Fourth wall mingle post

[wrnpcs]

[For the regular denizens of Balamb Garden, it's an ordinary day...until more off-worlders start showing up, for only a few hours at a time. Unsure what to make of these more temporary visitors, the Garden faculty is holding off on registering them as cadets or offering them jobs.

[Maybe someone you know might turn up?]

Mod note, to reiterate:

4th wall characters can only be seen at certain hours of the day. They may appear for two hours a day, or four... or seen only in the early morning... the time doesn't matter to us, but they're not permanently here. They may return to Garden again through the rest of the month, but they're not around 24/7.

Like apped characters, 4th wall characters can't be ridiculously-sized. Transformers, Gundams, and similar concepts/characters will become human-sized (and in the case of mechas, not allowed altogether.)

Players (like you and me) are not allowed to visit Garden. We're breaking the 4th wall, not destroying it altogether!

Apart from this post, 4th wall characters are free to reply to open posts in witchesreign or open logs in concoursec. Apped players have the option of closing their posts to in-game characters only.

All BBS posts are locked to in-game characters only. 4th wall characters do not have access to any sort of logged in posts unless they hijack someone else's log-in---and in those cases, we need to know this beforehand.

For those unfamiliar with the setting, here is more info on Balamb Garden's facilities and layout. Additionally, some of the NPCs around and some player characters may be wearing Balamb Garden's cadet or SeeD uniform.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask on the OOC post or through the mod channels (wrmods or witchesreign).

Comments

[fierybluebird]

You're more optimistic than I am I suppose.

[thorny]

It's an unfortunate flaw of mine.

[fierybluebird]

I'm not sure that's a flaw necessarily, just a difference in style.

[thorny]

Combined with my other personality traits and the people I most often come into contact with it's most certainly a flaw.

[fierybluebird]

Ah, fair point. I guess that wasn't something shaped from experience then.

[thorny]

Quite the contrary. All of my experiences ought to have hardened me to the point of diamond cynicism, but I seem to have settled into a comfortable medium for the time being instead.

[fierybluebird]

[Laughs.]

How fortunate then. I'm not sure I could stand your sharp wit if it was diamond-pointed as Jozu. He's too hard-headed for me to combat.

[thorny]

And I would simply hate to cause any undue trouble for people. Such a chaotic nature is far from my usual antics, after all. [wryly]

[fierybluebird]

Of course. [Another chuckle.] After all, you're more the type to sit out of the way and knit, eh? Or is there another reason to this?

[thorny]

An alternative motive to a tranquil public display of handicraft skills? You wound me with your suspicion.

[fierybluebird]

[Laughs.] My apologies. I'm sure your knitting comes with the purest of all intentions to clutter you room.

[thorny]

But of course. Considering that I've been without a roommate to drive me insane for quite some time now I need something to make waking up each morning a hazard.

[fierybluebird]

Have you considered an illicit pet?

[thorny]

I'm not quite sure if it would be worth the effort acclimating my current illicit pet to a second companion.

[fierybluebird]

Oh. Does everyone have one except me? Maybe I should steal one of my fiance's cats.

What kind do you have?

[thorny]

It seems to be all the rage in the underground fashion world, if the literature I've removed from the black market is any indication; you're horrifically behind the times if you're without one. [she rolls her eyes slightly]

Her grace the Duchess Madeline le Mewfus is a lovely calico, which is something new for me. Typically I tend towards the more traditional black cats.

[fierybluebird]

Nice name.

Unfortunately I prefer to be completely out of the times. I'll leave the fashionable things to Grell. I'd adopt another chocobo, but it just seems weird to keep someone you talk to as a pet to me.

[thorny]

There are many people who posit that pets keep their owners rather than the other way around, so you may be able to get away with it regardless.

[fierybluebird]

You think so? In that case I definitely can't have one. Only my Pops was allowed to give me orders or have me fetch things for him.

[thorny]

If your animal companions are all uniformly capable of demanding that you fetch their belongings for them I think you'd be better off looking into a performance routine rather than a pet.

[fierybluebird]

[Laughs.] Well, it's hard to say no to a cute face, but you're probably right about that.

[thorny]

Thank you, I'd thought that my research had borne accurate fruit. As someone used to at least one cat slinking around at all times I can attest that becoming apathetic to their visual ploys is difficult but not impossible. It simply takes a little willpower.

[fierybluebird]

I could probably handle a cat all right, but baby chocobo get me every time.

[thorny]

Everyone has their weaknesses. Although he wouldn't admit it I know someone who may have the same issues regarding birds.

[fierybluebird]

Really? Any idea what his reasons are?