Updated 10-23-10

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Key:
❉ = Positive feelings. She'd like to get to know you better.
❉❉ = Respect. Someone she can fight alongside.
❉❉❉ = Friendship--someone she feels she can trust.
❉❉❉❉ = Complete trust. She'd go with you into certain death and die fighting at your side.

❉ = You have made a bad impression.
❉❉ = Disrespect. You've done something that offends her sensibilities.
❉❉❉ = She really doesn't like you and would rather not make the effort of talking to you.
❉❉❉❉ = She would quite happily snub you by refusing to speak or fight with you.

If you think your character should be on this list, don't be shy about leaving a comment to let me know! It's entirely possible that I've left someone off through absent-mindedness.

This is Brianna of the Watch. The hostages have been rescued and are safe.

Two of the perpetrators are in Watch custody; a third is dead. We will be continuing efforts to deal with the beasts that were released during the attack on Medical.

Credit is due to Castle, Lyle, Juhani, Bellflower, Night, and Gai for their capable fighting, as well as the Adventurers for their assistance in reconnoitering the area, and Huo and Kagerou for their information and strategic assistance.

[ooc: BACKDATED to the 27th. Replies to specific questions will probably be late by necessity and bits of this entry are subject to edit as things are ongoing :3 just figured this ought to be announced to keep timelines smooth.]

[...oops.]

[The writing picks up, a little messy and splotchy.]

I have returned. I do not think words will do much good, but I am sorry that I died. It was [paaaaause] not what I expected to happen.

So far, I seem to remember. Time will show if I have forgotten anything.

How long have I been dead?

[tap tap tap.]

There is one more thing. My name is not Handmaiden. It is Brianna.

Handmaiden awoke with the definite feeling that something was wrong. Not a sensation from the Force, or even a sensation at all. But something was different.

She opened her eyes and looked straight at the pointed tip of a memory crystal, dangling apparently in midair. That would not have surprised her, but the gritty grey world of five in the morning resolved itself in her vision a quickly enough. A pole attached to her futon and a string suspended it above her.

Reaching behind her, she plucked the pole out from where it was wedged between her futon and the wall and sat up. Apprehension began to simmer inside her. The last crystal had left her with only questions, no answers at all. But there was no question of leaving it, not even for another minute. Drawing in a deep breath, she touched it with one finger.

( They are not my enemies. )

Something was on her ears--Handmaiden reached up and felt it. Headphones. She dismissed that as unimportant. She leaned back against the wall, closing her eyes as she tried to picture where she had been. Was the location important? Not as important as that voice. Exile...

So that was her. The woman that the mistress had set her to follow, the one cast out from the Jedi. But the mistress... no. She had been wrong. Someone who followed the path of the dark side would not help anyone, much less one who had been an enemy. The Mandalorian Wars. That faint pang returned. But... the Exile had held no emnity towards them.

Handmaiden drew in a deep breath. Did I command you to betray me? She could always recall those words, feel the lightning. The dream had been over a year ago, but that moment was no less vivid in her mind. The lightning was, if not of the dark side, then not of the light either. And she recalled her conversation with Juhani. The Jedi had taken someone's memory. Anger and uncertainty bubbled up again. There was no way to know their reasons for doing such a thing. Yet that, and the way someone outcast from the Jedi behaved towards a former foe, what the mistress had done...

Should she even try to follow the path of a Jedi? Was it right? She did not know anymore. But the Exile was just. Faith welled up from somewhere so deep it was almost instinctual. She remembered the other memory, questioning that the Exile was a threat to the Jedi. She may have been, but not because she had fallen. Perhaps the opposite. And if that is true, perhaps my "betrayal" of the mistress was also just.

Handmaiden took the memory crystal to the other bedroom and placed it in the desk drawer, then pulled out her notebook to record it in detail. Jedi, Sith... no. Right now, there was no way to resolve her questions about them. But she felt sure of one thing: the path the Exile had taken was the right one. And Handmaiden would try to follow it, however she could.

...Then the obnoxious music started to play.

[ooc: For the next four days, Handmaiden will be hearing the Cantina Song at random times, courtesy of her Princess Leia headphones.]

Kagami. Please respond if you are able to do so.

If anyone has seen him, say so. He is not in the Wilderness, and I could not locate him in the Tree.

[ooc: Following the reiatsu-flare from him and Snake, HM ran up to the Tree, found only monsters, and had to turn back around.]

Juhani, previously named Sylvar, has been missing for several days now. I believe she has been caught in the elevator, as many others have been this summer.

For those who are her friends and colleagues, I can assure you that she is not gone from Edensphere. I have her journal, and it is still working as it should. If [pause for a microsecond] it stops, I will let you know.

If someone sees her, please let me know.

THANK YOU FOR THE PAID TIME, kind and generous anon! ♥ Whoever you are~ that is so sweet of you.

Now to upload more B| icons~

I have found myself unable to speak a single word today, although it seems that I have no difficulties with writing.

I believe I will still be able to carry out some of my duties as a Watchman despite this.

Is the name "Harbinger" familiar to anyone? I believe it may be a ship.

The following people are no longer in Edensphere: Bunraku, Dyad, Lady, Geoff, and Reaper.

For those of you who were close, you have my sympathy.

[ooc: Simon's already been checking for people and telling them privately, but Handmaiden's just putting this up for a more public notice.

She probably won't be responding except to answer--or not answer--direct questions. Also if I've missed anyone out let me know and I'll fix it.]