sevenvices | week 0

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saturday & sunday

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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.

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( He's a carefree spirit that would rather play first and work later but when he sets his mind to something, he gives 100%...

Urashima deflates when Gilbert's own search comes up fruitless. )

I should have found him by now... Unless someone took him... ( Some times Tsurumaru would hide Kamekichi away for a few hours as a joke but that was all harmless fun back at the citadel. This is a case of Kamekichi being missing and possibly being held by a stranger in a weird place. ) I don't think he'd leave me here either...

( The signs are pointing to Kamekichi straight up not here or being held by someone and he doesn't like that. He doesn't want to quit looking either but it's cold and dark and he's roping people into his search who probably have their own concerns... )

... Thanks for helping...

[HE'S SO SAD ABOUT HIS TURTLE...

Gilbert can tell that he's trying to cut him free to resume his own futile searching, but all things considered, it's not like their end goal is too different. Finding answers means finding the person responsible, right? So.]

If your turtle isn't out here, we can find whoever brought us in and ask them where he is. I'm looking for them anyway.

["You're free to stick with me" is what's implied but not said in so many words.]

( He was totally going to resume his search all on his own so he looks up, one part surprised by Gilbert's offer and another part relieved that it's okay to hang around, even if just for a little while longer. He can't find his brothers or any of his friends in this place either, you know? It's stressing him out. )

I can help...! ( Find the person in charge. He can help with that if that's what Gilbert is doing? ) I'm really good at finding things! ( Ah and he deflates again. ) --Normally.

( Except now, apparently? See what happens when he loses his lucky turtle??? He has a bad day. When was the last time he's ever had a bad day? Never!!! Not since he got rescued and brought to the citadel!!! )

It's fine. I don't think anyone's been having much luck with finding things here.

[Whether it's answers or people or exits... But with all that squared away--]

Checking in the buildings might be a good start. No one would be hiding out here while the temperature is like this...

[Or if someone is, they'd probably be a little frozen bundle huddled up somewhere?!]

( They would have luck if they had a lucky turtle around!!!

Urashima will look around at the buildings in the area. He's hoping for a building that looks especially important but it's hard to tell... )

There were a lot of people at the inn earlier. ( He should know. He ran into like a quarter of them searching for Kamekichi. ) No one mentioned seeing anyone in charge there...

( So that leads the other buildings, maybe? )

Someone in charge would be in a big building, right?

( And the only other large building in the area is.... Urashima points at the clinic, )

What about that one...?

It's the only other building here that looks like someone might be in it at all...

[Boy, they sure don't have a lot of options! But he'll nod once after that, and gesture for Urashima to follow. Of course he's taking the lead, he doesn't want this poor kid to end up walking right into Danger or something.]

Keep your guard up just in case.

Got it! You can count on me!

( And yeah... about that Gilbert...

Urashima is just going to dash on ahead. He's used to being a scout which means he's used to checking out some of the more dangerous places in an area without question.

Under Gilbert's coat, which is wrapped tightly around him still, his arms might have shifted some to grab something but it's not like Gilbert can really see what that is. Maybe he can figure out it's some sort of weapon by his side though. )

Hey— Wait a second!

[NO?! THIS ISN'T WHAT HE MEANT. Granted, Gilbert's well-versed in weaponry of most sorts, so he can at least tell the gesture is one that mimes the drawing of a sword or pistol.

But still?? This isn't what he wanted... TIME TO RUN AFTER URASHIMA ugh.]

( Can't stop, won't stop. He's way ahead and already at the clinic, waiting at the front door for Gilbert to catch up. )

Heh heh... are you ready?

Don't just rush into places like that! We don't know anything about this town.

[Where are your DANGER SENSES, Urashima??

Once Gilbert catches up, he'll be passing tiny turtle punk without pause, either way. If anyone's gonna get shot by some random bozo hiding out in here, it won't be the kid, okay!! That said, the thin layer of dust isn't doing much to encourage him.]

...It doesn't seem like anyone's been in here.

I was watching where I was going!

