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]

You look pretty upset and I guess you don't like dad much. Would you do something like kill me for revenge?

[weddingcake]

...No I wouldn't. You're an unrelated child.

[apriori]

Well that's a surprise, because she did something like that to me.

[weddingcake]

Unprovoked?

[apriori]

I just told her who killed you.

[Which isn't the whole story, but Kotomines specialize in half truths]

[weddingcake]

[folds arms I DON'T TRUST KOTOMINE]

In what setting?

[apriori]

Well the Grail War, obviously.

[weddingcake]

Then it was only natural that someone would die, particularly if you were a Master.

[apriori]

Wouldn't it be the same for you, then?

[weddingcake]

We were meant to be allies.

[apriori]

But a war is a war.

[weddingcake]

Betrayal is betrayal.

[apriori]

You're just mad you lost.


[He knows mad. He's been mad. Still is, really.]

[weddingcake]

It's much more personal than that, I'm afraid.

[apriori]

You're mad that you lost to my dad and Kariya, then.

[weddingcake]

...Kariya?

[wait what]

[apriori]

Kariya!

[He likes Kariya. He's kinda funny and full of worms.]

[weddingcake]

Matou Kariya was a dying wreck.

[apriori]

Better than being a dead wreck, right? He wasn't that bad, anyways. He just looked it.

[weddingcake]

I set him on fire.

[apriori]

Whole lot of good that did.

[weddingcake]

It worked quite well in my timeline.

[apriori]

And then you died.

[weddingcake]

As did you.

[apriori]

...well that's a bit different.