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Prismatic Mods ([personal profile] prismods) wrote in [community profile] prismaticrap2019-02-22 02:46 pm
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▶ TDM .001


Lisa Frank's LSD Fun House
anytime, anywhere on the moon Iris | top

Everything is darkness except for dim lights sparkling in the distance, a faint gleam that greets you as you start to unfurl from your dormant state. Your body is hemmed in by shards of crystals, gently sparkling and possibly pricking your skin. The surrounding landscape is dyed in the pinks and purples of the dusk filled with crystals protruding from the ground, some as large as a skyscraper. Throat parched and skin dry and aching, you grope your body in alarm to make sure your possessions are still in place. This is far from home— perhaps a dream? You pinch your skin and slap your cheeks, yet nothing seems to do the trick. Searching for answers only rewards you with an endless expanse of purple dust as far as the eye can see. You have four options: one, panic; two, soil yourself; three, admire it all then soil yourself; or four, go into survival mode. Eventually, you’ll realize that you’re not alone.

A ⬤ As you traverse the near-barren landscape, you feel something sting your skin. It's small and subtle at first, then you finally catch sight of it: an elegant, crystalline mosquito buzzing around from the corner of your eye. However, a pest is still a pest. After a while, marks near your welts begin to form strange patterns on your skin, mimicking ancient runes. Each rune has with it a particular side-effect that may hinder you on your journey:
The Mark of the Enchanter: Hallucinations, hallucinations galore. Your character will see everything and anything their imagination can conjure and will have difficulty separating reality from fiction.
The Mark of the Destroyer: Limbs start to cease their function, causing you to stumble or try and get around one-handed. Other certain body parts may be affected as well. Look at the bright side: you can stop worrying about jiggle physics and hiding your fear boner.
The Mark of the Sinner: Your hunger, your thirst, your fatigue and your desire are at an all-time high. Your impulses are rabid and uncontrollable. Maybe you experience only one of those symptoms. Maybe you experience them all. All you know is that you want relief now.

These effects will eventually clear up with a bit of accidental or purposeful physical contact with another person, making you wonder if there was anything wrong with you at all.

B ⬤ Hunger starts to gnaw at you vigorously. Perhaps you consider hunting the moon's creatures to sate your hunger. That's when you see it: a thick, meaty, juicy meal on legs. No, we're not talking about Alex Louis Armstrong. A wild silver-white pegasus runs across the purple landscape, its hair billowing in the wind as its hooves smack loudly against the ground. Try and shoot it, and you may find your efforts curtailed by its legendary rage. Eyes aglow and wings beating up a storm, this pegasus is no dainty horse. Two thousand pounds of pure muscle swoop down and charge at you, all blades and ammunition deflecting off its impenetrable skin. Taming appears impossible; it will buck anyone away and leave a sizable horn- or hoof-shaped hole in them for their efforts. Hunting it, however, should be easier. Relatively.

C ⬤ Or you may decide that you'd like to take a drink in the prismatic waters. A small pond can be found just a few miles away from where you first awoke, but gazing into it reflects what appears to be a window into your own world. You see the faces of loved ones or at least someone very close and familiar to you gathered around your prone body, shaking it frantically as though to try and rouse you, yet your image lies frozen and unresponsive, not even a whisper of life running through you. Did you die in your world? Is this your afterlife? The questions start to pile up along with the gnawing dread that you may never return home again.


Camp Nowhere
anytime, anywhere on the moon iris | top

Time moves strangely when you're trapped on a moon with no sun to guide you. Hours feel like days, and days feel like weeks. Travelling has rendered you weak and tired. Luckily, a few crystal formations in the shape of a cavern may offer you a small place refuge as you decide to nap. You notice a few artifacts left over from previous explorers.
D ⬤ A comm unit abandoned within the cavern will display the former owner's idol obsession. As you tap the buttons indiscriminately, a holographic screen will appear, and you will see a fabulous recorded concert featuring three bubbly young ladies in animal print, singing to you about something called Cordis, a cat, and a bag of gems. Does this make any sense to you? Probably not, but the beat is catchy. You may even find yourself tapping a foot along to it. Don’t worry. We know it’s plastic love.