( And that makes everything okay? But he'll follow right behind Gilbert without a second thought, peering around from behind him and checking out the dusty office. He recognizes some things from the repair room and recovery areas at the citadel but a lot of things look foreign and creepy to him, )

... Is this a hospital?

[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.

( He'll go ahead of Gilbert, beginning to check the shelves and the tables. Everything is covered in dust... And he'll move about to check out some of the examining rooms. )

... Why are we in an abandoned place?

( Turning back to face Gilbert, )

Do you know how you got here?

[Shaking his head and looking away from the table he'd been peering at! Nothing here seems particularly useful...]

I don't. I don't even remember what happened directly before waking up here...

You don't?

( That's... kind of like Urashima! And he'll come a little closer, peering up at Gilbert to study his face for any reactions that might follow, )

Something bad happened and I had to run away. It felt... kind of like retreating from a dangerous enem but I don't remember going on any missions. What about you?

Mm... [He's not sure if retreating from a dangerous mission comes to mind first - there isn't really much he's ever retreated from in the first place. But even if it's not exactly like that, the feeling is kind of similar, he thinks.]

There was something-- I was almost relieved to wake up here at first, because it meant that I didn't have to see what that something was.

( Clearly Gilbert has never had to fight 10 armies at once multiple times in a desperate attempt to collect beads for troublesome rewards. CLEARLY. )

Same here... ( This is weird. ) You can't remember anything else either?

[LOOK... No, thankfully the laws of ph mechanics means a person only runs into one Contractor at a time, more or less. Unless they're really unfortunate......]

I remember what I was doing before then, but nothing after. Nothing about how I got here, either. It's the same for you?

( He was at the Citadel for sure. Maybe getting ready for a mission? He doesn't remember that but it's the only way he can explain that feeling right now. And maybe he didn't break or die or else he wouldn't remember anything at all but... being stuck in a vague place is unsettling. )

Nothing. ( . . . ) I don't like this.

( He's an optimistic spirit but this gives him a bad feeling. )

[NEITHER DOES HE but he at least tries to contain his gloom around kids... most of the time...]

...Well, even if we don't find anything yet, whoever is responsible isn't just planning on leaving us here. We'll figure out more soon.

Or maybe they'll do nothing.

( Just... thinking out loud. He sounds fairly certain of that since the Kebiishi sure hadn't had anything planned for him. )

Hey... have you seen a tall man? He has black and gold hair and white robes with black mountains on them. Or another one with purple hair and gold armor?

( A turtle is hard to find but maybe a person is easier? )

I don't think we'll have to worry about that.

[Because Gilbert's more well-versed in kidnaps and assassinations and hostage-holding that ends in murder even if the ransoms are paid, not the endlessly stretching black of an Abyss.]

Uh— [What kind of descriptions are these.] Sorry... I haven't seen anyone who fits either of those descriptions. Are they people from your home?

( Urashima's idea is better, Gilbert. Worst case scenario: They're hideously bored for an undefined and vague amount of time until someone saves them. )

Mhmm. ( Nodding, ) They're my brothers.

( And you'd think something like this would get a little brother down but all he does is grin, )

If they aren't here then they'll come rescue us soon, you'll see!

[LOOK... Gilbert isn't called Mr. Gloom for nothing.]

Oh— [WELL... ... ...It'd be in bad form to show anything other than a vague sense of "OKAY, SURE!" about that certainty, right? But Gilbert doesn't know what else to do, ah. His expression just ends up being something like "my face isn't sure what to do."]

...I'll keep an eye out for them.

( Please try to disagree with Urashima on this point he will literally fight you because his brothers will definitely rescue him and thus, all of them as a result.

Gosh, what's that face, Gilbert? Just going to reach out and give Gilbert a good pat on the shoulder which may or may not require some tip-toing to do maybe. )

Heh heh... you can always count on a Kotetsu, don't worry.

( What is a Kotetsu... Gilbert will never know. )

Uhm... I'm going to keep looking for Kamekichi outside! You can keep looking around here if you want... or look for something else! Do you want your jacket back? I'll be okay.

I'm no turtle so the cold isn't too bad.

Edited 2016-02-09 01:06 (UTC)

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