Hot Springs and Ryokan

[battymynameis]

Guess what, y'all. It's time for a field trip. We're heading to a Hot Springs and an Inn for the weekend, and everyone is invited. This place is huge, and has multiple springs both indoor and out. There's separate bathing, mixed, and even a spot for foreigners and prudes who like to keep their swimsuits on. Table tennis? Got it. Room service? You bet. Massages? Possibly. Ghosts? Maybe.

1. Hot springs: after you rinse off come take a relaxing bath. There are multiple options as to what kind of bathing environment you can have, so please choose wisely. Also, please read the signs. None of the springs will kill you, but if you choose the wrong one you might end up with some... adverse effects. Cursed springs might just be a Thing.

2. The Inn: you'll be here for a few nights so find your rooming buddy and get friendly. Whether bonding over food, games, or even just exploring the place there's certainly something you can find to occupy yourself. Just don't be too curious after curfew. The staff are pretty insistent, but they aren't cops so responsibility for your actions are your own.

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[standingonmyneck]

Hot Springs

[Things kind of happen when you used to work on a tourist spot with a few baths and springs. Getting a personal invitation to go after her finals have her many emotions.

“Hell no, that’s trouble. I don’t trust it. I don’t want to go anywhere. I don’t know where this place is-“

Essentially it was a tirade of being a complete killjoy. In honestly, it probably took a ton of insisting on both ends to even get her to go. Probably something to do with her new friends pushing her buttons and her getting softer about it, whatever.

It was free. There was food. She was...used to the setting. Might make her feel like a guest instead of a worker, probably said a nagging non-pessimistic thought.

But that didn’t mean she was all about bathing with others. The idea of being exposed with her naked body was a big negative for her of these things. Not that she was self conscious, but she was...sensitive and bashful about anything personable at all.

So, she would go to the bath...late at night. Hopefully to be alone bathing.]

r/IDon’tWorkHereLady

[Daria was all about keeping things neat in her space. Which was where her inner Koriko came out. She had to stop herself from doing it because it was so weird for her to take on extra work beyond what was expected of her to do. While she got better about that kind of laziness due to the many jobs she worked, she was always still a bit lax on taking on more than she felt she could or should.

But old habits now we’re dying really hard.

Despite her working as the librarian, she still had to run tasks to the bathhouse when told, to her annoyance. So like a nagging fly in her peripheral, there was an urge to straighten towel racks, or collect garbage. For as much as the work annoyed her, and the jobs in general, there was something to be said about poor work being done that made her suddenly feel not as immediately apathetic.

So sometimes she caught herself making things neat. Maybe from behind, she looked like staff. How annoying.]

r/IDon’tWorkHereEither

[shinbunshinobi]

[ Guess who's also picking things up as he sees them out of place? Sasuke is. After having discovered that some of these hot springs had warning signs, he's keeping busy making sure none of them are covered by discarded towels, yukata, whatever. He would have never gotten into that hot spring if he saw the sign. (But it didn't give him any further details on how to switch back or length of time he'd be stuck like this!)

He's amassed an armful of discarded fabric items by now, so when he sees someone else cleaning up, he goes over to ask, ]

Hey, where should I put these--Pizza-senpai?

[ That's not a staff member at all! ]

Sorry, I thought...

[ Oh. Wait. He... may have some explaining to do... ]