[Okay. Okay good she hadn't been hallucinating. Rosamund will patter over, rubbing at her arms and looking over her shoulders. Still rattled and still feeling mighty miserable, but herself. For now.]
Oh! Oh, good, because it was either that or more ghosts? [a beat.] There were ghosts in the last graveyard I was in. On top of the dead who were already there.
...Well, I'm very sorry you're trapped here with us. Has it been all right for you, down here?
But, ah... honestly, it's been fine. Wriothesley-san, Aventurine-san, and Kogane-san wre good company on the bus, and everyone's been... [a beat.] Well, most who have ended up here since have been very kind.
[she cannot really describe scara as kind but like. he's fine? it's fine.]
It was a really weird one. Everything was so fleshy...
Oh! Okay so all four of you came together! I haven't met this Kogane person yet. [who she knows as Keith actually and would recognize on sight] And it's okay, we have some... very interesting personalities!
Kogane-san ends up keeping to himself sometimes... ah, but he's got Kosmo with him, so I'm sure they're looking out for each other. [a beat.] Very interesting personalities is right! I don't think boring people ever end up involved in these sorts of things.
[it's almost like they're all interesting enough for people to want to pick up and roleplay them... wao...]
[Why does that sound familiar...anyway I won't make a deal bc I have yet to see nina and don't want to guilt trip, life happens]
It's so true. I know some people keep assuming they're boring because their worlds don't have some crazy system of magic or anything, but then they're just really vibrant personalities, or they have a convoluted family life or job, or something...there's so much to see and learn around here.
...Well that sounds neat! [The emotions are I have no idea what this is.] But you're a soldier, that's got to mean you've seen some interesting things. And the Shinsengumi, that's what they call the army? Or a squad of some sort?
The Shinsengumi is a troop of specialized soldiers. [also technically cops. secret military police?] And it was the... government, I suppose? The military government. They cooperated with the Imperial court and obeyed the Emperor, of course, but... they made many of the laws.
Oh! Okay, I do get it now. Sorry, there's still so many different worlds and different things to learn, I get a little mixed up trying to figure them all out?
But that's very prestigious. Did you like your post there?
[YOU'RE FINE I SPENT MOST OF THIS WEEK DEAD IN A DITCH IRL ANYWAY]
No, nothing to apologize for at all! Even after all of these expriences, I still sometimes forget that the words and phrases and names that are so commonplace in my world are not common knowledge here.
I don't know about prestigious. There are plenty of people who don't like the work we do, but that's mostly because we end up capturing them or their relatives when they're up to something shady. [politics...] But I enjoy my work, and more than that, I enjoy the people I do it with. My comrades in the Shinsengumi are the best people in the world, even if they are very, very eccentric.
Possession... aah, that seems to happen in a lot of these games.
[she's never sure if it's better or worse that way - possession kills tend to be more gruesome, but at least the culprits can comfort themselves with the knowledge that it wasn't fully themselves doing that.]
...but that must have been frightening. For the only cure to be death...
It really does? I guess it's like, if you're not going to rig things so that people feel like they have no choice but to kill, then it's an easy way to get it done.
[Said a lot more blithely than she feels, which is a bit terrible.]
It's okay. I wasn't afraid of dying, exactly. [In part because she was out of her mind, but also for other circumstances. Experience in the matter, if you will.] I think...it was more getting the choice taken away from me. Whether it was having someone sent to do it, like usual, or just, um. You know, with the briars.
I haven't always had the chance to make my own choices. If I had to lose everything else, I at least wanted to end things my own way.
That makes a lot of sense. For what it's worth... I hope that once we get through this, you end up having many more opportunities to make your own choices.
Rosamund is holding a hand to her chest, choked up in a new way.]
Seizaburo...
[She looks to him then, blinking fast, holding back the tears. She's more or less inured to her own "execution" at this point. But something about the simple earnesty with which this is carried out, the reluctance and yet acceptance of his friends, the sweet words given before the trigger is pulled...it rankles her. Tugs at some thread that had been threatening to unravel for a long while.
Wouldn't it be easier? If we could all just do that every weekend? Wouldn't it be so much less painful if we could just choose for once?]
...You're very lucky...to have such kind and understanding friends...
...part of it was the circumstances, I think. Things could have gone very poorly for the group as a whole if we allowed one of the predetrmined endings of that game to play out.
[she smiles a litle and wipes at her eyes.]
But we were very lucky, I think, that nobody insisted we vote for a culprit. Things were... pretty tense during tha trial, and during many of the others. We didn't have that sort of outcome all the time.
But... in that specific case, it worked out. [there's a beat, and she smiles faintly.] It probably also helped nobody was so attached to Mutsunokami-san and me as to refuse to let us die.
[whew! it's all over and done with, more or less... sure, they have to wait until the travel kiosk computer is done updating tomorrow, but all seems well for now.
sei will encounter rosamund at some point after it all. she's changed out of her bloodied clothes and is carrying them off to do laundry, but she smiles at her over the clothes in her arms when she spots her.]
