week 6

[thecastle]

Week 6

Sunday - Thursday

Another week of misfortune has passed by and while the end result is that there won't be any issues to anyone's existence being altered for the worst, it doesn't mean anyone's celebrating. If anything, the stressful machinations of the recent trial would require some of you to have someone champion some sort of recuperation amongst you in an attempt to relieve the strain. Whether or not its entirely successful in doing so is up to each individual. After all, there are some of you who are naturally able to endure more than others.

There's not even much time for that before the dawn of the next week is upon the castle. As it comes, everything seems quiet, which is understandable, considering that five lives were lost in the previous week.

Of course, the next best thing to focus on would be what's been newly revealed within the castle. It'll help most of you get your mind off of the current situation to an extent—distractions have a way of making that possible. Presuming, by chance, you do find yourself taking a peek at the sakura tree, you'll notice that the buds have started to finally open up. Is it time for spring at last? If so, you might find yourself wishing that the season would suddenly find itself on hold.

SURVIVING WARRIORS: 14

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(OOC: Welcome to Week 6 of Ukimiya! Feel free to comment to the weekly top levels and thread as you like, and redeem coins at the wishing pool.

You can contact the sage with your pendants here, and the teishu here.)

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[thecastle]

You listened to my request, I'm touched.

[irrationalities]

Cut to the chase. What's this all about?

[that was five minutes of his life he could've spent doing something else???]

[thecastle]

You of all landcrawlers should be aware of how much louder it's gotten here lately. But yes, they have messages for you.

Don't interrupt me until I'm done, or this won't work.

[ Right, so there is a lot to say apparently?

But here it is in all of it's glory. ]

[maddogs]

[ furiously scribbles this all down. ]

Thanks Emperor.

[irrationalities]

[Uhhhhhh wow okay, good thing he has an eidetic memory? Because this is a decent amount of text here.

Is that it, can he interrupt???]

[buddyoldpal]

[ Guess who read the part that said not to read it. ]

Awww, Kurosaki-kun wrote ya somethin' nice, pal.

[irrationalities]

[tbf even he would've sideeyed Jin about that bit since it was obvious no one would listen but--

Anyways, he looks a little uncomfortable actually.]

...I wasn't doing it for him.

[thecastle]

[ That's it! But he won't be sticking around too long, try writing those walls of text... ]

[irrationalities]

[Well, still might be worth a try...]

Hey, can you pass on a message for me?

'I lit them.'

[godinsolitude]

[That first poem seems somewhat self explanatory, but the second part.....

Hm....]

Hiyono, can you show me what's he said in writing when you're finished?

[pseudoregelia]

Mm.

[That's the only response he gets as she finishes up her notes, clear and precise. And, once they're all in order...]

All done!

[How's that?!]

[godinsolitude]

Aaah, thank you.

[He reaches for the notes, glancing them over for several long moments before reaching for one of her pens.

Once given, he'll be writing out 'F I N D H I S T R U E N A M E' beneath the second poem.]

Clever.

[fedorascout]

Oh no. I'm going to be haunted now.

[Yeah, he read all the messages, including the last one. But hearing about everyone in the dead side got him in very good mood!]

The poem on top describes our situation, I think...but who is this Frederica Bernkastel person? Someone who is with our deceased people?

[aumygoddess]

That's....that's Rika. She uses that as an alias.

[ scrambling to read this cryptic edgelord poem now brb ]

[fedorascout]

Right. It was a nice poem, if a bit grim.

[So Rika is okay too...nice!]

[devilsphysician]

[He quickly copies it down - and when Hanyuu mentions it - he notes the first is from Rika, and he makes note of the third poem's message for later, then he waits for the Emperor to finish]

There's a space missing between 'what' and the period in Mako's message. It doesn't make sense if the last word there is 'what'.

[originallutece]

It has what . . . what we need? What the Sage is after?

[presomnia]

[She's going to be a good girl and not interrupt but Tiki gives a soft gasp at one signed name in particular and, once the message is all done, starts excitedly pointing at the writing before it fades.]

Do you see? Do you see? Makky said they're okay...!

[where's misora they were just talking about this she wants to show her?!?! she wants to show everybody, this is the first smiling icon i've used all week she's so happy]

[gyakusatsu]

[holy shit, Tiki's smiling again and for that matter so is Misora, so thank you Mako for being a miracle worker?? NOthing's really changed of course -- people are still dead and they're still trapped in a dangerous murder castle, but this takes a weight off her shoulders that she hadn't consciously realized was that heavy.]

I wonder if he heard us after all, Tiki-chan.

[gyakusatsu]

[Christ that's an unexpectedly high volume of text. She'll start writing this down while people are busy squabbling over sky metaphors. Meanwhile, fucking bless Mako for deciding to speak in actual sentences. Hearing that he's alright is also more than she'd been willing to allow herself to hope for.]

So about this last part that Mako left...

There’s the door. On one side, it’s locked tight. The other, covered in darkness. There’s no way inside, even though it has what ▮. But it can only be opened from one side.

This has obviously been censored, though it's not clear to me if it's the Sage, the Teishu or the Emperor that's causing it. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Frowning:] The side that's covered in darkness is probably referring to a space - literal or metaphorical - that's containing the corruption or perhaps the souls of our deceased? No way inside, even though it has what ... looks like a keyhole, perhaps? I did find that black key that doesn't appear to open anything in the castle yet.

On a final note... has anyone worked out who put this castle in the sky? Perhaps the one who cast the spell or whatever was used to do it is the one that we're meant to be cautious of.

[presomnia]

I'm...not sure that we are in the sky...

[which, like, sounds way stupider than it should, but]

Before, I was talking with Kiki [kizakura. please just use the man's name tiki he doesn't deserve this] before about how maybe the reason new parts of the castle just...appear is because it's magic to make an illusion. Stairs look like a wall or the castle's outside looks like an empty sky...

[She allows herself a moment to get all up in Misora's personal space so she can point at a part of what she's written down.]

Hide truth behind clouds and waves. Maybe something else looks like clouds instead.

[buddyoldpal]

Aw, ya know all ya gotta do is ask nice-like, Emperor-han.

[ Sweet-talker. ]

[thecastle]

Charmed.

[buddyoldpal]

Heard ya didn't get along with Sage-chan or Teishu-kun, Emperor-han! Shame, I bet we coulda been pals if we ya were out here instead'a trapped wherever the fuck you ghosts go.

[thecastle]

[ After that wall of text... ]

Only "wherever" because of me.

[ Looks like you're back to disjointed messages, for as short as they last. ]