An Incident [May 1; Video]

[consider8]

[Private to the Troll Hive]

[A smiling Aranea flips the camera to herself. She's waiting in line for the cashier and seems to have taken this as a good opportunity to address the guide.]

Hi Di and Sign! I was in the neighborhood and remembered that we were out of some medical supplies. So I took it upon myself to procure some. Hehe. Since I'm here, do you know of anything else I might be--

Hey, what's that you got there? [And voice comes from behind the counter.]

Huh... [Aranea looks away to address him.] Oh, it's just some supplies for me and my--

You're one of those "guests," huh? Well, you better get out of here. We won't take your credit.

Oh, um... but I was here just a few days ago--

We're changing our store's policy. So just, get out of here, okay, horned freak?

Okay. Sure. There's no need to get excited. I'm leaving.

[The camera shakes visibly as Aranea sets her mirror inside a handbag. In the process of doing so...]

[Video to all -- from Aranea's bag]

Just where do you think you're going with that?

Oh, um. I was just going to put it away.

Liar! You were trying to steal it!

I did not lie, nor am I trying to steal! In fact if I were to attempt to leave right now I would be stealing!

Little bitch. You want to steal my stuff now that we're not serving guests!

No, really! I was just--let go of me!!

You're not so tough without your partner, huh...

[There's a second of struggling and not a second longer the sound of fist contacting face...]

Comments

[consider8]

Perhaps it is, in a logic that is illogical to every8ody else.

8ut I think it's safe to assume there is more at work here than simple agitation.

[entreats]

.. Like what? You think it can't just be that they've had enough of us being here? You see that kind of stuff all the time back home where I come from.

[consider8]

Perhaps that is true. 8ut I feel it is 8etter to accommodate to the rules of the world. And one of the primary agitators are a primordial essence of agitation and distrust. With that in mind, I would 8e much more wary of a common factor of dissent in the general population as an indication of this "Madness," than to assume that it is a trait of the general populace. Especially since we have had good relations with them up until now.

[entreats]

I guess it's true. But at the same time it's definitely not something that I would put past people in general either, so it could just be a coincidence that their actions seem like something that could be caused by the Madness or whatever..

Well, not that I'm going to be a huge help in finding that out either way. I can't feel it.

[consider8]

You mean you are immune?

[entreats]

Yeah, my Meister ability makes me immune to it. It's why I didn't get what the big deal about it was supposed to be at first.