Mesdames et Messieurs, Voilà, C'est Vous

[lesmodsalouette]

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.]

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[diel]

What happens if they’re not?

ty soupie for the respite from my midweek trial

[snakeblood]

Then it's on them if we need to charge them more. Can't get the curse right if we don't have the particular information we need.

LMAO i gotchu

[diel]

... Wait, how much do you charge in the first place?

[ considering he needs to do Extra to support the fam ]

[snakeblood]

Depends on what services they ask for. And also how much they kept from us. [ A lot, generally. ] Oh, sometimes we ask for indirect monetary things too. Like someone's fortune.

[diel]

Mm... I feel like... that shouldn't work? Or, I dunno, it shouldn't be as clean of a trade because... fortunes are tied to the person, aren't they? Severing them sounds dangerous.

[snakeblood]

They want to endanger someone else to begin with? [ He's not moralizing though. He doesn't care. ]

[diel]

I don’t mean them. I mean… you. If you take their fortune, isn’t it dangerous for you? Fortunes are… linked.

[snakeblood]

Oh. Monetary fortune, not like, fate... I mean, we tried to take Sora's young master's fortune since he's not going to live very long anyway, but... Sora forced us to give it back.

[diel]

You… were going to take away fortune from a dying kid…?

[snakeblood]

Everyone's dying. It's all a matter of when. Better us than giving it that nasty ghost heavily possessing him. [ Also said kid is meaner than he is, but Yoonhee's not got the grounds to compare. ]

[diel]

… … … Just because there’s a when doesn’t mean that’s the only option.

[snakeblood]

You're assuming a lot about this situation. He's Sora's client who he's kept alive way longer than he should've been. [ And more, but that's neither here or there. ] We were doing him a favor, bringing up his consciousness back.

[diel]

[ he's talking more about yoonhee's attitude, but there's no point arguing. but somehow, he's settled into an almost easy rhythm with this man. he doesn't like him, but he doesn't hate him. ]

Isn't that natural when I don't have all the details?

[ sora's situation is familiar, but aside from a soft 'oh' he doesn't comment on it much. ]

... You can tell how long someone's supposed to live?

[snakeblood]

[ I can make Yoru hate him pspspsp ]

I can't exactly explain things that you can't see.

Well, the young master was severely haunted, severely ill, burdened by the weight of his ancestor's sins. Life's unfair that way. [ ... ] But hey! Now he's an adult and can even go on dates with his beloved Sora. [ Though gods know how the hell they get on..... ]

[diel]

[ BET ]

Severely haunted, severely ill… Burdened… [ but it sounds like he had people willing to take risks for him. ] What about you?

[snakeblood]

[ well probably not here but later ]

What about me?

[diel]

Are you burdened?

[snakeblood]

Like with what? My inner peace is pretty undisturbed. [ Minus boy trouble, but that's something for Yoru to learn in a few days.... ]

[diel]

But you don’t seem happy…

[snakeblood]

Well, we're stuck in some unknown castle instead of being home... Kinda sucks doesn't it?

[ And there's the relationship trouble, but y'know... ]

[diel]

[ what happened to inner peace ]

I actually thought… we were all brought here to be a family. But I don’t think that’s the case anymore…

[snakeblood]

[ Sorry Yoru, he's going to actually laugh at that like that's the funniest thing he's heard all day... ]

[diel]

[ it makes sense to him, ok!!! ]

H-hey!

[snakeblood]

That's an incredible leap.

[diel]

Not really…

[ yoonhee doesn’t know his family. ]