[DECEMBER INTRO LOG | WORLD TWO]

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Who: All coven members, especially new folk!
Where: In and around the new world’s apartment building where the coven is staying, as well as the rest of Shehui
When: Day 160
Open/Closed: Open to All

How did you get into this building? This apartment room? What the fuck is going on? Let's refer back to this page for a semi in-depth, wow so detailed, explanation of your current situation. Are you up to speed? Great. Now, here's the question of the hour: what are you going to do about it? A ▢ Unlike the other coven members, the newbies are coming into the apartment building with non-empty apartment rooms. Depending on how polite or cautious you are, your first instinct may be to find your apartment and knock on the door. But it is your apartment now, too, and you do have an ID card that'll get you in. What horrible calamity will you walk in on? What eccentric roommates will you happen upon? The wacky situational comedy scenarios are ENDLESS. B ▢ One of the jobs on the job board this week is fundraising -- neat, right? Before you even make it up to your apartment, you may be accosted by an excited citizen -- coven member or no -- that is trying to push something onto your character. Chocolate bars? Cheese logs? Cookie dough? Some other luxury item or overpriced snack food? Because this fundraising task is based on commission, the citizen in question may be a bit pushy...or you may be inclined to buy ridiculous amounts of goods and not know what to do with yourself.

New coven members showing up today are in luck. This week, Shehui is celebrating a Keep the Community Clean event. It's rare that they force jobs on people, but there has been an influx of new citizens and the population growth is leading to more trash. Fulfill your assignment and you'll be rewarded 1,000 credits. Don't? Be fined 500. Everyone has been sent a job to their ID, be it collecting trash, cleaning their apartment building or holding up signs/handing out literature about recycling. Sweeping, bagging...it's dirty work, but someone has to do it. C ▢ Cleaning up trash on the street might be hard, but it's fulfilling! Okay, that's a lie. It's demeaning and a lot of citizens don't really care about the minimal littering credit deduction as they toss trash from their cars or miss throwing it into bins. Volunteers are outfitted with gloves, vests and a roll of trash bags, but it doesn't prevent them from being rudely splashed with snow or having to pick up nasty things. Have fun! D ▢ For those who decided to pass out literature, you did pick the better job! It's a lot easier to avoid getting nasty, but it's also awkward...having to hand out fliers, be cheerful, regurgitate boring facts about recycling. Please sir, stop and listen to this exciting speech about why should put your cans in the red bins, not the blue ones! E ▢ There is a bright side to these jobs: local businesses are getting in on the outpouring of people out and about to try and get them into seats and buying things. Free samples are abound! There's a local coffee shop, Mooncents, that is handing out free small drinks to anyone who is actually working today. Come inside, regardless if you "volunteer" or not. It's warm inside with all that snow out there...

Speaking of snow! Most businesses and buildings in Shehui have paid to have snow falling every other hour, which coats the city areas in a fine, powdery dust of snowflakes. You may be familiar with snow, or maybe you've never seen it in your entire life! It's unavoidable either way, so you're going to have to deal with it. F ▢ Children in Shehui are usually in a school building somewhere, but snow days call for some leniency. School is pretty come-and-go anyway, so don't be surprised that there are quite a few kidlets out and about on the streets. They're also fully into the spirit of snow, throwing snowballs at unsuspecting strangers. Will you get in on the action, or will you plan the murder of innocent children today? G ▢ While it's unadvised to just go lay out in the street and make snow angels, there are plenty of parks in which to examine or play in the snow. You won't be the only one acting like a fool -- it's Shehui. You're allowed to live a little! H ▢ Finally, Coins! has bought the most snow as a means for their seasonal activity -- snow paintball. If you're looking to have a good time and enjoy Shehui for what it is, you'd best be inclined to sign up. A massive field with snowbanks and excellent areas for hiding, snowball paintballs that hurt twice as much as usual. What more could you ask for? I ▢ Wildcard! How will your character interact with this new and unusual world?

Comments

[toblueskies]

[ pouty voice! ] That's why I'm asking you! Am I wrong?

