03 - Video / Action at Freya

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

[Unlike in previous video posts, there are no bandages on Maya's right shoulder, no sling, and her nodachi isn't in the bag she usually keeps it in. No, the beautiful sword with the swirling dragon about the sheath is resting on her shoulder as she stands before the Freya Welcome House.]

I know it's been a couple weeks since I started at the Citadel, but allow me to introduce myself. I'm Natsume Maya, and I'm one of the Citadel's instructors. I teach the sword and meditation techniques. Unlike the other sword instructors, my specialty is the Japanese style of sword. For those of you from non-Earth worlds, if the sword's blade is single-edged and has a curve to it, I can teach it. I offer lessons three times a week for sword, twice a week for meditation. If you're interested, come to the Citadel and sign up.

Now, the Citadel has a code for chivalrous behavior always within it and while taking classes there. If chivalry isn't your thing and you still want to learn, contact me privately. I do give lessons of a less than chivalrous nature on my own time, but understand that they are not easy.

On another note, my fellow Freya members, I would like to start a little house camaraderie here in the form of a martial arts club. If you are a member of Freya and know martial arts, come down to the common room. [She gives a cocky smirk.] The best fighters don't always end up in Thor.

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[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Hrm.

[Her eyes narrow slightly and she weighs a few things in her mind. This hits a little too close to comfort for her.]

Do you intend on signing up for meditation?

[samantha_grey]

I'm working on alchemical tricks and herbalist cures. There's some special plants around this place that I want to research, see if I can find something to keep those times from happening. It's going to be pretty hit and miss, though, like any sort of alchemy, so I was thinking of signing up. Worth a shot.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Okay. I do reserve the right to terminate lessons should I decide it necessary. I have... experience with what others of a similar state as you.

[samantha_grey]

Reasonable, and accepted. If I lose it, keep reserved the right to knock me unconscious as well. You can assume you have my permission even if I'm fighting back. But... don't watch for angry. I'm usually a little pissed off about most things most days. Watch for flirty, sultry, that sort of thing.

That's much more her MO.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

I'm aware of what a succubus is. And if you want to be able to control the impulses completely, you need to begin by accepting that it is a part of you and not some separate entity sharing your body.

Unless it is. In that case, I won't be able to help you.

[samantha_grey]

Mostly just how I phrase it some days. No, she's pretty much me. If there were other things inside of me, those've been silent since I got here. It's just difficult to know quite how to describe that part of me sometimes, since I try very hard to be anything but that.

But, no. You're right. She's not another person, even if she likes to use another name sometimes.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

And what name is that?

[samantha_grey]

I vaguely remember that she sometimes swipes the name of one of the demons that used to whisper to me at times [At least, until she'd gotten rid of that seed.]. Abrienda. But she only rarely uses it, usually if people seem to crave treating her like someone else.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Tell me what triggers your other side.

[samantha_grey]

Anything suited to a succubus. Sex, arousal, romance, those things seem to make it more likely to show up at least briefly. I'm starting to wonder if that only impacts ... more traditional emotions in that sense, however. If someone is foolish enough to try to manipulate me, mentally or by powers, they risk dragging it out.

That side of me comes out sometimes on its own. I think it's biological, like a part of me builds up and then releases before going back down.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Have you tracked the frequency?

[samantha_grey]

Here? Not yet. There's been one incident so far. I have a few people trying to right now. At home, the problem was made a lot worse because there were a lot more incidents, and they weren't consistent. But if you're thinking it might be regular, it might. We're looking into it.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Do you know what instigated that incident?

[samantha_grey]

Nothing that I could perceive. In the evening, I felt myself losing control and it resumed to me at around the time the dawn was approaching, when a red-headed fellow I'd met showed up to stop me. It was about twenty four hours or so later.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

[Maya ponders this for a moment.]

Do you recall everything that happened during that whole time?

[samantha_grey]

Verbatim. I remember it somewhat disjointedly, like I'm me, but not me, but I remember all of the details. It's... strange.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Have you ever been able to regain control or direct any while in that state?

[samantha_grey]

No, but there's no feeling of being a prisoner in my body at the same time. It's like you said. Call her 'her' all I want, but it's me that's doing it. Just a me with a switch flipped.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Just making sure.

[samantha_grey]

If I get any more information, I'll share it. I think there's not much else I can think of, though I'll say you're one of the more thorough in asking questions so far.

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

As I said before, I have some experience with this kind of thing.

I'll put together a meditative regime that I think will help. We can start as soon as you formalize your enrollment at the Citadel.

[samantha_grey]

Is there a way that you need me to handle that part, for reference, the formal one at least?

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

I'm listed among the instructors and the only one currently offering meditation classes. Since that is the class you're signing up for, you don't even need to request me specifically as your instructor. Though if it makes you feel better, you can certainly put my name down in addition to the class.

[samantha_grey]

I'll sign up soon. We'll see if this can help, and I appreciate you giving it a chance.

(OOC: Is there an actual sign up, or just handwave and maybe do something post-madness?)

[magatama_no_amaterasu]

Of course. We'll talk again in class.

[ooc: there's a signup here and we can do something at the end of the month. I'm on hiatus until the 25th.]