[ it's not a feeling she's unfamiliar with, but it's weird to feel yearning when no one's managed to completely charm her yet. there are still only so many places anyone can be, so it's inevitable they'll cross paths eventually.
lambda may not be the best at understanding others' feelings, but she knows her own, so when that weird kind of yearning eases as she walks past zelda, she freezes. ]
[ when zelda wakes on monday morning, it's like a small voice calls out to her from the depths of her heart. "come to me," it seems to say. "find me."
there is only one person zelda has ever wanted to be beside this badly, and as she has already painfully been made aware of, they are not here. so... who is it that beckons her now? though she's able to set it aside for the time being, the thought continues to nag at her as she leaves yuneyuze's warehouse and goes about her day.
(somewhere in the back of her mind, she also thinks this is a little weird, because usually she's the one who broadcasts vague and mysterious soul messages from an unknown place. these past couple of weeks have been all about role reversal.)
she's not even really paying attention to her surroundings when she becomes aware of lambda and feels that pang. she doesn't need to be the avatar of wisdom to know this is who she needed to find. ]
Again, I understand the sentiment. But... perhaps we can see if spending even just a little time together will ease the burden for a little longer.
[ i'm gonna say we're in (spins wheel) the canals, so zelda begins walking toward the cathedral. despite its huge size, it doesn't seem like anyone is in here right now, whether player or mysterious shadow person. the convenience of pcs.
she takes a seat in a pew at the very back of the church, leaving space whether lambda chooses to sit next to her or not. simply being in the other girl's presence puts her at ease, even if the atmosphere itself is awkward. ]
Though I'm sure we already know a little about each other from the Data application, I still feel like I should introduce myself, as I don't think we've properly spoken before. I am Zelda, of the team Yuneyuze.
[ there is the briefest of pauses when they near the cathedral, as a faraway memory flashes through lambda's mind, but she enters the church with no problem.
lambda stays standing for now. she does not have enough kindness to make it less awkward. ]
You're the proper type. You can call me Lambda or Lambdaryllis. [ she refuses to say her shitpost of a team name. ] Is there anything else you wish to know?
[ zelda is vaguely video game catholic and potentially the reincarnation of god herself but it's fine. ]
Lambda... is that what the symbol in your name stands for? I'm not familiar with the script. It's a little odd that only the one character is preserved in its original text.
One of mine mentioned being in the Outer Park... the other didn't give us a concrete answer. [ beat ] That at least accounts for the locations of six of our number, if no one changed their minds last minute.
I think we all could. That we're being forced to play this cruel game and follow its rules at all... it sickens me, but we cannot afford to abstain from playing, either.
Even if we're being lied to, and we are simply playing at a villain's cruel design... if there's even the smallest grain of truth in the reward that's been promised to the victor, I cannot give up my chance to return home and fulfill my destiny.
[ i just now realized i forgot to mention this but the master sword is here too. zelda is clutching it along with blahaj. fi would be honored to be beside such a majestic creature. ]
[ zelda is so valid to bring the master sword. lambda probably only glanced at it when zelda came with it. sometimes, you're around too many people with huge majestic swords of legend. ]
Would you do what you could to secure your chance at winning?
[ never mind that she almost killed an npc during minievent and proceeded to ignore him as he bled out before gerard vorehealed him. i hate that that's a sentence i just typed. ]
zelda stiffens a little when lambda invokes ygf's name, but she shakes it off. she has no right to react as much when lambda was the one to erase her. after a short pause, she rises to her feet and makes her way over to the bed lambda has claimed for the night. ]
She made sure to remind us. [ ... ] Erasing another Player isn't the only way to earn points. Ultimately, the goal of this game is survival, and I don't intend to so brashly squander her gift.
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lambda may not be the best at understanding others' feelings, but she knows her own, so when that weird kind of yearning eases as she walks past zelda, she freezes. ]
No.
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there is only one person zelda has ever wanted to be beside this badly, and as she has already painfully been made aware of, they are not here. so... who is it that beckons her now? though she's able to set it aside for the time being, the thought continues to nag at her as she leaves yuneyuze's warehouse and goes about her day.
