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[open] based on the hit sondheim musical
WHO: Berserker/Frankenstein & open
WHERE: Flavo, the border of the woods
WHEN: Approximately the last 10-14 days of the month.
WHAT: A variety of spooky forest-based prompts both during Event 21 and outside it, for all of your being suspicious of the forest needs. It's a bad place and she doesn't trust it, and there's lots of things to do with places you don't trust.
WARNINGS: Nothing I can think of that needs a content warning. There could be some violence or self-overexertion depending on where things go.
i. the one during the event;
[Some time around the 25th or 26th, Berserker has gone so long without knowing what it is to feel calm that she has reached an untenable level of frenzy.
(And of course, there’s a fear there beneath the inability for her mind to rest. She cannot remember what calm is, so perhaps if she ever did experience it, it wasn’t real. A monstrous, fake emotion for a monstrous, fake form of life, a failure even at that.)
To her, the cause seems obvious. The forest is ominous and threatening and always has been. It feels…it smells…innately weird, a truly dangerous thing.
And that’s why, on one of these days late in the month, it is possible to encounter a very fast flutter of white launching into the trees with an angry howl as Berserker herself tries to run into the forest, without any mind paid to the danger and without any pausing to plan. There’s just yelling, and running, and slamming into the dangerous trees, repeated and repeated.
She can be followed, joined, or maybe even convinced to return to town, but she doesn’t seem to be paying attention to anything else at the moment, and it might take some trying to get through to her.]
((For this prompt, be aware she won’t be going too deep into the woods solely on account of not having a forest scenario, but she will be making an attempt.))
ii. the one outside of the event;
[This time, she’s having a staring contest with an opponent that can’t even stare back.
Even with no clear enemy to follow into the forest (and therefore no reason to go running in), it’s still just too suspicious for Berserker to deal with. And there’s nothing else for her to do, no one who needs her, and she is so often by herself anyway—
So even when everyone’s emotions are intact, her suspicions don’t wane. She spends hours staring into the colorless abyss, tense but otherwise immobile, her eyes expressionless and fixed. A small animal weaves its way between her legs, even, and Berserker doesn’t even move then.
The only thing that will make her react at all is if someone else approaches the border of the forest, either coming out or going in. Maybe she doesn’t make eye contact right away, but it’s obvious that’s where her attention is because after a moment, she lets out a sound.]
…Sto p.
iii. the one that can take place at either time;
[After so long of staring down an opponent that doesn’t even seem to exist, the danger of the forest has finally caught up with her. Berserker’s holding onto consciousness by a thread. Her sheer tenacity is probably the only thing that’s kept her from being overwhelmed.
As Servants go, she’s a rather weak one, isn’t she? It’s pretty pathetic…
She wants to go home. It isn’t the cottage in Flavo that she thinks of first as “home,” but that is where she’s going to have to go, isn’t it? Where is home? Ah, perhaps she never had one, but she’d come close enough when she was contracted to that boy.
She doesn’t make it to the cottage she shares with Riku and Mami. And that’s how it’s possible to stumble upon her sitting somewhere in the middle of road in Flavo, her eyes closed, still partially upright but slumping to the side like some discarded toy.]
iv. the improv one;
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WHERE: Flavo, the border of the woods
WHEN: Approximately the last 10-14 days of the month.
WHAT: A variety of spooky forest-based prompts both during Event 21 and outside it, for all of your being suspicious of the forest needs. It's a bad place and she doesn't trust it, and there's lots of things to do with places you don't trust.
WARNINGS: Nothing I can think of that needs a content warning. There could be some violence or self-overexertion depending on where things go.
i. the one during the event;
[Some time around the 25th or 26th, Berserker has gone so long without knowing what it is to feel calm that she has reached an untenable level of frenzy.
(And of course, there’s a fear there beneath the inability for her mind to rest. She cannot remember what calm is, so perhaps if she ever did experience it, it wasn’t real. A monstrous, fake emotion for a monstrous, fake form of life, a failure even at that.)
To her, the cause seems obvious. The forest is ominous and threatening and always has been. It feels…it smells…innately weird, a truly dangerous thing.
And that’s why, on one of these days late in the month, it is possible to encounter a very fast flutter of white launching into the trees with an angry howl as Berserker herself tries to run into the forest, without any mind paid to the danger and without any pausing to plan. There’s just yelling, and running, and slamming into the dangerous trees, repeated and repeated.
She can be followed, joined, or maybe even convinced to return to town, but she doesn’t seem to be paying attention to anything else at the moment, and it might take some trying to get through to her.]
((For this prompt, be aware she won’t be going too deep into the woods solely on account of not having a forest scenario, but she will be making an attempt.))
ii. the one outside of the event;
[This time, she’s having a staring contest with an opponent that can’t even stare back.
Even with no clear enemy to follow into the forest (and therefore no reason to go running in), it’s still just too suspicious for Berserker to deal with. And there’s nothing else for her to do, no one who needs her, and she is so often by herself anyway—
So even when everyone’s emotions are intact, her suspicions don’t wane. She spends hours staring into the colorless abyss, tense but otherwise immobile, her eyes expressionless and fixed. A small animal weaves its way between her legs, even, and Berserker doesn’t even move then.
The only thing that will make her react at all is if someone else approaches the border of the forest, either coming out or going in. Maybe she doesn’t make eye contact right away, but it’s obvious that’s where her attention is because after a moment, she lets out a sound.]
…Sto p.
iii. the one that can take place at either time;
[After so long of staring down an opponent that doesn’t even seem to exist, the danger of the forest has finally caught up with her. Berserker’s holding onto consciousness by a thread. Her sheer tenacity is probably the only thing that’s kept her from being overwhelmed.
As Servants go, she’s a rather weak one, isn’t she? It’s pretty pathetic…
She wants to go home. It isn’t the cottage in Flavo that she thinks of first as “home,” but that is where she’s going to have to go, isn’t it? Where is home? Ah, perhaps she never had one, but she’d come close enough when she was contracted to that boy.
She doesn’t make it to the cottage she shares with Riku and Mami. And that’s how it’s possible to stumble upon her sitting somewhere in the middle of road in Flavo, her eyes closed, still partially upright but slumping to the side like some discarded toy.]
iv. the improv one;
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Even then, Berserker shrugs a little bit. She probably doesn't have that long. She still doesn't know what managed to summon her here this time, but her existence is likely temporary.]
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[ it's obvious that she wants an explanation, though, so he goes on, tucking his hands into his pockets for the time being. He's of the opinion it's always better to know the truth than live in blissful ignorance, anyway. ]
Just like I said: I've been here for about a year and a month, so I've got a pretty good idea of how things work around here. You're fairly new, aren't you? If you've any questions, I can try to answer them. Although there aren't half as many answers as I'd like.
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What questions could she ask? He's right that there don't seem to be many answers for anyone. Saber (the blue one) had offered to try and answer some as well, but what is there really, that they know.]
Uuhhh...? [She gestures to the perimeter of the forest, then closes the shape she made with her hands. Is the forest coming closer?]
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Yes, the forest is getting closer. It's never done that before, and I'm not sure what it means. It's probably best if we don't give it too much real estate, though. If you want to cut down a few trees in lieu of some kind of monster, that'd be fine by me.
[ he has no idea if that will help or hurt, frankly, but it will at least push the encroaching tree line back... ]