Trash Squad Day 4 - ELIMINATION?

[chinhotta]

Mornin', sweethearts? Did you have a good night? Feel any romances start to blossom?

Well, you've got another chance if not! Check your tablets for your dates!

[ The dates this time are: ]

Isuke	Yuri	Aquarium Tunnel
Joker	Sudoh	Art Room
Shirayuki	Hinata	Greenhouse
Shuichi	Avenger	Gymnasium
Niwatori	Reyson	Holding Cells
Sayori	Arianna	Indoor Playground
Ike	Futayo	Interrogation Room
Mikan	Peter	Kitchen
Kaito	Tatsuya	Library
Rin	Sonia	Library 2
Tohsaka	Elizabeth	Morgue
Akechi	Ouma	Nurse's Office
Sara	Akira	Props Room
Allen	Yusuke	Rec Room
Ruler	Persephone	Science Lab
Komaeda	Kiyo	Shrine
Obi	Zen	Wine Cellar

Nice going! Everyone who's still around got a date! That means there's no elimination today, have fun!

...Oh, but Astolfo, Ichigo, and Ranulf have been disqualified for the rest of the game. Don't worry about them, though, geez! They're perfectly fine! Maybe they're even hanging out on a romantic getaway with everyone else! Don't get your panties in a twist. Unless you're into that.

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Comments

[justpure]

Rider? Is that what his title was?

[Astolfo wasn't very secretive about his true name, you see.]

I must admit, I'm a bit dissapointed to see him leave the game like that.

[counterfaith]

Mm, it doesn't surprise me. As that person is rather eccentric, breaking the rules isn't exactly out of the norm.

[justpure]

I can tell...

Perhaps we could check the Greenhouse for an extra myrtle tree, just in case?

[Taking a jab at Astolfo's backstory like the nerd he is.]

[counterfaith]

If such a thing has occurred, it would be prudent to allow that person a few moments of self-reflection, for such foolishness.

[justpure]

Heh. I'm sure they will have all the time they need.

Still someone has to tend to them so they don't die of thirst.

[counterfaith]

Ah, not to worry, I'm sure that will be taken care of. In any case, it is not as if we require water in the first place.

[justpure]

... As spirits, you mean?

[Humans need water to live. A caveman could understand that.]

[counterfaith]

That's correct.

[justpure]

With physical bodies, I might add.

Then what do you feed on? Energy? Souls? Something else?

[counterfaith]

All of the above. That is to say, cooked food is a possibility, though it is poor at converting into magical energy - but we are capable of feeding off of one's own innate magical energy source, or the natural energy that is in the earth, or the spiritual cores that humans possess. There are rather gruesome cases wherein Spirits may even cannibalize other humans in order to sustain themselves.

[justpure]

A rather vampiric existence, I think...

[He can only imagine the most notorious people known to man stooping to such extremes, but... For more noble and downtrodden spirits the possibility seems tragically cruel.]

More sensible Spirits are more humane, yes?

[counterfaith]

Oh no, vampires are a different beast entirely.

[ literally. ]

Most Spirits do not consume energy in such a way. We are, in large part after all, Heroic. However, that isn't to say there aren't those with malintent towards the living humans of today.

[justpure]

Of course. Much like the concept of Yin and Yang, good cannot exist without evil to balance it out.

But I digress. How do more noble spirits consume energy?

[counterfaith]

Can it not, I wonder . . .

[ softer, though he speaks a little louder then, to answer the question ]

As I said before, cooked food does work, though poorly and must be accommodated by quantity. Aside from that, we are traditionally contracted to a magus, who has ample magical energy for us to use.

[justpure]

A magus? So that makes you something of a familiar, yes?

[And a parasite, whether ya like it or not. Or would it be more like a symbiotic relationship?

... Eh, he ain't a biologist.]

[counterfaith]

We are not "something of a familiar", we are definitively familiars of our Masters. We are summoned into the world by those magi, sustained by those magi, and fight and die for those magi. It is only befitting to call us familiars.