[Not long ago, someone taught Mituna how to make his text sparkly.

Now, all of Vatheon will know it.]

( cut to save everyone's eyes )

... pya...?

[Labrador looks sadly into the camera. He's been stuck with a cute pink Burupya hat for a few days now. It has left him unable to speak and basically just acting like a little baby dragon which is what a Burupya is. He really wants to take off his hat so he paws at the camera asking for help.]

Buru... Buu... ['Please help me take off my hat...']

[But then something catches his attention! A pretty butterfly! And off he runs trying to catch it, leaping around happily with a rather cheerful...]

Pyaaaa~!!!

[If you're out in the plaza, he might accidentally bump into you as he plays around, chasing different things or he might try to chew on you!]

[Have some high pitched cackling and some flame flaring up on the screen of your SFCs, Vatheon. When the fire clears, it reveals a dim but dramatically lit room somewhere and who else but your resident Vampire Queen? She's sporting a diabolical grin on her face, revealing all of her very sharp teeth, and...]

[Huh. Okay. That sure is a dress she's wearing in shades of dim purple and bright red accents. It's probably a good question as to where she got it and the fake crown on her head. However, a far better question to ask might have to do with the lineup of men all tied and hung up with rope on the wall behind her.]

[Anyone who's been in Vatheon long enough will probably be able to recognize some of the host club's members- Peony and Angelo are obviously the ones who stand out the most as the heads, but there's also Rin, Fai, Duke, Ronald, and Ioder, too. They are CLEARLY all captive, seeing as they are tied up and there are pieces of cloth around their mouths.]

[After she's gotten her cackling down with- hey, as a villain, she has to have a memorable laugh. It's all about standards, you know- Marceline finally speaks to the SFC.]

Hello, people of Vatheon. For a few months, I've been hiding my TRUE villainous nature from you as I've watched and studied your pitiful population. Now, I've chosen to strike and start my campaign to rule over the entire city! To begin with, I've kidnapped all of these pretty handsome dudes and will turn them into my vampire slaves!

[Ironically, she gestures to Fai as she says this.]

I'm a Vampire Queen, it's kind of what I do.

Anyway, IF YOU WISH TO RESCUE THEM from a life of slavery and bloodsucking and stop my evil plan before I unleash them onto the city tonight to spread the plague of vampirism, then come face me if you dare!

Oh, right, but I forgot. [She flicks her hand out to inspect her nails smugly.] Vatheon doesn't have any heroes. You're all a bunch of scared little mice cowering in your holes.

If there's anyone who thinks they can challenge that... You have until-

TONIGHT!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!

[Another flare up of flames over the screen, and then the video stops. Will anyone in Vatheon step up and stop this Mistress of Horrible Evil before totally legit terrible things happen!?!?]

[Action]

( Meanwhile, behind the scenes )

[Tohru had settled the SFC down for the moment, her usual clothes replaced with clothes more suitable to clean in. Added with her hair up and a head band to keep her hair from getting in her way, she was ready and looking determined.]

I've finally found cleaning appliances and gathered them all together, so now I can do the job some people were interested in. [She nods slightly, she hopes the people are still interested anyway.]

If you just let me know of a date, time and where you live, I'll be happy to come and clean then and then afterwards think of some arrangement. [She once more shows of a smile.] Though for now, I should get back to my own cleaning and then maybe look around. I've been here close to a month now and I haven't really explored much. [She sighs] It's a shame though because this place just looks beautiful and interesting. It just seems a waste to not explore. [She soon goes up to the device, making sure that she would switch it off.]

[Jade looks like he's freshly out of the shower, but there's a contemplative look in his eyes. He normally doesn't share his thoughts, but the last curse and seeing the effects of people completely changing personalities based on headwear has made him think.]

I wish I could say I was old enough for a mid-life crisis, and given the circumstances, it's impressive more of my head isn't grey, but I digress.

The last curse has got me thinking. Vatheon has more power over us than we'd care to admit. The basics of our genders, personalities, and even full bodies have been changed and swapped up so many times it seems that it's almost curious Vatheon has not done anything more sinister; at least not more openly. Yes, the occasional change is cumbersome, but at it's core, many of the curses seem far more... I don't wish to say lenient- but not as bad as the Lamufao, with all its power, could be.

[A pause for thought as he presses his towel to the back of his neck.]

Which brings me to the question that everyone's been asking over and over since we arrived: Why us, and what is the purpose? I've heard its for a experiment, that we help charge the Coral -though it's failure recently seems to counteract that. I do not wish to say we've grown complacent, but I hear the questions asked less and less-specifically because the answers either simply do not seem to exist, or are nigh impossible to find.

My own question is this:

What would you do, if you weren't really you? If the you that exists in this place is not the you that exists on your own world; if the you now is simply a fabrication of the Coral, its purpose unknown; being changed from body to body, or being molded by the curses simply because the body is not yours in the first place.

Would you remain in your home, or would you make the effort to change your circumstances, find your real body and your home?

[Piper is not a happy camper, pardon the pun. It's true, though! It hasn't been a good day and she's really not looking forward to being in a totally new place all of a sudden. She's also soaked, and she's so done with water it's not even funny.]

So...the pamphlet I got is really, uh, nice, but it didn't really say how people got here. Did I miss something while I was reading it?

[Please say Piper just missed something on the pamphlet, she doesn't want to be stuck here while in the middle of an important quest.]

It also said something about there being no exit or something like that? Is that just some sort of joke or typo?

[Or maybe Leo somehow managed to perfect virtual reality and she's suddenly been sucked into Festus' mainframe. Piper wouldn't be surprised. The life of a demigod always takes weird turns.]