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aprettygirl) wrote2013-02-09 11:38 am
aprettygirl) wrote2013-02-09 11:38 am
[MEMORIES # 11, 12, 13 (TRIV NEG, SIG POS, TRIV NEU)]
* Fighting off autojaeger attack in Esther's hospital room and leaving.
[Game 130 – bargains - Sea Witch/Hook | Day 168 | shareable 3/4 (capped jar; scent of rotting fish)]
From the manga/novel: here to page 10. There's a pounding at the door; Seth peers outside and gets the door and some of the wall exploding in her face. She's blown across the room. Autojaegers (zombie vampire armored soldiers) come pouring in. Esther yells Seth's name and tries to defend herself, but is also knocked out just as Seth gets herself together and stands up again.
Seth checks back once to make sure Esther is unconscious, and then activates Crusnik at 40%, using the Flames of Sound to dissolve the autojaegers' flesh components into salt (the armor remains.) She says "I'm sorry." She deactivates Crusnik, checks Esther for damage, gets her on a couch and stuffs the jaeger remains in a storage closet. Then, hearing people approach, she leaves the area.
+ oh no Esther
+ A sense of pure revulsion and hatred for the one who made the jaegers (as they're basically desecrated Methuselah corpses.) Feeling like she's 'laying them to rest' by destroying them.
+ A better sense of her control over Crusnik, what it's like to use it properly. Voices in her head, immense hunger, power. She'll be better prepared for it when she gets it back as a skill.
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* An introduction to the young Mirka Fortuna.
[Game 132 – pie-giving - Mother Goose | Day 170 | shareable 3/4 (blackbird-shaped whistle)]
An Empress memory. Augusta Vradica welcomes her trusted adviser into her innermost chambers for a fairly informal meeting (basically a fancy noble tea party.) Vradica is somewhat apprehensive, as today Duchess Fortuna has brought her just-Awakened daughter Mirka to meet her, and Mirka is the next generation of a family in whom Seth has invested quite a lot of trust.
They get off to a mildly awkward start, especially as Vradica has to remain veiled even for tea, but she and Mirka soon warm up to each other and prove to have an easy rapport. Mirka shows herself to be witty, sharp, and surprisingly discrete during the conversation, despite her very young age. She stays for a while and then, as prearranged, quietly excuses herself for lessons. Vradica and Duchess Fortuna are both pleased with her conduct, and the Duchess remains in Vradica's chambers a while longer to discuss Mirka's future. Vradica assures her that while of course it will take time to see and decide, she has confidence that Mirka will be a good successor. She also enquires about the health of Duchess Fortuna's mother (Mirka's grandmother, who Seth already remembered.)
+ Fortunadere across the generations.
+ There's a lot of trust and a lot of pleasure in this memory; it's secretive but in a useful, productive way.
+ Some etiquette knowledge, the knowledge that Methuselah don't officially become distinguishable from Terran until they Awaken at a certain age, luxury.
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* "My friends call me Seth!"
[Game 168 – generosity - Kiriko | Day 218 | shareable 6/7 (jasper-colored wooden box)]
From the manga/novel: just a brief memory. This page! Seth stands unveiled in the middle of her court -- she doesn't have a lot of context for this and most of the surroundings are kind of a blur until she gets more memories. She walks up the stairs towards Ion and Esther. Her legs below the knee are tacky with fresh blood. It's not hers.
ESTHER: S-Seth...ah, that is, Your Majesty, um...
SETH: Just Seth is fine, Esther. Augusta Vradica's the name I use as Empress. You're not one of the nobles...you're my friend! Friends should call me Seth.
Esther: Oh...mm!
SETH: ...that's right. Esther, where is the other messenger from the Vatican? Do you know where he went after he saved you two?
+ She's fronting really hard here; she's very sad and tired and just wants to go somewhere private, but she has to keep doing her duty. Eve can probably extrapolate she just killed someone from, you know, the blood and the way Esther and Ion are looking at her.
+ Apparently she unveils herself at some point? But she has very little context for how that happened, so she'll wonder about it.
+ Her declaration that they're friends is pretty sincere, though; this memory makes it likelier that she'll confide her real name to people she really likes.
