week 0 - arrival

[vicedirector]

seven vices arrival ♫ saturday & sunday 36 players remaining You remember happening upon something awful and nauseating. What it was, precisely, is lost to you, but you have the instinctive feeling that by escaping from it, you've avoided something terrible. When you open your eyes, you find yourself laying in bed in a dark, dusty room, facing a digital alarm clock. Its face, reading 12:01, is one of the only sources of light in the room. The other comes from the window, shadows flickering about. Opening the blinds will reveal that it is nighttime, and what looks to be a massive bonfire has been lit in the street at the front of the building. A wooden talisman hangs around your neck, with one of seven symbols carved on the back. Attempting to take off the talisman will result in a wave of intense dread, and the all-too-familiar nausea. A brass key engraved with a unique room number lays on the bedside table beside the clock, as well. But you won't get any answers just sitting in your room all night. >Investigate? This is an open mingle for arrival in the town. Waking up just after midnight on Saturday, characters will have the weekend to explore and socialize before the plot begins. The profiles and IC rulebooks (both the personal ones and the public one at the chapel) have not been revealed/given out yet. The kitchen will still 'prepare' breakfast on these days, and the bonfire will burn continuously into the daytime. Per items: smaller items that a character could easily carry with them will be in their rooms. Animals and larger objects will either be waiting outside or in the hotel lobby. cast setting

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[muties]

That's the question, ain't it. Maybe they just felt like it?

[ Dumping random weirdos in a frozen town for fun? ]

Or it could be to do... a thing. Things. Something. Revive their shitty abandoned village?

[dereban]

Yeah, [ she denotes with a soft smile ] Nagase's fine.

[ For now, anyway. ] And I'll just call you Alisha.

[dereban]

Perhaps. [ She can't be 100% sure, though. ] Yeah, that's one of the other things that's weird. Normally, a kidnapper wouldn't do such a thing...

[muties]

You... forgot...? Dude, that's no good. It's too cold to skip meals.

[ Food keeps people warm, right, that's a thing?? ]

Do you need someone to harass you at each mealtime so you eat?

[dhaosu]

[ Oh Urashima, you sweet summer child.

On the other hand, he isn't exactly a show off but someone actually not freaking badly out at his magic? That is actually nice. ]

Fufu... truly? I suppose it is a surprise, then. That said, what is the type of magic your 'Master' can perform?

[minogame]

( He's quiet. The idea of Kamekichi not being around really bothers him. LIke, it really feels like a part of him is missing right now. )

Mhmm. ( He'll agree, for now. ) Thanks.

He's really small. ( he holds up his hands to show a size small enough to fit in one's hands, ) And he's gold and has a fluffy tail...

[unpleasantries]

From the outside world, then. If the kappa didn't make it, that's the only other source of technology.

[It's probably a good thing it's not the kappa. They're basically using her basement as a nuclear fusion reactor so she's still not quite sure what to think of them.]

...Oh. I probably should've asked this earlier. Are you a human, or a youkai? I'd just read your mind to check, but it seems my third eye has been blinded.

[stupidly]

[Gilbert is used to people like this, if nothing else... HE CAN DEAL. He can deal. There are worse out there... There are worse on his own team?!

So he'll just wait for this guy to come out of his metaphoric shell and his literal room, and sets off for the stairs.]

Rhys... [A nod, which is basically his substitute for a "nice to meet you".] Do you mind if I see yours? [Pointing at the pendant!] Someone told me they've seen four different symbols so far.

[stupidly]

[Mostly everything looks foreign and creepy to him?! HE'S TOO YE OLDE FOR THIS.]

...It might be? Some type of medical place, anyway.

[A few of the older things are easier to recognize, and some haven't changed that much over the years.]

But it seems like it's been abandoned.

[muties]

[ What. ]

For someone who doesn't speak English, you just said all that in English really well?

[stupidly]

[Oh right, she's a small while he's a tall...]

If you can't, I'll check.

[Just don't stand under any areas where he might fall.]

[hopefragment]

Never... heard of it.

[Whatever was in those brackets, Hinata has no idea what it is.]

Sorry, what's your name?

[Maybe there's a similarity in their names that might help figure out why they're both here?]

[minogame]

( He's a kid that wants to visit dragon king's and find treasure and believes in princesses that can disguise themselves as turtles. Magic is cool.

He opens his mouth and shuts it, biting on the inside of his lip and shaking his head, )

I don't know... if it's okay to say.

( Is that supposed to be a secret too? )

... Sorry.

Uhm.. but he's really strong. Really, really strong and... uses his magic to take care of me...

[stupidly]

[THIS IS HOW FAR HE'S FALLEN... A stranger offering to babysit him because his dumb ass forgets to eat. He raises his spatula-free hand in a polite "nope", shaking his head.]

I think I'll remember from this point on. Everything was just overwhelming this morning - I didn't go back to sleep after waking up the first time, so...

[He's tired and confused and hungry!!]

[fluorospar]

It was the same for me.

[It's not entirely promising, really.]

Though I suppose there are many ways to clear out a town. [Very few of which she likes.] And many reasons to leave.

[fluorospar]

I've done nothing deserving of thanks yet.

[All she did was suggest pants???]

My name is Selena--the Fluorspar of Grado. [aka she's a General.]

[dereban]

... The kappa makes technology.

[ Does she want more info? Not really. But as for her answer to that question: ]

I'm human, by the way. 100% percent. I'm just a normal high school student.

[jackhole]

There's a difference between aggressively loud and inquiringly loud! I was the latter, you were the former!

[ are they really having this pedantic an argument right here? they sure are. ]

[mothercat]

No, perhaps not. But even so, fewer words than those have sparked conflict between races. I expect since you said what you did, you know that as well as I.

Oh. And of course, you don't really have to listen my advice. I'm not going to impose my opinion on you or try to change your views. I'm just of the opinion that discretion is a better tool than enmity. [ He supposes he can see how his chiding could be seen as as unwelcome as what the man said, not that it seemed to rile the man up. Maybe Ike is rubbing off on him a little.

Ranulf sighs as he puts his hand on hip. ] At the very least, you might be right about magic's part in this.

[stupidly]

Gilbert. [HAHA. Nothing in PH makes sense, welcome to hell Hinata.] ...I'm from- [insert weird country?!] -too, if that helps?

[fluorospar]

I do not mind, no, though I doubt we have anything in common.

[Because she is a general and you are a noodle.]

I was rallying my troops to prepare for our sortie. [As you do.]

[princessantly]

... I'd like that. [ She never minds being treated informally, after all. ]

[fluorospar]

[.......]

Pardon me? Did you say that your companion is a turtle?

[jackhole]

Please, there are probably like, tons of serial killers around us. Even you, could probably be a serial killer! I'm not gonna take my chances.

[ rhys you are a paranoid idiot with no brain to mouth filter. okay, buddy. ]

Uhm, but. Whatever. You're probably not going to kill me right now if you were, right? You don't even have like... a knife or something, so...

[fluorospar]

[Clearly... clearly there's been a lot of practice here. Well done, Gilbert. It's a useful skill!!]

Ah... unfortunately, I have no companions here that I have seen, though I suppose I should be grateful for that, with how this appears to be shaping up.

[She'd rather her fellow pals not be subjected to this kidnapping--she wouldn't even wish this on her worst enemy.]

Though I appreciate the thought.