INTRODUCTION

[petoskeymods]

INTRODUCTION

A sound wakes you up, muffled yet somehow near - the sound of a trumpet being played, from somewhere outside the building you're in. There's no fog, no headache as you greet a new day - only the confusion of being in an unfamiliar cabin, lying on top of an unfamiliar bunk bed in somewhere that is certainly not where you last closed your eyes. You're also pretty sure you weren't wearing this outfit before you somehow arrived here - so that's an uncomfortable thought. Yet, the cabin you're in is comfortable, but looking in the steamer trunks near the bunks will only result in finding normal toiletry items and sets of underwear and more of the same strange uniform. Your personal items have been stripped away - well, in the cases they're not absolutely essential for you to live.

Stepping outside, you find yourself in a very forested (and ungodly humid) area, outlooking a wide lake - there's cabins and other buildings next to yours, but the main thing that'll most likely attract attention are the three adults standing out in front of the largest building, bearing the name 'LODGE' on it in large letters. A woman, an older man, and a man in full priest garb, tooting away on a trumpet - your wakeup call, apparently. Just in front of them is a picnic table littered with markers and 'MY NAME IS' nametags.

Maybe you should go and demand some answers? Or will you just decide to explore...and try to find a way out of this weird camp?

Comments

[killtheanimals]

Because I was busy dealing with everyone else hovering around here.

[Sorry Cielo, but there's a lot going on?? Still, he won't bother answering the effects of the spell, instead turning his attention to the wound. It's super gross, but he's seen worse.

This one doesn't even need an incantation. Instead, the bullet simply begins to pull itself out, and quickly at that - he's got no real desire to drag this out. His precision suffers a bit due to visibility and lack of experience with bullet wounds, but assuming nothing interrupts his work, the bullet will eventually pull itself into the air where it will float all nice and bloodily.

Gomen Ren that probably didn't feel real great but at least it wasn't a knife and also it's out now???]

[le_mat]

[Ren flicks his eyes between the two of them: that did sound better than a knife but- oh, yep, here we go. Ren screams around his gag as the bullet plops out and-

-well, night night Renren.]

[velocirainbow]

[ Welp. That works. He'll flick the knife out and sigh. ]

Thanks, I guess. What a mess. I knew it would be a bad idea to just bolt outside de perimeter. War 101, mon. De enemy captures you, dey gonna have defenses. Why de heck dey actin' like dey're our friends, I dunno. But dis just proves dey ain't.

[ ... All right. Tearing up his shirt to cover up the wound and staunch the bloodflow with a fresh bandage. ]

'E taken care of.

[fallbymyhands]

[well, sometime after this exchange]

Excuse me.

[Mitsuru's raises her voice slightly as she approaches, gun (Evoker) in hand]

If you step aside, I can heal him. You'll need to transport him back to his cabin afterwards so he can rest.

[sophistryking]

I see it's so bad that he has to be put out of his misery?

[He doesn't seem to worried though. What you going to do shoot him?]

[fallbymyhands]

Wh--

[SEEMS TAKEN ABACK BY THAT SUGGESTION??]

-- hardly. Why on Earth would you think I'd resort to such a drastic measure?

[see: Evoker]

[sophistryking]

Shooting him again will only do one thing. The bullet has already been removed, we just need to clean to wound and wrap it.

[Really calm about this. He's even reaching out with his right arm to pat her head, you silly you.]

[fallbymyhands]

Shooting him-- I would do no such thing!

[ALMOST OFFENDED THAT HE WOULD THINK SO??]

[sophistryking]

[hahaha time for head pats.]

Guns shoot bullets.

[killtheanimals]

[Mitsuru hadn't even moved yet from his place near Ren's side when Kirijo shows up. Healing sounds like a fine idea to him, but then he lays eyes on the gun in her hand and...

Eyes wide, he staggers to his feet and away. Sorry, but he's no human shield, he is only eleven.]

[fallbymyhands]

[I'M SO SORRY, ASHIKAWA]

[she registers him scrambling away from the corners of her vision, but. there are other people addressing her more firmly, more directly, so her attention for the moment is on them]

[yunolikebugs]

[EXCUSE YOU IT LOOKS LIKE SHE HAS A GUN.

You have a freaked out wild-ish man running after her!]

WAIT! STOP! NO SHOOT REN AGAIN!

