week 4

[airlockedmods]

[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[tacomeme]

[Takumi isn't seen most of the day. Mostly because he sleeps most of it off. He was up all night patrolling for 'demons' so there wouldn't be a repeat of Mikaela. And by morning he's sore, has an increasing array of 'bruises' and a broken pool skimmer.

But by afternoon he's up, and in the dinning hall with his new dumbwaiter gifts. One which is so big it makes it hard to notice even the dumb tuxedo speedo he is glaring at. Said huge thing is a massive stuffed bird about the size of the Christine Jrs. It looks very very soft and good for laying on.

After the karaoke party though, Takumi is back at it- only now he is rearmed. Anyone out late at night might hear a heavy 'crack-thunk' like a tiny localized thunder clap coming from the second floor hallway, and if they go to investigate they might just see Takumi with a long bronze and white bow drawn, lit by soft green light. He is aiming at... something. Something almost impossible to see until he let's the shot go, and with another crack the 'demon' he had been tracking goes up in sparkles, leaving nothing behind but a...

oversized nerf dart?]

Hallway

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Nice shot.

[Junpei comes around the corner to pick up and inspect the Nerf dart, turning it over in his hands. After a moment, he offers it back to Takumi.]

Kawasumi's powers, huh?

[tacomeme]

[The bow returns to it's cheap toy self, and Takumi curls his lip at it before taking the dart back]

Yeah. If I can keep their numbers down for a few days at least, hopefully PAL will lose interest in this set up.

[misanthropicprinciple]

It did only last a few days last time. And the money incentive was a limited two-day deal. Hm. You'd think the latter might be something they'd at least think of extending; I can't think of how it might cost anything to leave the offer standing.

[tacomeme]

If someone managed to contact it and ask I wouldn't be surprised if it'd still honor it, honestly.

[misanthropicprinciple]

If it's a genuine promise, anyway. "More money than you can imagine" isn't the most realistic bounty I've ever heard. This powers thing, though...

[tacomeme]

...

You can promise anything if you never plan on letting the winner leave in the first place.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. Which is why Wisniewski was an idiot. Well, one of the reasons.

dining hall

[scourgingstars]

Is that-

[oh my gods.]

Is that a stuffed chocobo?

[tacomeme]

Chocobo?

[he pats the bird plush]

I dunno what that is, but this is a kinshi. It's a bird we use as a mount in Hoshido.

[scourgingstars]

Wait--really? And Junpei sounded like he thought I was crazy, wait until he hears this.

[sOMEONE UNDERSTANDS]

We have birds used as mounts too--admittedly, now that I look closer yours is a bit different.

[tacomeme]

Oh, what do chocobos look like?

[He is down for bird talk]

[scourgingstars]

Roughly like that, actually--just without most of the longer feathers. They have a wide variety of colors as well; mine was black, but yellow is the most common type.

[tacomeme]

Black...

[his eyes practically sparkle. A black kinshi would be BAD ASS]

I think this is supposed to be my personal kinshi, Hibiki- it's markings match. I don't ride him as often as I used to since I decided not to become a Kinshi Knight, but he's a good bird.

dining hall

[everylittlesecret]

[Nari wound up with something or somethings that... she feels might be good for Takumi to see. It takes her all morning to get mentally prepared to leave her room, and after the shit show that was meeting with Angel... well, it's later than she planned. But still she finds him quickly enough, holding out the two bows.]

Are these yours?

[............. is that a giant stuffed bird....?]

[tacomeme]

Hm?

[He looks up, and when he sees the bit of bronze his heart leaps up- only to sigh when he sees it's been made a toy like all the other weapons and useful things from the dumbwaiters. Still, he's a little pleased.]

I don't know the silver one, but the bronze one looks like my Fujin Yumi-!

[everylittlesecret]

[Cool. So that's one thing down. She places the Fujin Yumi in front of Takumi, inspecting the other one.]

Well, I'll keep this one then. Never used a now like this to hunt with. I'm more a recurve kinda gal.

[tacomeme]

Yumis are the Hoshidan standard. They take a long while to learn, but you can't beat them for power once you do.

[He might be a bit biased though. He picks up the bow, face pinched in half insult and half bemusement. His finger hooks in under the wing decoration and-

-it lights up along the string and starts making silly 'pewpew' sounds]

Gods.

[everylittlesecret]

[why do i not notice half these typos till hours later?]

I dunno... you can get a compound bow that can be set to kill wild boars. Those suckers are tough to take down.

[..... pewpew.......... She snorts, then laughs loudly. PEWPEW]

dining hall

[serrata]

Is... is that a bird...?

[ IT SURE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A BIRD ]

[tacomeme]

Yeah. A kinshi, specifically.

[serrata]

It's um. It's big, isn't it?

[ good lord. ]

Are all birds like that back in your world?

[tacomeme]

It's even bigger in the flesh. But no, only kinshi are this big bird-wise. Unless you count pegasi as birds.

[serrata]

... Pegasi.

[ she repeats that with a look on her face that approaches wonder. ]

Those are real in your world?

[tacomeme]

Heh, Nari was shocked too. They really aren't around in your realm?