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kingofpoisons ([personal profile] kingofpoisons) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2012-01-09 05:47 pm

Round One start: Conquest School

When characters wake up the next morning there will be an announcement on all the screens. "Please report to the lobby at 12 noon for important information about this round." Anyone who is not in the lobby by twelve noon will most likely be found by the prefects and taken there by force.

When the characters turn up in Conquest Lobby they will see the woman they saw battling yesterday, and perhaps talked to before that, on the small raised podium. she is eating a piece of bread. Santana is next to her.

"I hope you slept well," she says when she finishes her bite. "Today the first battle round of your time in Rakuen begins, please listen carefully because I am not going to repeat myself.

I have here the list of students chosen to be Players for this round. Listen carefully, these are the people who have rights this week. The rest of you have no rights, the rest of you can be granted rights by these people if you agree to be their weapon.

Now I am going to assume that none of you bothered to read the manual so apologies if you actually did. There are rules to be followed and they are on page nine, failure to follow them will result in consequences and I'm sure no one likes consequences." She pauses to eat some more.

"The most important rule is that if you are a Player battling is not optional. You will not like the consequences of ignoring that rule at all," yes you should be very afraid of the smile that crosses her face.

"To own a Weapon you must vow to them. Vowing to own and protect them, when the Weapon has given their consent a mark appears on their hand." Here she held her own hand up to show the sword that marked her own hand.

"Players may give their Weapons permission to access the school facilities, and to eat from the full cafeteria menu among other things. If you haven't got a Player then you are a Discard, make sure you know all the rules and do exactly what Santana tells you to."

She paused to eat more bread, really these lot looked like they wouldn't even understand what she was saying. She paused to see if Santana wanted to add anything there. Santana for her part just scoffed and sarcastically wished everyone good luck.

"Today is Sunday, every round starts on a Sunday, Saturday is your free day, no one is a Weapon or a Player on Saturday so I suggest taking advantage of it. Anyone who wants to take on a Saturday job for extra Raks is allowed to. There is no school on Sunday but I suggest you take the time to vow to Weapons if you are a Player, or find a Player if you are a Weapon. School starts tomorrow 8am sharp, breakfast is from 7 until 8."

She grins again, "So since I am sure you are all desperately excited to find out who is a Player, they are as follows.

1. Lithuania
2. Homura
3. Golbez
4. Aqua
5. Feferi
6. Aisha

If you have any questions please come and ask them. If not, follow the rules, don't get into trouble and Battle well!"

She grins again.
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[personal profile] stoppedhiding 2012-01-10 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
As Sam walked away, Golbez picked his stake up and frowned at it. How was he supposed to put it back, anyway, if handing it to its proper owner just caused him pain? "Would you like this back?"
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[personal profile] bloodbrother 2012-01-10 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
He looked back. "Uh." He thought for a moment. "I'll come back for it. Wait there." And he disappeared into Conquest.

By the time he had gotten to his office, his hands had healed. But thanks to his tightly balled fists, he'd been able to save some of the skin that had peeled off. He decided there would be no harm in waiting, so he took a small portion and mounted it to a slide in one of the chemistry classrooms. Once he got a look at it in the microscope, he was shocked. It looked for all the world like ash created when skin is burnt in a fire. But that wasn't what happened. His skin didn't even properly react like it'd been a burn from touching a heat element. And it wasn't chemical either.

He stared at the microscope for a long few minutes. For now, he couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation for what had happened. But then again, a man with no shoes had just pulled a foot-long silver stake out of his chest with nothing to show for it but a light show. So perhaps looking for a reasonable explanation was a bit beyond the pale right now.

He decided that he'd made Golbez wait too long already, and snatched a pair of latex gloves out of the box on the bracket on the wall as he left.

Once he was down, he waved and called to Golbez from the entryway. "Golbez! Bring it over here!"
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[personal profile] stoppedhiding 2012-01-10 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't as though Golbez had anywhere else to be, so he found a place to sit down while he waited for Sam, and pondered over everything that had happened in the last day or so.

