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[text] IS ♞ EVEN ON THE NETWORK'S CHARACTER MAP IV: zzzzzz

(in person, to room 1-05/visitors to 1-05:)

[Due to actually dying within one of the dreams she experienced, Sayaka snapped awake about.. let's say some minutes ago. The first few of those minutes were spent staring at her soul gem, assured that it's intact despite bearing a distinct cloudiness that she knows she needs to tend to - but one of her Grief Seeds she's distinctly refusing to use, and the other is nearly black from taking in too much corruption already.

God, she is sick of having a stupid cloudy soul gem nearly all the time.

Any encounters with concerned bystanders in the dorm room aside, she eventually makes her way to a terminal to put up a message -]

(actual network entry proper:)

so I just had the trippiest hibernation and it's not even the winter months yet, geez ( ° へ° )
good morning tower
how long was I even out
everything didn't explode into awful in my absence right

[She's only half joking.]

anyway I actually have a genuine question drumroll please!
(drum)
(drum)
(drum)

anyone got time to show me how to swing a sword and not be stupid about it?
just purely for hobby reasons ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

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why would u even need a sword?

_{[there is only one phrase that fits her reaction right now and that phrase is

oh shit

thank god for text and for lying through her teeth and gosh she feels bad, but:]}

...I thought it would be cool, mostly
it's not like it's that hard to get them around here
but I don't wanna get hurt or anything so that's why I'm asking before running away into the sunset pretending to be Sayaka Miki, the last samurai!

[...Yeah, nothing's really changed at all, hasn't it? Sayaka's still... herself and alive and that's a good thing, right? Though...]

...um, I don't think you should be talking about those kinds of things right after you're done being a sleeping beauty.

_{[Banter. The old banter is nice and irreplaceable and both helps her mellow out and key herself up at the same time.]}

hey, hey~! I gotta get my badass cred back somehow, right? damsel's just not really the look I'm going for this season, I think ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Well, as long as you don't get into anymore troubles...（￣～￣;）

[It's a good thing he's still shutting up about the time he found her sleeping like a rock outside her room...]

aw, not even a little troubles? gotta remake my whole schedule now. I was spacing them all out, even ヽ(‘◇`)ノ

=_=

[That emote says everything.]

If you'd like, I can instruct you in both proper swordplay and the dirtier tricks of the art.

I only offer the latter because I have the distinct feeling that this isn't merely a "hobby".

_{[Woah, legit response from someone she already knew and was cool with? This is pretty much the best scenario.]}

eheh! ヽ(‘ー`)ノ maybe I should call it a passion instead, huh?

thanks a million for this. I.. figure that I need it

It's no trouble. Most people I meet are more interested in guns than swords, so I'm glad to see someone who doesn't only care about things that go "boom".

If I might ask, is there a particular type of sword that you like to work with?

guns just weren't what I went for, y'know?

yeah, there's something in particular.
one second.

_{[--Well. The magic to make a sword appear, for just a few seconds - that's enough to sacrifice in the long run. Sayaka easily pulls a sword forth from thin air, lays it down carefully in easy view of the terminal's camera. She sends the picture as soon as she's checked to make sure it actually came out discernible.]}

Well, I do believe that those swords of yours are nearly the same as the kind I favoured in my glory days. The blade is a bit longer, but I can work with that.

When would you like to start?

soonest time that's possible. I know you had that other thing you were setting up, so I can wait, but uh

yeah!!

It will still be some time before I am actually able to begin the first meeting for that, so it's no trouble. At your soonest convenience is fine with me.

[Watch out, Sayaka, INCOMING PILLOW AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.]

...'bout time you woke your lazy ass up.

_{[Oh no, a pillow attack!]}

Mrph!

_{[Just her luck that she wakes up when the room's got someone else in it, and double her luck that it's Lina Inverse. Sayaka pushes the pillow assault away with the coordination typical of someone who just woke up from an absurdly long nap; namely, not very much.]}

[Lina's sitting cross-legged on the foot of her bed, arms folded, and probably looking rather tired herself - and a fair bit frustrated.]

The heck got into you, anyway?

Me? What, I'm not allowed to get a little... little..

_{[Her sentence gets cut off by a yawn.]}

..a little beauty sleep?

Pff, you call that a little? It's been a few days. Enough beauty sleep that you should be on par with me.

_{[Sayaka stares at the pronouncement that she'd been sleeping for days on end. ..That's not right, she'd - she'd had a ton of weird dreams, dreams not as bad as ones she'd had here before, but still markedly different from her usual ones - but it felt more on the order of sleeping in maybe one day, not the better side of a week.]}

I dunno, from what it looks like, to be on your level I'd have to stop sleeping. But whatever works for you.

...

_{[She did have a question, though - it's asked nearly tentatively.]}

...so nobody else went crazy while I was sleeping, right?

[Lina has a momentary eyetwitch, but only gets halfway to throwing another pillow before she stops and thinks better of it.]

Far as I know, no. Unless you count Gills. [She motions at Feferi's bed.] You worried her real good with your little coma.

Ah, geez...

_{[Sayaka looks genuinely bothered by that news. Hahah sorry Lina look who plays obvious roomie favorites.]}

I'll make it up to her. Not like I really meant to go into an eensy soap opera coma, though!

[Yeah yeah whatever Sayaka]

Get goin', then. I'm gonna go root around - you aren't the only one that pulled this, so somethin' has to be up.

you too, huh?

i can show ya some sword stuff, though it's meant to be effective, not fancy

[Though it IS showy.]

me too.

_{[..she's not sure how to handle Momotaros, from the blurry memories of her dreams - namely, that he'd skimmed close to knowledge of something she'd managed to keep secret from people in the tower, and needed to keep secret even more now. Maybe he won't ever bring it up, that would be nice.]}

so substance over style, huh?

_{[--well, it's not like she's a busy bee. She has time to listen to what both offering teachers have to say.]}

huh.

[That...is weird, but it's not quite clicking to Momo just yet who he's talking to.]

yeah. i'll be on that weird floor with the farmland whenever you're ready.

_{[..woah, she didn't expect to get a first lesson today. But the less time spent talking to Momotaros on the network is the less time she's risking him saying something where it's pasted up for all the tower to see, and that's cool by her.]}

that'sssss

33, right?
I can go there.

_{[That'll be, what, six flights of stairs? ...well, it makes a decent warm-up, at least, and she does need to get back into motion after the days spent out of it.]}

[Once Sayaka does arrive, Momo's chillin' out on a rock like it ain't no thang, poking at the ground with the same sword he cherry-bombed Kyuubey with.

Once she gets close enough, he looks up and peers at her for a moment.]

...you look kinda familiar.

Do I?

_{[..so he remembers, at least a little.

She's ready to handle this! Initiating plan, lie.]}

Maybe you've seen me around. ..I've been here a long time.

[Momotaros stares a bit, then he snaps his fingers and points.]

...it's weird, but I had a dream with you in it while I was out!

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[text] 'Cause clearly this is how they should meet after that dream

[text] clearly BD

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