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[ex_stoically95]

[ True to form, as soon as he'd awoken, Rude had said nothing. In fact, his morning routine changed little with the sudden rise in castle: sit up, rub your head, shake off the lingering effects of last night's drowning in liquor. Swing your legs off the bed, and attempt to stand.

Find yourself somewhere strange. Alright. Still clothed? No Materia.

Kisaragi.

Maybe not. The humiliation level wasn't right, and with a short noise and a furrowing of his brow, he patted around for his sunglasses before exiting the room.

A day later and several circuits around the castle completed, Rude was getting the funny feeling that he wasn't in Midgar anymore. Everything was too stone-and-grass for that dystopian nightmare of a capital: things were getting towards afternoon by the time he returned to the room, eyes alighting on a simple brown journal. Hadn't he seen that book today?

Hadn't he seen it everywhere?

Curious. Taking a seat right back on the bed, Rude started paging through it, eyebrows rising with continued incredulity. This was some serious tech...and if he had it right, he wasn't the only person to suddenly become castle-bound. ]

...

[ Okay. Time to possibly look stupid. ]



...hello.

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[ex_stoically95]

Ideally.

[bustered]

What about either the whatever-you-wish-for-only-not speech? Or the you've-lost-something-important and good-luck-finding-out-what speeches?

[ex_stoically95]

...could use the wish one.

[bustered]

This is as I was told: apparently the castle can provide you with the things you wish for. New set of clothes? Done. Mom's apple pie? Done. Your room redone? Done. It doesn't seem to have a limit as far as scale, but I can't say that I've tested it much.

But you can't wish for things like weapons. And you can't wish to be sent home.

[ex_stoically95]

[ Well. Never been a better time to only fight via dude-punching! He grunts again, and shifts himself away from the journal to murmur a request.

Sure enough, bam! Ray-Bans. Sick. ]

...handy.

[bustered]

Yeah.

Just, what's the catch? No one's been able to answer that one.

[ex_stoically95]

[ Protecting its own interests, he figures: why else would one give people everything they ever wanted, but keep away the ability to arm themselves? And the thing Hinata said, about feeding off their emotions...it all sounds pretty sinister.

Fuck. Like Jenova wasn't bad enough. ]

Hard to say.

[bustered]

Exactly what I don't like about it.

[The whole thing smacks of having conditions. And Zack doesn't like it, because it feels too much like signing a contract without having any of the details.]

[ex_stoically95]

...

[ He retreats back into thoughts there, giving a low hum of consideration. He sure did prefer to read all the details himself...what, in the end, would it cost to be here and get everything he desired? ]

That all?

[bustered]

That's all I got about the wish thing. Like I said, I haven't tested its limits. I don't need to be somehow indebted to the thing.

[ex_stoically95]

Guess not.

...thanks.