PARADISA LOST

[Yuan and the Peace Patrol]

Hello, and I will get right to the point: I would like to know what's become of the prisoners who were inadvertently freed while we were in Paris. Did they reappear imprisoned in the Dead Zone, or are they still free?

If so, then it goes without saying that we will need to mount some sort of re-arresting effort. I would be willing to help recapture any of them except Legato, who would probably just kill me again.


[Ezio]

If it's all right with you, I'd like to resume my training as soon as possible. I was working with Altaïr before, but as you are his descendant and equally heavily armed I think it's safe to guess that you are at least almost as awesome. In any case I've been letting it go for way too long and I'll need to be in fit fighting shape if I want to do any substantial work in the Dead Zone. What do you say?
P.S. I might bring my moirail along too if that's ok.


[Sollux]

Hey. Do you want to come with me to practice? You don't have to join in if you don't want, but I think you'd probably like it.

[A. backdated to Monday night]

Oh my gosh, have you guys tried this "school" thing? It's great! A little basic, I guess, but it's like a sampler platter of age-appropriate knowledge. They let me take some books home and everything. Oh - and I found out there's a museum! A real museum of history, with, with exhibits and artifacts and anybody who wants to can go! There is pretty much no chance of me not going to that.

But anyway! It didn't seem like there were a lot of residents attending my school! Apparently they keep track of attendance and they called some of your names. Come on guys! I do not want to have to be the "truancy officer." That's a cop who comes to your house and beats you up if you don't go to school. I guess education is serious business on Earth.

If nothing else, come for lunch. They had this stuff called "liver pâté" and it's really good! Not quite as tasty as fried baleworms I guess, but there isn't much that can compete with that. And tomorrow it says dessert is something called "floating island." Does anybody know what that is? Does it really float? [it's unreal the kind of air this dessert is getting.]

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[B. at the same time, but filtered to the residents of SAUCY MANSION #1, minus Sollux.]

Hello to whoever is rooming with Sollux! This may sound strange, but I need your address. The result will be me getting that grumpy kid out of your hair, as I'm sure he is driving you all maggots by now.

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[C. Tuesday morning, action]

[Sollux, something's knocking on your window. It's the crack of dawn, so he's probably still awake, right? There may or may not be a human girl who looks suspiciously like your moirail perched in the tree outside your window, trying to get in.

And if by some chance he's asleep, she'll just start rattling the window until it opens!]

[It takes Aradia a long time to figure out how to say this. There's only one thing she wants to say at all, but it doesn't feel like enough. How do you apologize for something like this? But... she has to try. She'd feel even more terrible if she didn't.]

Um. Good morning, everyone. This is Aradia. I guess I should start out by saying that I am no longer a robot. Just a little status update there.

[Pause...]

Oh, uh, I'm not normally a robot, for those who didn't know me prior to this loss. I was, once, but that's a long story that isn't worth getting into right now.

[She sighs.] I don't even know what to say. I want to say I'm sorry. To everyone I sassed back to, everyone I treated badly... everyone I hurt. And I know I hurt a lot of people. Loss or no loss, there's no excuse for that. Please, if there's anything I can do to make it up to you, let me know. It's far from enough, but I want to at least try to make this right.

I guess... that's all I wanted to say. I can't think of anything else.


[ Action ]

[Aradia will be visiting everybody she can find that she was terrible to over the past month in order to offer personal apologies. Tops on the list are Sollux and the Doctor, but anybody else she spoke to, beat up, or planted subliminal ticking in are fair game too. She may not know all their names, but if she sees them she'll stop them in the hall or wherever. This is important!!]

(Kisses open, but cute/chaste/forehead/cheek only unless otherwise planned please. :0 Gotta give her a little bit of mercy.)

[You are now ARADIABOT, and you do not know where you are.

It's already weird for her to wake up at all, because she doesn't sleep. Ever. Even weirder is waking up in a recuperacoon, in a room that feels kind of familiar but at the same time isn't anyplace she's been before. Or any time, for that matter.

There is a lot of weird stuff in her sylladex, too. Why the hell does she have Eridan's legendary piece of shit gun, for instance? This is useless. She dumps the stuff she doesn't want in a pile on the floor. It is basically all of the stuff.

She's about to dump her journal, too, when she stops. Hm. There's something... odd about that book. Odd, and familiar. She decides to open it and speak, but listeners may notice her voice has an eerie metallic tone to it, as well as a pr0n0unced h0ll0wness...]

is this a j0ke

[The time: just after sunset. The place: a couch in the lobby, because where else does anything happen. For anyone passing by, she is dressed elegantly in a red blouse and sari (which Vivi had to teach her to wear), and her hair is pushed back with a headband.

The sounds of the ballroom casino can be heard faintly in the background as Aradia dictates.]

So is this a holiday, what's going on right now? It wasn't on the calendar. I thought the next one was Halloween. Are we still doing Halloween at all?

... Even the ghosts are all gussied up, but their clothes are totally different from the ones we got. And they still won't talk to me.

((open for journal or in person! :3))

[She can't put this off any longer. Ever since the debacle with Legato, Aradia's been away from the castle (albeit well within Dead Zone boundaries) trying to keep herself busy, with limited success. Finally, though, she has decided to come back and get it over with.]

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