MISSION 1

[adsum]

Participants: Hanako, Amami, Clamor, Lucifer, Meng Yao, Shinobu, Gundham
Location: Courtyard
Date: 08/07

(ooc notes: I will state any possible content warnings in the subject line of the mod response when it comes up. If anything makes you uncomfortable, please tell me so I can back off and refocus the thread.

There will be no tag order, and a mod response will come after at least 6 player responses OR the next day, whichever is earlier. Please note this means that if you're absent for a day or more, the thread will move on, but I will pace things so that people aren't missing large plot beats.

For this mission, characters will icly split into two groups, and there may be an opportunity to remix groups later in the mission.)

Comments

[adsum]

Do what you must to be rid of him.

[ Time out, exorcism, doesn't matter. But rather than something to be dealt with immediately, the gardener seems to regard Hanako as nothing more than a nuisance, like a fly buzzing around the kitchen.

He returns to the hose to fill up a watering can. ]

Regardless, be careful around that one.

[sunstead]

A-ahaha... just a simple misunderstanding! He's no more harmful than anyone else here, I assure you. [which is only like... mostly a lie...... it's fine, maybe he meant to the plants huh]

Do you deal with evil spirits often? I haven't seen much of anything here as far as spirit activity goes, so that's a bit surprising.

[sisters]

I think he means well — but that's a good question.

( amami offers a smile, because even if both of clamor's excuses sound like straight up lies to him, it's still a good reference. also, this is a guy who can see spirits and all that without having to look through a rock; maybe his worth has more weight than amami, for whom this alone is more spirit activity than he's ever encountered... literally anywhere else, ever. )

[adsum]

I know how dangerous you all are. Even the ones who never mean to.

[ "He's no more harmful than anyone else here" please Clamor you're all murderers, gardener-san takes care of a soul tree, he knows ]

Most spirits never come to be. There must be strong ties to the place, for them to cling so.

[sunstead]

But you do still encounter them? [like... they haven't seen any evil spirits yet, and his only example so far has been Hanako, so. that is a little sus, he has to admit. but maybe they haven't seen any because Kazuki is really good at his job...?] Hmm... spirits can end up tied to a place for a lot of reasons. It doesn't always mean they're malicious or evil.

What about you, sir spirit? Is there a reason why you remain here, tending to the gardens?

[adsum]

[ ? a silly question ]

It is because I am the gardener.

[ Whether it's out of a sense of duty or because—- ]

[hanaban]

-—the only malicious spirit here is you!

[ Hanako's blade catches the moonlight in a flash of red: in an instant, he stands behind Amami, knife slicing through the side of his arm deep enough to tear fabric and draw blood, a thin spray splattering onto the grass like dew.

Evil would be him, who makes the world go dark. ]