that's not what we usually mean by 'dance with death'

[cherryblooded]

[That certainly did happen. Cherryblod's not the type of person who will judge one person's value as being more than another's, so he can't say whether it was better or worse than the first week. It came as less of a shock, maybe, but even so...

It's not the kind of thing people usually want to go through alone.

So, after he spends some time in the kitchen preparing (with assistance from Bruce), he'll slip some personalized notes under everyone's doors.]

[Name],
If you'd prefer to spend this time alone, that's fine.
If you'd prefer not to, I've made some food and set it out in the dining hall.
Even if you're just hungry and would rather not talk, feel free to come take some.
But if you'd like the company, we're here for you.
-Cherryblod

[Those arriving in the dining hall will find an assortment of food - a fair number of sandwiches and other, actual meal-like options since most people missed a meal or two, but also a goodly number of desserts. There's tea, as well as coffee for those who favor it.]

Comments

[captainobnoxious]

What's the difference between a boss monster and everyone else. Are they just stronger or something? Maybe snails are the secret and you just don't realize their sucky, slimy potential.

[Tell her about Homestuck Undertale.]

[ratingspoint]

It's more to do with their souls than the snails. They aren't as powerful as humans, so it's just temporary and they won't stay for too long, but their souls stay around after death.

There are a few of us in each region that are stronger than the others. At least one of the skeletons in the eastern caverns has potential, and there are a lot of members of the Royal Guard in that area. Undyne is in Waterfall - she's the captain of the guard that I mentioned, she'd love you. And where I work...well, there's me, of course. And my creator is pretty good with magic and technology, but she doesn't fight.

We're all pretty powerful, but we've got nothing on boss monsters.

[captainobnoxious]

So humans are the boss monsters of all boss monsters, if we're going by strength and souls and whatnot. That's a weird kind of ranking though.

[... But the snails could be important. Eat some.

Also look, he sounds normal again. More normal. Not... sultry or anything that was highly uncomfortable. Sigrun pats his chest proudly.]

Are they usually your generals then? The kind of people that'd take care of any problem?

[ratingspoint]

[Good! That's good. ...Don't mess with his dial again.]

They're our royalty, actually.

[captainobnoxious]

[She won't!! ... Probably.]

Yeesh. I'll be real, royalty's an oldworlder thing, we don't have anything like that anymore. They're just super rich to me.

[Super rich with many valuables they're not using anymore.]

How's royalty act? Like the bird or like Caren?

[ratingspoint]

...More like Cherryblod, actually. At least, that's what King Asgore is like.

[Asgore is everybody's dad.]

[captainobnoxious]

[A fussy dad.......]

I guess they really are just people with big houses.

[Cherry's good people. If royalty's like that, then it's a damn shame that they all died during the rash.]

[ratingspoint]

...Big, poorly-named houses, in our case. King Asgore sucks at names.

[captainobnoxious]

Did he name the places you guys live too?

[Waterfall. Hotland.]

[ratingspoint]

[...Snowdin.]

Please. It's really sad, but most of those are more creative than anything he comes up with. He could have named the original place monsters settled in those caverns anything he wanted, and he named it "Home."

[...]

After a while we moved our center of operations to a new home. He proceeded to name it "New Home".

[captainobnoxious]

[holy shit]

You weren't kidding. I would've called the first one kind of nice since it's your home, but New Home. Does he have kids? Tell me he doesn't.

[ratingspoint]

Only one, to my knowledge, though I don't remember much about him. Other than yes, his name was terrible. Asgore's wife - well, his ex-wife now - is named Toriel?

...Their son was named Asriel. Draw your own conclusions.

[captainobnoxious]

... At least he's a good person.

[Names aside, Cherryblod's good people and so is this Asgore guy if they're anything alike.]

Is his former lady any better, do you know? Maybe they balance each other out.

[ratingspoint]

Toriel...?

[Hmmm.]

I don't know her all that well. I would see her once in a while in the ruins, though. My cousin and I used to go there sometimes - they liked it there because there aren't many people.

But from what I remember Toriel is sweet. She's really cute, too.

[captainobnoxious]

What are they? Like, monster-wise. Golems?

[are they fuzzy. maybe they're cat-like, cats are sweet and good people.]

[ratingspoint]

Remind me to draw them for you sometime! They're definitely not golems, though, they have fur.

[So yes, they are fuzzy. You are also talking to someone with no proper frame of reference for nubian goats, so uh.]

[captainobnoxious]

So they are cats then! Cats are good people, bombshell, they're sweet and affectionate and extremely useful in not dying when you're outside the walls.

[... you know, like in all her stories. the people of the future (?) are cat fanatics]

You're lucky to have a pair of them leading you!