welcome to Silently Into The Night
Hello and welcome! We are a modern-day reincarnation AU of the novel/donghua/drama Mó Dào Zǔ Shī, also known as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chén Qíng Lìng, or The Untamed. The characters have been reincarnated into modern day, where some have regained their memories of their cultivation days, while others have not yet. Original characters are accepted, but please have a good story for them if they were a cultivator in their past life. The RP takes place in Palo Alto, California, and is set in the current year.
Modern Reincarnation AU
silently into the night redeim
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updates
JULY 07, 2020
And we're officially open! Feel free to leave questions or chat with us in the cbox. :)
JULY 06, 2020
Soft opening of the site!
Educational Date (Nie Mingjue) [COMPLETED]
Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 19, 2020 20:24:59 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 19, 2020 20:24:59 GMT -8
"I can vouch for the mess part," Meng Yao grinned. He thought he'd only gotten oil in the face but it was definitely all over his overalls. "Glad I grabbed the towels then, we can use them to mop up the mess."
He sat down next to the car, "Can I watch you set up the drain?" He tried to push a stray piece of hair out of his face, "shit..." He reached up and found that only a few stray pieces had come out of the bun. "I have an alarm set, but I'm going to have to set it about thirty minutes earlier now, especially if I got any oil in my hair. Do you see any?"
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 19, 2020 20:40:52 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 19, 2020 20:40:52 GMT -8
Mingjue nodded and said, "Of course you can watch me set it up. It's your car."
He stepped a little bit closer and looked down at Meng Yao's hair carefully. He said, "It does look like you might have gotten a little bit in the stray hairs and around the hairline on the left side. I'm sorry. Some of the people with long hair that I know who work on cars like to wear a bandanna or something over their hair to keep stuff out of it, and I'm sorry that I didn't think to mention that."
Mingjue could of course wash his hair quickly if something got in it, so it hadn't been something that crossed his mind.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 19, 2020 20:50:33 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 19, 2020 20:50:33 GMT -8
Meng Yao huffed and blew a piece of his hair out of his face, "it's fine, it comes the the territory." He fished his phone out of his pocket and adjusted his alarm to half an hour earlier, "I'm all set now."
He grabbed one of Mingjue's hands and tugged on it lightly, encouraging him to sit. "How do we set up the drip pan?"
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 19, 2020 21:01:01 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 19, 2020 21:01:01 GMT -8
Mingjue pulled the creeper over with his foot, sitting down on it and looking under the car. There was still a steady drip adding to the growing puddle of oil under the car. He sighed and said, "It looks like most of the oil that was once in the car ended up pooled there. First thing that I'm going to do is use a towel to mop up the worst of it. Hopefully these aren't your nice towels, if they are, I'll wait for you to go get something old or that you don't like."
He added, "It's probably worth having a bucket or a pan or something to put under it while it drains, not something that you ever put food in, though if you've not got something like that, we can just stick some towels under it. From the side where when it starts pouring it will pour away from me, I'll open it up so that it can pour once we have that. That way it will go faster than the dripping method and we'll be more sure there aren't more pockets of it."
He asked, "About much time have we got?"
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 19, 2020 21:12:40 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 19, 2020 21:12:40 GMT -8
Meng Yao scooted over to the wall and grabbed an old paint pan, "will this work?" He was enjoying being on the ground, it was actually pretty fun to work on the car, despite the mess.
"Those towels will do," he said, getting on his stomach to better see and visualize how Mingjue was planning on getting rid of the oil.
"We've got about two hours, but if you need or want to call it quits before then, that's fine. I made some lemonade that's chilling in the fridge so if you need something to cool off or whenever we finish up, we can have that."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 19, 2020 21:28:21 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 19, 2020 21:28:21 GMT -8
Mingjue took the old paint pan from Meng Yao, looking it over before saying, "This will do perfectly well. It's honestly better to keep something around like this for this sort of thing where it's old and kind of messy already so you really don't care about the grossness."
He gestured at the mess and said, "Let's deal with getting this dealt with and call it good for the day. We've got a better idea of where we are with the car, and this is likely going to take a little bit to fully drain. We can leave the car up on the jacks, and I can leave the supplies over here. I've got duplicates of everything in the garage at my place, this is just the stuff that I carry places with me when I need to, like if Xichen manages to break his car, again."
He set the pan down and grabbed some towels, putting himself on the creeper chest down so that he could slide under the car and mop up some of the oil before putting the pan down. He told Meng Yao, "There is no dignified way to do this to be honest."
He slid under the car, and awkwardly mopped up the area under the spill with the towels he'd grabbed. He wiggled around so that he could get himself facing the underside of the car once it was mopped up and said, "Can I swap you the nasty towels for the pan so that I can get it in position and then remove a few more of these."
While he waited for a reply, he grabbed the ratcheting tool and wiped the oil that had gotten on it off.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 19, 2020 21:44:08 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 19, 2020 21:44:08 GMT -8
Meng Yao pursed his lips together, trying to suppress his giggles as Mingjue wriggled and shimmied under the car, "looks like I'm the one getting the free show today," he teased.
He grabbed the paint pan and traded it for the soiled towels. "How long can a car be up on jack stands before it hurts the car? I know our schedules were pretty conflicting, so if we're not doing this again for at least another week, and assuming we don't finish next week, she'll be up on these stands for two straight weeks. Is that okay?"
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 19, 2020 21:50:30 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 19, 2020 21:50:30 GMT -8
Mingjue put the pan where he estimated the oil would pour and went about undoing about half the fastenings holding the panel to the bottom of the car, he was relieved when the spill of oil fell straight into the pan, and he rolled his way back out.