E ⬤ There's a small cooler-like container of preserved powdered food bags labeled with only the word “Edible” that can be safely consumed. Although the powder tastes as bland as you’d expect, it’s oddly filling, sating either hunger or thirst. But who will be the first — and the bravest — to try eating them?

F ⬤ A strange, pointed instrument is among the effects found in the cavern. It's silver, long, and thin with a curved end and a light. When you grip it with warm hands, it seems to vibrate enthusiastically and comes in three settings indicated by a frowny face, a neutral face, and a happy face. What could it mean exactly? No one knows, but you can fiddle with it to your heart's desire. Just don't ask yourself where it's been before. You don't want to know.


Interstellar Action Force Assemble
prisma, iris | top

Over a day has passed when a group of people find you worse for wear. Some are full of uncertainty and fear while some are full of curiosity and excitement. They claim that they are scientists from the planet Prismatica here to investigate the sudden appearances of rainbow crystals in the skies. That means you and the others they’ve located within the area. You are all a surprising find to them, and they are quick to load everyone in their transport vehicles for examination and questioning.

You all may have your usual inquiries — Where are we? Who are you? What's going on? Why are the pegasi so ill-tempered? — and the Prismals are almost too eager to answer. They do have questions on their own, so it’s only fair to trade. They tell you about their world as they poke and prod you, trying to understand what you are and how you came into their land. If they’re not trembling in fear, some of them may ask you odd and invasive questions in return, such as what the rate at which your body achieves thermoregulation is, how long your refractory period is, and if you would be willing to submit various kinds of body fluids to them. It's up to whether you wish to comply or protest.
G ⬤ If you react violently, you will be restrained and nerfed with a specialized neurotransmitting gun that releases a numbing agent through the top of your spine. They came prepared, so have fun with that! In any case, conscious or not, you’ll be brought into one of the transport vehicles. If you choose to peacefully cooperate, you’ll be provided any necessary first aid and a refreshing drink to help you recuperate after the rough time you had for the past few days. Each transport vehicle has a few small rooms to rest in, but due to the limited space, you’ll have to snuggle up with someone else on that bunk bed. Unfortunately, the moonshine fruit the ship is also carrying in its cargo has an extremely sweet smell that’s been permeating through certain areas of the ventilation system… Taking a whiff of it may inebriate you for the rest of the trip.

H ⬤ It’s a bumpy ride as terrain vehicles draw over various crystal formations until you see a large dome-like structure up ahead. Within its confines lies the seat of the Prismatica's government, Prisma. It’s a bureaucratic wet dream: skyscrapers practically touch the upper surface of the dome, windows glimmer with a prismatic sheen as daylight hits them, and small ships can be seen flying to and from its spaceport. The scientists, members of the Lunar Scientia, usher you into their facilities for tests. Arrivals are likely to twitch, tremble, and panic as Lunar Scientia fellows take and broadcast every embarrassing, unfiltered detail about you — height, weight, age, strange odors, estimated frequency of sexual activity —- to one another. These scientists will ask you politely to undress, too, but understand if you don't want to. They're especially fascinated by the readings of pure Chroma inside you, whispering among one another excitedly about the possibility of the new arrivals being a new moon species. What should they call them? Moonborne? Moonblessed?

I ⬤ At long last, the questions and physical examinations are done. They’ve decided to call the arrivals as the Moonblessed. They’ll take you under their care until they understand more about you. You're allowed a very refreshing hot shower and a warm meal for your efforts. Don’t worry, the meal was imported from their planet. “Planet?” you might ask, but you won’t need to wonder for too long. The ships are preparing for their next destination: the nearby planet Prismatica, where you will be dwelling for the time being. You're free to explore the government center until then.


Wildcard
Lunatia, Prismatica | top

It only takes a couple hours for the ships to reach their home planet. The ships drop the characters off at the city of Lunatia, where they will be given their communication devices and a plastic card they can present to certain landlords at any residential district for their subsidized (read: absolutely free) lodging. Officials at Prisma instructed the newcomers to await further instructions from the government, but you have a lot of time to kill before then. Why not explore in the meantime? Learn the ins and outs of the world, get a job, transform under the full moon, and discover the many mysteries of planet Prismatica!

