trustfell | There was a farm that had a dog

There was a farm that had a dog

[Throughout the day on Monday, everyone still left in the building will find a handwritten invitation delivered to them at some point or another, along with a bonus sheet of paper.

WHO: You! WHAT: Fun and games! WHERE: The roof WHEN: 6 o'clock Hey, everyone. It's been quiet around here lately, so let's keep our spirits up and have some fun! The sun might not be shining, but we still have a great view of the stars, and somewhere warm to watch them from. Food and drink will be provided, so just bring yourself (and your bingo sheet!), and we'll enjoy each other's company. - Rin Tohsaka

There aren't any decorations upstairs, but there will be food and drink as promised, and lots of variety. Curry, soup and sandwiches, parfaits, homemade potato chips, a cheese plate; Rin went all out. For sweets, there's chocolate chip cookies and a lemon meringue pie, with milk or juice (that looks like it was made from scratch) to wash it down with. Alcohol too, if that's your thing. There's even a bloody mary for Elda, somehow.

As you might guess from the invitation, the bonus piece of paper delivered with the invites is a blank bingo sheet! Whether it's when the invites are delivered or when they come to the party, Rin will give everyone instructions on how to fill it out, and how the game is played.

~~HUMAN~~ GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER BINGO

Fill out the sheet with 24 simple facts about yourself! They should be anything you're comfortable sharing with others, and most importantly they must be true
Share sheets with one another! If you have something in common with what's on another person's sheet, you can sign off on that square.
Players may sign up to two squares on one another's sheets, but only two! Normally you'd only collect a single signature, but this is a small group.
When one row has five signatures horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, that's a BINGO!
Whoever has the most BINGOs at the end of the night wins!

That should about cover it. But yeah, it's a game designed for the group to maybe get to know each other a little better. Discussion is encouraged, not just for what you have in common, but what you don't! What's most important is everyone have fun.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

... Nope! That seems like a weirdly specific spell though! Do you play a lot of baseball?

—I do! But that's separate from this, and just for fun. [Rin waves her hand.] Glass is one of the first materials any mage in training works with, though. Shirou was impressed with it even if it's the most basic of the basics, so I thought you'd get a kick out of it too.

So magic fixing is basic...? Huh, you'd think that destruction would be easier than creation or repair or whatever. Maybe that's just me though.

[ she... mmm. ]

... You know, that reminds me, I guess I ought to collect all of Sayaka's alchemy nonsense in a folder for when we get out of here. They might not get the chance to come back if Jericho blows up the building or something.

That's probably a good idea... Even if he doesn't, it might be one of those situations where we have to go before he changes his mind, or some nonsense.

[She should pack accordingly too, in that case...

But for now let's look over a second thing to sign here. There's still a lot of options, but you know what? She's going to go with "has spoken to Hilda".]

[ Oh. ... She should have pegged Rin for someone else who would talk with Hilda, so she nods and just keeps on the topic, holding out her hand to fill out her two on Rin's ]

Precisely. It all depends on how we manage it, but I think it's prudent to prepare to be ready to flee. Actually, if you're our best seamstress with those machines here, the two of us might as well make some satchels, sacks, or bags for everyone.

It's weird; I wouldn't have even called myself a seamstress before all of this. But sure, I can manage that.

[She'll pass that sheet right over, then.]

So why did you put that one down?

[The Hilda one.]

I'd thought - ... or well, no. I suppose I'd hoped someone else had. Or well, by technicality, everyone else has.

[ Yelled at her when she first appeared, after all. Elda hums though. She circles and then writes her name on the love story thing. If only because she needs to hear Rin's love story. ]

[Oh boy, that'll be the next thing they talk about, then.]

Honestly, I haven't taken advantage of being able to speak to her as much as I should have, but I like her. In a strange way. [It's hard to explain.] It's easier to carry a conversation with her for me than it was with Alena, at any rate.

[Why hope, she wonders?]

Hah. I should have seen that coming, for you.

[ she taps her fingers on the counter, looking for a good second square. There's the obvious one, but... ]

Sayaka and Alex and others told me that Alena was warm, kind. Hell, Sayaka trusted the woman to give her a haircut over me. [ Which still hurts. ] I never saw that in her... I confess.

I mean, Alena told me straight out she wasn't a good person, so I took her for her word on that, but it was obvious she didn't like what she was doing here. I guess I have a hard time resonating with people like that.

[There's a thoughtful pause, as Rin watches the snow fall out the window. Is she a cruel person for saying that? It's possible Alena was just doing what she had to, to survive.]

Does Hilda ever talk about her?

Of course. But she'd never bring her up first.

[ That's both not her nature and really... Elda is by definition lesser than her, in the eyes of the other woman. Elda tuts, and she looks it over and then finally, she'll circle that she has one sibling. There, she did it. ]

[But she would talk about it if asked, huh?]

...Well, there's probably better things I could be asking her about.

