Meet and Greet [Intro #2]

[utopiamods]

You are brought to your campus and shown to your dorm rooms before you are given permission to wander the campus and the town. Meaning Fortitude students can mingle with Conquest students, they can go visit the shop (shop post will be up later today), or speak to the headmistresses and mayor. Each student now has the Exaclan manuals, a uniform, a school bag with either a shield or a sword on it, and the glove used to pull weapons.

But make sure to come to the battle area later to see the exhibition match! 

Take advantage of the free day, the freedom won't last long. Sooner rather than the later the round will start, Players will be named, Weapons will lose their privileges, and the battles will begin. So you might as well go out and make friend or start rivalries, anything to help you along later in the round.

Comments

[countryofassholes]

"Uh- same. So maybe you're ahead of me by a couple months?" There was a pause before she started laughing. "Oh wow, I guess I got away just before a big mess. Maybe the reason you don't know I exist is because I'm here when Lelouch takes the throne?"

... what? It made about as much sense as randomly appearing in a city with people from the past and future.

[swordofzero]

"Maybe..." This was making less and less sense, why would Britannia be here from the past if she'd only just arrived.

"You don't count as a god do you?" It was just an idea, and didn't explain why he was here now... but...

[countryofassholes]

Now that made her grin. "Do I look like one?" Came the playful reply as she glanced over the cafe, looking for one of the staff. "I'm just an empire, Suzaku. That's all~"

Yep, just an empire. One that controls half of the civilized world and is the world's dominant military superpower but that's all.

[swordofzero]

"No," was the reply, he shrugged, just an empire... He would not have thought that Britannia would be modest at all. "Charles tried to... stop time, Lelouch stopped him and denied the gods, I thought... none of this makes sense..."

[countryofassholes]

It was less modesty and more a clarification that even an empire wasn't comparable to a god. If only because even that seemed like a step too far. If there was one good thing to be said of Britannia, it would be that her personality really wasn't similar at all to Charles's. Even he had been quite an extremist in her opinion.

For a moment Britannia was quiet as she looked back at the knight, before pointing out: "Uh- what you just said didn't make any sense either."

Stop time? Deny gods? Huh?

[swordofzero]

Suzaku shrugged, "It happened, it doesn't make much sense to me either. But the world Charles wished was one without progress, without time... where people just... where as one... unable to make their own choices..."

[countryofassholes]

This conversation was starting to make her feel stupid. "No, I don't- can you start at the beginning? How was his majesty going to stop time and how did gods come into this?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, it was confusing to him as well though he had lived it. "He had created a place, Ragarnok Junction, him, Marianne and VV had planned this when they were very young, along with CC, their aim was to stop time." He paused to see if Britannia was following.

[countryofassholes]

At the mention of those names, Britannia suddenly seemed to get a distasteful look in her eyes as she leaned back and sighed. Suddenly, things made a lot more sense. ... or at least she now knew there were things involved beyond her understanding. She had never really liked the existence of the geass, finding it too confusing and unpredictable. Furthermore, she was always disturbed by how it provided people with immortality when even she wasn't everlasting. Nations got hurt, they could die.

Geass users? Strong enough ones? They never aged, they never grew and they couldn't be killed. Talk about eerie.

"Ooooh, okay. But why stop time?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku disliked Geass as well, as it robbed those it effected of will. Not that he argued with Lelouch using it, it was merely a means to an end, to create a peaceful world.

His head was hurting though, because surely means never justified the means... He shrugged at the question. "They wished to kill the gods, to stop time in order to create a peaceful world... yet it was only peaceful for them... it would allow no progress, no one would have choices..."

[countryofassholes]

"His majesty did? Really?" That part surprised her, because Charles had always seemed to be the ideal ruler for her peoples and what they valued. Evolution, adaptation and change. Stopping time like that (and she didn't doubt that he could. Of all her previous rulers, Charles was by far the most well equipped to do it and stubborn enough to see it through.) went against... everything she stood for. The strength of those who moved forward regardless of the odds and the power of those who refused to let an increasingly hostile world keep them down.

Then again, ever since Marianne...

"... So you and Lelouch stopped him. How?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, "That was the motive behind all of his actions, including invading Japan..." He shrugged at the question. "I didn't do anything, I was just there. Lelouch commanded the collective consciousness, the gods to stop, to not stop time and to deny Charles."

He paused remembering, "With Geass, it got stronger and both Marianne and Charles disappeared, consumed by the world of C."

[countryofassholes]

"I really don't understand what you're saying at all." Britannia admitted after a minute, running her hands through her hair and shaking it back and forth. How exactly was she supposed to comprehend all this nonsense when the existence of the geass alone confused her?

And then, a thought. "Lelouch has the geass too?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku frowned, it was complicated, he had been there and he didn't fully understand everything that had gone on. But it had happened as strange as it was and he was trying to explain it in a clear manner.

He blinked and nodded, "Yes, CC gave it to him."

[countryofassholes]

Trying to explain something you yourself didn't understand generally never seemed to end well, and this attempt was something of a prime example of that. She didn't fault him for that though, if anything she blamed herself for not being able to grasp the situation. (And maybe a little bit of blame went to CC and VV.)

As it was, she decided to switch her attention to this new bit of information, tilting her head as she considered this possibility. If Lelouch had a geass (given by CC? Why CC? Did she move on after Marianne?) then it was certainly possible he had taken Charles by surprise and killed him. At the very least it meant he had the ability to do it.

"And? What is it?"

[swordofzero]

"Obedience," Suzaku told her, he can give each person one order which cannot be disobeyed." His head felt fuzzy, like there was something he was forgetting and he frowned trying not to think of it and avoid a headache.