1st Recipe - Tower Cake

[starofpleiades]

Characters: Kazumi and You
Setting: Room 2-03, Around the Dorms
Format: I'll match
Summary: There is a new (magical) girl in the tower, and she is feeling confused, alone and sad that apparently her world blew up! Go figure.
Warnings: diabetes

[Action A; Room 2-03]
[Kazumi's eyes blink open awake. There's a moment of distress when she finds she can't move. Where is she? What was happening? Why couldn't she move? Was she trapped? When the paralysis wears off, she sits up rather violently, gasping for breath loudly and looking around, confused and afraid.]

W-where is this...?

[It's strange and definitely not the bed she'd gone to sleep in. Soon she spots the letters, opening them up. Some kind of tower? But it's the other one that strikes her. Her world...? Had it really been...? And her friends?]

...no.... nooo, this can't be happening! Everyone is...

[Action B; Around the Dorm levels]
[Calmed down bu still a little sad, now changed into one of her casual outfits, Kazumi is poking around the dormitories. Maybe, just maybe...? She wants to hope her friends are here, but...

In any case, Kazumi is hesitantly looking around the place, and might be inclined to talk to you if that looks alright!]

Comments

B

[eternallily]

[It's Saki that spots Kazumi first. With everything that's happened? The need to protect her is stronger than ever. She waves and runs over.

Not again. Nothing's happening to you again.]

Kazumi!

[starofpleiades]

Huh?...ah, Saki!

[Her worries turn into hope, into a smile, into tears of relief and she's running towards the other girl, jumping into her arms and clinging tightly as she bursts into tears, more than a little overwhelmed by all this]

Waaah, Saki, I thought maybe you, maybe you...! They said it's all been destroyed... uwaaaaahhh....

[eternallily]

[Saki wraps her arms tightly around Kazumi, clinging a little herself. She rubs the other girl's back, shushing her a little.]

Don't worry. I'm here. I'm here, Kazumi. I'm here and I'm okay. I know what the letters say, but you don't need to worry about them right this very second.

[starofpleiades]

Uuuu...[Sniffle, cling, sniffle] ...is everyone else okay?

B

[heartfeltfancy]

[See Madoka.

See Madoka walking down the halls with Amy in her arms. She doesn't seem terribly aware of her surroundings.

Do you approach y/n?]

[eternallily]

I honestly don't know, but I want to think they are. They're strong girls, Kazumi, you know that.

But you know what? There are other magical girls like us here. The ones that I've gotten to meet are very nice. I'm sure they would like you. Why don't we go get some food and see if we can meet some of them?

...I should warn you, though, they make you eat plain oatmeal at first. It's not very good, but after you eat that, you can cook anything you feel like.

[B]

[alephbet]

[Aleph is outside his room, and he doesn't look terribly busy. In fact, he nods at her when she comes near.]

Good morning.

[starofpleiades]

Mm. [Sniffle. Yeah, Kaoru, Umika, Satomi, Mirai, Nico... they were all strong girls! They'd surely be alright.]

Really? [She brightened up at the mention of other girls. Maybe they could be friends? At least it sounded like they weren't like the Soujus...] Yes!

...plain oatmeal?

[starofpleiades]

[Oh! There was someone who didn't look so scary. And she had a cute kitty, like Toto! Only less scruffy. Kazumi decides yes! Let's approach]

Ah, hello there!

[starofpleiades]

Oh, good morning! [Was it morning? It's hard to tell indoors...] Um, do you know what's going on at all?

[eternallily]

Don't worry. I'm sure they're fine.

Mm. Sayaka-san is a very nice girl. I think you'll like her very much.

I'm sorry about that. But trust me. You don't want to test that. You'll get very sick if you do.

[alephbet]

Did you just wake up here?

[starofpleiades]

Eheh... I'd be happy to meet her then. [Smiling a bit, she sniffles and wipes off her eyes]

Okay, if you say so! I'll definitely cook something up afterward though!

[starofpleiades]

Yeah, just a little while ago... I read the letters but...

[Well, it was all a little much to take in...]

B

[riflesandtea]

[ Hey look it's a blonde with drill hair

that you might recognise maybe

she's currently on a mission to maybe procure some tea because spacewhale shenanigans had really taken their toll on her

approach? ]

[starofpleiades]

[APPROACHING LIKE THE FIST OF THE NORTH STAR

By which we mean, squeaking excitedly and running towards her while waving both hands!]

Ah, it's you! [TOO BAD SHE NEVER GOT HER NAME]

[heartfeltfancy]

[Madoka halts in her tracks, backstepping a bit. She puts on a small smile.]

Ah, hello.

[riflesandtea]

[ OH SHE NEVER GOT YOUR NAME EITHER oops ]

Eh-?

Ah, hello! [ she smiles at the other girl ] I haven't seen you in a long time. Are you doing well?

[ there is always time to be polite even in a helltower that was just attacked by a spacewhale ]

[starofpleiades]

That's a really cute cat you have! Is he from your world?

[starofpleiades]

Yes! Yes, I am. Well, sort of. I mean, I'm here and they said...

[Whoops, maybe not so well...]

[riflesandtea]

[ she laughs a little. it's ok kazumi ] Ah, so you've just arrived...

I'm sure that everything will be all right back home, even though the people who brought us here said something like that. [ she hasn't exactly got bulletproof optimism, but she's pretty sure everything will be ok :c ] Is everything alright back home, though? [ how were you doin' before you got here :c SHE IS THE MOST CONCERN ]

[chronomancer]

[So there's this kid, right? Fairly unassuming. Red jacket, blue jeans, black shirt. The sunglasses are kind of douchey, even, and the scarf doesn't make much sense given the weather. Sitting on a network terminal in the dorm levels. Poking at it to see if it's back to working order.

Oh yeah, and he's kind of gray and has the most ridiculous wavy horns ever.]

Oh, come the fuck on.

[He clicks a claw on the keyboard irritably, apparently not too pleased with what he's reading.

Engage?]

[starofpleiades]

Ah, yeah! It's been a bit hard, but... my friends and I are going to get through it, I'm sure!

[She's from chapter 12, right before everything goes downhill...]

I'm so glad I got to meet you again... I never got to properly thank you for saving me, ah... I don't even know your name.

[starofpleiades]

[Wow, Kazumi has never seen a person like that... but he speaks bad language human language, so maybe it's alright?]

Is something wrong?

[chronomancer]

[Eridan looks up, having the decency to look somewhat taken aback.]

Ah. Not really.

[He shrugs.]

Just. Catching up on the network, is all.

[Reading stuff he missed while he was gone, getting irritated by the stupid fuckery all around him. Being a dedicated stalker. He honestly hadn't meant to speak outloud, however.]