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shenevermisses) wrote2012-05-08 02:00 pm
shenevermisses) wrote2012-05-08 02:00 pm
1st Throw - [ video/written/action ]
[Her approach today: simple, caution edged with sweetness.
Clove has set her Journal on a table in her apartment for the perfect upper body shot.
The key to her appearance is the word "simple." Her long hair is pulled back into a low ponytail. She has enough make-up on to color her features, but it is light enough that it's only just noticable. Her shirt is pale grey, fitted and sleeveless with a high neck but made of light material.
She gives herself a few seconds before she speaks.]
Hello, everyone. My name is Clove. I've only just arrived, and I'm still getting my bearings.
[Remember to smile. She obeys the advice from her absent mentor.]
I've been sort of a recluse these last few days, and I'm really sorry if you've seen me around the village and I ignored you. This is just a lot to take in all at once.
[This isn't the Games, and there are no sponsors... but in a new, strange place like this, a little good PR can't hurt.]
I look forward to getting to know everyone.
[Off goes the feed.]
[A few minutes later, she writes a short note.]
If you're somehow reading this, Cato: come find me. Tonight at sundown.
[Come sundown, Clove is sitting at her makeshift camp by the western lake.
She's sure Cato isn't here. She'd have heard from him long before now if he was. Still, her message was for him to find her at sundown, so she waits.
Her location has been carved into various trees throughout the forest and village using a signal taught in the Academy to make pack activity easier. If he looks for her, he'll find it.
Of course, anyone out that way will see her waiting for someone who won't come.]
Clove has set her Journal on a table in her apartment for the perfect upper body shot.
The key to her appearance is the word "simple." Her long hair is pulled back into a low ponytail. She has enough make-up on to color her features, but it is light enough that it's only just noticable. Her shirt is pale grey, fitted and sleeveless with a high neck but made of light material.
She gives herself a few seconds before she speaks.]
Hello, everyone. My name is Clove. I've only just arrived, and I'm still getting my bearings.
[Remember to smile. She obeys the advice from her absent mentor.]
I've been sort of a recluse these last few days, and I'm really sorry if you've seen me around the village and I ignored you. This is just a lot to take in all at once.
[This isn't the Games, and there are no sponsors... but in a new, strange place like this, a little good PR can't hurt.]
I look forward to getting to know everyone.
[Off goes the feed.]
[A few minutes later, she writes a short note.]
If you're somehow reading this, Cato: come find me. Tonight at sundown.
[Come sundown, Clove is sitting at her makeshift camp by the western lake.
She's sure Cato isn't here. She'd have heard from him long before now if he was. Still, her message was for him to find her at sundown, so she waits.
Her location has been carved into various trees throughout the forest and village using a signal taught in the Academy to make pack activity easier. If he looks for her, he'll find it.
Of course, anyone out that way will see her waiting for someone who won't come.]
[Action]
There are video games and things here at the shops, and there are comics in the library if you wanted to try them out.
[Not the point though, Rei is more concerned with discerning this girl's motives now. Is she someone who fights in self defense, or because she has to...or is it because she LIKES to?]
Either way, you don't really have to worry about people trying to hurt you here. Except the one vampire, but...I'm pretty sure she's being hunted.
[Action]
[Things she can, according to someone else, volunteer for. Make herself useful by doing.]
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[Even if she can fight...]
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Am I that strange to you?
But Clove doesn't ask it. Instead, she shrugs a little.]
It's... kind of like repaying them, isn't it? I mean, they do give us food, shelter, nice things.
If they need someone to fight, shouldn't those who can do it?
[Action]
Even if the Malnosso didn't have those super-powered captives, and make no mistake that is what we are, they have the droids.
[Action]
What about those who want to? Who don't have any other duties or any other skills but are good at fighting? The ones who can do something by fighting where they're needed?
