WEEK 2

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 2

[As one week changes to the next, the Titled will find themselves having vivid dreams. Very vivid. Perhaps too real to only be dreams. Lost memories? Could it be, then, that those who brought you here did something to your minds along with your bodies?

Whatever the case, everyone, no matter how deep their sleep, are awoken to the sound of creaking, groaning metal coming from the first floor. When they do go to investigate, they will find something surprising.

The set of the doors on the right have opened.

Even the Intercessor seems stunned. It has been an odd weekend for everyone. After all, in between finding items seemingly popping out of mid air, and a bloodied statue that belongs to seemingly no one, its all very...strange.

Somehow, one gets the feeling that those strange items won't be the last they see. Indeed, after the doors open, there's the worrying, foreboding feeling coming back once more. And if those feelings are connected to the strange occurrence on Saturday...it can only mean one thing.

There's really only one way to find out if that's the case. The powers that brought you here certainly aren't going to give anyone a straight answer.

So, Titled: welcome to Week 2.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]


((OoC: Welcome to Week 2! Remember to do your memory regains and your activity check!))

Comments

Kitchen

[pursuitofbeauty]

Yusuke is, as always, hungry. Hungry enough now that, since no one's yet made a meal in the communal pot, he's actually driven to attempt to carve meat off some of the carcasses to make a stew. Of course, he handles a knife like an amateur, or rather the way he'd hold a paintbrush. Which is to say, not in a very secure manner. He's also almost... poking at the dead animal with a vaguely grossed out expression.

Someone save this poor boy from his own offended sense of aesthetics.

[intercessing]

[Oh, hello there.]

You will hurt yourself if you hold it like that.

[pursuitofbeauty]

"Ah!"

And indeed, there goes the knife as Yusuke startles, catching the meat at the base of his palm just above the wrist. He winces and drops the blade onto the table, pressing his other hand to the small cut.

"I suppose this is what I get for attempting something without proper instruction. I've not had many opportunities to prepare meat, much less in this fashion."

[intercessing]

I see. Allow me.

[With a deft hand, they slide the carcass from Yusuke and proceed to finish what he attempted.]

You must have a firm grip. Holding it the way you were will always result in an accident.

[pursuitofbeauty]

"So I've noticed," Yusuke replies wryly. He watches the Intercessor dress and carve the meat away from the bone, making sure to hold pressure over his cut until the bleeding slows. He tears a strip off the bottom of the tunic he's wearing, wrapping the linen around his wrist and lower palm to bind it.

"Thank you for your help." He picks up the meat with his uninjured hand, dropping it into the cauldron with a few other ingredients and some wine to cook. "Truthfully, I am used to subsisting on rice and not much else."

[zephyranthe]

"You're probably gonna slice off a finger like that."

It's been a weird couple of days for Fie considering what she went through on Monday and Tuesday, and most of what she's eaten in the past week was mostly preserved foods that wouldn't require much in terms of preparation. Actually, it was pretty evident that most of the people here weren't too fond of either cooking or butchering the animals or both. And even with her poor social skills, she could pick up that Yusuke really didn't like the butchering part.

"If you just want it skinned, I guess I could do it. I'm not cooking anything, though."

[pursuitofbeauty]

"I agree. I'm quite hopeless at this, aren't I?"

Sighing, Yusuke sets down the knife and glares at the carcass as if it's offended his artistic sensibilities. "Back home, I rarely ate more than rice with some vegetables if I could find them on sale. I had little money."

[zephyranthe]

"Yup. But it's something you could learn if you really wanted to. You should look away otherwise."

Although she doesn't really care either way. After all, with the possible exception Gaius and Crow, most of Class VII would either not know how to prepare a carcass or balk at it. Fie picks up the knife and proceeds to skin and clean the animal; her motions are practiced, and probably not the neatest thing ever, but it removes the unnecessary parts and that's what matters to her.

"Then wouldn't you save a lot more money if you went and trapped your own animals?"

Not that she would advocate randomly eating squirrels in the neighbourhood, but you know. Desperate measures and all that.

[pursuitofbeauty]

Trapping animals? He tries to picture himself setting snares in Inokashira Park and fails, somewhere between bemused and slightly queasy.

"I somehow doubt I'd be allowed to do such a thing in the midst of a major metropolitan city. Even if there are some birds and small mammals present in Tokyo's parks, I believe the authorities would frown on hunting them in any form within city limits."

Modern city life is very different from what you know, Fie. Though... Yusuke is apparently a fairly decent shot with an assault rifle....

[zephyranthe]

Well, now that he's mentioned being from a large city, she at least understands. She's pretty sure that trying to hunt anything but the monsters in Heimdallr's catacombs would lead to a lengthy lecture from either Machias or Rean anyways, and that's not even counting how unnecessary it would be.

"Yeah, I guess. Although they won't know if you don't get caught."

Is that a hint of mischievousness in her tone? Maybe it is.

[bythewaves]

"Easy."

Maglor is passing through and he hurries over.

"You will do yourself harm if you are not careful."

[pursuitofbeauty]

"Thank you for your concern." Yusuke offers Maglor a faint smile. "I only wished to contribute to the group as a whole, as well as meeting my own needs. But this is not my forte, I fear."

[bythewaves]

Maglor chuckles.

"Which is commendable, but I think we would all prefer it without you coming to significant harm! Here, hold it like this."