Rosamund-san! It's a relief that it seems to have worked out, right?
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Still, when she spots Sei she has a vague recollection of seeing her face. Not with her own eyes of course, but...]
Hello?
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Ah, hello!
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[Okay. Okay good she hadn't been hallucinating. Rosamund will patter over, rubbing at her arms and looking over her shoulders. Still rattled and still feeling mighty miserable, but herself. For now.]
I thought I imagined you, frankly.
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...Well, I'm very sorry you're trapped here with us. Has it been all right for you, down here?
1/2
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[she cannot really describe scara as kind but like. he's fine? it's fine.]
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Oh! Okay so all four of you came together! I haven't met this Kogane person yet. [who she knows as Keith actually and would recognize on sight] And it's okay, we have some... very interesting personalities!
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[it's almost like they're all interesting enough for people to want to pick up and roleplay them... wao...]
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[Why does that sound familiar...anyway I won't make a deal bc I have yet to see nina and don't want to guilt trip, life happens]
It's so true. I know some people keep assuming they're boring because their worlds don't have some crazy system of magic or anything, but then they're just really vibrant personalities, or they have a convoluted family life or job, or something...there's so much to see and learn around here.
What about you? What is it you do at home?
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...Well that sounds neat! [The emotions are I have no idea what this is.] But you're a soldier, that's got to mean you've seen some interesting things. And the Shinsengumi, that's what they call the army? Or a squad of some sort?
And, um. A Shogunate...what exactly is that?
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Oh! Okay, I do get it now. Sorry, there's still so many different worlds and different things to learn, I get a little mixed up trying to figure them all out?
But that's very prestigious. Did you like your post there?
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No, nothing to apologize for at all! Even after all of these expriences, I still sometimes forget that the words and phrases and names that are so commonplace in my world are not common knowledge here.
I don't know about prestigious. There are plenty of people who don't like the work we do, but that's mostly because we end up capturing them or their relatives when they're up to something shady. [politics...] But I enjoy my work, and more than that, I enjoy the people I do it with. My comrades in the Shinsengumi are the best people in the world, even if they are very, very eccentric.
W6 MONDAY CW: suicide, plant gore, threatened eye trauma, mouth/throat trauma
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...Rosamund-san...
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Anyway she's averted her eyes, jaw clenched.]
...I'm sorry, Seizaburo. You shouldn't have to see that.
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There's no need to apologize to me for what that place put you through... or for this place deciding to make you relive the memory.
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[She makes a face, shaking her head.]
...I suppose I should say, that I was possessed at the time. They were really pervasive in my game. Dying was the only cure.
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[she's never sure if it's better or worse that way - possession kills tend to be more gruesome, but at least the culprits can comfort themselves with the knowledge that it wasn't fully themselves doing that.]
...but that must have been frightening. For the only cure to be death...
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[Said a lot more blithely than she feels, which is a bit terrible.]
It's okay. I wasn't afraid of dying, exactly. [In part because she was out of her mind, but also for other circumstances. Experience in the matter, if you will.] I think...it was more getting the choice taken away from me. Whether it was having someone sent to do it, like usual, or just, um. You know, with the briars.
I haven't always had the chance to make my own choices. If I had to lose everything else, I at least wanted to end things my own way.
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That makes a lot of sense. For what it's worth... I hope that once we get through this, you end up having many more opportunities to make your own choices.
[and speaking of choices...
a memshare! which ends up blurring into what happened the next day.]
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Rosamund is holding a hand to her chest, choked up in a new way.]
Seizaburo...
[She looks to him then, blinking fast, holding back the tears. She's more or less inured to her own "execution" at this point. But something about the simple earnesty with which this is carried out, the reluctance and yet acceptance of his friends, the sweet words given before the trigger is pulled...it rankles her. Tugs at some thread that had been threatening to unravel for a long while.
Wouldn't it be easier? If we could all just do that every weekend? Wouldn't it be so much less painful if we could just choose for once?]
...You're very lucky...to have such kind and understanding friends...
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[she smiles a litle and wipes at her eyes.]
But we were very lucky, I think, that nobody insisted we vote for a culprit. Things were... pretty tense during tha trial, and during many of the others. We didn't have that sort of outcome all the time.
But... in that specific case, it worked out. [there's a beat, and she smiles faintly.] It probably also helped nobody was so attached to Mutsunokami-san and me as to refuse to let us die.
week 7, saturday
sei will encounter rosamund at some point after it all. she's changed out of her bloodied clothes and is carrying them off to do laundry, but she smiles at her over the clothes in her arms when she spots her.]
Rosamund-san! It's a relief that it seems to have worked out, right?
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You're telling me! I was so worried, especially with the number of achievements and whether Shutterfly would listen to reason...
Oh, do you need help with that?