TDM OVERFLOW can be found here!
hasbuuproblems: (13)

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[personal profile] hasbuuproblems 2019-03-04 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That's surely because it isn't relevant at all.

[He remarks with a huffy response. These examinations are far too much and this needs to stop soon. His examination is happening right next to hers, and is also equally as humiliating.]

For a being your age, I'm surprised nothing has crumbled off of you yet.

Excuse me??!!!
Edited (forgot my icon!) 2019-03-04 19:24 (UTC)
swordstho: (we slip we fall)

[personal profile] swordstho 2019-03-04 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's right, of course-- though the saniwa's abilities are focused in other areas, he could probably have created something similar if he'd been more practiced at it. illusions are simple magic, particularly purely visual ones like this. ]

This place is a lot to take in, [ he agrees with a small, weary smile. ] Particularly for anyone unaccustomed to the extraordinary. [ everyday people, simply living their lives, protected from anything that doesn't fit into their world view.

the introduction teases at something familiar, though he can't quite put his finger on what it is. the name has weight somehow, and as it belongs to a spirit, he expects that it's significant. still, it's not a japanese name, and the saniwa is largely concerned with japan and its history. ]
It's a pleasure and an honor. [ there's nothing rote or reflexive about the response. it is both pleasure and honor. ] I'm afraid that I have no name to offer, but my role is as a saniwa. You can call me that if you like.

[ he hesitates, then nods in the direction arjuna arrived from, expression faintly puzzled and questioning. ] Am.. I the first human you've encountered here..?
starlightforesight: (Temptation)

[personal profile] starlightforesight 2019-03-04 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[While Arjuna doesn't give an explicitly clear reaction in regard to the words, the subdued response still speaks volumes. He doesn't dismiss the advice or claim that he doesn't have such a problem... Clearly he hit at least a little close to home with the comment, even if only tangentially. Good to know.

But Blavat makes no indication of such a thing in his expression, simply smiling in return and giving another dip of his head before winking.]


Hmm... Partially. It's both your light and something I sense in you. Of course they're quite tied together.
fallensword: (icon21)

[personal profile] fallensword 2019-03-04 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, if he wanted the Be Civil card, Sandalphon is most definitely getting one in return here. Considering Olivia herself is not stupid enough like Azazel to even test her mettle against him, she's going to roll with it. Her eyes shows an obvious glint of amusement at both of Sandalphon's retort and whatever he's doing with that... thing.

It's still a tad weird witnessing and comparing the old Sandalphon with his nerd rage towards Lucifer to the current one for Olivia, regardless. ]


Point taken, I suppose. [ There's even a small chuckle coming from Olivia's end. Perhaps rather unbecoming of her, but indeed seems fitting for the situation. ] So? Is our lovely supreme primarch understands already on what should we do with the small box that seemed to sing for no apparent reason?

[ Guess this is the case of a temporary truce. That rolls well with her. ]
mylawn: (hhraaghrngh)

[personal profile] mylawn 2019-03-04 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
What's with the robot suit, then?

[If she's not with Helix, and she's not with the locals, then presumably this is just something she owns. 76 can't say he'd hate having powered armor like that, but he certainly doesn't like staring it down. His gaze lingers on what clearly seems to be some kind of weaponry on her arm.

Her interest in his gun certainly doesn't go unnoticed, and 76 bristles, righting himself but not wanting to chance reaching for the gun in the event he overbalances.
]

You can't tell me you didn't put up a fight.
cantshootbeams: (biiiig victory!)

[personal profile] cantshootbeams 2019-03-04 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kashuu doesn't get a good look at her katana just yet, as Okita dives down to support him up with her shoulders. Though it was brief, just a glance is enough to notice that her sword does look somewhat (strikingly, even) similar to the one at Kashuu's hip, though difficult to confirm at this angle.]

I see, I see~! Well, if it's good that I happened to walk by, yes? Let us go, to find civilization together! Even though there's nothing for hundreds of Ri away but foreboding purple stuff and weird sparkly bug things!

