WEEK TWO

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WEEK TWO

23 Villagers

Three people have fallen and a tower has risen. Along with it, some of the restraints on your mind have dispersed and a memory has returned to you - is it precious, is it painful? Is it cherished, is it loathed?

Mercilessly, dawn breaks on another morning. The rooster still calls, and the crops still need tending to. Rise and shine, Puffin Town! It seems like the residents are not the only thing that has chosen to rise, as a few more establishments have opened up for exploration. The sound of moo-ing near the farms may feel especially inviting here - how about making some new additions to your farms, to drown out your loneliness?

There is no festival just yet but if you question the ducks on it, some excited quacking will herald fun things to come later in the week. Some of the ducks will also wave the gift notes from last week; regardless of murder, being kind to your neighbors is still encouraged! Can't let our beautiful town sink into gloom and doom, right?

(( OOC: Murder proposals are due by Tuesday at 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST, for the current week's murder, but feel free to submit for later weeks if you like!

We have also added a page to report your Astera planting - this does not need to have been threaded, we're just taking stock on an OOC level.

Further, the Gift Mechanic has been updated. All turned in threads will now yield a character specific item as a reward! We're only dipping into the random gacha once all personalized rewards have been given out.))

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[liberazoth]

... I mean, I guess so.

I grew up alone. I don't mean with a mother or a father, or with siblings who just didn't talk to other people, or with a neighbor further down the road ... I mean, I grew up in an abandoned house by the river, deep in a forest. No one else lived there. It was just me and Sulpher, as far back as I can remember. There was a village not too far away, but ... Whenever I tried to stop by to try to buy something, they yelled at me and chased me away with rocks.

[ was he supposed to have defended himself? fought for his right to be there? maybe other people might. maybe other people might have yelled back, or stood their ground. he's come around to understanding that some people might just be that way. ]

It was always easier to just ... Remove myself, if anything happened. Before I came to the academy only just a few years ago, those was the only times I ever really saw or dealt with other people.

[revelate]

[Mother, father, siblings. These are all words Noah has never heard before, but in that lack of understanding, he recognizes that Vayne was alone. Noah might consider himself similar, having never had those things himself, but he can't mourn what he's never had. As far as he knows, no one from Aionios is any different.

At least Noah has his friends. People he fights with. People who support each other. Vayne... could it really be that he has nothing at all?]

You can't be blamed for that, I don't think. Having been let down and hurt by others leaves lasting scars. But... why was it that you were treated so callously to begin with?

[liberazoth]

I never really knew. I figured that maybe they were just suspicious of outsiders, and Sulpher never told me; he just said he didn't really understand humans. Professor Zeppel thought it might have been because they'd mistaken alchemy for witchcraft, but really...

When Professor Zeppel mentioned it to me, it was the first I'd ever heard of alchemy.

[ so how could he have been doing the thing that villagers were sus of him for before he knew about it. ]

[revelate]

I can't say I fully understand your circumstances, but I do understand prejudice. It's not uncommon to think less of, or even fear people who are different than yourself. I was the same not too long ago.

I don't know how about witchcraft and alchemy, either. When you put it that way, it almost sounds like alchemy is an intrinsic part of your being.

[So Noah's thinking yeah, maybe Vayne was doing the thing before he knew he was doing the thing. He fails to see where the issue with that lies regardless.]