Proper Introductions

[cloakanddaikon]

Who: Current inhabitants of HQ
When: Day 119, morning
Where: 4th floor courtyard
What: Breakfast and reestablished communications

[The smell of baking and breakfast sausages fills the air this morning. Follow it, and you'll find a large picnic blanket spread out between the 4th floor bulletin board and the (now once again empty, and finally clean) fountain.

The last of the rainforest's larder is spread out: small bowls of varied nuts, warm buns beside blood mushroom jam, fried potatoes, monkey sausage and crispy monkey wings. A salad of fresh green and yellow leaves, dotted with flower petals, adds colour, as does a plate of preserved local vegetables. In the centre, steaming gently, is a pot of . . . is that miso soup?

A sign on the bulletin board states, simply enough, Community Meet and Greet.]


Good morning.

I am quite sure I am not alone in realizing how many new faces there are in these halls, and how many more that were once here are now absent. Before we embark on whatever explorations we make have in this new location, it seems a good time to once again take a few moments to introduce ourselves.

If you could, please give your name, the length of time you have been here, and, as a way to open up conversation, feel free to share a point of interest about yourself, any plans you may have for the next few days, or questions about the environment we have navigated to.

Comments

[apriori]

I'm Kotomine Shirou, and I've been here for a month! This spot is a boring compared to the jungle, but I guess I'll have to make do, huh?

My father was a priest back home. I don't know if confession does much good here, but I can take it if you need.

[cloakanddaikon]

Good morning Kotomine.

Are you aware of the portal that leads back to our previous location?

[apriori]

It still goes there?

[!!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!]

How nice -- I had some unfinished business.

[cloakanddaikon]

To the best of my knowledge, yes, though the window of its opening and closing is brief.

Were you aware of something happening to it?

[apriori]

[A pause. Loading... loading...]

Oh, I don't think so. Is something wrong -- I can always help if you need it.

[cloakanddaikon]

Not that I know of, no. But thank you for the offer.

What business did you have to complete?

[apriori]

I need a lot of soap, fast.

[cloakanddaikon]

Homemade?

I suppose the frogs would be a better source than most anything we have yet seen here.

[weddingcake]

...Kotomine?

[apriori]

Yes, that's what I said.

[weddingcake]

What was your father's given name?

[god knows how man generations of priests there were man]

[apriori]

Kirei!

[If he had a tail, it'd be wagging - do you know his family, strange man? That would be cool if you did. He likes talking about his family, especially dad. Dad is the best.]

[weddingcake]

[internal facepalm

no no we are elegant]

I see. Kotomine Kirei was my student. I wasn't aware he had a son.

[...but man you sure look like that Emiya... Shirou...

oh.]

[apriori]

I'm adopted.

[He gives Tokiomi a matter-of-fact little grin - he doesn't really like saying that he's adopted much, especially not now. Feeling any more distant from Kirei is a strange thing, and that word doesn't help.]

...but I've never heard of you. Maybe you don't exist where I come from! That would be pretty funny.

[weddingcake]

It's possible. My name is Tohsaka Tokiomi.

[and he's trying so hard to be polite]

[apriori]

[Oh. Oh. Is this the person Kirei got Rin from? What a strange turn of events]

Is your daughter a huge bitch?

[He'll punctuate that with an adorable head tilt]

[no_hero]

[certain someone who didn't introduce himself at all in this meet and greet]

[beautymark]

[oh jesus it's this kid

freezes for just a moment, then pivots and walks in the opposite direction]

[apriori]

[FOLLOWS LIKE A CUTE, MURDEROUS PUPPY]

Hey!

[beautymark]

No.

[apriori]

That's a rude reply! I just wanted to ask you something!

[beautymark]

Leave me be.

[apriori]

Can I cut you open again some time?

[beautymark]

[stops, turns, glares]

Can you stand against a Heroic Spirit?

[apriori]

I guess I could!

[But there are other things more interesting that finding out if he can fight a servant right now]

I didn't know you had guts like everyone else.