[Somehow, she remains chipper, even with the bizarre conditions, and---Ah... Heavy... She can feel her lungs burning more with each step as she drags this guy along. But! She can't just cough out blood and keel over, especially in front of someone she just met! Okita-san... keep it together...!]
criminallysane: (06)

[personal profile] criminallysane 2019-03-04 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's a riot, to be honest. An eight-foot-tall bright yellow feathered muppet as a stealth sniper? Trying to hide on a rooftop while Kermit and Piggy prance about, oblivious to the flashes of feathers above? And then there's that wordless delivery... Oh, Jesus take the wheel!

Joker tries--really tries--not to laugh, but he just can't help himself. He has to look away, giggling, and he rubs at the bridge of his nose with one hand as he holds the other up in surrender: I give, I give. ]


< No, no. I suppose you're enough of a spotlight all on your own, aren't you? >

[ Now ordinarily, an assassin wouldn't be of any particular interest to him, aside from the obvious amusement value of this particular one. Gotham's crawling with killers who know how to use a scope, and Joker already has a handful he thinks of as Preferred Vendors. Here, however, he doesn't know a soul, and he can definitely think of worse traveling companions and networking buddies than a killer bird. Even if this is just an Asylum-cooked hallucination, it's always a good idea to keep interesting and talented friends in one's corner.

He looks back at her, brightening. ]


< Say! You know what you need, Chicky-poo? If you don't mind my saying so.

What you need is a guy who's even flashier than you are. To keep the spotlight off of you, see. Keep the rubes distracted with a little razzle-dazzle, while you work your magic backstage! >
starlightforesight: (You're a collapsar)

[personal profile] starlightforesight 2019-03-04 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Well at least I know to be cautious now.

[But despite saying that his tone is playful and that coy smirk is tugging at the corners of his lips again just before he turns back around again and continues on.

Some of the crystalline structures at tall and overhanging, offering small outcroppings and creating shade in their sharp shadows. The fortune teller pauses to observe them curiously, stepping into the shadows and looking around with a hum, fearlessly trailing a hand long the rock's surfaces.]
punchesyu: (WOO)

wildcard! i'm a bit rusty with yoosk, apologies in advance

[personal profile] punchesyu 2019-03-04 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey hey, a lady wants to go for a walk! Sign him up.]

I'm totally down to go out and explore. You wanna meet me downtown on the first level?
paladorable: (039)

[personal profile] paladorable 2019-03-04 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Apparently they can't even make introductions in peace. He glances over at the scientist, frowning. ]

That really wasn't necessary, thank you. Can we please make conversation like normal people?

[ Sure, he's kind of curious about what a title like that entails, but he'd rather the lady told him herself than having some random scientist blurt it out. ]
swordstho: (we were digging the grave)

[personal profile] swordstho 2019-03-04 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he winces at the reminder of how overprotective hasebe can be, settling across from yasusada and gently urging him out of his outer layers. ] I understand why he worries, but I was born and raised for my duties. [ he's perfectly capable of looking after himself outside of the citadel. in general, anyway.

once the spirit is divested of enough fabric to satisfy him, he reaches, small, sure hands carefully checking yasusada's sides and arms, chest and waist and back. eventually, he sits back, seeming satisfied that there's no major damage to his human body, and instead extends his hands, palm up to request the sword itself. ]


I've tried every method I know to contact the citadel, [ he admits at last, quietly troubled. ] I thought at first that perhaps I'd died in my sleep, and this is some sort of afterlife, but.. I don't think that's true anymore.
kiritin: ▲ pixiv id @ 4316900 ❵ (l'honneur vaut mieux que le trophée)

[personal profile] kiritin 2019-03-04 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ For a moment, Arjuna wonders if the man's words and the sword he sets by his side have any connection.

Normally, he would not. The archer knows what it is like to carry a weapon at all times, after all. But the man's first words do make him stop, and think, and assume, a something Arjuna is not very used to. He has seen and known all kind of different beings, both from Chaldea and from his own country - India is not shy to the divine, to the unknown, to what's holy and what's not.

