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

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.

[yamaxanadu]

Why would I be a hallucination?

[She tilted her head a bit miffed by the suggestion.]

[red_tea]

A little less than a month ago, many of the residents of the tower were suffering from them. I had thought that I had finally succumbed to it.


[ Although if she thinks about it, even now she can't be too sure. ]

[yamaxanadu]

Are such... afflictions common?

[red_tea]

All who I know of who are here has had it happen to them. [ She taps the cart of clean bed sheets she pushes around for a moment. ] As for often they happen... I'm not sure.

[yamaxanadu]

I shall have to take your word for it, since I have only been here a few hours at best. But I find that such things happen to more than one or two people from time to time concerning.

[red_tea]

It is good you arrived during a relatively more peaceful time... [ Ah. Relatively. It should be obviously she's using that term lightly. ]

[yamaxanadu]

You make me curious what the other times are life, if you could go into some detail....

[red_tea]

The other time with the hallucinations...? It started out as some sort of sickness. Some people just got a severe case of the flu-- but for others, it evolved. It made them think horrible things, like of fears or losses... And for others it just completely changed their personality and made them behave in ways they wouldn't have otherwise.

[yamaxanadu]

What a frightening epidemic....

[red_tea]

Yes... but-- [ She has to point out something good, right? ] Surpsingly enough, I had spoken with a young man who was created to simply kill and torture. And the illness simply... made him want to help and save others.


[ THAT COUNTS AS GOOD, RIGHT, YAMA?? ]

[yamaxanadu]

[Not quite....]

So it caused people to act contrary to their nature in an extreme way.

[That was practically the worst thing she could imagine. However, that such an individual existed was curious.]

Who would create a being simply to kill and torture? Was there any reason for this?

[red_tea]

...I suppose. I'm not sure-- I didn't ask. But he did express he was lonely because of what he has to do, and it was leaving him empty, I think. [ A pause. ]

But, along the lines of changing others' nature and making others do thing they wouldn't normally do... Enma, you do realize that I am more than concerned about that happening to you. [ Concern more for herself and Remi more than Eiki herself, of course. Jus' sayin'. ]

[yamaxanadu]

[That had not even occurred to her, the idea of anything ever changing her way of being was such an alien concept that it hadn't even been a small whisper in her mind.

The thought was truly horrifying and left her stunned silent. Not because she was concerned for herself and how she would feel, but because of what such a state could do to those around her. A Yama was not something that should ever be anything else. If she did not have her neutrality and judgement, if she was not as she was, horrible things could happen.

[red_tea]

[ She lets the silence seep for a moment before continuing. ] So if there is anything at all that would help us, say, defend ourselves against you should anything bad happen to change you at all...

[yamaxanadu]

I... am unsure of what would help.

[red_tea]

Is there nothing at all, Enma?

[yamaxanadu]

As I have yet to know of any limitations that being here might bring, it is hard to offer anything. In a regular situation the only thing to rely on would be another Yama to interfere or the Ten Kings to get involved, both of which would be extreme cases and hard to even fathom.

I suppose if I did do something that would endanger everyone, I would suggest gathering as many capable people as you can and subduing me.

[red_tea]

And you... couldn't put any limitations on yourself?

[yamaxanadu]

Such as? Any limitations I put on myself would mean nothing if my intentions changed, as I assume I could remove them at will later.

[She didn't know she could be killed yet, it was probably not something she would learn until someone managed to kill her first.]

[red_tea]

Such as... putting a blind enchantment on yourself, with having an outside party know the key or safe word to induce it, if necessary.

[yamaxanadu]

I don't think I could put a blind enchantment on myself, as for having an outside party know the safe word or key... would that not be potentially dangerous depending on the situation?