01 - Audio & Action - take your pick! Phone call or gun to the face...

[swooshycape]

[audio]

[ Vincent isn’t normally one to just try calling out of the blue, but he really wants some intel on this place - enough that he is willing to at least try, even if he is quite suspicious of, well... everything about this place. ]

Where is this? And to whom... am I speaking?

[ His voice is deep and quiet and mostly toneless - though there is a dark edge to it. He wants answers, and he expects to be given them. However, he has one last thing to add... ]

Yuffie, if this is your doing... [ ... well, if she’s listening, he’s pretty sure she can imagine the unspoken threat. ]


[action]

[ But even as he waits for any sort of response, Vincent doesn’t keep still. Instead, he carefully explores the mansion, moving quietly as he swoops down hallways, checking rooms and keeping to the shadows. You wouldn’t expect someone in a red cape to be particularly stealthy, but he manages it very well - unnaturally so.

However, stealthy or not, he is expecting a fight, so if he opens the door to a room someone is in, his gun is out and aimed right at them. ... really, he’s too used to a world where every space that isn’t a town or city is crawling with hostile wildlife. Don’t worry, though. He won’t shoot on sight. .... probably.

But you’d also better be careful if you meet him in a hallway - or more likely, he sneaks up behind you - as he is armed and dangerous and isn’t the friendliest looking person...

In either case, he won't waste time in asking questions. Unless he's already had the basics from someone else, in which case he'll probably lower the gun if he's sure you're not a threat. ... probably. ]

Comments

[cetra]

[ Sorry to disappoint, Valentine, but those closets are pretty harmless. Well, depending on what's being asked for. For example, if someone summons a rampaging rage lizard that could possibly eat people. ]

They'll give you whatever you want. Within reason. [ Because magical gift giving closets are so reasonable. ] You just open the doors with whatever you want in mind and it'll be there for you.

You can't actually summon a person, but you can get yourself a pet! [ She has a tiny kitten of her own, courtesy of an angel who popped in and handed it to her one day. Good times. ]

[swooshycape]

... is having a closet bring more living beings here really... a good idea?

[ He doesn't object to pets, but... where do they come from? Can the closet create life? Or is it pulling kittens and puppies from some other world? ]

[cetra]

[ That's something she's never considered. The closets have no explanation behind them whatsoever, other than 'Magic!'. ]

Hmm, probably not. Nobody's really sure how they work, so there's no telling where they come from or even what they are.

[ Hey, who knows? Maybe the place is giving kittens but they're really some kind of killer cat. Aerith really wouldn't put it past the mansion. ]

Otherwise, it provides most of what we need. It's useful, but I actually miss going to stores and actually interacting with people.

[swooshycape]

I suppose... currency isn't much use here...

But... I suppose others here could always... set up an exchange...

[ Part of the nice thing about stores, after all, is finding things you didn't realize you needed or wanted or that you forgot about until you saw. Like going to the grocery and remembering you needed milk when you just went in for eggs. ]

[cetra]

I haven't had to use any of my gil here. I actually just have it laying on a dresser in my room right now.

[ Not that she's tried to buy anything from the vendors - they're a little strange. She likes her vendors to be friendly! ]

There are vendors outside, but there's something a little off about them. I've only been down there once.

[swooshycape]

What do you mean... off?

[ As in... they're secretly monsters? They're robots and uncanny valley? Or just... strange? ]

[cetra]

[ Their lack of faces tend to add to that whole 'off' aura they exude, but Aerith's only really seen their masks. ]

They don't really talk much. [ Hey, she's a talker, and she's used to merchants actually trying to sell things to her. ] That, and they seem to just be there all the time. They don't really interact with anyone up here.

[ Not too big of a worry, just something that rubbed her wrong. ]

whoops I forgot to tag this before sorry

[swooshycape]

... I see.

Perhaps I shall... go meet them another time. They sound... strange.

[ He wonders if they are robots or something. ]

it's cool!

[cetra]

They are.

[ Aerith sounds very certain of that fact, and determined to push aside the unpleasant thought of the vendors aside, she folds her arms over her chest, smiling at Vincent. ]

I guess it's time to take you on the grand tour then! Come on, let's start on this floor and work our way up.

((OOC: Want to just handwave the tour at this point?))

[swooshycape]

[ A chill runs down his spine...

Not really, but he nods and prepares to follow her and well... just listen to her chatter. He's sure she has plenty to say about this place, after all. ]


(( fine by me! ))