WEEK 2

[bathymetric]

So far, good news! You've managed to avoid killing! A week has passed in the facility, but how many more are there to go until one of you tries out Rule Seven? I mean.... we know, but.

No new areas just yet, it remains you guys and yours here for now. Well, and Angel, but again - you don't exactly see her unless you want to. It's more than a little lonely... maybe someone ought to shake things up.



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[ ooc: Welcome to Week 2, your first case week! Remember to turn in regains here, your AC for last week here, and if you like, come visit Angel's office hours here!

Comments

[baitless]

[Wow, thanks, Professor! He hates this! Immediately after the motive, he heads for the door to the dining area, where he just... okay. He describes a specific food from home, suggests some substitutions, the means of preparation, and... okay. Okay.

A few minutes later, you can find him sitting at one of the tables eating something that looks very suspiciously like a Double Down. It doesn't seem like it helps, given his dour expression, but... you know, that's how depression meals are. You just kind of eat something that seems kind of awful and makes you look like you've given up on life, and you're entirely aware of that.

After the meeting, he decides to go check out the art gallery, which... hm. He hasn't really checked it out before given how much time he's been spending in the library, but he might as well check this out, right? ...he's pretty clearly weirded out by any religious stuff he finds. Man, just wait until he gets a Bible+ outta the vending machine.

Eventually, he just... heads for Room 16... TIME TO RUMINATE, HE GUESSES, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS DAY...]

dining area

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della just. Kind of slides on over here, oh dear. ]

You, uh...gonna eat that whole thing?

[baitless]

[Seteth pauses mid-chew, looks at the double down, finishes chewing, swallows, and stares at it a little bit longer...

...]

It... certainly feels like that sort of day, yes.

[he takes another bite..]

[nothingcanstop]

[ A moment's pause. And-- ]

Want some liquor too?

[baitless]

[...........Seteth mulls it over....]

How strong is it? Most alcohol has little effect on me, unfortunately....

art gallery

[emberserker]

What's got you so interested?

[She eyes the paintings, trying to see what it is he's looking for.]

[baitless]

...Much of the iconography in these is a bit macabre, isn't it?

[.........he's looking at this piece and trying not to add a fancily worded version of "and bizarrely horny."]

[emberserker]

Oh, Saint Sebastian. He's popular in that sort of piece. Honestly, I couldn't tell you what he did to be a sasint, aside from being shot, but it's from a mainstream Earth religion.

[baitless]

...I wonder if I can look up what he was known for, because I genuinely cannot help but be curious about why there are multiple depictions of this specific event.

dining area

[philoxenia]

[ Mood, Seteth.

... She wouldn't have taken him for a Double Down man, but you know, people can be pretty surprising, especially when you're stuck in an underwater hellhole.

Still. She's a little-- alright, she's pretty shaken up if the thing she's been given is true, so tea it is. She'll approach with a pot in hand, as well as two cups. ]

Would you like a cup of tea, Seteth?

[baitless]

[...ah, hang on, he's got his mouth full, just a sec...]

Yes, I would. Thank you for offering, Mira.

[philoxenia]

Of course. It's green tea, if that's alright with you.

[baitless]

Hmmm. I am not sure if I have had that variety specifically, but it never hurts to try new things. It will be fine.

Room 16

[archboxer]

[Someone is waiting for him in the lounge. At least she doesn't drag him this time? Still, Rhea looks very... well. It's been many years since she's probably looked this Upset.]

Seteth, I believe we may need to discuss emergency measures.

[The professor was talking shit about mom and I can't let that stand.]

[baitless]

[...he has an idea of what these emergency measures are going to be and he sighs before nodding. time to figure out... how to get Rhea off her bullshit...]

Very well. Come into my room, then.

[archboxer]

[She does follow him and... gives him her secret. Which, thankfully, is probably no new information since he knows about Byleth.

Seiros founded a cult to revive her mother.]

A cult, Seteth!

[baitless]

...

[he reads it.

AND YOU KNOW HE DOESN’T TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THAT ASSESSMENT, YOU KIND OF GOT HIM THERE, BUT]

The Professor is trying to get to you, Rhea. I am incensed as well, but we have to proceed with caution here.

dining area;

[valentinus]

[ That looked massive and like it was the quickest way to give someone a heart attack, but Seteth sure looked like he had seen better days.

Regardless, he knew that feeling. He was just skulking around himself. ]

Comfort food?

[baitless]

Yes, it is.

[homph gomph.]

Usually I eat my fried chicken or pheasant or what have you like a civilized person, but sometimes eating it this way just feels right...

art gallery

[blackmass]

Is there something bothering you? You seem a bit uncomfortable.

[baitless]

...I will admit, I am surprised by how much of the iconography seems so... openly morbid, what with all the art of men nailed to a cross through their hands and what I presume to be plenty of martyrdom.

[Like yeah the Church of Seiros is also really morbid, but like, there are maybe five people who actually know that???]

[blackmass]

Hm...yes, I suppose it would be shocking to the unfamiliar. Suffering is often seen as an integral part of the faith itself.

[baitless]

I would say that seems pointlessly depressing, but at the same time, I can definitely see that sort of belief ending up popular in Faerghus, so it's not as though it's a completely alien idea.

art gallery

[pimpplan]

You know, there are other places to be if this place is making you that uncomfortable.

[baitless]

That is indeed true. I’ll admit, there’s certainly something a bit fascinating about it all, but it’s still a bit much.