[WORLD TWO | LOCKDOWN]

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Who: All coven members in the apartment building
Where: Shehui Apartment Complex #43
When: Day 188
Open/Closed: OTA with telepathy potential for those who aren't currently there

[ Unless you're a you-can't-tell-if-it's-night-or-morning-at-this-hour owl, then you probably don't even notice the apartment complex goes on lockdown. At around 3:30-4:00 AM, the front doors lock from the inside, all elevators stop operating and individual doors require a special clearance ID in order to be opened -- something no one who isn't a high-level monitor would have.

This means you're likely sleepy and snug in your room, totally ignorant of the issue. The exceptions are those on the leisure floor or outside at an early morning job -- if you try to leave your floor or come back to the complex, respectively, you'll find that it's impossible because of the lockdown.

No one else will know until around 6:00 AM. Everyone's ID cards will begin to beep, flashing a message that lockdown procedures are in progress, and they will be visited shortly by a monitor who will be speaking to them privately.

Whether or not you decide to wake up because of this information, you're certainly confined to your quarters until this whole thing is over -- which will be around 4:00 PM. Even after the monitor comes, asking you one-by-one to step into a chosen bedroom to have a conversation, you'll be stuck with your roomies until the whole ordeal is over.

Time for some small talk...?

OOC: If there's only one person in your character's room, ICly they will be moved to a nearby room (of your OOC choice) in an effort to cut down on room visits. This will allow you to tag into another room, not just imagine your character staring at the ceiling on their own for 10 hours! Also, you can say that some characters slept over or were hanging out in another room if you wish. ]

Comments

[sealeted]

...."sneaking into places teeming with enemies, stealing something important, and getting out," is it?

[Her eyebrows lift. He should... think hard about her life. ...again.]

I may not be able to turn invisible, but in my other form I'm the size of a fist, Robin.

[guerrilla]

No offense, but if all you'd do is sit on my shoulder and eat acorns, you'd be better off staying home.

[sealeted]

Small, nimble, dourly colored. A rodent can be overlooked easily enough, you know?

[guerrilla]

Sure, and they can also be stepped on, locked in, and locked out, all without anyone noticing. You're not winning this argument, Master.

[sealeted]

Not too different from our current situation, except it's across the board. #Would you feel better if I pulled things like this on my own, as long as I didn't tell you?

[guerrilla]

Uh, you can't actually pull this stuff off, and I can, so that's not a fair question.

[sealeted]

So you have some sort of success to report, I take it?

[guerrilla]

It sounds like you've already decided whether or not I do. Just keep in mind you're the one who decided to contract with a useless Servant like me.

[sealeted]

I'm not calling you useless. But if I'm not a Master you can trust with so much as a simple warning, I'm not sure why you decided to stay by my side.

[guerrilla]

If you can't trust me without making me tell you where I am all the time, I don't know why you contracted with me, either.

[...But he can't even blame her for that.]

[sealeted]

Robin.

[Her voice is very, very quiet.]

I can always trust you, when it's about my safety, or Beech's, or Kata's.

[guerrilla]

...And since I have to lay low now anyway in order to keep that trust, you don't have to worry about anything anymore, so can we drop this?

[He's not trying to be a dick, he's just Uncomfortable with talking about feelings.]

If you're only going to believe one thing, make it the fact that I don't want to drag you into anything dangerous. Now that the coven's being looked at, anything I do reflects on all of us, and that includes you, so I'm not going to do anything.

[sealeted]

Just... next time, please tell me? I don't care if you have to talk me around from tagging along, or something. Just... tell me.

[guerrilla]

...If I tell you, you'll listen if I think it's too dangerous for you to come with me?

[sealeted]

As long as your reasons are decent. 'Because I say so' isn't something I'm likely to agree with right off the bat.

[guerrilla]

[Robin wants to object - after all, isn't she basically making him do this because she says so? But that's a luxury a Master can afford. Even if he refuses, she can just force him. She did consider forcing him.]

...Yeah, whatever. I'm gonna have to agree to this no matter what, so who cares.

[It's best to save her Command Seals for things that might actually come in handy, but that doesn't mean he has to be happy about this.]

[sealeted]

Not very fun when somebody makes all the decisions, is it?

[Her voice is soft, and her expression... seems placid.]

[guerrilla]

If you're expecting me to apologize, I'm not going to. You knew what kind of Servant I am when you asked me to be yours.

[It's pretty damn rich to hear someone in the position to actually force him into agreeing with her decisions complain about having someone else make decisions for her, too, but that's not a fight he wants to start, if only because he doesn't want to provoke her into using a Command Seal.]

[sealeted]

I did know. I just didn't expect you to go over my head like Gilgamesh used to; not when my life wasn't actively in danger.

[He should take a minute to imagine just what it must have been like, being a Master of that King with exactly zero Command Seals.]

But I don't want you to apologize, I just want you to talk to me first. Or... did you not understand what kind of Master I was, when you agreed to be mine?

[guerrilla]

...Ah, so that's what it is.

[He doesn't elaborate, but Hakuno's words have given him all he needs to know. "Not when my life wasn't actively in danger"...

Maybe he's been with Chaldea for too long, because it never occurred to him not to see what he could do to help not just Hakuno or the coven, but everyone else who's had to deal with the magic ban.]

Well, that's fine. It's less work for me if you're telling me not to worry about other people.

[sealeted]

I’m not—!

[She catches herself and lowers her voice, so the kids don’t ask why she’s yelling.]

I’m not saying that. Please stop putting words in my mouth. I just want you to talk to me about things like this first, when it isn’t an emergency with too little time.