreading across the Archipelago for decades. It isn't a physical THING you can fight with conventional weapons. It is, at the most basic level, an psychic aura of depression that drains the joie de vivre from wherever it spreads. Acts of supreme happiness, pleasure, and satisfaction will cause the Gloom to retreat.

The Gloom DOES have physical agents, though. People who live with The Gloom for too long will start to change. Most people end up as like blank faced shuffling zombies, but every once in a while, someone will become an Avatar of the Gloom. They mutate in monstrous ways and become devoted spreading the Gloom. It is unknown if the Gloom itself is sapient, or if it merely uses the sapience of its avatars. Either way, the MOST effective way to free and island of the Gloom is to find and either kill or chase off the avatar upon it.

The other thing the Gloom does is drain the power of others. While in Gloom enshrouded territory, you will rapidly grow weaker and lose and supernatural abilities you might have had. The only thing that can protect you from this effect is Mojo.

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Mojo

Mojo is the name for a kind of power that exists in this world that is the opposite of Gloom, though it is much rarer. You can generate small amounts of Mojo from masturbation, or from acts of creation (art of all kinds, hard but rewarding work, etc), but the best way to get Mojo is through sex with another person. Trying out new kinks has also been shown to produce some bonus Mojo, so it's always worthwhile to experiment with something new. Simply put, the more sex you have, the better protected you'll be from the effects of The Gloom. You can feel it as a sort of pleasant, metaphorical warmth in your stomach. It is the Order's greatest weapon in this war.

You don't HAVE to have sex, of course. The Order of the Spark idolizes freedom and personal expression. There are, as mentioned, other ways to build it up. They just are so much less effective, and sex can be so much fun. And let's be real, if you aren't interested in smut, why are you even looking at this post?

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SOME PROMPTS
1: Relaxation - It's a hard life, fighting a world devouring supernatural malaise. Fortunately, when you're not doing that, your accomodations are Top Notch. Go to a fancy restaurant. Hang out on the beach. Go skiing. Relax in the hot-springs. Get a job. Paint a picture. Go to the library. Watch a movie.
2: Mojo - To fight the Gloom you need Mojo, and to get Mojo you need SEX. Firebrand island has a million places to slip away for a steamy encounter, if you're away from the privacy of your room. And they say that if you try something you've never done before, you can generate even more.
3: Mission Prep - You've got some Mojo, you've got your mission. You're safe for the moment. As your speedboat/helicopter speeds you towards the next Island determined to house The Gloom, you've got some time to chat with your allies. Any last minute things you want to get off your chest? Want to strategize how you're going to take on the next Avatar? Just want to chat? Now's your chance.
4: Hunting - An island is a big place, and the Avatar isn't always somewhere obvious. The locals are usually too depressed to do much more than stare at you, so you have more or less free reign of the island, but good God is this place a dump. There's a dirtiness of the soul here, that your Mojo is holding at bay for the now, but is still omnipresent and overbearing.
5: Battle - Avatars are strange and terrifying creatures. They could have tentacle arms (not THAT kind of tentacle arms. The Gloom hates that stuff), ripping claws, jaws that can chew through steel, acid spitting glands, or worse. But you're a badass too. Protected from the Gloom by a shield of Mojo, with your friends and lovers at your sides, you are as ready as you're going to get. So go kick some ass!
6: Emergency Recharge - Something went wrong, and one of your friends has run out of Mojo. They're getting weaker by the minute, and it won't take long for them to be reduced to one of the shuffling mindless drones that the Gloom turns most people into. Fortunately, you found them, and there's one sure fire way to restore them to normal.
7: Victory - The Avatar has been defeated, and without it to anchor the Gloom here, the thrill of victory has started to erase the malaise covering the island. As people wake up from their long depression, they start to realize what happened, and BOY are they happy to do so. A grand party is held in your honor. The agents of the Order of the Spark are off on the side, making deals with the island's govnerment, but in the meantime, everyone is celebrating YOU. Enjoy your victory. Go dance. Sign autographs. Pose for selfies. Get drunk. Hook up with an attractive stranger. Tomorrow, it's back to HQ to get ready for the next fight. For now, you have NO responsibilities.
8: Training - Swing that sword, lift those weights, get in that sparring ring. You gotta be ready for the next island. And if your clothes starts to get pulled off or ripped during a sparring match, well, that would just be AWFUL, wouldn't it?
9: Recon report - Before all the cool sword havers can run in and fight the Avatar, you have to know what it looks like and what it can do. That means infiltration and recon, which is a risky business on it's own, but also uses up a lot of Mojo. By the time your extraction came, you were basically a drone. Upon getting home, you have two tasks. 1: Get Mojo'd back up and 2: Tell everyone what you learned about the new Island and its Avatar.
10: A Dirty Job - Fighting the Avatar is all very dramatic and important, but there's a lot else that needs to get done. There's a base camp on the engloomed Island's edge to maintain. There's maintenance to be done on the boat that carried you here. There's locals who can't really take care of themselves right now. Plus, if you end up with some spare time, slipping off somewhere quiet with a friend and generating some Mojo is always helpful to the mission.
11: Wildcard - Between the Slice of Life of living on Firebrand Island, the action/adventure of fighting the Gloom, and the Endless Smut of building up enough Mojo to SURVIVE fighting the Gloom, you have a lot of options. Make something up!