[skincares]

[PLEASE STOP TRYING TO MAX OUT YOUR BOND LEVELS]

...

I am a creature who no longer cares for people. Take whatever you wish from that.

[toblueskies]

Not even me? [ she just had to go there. ]

[skincares]

[. . .]

Don't you have anything better to do? Master.

[NOT ANSWERING THAT]

[toblueskies]

[ fine, fine. Ritsuka knows better than to press certain people when they shut down like that. besides, she doesn't want to cause a scene in the cafe.

she lifts the cup from Carmilla to her lips carefully testing it. good. drinkable. ] I already finished my work for today, so... not really.

[skincares]

[What a troublesome girl. She wishes she had the strength (the heart) to simply kill her and be done with it. But there is still a little too much of Elizabeth Bathory in Carmilla's heart. She despises that bit of light.]

Then you ought to be keeping yourself busy. I am under no obligation to babysit you, now that our contract has ended.

[toblueskies]

[ just going to gently lob that idea right back at her. ] What about you? What are you going to do?

[skincares]

[What will she do? It's a fair question. If Carmilla could needle Ritsuka with such an annoying query, then the same should apply for her former Master. A Servant always possessed a purpose, simple as it was: work with the Master (to an extent), destroy any obstacles in the way of the Holy Grail, and to fulfill the contract set forth by the summoning ritual. And as for Carmilla herself - she knows what she is.

Despite her actions, she's well aware that she's on Qri's leash now. How long is debatable. The tightness of the leash is yet to be tested. Yet, in a strange way, Carmilla technically has "freedom," now. She can go where she likes and do what she wishes, even if she lacks the power of a Heroic Spirit or the power of her family name.

... aaaahh, it's truly irritating that she still feels so unfulfilled.

Carmilla leans back into her seat.]

What do you think a creature like me craves? Shouldn't the answer be obvious to you? You know my history, after all.

[toblueskies]

I, do. But... [ Ritsuka's eyes widen with the slow realization of what's being implied there. she wants to believe that there's no need for Carmilla to go to those lengths to maintain her condition. ]

You don't need it. [ if she sounds confident enough in her delivery, that means it's true. right? right?! ]

[skincares]

[...]

It was a joke, Master.

[Coolly delivered, the lie carefully disguised. It wasn't a matter of needing it to maintain her condition. It was a disgusting addiction, something she desired in order to feel like someone.

It's pathetic. But that's the sort of monster Elizabeth Bathory has always been.]

[toblueskies]

So, it's not a problem for you? [ Ritsuka is too honest. too trusting. she has no reason to believe Carmilla would lie to her about something so serious and an ideal that she, personally, feels strongly about.

so... she doesn't question it! instead, she smiles and nods, then goes back to her coffee. ] Good. I'm glad. I hope things stay that way.

[skincares]

[... why must Ritsuka be this way? Carmilla can't help a sigh.]

Sometimes I wonder if you're more trouble than you're worth.

[Even if she doesn't deserve such trust, she appreciates it on a level that she can't yet express.]

[toblueskies]

I wouldn't know. [ she could have asked, again, what Carmilla meant with that but she already knows she won't get a straight answer. ]

[skincares]

[This is too much niceness for a Chaotic Evil Servant like Carmilla to handle. Abruptly, she stands up.]

Regardless of our current relationship, Master.

[She seems... embarrassed?]

If you have need of anything, I give you permission to contact me. I shall... consider any pleads you send.

[toblueskies]

[ nice as it was to sit and chat, all good things must eventually end. either because of a lack of topics or running out of coffee. Ritsuka still had some to go and wasn't about t waste it (two cups now, talk about greedy!) so she stayed put but turned to see the Heroic Spirit off. ]

Thank you, Ass-ah— Uhm Carmilla. [ surely calling her by name was better than saying a word like "assassin" in a public place. ordinary people in any age were bound to get the wrong idea from something like that! she gave up an awkward smile in apology. ] Take care.

[skincares]

[AND THEN CARMILLA RAN AWAY TO KILL HER FEELINGS WITH BLACK COFFEE BC MASTER IS TOO NICE]