WEEK 1

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WEEK 1

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Your hosts have come and gone, and have left you with nothing but more questions and a key. Regardless of how you reacted or what you decided to do soon after that, it’s a fact that the day must end eventually.

And so it does, with the striking of the clock. As the twelve gongs reverberate and disappear into the night, the rest of the city is left silent save for a chilly wind that skims the streets. Those who have retired to their assigned rooms will find that the furnishings are decent enough to get a good night’s sleep, while those who wander the city will only continue to see empty streets and fog. But regardless of how you spend the night, eventually it will become readily apparent that dawn will not be coming any time soon as the waxing moon continues to hang in the sky even as the clock strikes six or seven or eight.

No one’s stopping you from wallowing in bed or holing up in a building during this perpetual night, but there’s a whole city out there to check out and some interesting additions to the Opera House decor; don’t forget though, a cage is a cage and every good cage needs its bars. While a portion of the streets and buildings are clear, any intrepid explorers won’t find themselves able to get very far through the fog that surrounds them; anyone who tries to venture through will end up getting turned around and end up right back where they started. Still, there’s plenty of other places to check, even if the fog-shrouded buildings are more or less off limits. Fortune favors the bold, after all.

[[Welcome to Week 1! Feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. You can also now privately contact The Lady or Rembrandt at your leisure!]]

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on the hunt! CW; ANIMAL DEATH

[moonfang]

Before motive, outside the Church
[Zangetsu heads to the church in the morning, but does not go inside. Instead, he sits quietly next to a large puddle of rainwater, throwing out bits of stale bread and potato chips. The poor pigeons are exceedingly confused by the constant darkness, but they have to eat sometime — and it doesn’t take long before they swoop down from the statues and eaves to have a snack.

Just a few at first, but then more and more, until there’s a flock of about ten to fifteen. It’s almost a peaceful scene! Just a weird horned kid feeding the birds.

Zangetsu tosses some bigger crumbs into the puddle, and a few of the birds tentatively hop into it to get the bits.

Which is when the Hollow springs his trap.

He touches a finger to the puddle and the whole thing suddenly turns to solid ice. Most of the birds manage to escape before their feet are frozen in place, but two are not so lucky. They panic and flutter, trying to escape the ice encasing their claws, to no avail]

Heheheheheh. Sorry, birdies. But a guy’s gotta eat.

After motive, Subway station
[After the motive and the meeting, Zangetsu heads out again. This time, in addition to his bag of food scraps, he also has a large jug that looks like it might have once been for milk or juice, filled with water, and a candle. He seems to be heading to the…. subway? And he’s humming cheerfully to himself]

Afternoon, Kitchen
[Not a bad haul, all told. Two pigeons, and two rats. The pigeons were a bit on the thin side, but the rats were big and fat. As much as he wants to just chow down, he knows he probably at least needs to skin them and gut them before he does that. With no healing factor to protect him, he’s not sure he could tank salmonella.

He’s also kind of making a bloody mess, so, sorry about that.

At least it’s a few hours until dinner time?]

outside the church

[raventhaw]

[ her eyes haven't deceived her, have they? this guy....just turned a puddle of water into ice. she stands back, observing him for a moment, and when she sees him snatch two of the birds, raven feels a shiver run down her spine, and not because she's frightened of him. rather... well. that's not important.

what is important is that he was able to transform that water into ice so quickly. after zangetsu catches his birds, raven finally makes herself known. ]

How did you do that?

[moonfang]

[Zangetsu keeps his back turned to her as he pulls the birds out of the ice. He does... something, with his horns, to dispatch the birds quickly. Then he puts the birds in a bag made of some of the priest clothes before turning to face her]

Ah? That little party trick? That was my "gift" from those assholes runnin' this shit show.

[raventhaw]

[ there's something extremely disturbing about this -- it's probably because of her ability to shapeshift into a raven that this is getting to her more than it should. she doesn't let it show though, and she's more than happy to talk to distract herself from the Bad Feelings (tm). ]

So that's what they've given us.

[ that makes a lot of sense, actually. ]

Ice manipulation? Or is it water?

[moonfang]

Well, it's what they gave me. I ain't any idea if everyone got winter wonderland bullshit, or just me.

[he snickers]

Wouldn't you like to know!

[raventhaw]

[ at that, she grits her teeth a little, but otherwise decides not to press any further. ]

Fine. But if you're trying to be secretive about this, just know that I've seen enough.

Kitchen

[inordertobelieve]

[ Mikami is just passing by. Just harmlessly living his life. Just... walking around. He didn't sign up for this mess. He doesn't deserve this. ]

What... what are you doing?