I'm testing the setting concept out. If people seem interested then who knows, maybe this will grow into something bigger!

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Konoka Konoe | Mahou Sensei Negima | OTA

[im_gonna_heal_u]

[1/2]

Night has fallen, and Konoka, separate from her friends, feels that gnawing feeling of loneliness. She hates that more than anything, and though she wished she were back home, felt the best thing to do was to dive deep into this new lifestyle. The less time spent dwelling on her negative feelings, the sooner she can push past them. The night was young and she didn't want to spend it alone in a hotel room.

It's weird, since everyone seems to show more skin than normal, and it's a preamble to use sex to store up something called 'Mojo', which must be this world's equivalent of magical energy. Konoka was never a super conservative kind of girl, but stuff like this was a bit closer to the doujins that her classmate Haruna often wrote. It was just a bit embarrassing, but if no one else was bothered about it? Then she would learn not to be bothered about it either. It was also kinda nice that she wouldn't be preyed upon for having a ton of innate mojo, so here she was just like everyone else.

She began looking for some way to dive into the mood and mindset. She picked out an off shoulder summer dress, heeled sandals, and began looking around, her eyes looking for something--or someone--to catch her eye. The nightscape of this island was extremely pretty though, enough that she might have been a little too distracted and almost bumped into someone! Despite not being a warrior, however, she caught herself at the last second and deftly twirled out of the way. An especially quick eye might have caught the last thing about her: that she had no panties.

"Oh, excuse me!" She said. "Sorry, nearly bumped into you!" She added a small, polite bow.

[5]

Now, a battle is more familiar territory, even if she's not a warrior.

The enemy seemed to look reminiscent of a big lizard growing out of the body of someone confined in a straitjacket. It wasn't just hideous, but its very presence seemed to be gloomy, heartless... It had nasty claws and teeth, and it was very quick at sending them over in Konoka and her partner's direction. She squealed and hopped out of the way, narrowly evading the piercing tendril that had nearly shredded her leg.

Her partner, however, was not so lucky.

The wounds, however, weren't close to lethal. "Step back, I can heal you!" The temporary retreat would be enough that she could then draw out her pactio card, the twin fans that helped her cast her more instant healing spells. "Adeat!"

Whatever wounds her partner accrued, just one wave of the fan managed to get rid of the piercings, and it was like the wounds were never there.

[Wildcard]
[[Feel free to come up with your own, or mildly alter something up there.]]

1, I mean maybe 2 who knows

[heptagram]

Patchouli, meanwhile, has been here a little while. She's started opening up a little. So, she was not in her normal outfit, either.

Well, uh, more importantly was that she was not holed up in someone else's library, but that's pretty obvious, right?

Still, Patchouli was dressed in purple as usual, she just looked a little... different. Konoka wouldn't really have a reason to notice that, though, since they hadn't known each other, right?

"It's okay," she said with a shake of her head. "Too caught up in staring at what a beautiful place this island is at night? I'd guess you're a newcomer, too, then."

She assumed nobody who lived here would be so overly impressed unless they'd just regained their sight after several years. They knew what this place looked like already!

[im_gonna_heal_u]

"Yep," Konoka gave the very purple woman a look over. Actually a hair shorter than she was (if her heels counted), much curvier, and carried herself in a way that suggested she was much older than the average human. Not that Konoka would ask much about age, that would be rude.

"What about you?" Konoka asked. "Have you been around here long?" This stranger might know more about what's going on with this island, and therefore might have some good suggestions to visit. But failing that, she was a person to talk to, and therefore a lot better than spending time alone.

[heptagram]

"Er... couple of weeks, I think," she said, pretty much just guessing. "I spent the first ten days or so holed up in a library drawing because I wasn't sure I was interested in the suggested method of generating mojo. They said any act of creation would help, and I guessed I didn't have a lot of a choice otherwise, I guess."

