caughtinanetwork | II // [video/filtered/action] castle-building

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[While the image is slightly lopsided, this time the SFC screen is right-side-up. Here you have a smiling Ilya, sitting in a new apartment building. Residence-savvy individuals might be able to recognize this as the Yutopil Apartments, and that's right - Ilya is a new resident! It kind of took her a while to decide after being shown around by Bianca, but she settled on it in the end. Although it's kind of lacking right now, which she promptly addresses:]

I've just moved into my new apartment! It's smaller than I'd like... but that's okay.

[The important thing is that she has people around her now, right? That makes where she lives a lot more fun. She knows this from experience, although thinking on that experience now puts a slightly sad look on her face, which she promptly gets rid of with another smile. This is a good experience now, so she should smile!]

I'm going to remake this room so it looks more like my old castle! Because I really liked it, and Bianca said there aren't really any castles around here. And apparently everything here's free.

[She shrugs, with a 'I'll just have to make do' face.]

But there's a lot of stuff I want and I don't have Berserker... [she says this last part a little sadly,] so I'll need some help! Meet me in the Plaza!

// video; [filtered away from (oops) Junpei Iori]

[Ilya holds up a necklace with a small crown-shaped trinket, looking at it and giving a smile to the screen.]

Thanks for the present, Junpei! I'm settling in - look, I picked my apartment!

[And the screen shifts to show Ilya's apartment, in all its newness. Now, if only she knew that she messed up the filters on this one...]

// action

[In the Plaza, there's a small, silver-haired, red-eyed girl walking around the market stalls, looking for certain things. A large chandelier, a fancy mirror, maybe a bigger chest of drawers? Oh, and a big four-poster bed. Basically, although the apartment isn't too badly furnished right now (the fireplace is a bonus!), it's not fancy enough.

They're not exactly... easy to find, but she's not giving up! Maybe you can give her a hand?]

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[... oh. Well...]

I guess so. [She coughs again.] It doesn't look like anyone's here.

[And it's pretty quiet, too. There aren't any customers, and she doesn't see the sign of any overly excited shopkeeper, either.

Well, time to look at the shelves!

She walks around without much satisfaction, until she sees a chest with large, beautiful wooden carvings on the doors. It's white and lined with gold - it's pretty much perfect.]

How about this one?

[As Bianca walked into the place, she couldn't help but let out another sneeze. Man, she wasn't getting sick right? It's because of the dust right? Oh well, that doesn't matter.

The important thing right now is to help Ilya find some stuff!

When she walked over toward the carvings, Bianca leaned in closer to a better look. Don't mind her knocking around the chest to see if it really as good as it looks!

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock.

....]

Okay, it's good

You think so?

[Well, she'll just trust Bianca's expertise.

She's about to call for someone to help serve her and Bianca when she lets out another huge sneeze. She sniffs.]

Is anyone here? [She looks over at Bianca, kind of for back-up.]

[Are you sure it's a good idea to trust Bianca's knowledge of drawers? She knows nothing about it!]

If it's able to handle all the knocking I did, it should be good!

[Of course, Bianca now is just guessing at this point. She think it's sturdy enough at this point! Before the girl could say anything else, she quickly looked back at her friend once she heard the sneeze!]

Ah...are you okay? Hm...we should probably get some napkins once we're done here! But...I'm not too sure if anyone is here...

Hello? I think we need some help, is anyone here?

[Annddd....]

[... an old man shuffles out from behind the back of the store, his cane and his hunched back seemingly out of place in a furniture store. But he has a large smile on his face - which of these locals doesn't? - and raises his cane at the chest before giving it a knock too.]

This one, ya say? Y'all right with carryin' this?

[Ilya nods.]

Yeah, this one! [She pauses.] I don't know about carrying it back, though...

[The old man laughs with a big, hearty laugh that Ilya definitely wasn't expecting from him.]

'Sall right! Let 'em young'uns handle this here chest. They'll take it right up to where ya live.

[Meanwhile Bianca just lets out giggle along with the old man.]

Then that's great, we don't need to carry it! I was going to say...if we had to, then it would be some trouble later on! We still need to buy a lot more stuff!

[And then she looked back at Ilya]

By the way, what else do you need to buy again? Or is this the only one? I think there was more but...

Well, there's lots more... but maybe we shouldn't do those now.

[They've been walking around for a while now, and she's feeling a little bit tired.

The shopkeeper pops his head in between the two of them, giving Ilya a bit of a scare before she realizes that oh, it's just his smiling face. Although that in itself is a bit scary.]

So this good for ya, missy? Where can ma boys take it?

[So Ilya gives him her new address, writing it with the strange pen he handed her. She sets the pen down on the counter and turns back to Bianca.]

Let's go back?

Hm? Do you want to rest somewhere?

[Now that Bianca thought about it, the both of them had been walking around for a while hadn't they?

As the shopkeeper popped his head, Bianca quickly look a step back before jumping away!

She didn't say anything but just...stare at the shopkeeper before walking a bit closer to Ilya.]

U-Um...y-yeah....we can go back now and we'll just finish shopping tomorrow right?

[Ahahha...]

[Ilya nods. She's glad that Bianca's good for continuing the next day!]

There's still a lot of stores we haven't looked at yet! We can definitely keep looking around tomorrow.

[But all she really wants for now is to go home and rest. So after the shopkeeper assures the two of them that everything will be okay and that the chest will be delivered in one piece, Ilya falls quiet as she leaves the store.]

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