His one father - one of them, the King Pandu - had been cursed for shooting a female deer whose lover was wearing a disguise. Such a thing is normal to deities and Gods. But to assume the form of an inanimate object... - no, to have been born as one to begin with, only to become human...

In his culture, such a thing is unheard of. ]


Is that so? You are not human, then, despite looking much like one.

[ Unfortunately to Mikazuki, the tease is completely ignored. Despite his looks, this prince fathers four children, each from a different mother. He knows quite well how healing such a touch feels. ]

May I ask what you are?

[ Or... used to be? ]
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[personal profile] bulletpointe 2019-03-04 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The Cheshire Cat's grin splits further for her as he tries his best not to laugh. She chalks it up to the continued hallucination, but now the cat's offering her a job.

Was this really all as it seemed? Perhaps now the dream wasn't just cruel. ]


I am already employed, chat-de-cheshire.

'Never do anything you're good at for free.'


[ Half correct, but it was the truth to her. Brainwashing is a hell of a contract clause! ]
criminallysane: (09)

[personal profile] criminallysane 2019-03-04 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That lick sends a shudder right through him. God, her tongue's so wet.

Joker wipes at his cheek with the back of his hand, feeling unclean. ]


Fate. Sure. We'll go with that.

[ He's not the sort of man who believes in karmic comeuppance. But right about now, well. It's hard not to wonder.

Joker gives Harley a light pat-pat on the head--that's a good girl; off you go now--then begins the process of attempting to extricate himself from beneath her. He's gently pushing her, trying to ease her off of him, while also trying to wriggle his body out from underneath her. This turns out to not be quite as simple a maneuver as he'd hoped, and with both of them sitting on the floor, he can't even just stand up and dump her. ]


It's... some sort of powdery stuff. [ Wriggle, wriggle. ] There--on the table, see? Yours is the one to the right.

[ Imaginary Harley protests at him giving her food away--"Hey!"--but Joker's a little too preoccupied at the moment to care. ]

Why don't you go give it a try, hm?
garb4ge: (We're in deep doo doo here kids)

[personal profile] garb4ge 2019-03-04 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[From the way that Blavat is walking around the surface so far, he's getting the feeling that 'cautious' might not be in the other man's vocabulary.

Klaus smiles, though, hands shoved into the pockets of his army vest, and follows after the other man -- he kicks his boot in the sand, watching the brightly coloured stuff rise up in small puffs.]


Whatever you say, handsome.
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[personal profile] bulletpointe 2019-03-04 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...hm.

[ Aliens still aren't a thing in her Earth, not really! Talking animals, sure, but not yet aliens. Forgive her, the reality hasn't really set in yet that she may be on another planet entirely. ]

To each other, I meant. You're not an alien to me. You're a man in a suit.

[ It dawns on her; this isn't as surprising a development to him. Maybe, this is normal for him, she's the true outlier here. ]

Certainly this can't be your home?
kiritin: ▲ pixiv id @ 331560 ❵ (laisse-toi porter)

[personal profile] kiritin 2019-03-04 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Arjuna thinks that this boy, who looks so young, is more than what he shows.

It's his words that induce such thought. Again, he is quite reminiscent of his own Master in more ways than one, but he lacks the naivety, the sparkling eyes of one who trusts their summons with their entire life, their alignment be damned. He has more experience, is what he assumes. As though he has watched the same video over and over, read the same book until he has memorized every page of it. That's how Arjuna sees his behavior - but that is hardly a bad thing.

Sad, though, perhaps. Young people should be able to enjoy their life until adulthood came, overwhelmed in responsibilities.

Arjuna would know; his own childhood was overflowed in expectations that quickly became too impossible to meet. ]


'Saniwa'... [ Not a word he is knowledgeable about. The fact the boy lacks a name, however, reinforces his prior assumption. ] Indeed. It is a pleasure and an honor.

[ Here, then, the prince finds it peculiar. First human, he says, and it's surprising. Any normal person would have said person, and Arjuna can't help but wonder if this boy - the Saniwa - has seen more than he has, or if he knows more than he is letting show. ]

You are not. Admittedly I have not seen many others, and I'm guilty to have not talked to them. But we are certainly not alone. Could it be that you're looking for someone in particular?
pidgeypidge: (aha~)

lmao right?

