Mesdames et Messieurs, Voilà, C'est Vous

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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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jiiii

[diel]

[ yonhee’s words… that meme of the two pictures - what’s the diff? ]

Eh? Is that bad? They’re still people.

[ as for why it happened, idk furries i guess ]

[snakeblood]

That's not happening over where I'm from. [ It's not really a judgement. He's a little curious. Unfortunately, he's more into bugs but let's not get into that ... ]

[diel]

[ probably not a good idea to say it must have happened a little if yoonhee has eyes like that. plus the cold-blooded part. plus all of that being a family trait…

but yoru will keep these thoughts to himself. ]

Where are you from then?

[ right, cain had mentioned different worlds. ]

[snakeblood]

South Korea. Isn't my name a give away? [ Nevermind there's Yuri... Sora. They don't matter. ]

[diel]

[ he’s wearing a changshan and his name is yoru. his canon is a mixed bag. ]

Not necessarily?

[snakeblood]

It's not???

[ Look. Before whole thing before this he hadn't left the house for 3 years. ]

[diel]

[ someone’s who is even more of a loser than yoru… ]

Isn’t it rude to assume anyway?

[snakeblood]

Dunno. I don't meet foreigners. [ They're not really the clientel base and all. Also he doesn't care about being rude.... ]

[diel]

Well… I can’t really say anything about that. I don’t talk to a lot of people either…

[snakeblood]

Clients come to me, but this is a limited capacity. [ And they all talk about themselves and their problems, blah blah blah. Other people do investigating. ] I need to keep my sanctity anyway.

[diel]

[ for a moment he thinks yoonhee meant to say sanity and not sanctity. his lips quirk just the faintest bit. ]

So they come in and you give them a couple of minutes before kicking them out?

[snakeblood]

Gods, I wish. Some of them go on and on. [ Like that damn Joo Eunhae. ] Crying, getting mad, crying, getting mad, repeat again. Gotta let them go on though.

[ That's generous to think he has sanity, ty. ]

[diel]

Oh, you mean they’re dramatic. I know someone like that… If you don’t like it, why don’t you… um, have them fill out a form instead?

[ seems like an easy fix. ]

[snakeblood]

We do have clients fill out a form before we see them. It's pretty long. [ And uh, very invasive. ] They have to be completely honest.

[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.