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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[herbgrace]

Careful. [Lithuania puts a hand on his shoulder to give him something steady to focus on.] It should go away if you leave it alone.

[minogame]

( He's quiet as he recovers but once he's taken a minute, he'll ask Lithuania very quietly, )

Are we dead?

[herbgrace]

No. [Lithuania answers immediately, with complete confidence.] There's no way we're dead. You're alright.

[minogame]

But what if we were fighting and we had to retreat and we didn't make it...!

( And that's why he doesn't see any of his friends! He died in their retreat or something! He was captured by the enemy! He broke! That's why he doesn't remember? When a sword is reforged, they don't remember their past life. Is this just the first stage?! )

[herbgrace]

[The way he's talking, Lithuania has more and more questions, but right now it's important to calm him down.]

I'm sure I'm not dead, so you're not dead either, alright? You don't feel very dead to me.

[She pats him on the head gently.]

[minogame]

( AAAH HE BROKE HE BROKE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED HE BROKE AND HE NEVER GOT TO TELL HIS BROTHERS HE LOVED THEM AND--

It's amazing how immediately Urashima calms down when she pets his head. He's calm. He's ok. )

... You're sure?

[herbgrace]

I'm sure. [Lithuania hesitates a moment--she's not sure if he'll believe what she's about to say, but she really wants him to feel better.] I'm not human, and--what I am, I'd realize if I was going to die. It's not something that can just happen. So we're okay.

[minogame]

( TBH, he'll take the news better than most might. His eyes grow wide when she explains she isn't human but it isn't confused or bewildered. He's just... surprised but handles it very well. )

...Are you a spirit too?

[herbgrace]

["Too"? ...Actually, him not being human would explain a lot about how odd he's been acting. He doesn't feel like a nation, though, and he's certainly not someone she recognizes...]

That's one way to say it. I'm a nation. You aren't human either?

[minogame]

A nation...?

( Like... a spirit of an entire country?! Give him a second to process that. Give him some confirmation. )

I'm Urashima Kotetsu. Treasured sword of the Ikeda Clan in Tottori Domain.

[herbgrace]

A sword spirit...? [She hasn't ever met a sword spirit. But there's a newspaper spirit, and there are things like prefectures, so--well, it's not that hard to believe.] It's nice to properly meet you.

To clarify what I was saying earlier, I'm connected to the life of my nation--Lithuania is my name and a country as well, you see. So, in order to kill me, all of my people would have to be dead or no longer mine. That sort of thing doesn't happen overnight.

[minogame]

You're a country spirit?!

( HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU COULD BE THAT. )

Ah! ( And he gives a hasty bow. ) It's an honor...!

[herbgrace]

A-ah-- It's alright, really. [Lithuania is embarrassed; she's not good at this sort of thing.] I'm not all that special.