He sat up once he was out from under the car and said, "It's not a big deal for it to be up on the jack stands for a while, though I might bring a second set of jack stands next week so we can get the back lifted as well and then the whole thing will be level. The biggest risk is stuff like the oil spilling, which has clearly already happened, and quite a while ago judging by the state of that. This will take us more than just two sessions to be sure. Your garage is going to regrettably be a mess for a while."
He realized that he'd assumed, though it seemed like it was being implied in Meng Yao's question, "Are you wanting to do this again next Friday, hopefully with far less oil spilling on people?"
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 19, 2020 22:09:48 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 19, 2020 22:09:48 GMT -8
Meng Yao nodded, happy to know that she'd be fine up there for a while, "I guess all we need to worry about is an earthquake," he paused for about two seconds, "okay, I worried about it, I'm over it."
"If you're okay with doing this next Friday, then yes. I'd like that. It can be our second date," he smirked at Mingjue, "oh, just let me have that one Mingjue-ge."
He got up and headed back towards the house but paused, "do we need to do anything else right now? Otherwise I'll get the lemonade."
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 19, 2020 22:50:42 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 19, 2020 22:50:42 GMT -8
Mingjue looked down at himself and determined that he was, in fact, streaked in oil. He said, "If you don't mind, I might want to grab my spare change of clothes from the car and borrow your bathroom so that I don't cover your furniture with under car mess. Lemonade sounds lovely though."
Mingjue figured that hopefully just not adding fuel to the comment by saying, "I'm happy to meet up and work on the car again next week," would appease Meng Yao's teasing at least a little bit. He didn't dignify the date comment with calling it a date or trying to refute it.
He stood up and headed towards the garage door to go to his car, waiting for Meng Yao to confirm it was OK.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 20, 2020 17:21:17 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 20, 2020 17:21:17 GMT -8
"Sure, I'll leave the front door unlocked so I can close the garage behind you." He started heading into the house, already unbuckling his oil-stained overalls. He closed the garage door behind Mingjue and made sure to unlock the front door before bounding up the stairs to the second floor quickly.
His goal was to get changed before Mingjue came in looking for the bathroom. He quickly divested himself of his dirty clothes and went for his at home look. He drowned himself in an oversized sweater and wriggled into some stretchy booty shorts. The result was just him in a sweater that might sometimes droop off a shoulder and that hit at his knees. Essentially a very large, very comfy sweater dress vibe.
He quickly ran down the stairs with a kind of mad grin on his face. He was being competitive and playing, and it was fun, even though the other party likely had no idea they were even in the game.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 20, 2020 20:12:41 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 20, 2020 20:12:41 GMT -8
Mingjue had a bag of spare clothes in his trunk for this sort of reason, so he grabbed it and headed back through the front door, using a non-oily bandanna to turn the handle so that he wouldn't smear oil on it. He glanced around trying to see if there was an obvious restroom from the entryway, not wanting to walk further into the house and look for it and realizing that he hand't asked Meng Yao where it was before going to get his clothes.
Fortunately, he'd been standing there for at most a minute when Meng Yao came down the stairs, grinning a rather confusing grin and freshly changed into what looked like a very comfortable, soft sweater. Mingjue asked tentatively, "Um, where do I go to change?"
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 20, 2020 20:43:40 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 20, 2020 20:43:40 GMT -8
Meng Yao sat down on the stairs with a pout, "you beat me."
He pointed to a door, "that's the bathroom, go ahead and get changed, I'll get the lemonade."
He stood up and continued down the stairs, skipping into the kitchen. "I am way too happy right now..." he muttered to himself. He grabbed two clean glasses and a tray, setting it up so he could carry the glasses, lemonade, spoons and sugar at the same time.
He carefully carried the tray to the living room, and set it down on the coffee table. "Lemonade..." he muttered to himself. Since when did he become so domestic, let alone enjoy it. This felt very much like preparing a refreshing drink for his man after a long, hard day's work in the sun. He buried his face in his sweater, embarrassed to even be thinking it. "What is wrong with you?" he asked himself.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Jul 20, 2020 20:52:00 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Jul 20, 2020 20:52:00 GMT -8
Mingjue was slightly confused by Meng Yao's response, but he managed to say, "I was just grabbing a bag and coming right back in? I have a change of clothes in a bag in my trunk for emergencies and working on cars. If I'd not happened to have Huaisang's shirt the other day, I would have offered you one of mine, even if it would have been ridiculously too big."
He headed for the bathroom, glad to be able to scrub his hands and face of most of the oil at the sink. He tucked the dirty clothes into the paper bag he kept in his emergency clothes back for precisely this reason, and double checked that he didn't need to scrub off any more oil before he changed into clean clothes.
Then he pulled on a pair of old jeans with a torn knee that he wouldn't normally wear but was decent enough to make good emergency clothes, and a slightly frayed, dark green henley shirt. He felt like he looked a little ragged compared to his normal tidy and free of holes style of dress, but he also felt better in clean clothes.
He emerged from the restroom and put the clothes bag next to the rest of his things so he wouldn't forget it. He asked, "So, lemonade?"
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Jul 20, 2020 21:09:35 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Jul 20, 2020 21:09:35 GMT -8
Meng Yao turned around, "you look comfy," he gestured to the couch, "and that wasn't shade. I'm in an oversized sweater and short shorts, I look comfy too."
"Made with freshly squeezed lemons, there's sugar here so feel free to play around with how sweet or sour you want it," he said as he poured Mingjue's glass first, then his own.
"Sorry about earlier, I have a competitive side, so I was trying to make it back down here before you got back inside. That's why I was running around like a madman," he laughed at himself as he scooped some sugar into his lemonade and mixed it.
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