quarante-sept ° dictated

[signedlefthanded]

So things with the shop are finally expanding, and I still find myself questioning if this is real. [With Sunny and Lemony here now, she's sure she's going to wake up from some wonderful dream only to realize she's still in the clutches of Olaf.]

But I was thinking about school. I know I'm technically too old for it, but has anyone ever tried such a thing here? I know nothing can really do much, but I know I've learned a lot about engineering here, and I'm always seeing people requesting others to teach English or Math.

It's just an idea.

Forty-second Spell

[courageous_wit]

This may be a strange question considering what we've been through recently, but I'm curious: was there ever a change in the castle that you actually enjoyed? Is there one thing that happened here that gives you happy memories when you think of it?

For me personally, it was living in Paris. It's such a beautiful city and I enjoyed working in the museum. I haven't been here as long as some but I do know that is one of the happier changes I've experienced.

053 Red Letters

[eat_me_beat_me]

[After being stuck as an old bat for a few days Nora needs some youthful rebellion in her life. Really. She may have been a rebellious old bat but the operative word here is OLD.

So she's doing something she hasn't done in a while - vandalizing the lobby.

What? She's bored, it's there, it's a perfect combination!

She's got her easel tilted to hold her big box of chalk, a ladder to help her reach the higher parts and she's worked all day to produce this little jem using Crowley's Bentley as the model. Why? Because she can. She has her journal propped on its special little stand on the easel and she dictates as she works]

You know what I'm in the mood for? A movie day. You know, when a whole group of people get together and go to the movies. Anyone else out there want to join me or would I be going by myself?

( Rise )

( Giotto )

( Lemony Snicket )

► Chapitre 3 [Action. Backdated after Holly Peaks]

[luxe_can_kill]

[Room 514 - Mitsuru's room has grown extensively in the time she's been in the castle. It was the size of an apartment now, with elegant and expensive furniture. It looks like a luxury suite in a five-star hotel. But it's actually based on her old room in the Kirijo mansion. The only big difference is that there is a fireplace where the TV is supposed to be. 

Mitsuru woke up on her bed just after that whole thing in Holly Peaks was over, as if she woke up from a bad dream. Only it was real. Sitting on the chair in front of the fire place, and wearing nothing but a robe, she contemplates on what happened]

Did I truly believe I was a doctor during the past three days? This is eerily similar to the manipulations done to us during the P-1 Grand Prix... Could it be another trick by the same entity? Or someone similar? I can't think straight after working too much as a "doctor" for three days...[She sighs and took a sip of some warm Darjeeling tea]

Although I do like these glasses [She lightly scoffed and smiled while checking the pair of eyeglasses she wore while in Holly Peaks. She decides to put them on]

Achoo! Oh my... As if I didn't learn back then that wearing nothing but a robe or towel is a good way to catch a cold. [She set her tea cup aside. She stood up to undo the knot on her robe as she stepped behind a divider to change clothes]

<OOC: She's going to be around the castle or in the town, so feel free to bump into her anywhere. She's most likely in the library, kitchen, The Lux, the roof, and the shooting range at the castle>

XXXVII.

[hellshaped]

( private )

[Hellboy dictates thoughtfully into the journal, meanwhile scribbling out a Tic-Tac-Toe board to the side, in the margin, in case anyone is as bored as he is -- though he probably shouldn't think that way.]

I don't even know what's considered a long time to be here anymore. But I feel like the longer I'm here, the more complacent I get about everything. The harder it is to keep track of what's happened. The harder it is to be surprised by anything that gets thrown at us.

Sometimes I really wonder what it is that makes us so special to this place. And why it keeps people here even when they just don't care anymore.

[He has some more to say on this, some thoughts he's been brooding about, but he doesn't like being this negative publicly. So whatever. He switches tacks.]

We should have nice weather pretty soon, right? Last year we had that whole Spring festival thing, but it looks like the castle doesn't really like to repeat itself with that kind of thing. I don't know.

It would be nice to see some change, anyway.

❀ Episode 06 ❀ [Dictated / Action] - backdated to March 5th

[therealrisette]

Hey, I really don't want to bore you guys and talk about that Holly Peaks weirdness like everyone's doing. I promise, no rambling about being old! I was only a few years older there, anyway.

[Some people have all the luck. Or maybe the castle took it easy on her since last time she was a fairy for almost three weeks!]

But I've been thinking about something for a while, and it's kinda related.

So, I know we don't really age here. Not like back home. But...

[She pauses for a moment, thinking back and collecting her thoughts from the past month or so.]

I've been here for a couple of months. I should be seventeen now. But my birthday's not until June, and I don't really feel any different. But I was really looking forward to it!

[Slow down, Rise, you're starting to ramble.]

I guess I'm just curious? Do you guys celebrate your birthdays, even when the timing is way off? Or do we even celebrate birthdays here at all? I really don't want to be sixteen forever...

( [Yukiko Amagi] )

3 - Action/Dictated - And so I come to the focus of my argument.

[white_emperor]

[ Elend's voice sound quite a bit like he's sitting in a tree. Rustling leaves and all that in the background. ]

I have a few questions, and I think quite a few of them will sound odder than others. Does anyone know where I can find some ... raw metal? Well, it needs to be the made stuff, but some pewter. And not this stuff with, ah, silver in it. I'm looking for 91 percent tin to 9 percent lead. And bronze that is 75 percent copper and 25 percent tin. And maybe some duralumin too - 96 percent aluminum, 4 percent copper. They don't need to be in particularly large amounts.

And the odd questions- Are most of your worlds like this? Blue sky, lots of green things, yellow sun, bright... white thing at night? Anyone from anywhere- ah, oops

[ that would be the sound of the journal falling and hitting something that shakes. ]

And I'd just gotten the hang of balance too...



[ Elend isn't exactly in the tree. He's floating, arms out for balance, over one side of the tree. His journal is in the branches quite a bit lower, but if he talks loudly maybe it will catch well. As for how he's up there... Well, searching might show some cutlery on the ground under him. ]

058. [dictated]

[foolreversed]

[well everything's back to normal now, Adachi included. Which means he has to... get all of this over with. Welp]

( Rise )

( Yukiko )

( Mitsuru )

[and now with those out of the way...]

Geez, the last way I expected to spend my 30th birthday was as a 22 year old. Or was it 21...? 23...? Whatever... Still feels preeeetty weird to even say the word "30" though. [yes he's mostly gotten over the weirdness he felt last year when 30 was just something on the incoming horizon, but it's still a little strange] A-Anyway, basically I'm back to normal now... in case anyone cared.

Um... that's not the only thing I wanted to bring up though.

Does... Does anyone have any free time to help me uh... move back to the castle? Turns out landlords don't accept castle induced sleeps and losses as good enough reasons for missing 2 months of rent ah... haha... ha...

...please?