Simulacrum (Invite Only)

[city;]

[ Hey everybody. I'm really sorry, but I'm not going to be replying to anything much for the next few days. I guess, if our owner wants a reason for this, go ahead and PM me.
That's all in really going to be looking at for the next few days.
I do have a reason, and maybe when I'm comfortable talking about it, I will. But for now, I'd just like to know you guys trust me enough to come back soon. I don't know how long this is going to last.
Im really sorry.
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[Starkit12]

bump;

[wolfie.]

- procrastinator is here Dx -

When Aspen reached the group, she paused to glance over her shoulder again to see Lake squeezing past people awkwardly. She had to stifle a laugh, making an attempt to suppress the small grin that crossed her face. Another person, an older man, swerved around her and Lake, and Aspen stared after his grey head with a faint sign of irritation on her face. "Apparently being polite isn't a tradition here," she muttered to herself, turning towards Marie. "Happy birthday Marie. Thanks for inviting me," she greeted, a feeble effort to seem relaxed; It was still obvious that she was out of her element at the party.

[Artesian]

((Kay, so this seems to be stagnating slightly, so I'm going to start us moving into the simulation. Pie, if you still want to jump in, you can! There are lots of kids at this party, so you can just be mentioned as being there.))

Marie smiled and took the present from Shiloh. "Thank you... Shiloh," she enthused, with a small pause before her name as if she were dredging it up from the invitations list, and added, as a sort of afterthought, "I love reading." She put it in a pile with the rest of the presents, and turned to Aspen with a cheery, "Thank you, and of course!" She seemed a bit more nervous than it was reasonable for a birthday girl to be. Perhaps it was just because there weren't any parents here, and she seemed to be the one organizing all this.

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"Miss Kurone!" the assistant called. "The last guest is here. We're ready to start."

Marie nodded, and waved a hand to the assistant. The lady stood on a chair and clapped her hands, which was surprising loud in the chamber. "Everyone! We're ready to start the Simulacrum!" She rattled off a list of guidelines (don't die in the simulation, mental panic word is Cucumber Salad, blah blah blah), and then explained what they really needed to know.

"The simulation that's been chosen is a standard Fantasy one," she explained, glancing down at the sheet of paper she held in her hand. "You'll all have a choice of being Knights, Monks, Peasants, Royalty, Princesses, Enchanters, Mages, and Healers." She smiled in an flat way, as if her note sheet told her to. "Please choose what you wish to be before we hook you into the machine, so we can program it with the minimum of delay."

The man at the door, the older one with the tardis tie, asked each person what they wanted to be before letting them through the door, to be ushered into one seat in two long rows. The seats were fairly complex in appearance, all silver tubes, white plastic and soft cushions, but they boiled down, essentially, into a comfortable seat like a dentist's chair and a helmet that was designed to be put over their heads.

[abandoned.]

(( I will definitely have a reply done today [unless I just do catch up work for school to pull ahead] once I get a few other catch up posts done :3 ))

[Starkit12]

Lake slipped the card carefully onto the table next to where Marie had put the other presents. He lingered by Aspen's side until he heard about the party moving into another room. A bunch of teens were herded into the room like cattle, and Lake felt himself being separated from Aspen. His ears were filled with the laughter and shouting of teens around him and he found himself muttering "knight" at someone who asked him a question. Lake was soon pushed into a chair and he shook his head, clearing the jumble of thoughts from his head. "Sorry what?" He asked, his eyes turning to a woman who was doing something to his chair.

"Is that all you would want to be, a knight?" She asked, "In this simulation you can be anything you want."

Lake thought for a moment, thinking back to one of his favourite books to read. "A werewolf knight?" He suggested, unsure of where this was going.

"Good choice," The woman flashed him a smile, pushing a few buttons on his chair before moving on to the next person.

{{ Edited with more information about what he picked, if that's okay.

[Artesian]

((Ah, I should have mentioned, you get more detail than that in your request, and if you want a power, now is the time to request it. Like, Lake should request a werewolf knight, if that makes sense? My character Danny will request to be a tinker with the magic to make the stuff he makes live and talk to him.

The kids that don't request some sort of magic won't get a power. Sorry, should have explained.))

[wolfie.]

Confusion swarmed around Aspen likes bees as every guest was guided into another room after answering the old man that had previously swept past her without a second glance. She was tempted to glare at him, but withheld herself when she was presented with a rather baffling question. Her answer was brief and not thought out very well, so by the time she had finished telling him she wanted to be an enchantress with the ability to manipulate heat, she was already reconsidering herself. It was too late though. She was being ushered into a seat and separated from Lake. She didn't know anyone here; she didn't trust these people. Aspen sat up straight, her gaze never settling on one thing or person for longer than a few seconds.

- Is this alright? -

[Artesian]

((Yup, just perfect Wolfie!))