Being forced to play along with a system like this one was incredibly frustrating. Yet nobody seemed to know a way around it, or if the headmistresses and prefects did know, they weren't saying. He needed some way to figure this out. To get out of this city and return to...

...what had he been doing? Going back to that moon, to... To what, exactly? It was undoubtedly important, and yet...

Well, it looked like he'd found another of his lost memories, though it wasn't exactly something he was glad for. Just one more reason to win this game, however he was supposed to do that, and get back to his world.

When Sam returned, he opened his eyes and looked up at him. He stood and went over to him, and held the stake out. "Did you figure out what happened?"
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[personal profile] bloodbrother 2012-01-10 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Not entirely. I know a little more about what it did to me, but I'm still working on why. On my way upstairs, my hands completely healed after they sloughed off the outer layer of skin. I looked the at the skin under a microscope and it was a heck of a lot like skin that'd been incinerated. But that wasn't like a burn I've ever seen before." Here comes that niggling headache again. "I'll have to chew this over a while longer."
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2012-01-10 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku blinked at her and nodded slowly understanding that she meant the words, even if they sounded light hearted. "Sometimes the only way to make things better is to change them from the inside," he didn't sound too sure about that, like something had made him change his mind... But when he thought about it he just felt like he was getting a headache.

"Work with the system to change it and bring unity." No he had no idea how she would manage that, but he didn't have any other advice.
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[personal profile] stoppedhiding 2012-01-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That was like nothing Golbez had ever seen or heard of before, so he had no insight on the situation. "Perhaps the metal from which it's formed has some special property you cannot remember right now," he suggested. Though it hadn't affected him... So there must be something about Sam that had triggered it.
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[personal profile] herplaceinthesun 2012-01-10 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is still the silliest thing ever, but yeah, it's time for these to go away away. She basically shoves them at his chest.]

Go back in now! [She is obviously the master of replacing weapons. Yes. Maybe.]
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[personal profile] bloodbrother 2012-01-11 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, it must be..." he nodded. This wasn't a thing he'd ever recalled happening before. Vampires were allergic to silver, but he wasn't one. Granted, he didn't keep a lot of silver around on account of Jared, so who knew. Or it could just be this place fucking with his head. Or it was all a horrible Thai-food induced nightmare.

"I'll just have to be careful." He pulled on the gloves. "Let me see it again." He took it from Golbez and turned it over in his hands again. There was nothing, no heat, no burning. The gloves seemed to make the difference.

"Well. I guess it does require direct skin contact." He pulled it toward his chest, and it disappeared into him in much the same way it came out. He yanked off the gloves. "Sorry about all of that."
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[personal profile] stoppedhiding 2012-01-11 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not a problem. It's best you noticed the problem now rather than in a more serious situation."

What exactly was the logic behind which memories were taken? There didn't seem to be any.
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[personal profile] bloodbrother 2012-01-11 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, you're right." He nodded. "I should head back up, but I wanted to let you know that if something came up or someone challenged you or something that I don't mind. I think I'm gonna need a little more cash to pay for this hat I ordered from Recette," he admitted with a little bit of sheepishness in his demeanor. "It's probably a lot better than the parasol." It did match those pink sneakers nicely, though.
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[personal profile] stoppedhiding 2012-01-11 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
A hat and a parasol. Well, it wasn't up to Golbez to decide what others should do with their money, but a skeptical look did cross his face.

"Very well. I'll come find you if I have need of your weapon." He nodded to Sam, and turned to part ways.
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-11 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're right. A change from the inside...if I knew -- " Her knees buckled a little, and she buried her head in her hands. "Ow...when I think of it, it's like a lightning bolt in my head. Like I'm not supposed to remember it."

