WEEK 4

[bathymetric]

Another trial, another week, and still you're probably running lower on answers than you'd like. And on people - you lost three since last Sunday. By the end of this week, you'll have been here for nearly a full month, yet still the days crawl on.

You wake up Sunday, again with no memory of Saturday, but this time with a simple message on your devices: You may resume requesting items, if you like. Enjoy. Guess it really was just a stealth motive after all, but at least it's being communicated that it's over! That's something, at least.

And when you leave your rooms on Sunday, there's another new area to explore! This one is... certainly more ambitious in its construction than the last one, to say the least. But hey, you have a pretty neat place to host parties, if you feel so inclined! That's... fun...

Hey, you gotta find the fun in situations like this where you can! Silver linings, right?



SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to Week 4! Remember to turn in AC here, threads for regain coins here, and if you feel so inclined you can visit Angel's office hours over here! ]

Comments

[baitless]

[Well, Seteth sure hates this motive! But the same applies for, well, every other motive, so that’s nothing new. What is new is that he’s decided to embark on a project, apparently. After the meeting, he heads to the workshop, where he’s... making... something? He’s making an attempt, that’s for sure. It looks like baby’s first attempts at training weapons, if you, like, squint. He’d looking really disappointed at his sad attempt at a lance...]

...they both made it look so easy. I really should have asked them to show me a thing or two...

[...even if they do kind of suck, he winds up heading over to the sewing room to try and make sure they’re at least kind of padded. The result looks a bit more like a very sad looking scarecrow than a training lance... but it’s... something. He goes to try it out in the reasonably wide open space of the Area C hallway annnnnd the padded tip keeps falling off. Like. He looks like he would very definitely know what he was doing with an actual spear, but, um, he wasn’t... his brothers were good at smithing, he was the humanities student...

.........he’s just going to give up after a bit and play some Sega Bass Fishing in the arcade again, except he’s having a really bad time of that and just losing a lot, so eventually he just heads to the lounge, where he’s going through his device again and looks... confused about something. Actually, this is probably a good time to ask, so if he sees someone walking past, he’ll look up at them.]

I have something to ask of you. I didn’t want to draw undue attention to my profile beforehand, but I have been curious all this time and no one else has brought it up. What on earth is a... “D-I-L-F?”

lounge

[nothingcanstop]

[ ...Oh. Oh no, oh uh. Della freezes and just looks at him. ]

You mean...you don't...know...?

[baitless]

[oh... now he’s very concerned.]

Oh dear. Is it some sort of horrible insult? That wouldn’t strike me as out of the ordinary given everything else, but...

[nothingcanstop]

Uhhh. [ oh god. oh no. oh no. oh NO. ]

N-noooot exactly, no, it's not, uh... I mean. [ Della just puts her fingers together. ] Seteth. You're a father, right?

[baitless]

...

[you know, he may as well just admit it...]

Yes. Yes, I am.

[...but what does that have to do with it...]

[nothingcanstop]

Okay, so... There's this...expression. Um. Acronym, more like, it's something the, uh, the youth use, all...hip and fresh.

[ oh god kill her ]

Annnd it has to do with a parent, usually...an older kind of person...and finding them, you know...attractive.

[ kill her ]

[baitless]

Oh. ...oh.

[...look he’s out of touch and medieval but he... he can kind of... put it together...]

...

...

Wait, if the Professor is calling me that, then... what on earth does that mean!?

[nothingcanstop]

[ She raises her hands in innocence. ]

I don't know! I don't pretend to know! I don't understand his twisted mind! [ thank god she doesn't have to spell out the acronym ]

[baitless]

...should I ask him at some point, or am I just better off not getting an answer?

[.....he’s very much leaning towards the latter.]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della very seriously looks him in the eye. ]

Live your life in ignorance. It's better that way.

Area C

[bolderfell]

That supposed to be a... boat pole?

[What. What is he looking at here, Seteth.]

[baitless]

[..........he doesn’t look Therion in the eye.....]

...I didn’t want to get out of practice, so I... tried to make a training lance.

[...]

I am... not terribly good with my hands.

[bolderfell]

[...Ah...

Therion hesitates for a long moment, then lets out a weary breath.]

Mind if I take a look at it.

[baitless]

[....

He... hands it over a bit sheepishly...]

Yes. Go ahead.

[bolderfell]

[He examines the padded end for a bit, rotating it to see how it's held on.]

...I might be able to tie it on a little better. No guarantees it'd stay.

[baitless]

Ah, that would be helpful. It... does keep falling apart, so if that happens less often, that would be preferable...

[bolderfell]

All right. Think I've got some twine...

[He goes to sit against the wall and lays the lance across his lap so he can work some string magic on this padding.]

This what you teach at your school, then? Polearms?

[baitless]

Thank you for that.

[He stands off to the side a bit awkwardly...]

Well, most of my duties there are administrative, but I teach seminars on lances and how to lead battalions on occasion.

[bolderfell]

[Whistle.]

Battalions, huh. Guess it really is an officers' academy. You get a lot of battalions willing to listen to students?

[baitless]

More than you’d think, really. Granted, we do have something of a system for picking out battalions that are more willing to work with those who are new to commanding troops versus those who would rather work with more experienced or naturally gifted students, so it tends to go fairly smoothly.

Lounge

[drladysounds]

...would you like me to soften the answer? It's not appropriate for younguns and sensitive people.

[baitless]

...

Is it truly that obscene? I know plenty of them seemed insulting, but none seemed to be quite that bad...

[drladysounds]

It's not so much obscene, more like it makes you sound like you're the biggest romantic catch in the sea right now.

[Technically he is, being the DILF. Congrats, Seteth]

[baitless]

...oh. So it’s simply that the Professor finds me very attractive.

Somehow, I am even less comforted by that than the idea of it being obscene.

[drladysounds]

You think...do you believe he may be planning to hook up with you?!

[Shelley whispers that, completely scandalized, and judging by the way she's holding her hands to her face and has her eyes wide open she thinks it's completely plausible!

stop being attractive to masterminds seteth]