Well, it seems accounts are maintained during this virus at least... Kirika? Tsubomi? We need a word. To be clear; this is Oriko Mikuni speaking.

Anyone else who was found themselves swapped with a Puella Magi are advised to respond as well.

[...honestly, what a mess...]

((replies will be coming from falseblossom for icon purposes but it's still IC Oriko's account :|b))

Hey... is it weird not to want focus on duty all the time? I just don't see the point of focusing on your job and ignoring the rest of my life, y'know? Dunno.

Maybe I just need a break or something.

I have a question. About viruses and things so, er. Can I have some help...

[Kirika...sounds very eager as she practically yells into the microphone.]

Hey, magical girls! I'm tired of you walking around strutting like you own the place. Friendship? Love? It's funny that you think that's what you're really fighting for...

Hey, you know what?

Let's have a fight. All you have to be is a magical girl and I'll fight you. It'll be real easy to put you liars out of your misery!

[...well, Oriko doesn't seem to be bothering with theatrics this time. If anything she looks completely exhausted; slumped at a table with several stained cups of coffee with that distinctly frazzled, crumpled look of someone who hasn't had any sleep in the last 24 hours. That idiot version of her has managed to create a complete and utter mess for... herself... and urgh things had been going so well. Or at least, mostly according to plan.

Personally, she considers herself just a bit too busy right now to be doing this sort of thing, but some things need to be said.]

Hello. Again.

As you probably gathered, I was under the influence of a virus in my previous announcement. Any promises made are hereby considered null and void.

That's all. Carry on with your day. Miss Tomoe, we need to discuss things.

[and yep, feed cuts out.]

[hat, hair and skirts billowing, Oriko stands, royal and resplendent, with perfect balance atop the tallest spire of Mitakihara, the recorder at the perfect angle to capture the city beneath her in all its glory, despite it presumably being in mid air (hint: magic. Or possibly one of the spheres and some duct tape BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER).

From her place at the top of the world, she preaches, master of all she surveys, seven silver spheres spinning as planets orbit the sun.]

Greetings, my kin!

I hear there are dark times afoot! Matters of machination, of death, destruction and hollow glory, but hold no fear!

I will protect you.

I will save you!

If you would follow my lead, and accept this will and wisdom, then harken to me! None shall falter under my gracious watch, and together, we shall lead into a new world! Without grief, without despair, without loss! We shall form a world so perfect none shall be sad!

What say you?

[...so yes, Oriko has snapped. Sort of.]

[The video starts with a woman typing away on a laptop only pausing to check her phone before resuming her work. It almost looks like she has no idea that she's being recorded until she looks straight into the camera.]

Is there any way to pull a video off the community so you can share it elsewhere? I've been trying for hours, but I'm hardly an expert. [She pauses a second, as if realizing something, and then laughs.] I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking for help without a proper introduction first. My name is Miranda Tate. It's nice to meet all of you.

[Those of you who have spoken to Kirei in person before may have noted that he sounds very flat and monotone.

Well.

He doesn't now.]

If a superior made a mistake, would it be your duty to correct them? Or would you let them flounder in their own errors? I suppose it would depend on how severe the error is, if nothing else. Some mistakes are just small missteps in judgment, after all. It's almost impossible to know everything all at once.

But there are some mistakes that can only be made once. Ones so large that they can't be taken back. You become stuck upon a path, winding outward from the consequences of your actions. Inevitably, those consequences must come back to us.

If the person above you made a mistake of that magnitude...

Well.

Would you be one of those consequences?

[Casually, in the background:]

It appears that Kotomine Kirei is rather long-winded, today.


(OOC: gold = gilgamesh. Also, people trying to worldhop into fate/zero verse will now find it worldlocked! nobody's coming in or out. We runnin' this!)

So, I got a question for you people. Say there's this big threat that's going to happen to your world. Like end of the world type bad.

Would you try to stick around to solve it or pack up who you love and jump ship to another world?

This cat is evil...! How dare she scratch me on this most important day! It's meant for love and closeness, not for evil cats! How am I supposed to show my love...?!

How early do you guys start making your Valentine's Day chocolate? I apparently know way too many guys, so I need to make a lot of obligation chocolate. Not to mention the communal stoves here are going to be booked up 24/7 through to the actual day. Probably.

Also, who's up for a Singles Awareness Day party?