finer food, but no music

[promittere]

[Well that was...unpleasant, to say the least. Two more deaths, but this time there's the matter of whatever's happening to Seteth as well.

Ignis is trying not to think about it, which means he's thinking about it a lot, which means he spends a few moments pacing and trying to figure out what to do. He thinks back to the party - for as much as you could call it that - that Olivert hosted, and, well... He's not sure how much morale can be boosted, but it's worth a shot, isn't it?

The decorations of the opera house are much simpler this time around, but the food is noticeably better, between the actual operational kitchen and the fact Ignis is much more skilled than Olivert. The food is well made and it even looks delicious from where it's set up, and there's a sign outside the opera house that reads:]

A not as grand feast, for all of us to enjoy.
Attendance is not mandatory, but it might be better than staying alone.

Catered by Ignis Scientia.

[At least there are less rose petals this time.]

Comments

[puperoni]

Yeah it was... really long. I didn't know Suzaku well, but I think I got it, at least a little. [ He runs a bit ahead of Mikami and then turns around to walk backwards in walk step with him. ]

[inordertobelieve]

Memory loss is an awful thing. It doesn't... it doesn't negate his culpability by default, but the element of mind control muddies it further... Usual cases aren't so conflicting.

[ He is concerned Pizza is going to trip and fall, but let's... hope for the best. ]

[puperoni]

[ He seems to be pretty good at this, but this is hard level difficulty because it's so dark out too. ]

It's like a curse, right? Where your body moves on its own and you have no control over what you do...

[inordertobelieve]

Yeah... I suppose we don't know how aware the victim of such a spell is while it is happening. Given that there's no memory... It might just be like something... something other is taking over for you completely while you're unconscious.

It's a nightmare scenario either way.

[puperoni]

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

It really does feel like a nightmare. [ His footsteps have slowed as he looks off to the side. ]

[inordertobelieve]

Luckily we don't have reason to suspect someone in our numbers could do such a thing.

[ Which is meant to be reassuring, even if it reassures Mikami himself very little. Pizza is not as stoic, and he's easily influencable, he needs the comfort more. ]

Hopefully it's over now.

[puperoni]

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

Right, there's no one else who could! So we don't need to worry about it anymore. We just need to be careful of the suspicious people, right?