She guessed some folks around here were pretty interesting. What determined who arrived here, anyway, she wondered.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

“I see,” Konoka said coolly, eyes alight with wonder. Then… “How does intaking mojo feel?” It was bound to be an important question, if they were needing to intake mojo to fight against the gloom, they’d be feeling that a lot, wouldn’t they?

[heptagram]

Patchouli laughed a little. Was Konoka coming onto her already? What an awkward way to do it.

"It depends on what you're doing -- but also, it does make everything feel a little better, I guess. Also, sex is more fun than I remembered. I don't know if it gets stronger with acts that produce more, though."

[im_gonna_heal_u]

"It does?" Actually she wasn't, which made the brunette blush when Patchouli actually answered her. Her cheeks were a little red, but now she was less intimidated and... perhaps a little more excited at the prospect.

"Yeah," Konoka smiled. "I was hoping I'd be able to find something to do, or someone to talk to. Guess it might be easier than I thought." Konoka said. She realized one step too late she could have made a double entendre, but thought better of it. She's not desperate, and talking was already soothing enough.

[heptagram]

"Oh, that doesn't seem too hard," Patchouli noted. "A lot of folks around here are quite interesting. Well, maybe not so many of the ones who have been here their whole lives, but that's for reasons you've already heard about."

Not their fault. Right?

"It seems like there's quite a few of us, so you can find someone whose company you'd enjoy fairly easily, I think."

[im_gonna_heal_u]

"I see! That sounds good," Konoka might have very well considered moving on at some point, given her renewed vigor of discovering more about the place, but... something about Patchouli told her that it would be more fun to stick around, even if they didn't do much talking.

"Yeah, I could," Konoka admitted, but now she wanted to get to know Patchouli more. "Have you found good company yet?" Because at this point, getting to know Patchouli in the biblical sense was far from a bad idea.

[heptagram]

"Not for any extended period of time, no," Patchouli explained with a shake of her head. "It sounds like the thought is crossing your mind, but you haven't been around here very long, either...

"I don't see why we couldn't spend more time together if you'd like, though, miss.

"Oh, right, what is your name?" They'd kind of gotten caught up in talking about other things, hadn't they?

[im_gonna_heal_u]

"Konoka!"

The long-haired brunette gave another smile, and this took far less effort than what had come earlier. "Nice to meet you! I hope I can get to know you better miss..." Well apparently, it was her turn to come up dry with a name. Fortunately, given the pattern they established it felt far less awkward.

[heptagram]

"My name is Patchouli," she responded, smiling as well. "It's a pleasure to meet you.

"So, should we stay around here? Is there somewhere you'd like to go?" The idea of just standing around talking where they almost ran into each other seemed weird. They were probably holding other people up at this point, if they were even paying any notice to them.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Konoka looked around briefly. They'd been talking on a wide sidewalk, so anyone running into them was pretty low, but it was still better to find an actual spot where they could chat more casually... or intimately, as it were.

"Yeah, let's find some place more cozy!" Konoka motioned Patchouli to follow. New as she was, she had a generally good idea on where to look for.

At this time of night, the best spot was a luxury lounge not too far from where they were, just adjacent to the beach. Neither was equipped for a swim, so Konoka decided that a lounge suited them better. They found an unoccupied couch in a room where there weren't many people around, if any at all. "Gosh, some of this kinda reminds me of the places I visited on vacation. You'd almost forget that we're fighting something called Gloom."

1 and also 2 maybe??

[femmefailtale]

Having also taken somewhat to the natural rules of the world, Meliora had taken to trying to wear a skirt alongside a tanktop. Given her contrarian attitude most of the time, she hadn't really had a chance to get down to whatever this world was supposed to be about either. Mojo? She wasn't sure she believed it, but... well, taking photos did feel refreshing in a way that it didn't back home, and they'd said making art helped too.

Her thoughts on the subject were sent scattering out of her head by a girl nearly running into her. She turned as her personal bubble was violated, saw the twirl, and then saw--

what.

what.

She didn't see that. There was no way that she saw that. That wasn't real.

"Pa..?" Meliora quickly smacked herself on the temples, shaking her head before breaking into a cocksure grin.

"Nothing to be excused for! I'm always happy to bump into a lady like yourself."

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Konoka caught the fluster in this girl's reaction. That was followed by giggling from her boisterous reply. It was a winning combination that told her that this person was definitely someone interesting and worth talking to.

"Well thank you then!" Polite happiness flowed back into her, sorely missing over the past couple of days. It was a little wonder that the Gloom hadn't tried to possess her back then. But it sure wouldn't now. "Anyway, I'm a little bit new here. Do you know of any interesting places? Or have you seen any if you're new yourself?"

