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Bradley Bain ([personal profile] battling) wrote2022-06-04 08:41 pm

suitedreams: Hope

i can't believe he got tall
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-05 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ hope's mostly browsing around, not really expecting to find anything too useful. when he hears bradley's voice, though, he straightens up... and immediately startles. ]

What happened to you?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-05 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
The ones representing the..."overseers" of our respective games? [ he frowns ] Rather, the ones who played the same role that the Dorm Heads did at Wiwaldi.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-05 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ hm. Concerning! ]

What were you doing in the courtyard? Did you do anything to incite them, or did they attack unprovoked?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-05 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
No, they seemed to just be statues.

Did the bees come from inside the statues, or did they seem to be summoned?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Are you suggesting that the hotel itself is a sentient entity?

[ ... ]

I suppose we can't exactly discount that theory at the moment.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
I agree. [ beat ] Er, do you want to take care of your stings?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, even if we did retain powers here, I lost mine several years ago. [ sad. :( ] ... If we don't find anything to use in here, the least you could do is try running water over the affected areas.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Not directly, but... the two are related, in a way.

[ ...he doesn't elaborate further. ]

To the kitchen, then. There should be a sink in there.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'd... rather not talk about it.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's looking a little uncomfortable now... but he shrugs it off. luckily, he's given a distraction in the form of the fact that they need to pass through starshine's in order to access the kitchen. ]

A full restaurant... I imagine it operates similarly to the cafeteria we had at Wiwaldi.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
There's no daily menu... do you just ask for whatever you want?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That... is actually a fair rule. I wouldn't want anyone here to be openly day drinking.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't judge anyone who drinks, but I'm not one for them myself.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-06 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sage... ]

An acquaintance of yours?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-12 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ hope hasn't had to do it for thirteen!! but, like, mood. he's visibly exhausted from those last twenty minutes of trial, voice strained and hoarse from yelling with sieghart's channeled rage. ]

The first of many that will likely be long, painful ones.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-13 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's just life in general, isn't it?

[ but no, he gets it. ]

...I'm trying not to think about what will happen tomorrow.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-13 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
. . .

Was he ever like this in the daycare?
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-13 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe...maybe his hostage was directly threatened. If he didn't comply, they'd be killed.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-13 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
...later tonight, maybe. I'll let other people have their chance to speak with him first.

[ his shoulders slump a little. ]
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week 1: sunday

[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-20 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's been a couple of hours since execution. hope is silently wandering around the graveyard, checking out its new addition. when bradley comes upon him, he's kneeling before clementine's headstone, taking a look at the bracelet left there. ]

...the same one she was wearing.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-20 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ he looks up when he hears bradley's voice, but he stays on the ground. he's very somber when he replies: ]

I can't say for sure if it's the exact one... but the type of flower is the same.
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-20 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
...I can't say I'm surprised, at the end of the day. She had many people care for her, and we as a group tend to be particularly sentimental.

[ it's been a long time, yes, but he still remembers the kindnesses the dead had been shown after their passings. wiwaldi wasn't alone, it seems, as the prism's graffiti wall had shown, too. ]
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[personal profile] highestheim 2022-06-20 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I don't remember whose idea it was... but my point stands.

[ he doesn't touch the flowers upon her grave, but he gazes at them pensively. ]

Flowers have meanings, don't they? [ ... ] Maybe I'll read up on them this week.