Equivalent Exchange--Episode 1: Shattered Love

[Dire Lemming]

"But..." Al trails off as Karin seems to have completely ignored him. He stays seated in his chair seemingly in deep concentration, muttering; "What can I do?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"The best thing you can do is leave and be on your way. Nothing can bring things back to the way they were before, that much is true," Karin agrees.

*Then she gets up and begins to head off.*

 

[Dire Lemming]

Al sighs, and looks dejectedly down at the table as Karin leaves. After a moment he gets up and follows, going back the way they came. When he gets to the hidden door he pauses for a moment, wondering what could be behind it, and listening for any indication.

If he doesn't hear anything he'll leave the house.

 

[unleashed]

*Watching as Al gets up to follow Karin, Rose stays a short distance behind him, so as not to disrupt whatever he’s trying to do.*

 

[Rystil Arden]

*The hidden door is deathly silent this time. Knowing where it is, it shouldn't be too hard to find the way to make it open from this side if he wanted a peek, or to transmute another hole, but he did say he was going to leave...Not that Karin would be able to tell--she exited the house in the other direction, as she said she would.*

(OOC: I must say--that is not how I expected it to go. Nicely rolled Diplomacy the second time around for Al )

 

[Dire Lemming]

(OOC: Oh, whoops. That's interesting.)

Al is extremely curious about the contents of the room, and seeing as how Karin had left, he can't help but take a peak. He once again opens his peephole, hopefully getting a better view now that Karin isn't in the way.


(OOC: Expected as in you didn't expect me to try diplomacy or just didn't expect it to work?)

 

[unleashed]

*Rose watches and waits silently for Al, ready to warn him should anyone come.*

 

[Rystil Arden]

*This time when Al finishes his peephole, the room is empty of any occupants. There aren't any signs of motion to naturally draw attention to that spot from before, but Al's eyes are naturally drawn there. There seems to be a prone figure or a group of objects in roughly the size and shape of a prone body in the shadowed corner that had been blocked from sight before.*

(OOC: Persistent diplomacy until a relative success where she went to Indifferent--the first one started at Hostile because she thought you were Ed, so it was almost guaranteed not to work )

 

[Dire Lemming]

Al opens the hole so that it is large enough to fit through and enters the room, he makes his way, anxiously, to the prone form on the ground.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*The prone form turns out to be a desiccated, withered corpse. It is wearing the coat that Rose noticed was missing from Claus's home, and underneath that, it is wearing the same outfit as Claus was earlier.*