[femmefailtale]

"Ah, well... new places..." She scratched her cheek, looking off to the side as she thought about it. Meliora was relatively new here herself, but there had to be something. Otherwise, she'd be leaving a cute girl hanging! That would be against everything she stood for.

"I like lying on the roof at night? The sky's really something at night, and it's a good way to be alone and sort your thoughts. The beach is pretty nice, too..." She paused to think that over--it was a clothes optional beach, emphasis on the 'optional.'

Well, if this was the sort to walk around without pa--no she didn't see that for sure she can't be sure--anyways! The point was that nudity didn't really matter much here.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

"Rooftop and the beach, huh?" Konoka said, mulling it over. "I wish I brought a bathing suit... or at least a towel." She took a closer look at the girl opposite of her. Generally, Konoka's concept of personal space was pretty poor against people she didn't perceive as hostile, and Meliora was no exception. "A rooftop look seems fun though. I suppose you can only look though, because if you get too excited and roll off, you might go splat, and I can't heal that..."

[femmefailtale]

Meliora gave a quick nod, taking half a step back when Konoka took a closer look.

"You know, considering the world, I don't think the pool requires clothes... If you're interested, I mean! The roof is fine. Yeah." She pointed down the hall, towards the stairs.

"I mean... it's... It's this way. I won't go splat, no matter what happens. I promise."

Smooth Mel. [i]Really[/i] smooth.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Konoka didn't give her much room to be smooth, so she didn't blame her for that.

"Alright then! Rooftop it is!" Konoka happily took her hand and led her up the stairs. She had been so excited that she forgot about her lack of panties, giving Meliora quite the view. Or was that on purpose? You could never tell with Konoka (Konoka herself could never tell either, but shhh that's a secret).

When they reached the top, Konoka found that said rooftop was actually a flat deck, so no sloping risk. Easy enough to enjoy the view and relax. "This is cool, huh?" she asked her newfound friend.

[femmefailtale]

"I--er--yes." was as much as she could get out before being dragged along in Konoka's pace. This girl had a seemingly amazing ability to throw her off, and she was left speechless until the roof.

How could she be anything but?

Konoka had deployed the ultimate power move, an act of seduction so innocent-yet-lewd that she couldn't help but to stare the entire way. Even after they got to the roof she was still left cowed by that utter mastery of... pickup artistry? Being picked up artistry?

She wasn't sure what to call it, and she couldn't think straight with all the moments of raw lewdness running through her head. She was so addled that she flopped right against the deck, to stare up at the sky. And Konoka, if she was standing nearby. Mostly the sky, probably.

"Yeah... cool..." This was too much stimulation. She was going to do something stupid, she knew it.

[im_gonna_heal_u]

If there's one thing that Konoka knows what she's doing, it's being able to set the pace. Yeah, she forgets stuff and is often absent minded, but if she puts on a smile and charm, it's easy to make friends and stay out of trouble.

She sat down, right next to Meliora, resisting the urge to idly poke her. "You alright?" Konoka asked. "You seem kinda spaced out all of a sudden." She... had an inkling on why, but given the nature of how everyone showed up here? It could be anything.

[femmefailtale]

"Yeah... Course I am." Oh. She was about to say something really dumb. She could feel it, much like that moment of realization of 'ah. I'm really drunk.' just before someone loses consciousness.

Of course, not having much impulse control she wasn't about to stop herself from saying something stupid either.

"Traipsing about without any panties on, running up the stairs in front of me like that... you gotta' know what that does to a girl! I've got a healthy view of your crotch spinning 'round in my head and I can't get it out! Of course I'm spacing!" She put a hand to her forehead, and sighed.

"Just. Like. You couldn't have known, okay, but that's absolute torture on my poor heart!"

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Konoka blinked as Meliora changed gears from being "alright" to "why are you so pantyless". It took a moment, but then the brunette burst into a fit of giggles.

"I'd apologize for forgetting my panties, but it looks like you liked what you saw," Konoka finally said after turning around to look at her again. "I guess this place made me really frisky, or at least want to be frisky, anyway. I can apologize for tormenting your view though. Wouldn't you want to do more than just look?"

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[femmefailtale]

"More than anything else in the world!"

[femmefailtale]

Woah, hold up. That was a bit too intense. She looked away, flicked her eye back towards Konoka, and looked away again. It's like she was playing pingpong with her field of vision as the ball.

"Er. If that's okay with you. Since you're feeling frisky. I should help you out. Yeah."