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[immortalia]

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[ Waking up in strange places? Okay, fine, Sertoria can handle it. However, she can't help but feel as if something is amiss once she awakes in a bed not her own. Idly, she wonders if she's been recaptured by her creators, but if that was the case, she'd be in chains and restrained.

How very odd... Well, when she dresses in a simple white tunic, she checks to see if her metal bracelet and necklace are on before setting forth in the hallways.

It was time to investigate. ]

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[ Here she was, sat down with a bowl of oatmeal and is...not touching it, oddly. She sees you in the cafeteria and gets up with the bowl in her hands. ]

I... really do not require sustenance. This food would be wasted otherwise. Would you like this instead?

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[ During the nighttime, Sertoria can be found wandering the hallways and occasionally one can catch glimpses of light coming from her whenever she's faced with a monster. She found out during her first encounter that reasoning and talking with them wouldn't work, so she had to rely on her old ways again.

Sigh. She really abhorred killing...

At least those metal accessories are still around her neck and wrist. ]

...How many more are there around here?

Comments

[immortalia]

[ Watch yourself, Ankh. ]

Mm, a very valuable skill in which to have. And, I suppose that should I wish to obtain the information you have so far, it will cost me, correct?

[birdinthehand]

If you're not smart enough to learn it for yourself...

[He smirks. He bites off a bit more from his ice cream bar. There's not much left clinging to the stick at this point.]

Get me another one of these.

[immortalia]

I was testing you.

[ But, right, right - Joshua's teachings were law yadda yadda. She goes to get him two more ice cream bars and hands them over. ]

[birdinthehand]

[By the time she gets back, he has managed to completely devour the rest of that ice cream bar. He seems surprised that she returned, and doubly surprised that she brought two. This was his lucky day, wasn't it?

He snatches both, then immediately peels the wrapper off of one.]

Almost every level of this tower has something in it that wants to kill you. If you can't fight, don't go exploring alone. You'll die.

[He takes a little nip at the new bar, finds it still too hard to make any progress on, and settles for sucking on it a moment before he continues.]

...For some reason, no one stays dead. So I suppose you can be as stupid as you want.

[immortalia]

[ Sertoria knows how to fight - it's part of the program she was designed with. However, the thing was that she didn't want to fight. She thought that talking things out was more productive than just raising your fists.

An eye for an eye and the world goes blind. ]

Is there someone that has revival powers or something akin to it to make it possible?

[birdinthehand]

[He gives a snort.]

Apparently there is.

[But there's no elaboration on that point. Because he doesn't know the answer, but he'll be damned if he'll ever admit to not knowing something.]

You'll want to learn to use the network. You'll want to watch it. This tower's technology is... primitive, but useful.

[immortalia]

[ She gives him a nod, noting that down somewhere in her mind. ]

I should have familiarity with a technologically-based network, if that is the case, sir.

--Oh, forgive my rudeness. I am Sertoria Cani and it is a pleasure to meet you.

[birdinthehand]

[Great. She knows computer things? Less trouble for him, then.]

...I'm Ankh.

[No further elaboration. No polite conversational padding. He focuses on his new ice cream bar, waiting to see if she has anything else to say.]