+ 'The other messenger from the Vatican' is Abel. She wants to find him, but she's apprehensive.
[Game 130 – bargains - Sea Witch/Hook | Day 168 | shareable 3/4 (capped jar; scent of rotting fish)]
From the manga/novel: here to page 10. There's a pounding at the door; Seth peers outside and gets the door and some of the wall exploding in her face. She's blown across the room. Autojaegers (zombie vampire armored soldiers) come pouring in. Esther yells Seth's name and tries to defend herself, but is also knocked out just as Seth gets herself together and stands up again.
Seth checks back once to make sure Esther is unconscious, and then activates Crusnik at 40%, using the Flames of Sound to dissolve the autojaegers' flesh components into salt (the armor remains.) She says "I'm sorry." She deactivates Crusnik, checks Esther for damage, gets her on a couch and stuffs the jaeger remains in a storage closet. Then, hearing people approach, she leaves the area.
+ oh no Esther
+ A sense of pure revulsion and hatred for the one who made the jaegers (as they're basically desecrated Methuselah corpses.) Feeling like she's 'laying them to rest' by destroying them.
+ A better sense of her control over Crusnik, what it's like to use it properly. Voices in her head, immense hunger, power. She'll be better prepared for it when she gets it back as a skill.
-
* An introduction to the young Mirka Fortuna.
[Game 132 – pie-giving - Mother Goose | Day 170 | shareable 3/4 (blackbird-shaped whistle)]
An Empress memory. Augusta Vradica welcomes her trusted adviser into her innermost chambers for a fairly informal meeting (basically a fancy noble tea party.) Vradica is somewhat apprehensive, as today Duchess Fortuna has brought her just-Awakened daughter Mirka to meet her, and Mirka is the next generation of a family in whom Seth has invested quite a lot of trust.
They get off to a mildly awkward start, especially as Vradica has to remain veiled even for tea, but she and Mirka soon warm up to each other and prove to have an easy rapport. Mirka shows herself to be witty, sharp, and surprisingly discrete during the conversation, despite her very young age. She stays for a while and then, as prearranged, quietly excuses herself for lessons. Vradica and Duchess Fortuna are both pleased with her conduct, and the Duchess remains in Vradica's chambers a while longer to discuss Mirka's future. Vradica assures her that while of course it will take time to see and decide, she has confidence that Mirka will be a good successor. She also enquires about the health of Duchess Fortuna's mother (Mirka's grandmother, who Seth already remembered.)
+ Fortunadere across the generations.
+ There's a lot of trust and a lot of pleasure in this memory; it's secretive but in a useful, productive way.
+ Some etiquette knowledge, the knowledge that Methuselah don't officially become distinguishable from Terran until they Awaken at a certain age, luxury.
-
* "My friends call me Seth!"
[Game 168 – generosity - Kiriko | Day 218 | shareable 6/7 (jasper-colored wooden box)]
From the manga/novel: just a brief memory. This page! Seth stands unveiled in the middle of her court -- she doesn't have a lot of context for this and most of the surroundings are kind of a blur until she gets more memories. She walks up the stairs towards Ion and Esther. Her legs below the knee are tacky with fresh blood. It's not hers.
ESTHER: S-Seth...ah, that is, Your Majesty, um...
SETH: Just Seth is fine, Esther. Augusta Vradica's the name I use as Empress. You're not one of the nobles...you're my friend! Friends should call me Seth.
Esther: Oh...mm!
SETH: ...that's right. Esther, where is the other messenger from the Vatican? Do you know where he went after he saved you two?
+ She's fronting really hard here; she's very sad and tired and just wants to go somewhere private, but she has to keep doing her duty. Eve can probably extrapolate she just killed someone from, you know, the blood and the way Esther and Ion are looking at her.
+ Apparently she unveils herself at some point? But she has very little context for how that happened, so she'll wonder about it.
+ Her declaration that they're friends is pretty sincere, though; this memory makes it likelier that she'll confide her real name to people she really likes.
+ 'The other messenger from the Vatican' is Abel. She wants to find him, but she's apprehensive.