(somewhere in the back of her mind, she also thinks this is a little weird, because usually she's the one who broadcasts vague and mysterious soul messages from an unknown place. these past couple of weeks have been all about role reversal.)
she's not even really paying attention to her surroundings when she becomes aware of lambda and feels that pang. she doesn't need to be the avatar of wisdom to know this is who she needed to find. ]
...Do you feel it too?
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lambda, at least, is great at keeping her composure when it doesn't deal with her two or three very intense hobbies or interests. ]
I do, and I don't like it. [ ... ] It's not a feeling that should come about this way.
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[ they can separate. ]
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[ leave it to her to not mince words... ]
We should probably find somewhere a little more private, before anything else.
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I'm not fond of feelings forced onto me.
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[ i'm gonna say we're in (spins wheel) the canals, so zelda begins walking toward the cathedral. despite its huge size, it doesn't seem like anyone is in here right now, whether player or mysterious shadow person. the convenience of pcs.
she takes a seat in a pew at the very back of the church, leaving space whether lambda chooses to sit next to her or not. simply being in the other girl's presence puts her at ease, even if the atmosphere itself is awkward. ]
Though I'm sure we already know a little about each other from the Data application, I still feel like I should introduce myself, as I don't think we've properly spoken before. I am Zelda, of the team Yuneyuze.
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lambda stays standing for now. she does not have enough kindness to make it less awkward. ]
You're the proper type. You can call me Lambda or Lambdaryllis. [ she refuses to say her shitpost of a team name. ] Is there anything else you wish to know?
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Lambda... is that what the symbol in your name stands for? I'm not familiar with the script. It's a little odd that only the one character is preserved in its original text.
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It is. Something for brevity, perhaps, but that's how it's stylized for me back home, too. It's the least that could be carried over.
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We're from the same world. It isn't something I'm unused to.
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I'm sorry for your loss, and the role you were forced to play in it.
[ her words are genuine. ]
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There's nothing to be done about it.
[ and it's nothing that she isn't used to. ]
w1, thursday curfew
. . .
she takes a seat on one of the display beds. ]
Apparently people weren't keen on having a repeat of last week...
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[ she sits on one of the other display beds. ]
Novelty over comfort, or something like that.
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zelda loosely wraps her arms around the shark. ]
Good point. We should expect Eiffelffe to be crowded this week, then...
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One of teammates said she'd be at the tower with the person they're connected to, and another said she'd be at the museum.
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One of mine mentioned being in the Outer Park... the other didn't give us a concrete answer. [ beat ] That at least accounts for the locations of six of our number, if no one changed their minds last minute.
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[ since they can reasonably guess someone's killing from the locked doors.
she sighs. ]
I could do without another trial.
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[ that's an option. it's not a great option, but it is one. ]
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Even if we're being lied to, and we are simply playing at a villain's cruel design... if there's even the smallest grain of truth in the reward that's been promised to the victor, I cannot give up my chance to return home and fulfill my destiny.
[ i just now realized i forgot to mention this but the master sword is here too. zelda is clutching it along with blahaj. fi would be honored to be beside such a majestic creature. ]
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Would you do what you could to secure your chance at winning?
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[ her grip on the sword's hilt tightens. ]
...truthfully cannot answer that.
[ never mind that she almost killed an npc during minievent and proceeded to ignore him as he bled out before gerard vorehealed him. i hate that that's a sentence i just typed. ]
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the way i was so tired yesterday night i couldn't keep up with any thread other than my own and just ran to read about vorehealing ]
You will not give up your chance, but you aren't sure if you're willing to secure it. You at least have the buffer that Yang Guifei gave your team.
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zelda stiffens a little when lambda invokes ygf's name, but she shakes it off. she has no right to react as much when lambda was the one to erase her. after a short pause, she rises to her feet and makes her way over to the bed lambda has claimed for the night. ]
She made sure to remind us. [ ... ] Erasing another Player isn't the only way to earn points. Ultimately, the goal of this game is survival, and I don't intend to so brashly squander her gift.
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It is about survival, but the reward isn't for everyone who survives.
[ but she knows it's not as easy for some to remove a life. she knows enough that some people prefer to save than to take. ]
It makes no difference to me how you choose to earn your points.