[personal profile] pidgeypidge 2019-03-04 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, she's never heard that particular story, so the mark she's referring to is the one they were given by the LIEs staff.

Still, his reaction is a little odd, considering where the mark was.]


You know, the sub mark. Not exactly a tattoo, but they gave one to all of us.

[It seems a little unlikely that he'd be able to forget something like that. But she reaches out and pokes his chin, as if doing so might give her some answers, or make the mark show up?]

Don't worry, your cute freckles are still there!
bubbleblaster: (01)

[personal profile] bubbleblaster 2019-03-04 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That's probably what happened. I'm not the only one from my home here. [ Okay, Kairi and Riku were stretching the definition of "home" by quite a bit, but they were all on the same world when they got pulled here, so it was close enough.]

But if that's the case, it makes me wonder just how long people have been showing up here...
bubbleblaster: (00)

whoops. Let's just go with delayed reaction.

[personal profile] bubbleblaster 2019-03-04 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aqua blinks, having not expected the thirst to go away entirely just from the spell. But if it was being caused by the mark on him or the bug bite, it did make sense that it would just go away after the spell was cast. ]

Oh. That's good. [ Now, the important question was, how likely was it that they were going to get affected by something like it again?]
bubbleblaster: (00)

[personal profile] bubbleblaster 2019-03-04 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, at least it wasn't just her phone that was having that issue. Though that was even more worrying, since that meant that for whatever reason all of them were having similar issues.

But when Sora made that suggestion she smiled. That would be the best way to know if there was an issue or not. "That's probably the best option we have right now." At the very least, it'd let them know if her initial idea was even a viable option.
bubbleblaster: (01)

[personal profile] bubbleblaster 2019-03-04 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Just a little while ago.

[ It's not like she had much contact with the other woman, but her whole attempt to make Aqua think she was dead fit in with exactly what Axel was telling her.]

Hopefully we won't have to worry too much about her.
kiritin: ▲ pixiv id @ 542040 ❵ (Default)

blavat it's time to retire !!

[personal profile] kiritin 2019-03-04 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ You don't want to cross this line, Blavat. You really do not.

Arjuna should have assumed so at first. It's his first time, you see, so perhaps a slip would be allowed of him. But one who claims can see his 'light', who says his 'radiance' is so bright, clearly they're able to see past that. Clearly they would be able to see what they shouldn't.

Don't engage further in this.

Don't enable this further.

Don't, but also... ]


Oh? And what is it that you sense in me, if I may ask?

[ If there's just one person out there who knows of his shameful, disgusting side, then... ]
thefloorislava: (with roxas)

E

[personal profile] thefloorislava 2019-03-04 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ya know, I haven't? I got some water earlier, but I'm still not hungry enough to try and choke down whatever this stuff is. [Lea shakes the bag and makes a face before tossing it away] But, hey... where did that little creature go? It sort of looked like a Moogle.
swordstho: (the dream calls for blood)

[personal profile] swordstho 2019-03-04 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't offer an explanation for what a saniwa is, despite the clear unfamiliarity with the term, if only because the the answer to the following question will do more to explain exactly what he is than any default, convenient response he can give. ]

Yes and no, [ he admits, though he does yearn to ask arjuna about his observations of the others he's met in passing here. at the very least, it's good to know that they're not the only two here. ] I'm admittedly looking for my spirits more than fellow humans. [ he pauses, gold eyes lifting to meet arjuna's, cautious and faintly apologetic again. ] They're.. a little like you, from what I can tell of you. Though they're the spirits of weapons manifested and made flesh, and I think-- Well, I beg your pardon if I'm incorrect, but I think that you're a bit.. different.

[ not a tsukumogami, but not that far off from one. .. maybe. this place throws his abilities off and he's still getting his feet beneath him, so to speak, so perhaps he is utterly wrong, and he's just projecting his hunger to find something familiar onto arjuna. ]

.. I haven't been able to sense them near, but I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't search anyway. I wouldn't want them to be alone here.