Judgment 1: Arrival

[yamaxanadu]

Characters: Eiki and open!
Setting: Room 1-17, Cafeteria, wandering around
Format: Either
Summary:Eiki tries to get her barrings.
Warnings:None

Not being able to move after waking was startling, not quite frightening, but startling. Mostly due to the fact she hadn't remembered going to sleep. She didn't have time to sleep much and she had not used the Cleansed Crystal Mirror enough to require any. The other thing of quick note was that she was in an unfamiliar space and laying down. This was not her court room, something very suspicious was going on.

She didn't try and move for a while, the paralysis had probably past quite a bit before she went to move, but she had been busy thinking. She didn't have enough of a picture to make a decision yet, on what to do or what to assume. She would have to learn more first. The best place to start was of course the room she had awoken in. Bed, some sort of chest, simple provisions and a letter. The letter was a start, but not satisfactory.

"If I were to believe that at face value I would be considered a fool," she aid as she placed the letter down.

No, her world could not be destroyed, it wasn't something that could really be "destroyed". End perhaps, but not randomly. They would have known ahead of time of any potential changes.

Next was to check the trunk, she was relieved to find her clothes in there as well as some of her tools. She would be keeping those with her at all time now. With a quick change she decided to see if anyone else was around, or at least exploring every other door in her area in case there were more answerers to be found.


She was aware of some sort of requirement of eating oatmeal as ones first meal, but it seemed a bit strange. She wasn't particularly interested in it, and she couldn't say it was particularly appetizing to look at. She sat staring at it as if judging it intently while a hand absently went to her throat every so often to fiddle with the collar there.

"Hardly a meal one would want to be greeted with first thing."

Comments

Cafeteria

[concept_killer]

I'll share mine with you after you finish that.

[He doesn't need to see to know what it is. The complaint and the smell pretty much gave it away. Not that it smelled bad but it certainly had its own scent.

On the other hand, Shiki had a grilled...something. It was meat at least, but the animal of choice was probably difficult to discern. It was deer for the curious minded.]

Cafeteria

[yamaxanadu]

That's a very kind gesture, though I just don't find myself hungry in general. It's a bit hard to work up an appetite considering. But thank you.

[She slowly scooped up a spoonful to take a bite. She had no need of food, except in very limited situations, so food had always ever been simply for taste. But obligation would keep her to the task regardless.]

Cafeteria

[concept_killer]

You're welcome. But a decent meal is worth more than having an appetite or not. There's a lot more too it.

Cafeteria

[yamaxanadu]

Is there? If there is more importance to eating than I thought, please explain.

[worldend_dominator]

Rosa looks toward the other woman with a measure of sympathy.

"It is not a meal that many of us enjoy eating. But if you finish at least one bowl, then you can eat anything else."

[yamaxanadu]

For a moment she wondered why this one meal was so integral, what did it do to allow other food to be eaten?

"It's rather curious it's so required, it makes one wonder what's in it, and it becomes further suspect."

[worldend_dominator]

"I don't know why it's required either."

But it was free food. And it wasn't meat.

"It just tastes like badly made oatmeal, though."

Cafe!!

[of_emptiness]

[ Noticing the woman just... sitting there. JUDGING the oatmeal, he really can't help himself-- ] Hey, hey, go easy on it. What's the oatmeal ever done to you?

Cafe!!

[yamaxanadu]

I suppose nothing, yet. However the fact it is a requirement is worrying.

[of_emptiness]

[ ...

> you resist the urge to make a toilet joke. ]

And you literally can't eat anything else unless you have some of it. ....Not that there's much else that's good around here.

catching her wandering around~

[red_tea]

--Ah. [ Sakuya found the skin tight suits easy to move about in, perhaps even more so than an assigned maid outfit. Also, the material has been a lot easier to wash than plain cotton, which absorbs and stains easily. To do her job here (which is a maid of the dorms) it has been quite useful, even if it is... well. It doesn't leave much up to the imagination, does it? No need to think much of that now because there is someone she sees walking about and there's no way she could be here of all people.

So Sakuya simply blinks, thinking this is some sort of hallucination like others had been experiencing previously. ]

[yamaxanadu]

[That was a surprise, she hadn't expected to run into someone familiar, especially from Gensokyo. Though for just a moment the outfit threw her off. She hadn't liked how form fitting it was herself.]

Sakuya?

[red_tea]

[ Oh shit, she's been spotted-- ]

[red_tea]

[ Wait wait, that means that--- ] So you aren't a hallucination.

In the hallways near the dorms.

[colorfulbrilliance]

[Meiling had been practicing her route for her job in the tower, trying to get from one side of the hallway to the other as fast as possible without missing much going on in between.

Although that does not mean she's not above almost running over someone. But she does dodge out of the way at nearly the last moment. She stops and turns towards her.]

WHOA! Sorry about that..Almost didn't see you there!

[yamaxanadu]

[And another resident of Gensokyo, she wondered how many there might be in the end.]

You should be more careful with where you're going Meiling.

[scorchedchivalry]

"Indeed," came a voice to the left.

Saber had paused upon hearing the comment and had to give her own opinion as it was so close to her own.

"If it were not required, I would never have eaten it myself."

[yamaxanadu]

She nods agreeing. If they were going to have something mandatory they could have picked something better.

"Considering everything else it also makes me wonder what it does to you when you do eat it. Such things aren't required unless there was an intended affect."

[scorchedchivalry]

"I have been told by a source I am willing to trust, that without consuming the oatmeal first, the body will reject any and all other foods." Saber frowned. "It is a small price to pay in order to enjoy proper meals."

Cafeteria!

[maidenidrial]

[Idrial does not eat in the cafeteria herself and she hasn't done so since her first meal of oatmeal there. In fact, she had been advised by a number of friends who were here in the Tower too to hunt for her own food whenever possible and she was planning to stick to that strategy.

Today she is wandering around the cafeteria however but not for any particular reason except for interaction with people. She has figured out that at this time of the month a number of new people tend to arrive in the Tower and these new people are always to be found eating oatmeal in the cafeteria. It is something that unfortunately has to be done after all. Seeing an unfamiliar face sitting by herself she walks over to the table and gestures a hand to a space on the bench beside her.]

Greetings. May I take this seat?

Cafeteria!

[yamaxanadu]

Please, feel free.

[She indicated the seat near her, the bowl of oatmeal barely touched.]

It is quite the... interesting place here.

[Interesting being the only word she could think to use to describe her experience so far.]

[maidenidrial]

Thank you.

[Idrial will bow her head ever so slightly in thanks before she sits down beside her on the seat]

Indeed it is. You have just arrived here in the Tower yourself? I have not seen your face around here before.

[nightfowl]

[Haken laughs at the girl staring at her oatmeal. She must be new. Haken always remembers a pretty face and he hasn't seen her around before.]
Ain't much of a meal, but you can be assured its safe, pardner.

[yamaxanadu]

Safe is relative, but the declaration makes me wonder how many other things are not.

[nightfowl]

The entire tower seems to be out to kill everyone in it at times. Seems they don't take too kindly to those they bring in. Can't take a few steps in some of these hallways without being attacked by something.

Word of advice, pardner. It's dangerous to go alone. Especially if you're not used to that sort of thing.