She shook her head a bit, trying to clear it. "I'm sorry. I hardly met you and I'm rambling about my problems at home. That's rude of me."
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2012-01-11 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku reached out to catch her as she buckled but turned the movement into just steadying her as she buried her head in her hands. "According to Lelouch," who actually read the manual unlike Suzaku, "They have stolen memories off us and we must buy them back." He nodded at her, but didn't quite smile.

Nothing to do with her he just, didn't really smile anymore. "It's not rude, I don't mind."
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closed to Sollux

[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-12 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Once she was done speaking with Suzaku?, there was one more troll Feferi needed to find. She wasn't about to let Sollux be a Discard. She walked up to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. ]

Sollux, you are not going to argue with me on this. Stick out your hand. I am going to vow with you.
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-12 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you. I should have figured it out before now. The same thing happened with a friend. I knew we were friends and who he was, but he remembers things differently than I do." Feferi sighed. "But that's definitely a way to get even the most reluctant of us to fight."

"I might be asking too soon, but...do you have a player? Anyone who feels as I do on that has to be a good person. "
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[personal profile] sciioniic 2012-01-12 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Sollux seemed pretty relieved to hear it, for all that it was a demand to submit to someone's ownership. He wasn't exactly thrilled by the whole prospect that had been outlined to them, but being a Discard wasn't particularly appealing, either, and if he was going to have to be somebody's property... well, better Feferi than anyone else here, right?]

Heh, yeah, okay.

[He presented his hand as instructed, looking a little apprehensive but otherwise fairly relaxed about the whole thing.]
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-12 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Feferi took that hand in both of hers, and began murmuring. ]

I promise to protect you, to treat you with the utmost respect, to give the same rights as I have, so long as I am a Player. Do you agree?
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[personal profile] sciioniic 2012-01-12 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He nodded.]

Sounds good to me.

[brief pause...]

Is that it? Did it work?

[Apparently it did, because the sword had appeared on his hand right on cue, but of course he had no way of telling for himself.]
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-12 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it did. You have the sword on your hand you're supposed to have.

[But she breathes a sigh of relief. She isn't planning to use him in a fight unless she is pressed, but the fact she was able to protect him feels good.]

Okay. Like I said, you're free to do whatever you need to, whatever you want to. If I need you I will call on you, but either way...
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[personal profile] sciioniic 2012-01-12 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He runs the thumb of his other hand over the marked one, as if hoping to feel a hint of raised skin or something, but there's nothing there, so he'll just have to take her word for it.]

Right. Yeah.

[He nods again, smiling a little.]

Thanks, FF. Did you get anyone else yet?
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-12 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Of course. How could I not?

[Feferi gives that hand a squeeze.]

I mean, if you'd rather be two hundred percent sure it worked, I guess we can try the, well. Weapon-summony thing.

And I'm working on it. I'm sure it'll be worked out.
Edited 2012-01-12 05:45 (UTC)
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2012-01-12 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku nodded, "They seem determined to have us all fight..." For what purpose, he had no idea. Her words made him blink sadly.

"I don't... but I'm not really a good person..." It had been a very long time since anyone had thought that of him, and that was because they saw the best in everybody.
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[personal profile] cullscuttlefish 2012-01-12 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"You got what I was trying to get at before I could even explain it clearly. It takes a really good person to do that," Feferi explained. "Besides, you didn't freak out when you saw I was a troll. That happens far more often than I would like. And you just have that vibe to you that says you mean well."
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[personal profile] swordofzero 2012-01-12 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
A troll? So that was what she was. Suzaku shook his head again but didn't argue further. There was no point, she seemed like the sort of person who was determined to see the best in everybody no matter what.

Hopefully he would not prove her wrong, but somehow he doubted that.
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[personal profile] sciioniic 2012-01-12 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, sure. It would be pretty retarded to fight with it without trying it out first.

[he lowers his hands to leave his chest exposed and sort of lopsidedly shrugs.]

So, go for it?

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