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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[minogame]

E-eh?!

( Why is this girl holding his hands?? It's not embarrassing when he holds her hands but it is when she holds his what the heck ah he isn't used to this?? )

N-no, it's not like that! It's okay!

[princessantly]

How could that possibly be okay?!

[ DON'T SAY SUCH THINGS, URASHIMA...!! ]

[minogame]

What's wrong with it?!

( What's wrong with being a sword? Why are you so upset? WHAT DID HE DO WRONG?! )

[princessantly]

Calling yourself a sword... it's as though you're implying you're a tool to be wielded by a master, through no choice of your own.

... That's too cruel.

[minogame]

Huh?

( OH NO WHY ARE YOU SO SERIOUS? Why do you sound so disappointed? He's beginning to flail, )

B-but I am! I mean... I have a choice now! Master's pretty nice... I can explain...!

( PRINCESS-CHAN, DON'T BE UPSET FOR HIM? )

[princessantly]

Urashima, please... you don't have to treat yourself as though you're anything less than a person with his own free will...

[ IT'S TOO LATE, SHE'S SO DISTRESSED. ]

[minogame]

I know, I know!

( Wait. He's not treating himself as something less than he is? He knows he has a will now? He just chooses to use it to help the saniwa that reunited him with his brothers? )

Aaaaah! I'm really a sword! Really-really!

( Screaming. )

Urashima Kotetsu! A wakizashi passed down from generation to generation of Ikeda clan that ruled Tottori domain, carved with Urashima Tarou's image! A real Kotetsu!

( He might as well be speaking a different language ugh. )

[princessantly]

[ PRETTY MUCH-- since all Alisha does is blink, at first, looking more than a little bewildered. ]

A waki... zashi? [ Passed down from a clan? Carved? ]

[minogame]

That's right! A wakizashi!

( FUMBLING THROUGH HIS PERSON FOR HIS SWORD... and holding it out for her to see. It's still sheathed but look! Look! )

This is me! It's me! See?

[princessantly]

... But how can it be you when you're standing before me and holding it?

[ ?? ??????? ]

[minogame]

Uh....

( His cover is blown, isn't it? Ah, but he can't give away too much until he's a little more certain about things. Sorry, you need to unlock B support with Urashima to learn about the saniwa and what not. )

It's... a secret? ... Magic?

[princessantly]

[ This is so confusing... but she does nod, slowly. It doesn't feel as though he's lying... ]

I apologize. You don't need to explain further.