37th Blood | This isn't fun anymore

[tsukihime]

[Phone | Unfiltered]

So yea...I've been here for a while, and got pretty used to all the stupid stuff that goes on here. It was all pretty weird but you could kind of get used to it after a while, and even start predicting when stuff would happen.

[There's a long pause before Arcueid speaks again. She doesn't really sound afraid, just maybe a little nervous.]

This is different...isn't it?

[Action | All around town | Late night]

[Once the moon had come up, Arcueid had decided to take stock of what might be going on around town. No goofy Phantasmoon, no silly antics, she's just moving about like a vampire do.

You may find her sitting on your roof, laying on the grass, or maybe just actually walking around like a normal person. The woman seems a little bit worn out tonight, no whimsical fancies to deal with.

Feel free to bug her, she'd probably appreciate it, actually.]

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[Action | All around town | Late night]

[captainofthe10th]

[ Loken looks down at her, lying on the grass of his front lawn. After a moment, he comes out, kneeling beside her with a whir of armor. ]

Hello, Arcueid Brunestud. How does the moon greet you this evening?

[tsukihime]

Like it does every evening.

What's that supposed to mean, anyway?

[captainofthe10th]

Hm. I am told the moon has aspects, and phases, and that they symbolize something. It sounds much like old superstition to a secular warrior like me, but...

[ He stops, and removes his helm from his belt, showing it to Arcueid. ]

My brothers and I all took on a phase of the moon. I was the new moon. [ He gestures towards the little red slash, almost like a teardrop, that comes from his eyeslit. ]

I thought someone like you might know more. Or remember more, if you are willing to talk about it. Or maybe I just wanted to talk to you.

[ He doesn't smile, as stonefaced as always. ]

[tsukihime]

The moon is...probably a lot different for my world than it is for yours.

I'm the White Princess of the Moon, after all. It's a really dumb title.

[Around Town]

[originalnumber]

Astral had been floating above his roof before you walked past- mostly lost in thought, not unlike a large portion of the town. At least in his world he simply didn't sleep.

Now being unable to sleep was a problem. (Ahhh...)

Looking down for the moment he ends up floating over- albeit with his typical and mildly unfortunate trait of complete silence while doing so.


"It is rather late to be walking, is it not?"

[tsukihime]

[Yea good luck taking Arc by surprise.]

This is when I always walk around. Besides, it's not like anything's gonna hurt me.

[originalnumber]

No jumps of surprise! That's a nice change, for sure.

At any rate, Astral supposes he can't well argue with that- he's normally asleep at this time after all. "Mn. I suppose that would be true..." Ah... "Do you prefer solitude then..?"

[tsukihime]

I don't really care either way. I'm just checking everything out to see if it's all different.

Or I guess maybe to make sure nothing else is opening up.

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[imoutos]

[ Nadeko fidgets with the phone cord for a moment or two before she actually speaks up, slowly and quietly. ]

U-um.. h-how do you t-think it's different..? I-in a bad way?

[tsukihime]

Probably.

[Yea, Arcueid has no problem stating what she thinks is going on.]

I mean, it seems like this place is falling apart or something. Or, at least, that's what everyone else is saying too.

I'm not sure what to think of it.

[imoutos]

.. It falling a-apart wouldn't be too bad i-if we could go home.. [ she's thinking about it herself now, humming a little as she does. ]

B-but.. if we're here and it falls apart.. w-what will happen to us?

[tsukihime]

See, that's what I can't figure out.

Maybe, people go home all the time. Then again maybe we'll all fall into a void and be stuck there for eternity.

Or even end up dead for real. I've got no idea.

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[encored]

[HOBOS ON HIS LAWN ALL THE TIME-- except whoops he actually recognises this one. the lady who bakes mediocre cookies and moonlights as a super hero, exactly the kind of thing he needs in the dead of night.

instead of shouting out the window as he would do during the day, he soundlessly exits through the back door instead and loops around to the front yard that way, stopping a few feet away from her.]

If you came to enjoy the flowers, you won't get a very good view from the ground.

[tsukihime]

You can see flowers any time.

Laying in the grass feels good. You should try it. You can look at the moon this way.

[encored]

You can also look at the moon while standing. [which he does, briefly and with his hands set on his hips.]

I suppose this is the part where I ask you why you're moon-viewing on my lawn in particular.

[tsukihime]

I dunno, I was just wandering around and decided to stop for a while.

I guess it was your lawn I stopped on. Things don't have to be complicated all the time, you know.

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[spitefulvitae]

[Natalie is at home, minding her own business and hanging some nice thick curtains on the windows when she hears a thump on the roof. And then feels something scary. Her kind of vampire can kind of pick up on others, to some extent. And what she's feeling up on the roof is big. Really big. Huge and old and alarming.

She immediately drops the curtain bar. And then she starts to consciously hide her own vampire presence, her "beast", just like father had taught her. And then, hesitantly but oh-so-curiously, she moves to the front door and steps out. And then walks out onto the lawn and stares upwards.]

....hello?

[So there's a frizzy-haired, wide-eyed, scarf-wearing lady that's, at first glance, pretty darned human and likely probably not a vampire at all, yes yes.]

[tsukihime]

[Lucky for her Arcueid's not really paying attention to anything...not to mention most of the vampires in Mayfield seem pretty benign anyway, so she hardly bothers anymore.

Instead, the horrific ancient monster on the roof just smiles and waves.]

Hi.

[Yea, nothing abnormal about sitting on people's roofs.]

[spitefulvitae]

[And now it is time to have a silly conversation.]

Why are you on our roof?

[Perfectly valid question, that.]

I wouldn't think the view is particularly good...

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[ryougi]

[Shiki is stepping out for her own usual late night walk, but ah what's this... Something out-of-place already and she's barely stepped out of her own house.]

Not dressed up for once? [taking a look up at Arc on the roof]

[tsukihime]

[Arcueid is kind of, abruptly snapped out of her own thoughts when Ryougi speaks.]

Huh? Dressed up?

[ryougi]

You know, the whole... [She motions to make a mini skirt and staff.] Get up thing. Hell if I remember what you called it.

Action

[nohardfeelings]

[ For the past week Seiko has been finding it hard to sleep. It's very annoying for someone who enjoys sleeping in any chance she gets.

So Seiko decides that some fresh air is in order, and she quickly opens the window wide open. She sees a shadow being cast from above, though she can't exactly make out what it is.

Surprised, Seiko turns herself to look up at the room, catching a glimpse of a figure but not much else. ]

Hello? Is somebody up there?

[ She assumes this is not a Boogeyman. ]

[tsukihime]

[It may as well be, considering what Arcueid is.

Still, this mysterious shadow just waves.]

Somebody, yea.

[nohardfeelings]

Hmm? I was right then.

[ She still can't see who it is, but she doesn't seem to mind. ]

Whatcha doing' up there though?