rose: be prepared

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

Merely out of curiosity, how is Halloween usually observed here? It seems right up the castle's proverbial alley, and I'm wondering if I should invest in a padlock and armaments ahead of time.

[Said with a bored, drowsy sort of sarcasm. But with the unwelcome gusto with which Paradisa began autumn, and having heard and read of various horrors in past years, she's curious – in a vaguely morbid sort of way.

She dictates this from the roof, where she's sitting on a little purple pillow and working on what seems to be the beginnings of a knitting project. Christmas is still months away, but one never knows what disruptions might happen before then.]

((ooc: open to roof or journal!))

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Admittedly some years haven't been bad... I think the first year I was here was actually just silly, if I recall. Things around the castle came to life a bit according to their natures.

But if things do get dangerous, the best idea would just be to leave the castle and go to the outpost, probably.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

I suppose that makes a bit more sense, seeing as how the castle would be the root of the entire problem. The outpost is a great distance away, then?

[payback.livejournal.com]

The outpost... well, there's one in the dead zone, and it might work to escape the 'festivities'. It's far away, but there's a teleporter in the basement.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

A useful option to have in a time of need, I'm sure.

[payback.livejournal.com]

It is, though sometimes the castle makes things more difficult.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

How so?

[payback.livejournal.com]

At times when things are going on, it's impossible to cross into the dead zone.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

Ah. How irritating that must be.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Mm. When we might otherwise wish not to fight, the issue is forced...

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

Just another way of the castle making sure that we have a full understanding of our place here.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder sometimes if some things are entirely the castle's doing. But, well... that's how it goes.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

And if they were not entirely the castle's doing, whom else's would they be?

[payback.livejournal.com]

There's a world out beyond the castle, Rose... it's not empty.

I wish I could really give more than theories.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

I am aware that there are others living beyond our grounds, but their influence over our experience here is something that I haven't heard much about.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I might be in the minority for not blaming the castle for every bad thing that happens. I don't hate it as much as some.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

You do know a great deal more about the rest of the world than the average resident, if my memory serves me correctly? I suppose that with that knowledge comes more objectivity regarding blame.

that icon is very gorgy.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I've been here over three years... so I suppose I can contribute more experience than some others. I also think it's a bit incongruous that some people feel so trapped by this world, I guess. We're always trapped in whatever world we're from, at the mercies of forces there, unable to control everything. This place just... emphasizes it more.

What I'm particularly thinking of with this is events where children were kidnapped... that's months ago, now...

:)

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

The feeling of entrapment perhaps comes from the variety of situations from which residents are taken. Those who are ripped from peaceful times are bound to feel more constrained than those who face peril upon their return.

I was told about that event, by John. The castle seemed to be on your side, if I remember correctly?

[payback.livejournal.com]

It supplied us with a great deal of information about what was going on. Not directly... there are just so many questions with no answers. And it seems things around here sure have changed.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

What sorts of changes?

[payback.livejournal.com]

One of the pieces of information we found seemed to indicate that the castle used to communicate with people in some way... beyond the obscure ways we might say it communicates today.

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

That's... a bit of a disturbing notion. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.

[payback.livejournal.com]

What I wonder is if it used to talk, why did it stop?

[fluthlu.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we simply don't know how to listen to it anymore.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I trust that this place can be direct.