[video&action]

[cobbledtogether]

[After a ending her conversation with Kris, Lambda set out on a quest. A quest... to learn to make beef stew. This means that today she can be found doing various things centered around this particular task.]


A. Video
[When she appears on the Vine, Lambda is already dressed for going out, which in her case mostly means that she is in full armor. She doesn't waste time before cutting right to the heart of the matter.]

I require information on the preparation of beef stew.

[She doesn't know anyone to ask in particular, and she hadn't wanted to waste time hunting someone down, so this seemed like the most efficient course of action.]


B. Action
[A while later, she can be found in Orchard, carrying a large basket. (It's hard to say where she got this from; maybe she constructed it out of the dirt herself?) Whenever she comes to a vegetable patch, she stops and crouches down, picking and digging up a fair amount of just about everything she comes across. She's not certain what vegetables go well with beef, so she's just grabbing some of everything instead.]

[Also of note is the fact that what seems to be a living radish pokes its head out of the basket every so often. Perhaps its appetite is the reason the basket never seems to actually fill up...]


C. Action
[Finally, having collected all the vegetables she needs, she sets out with a fresh basket and no Hoppip to find the "Arena" Kris had mentioned. She can be encountered either wandering near and far in an attempt to locate the place or actually there, looking through the meat that has been laid out by the bears. Where did they leave the beef, now...?]

Comments

[tookupthesword]

Were you... always like this?

[cobbledtogether]

[As poor as she is at picking up on things like implication and atmosphere, it's not especially hard for her to work out what Sayaka is getting at now.]

...My memory banks contain no data from before my activation date on January 3rd, 2200. However, Akiha-sama believes much of my memory has been erased.

[tookupthesword]

That wasn't what I asked. I asked if you have always been like this, this shape, this size, everything like that.

[cobbledtogether]

As of my date of activation, yes. However, there is evidence to suggest these records are incomplete.

[In other words: Maybe?]

[tookupthesword]

Could you tell me about that?

[cobbledtogether]

I experienced a brief regression in age, during which I became younger than the data contained in my memorybanks indicates should be possible. Similarly, I cannot recall many of the memories I apparently possessed during this regression.

[tookupthesword]

... Oh... you see, I kinda ran into during that time.

[Wow, and she was trying to beat around the bush about things...]

[cobbledtogether]

Yes.

[She knows, Sayaka. She was there.]

[tookupthesword]

[But you said you don't remember thing!]

So... how was that?

[cobbledtogether]

[She remembers being a child, but not the memories she apparently possessed as a child. It's complicated!]

...? "How was that"?

[tookupthesword]

You know... being different.

[cobbledtogether]

[She hesitates a moment, thinking.]

...It was strange.

[tookupthesword]

... Strange?

[cobbledtogether]

[She nods. Thinking about it now, all she can recall are feelings and thoughts and memories she feels no connection to. It's... disturbing.]

[tookupthesword]

Can you say more?

[cobbledtogether]

[...]

I do not feel connected to the experience.

[tookupthesword]

... Huh?

[cobbledtogether]

My thoughts, emotions, and memories during that time period are foreign in retrospect.

[tookupthesword]

... Hey, speaking of things that happened, didn't I give you some clothes?

[cobbledtogether]

...!

[From the looks of things, this information had slipped Lambda's mind not been deemed relevant by her logic algorithms.]

Yes. Do you require them?

[tookupthesword]

Not that I need them but... well, you don't need them either, right? But are they still in one piece?

[cobbledtogether]

Yes.

[tookupthesword]

Well, I guess I'll take them back... when you're done.

[cobbledtogether]

Understood.

[And then she goes back to picking vegetables, just like that.]