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[featherduster]

Who: LiliS and associates
Where: LiliS dorm
When: Day 482

[ Oh boy, the door is LOCKED. What could this mean!! ]

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[at_heart]

[ Look, he's not judging. ]

Even if you're the one doing the interrogating?

[ Easily. ] [ And he gestures for the newbie to follow him, away from the kitchen, though not before switching everything to low heat. ]

We've got a kind of mossy green, and neutrals — mostly white, but you can sneak in some gray or brown, too... so you'll want to pick something that goes okay with them, because your clothes're gonna be mostly in those colors.

[ Gesturing helpfully at the TV, where there's still a flashing prompt along with this person's photo and 'name'. ]

I went for black, which is easy. But you should pick something you like, too.

[stoneandstave]

Even then. Interrogations are rarely any fun for anyone, either it's work or it's torment.

[ He looks a bit thrown by the TV, but just a few blinks worth. ]

I'll pick a darker green then, richer. Like an evergreen.

[ So like does this magic screen hear what he's said or something? ]

[at_heart]

[ Probably has some accessibility features, tbh, but Lupine's pulling up a color wheel. ]

What, like... that?

[ It's just kind of dark green. ]

[stoneandstave]

[ Watching carefully... ]

That's pretty close. May I?

[ Using the same actions or touches or whatever to pull up this green. He seems to have a very specific one in mind. ]

That's the one.

[at_heart]

There you go.

[ Grin, hands on hips. ...And tail going swishswish. ]

That's your position color. If you pick a flower name, you'll get one of those, too, out in our garden.

[stoneandstave]

A garden? [ glances around ] What am I saying, of course there's a garden.

Could I see it?

[at_heart]

[ Lipquirk. ]

Technically, there's three — or four — depending on how you count. But they're all this way.

[ Reaching the right door, he opens it to reveal the main garden. ]

And the stables, and the dog park...

[ The garden's beautiful, in a very conventional and pastoral way. It's also extremely temperate "outside". ]

[stoneandstave]

[ Just taking that in for a long moment ]

Whoever or whatever brought me here, they put me in the right place.

[ He doesn't believe in any afterlife -- at least he doesn't think so -- but this could qualify as heaven because no one told him about all the murder yet ]

[at_heart]

[ Slightly startled glance back, then — oh a little well of guilt! Awesome. ]

Our dorm's pretty nice, yeah. They're all neat in their own ways... but I think I like our aesthetic best of the options.

[ Off towards the orchard door. He swings it open, his smile wry. ]

This place isn't all bad.

[ Not yet said out loud: but it is bad. ]

[stoneandstave]

[ hearing that omission, yes. He glances over at Lupine, just conveying that he noticed, before putting his attention back on the garden and the various doors. Doesn't seem like much escapes his notice, but as he said, interrogations are unpleasant and this place is very pleasant. It'll come in time. ]

I imagine based on how you spoke that they're all quite different.

[at_heart]

Some more than others, yeah.

[ Beat. ]

I'm guessing you didn't do a lot of reading on your phone — that device you woke up with?

[stoneandstave]

[ so much in that sentence needs explaining ]

The metal rectangular object? I left it where it was. [ said with the slightest hint of distaste, that thing gave him the creeps ]

...There's no getting around this, even if it'll make me look ridiculous. What's a phone?

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[at_heart]

[ the metal ] [ rectangular ] [ object ]

[at_heart]

Hey, don't worry, they don't have them on my world, either. Probably.

[ Holding his own phone up demonstratively. ]

But. You're gonna need yours. Sorry.

[stoneandstave]

It's a relief not to be the only one in that particular boat. Probably.

What does it do that's so important? [ He'll get it eventually, but making a case for why he needs it couldn't hurt. ]

[at_heart]

It does a ton of stuff.

[ Pulling up the point store. ]

Like, it lets you keep track of the points you're earning, which you'll need to buy stuff, which you'll probably mostly be spending through this store...

[stoneandstave]

Ah, that explains how my fellow newcomer was able to use it to buy drinks. Do things always get delivered to the front door?

[ Probably don't leave the newbs alone together again, this sort of thing seems inevitable. ]

[at_heart]

[ oh no ]

—Uhhh. Well, if you pay the 500 points for delivery, then yeah, Everything gets delivered to wherever you are.

[ Pushes a hand through his hair. ]

Who gave you guys points?

[stoneandstave]

Persicaria. She said they were for buying memories, but I figured that unit bonding might be a worthy use of it. My companion is quite adept at using the phone.

[ Since Gentiana hasn't any idea how to use his phone, it's pretty clear what went down here. Vash is a menace! ]

[at_heart]

[ Tiniest noise of amusement. Transferring over another thousand points. ]

Of course it was Persi. Why did I even ask. Did she also go through how we earn points?

[stoneandstave]

[ Fondly, ]

She said she was a witch granting me the power to get memories. It was cute, but not very informative. She did give me a name, though: Gentiana.

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[at_heart]

[ Gentiana. Gent? Genty? ]

Ha! That sounds like her. She'll answer anything you ask to the best of her ability, but. Let me see if I can give you the rundown...

[at_heart]

Okay. Points. We get those from doing lives or counterlives, and playing games — more points for lives if there're more units participating, more points for games if we win 'em.

[ Beat. Then he slows down a little. ]

Games first. There're three kinds — social games, where the idea is to do stuff together. You'll usually have a list of activities to check off, where you might need to braid someone's hair, or tell a joke, or confess a secret...

[stoneandstave]

Based on Persicaria's flair for the dramatic, I assume Lives mean some sort of performance. Easy enough.

[ Nodding along with the first game description, waiting for the other shoe to drop but not at all concerned about it proverbially knocking something loose in his head ]

[at_heart]

I mean, they can be, but they don't have to be. Did one once that was just giving away coats.

[ Rubbing the back of his neck slowly. ]

Second kind of game's puzzles. You might have to explore a place, solve riddles, or maybe play a giant board game. All the puzzle games I've done have been on teams, some of 'em unit-only and some of 'em mixed.

[ Shuts his eyes. ]

And then there's, uh, trauma games. Where we've gotta fight each other, or just... get hurt.