utopiamods: (The right way to fight Exaclan)
Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2011-01-10 03:56 am

ROUND -1

This morning, the marks of ownership disappear from the bodies of every Weapon who was owned during the previous round. The woman from the introductory video appears on the Exaclan video screens across campus, and on all of the computer screens as well.

She doesn't look very happy.

"My, you weren't very enthusiastic this time, were you?" she says, frowning and waving one finger in disappointment. "That's no good. If you don't fight, you can't earn Tokens to buy your powers or your memories back! If you don't even have those, imagine how hard it'll be to earn Legend Fragments!"

She smiles; the shift from her previous expression is sudden and startling. "You know, if you hear the legend, you just might learn a few things!

"We didn't want to do this, but it looks like we're going to have to. Okay! From now on, Players, you can only go three days without fighting. After that, we'll start taking away one Token a day. And you want your Tokens, don't you?" She smiles even more widely, as though she has no idea why anyone might be upset at being forced into such a situation. "To get you all started, we've given you some free tokens! You already had three each, you know, and we've added seven more. That means you all have ten tokens, so visit a booth and get spending."

She pauses, and then snaps her fingers, "Ah, but only Players can do that, so if any of your Weapons want to buy something, you should do it for them, okay?

"I know you can do it! Believe in yourselves and each other, and you'll achieve utopia!

"Now, here are the Players for this round!"

The screen goes blank, and the following appears:

PLAYERS FOR ROUND -1:
Fletcher Tringham
Kevin Smith
Mei Chang
Meryl Silverburgh
Oichi
Suzaku Kururugi
Tsuki Aoi
trollofthree: (pic#704580)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-01-10 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
He returned her look, and shrugged. For all he knew, it could just be another attempt to speed them up. "Looks like we've got a week to prepare."
myownfuture: (Fierce eyes)

[personal profile] myownfuture 2011-01-10 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah..." That last round had seemed way shorter than a week not to get all meta or anything. She wasn't happy about it, either way. They were being jerked around by some unseen force for some unknowable reason. At least Iwahijiri had made their reasons clear.

"I guess we have to play along for now, though."
trollofthree: (pic#704774)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-01-10 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Guess so." Not that he'd had any intentions of doing otherwise, but apparently behaving like this was a terrible situation was in style. "I don't believe we've met before..?"
myownfuture: (You bore me)

[personal profile] myownfuture 2011-01-10 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
He didn't seem so bad. Not at first, anyway. Reiko kept her guard up, but she nodded to him in introduction. "My name is Reiko Date. I was a student here before."
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[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-01-10 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Another of Sora's friends, then? He was sure he'd seen them together, now he thought about it. It looked like at least one Knight had arrived with their entire retinue, even if she wasn't anything official. "Another princess, huh?" He held out a hand, "Gino Weinberg. Nice to meet you, Reiko."
myownfuture: (Huh?)

[personal profile] myownfuture 2011-01-10 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
She bristled slightly, but shook his hand. Anyone calling her a princess rubbed her the wrong way, but at least when it was Sora it was... different, somehow. "Not exactly. I'm just a student. ...nice to meet you, too."