MOCK ROUND INTRO LOG

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Welcome to Rokkenjima. This island may just be a copy in the middle of reformation, but the Witch extends her greetings all the same. Please, relax.

This game is just a trial run, but please do not think you can sleep through this. The Witch fully intends to put the system through its paces, so please put up a good fight.

The difficulty level depends on you. Think deeply on your moves during this short play time.

You wake with a start - even if you don't remember falling asleep in the first place - and find yourself standing on the dock of what looks like an island. There's a noise behind you - and if you turn to look, you'll see a plain white boat taking off and leaving you all behind, not stopping for a second if you try to flag them down or scream at them.

It doesn't look like you can swim to shore, either - there's nothing but sea in all directions, and something tells you trying to swim out will end up badly. However, a small dip, if you were so inclined, would be fine. It's not like the weather is bad for it - it feels like it's summer, despite whatever it was when you laid eyes on the envelope.

...Speaking of, Every last one of you have an envelope in your hands, with a gold letter 'L' on it. It's the same letter you were reading before you 'woke' up here, after all. More than that, those of you who had supernatural or magical abilities will feel...strange, as if your abilities are being forcibly blocked. Try as you might, you just can't use them - though all of your physical abilities are intact, of course.

If you decide to head up the path, you'll find Goat....men? waiting for you near the doors to the mansion. Despite their bright red eyes, they merely bow politely and wordlessly bring you into the mansion, showing you your rooms and then stating that they will prepare food for you or anything else you should need whenever you want, in surprisingly deep voices.

As they leave, you can't help but wonder...

What did you just get yourself into?


Mock Round Calendar!
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[artificialhighness]

To bring salvation to robots and humankind.

[She absolutely said that with a straight face and perfectly serenely.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Vanitas is... going quiet for a while now. It would seem something she said has him going thoughtful. ]

How do you plan to do that?

[artificialhighness]

[She lets him keep his quiet until he's ready to let go of it.]

I heal, and save from Ruin. I grant eternal life to all beings.

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Uh. . . huh? ]

Eternal life...? How?

[artificialhighness]

[Welcome to Robot Hell 301. There will be a quiz.]

In our time, robots and humans have found the way to immortality. I am simply a healer who keeps them on that path.

[enter_the_darkness]

[ HE DIDN'T BRING ANYTHING TO TAKE NOTES???

The body language might be the giveaway: he's somewhat... torn... by this concept. ]

And that makes you happy?

[artificialhighness]

[Get it memorized, helmet head.

She just watches curiously as he struggles with it. It's not exactly a controversial concept where she comes from. For the most part. As with many things, the minority dissents loudest.]

Happiness...? I suppose, if fighting the dying world and pulling life from it must be named, then happiness is as good a word as any. I prefer to name it beauty.

[enter_the_darkness]

[ What an interesting response.

He's quietly studying her for a moment, and then he's shaking his head. There's a bitter-sounding 'heh' slipping out. ]

Sounds like something he'd've been interested in.

[artificialhighness]

[She doesn't seem put off by the bitterness or the watching.

Bitterness, after all, isn't all that uncommon when it comes to those in her life. It might be a more constant companion than you'd expect.]

... Someone you knew?

[enter_the_darkness]

[ He's quiet for several seconds... ]

You could say that. [ . . . ] He's someone too soft, too weak, too pathetic to waste my breath actually talking about, though.

[artificialhighness]

Ah. And yet I know more of him than I know of you.

[It’s not completely pointed in her quiet voice, but, well. She can’t help it.]

[enter_the_darkness]

[ . . . ]

So you do. [ quiet snort ] What do you even wanna know?

[artificialhighness]

A name is not a bad place to start. I am Luna.

[enter_the_darkness]

... Vanitas.

[ How... How does this introduction stuff really work? ]

You said start, though - what else?

[artificialhighness]

[Introductions are fake, honestly. But she's kind of slowly picking them up since she got landed here.]

You seem to not understand my purpose, so I wonder, what is yours?

[enter_the_darkness]

[ HOO BOY, is that a loaded question. But, for now, it'll just be answered with something liiiiiiike-- ]

To help my Master achieve his goal of restoring balance.

[artificialhighness]

Restoring balance. To the world? It's a good goal.

[enter_the_darkness]

Restoring the balance of light and dark.

[ Which is different than restoring it to just one world, even if he won't say that. He nods. ]

He created me as part of the plan. And, as soon as I'm out've here, I'll be able to go back to helping with it.

[artificialhighness]

Light, and dark? Is that also a part of magic?

[She's aware of the philosophical connotations, but Vanitas doesn't seem like the sort who would be fighting for a mere abstract concept. Hmm.

The other possibility is just that the witch likes a majority-magic mayhem community.]

I, too, have to get back to my mission. But I am hoping being here will contribute.

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Heh, well... ]

In the case of the latter, it's what I'm made entirely of.

[ That's a Great Conversation Contributer, surely. ]

[artificialhighness]

You do look very dark.

[It's not quite dry, but she does look Vanitas over a little pointedly.

She may be a robot from the post-post apocalypse but it is pretty easy to spot a goth even in the XXXXth century or whenever Casshern Sins takes place.]

What does being darkness mean?

[enter_the_darkness]

[ It's okay; KH details are a joke, too.

The helmet really sells it, tho, doesn't it? ]

Negativity extracted from a person.

[artificialhighness]

[They are fellow helmet stans and it is all very touching, except for the part where we have no idea if the rest of her head exists under the helmet. It probably does. Let's pretend it does.

The point is: the helmet is important.]

... I see. Who were you extracted from?

[enter_the_darkness]

[ Super important.

His voice is laced with all kinds of bitterness, even as he says the name: ]

Ventus.

[artificialhighness]

[Ah. Even the names are similar, though she doesn't say that -- merely turns it over in her thoughts, because what a strange world. She is still Luna, even as she is not Luna; but then, she never was just Luna, was she? It's almost a confusing as Kingdom Hearts.

Almost, but not quite.]

How strange. Does extracting darkness from a person not upset the balance?

[Your master has a weird way of going about things, bruh.]