[He's shouting from the back of the crowd, so it might take a second for him to tackle her. Doesn't stop everyone else from doing it first.]

[warmyyarny]

Hey, Gokuhara, stop!

[Right, the Evoker...Mitsuru intended to summon her Persona. Kanji didn't realize how this might look back, to those who weren't aware of the true natura of that object.

And then there goes Gonta, to tackle Mitsuru. He tries to reach Gonta -- whether he reaches him before he tackles Mitsuru is a different matter altogether, of course]

[yunolikebugs]

[Yeah, that might be a problem. Gonta is the tallest person in camp and built like a tank.

Are you able to tackle Gonta?]

[warmyyarny]

[Maybe not tackle, but he'll certainly try to slow him down, at least! Cling onto him!]

[fallbymyhands]

[BLESS U, KANJI]

[Mitsuru, being so desensitized to using her Evoker to summon that she doesn't even realize others could misconstrue her intentions, reacts to this with nothing but pure bewilderment. it's Kanji that gives her an opportunity to leap back (with grace that may be surprising of someone as coiffed like her), out of the way of Gonta before he can reach her]

It's a healing spell! Nothing that could harm him, why would you think--

[see: Evoker]

[bladeisme]

-!

[He doesn't tackle her like everyone else, but it's obvious when he places himself bodily in front of Ren, just in case, staring her down.]

And how are you going to do that?

[fallbymyhands]

[OKAY BY NOW SHE'S SORT OF REALIZING THAT MAYBE. . . JUST MAYBE. . . SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE]

[she puffs out an annoyed breath]

I understand we're all strangers here, but is it really so easy to doubt my intentions?

[SEE: EVOKER]

I have an ability which allows me to cast a healing spell. I don't know how powerful it will be here, but it should be enough to close up his wound.

[soylentprotag]

[He's been keeping quiet and loosely staying at his station by Ren up until Mitsuru (short) actually did his thing -- Lenka braces, carefully, before stepping back a little to let everyone breathe and to get a little distance himself. The smell of blood is familiar but still unpleasant, overpowering in close quarters.

So when Mitsuru (tall) steps up, Lenka just blinks at her and the gun (gun) in her hand, not registering the connection between that and healing. He does step between her and Ren for the moment, though.]

I think you should put down the gun first. If he wakes up with a gun next to him...

[That's apparently the important thing here.]

1/2

[fallbymyhands]

[Lenka says "gun," and for a moment, Mitsuru's gaze narrows]

I'm not carrying a--

[and]

[she glances down at her gun (evoker)]

[fallbymyhands]

[and exhales sharply as it all suddenly clicks into place. right. she's only ever summoned in front of people who knew what this device is. of course she didn't even think that whipping it out in front of a bunch of strangers would be. . . uh. concerning]

. . . this is my Evoker. It will allow me to summon the Persona I need to cast a healing spell.

It's harmless, I assure you.

[soylentprotag]

[He looks between her and her gun (Evoker?), looking a little nonplussed at the way she doesn't even seem to have connected the weapon in her hand with its appearance. Camp really is the strangest place he's been yet.]

... Okay.

[He's just seen Mitsuru (short) pull a bullet out with no hands, after all. He has to give whatever they're calling spells and magic now some credit, even if he doesn't understand half of what she's just said. She seems like she knows what she's doing. Still--]

Can you do it from a little distance? I think it'd be safer.

[For both patient and caster, honestly.]

[fallbymyhands]

[. . . probably, but. . . well, there's no harm in obliging]

If that's what it takes.

[and she steps back a bit, gaze flickering towards Ren, before she finally lifts the gun (evoker) up and presses the barrel neatly against her temple]

[velocirainbow]

[ ... The gun makes him really suspicious but it's the girl from before. And she seemed together. He's on-edge, though. ]

Jus'... you better have a good reason why you wanna be near 'em wid a gun after he jus' got shot. You sayin' you can heal him, and I believe you--I could too, if I'd switched me Mantra skills, but... I didn't think to, so now I can't.

[fallbymyhands]

I'm not going to harm him.

[she reiterates, just as firmly as the first time. by now, she's sort of realized what the problem is, so that's good!]

This device may look like a gun, but it isn't a weapon. It's a catalyst to help me cast the healing spell I need to help him.