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ℬ𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓁𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒 ℳ𝑜𝒹𝓈 ([personal profile] lesmodsalouette) wrote in [community profile] bellelurette2025-03-07 11:17 pm

Mesdames et Messieurs, Voilà, C'est Vous

Bievenue

You're wrapped in a soothing, all-encompassing darkness.

Well, perhaps not perfectly all-encompassing -- you can see some slivers of light here and there, just enough to realize that your current space is literally wrapped in something, and that you are a highly customized burrito at the mercy of an entirely too fluffy bed and set of blankets. Moreover: you are definitely not alone.

Depending upon the contents of your bed (two of you, waking up dressed exactly in what you wore last you remember back where each of you came from, in the exact same state as those last moments no matter how illogical or disjointed), it may not be comfortable or feasible to stay cocooned up for much longer. There's a low, muted GONG, GONGG coming from not far away, your bed creaks like a beleaguered ship in an unannounced storm, and it is joined by even more noises of movement beyond the bed canopy as you try to take stock of where you are.

Eventually, you either fall out of bed or drag yourself into this world: your new and strangely crowded personal rooms, the clock insistently sounding out the hour, and the halls and heraldry of the venerable Château Ambregris -- a lavishly decorated and fully furnished version of a more-or-less authentic French castle (assuming you know what France or a castle are).

Left to your own devices for the moment, you may find it helpful to explore the castle for your own purposes, check out the suspicious statues and personalized plaques in the Promenade of Reflexion, or perhaps to try to get to the bottom of the mysterious and frankly alarming amount of bread piled up in front of the place settings in the Banquet Hall. (Were you thinking of escaping? Any attempts to leave the property will be met with no forward progress at all, treadmill style). There's just about every kind of loaf, roll, boule, baguette, croissant or even animal-shaped bread you can think of stacked in baskets. There's absolutely nothing else save for plain bread, but at least you won't starve.

[OOC: Welcome to Château Ambregris, a perfectly normal castle receiving perfectly normal guests. Feel free to ask any questions in discord! The NPC Meet & Greet will be later today, March 8 at 6 PM EST/3 PM PST.]
fourtuity: (did someone say exposition)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-03-09 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
So you admit it. You're doing illegal stuff. [ She doesn't look like she cares about that though. ]
simulacres: (pic#17613527)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-03-09 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Elde...what?

[ she shakes her head. ]

I'm from Japan.
diel: (002)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you’re right.

[ it might be strange to hope for a familiar face in this situation, but he just has that much faith in them. as long as they’re with him, everything will work out. ]

Are you relieved that he’s here? Your Saber?
snakeblood: (just closing my eyes)

[personal profile] snakeblood 2025-03-09 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, who died and made you the curse-police?
diel: (033)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ just who is expecting him to do that… yoru is confused. ]

But - even if you didn’t kill them directly, your hands aren’t clean, are they…?
simulacres: (pic#17729122)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-03-09 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Relieved? Uh...

[ ayaka looks at the plaque, and then down at her hands, each one marked with command spells. to say that she's not would be a lie, but there's such a deep guilt whenever she thinks about what she has done... ]

I'm not sure. It's probably my fault that he's here with me, so I feel bad for saying that I kind of am.
arbalestrier: (Default)

[personal profile] arbalestrier 2025-03-09 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
No. But you seem to be suggesting otherwise.

[Admittedly, she seemed quite grounded, so it never really occurred to him that she would think magic was a thing.]
diel: (033)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
They’re still warm…

[ but he gets what she means. he thinks. ]


Wait, haven't you kind of been acting like this has happened to you before?
frostlight: (03)

[personal profile] frostlight 2025-03-09 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know where that is. We're either from separate regions or different worlds entirely.
simulacres: (pic#17729111)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-03-09 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
He said um...a pocket dimension, right? I don't really know how that works but... maybe we're all from different places.

[ the only reason she doesn't dismiss it immediately is because she was just in one a few days ago. ]

But for me, magic is real. I'm not sure if it can do something like this, but in my world, some people can have magic powers, I think. Kind of like in a manga.
arbalestrier: (Default)

[personal profile] arbalestrier 2025-03-09 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[hi5s in spirit

Where did all the skeptics go... where...]

simulacres: (pic#17729115)

[personal profile] simulacres 2025-03-09 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Different worlds?! Seriously?!
snakeblood: (look who we have here)

[personal profile] snakeblood 2025-03-09 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
This is the family business. You want me not to be able to feed all these people I have to take care of?
frostlight: (02)

[personal profile] frostlight 2025-03-09 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Is that so surprising? There are dozens upon dozens of worlds and dimensions out there. At the very least, this has to be another dimension.
diel: (040)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ that. he understands that. so he scrambles for something good to say. something helpful. ]

If he… if he considers you his friend, then he’ll want to be there for you, no matter what. Um, right? And if you consider him… uh… your… yours, then you’ll be there for him even if it is your fault.

[ and that makes everything ok! ]
fourtuity: (possibly a pink chihuahua in a past life)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-03-09 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
God.

[ Okay, she can't keep a straight face at that. ]

Haha, you should be a comedian.
diel: (023)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Spell…

[ he was not expecting to hear that. ]

Like magic? Exorcism?
snakeblood: (coffee)

[personal profile] snakeblood 2025-03-09 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't have pegged you for a Christian. Is that why you're such a hypocrite?
distain: (7)

[personal profile] distain 2025-03-09 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure we can all agree on that, as well.

I wonder if getting along really is so simple.
fourtuity: (generating puns)

[personal profile] fourtuity 2025-03-09 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Blinking. ]

Really? What makes you say that?
diel: (021)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh… I understand.

[ yoru stares at his bread, though his eyes look past it to memories of a child. and then to more recent memories of dinner tables and fine china. ]

The body needs what it needs and there’s no shame in that.
distain: (6)

in the end i couldn't resist the urge to who's on first this

[personal profile] distain 2025-03-09 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I might have. Is she your servant?

[Ayaka had been frightened for a reason, and though Andrew had believed her for the sake of cooperation... but if she was misleading her, what then? That would make this man more involved, eccentric armor and all.]
diel: (044)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
I… [ his lips press together, corners dimpling in uncertainty. ] I don’t want anything from you.

[ well, no, that’s not true now that he hears the word family. ]

You should definitely take care of your family though. No matter what.
distain: (2)

[personal profile] distain 2025-03-09 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[She gestures to their very grand surroundings. It isn't about money, clearly. However...]

Of the political kind, maybe... What else would anyone want with me? I've yet to even debut.
diel: (048)

[personal profile] diel 2025-03-09 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
You said… I don’t seem like the type.