[moonfang]

Oh, yo. I'm cleanin' my kills. [a pause] ... Ain't sure why they call it "cleaning" when it makes such a mess. [he pops one of the pigeon livers out and into his mouth -- raw] Oh well.

[inordertobelieve]

... there is certainly nothing clean about this.

[ He feels mildly sick looking at it, to be honest. His disgust is audible. ]

We are far from running out of rations yet, isn't it a little early to... 'hunt'?

[moonfang]

The rations don't sate me for long. If I didn't have fresh meat, I'd eat everything in this damn building in a day. Besides! It was kind of fun.

[inordertobelieve]

Please exercise some self control....

[ He's just headshaking. This is exhausting, can he move out yet? ]

And please disinfect the kitchen once you're done.

[ Not that Mikami will be trusting the kitchen surfaces again anytime soon. ]

Outside the Church

[noellemadic]

...points for creativity, I guess.

[She sounds so wary about it, like she expects Zangetsu to try to freeze her. Curiously enough, the part of he hunting for pigeons and threatening to eat them doesn't seem to bother her in the least]

[moonfang]

Hehehehehe!

[he dispatches his kills using his sharp horns and places them in a bag apparently made of priestly garments]

Well, they took all my other skills, so gotta make due with what I've got.

[noellemadic]

Is this something you do all the time? Hunt pigeons for food?

[That sounds kind of depressing, all things considered]

[moonfang]

Not that it's any of yer goddamn business, but I usually don't have to stoop to this level, no.

[he huffs and walks past her]

But I'll starve if all there is to eat is dried stuff and canned vegetables.

[noellemadic]

If you didn't want people to pry into your business then you shouldn't be doing this in public.

[Just saying. Noelle stares at the pigeons flying in the sky. Should she...]

Can you get me a pigeon down without killing it? I want to try something...and I don't want to do it with a person.

outside church

[puperoni]

[ ............................ ]

You're really going to eat that?

[moonfang]

[Zangetsu holds up a now dead pigeon by its legs, then blinks at Pizza]

Yeah, I am. What's the big deal? It's meat.

[puperoni]

But its—[ He's a Food Soul and there are some more exotic FS's like Century Egg but... ]

...what kind of dish are you going to make?

[moonfang]

Dish? What makes you think I'm gonna do anything fancy? At most I might put them in a hot pan for a few minutes. But I plan on eating a lot of it raw.

[puperoni]

Won't that make you sick? [ See icon. ]

pre-motive ahoy

[p_q]

Have you already fallen to trying to eat animal souls, a few days in?

[That familiar judgmental stare is, yes, Ulquiorra wall-leaning a few feet away and watching idly -- he isn't going into the church either, so they're a couple of loiterers here fucking around in Rembrandt's front yard or whatever. His eyes are a bit narrowed, following the trajectory of the ice from Hollow to... snack?

Not many have bothered using their powers yet, out of stubbornness or ignorance, but it's not surprising Zangetsu would be throwing his around willy-nilly. Hollows, you know. He shakes his head.

Of course, it's debatable whether anyone can eat souls in a time of suppressed spiritual pressure and ability but too bad. Bad eating habits are getting side-eyed regardless of the nature of them.]

[moonfang]

[Zangetsu rolls his eyes. He has a power. He's going to use it! He's not the type to completely hide his claws, after all]

I'd rather not starve, snap, and tear someone's throat out with my teeth. As fun as that sounds, I only have one pair of clothes, and I don't want them to get covered in one of these poor idiot's innards. Not yet, anyway.

[just eating the souls would be so much easier... he's pretty sure he could mimic Yammy's soul-sucking trick were his powers intact. But no, he has no sensation of the souls around him, no way to extract them even if he could]

It's not like I have anything better to do with my time.

[p_q]

[The reason he hasn't remarked on it is because it's useful, after all. If he has a fool or five out here rushing into every last thing, then he can stand back and observe a little more as he's wont to do. He's always been fully capable of throwing himself into the front lines, but throwing himself is not what Ulquiorra does -- usually.

And so:]

You're still crude. Unfinished, I would say, and so similar to many lower-level Hollows that I would dismiss you if I didn't have some idea of your spiritual pressure, and if these humans weren't even lower in value.

[Of course, that has nothing to do with anything here. And of course there isn't much better to do, yet, but: see Hueco Mundo.]

Is that how you plan to sustain yourself for your entire time here?

[moonfang]

Of course I'm unfinished! Ya say that like it's a bad thing... I have so much growing and learning to do... Though having the traits of a young, growing Hollow is real inconvenient when there's limited food around.

[Stopping would be stagnation. Being "complete" would mean he couldn't keep reaching new heights. He would be happy to be incomplete forever]

Aww. You do care~