7 ~ However, it took me quite a bit longer to realize [written/action]

[menial]

To those that knew it, it looks like the crazy RPG hit-points-and-magic stuff has gone home. Sorry for those who were close to it. I don't think it left any notes or belongings for anyone, but I'm sure it'll be better off where it came from.

['What a cartoonish Shift this was. Not that I will ever forget my valorous deeds, but can we get back to ... Actually, forget it. Nothing serious. If more Shifts that are par for the Haruhi-course happen, it can only be a good thing.']

Seriously -- everyone all right out there? Sounds like a more than average number of people have been leaving fair Luceti lately. Though I guess variation is itself average, in said fair Luceti.

...Anyone know where the name "Luceti" comes from, anyway?

['...You know what, I'd better stop rambling right there.']

Comments

[written]

[mydearapple]

Touching words. I'm sure it will be missed.

[written]

[menial]

If you'd like to say a eulogy for it, get in line. Spots are filling up rapidly.

[written]

[mydearapple]

Afraid I'll have to pass. I'm not one to get sentimental over things like that.

[voice]

[endgames]

I asked that myself little over a month back. Verdict was no.

[voice]

[menial]

['Well, I don't read the journal that carefully, I guess.']

Huh. Mysterious. Did you also ask about the name "Malnosso", for that matter?

[voice]

[endgames]

Nah. I was bored, and asked on a whim.

[herotypical]

...Folks keep saying it sounds Italian.

[menial]

--Huh, I guess I can see that. So does Malnosso, a little bit, huh?

[herotypical]

...A bit, actually. Definitely one of those Eurpoeany languages.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

Hey, I take offense to that. [ yes, she's just.. going along with the first joking part there, judging from how deadpan her tone is. ] I was pretty close with the crazy RPG hit-points-and-magic stuff, you know, we were about to get friendship bracelets.

[ voice ]

[menial]

Ah, I'm sorry. That was insensitive of me, to assume that no one would feel that way about it just because it was here for such a short time.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

Exactly. Maybe you should think about working a little on your tact in situations like these.

... [ sigh. ] Seriously though, what is up with this place that they would think up an experiment like that? It almost feels as if they're making fun of us. As if the one where some of us thought we were from different worlds wasn't already bad enough.

[ voice ]

[happyends]

[ okay, time to pretend that last time during the festival didn't have any awkward moments.. go!! ]

Really, a lot of people have been leaving, Kyon-san? I don't think anyone I really knew went missing..

[ voice ]

[menial]

Lots of entries in the journal, though. And at least one of the people I knew.

['We can pretend like you didn't let out some terrible secret last time, but not forever, Kaname.']

[ voice ]

[happyends]

S-someone you knew again..? [ she recalls that other time when someone from his world left. ]

I'm sorry.. It must be tough on you.

[cop_an_attitude]

Well, I know "luce" is Italian for "light"... But "ti" means..."you" or something like that, so I don't know how much good that does you.

[menial]

I don't really know what good the question is at all, to be honest.

[cop_an_attitude]

It's something to think about. I'm in favor of learning everything we can about this place, even if it seems pointless. You never know what might come in handy.

[Written]

[so_shik]

It seems to be a pattern, actually. People leaving right in the spring, I mean. [Just something she's noticed over the years, no big.]

[Written]

[menial]

Huh.

...So maybe it's allergies or something.

[Written]

[so_shik]

If only the answer were as simple as giving out free antihistamines. In all seriousness though, anybody else close to you leave recently?

[written]

[emp3thy]

Shopping's too easy without random encounters.

[yeah he's not going to touch the doom and gloom people leaving part of this entry.]

[written]

[menial]

Are random encounters an old friend of yours, too, Arisato?

[voice]

[floralogy]

[She snorts.] Blame the Malnosso's creative way of naming things.

[voice]

[menial]

...What other kinds of creative names have they been sporting?