DAY SEVEN

[judgejudy]

DAY 7 Complex Population: ??? It's 8AM, and you wake from that deep, dreamless sleep that enforces curfew as always. There's breakfast available in the cafeteria if you want it, as well as meals from 11AM-12PM and 7PM-8PM, but otherwise? The day is yours. Take your time to explore the complex, relax, and enjoy each others' company, as who knows what the next day has in store? Though as you explore, you may notice that there's a new door unlocked and a new place for you to spend the day. For the more bookish residents, you'll now find a quaint little library open to be perused. Interestingly, none of the books have publishing dates, but for those of you that may know when the more famous books were published, you won't find anything past 1940. Also, anyone taking a stroll by the fountain this morning may notice that once again it's been subject to... something. The water is a darker red today. — This post is for the first day as defined in the schedule. This post is for general mingling and CR buidling, and will not include significant plot interaction. ic rulebook character statuses character profiles private conversations graveyard

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[daturah]

[9:30 am - Cafeteria]

[Burrowing in bed and ignoring the world right after you wake up is hard to do if you lack the blankets to burrow in. Hitsugi manages long enough before dragging herself out of Apt 8 in PJs, bunny slippers, and a cranky disposition. She's currently snacking on dry cereal, no milk, and absently tossing paper planes across the table.]

[Afternoon - Library]

[Does the decrepit library even has stools? No? In any case, shorty is balancing on a chair and a small stack of books in an effort to reach a copy of Peter Pan on the highest shelf.]

[Evening - Lounge]

What's the last thing you remember before you arrived here?

lounge!

[selfsufficiency]

Are you sure you want me to answer that question?

[Alice looks over at Hitsugi from where she's sitting at the bar with brightly-colored drink. There's something about her smile that isn't exactly friendly.]

It might be too scary for a little girl like you.

[daturah]

I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours. [She's already gone through Peter Pan--twice--and she could use the distraction.]

[selfsufficiency]

Oh, alright then.

[Well, in that case... She'll just say it plainly. It's not like she's ever made a secret of it, anyway.]

I was about to kill someone who'd been getting in my way for a really, really long time. ♡

[daturah]

[OMG ME TOO GIRL]

I take it you arrived here without finishing the deed? [Alice is saved from bragging by virtue of Hitsugi's currently swiss cheese holed memory]

[selfsufficiency]

The last thing I remember is raising the sword to finish him off. But he was knocked down and wasn't moving, so it wasn't like he could fight back.

[Is it amnesia that has made her not recall getting shanked like two seconds later, or is it just that it hasn't happened for her yet? Only time will tell.]

And you? You said you'd share yours if I shared mine.

[daturah]

Yes, of course.

I was about to go on stage for our class's production of Romeo and Juliet. [There's a generous chunk of information missing prior to the play, so she's not exactly lying] Nothing as dramatic as you.

[selfsufficiency]

It was hardly dramatic. He deserved it, so he was going to die. That's all.

[Alice smiles.]

Oh... so you're an actress?

[daturah]

That makes sense. [She doesn't disagree, exactly. Actually, she doesn't disagree at all. That thinking process makes the world a simpler place for her.]

Not at all. It was just something my classmates were doing for the Founder's Day Festival. We were all required to participate and my group wanted to put on a play. I don't even think I'm that great of a Juliet.

[selfsufficiency]

But you must have some acting skill, to be picked to play a character whose name is in the title...

You're so humble. ♡

[It makes her sick.]

[daturah]

They picked me only because I was the youngest. And to tell you the truth, I only agreed because the person I like was playing Romeo.

[it feels odd to speak about this in the past tense, when none of the actual play's taken place yet.]

It was too good to pass up.

[selfsufficiency]

Oh, so you're the kind of person who will do things you're not interested in for the sake of someone you like...

[Alice makes a face. That's something she just has a hard time wrapping her mind around.]

[daturah]

Oh, I would do anything for the person I like. [she's fourteen and she's in love for the first time. And she's never wanted anything before like this.]

But I know even that is ultimately self serving.

[selfsufficiency]

Anything, huh? We're probably all lucky that person isn't here right now, then.

[She makes a face, though. Ew, love. This is reminding her way too much of someone from home, and not in a good way.]

If you recognize that, you're smarter than most.

[daturah]

Right? I'd go out of my mind trying to babysit Chitaru from doing something noble and dumb [it would be Adam all over again]

Well, there's nothing selfless about it.

[selfsufficiency]

There's nothing selfless about anything humans do.

[daturah]

So, why did you need that person out of your way? The one you were going to run through with a sword?

[selfsufficiency]

Because-

[Alice pauses. Why did she need Emil dead...? The reason is right there, right on the tip of her tongue, but...]

...he was in my way.

[daturah]

What he was stopping you from getting? Victory? Love-- I don't think miss Alice is the romantic type.

[her voice falters a bit. She's killed someone who was in her way, but has she? If she remembers the stage last, then Kenmochi must be dead.


She doesn't remember killing Kenmochi.]

[selfsufficiency]

Love? Ew, of course not!

["Ew," she says, because she doesn't want to kiss Marta, she just wants to kill her. But something about that just seems... wrong, also. There's something she can't quite put her finger on here, and it's bothering her.

She knew they'd all forgotten things, of course, but this is the first time one of her missing memories has really made itself obvious.]

He was helping someone that I absolutely hate. And I had a deal... to fill my end of it, the two of them needed to die.

[But that doesn't sound like the whole story to her.]

[daturah]

For a moment there I was afraid it was something to do with "honor". [For all she knows, it could still be about honor. But eliminating nuisances is something Hitsugi can definitely get behind.]

It doesn't sound like you're a mercenary. I'd have pegged you for one.

[selfsufficiency]

Oh, I'm no mercenary, but I have seen a lot of fighting.

[And that suits her just fine, really.]

And I probably would make a better mercenary than most. ♡

[daturah]

[She's accepted the possibility and proof of different worlds and places to the one she's come from by virtue of being here. "A lot of fighting" places Alice's in a position superficially similar to her world's.]

I will be blunt. I'm just trying to figure out what drives you.

[selfsufficiency]

...what drives me? [Alice tilts her head to one side.] But isn't that obvious?

[daturah]

Please indulge a clueless girl like me.