[Locked to Residents]

[malnosso]

[Appearing on the journals is a written message as follows. A voice option is provided for a computerized reading of the text.]

Attention Luceti Residents.

The following names are being called to participate in a strike against the cultist hordes:
[the names listed here appear on the journal.]

All subjects are required to arrive at the tunnels at 8AM on the 27th of March for deployment. All listed individuals are required to be present. Subjects will then be escorted to TERRACE for battle preparation and further details.

Target will be Region One, a former Malnosso stronghold, presently in cultist hands. Subjects are advised to prepare for combat in forested areas. Further information will be made available at TERRACE. Questions and answers will not be provided at this time.

[The Malnosso will not reply to this message, but everyone is free to use this post to discuss among themselves, whether using voice options on the journal or doing action threads.]

Comments

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[rashness]

[So his name isn't on here. Neither is either of the girls'. However, a lot of his other friends are on here. Miyabi, Cloche, Leon, Rogue, Silver, Caius, and others. Most damningly, someone he is personally responsible for - Pillouette - is going somewhere he can't reach. He's going to try to visit all of them he can in the span before they're sent out, and he's also going to ask a special favor of some of the ones he knows are most capable. So feel free to thread that out!! if you want]

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[ribbonbon]

[When Rin arrives, she's still sitting at the small table in her apartment staring at her journal, trying to comprehend being sent off in a battle.

Needless to say, she's terrified.]

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[rashness]

[At Pillouette's apartment he doesn't bother to knock. Or well, he doesn't plan on knocking. But if the door unlocked?!

If it is he just barges right in]

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[ribbonbon]

[When Rin enters, Pilouette looks up at him, unsure of what to say or do.]

Did...Did you see it?

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[rashness]

Yeah! Of course I did! That's why I'm here!
[Perhaps as a result of his slight panicking, he loses the dour tone a bit to enter the mode of something more jumpy. his tail is up right and he's generally looking a little frantic]

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[ribbonbon]

B...But it's not like there's we can do about it, right? I mean...if I try to refuse, it'll just make it worse.

[She looks back to her journal, looking back at the draft list right at her name. Of all the things she has gone through in Luceti, being sent off into a war scares her like nothing else.]

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[rashness]

Like what, the robots? [He begins a space a little in spite of himself, his tail twitching, and his hands going to rest on the sword bundle he perpetually keeps on his back. Yes, he lost to the droids when they took him and Izumo. But he was Surprised then. There's been other times-]

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[ribbonbon]

Yeah. I mean, no matter what I'll do, I'll just have to go anyway, right? There's not really a way to get out of it...

And some of these other names...

[Classmates, some of them much younger than she is. The whole thing is incredibly discomforting.]

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[rashness]

I've beaten some droids before. I could fight to tryin' keep you out of it.

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[implanta]

[When Rin reaches Cloche, she's pacing through her room. She's done battles before. Hell, that's what she had been doing pretty much when she was sent here the first time, and the second time after being sent home. Cloche is no stranger to war.

However, when a few names were missing out of a list she would have preferred? That bothered her a lot. Hence her pacing now. She's not used to being alone in a battle. Even when she had been separated from Croix when Frelia had been coerced into singing Hibernation she had Luca with her, helping her out. It wasn't much, given that both of them were used to having others with them, taking hits for them, making sure that they were unharmed, knowing in turn that their partners would heal them and protect them through singing. But they had at least been together. Now? She was alone. That was more worrying, more terrifying, than anything. Sure, she would have no limits in singing and she could do a lot of stuff! But alone was worrying her. Scaring her.

She may not look as terrified as Pils does, but it's there on the inside. Cloche's face is reflecting it well enough that she's trying to not show it as she paces, trying to think about how she was going to get through this alive, even if it was for a day, it sounds.]

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[rashness]

[Aaaand at Cloche's place she actually knocks. Just because, you know, knocking is more polite here]

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[implanta]

[It's the knock that jars her out of her pacing for the moment, though the blank, million-miles-away stare is still prevalent when she opens her door to see Rin there.]


...Rin?

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[rashness]

Ossu, it's me. I cam to check in on ya', Cloche.

[With a nod and a Determined look. He's trying to be all confident like. IT would be good to be confident in this situation[

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[implanta]

To... check on me? [He probably heard the message, she can guess.]

Oh... thank you. I'm all right. [She thinks, at least. Knowing she'll be leaving in a couple of days is actually weighing pretty heavily on her.

Still, she'll move aside to let him in, if he so wishes. It causes her to break a small smile, actually.] Should I keep quiet on the journals about you coming to my room, Rin?

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[rashness]

Come on, this is serious.

[And he walks in. It's only the living room right now, it's not like it's her bedroom! ...But he blushes a little all the same as he comes in, gives a little unceremonious short bow, takes three steps inside, realizes he didn't take off his shoes, takes a step back, sighs, and kicks them off]

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[implanta]

I--

[The smile that was there before drops and she looks away.]

I know that. I'm trying not to think about it. I'm trying to cheer myself up.

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[rashness]

Then focus on funny things, not embarrassing stuff. [And he reaches out to clap her on the shoulder. Once that's done, he nods and curls his tail a little-] You gonna be okay, Cloche?

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[accepted]

[Having been on drafts before he's used to all the preparation that has to go into getting ready and making sure everything goes well out there. He breaks away from checking over his sword and arm guard to quickly get the door when Rin shows up.]

Are you going too?

[No greeting, might as well jump right to the point since he assumes that's why he's shown up.]

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[rashness]

Naw, I'm not. [With some seriousness, but he's glad that Caius is right on the ball here. He grunts some and curls his tail as he comes to a rest here]

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[accepted]

[A nod.] Okay, that's good. [The less people he knows being forced out there to fight the better, be they capable enough to defend themselves or not.]

So what's up?

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[rashness]

I've got a favor to ask. [His tail curling behind him, he gets up from his breathing a bit harder than normal to look and face Caius head on as he says this next part]

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[accepted]

[He nods again while waiting for Rin to go on. Given the recent announcement and how out of breath Rin is he imagines it's going to be a pretty big favour.]

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[rashness]

'Ve got someone I'm supposed to look after, but I can't go into the draft. I've got someone I want you to look after for me.

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[accepted]

It's okay, I'll protect them and keep them safe for you. You can count on me.

[At that he raises a fist and smiles.] So who are they?

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[rashness]

Ossu, that's what I wanna hear! Her name's Pilouette, and she's this small western girl. She's got blonde hair, and she can't really fight at all. But ... That's why you gotta help me out.