At least there's no elevator music...

[thespaceopera]

[At least two weeks have passed since the Drift Fleet passengers woke up on this strange wing of the Marsiva... Some new passengers have even joined the group instead of being Shuffled off to a fleet ship! The large monitor in the central room remains quiet for now, so how is everyone holding up?

Have you been relaxing? Enjoying the Earth media? If you can even remember them, how have Calibrations been treating you? Has anyone started getting a little stir-crazy?

Don't worry... This ship has no shortage of mysteries, and you'll be seeing a few more soon.]


ooc: here's another mingle for the current game event! players can start or continue threads here from any point during the event. the additional setting information is still being postponed due to sickly mods, but y'all are welcome to post additional topcomments for reactions and investigation once it's up!

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[multiglyphs]

[ perfect. ]

That kind of drive and dedication must come from somewhere. Do you have a background in combat?

[save_the_souls]

Ah...

[He rubs his neck]

Well, yes. I'm an Exorcist- er, I fight...demons? [Or something close to them anyway] Not that there's much work for that out here.

[multiglyphs]

[ blink.

blink blink.

not wanting to look too out of her element, weiss just. likens his "demons" to her "grimm." ]

We have something in common, then. [ ... ] To an extent, at least. Of course, I doubt I'll have to deal with any Grimm here, but it's always nice to be prepared, right?

[save_the_souls]

A Grimm?

[He blinks, curious. Also, so seizing a chance to know something about this girl]

What's that?

[multiglyphs]

[ ah, right. prepare for a mini info-dump, allen...! ]

Grimm are soulless creatures of darkness in my world. It's the job of a Hunter and Huntress to eliminate them. I'm currently attending school to become a Huntress, though I've been training for years now.

[ though she certainly doesn't look like she should be going out and fighting monsters... let alone look as if she were even capable of it. ]

[save_the_souls]

Really? Wow...

[Honestly doesn't sound too different from Exorcism. and he's not about to judge her looks. He's seen a lot of fighters in all shapes and sizes]

I didn't know any worlds had schools for that sort of thing.

[multiglyphs]

Battling Grimm... I can't say it's something that just anyone should do. Though certainly you can always train on your own, but there's something to be said about the structure of an academy to really enhance your knowledge as well as your skills.

[ aka she's a nerd ]

[save_the_souls]

[Luckily for Weiss, Allen agrees with that sentiment. He's encountered a lot of trouble from self-taught demon hunters in his time in this place]

Yeah...it sounds like it would be really helpful.

In my world, there's not enough Exorcists to build a school, but...all of us have to go under an apprenticeship before we earn a full title.

[multiglyphs]

[ she nods along, eager to learn more about her peers here. ]

Can anyone in your world become an Exorcist? Or is there a special skill someone has to possess?

[save_the_souls]

[He shakes his head. But man is he also glad to have a chance to talk about it. Even if it's another world- A colleague!!]

Not anyone, no. You have to be able to use a special kind of weapon- and that weapon chooses its wielder?

Unfortunately, it's very picky. So Exorcists are rather rare.

[multiglyphs]

[ like-minds!! ]

I can see why it would be a bit of a trial to advance. Similarly, Hunters and Huntresses must have the ability to tap into their Aura — which is just a fancy way of saying a manifestation of the soul, really — in order to be effective against the Grimm. But there are quite a number of those capable. Of course, each Semblance is unique.

[save_the_souls]

That's fascinating...

[Honestly, it sounds like a mix of a keyblade and Innocence- except maybe more of them since Keybladers seem rare too]

What's your Semblance?

[multiglyphs]

Oh—

[ as if she'd been ready for this question, weiss makes an idle gesture with her hand — nothing more than a flick of the wrist, really — and suddenly there appears a large, glowing white glyph hovering just a behind her. with another flick of her wrist, it burns black in color.

a few seconds later, she drops her hand, and the glyph disappears. ]

It's much more impressive in action, I assure you. [ but she's a bit hesitant to use them to their full capacity in such a small space.

she sighs a little, arms folding under her bust. ]

Unfortunately, I'd woken up here without my sword and Dust.

[save_the_souls]

[Wow she really was prepared with that one. But still, he looks impressed- it's pretty like a snowflake]

I believe you! It looks great!

But...ah, yeah. They tend to take weapons from people if they can.

[multiglyphs]

[ she's been practicing her semblance for so long, it's practically second-nature by now, tbh... ]

It's a little suspicious, isn't it?

[save_the_souls]

A little. I know I'd really like my own sword back myself.

[It belonged to someone important. Sure, he managed to find a replacement on another planet, but he still wanted that sword back]

On the other hand...as a medic, I'll admit it's a little relieving to not have so many weapons around.

[multiglyphs]

[ a lab support augment, perhaps? weiss takes care to file that little bit of information away. ]

I should hope anyone who has a weapon would know how to wield it... [ she pauses a little. ] Unless you mean in-fighting. Is that a problem here?

[save_the_souls]

[A lab support and a medical student. You're away from your homeworld as long as he's been, and you start to realize there's only so much Exorcism work to be had away from your world, really.]

In-fighting, yeah.

I haven't noticed it here as much, but it was a regular problem in the last place I was in. A lot of the injuries I treated came from just that.

[multiglyphs]

[ she pauses at that, eyes widening slightly. in a hushed tone, she asks: ]

This isn't your first time either...?

[save_the_souls]

Ah-

[He was about to answer that as he normally does, then he catches that last word]

- Either?

[multiglyphs]

[ her lips purse tightly, expression grim. ]

I was somewhere else, before this. A few months, at most, but... [ a sigh. ] I suppose it could have always been worse.

[save_the_souls]

Really?

[That makes him frown with interest. Another person taken by these worlds. How many were there...?]

Which place was that? I was at Paradisa.

[multiglyphs]

[ she raises her brows. the word has no meaning for her, but she has to wonder just how often this happens... ]

I was taken to a place called Cerealia. Supposedly somewhere in space, as well, but the hosts then were nice enough to inform us all that our own worlds had been previously destroyed.

[save_the_souls]

I've...never heard of that place.

[He frowns]

But that's not the first world I've heard make that claim. Was it true?

[multiglyphs]

Perhaps for the best. [ it wasn't an inherently terrible place, but she still wouldn't wish such an inconvenience on anyone. ]

As for the claim, there was no way to really know for sure. The authorities would insist, of course, but I'd spoken to people who've been able to go back home for a time, only to wind up back in Cerealia.