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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]

[ 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.

[stoneandstave]

[ Gentiana skips over looking surprised at the last piece and goes straight to sympathy which softens his demeanor considerably. ]

Ah. I won't ask you to expound on that. [ It's a very clear way of saying he's sorry without having to actually say it. ]

[at_heart]

[ Immediately shakes his head. ]

Don't be ridiculous. You need to know. Games can happy any time, with no warning, and if you don't know — then you get blindsided.

[stoneandstave]

Mm? [ This sound is more of a courtesy than a question, a very 'if you're sure' type thing ]

If I need to know, then go right ahead.

cw: cannibalism mention

[at_heart]

[ And yet Lupine still draws a breath, bracing himself a tiny bit, before murmuring, ]

Which games are worse for you... that's gonna depend, of course. Some people probably prefer the straightforward kill-or-be-killed games to the ones where we're hooked up to each other, feeling each other's feelings.

[ Beat. ]

And some games are gonna mess with your head. Like — we had that one game where we, uh. ...Ate each other?

Re: cw: cannibalism mention

[stoneandstave]

[ Just taking all that in, with more aplomb than one might expect but not nearly so much that he's nonchalant. ]

All right.

And what happens after those? [ Anything that her the power to lock away their memories for purchase doubtless has the power to heal any injuries or even revive a death, but would they? Do they? ]

Re: cw: cannibalism mention

[at_heart]

[ Noted. ]

Well... that depends. If we won the game, then we get healed back up by the production itself. [ Airy little gesture to take in... all of Imeeji, ] And if we didn't, then pep and sIV'll help us out.