[So she'll ignore that second one Elda signed off of for now; she already knows about Sakura, and Rin remembers hearing once about Elda's brother.

Instead she rounds back to the first Elda added her signature to, a little sheepishly. Hoo boy, she should have seen this one coming.]

Should I go first then, or should you?

Oh, I insist you go first.

[ EVERYONE HAS HEARD HER STORY... OR SHOULD... OR WILL... ]

[She didn't, gosh!!! Or at least not the love part, just the genocide thing.

Just this face, Elda.]

[But okay, she wrote it down so she'll definitely do. She'll do it! Just let her take out her silly straw and glub down this entire cup of juice first.]

[Exhale a deep, slow breath. Be cool and elegant, Rin. Okay. She's got this.]

...I'm not sure he knows this, but I've known about him for a long time actually. It was about four years ago; I was in middle school back then, and went to a neighboring school regarding a student council matter.

It was getting late when I left, but there he was doing running high jumps for hours, until the sun set. I was an idiot watching another idiot who kept trying to jump a height he couldn't clear. [...] Honestly, it was traumatic.

[ I mean, this face back at her.

So. ]

Edited 2017-11-14 03:26 (UTC)

As a child, it's shocking to see someone that's the complete opposite of you, right? That's why it was traumatic. It would've been fine if he'd had hope of clearing that bar. I would've just gone home if that were the case.

...But even he knew it was impossible. He knew nothing would change that, but he kept trying. It was as if he believed the effort was all that mattered.

[Lacing her fingers around her empty cup, her voice becomes softer.]

I can't do such a thing. If I know it's impossible for me, I quickly give up. I don't try what I can't do, and I never regret it or think I'm powerless because of it.

But watching him, I felt like I lost. I was jealous of this guy who kept running like an idiot, and couldn't help but think how pure it'd be to just keep trying without a thought for whether it's possible.

I'd never stopped to think there was such a person in the world. And even though he was the exact opposite of me...

[Looking out the window, her expression seems to have turned dreamy at some point. Like it's not the snow she's seeing, but that sunset.]

...He was someone I was happy to know existed.

[ Over time, her expression does soften from that absurd scary face she'd been holding. Rin gives up easy when she thinks it's impossible? Her first thought is that Rin must have a tremendous threshold for impossible. But then when she goes over when she's seen and what they've spoken about in the last several months...

No, that actually makes sense.

It's why she, Elda, is Indomitable. It's why Rin writes those letters every time and why she's backed off sometimes when Elda has bounded forward. It's why she's precise at all the best and worst times.

... Hah. ]

You got captivated early there.

Maybe, but it's something I can only admit to now. [Rin looks back at Elda, and shakes her head.] I never knew his name, and I thought I'd forgotten his face until a year ago, you'd never guess who I saw from afar hanging out with Sakura.

Somehow I knew who he was right away; I was angry I'd remembered him for so long. I never told him any of this, of course. Even when we started attending the same high school, I just watched from afar. I was rooting for Sakura honestly.

[...

And then her look becomes more serious.]

But then the Holy Grail War started. Way after all of the students and teachers should have gone home, I was at school investigating a disturbance with Archer when another Servant showed up. They engaged in the first battle of the Fifth Holy Grail War, but it ended prematurely. There was a witness.

[Hand trailing down her skirt, she pulls something from her pockets. A red jewel, on a silver chain.]

By the time I made it to where he'd ran off to, the Servant had already stabbed him in the heart. And when I turned over the body, it was that same boy. I don't know how, but somehow he was still alive.

It was pretty impulsive on my part, but I couldn't bring myself so see Sakura's face the next morning if I left him to die. So I blew my biggest trump card in that moment to save him.

If I hadn't, it's strange to think how things might have gone. If Emiya-kun died that night, would anyone have summoned Saber?

[ . . . The first battle was before the war even had all the players?

But more than that- ]

So is that your heart transplant? A trinket to revive the dead...

[Rin shakes her head: yes and no.]

It wouldn't have worked if he'd already been dead; miracles like that can only benefit the living.

[You know what? She wants more juice. She keeps talking as she refills her cup; they were probably near a table anyways to be writing this.]

It was something father prepared for me as my inheritance. Ten years' worth of my own magical energy, stored up in this one gem. It was a lot of work, but without that magical energy, I'd only have been able to heal his injuries a quarter of the way before he died.

... After his heart was busted open? Golly, you arrived right on time.

[ . . . Sips her "bloody" mary again. ]

[Hey, she said she had no idea how he survived it, right? All she can do is shrug.]

Anyways, he became the Master of Saber, and that's when I learned that all along he was a mage too. A complete amateur of one, mind. He had no idea what he'd just gotten into, so I gave him a crash course.

When he decided to fight, we should have become enemies. I tried to enforce that, but he wouldn't treat me like one even when I legitimately tried to kill him. So he became my ally after that.

After Archer betrayed me, he was my only one to stay by my side, actually.

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

1/3

2/3

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

1/2

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject