Week 5

[airlockedmods]

[As with the weeks before, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to something resembling normalcy with shocking efficiency. The second floor rest area and Adventure Zone Death Orb Room are spotless again, the demon glitter has been vacuumed, the deflated orbs have been replaced. It's like none of it ever happened, like three more friends aren't dead and stored away in the guest house morgue.

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 activity for week 4, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[scourgingstars]

A little ridiculous, yes.

[But he did manage a half-smile half-smirk in response all the same.]

...Shame, really. Your cooking wasn't that bad.

[serrata]

[ Her expressions softens, just a bit. Coming from anyone else, it'd be a nice enough passing compliment. Coming from Ardyn now, though... it feels like it means something important. ]

... good. I'm glad.

But... even if you don't have to eat, can you still... taste?

[scourgingstars]

Nishitani's unfortunately flavored vodka some time ago highly suggests I can't--or at least, not very much.

[serrata]

I see... that's a shame, really. Even if you didn't need to eat, is there really anything stopping you if you want to? But if you can't taste anything there isn't really much point.

[scourgingstars]

Nothing's stopping me, apart from how unnecessary it is.

[serrata]

[ Under all the exhaustion and anxiety she feels a sudden wave of sympathy. She'd expressed a dull horror to Junpei at the thought of two thousand years without even the pleasure of a good night's sleep. And now on top of that -- two thousand years without being able to enjoy a good meal, a good drink.

No wonder he's so... Ardyn. ]

Is there anything else you can't... or well, don't need to do like this...?

[scourgingstars]

[die, experience positive emotion not through a filter of hate, did i mention die]

...Nothing that's immediately relevant. Why?

[serrata]

... Nothing, really. I just...

[ She's trying to work out how to word this. She doesn't want to sound like she's patronizing him. ]

Sometimes... when it's a long hard day, the only thing that kept me going was knowing there'd be a hot meal and a bed at the end of it. And they didn't even let you have that.

[scourgingstars]

Outside of that little incident, it has been a very long time since any of that mattered to me. [He said that like it was obvious, clearly resisting the urge to roll his eyes.] I am reasonably certain two thousand years is long enough to get accustomed to the idea.

[serrata]

The fact that you had to get used to it is the worst part, though.

[ She huffs and scrapes her bangs back from her face. ]

... I'm sorry. The last thing you need is to hear me going on and on about how tragic it all is.

[scourgingstars]

Go on about it all you like. It hardly makes a difference to me.

[Which...sounded sincere, but with the state Ardyn was in who could know for sure.]

[serrata]

I did say I was going to try and not being annoying, didn't I?

[ at least we've got self-awareness on our side. ]

[scourgingstars]

That you did. Besides, I think we're all tired of hearing the terrible tragedy of the savior king. I certainly am.