[To her, it's black and white. She can fight. She can do little else. Therefore, to make herself useful and to offer some kind of repayment for what she's given here... Why not join their battles? Do what she can to help their efforts?]
[Action]
Then you'd probably be an ideal candidate. Supposedly, there are also drafts, and not just compulsory missions. I'm not sure I like the idea of being forced to fight, but if its what you do best, then maybe its a way for you to contribute.
I'm sure that you have other skills too, though.
[Action]
[Simple. Calm.
A fact.
Here, she's only made threats of violence. She carries her knife tucked in her boot because she remembers the Arena too clearly and will not go anywhere without a weapon, not now. In the Arena, she was more than bloodthirsty, she was sadistic. Because that meant a good show. And a good show might mean supplies she and Cato desperately needed.
But here... there was no need to fight, and she had not drawn blood from anyone yet.]
It's very kind of you. [When in doubt, change the subject.] To show me around the village like this.
[Action]
Its nothing, really! Stop thanking me! I consider it repayment for all the help I received when I first arrived. Its alright. Besides, I'm a miko, helping people who are lost is my duty.
[Action]
[Even if it is something she's still suspicious about.
But there's something new to ask about, a word she's never heard before.]
What's a miko?
[Action]
I'm...like a priest in my home country. I work at a shrine, and help people. Its a miko's job to provide guidance where we are able, in Earthly or spiritual matters.
[Action]
[But... "Earthly or spiritual matters"... Some people have 'spiritual' beliefs in District Two, but it's not something people talk about or encourage in the youth.]
Are you... sort of like a teacher, then?
[Action]
Either way, fortune telling is part of what I do. So is helping people.
[Action]
Not talking to spirits, not fortune telling. It's all... very odd. Not bad. [She's quick to add those two words. Then:] Just... different.
[Action]
If you plan on going into the woods, I would be very careful. A wolf spirit dwells within, and she doesn't like people cutting down trees or building dangerous fires.
[Action]
[But wolf spirits didn't interest him, not right now.]
And your fortunes... Do they work?
[Action] (Him?)
I...can do a reading for you sometime, if you like.
[Action] (...wow. TALK ABOUT A TYPO. I'm brilliant sometimes, aren't I?)
Still, though:] Will it work even though I've died?
Re: [Action] (=p)
[This is Rei's first encounter with someone dead in their home. She...guesses this to mean that Clove died in that arena]
It'll read your future here, not there.
[Action] (Clove's my first female character in ages. I blame that.)
[No mention for good or bad. It sounds superstitious, of course, but that can be accounted for because the girl is before her time. They used to believe things like that...
And, well. She's died and is alive again. Maybe it is possible to tell the future.]
[Action] (S'ok, Rei's my first female character in a long time too)
Would you like me to try?
[Action]
[She almost smiles.
The suggestion is on entirely neutral and unknown grounds. She's never been taught to see "witchcraft" as evil and so has no inclination against it, and she's never been taught to believe in it either, so she has no draw toward it...
Save for the desire of a young girl to have something akin to hope.]
[Action]
No, it can't. I've been working on getting a suitable place together for flame readings, which I know best. They are a bit more involved, as I have to consecrate a space, and burn a flame.
I can do a palm reading right now, its...simple and won't reveal a whole lot, but it could be interesting for you since you don't know what its all about.
[She holds out a hand]
Please, let me see your hand?
[Action]
The chance at hope had to be weighed against a fear of prediction of disaster.
She didn't even believe in this. So what did the outcome matter?
Still, she held out her hand.]
[Action] (Not something I've done before, so...making shit up!)
Well...this line represents health and strength. Its long, and thin so that means you'll likely grow stronger. Luceti is good for things like that, the challenges we face here are pretty tough.
[Another line, this one crossing the palm]
This means you've taken a trip recently, which...well, that makes sense since you are here.
[Next is the Union line]
This one...it is the line representing unity. Are there people from your world here? People you know? This indicates a connection to...someone here in Luceti.
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