week 4

[vicedirector]

seven vices week 4 28 players remaining ♫ monday - thursday Monday morning begins just like the rest, slow and uneasy. At 12pm, every television will go off with its usual bout of static, followed by a calm, albeit disinterested, voice. "Please gather in the hotel lobby within the next hour." That's all that it says before the televisions turn off. Anyone not in their rooms will hear the voice echoing around them as if through a speaker system, although there are (still) no speakers present. After hearing the motive, characters who choose to explore will find that the void around the town has retracted a bit, and there is now a police station to the far east of the chapel. On the chapel wall near the altar, black and white portraits of Youko, Zelos, and Morrigan have been hung up. Anyone looking for them will find that Youko's pink shoes and the fragments of Zelos's crystal are now gone. >Mingle? This is Week 4's mingle log, covering Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Investigations will go up on Friday. When posting toplevels, specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations between characters, remember to let us know in the post linked below. More plot elements will be introduced this week. Mod comments will be occasionally distributed to open toplevels, accordingly. cast setting rulebook profiles private conversations

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[symbologic]

You...wish to spar with me? Truly?

[If Faize was surprised before, the look on his face now is more like stunned disbelief. Did...did Urashima, of all people, just ask to spar with him? And why does he seem so embarrassed about it? That's what he should be feeling right now as a lowly, mortal swordsman.]

[Is he taking the sword spirit thing way too seriously? Yes. Yes he is..]

[minogame]

Yes!

( He doesn't even realize what the big deal is? He's just a humble turtle sword spirit. But he sees that look on Faize's face and wonders if maybe it isn't okay to practice and he holds up his hands, )

We don't have to if you don't want to!

[symbologic]

Oh, no it's not that! I hardly mind, it's just...I had thought that such an activity would be...a waste of time for someone with as much experience as yourself.

[Faize is actually not as confident in his swordplay as he could be. When it comes to solo training, he's fine but...sparring is another matter entirely. Especially when it comes to people more experienced than himself, which is basically everybody.]

But if you really don't mind, I would be honored. It's as you say, this is the best possible week for us to do so.

[minogame]

... Huh?

( He's so incredibly confused and he tilts his head very curously to one side. As much as experience as... )

Oh! Do you mean... because I'm a sword? ( That's what Faize means, isn't it? He'll skip on over towards Faize right now, ) Uhm... I'm really not that good, you know?

( He's half honest, here. He regularly gets his turtle butt kicked in practice beacuse he's a spoiled sword that doesn't like to work too hard but at the same time, he's naturally skilled enough to go into battle... Look, he steps up to the challenge when he has to. )

How long have you been training with the sword, hm?

[symbologic]

[More or less. A sword, but also a sword who is over five hundred years old. He figures there's plenty of experience to go along with those years. So he seems a bit baffled to hear Urashima say he's "really not that good".]

I believe it would be about...three years now. And the majority of that has been...well, as you say, merely training. It wasn't until very recently that I have been able to start putting that training to real use. [Like, as in real battles with monsters that could very likely kill him.] Mere months, really.

[minogame]

I'm the same!

( More or less. )

I'm not a war sword... so I'd never been in a fight until a little while ago! And I've only been a person for... almost a year! ( Not even a whole one yet but close. ) So I'm still learning, too.

[symbologic]

[Faize seems surprised to hear this but also...relieved? Yeah that's definitely some relief there. This whole time he's been sitting here feeling like the newbiest of the sword newbs when, all along, he was not alone!]

Almost a year? [Slight emphasis on the "almost" because wow, that's not a long time at all...] Truly, I am relieved to hear that there is another near my own level. The rest of you are all so much older than I, so I assumed the gaps between us must be immense. But I am...oddly glad that I was mistaken.

[Let's fight then. It's okay now because he won't be wasting your time.]

[minogame]

( In some ways, he can understand why Faize would be nervous about his sword skills-- it's hard being the new kid when everyone else has had months or even years of experience before you but at the same time, he's never really worried about himself. Maybe because he's always had others looking out for him and he's also always been pretty confident. Maybe it's a natural for a sword spirit to be confident with their sword, though. )

Ah... I understand! By the time master summoned me, everyone else had already been training for three months... and then I had to learn everything from the very beginning.

( How to hold a sword, how to get into the proper stance, it was a lot of work!! )

But now I can show you everything I learned!

( And he'll skip back a few steps and place a hand on his sword, in a drawing stance and ready to go. )

Let's do our best, okay?!