Fortitude Round 7

[mamarosa]

It should be a familiar scene by now, Dolorosa standing on the platform with her ever peaceful expression, flanked by her ever growing number of Prefects. There are five others with her now, Nanami, Lelouch, Yuri, Sonic, and Jade. It's hardly noticeable but Dolorosa is purposefully keeping her distance from Lelouch after some recent revelations. But nothing else has changed, everything else is normal and in order to keep the peace she begins her speech as if everything is normal. Although you may be feeling a bit sick

"Good morning, my students. I know you have had an eventful round, the first dungeon is always exciting and it is something you will always remember. I still remember my first dungeon," she smiles fondly but doesn't tell the story of her first dungeon, "This is usually the point where I announce battles, but because it was a dungeon round there was no battling even if there could have been. I am very proud of all of you."

That would be another difference, the battle records do not appear behind her, nor does she announce who won the round. Instead she explains that because the results of the dungeon have been publicized before she will save time and go straight on to the Players for this round.

"This is Round 7, everything goes back to normal this round. You are expected to to vow with Weapons and battle Conquest. Now that we have been here for some time and I know the abilities that all of you have, I know you have both the ability to win graciously and lose graciously. I am proud of all of you."

"Without further ado, the Players for Round 7 are:

Dave
Kanaya
Equius
Zoey
Anya
Dirk"

Her smile falters for a split second as she glances at the board behind her, almost expecting something like what happened during Round 5 assembly to occur again. After seeing that, no, the board was not going to light up and show Fortitude the Conquest assembly, she concludes her speech.

"Have a wonderful round everyone."

Comments

[savedbyasong]

[He grins] We should see if that works. [Since his weapon probably isn't much use, if he's been honest with himself.]

[knightime]

idk
seems kind of mean
i mean
to do that to you
no one really likes having their eyes being tools to scare people

[Sob. Because...Dave knows what that's like. It isn't fun.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion's freaky eyes flickered worriedly.] I guess it might be a little mean. [Not that he minded, since he couldn't even remember what was wrong with his eyes in the first place. But he looked at Dave worriedly, he had never seen Dave's eyes before - he wore sunglasses even indoors, and wondered if there was a reason for that.]

[knightime]

what???

[You're staring at him and it's freaking him out a bit and it's so obvious you're worried about something now.]

[savedbyasong]

[Oops, he dropped his eyes again, he keeps forgetting that they are weird. Because they shouldn't be weird, and this is giving him a headache.]

Why do you wear sunglasses all the time?

[knightime]

because im just that cool
why do you want to know?

[Nope. Not being cagey about it at all.]

[savedbyasong]

[Shion unfortunately is nosy, and now he wants to know.] I've never seen you take them off ever. Not even inside or when it is dark.

[knightime]

why take them off when i put them on in the first place?
seems like wasted effort
cant look indecisive
people will be like
that kid cant decide if he wants to wear those badass shades or not
ill lose cool points

[He's still warming up to the idea of taking them off in general. For now, only his closest friends have really seen them off.]

[savedbyasong]

[Now Shion was very curious, but he wont push, much.] I don't think cool points exist. [Unless they did, after all Dave's world was weird.]

[knightime]

of course they do
no one really keeps track of them
you just kind of either exude cool or you dont

[This conversation is ridiculous.]

[savedbyasong]

[All their conversations are ridiculous, why should this one be any different.]

So exuding cool means wearing sunglasses where there is no sun?

[knightime]

its for the irony man
because bam
cool kid swaggers in wearing shades
no sun or anything
but he still has them on like hes got swag reaching farther then the ends of the earth

[None of that probably made sense.]

[savedbyasong]

[It totally didn't, Shion just blinked at him in confusion.] Right...

[knightime]

i totally lost you didnt i
not that im surprised

[Sometimes Dave does things and says things he doesn't even understand himself.]

[savedbyasong]

Yes... sorry... [He needs to do a course on Dave speak or something, then he wont get confused so easily.]

[knightime]

naw its cool

[Gosh, these Striders and their weird ways of talking...]

[savedbyasong]

[He grinned and dropped the subject, because even Shion knows when to drop things sometimes.] So... do you need any more Weapons? I mean... I know I'm not really a good Weapon... erm...

[Asking people if they want to vow will never not be awkward...]

[knightime]

if you need a player im always fine with vowing with you
im not going to be a grade a douchebag and just say no just because you arent a weapon usually used for fighting
jegus

[And he's vowed with Shion plenty enough times that they should know that he's okay with it.]

[savedbyasong]

[A relieved smile] As long as you don't mind!

[knightime]

naw
i dont mind granting rights and whatever
seems like a douchecanoe kind of move to not allow them

[savedbyasong]

[Shion has no idea what a "douchecanoe kind of move" is but he gets that it's bad so nods.] Thanks Dave.

[knightime]

no probs
dont worry about it

[savedbyasong]

[Smiling, and waiting for Dave to vow.]

[knightime]

ok
shion
do you take my hand in wonderful battle matrimony
which isnt saying much since you probably wont be fighting but shut up
so that we may be badass and hopefully win
just say i do
i mean yes

[savedbyasong]

I do yes [The familiar shield mark appears on his hand]