Waking up [Open]

[secretlyuseful]

Characters: Merlin and anyone, also Dirk
Format: I'm starting in prose but will switch
This log is: Open!
Location: Fortitude infirmary, Fortitude campus, Conquest campus
Summary: Merlin wakes up from his twelve day nap, he wanders round Fortitude, Dirk escorts him across the city to Conquest so he can find his Player.
Warnings: None so far

[Fortitude infirmary and campus] Merlin opened his eyes and looked around the room in confusion. This wasn't the room that he had been put in, a few moments later he recognised it as an infirmary. Even if it was a world away from the infirmary in Camelot he recognised the feel of it.

After speaking to the physician there he was allowed to go. He had slept four days, which apparently was common here... He had a mark on his hand, a sword. He knew that meant he was a Weapon to someone from Conquest, which meant Arthur was a Player again.

He walked round the campus looking a little confused, after all twelve days had passed and he had been asleep. That might be common here but it wasn't normal. He smiled at people though, though he didn't recognise most of them, he was still not used to everyone here.

[Conquest Campus] After thanking Dirk Merlin made his way into Conquest Campus, the mark on his hand allowed him to enter, since his Player was here. It was just a matter of finding him... He wandered round the courtyard before approaching people, "Excuse me... do you know where I would find..." Memory loss was an issue. "He's a king, likes to hit people with swords, total prat. He's one of the Players this round."

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[fracturedsoul]

Dirk didn't notice Merlin first-hand. He was actually busy examining the tower on Fortitude campus, taking a good long look at it. They should probably open another one shortly, if they wanted to get out of here in a timely manner.

Upon receiving a text from Brobot that some loser was just wandering around dazed and confused, though, Dirk figured he should do his prefectly duty. He set out to find Merlin.

[secretlyuseful]

Merlin was still wandering around lost when he saw the boy in the beret come towards him. He stopped and looked up, he was a prefect and though it was a term Merlin hadn't heard before coming here he understood it to mean they were in charge. "Can I help you?"

[fracturedsoul]

"I think it's the other way around, actually. You lost?"

[secretlyuseful]

Merlin nodded, "I've been asleep, I'm looking for my Player."

He was still a little unnerved he had fallen asleep like that, surely it had to be the cause of magic, but there was no magic here...

[fracturedsoul]

"Who is your Player?" Noticing the link charm around his neck, Dirk glanced down at Merlin's hand. Ah-- a Conquest resident.

[secretlyuseful]

"Erm... he's in the other school." Names, who would have thought they were so essential.

[fracturedsoul]

"Yeah, I figured that. So why are you looking around here for him?"

[secretlyuseful]

"I'm not looking for him." Merlin shrugged, "Well I am, but I am mainly looking for a way to get out of here, they wont let me past the gate."

[fracturedsoul]

"Huh." Oh, right. All these bullshit rules. "So he hasn't given you blanket permission to leave your school grounds."

Dirk sighed. Well, he didn't have anything better to do... "If you want to see him you'll need a nanny to escort you. Guess I'm it."

[secretlyuseful]

Blanket permission? He could do that? Merlin shook his head. "No." He frowned a bit but nodded, "As long as it is no trouble."

He was a bit annoyed at having to be escorted round the place like a child though.

[ecthelion]

Once Merlin arrives at Conquest, one of the first of its people he finds is a young-looking, spiky-haired lad.

"I don't know what you mean by 'prat', but if you're looking for a king, you must mean Arthur, right?" - because there must be only one king in Rakuen - "Sorry, I don't know where he is."

[secretlyuseful]

He felt a headache as the boy spoke, which Merlin took to mean he must be talking about the right person. He nodded, but was disappointed when he claimed he didn't know where he was. "When did you last see him?"

[ecthelion]

"I think it was last week, when we battled."

[secretlyuseful]

"Last week..." Merlin remembered that, but he hadn't seen him since Merlin had fallen asleep? "Thank you, you don't happen to know what room he is in do you?"

[ecthelion]

"Sorry, no... I never got to look at the dorm listings. I should get around to doing that."

Ein would later discover that he has no idea who his two roommates are.

[secretlyuseful]

"Oh... that's alright. I will keep looking, he must be somewhere." Merlin smiled.

[unflinchable]

If Arthur was worried about the coma that Merlin seemed to randomly fall into, he didn't show sit outwardly. But he was worried, he recalled one time with Edwin and Morgana bleeding from her ears and not waking up. He did realize that since they were more technologically advanced that their medical practices were probably much better, but that didn't stop Arthur from popping in to visit the comatose Merlin from time to time.

At this time Arthur was getting ready to go for a jog to use up some of his pent up energy when he saw Merlin wandering around, seemingly aimlessly, "Merlin!" he called out before realizing that he wouldn't actually respond to his name. Instead he walks up to Merlin (slowly so he doesn't seem overeager and too invested in the well being of his servant) and slaps him on the back, "Up from your nap then? You're even lazier here compared to Camelot."

[secretlyuseful]

Merlin grinned when he saw Arthur. Finally! Searching for people when you couldn't remember their name was difficult. He pulled a face, "I could have been really ill, and you complain about my laziness."

[unflinchable]

Arthur just laughs at his face for a moment before softening up a bit, "But you weren't seriously ill, the physician said that you were just sleeping and that occasionally happens to people here. Rather inconveniencing if you ask me."

Whoops, Arthur just admitted that he visited Merlin while he was asleep. Look, he does care.

"Honestly Merlin, how did you manage to survive this long?"

[secretlyuseful]

Very inconveniencing, but Merlin had picked up on the fact Arthur had visited him and smiled a little. "I'm more surprised you managed to survive without me for four days, your dressed and everything!"

[unflinchable]

"I am quiet capable of dressing myself, thank you very much! I managed very well before you came to Camelot, and while you were there, as you're one of the biggest slackers I know."

[secretlyuseful]

"I am not." Merlin frowned, "And it's not like no one ever dressed you before I turned up anyways."

[unflinchable]

"While it is true that I have had other servants dress me, that does not mean I am incapable of dressing myself, I just have more important things to do."

[secretlyuseful]

"Of course, great kingly things." Merlin smirked but went no further, mainly because he actually had something to ask. "It took me a while to find you, apparantly if you have me blanket permission to do what I liked I wouldn't have to hunt down prefects to babysit me across the city."

It was probably obvious most of those words were Dirk's not Merlin's.

[unflinchable]

You're making fun of him, aren't you Merlin? Oh you should know by now that Arthur won't stand for that.

"You insult me and then ask me to grant you rights? Didn't think that one through, did you Merlin. Maybe I think you need babysitting."