week 1

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Week 1

[With the introduction to the relationship experiment and their overseeing hosts done with, the Champions are left to their own devices to explore the first floor of the mansion as they please. Cece and Kip will pop-up every once in a while to chit-chat but for the most part they're somewhere inaccessible.

Each morning the Champions are awakened promptly at 7 am by PAL's even, almost laid back voice announcing the time and each evening at 10 pm to announce when the kitchen is closing for the night. Unlike the Overseers, he doesn't seem to be one much for conversation.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 1, everyone! This first week is a peace week which means there will be no murder this weekend! Feel free to start submitting threads for the benefactors]

Comments

[scourgingstars]

I've not tested the theory, but he does seem the sort that would.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I think Finn's used to having bunkmates, too. Soldier life, right? You're the only one I'd wake up, so it's not like I'm bothering anyone in there.

[scourgingstars]

The unfortunate honor does indeed appear to be mine alone. [There goes the polite sarcasm again.] I should be flattered.

[misanthropicprinciple]

You said you were already awake.

[So he's not sorry.]

[scourgingstars]

Then it would seem there is hardly a problem, now is there?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Is that common for you? I mean, you don't seem too tired.

[scourgingstars]

I've kept more than my share of odd hours, but it's rare for sleep to elude me completely. But I don't feel particularly fatigued at the moment, so I should be fine.

[...Ardyn was forced to admit (even just to himself) that he was feeling distinctly off in a general sense. The problem laid in that he didn't understand what to make of that; was it some side effect of having been brought here, or had he actually forgotten something that happened between here and Insomnia?]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hmm...

[#SeemsLegit]

Well, okay. It's not like there's anything to do that we need maximum brainpower for, anyway. At least so far. So it's okay if we can't get our forty winks, under the circumstances.

[scourgingstars]

I am certain I should be at my full potential when you need me. Mentally, if not in combat--I can only hope that should be enough.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Do you see a lot of combat? You mentioned your army...

[scourgingstars]

Yes and no--the Astral War has been over for a generation, so the world is somewhat in a state of recovery. It's unlikely any of the four countries will be at war with one another anytime soon, but the army is well trained and in place regardless.

More often than not what we fight--particularly what I fight every time I leave Insomnia--is the daemons. They manifest once the sun goes down, anywhere lacking in light enough to repel them. If one's not skilled enough, going anywhere at night can be taking one's life into their own hands.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Once again, this is way over Junpei's head, but since he's had all day to come to terms with magic being real, he can at least nod quietly without blurting out THAT SOUNDS LIKE A VIDEO GAME.]

Demons... like Roland?

[Won't that make things, um. Awkward?]

[scourgingstars]

No--not remotely. The ones I speak of are incapable of speech or presumably higher thought. Though they were once human in many cases, now they are bloodthirsty monsters beyond salvation.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Well, I've met humans that meet that description, too, but I see what you mean. The ones you fight... they're more like the random encounters in video games. Uh, if you guys have video games.

[scourgingstars]

I don't believe I am familiar with the term, no. [wouldn't THAT just be silly]

They're far from it, I'm afraid. The more human-passing sort resemble what Heart turned into; but then there are ones like flan and cactuars, which couldn't be further from it.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Flan? Like... pudding?

[?????????????]

[scourgingstars]

I didn't name them, we have researchers for that. [Ardyn rolled his eyes, clearly aware the name sounded a bit silly.]

But you are not as far off as you think. Flan and their family of related daemons are...really, sentient gelatinous substances with eyes and a mouth. They're very resistant to blades--understandably--but highly susceptible to the right sort of magic.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Okay, maybe it's the fact that he's had like 1.5 hours of sleep tonight, but Junpei's trying to picture these Pudding Slimes with swords sticking out of them blobbing their menacing way after Ardyn's soldiers, and he just...

He just starts cackling quietly into his hand. Oh, god, it's like three in the morning and he's trapped in a space mansion talking to a magic king about living Jell-O.]

Do... do you eat them? Are they a delicacy? Please say yes.

[scourgingstars]

. . .

[okay admittedly is is a fairly funny image, judging by how he laughed just a little, buuuut also-]

Starscourge is highly contagious, Junpei. Daemons are not even remotely edible.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Awwww. Too bad. I wonder if ambulatory pudding would have a more muscular taste...

[But, since that's neither here nor there nor remotely okay:]

The Starscourge--that's on your profile, isn't it? It has something to do with daemons?

[scourgingstars]

I explained it briefly the other day; that is the name for the parasite which turns living creatures into light-repelled daemons. If one is attacked by a daemon or otherwise exposed somehow, they run the risk of being infected.

As the Crystal's chosen, I have the power to remove the plague before it transforms its victims into monsters.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Huh. Wait. Is that part of the power you can lend to your troops?

[It was hard enough for him to swallow it all in the first place, let alone take down details.]

[scourgingstars]

To my regret, no. That is something which has to be done entirely by my own hands.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Seriously? You're the only one? And this affects your whole world?

[scourgingstars]

Correct. Only the chosen king can fully banish the darkness. And until I can fully harness the power of the Crystal granted to the Lucis Caelum line by the gods, all I can do is hold the plague at bay where I am able to.