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[otakuro]

[The screen flickers on to a boy wearing an amused grin.]

Everyone!

I've got good news!  You're forgiven!  The angel I summoned said so himself; God would definitely forgive you in a heartbeat because man's heart is weak, as is his mind, and we're all, uh, susceptible to the workings of the Evil One, and even as we wallow in our filth and sin, we -- You know what, forget God; I forgive you.

Seriously, no one could possibly blame you for what happened last week even if some of us were lucky enough to be scorpion magnets.  Misery has it right - the important thing is to make sure that it doesn't happen again.  If you all missed the announcements from the higher-ups, the people who were affected most severely were Scorpios.  ...If you don't know what that means, in modern times on Earth - that's the 2000s - they were born when the Sun was in the sector of the sky dominated by the constellation Scorpio.  This makes no sense if you were born outside Earth or in a time when we didn't go in for ridiculous things like pretending arbitrary sky-pictures meant anything about our lives, but the important thing is that the sun transitions into Scorpio beginning on October 23rd.

Guess what last week was.

The next sign is Sagittarius.  The sun will shift into its sector on November 22nd.

So let's clear a few things out of the way - Everyone who was afraid, can you report in with your sign?  Same thing if you were a scorpion magnet, though maybe that's more of a subjective thing.  And everyone who's a Sagittarius, do you mind if we tie you to your beds from November, oh, 18th-ish to the 23rd?  Your choices are (Yes/Of course/Definitely).  If your name is Jun, (That's kinda kinky) works, too.  If you don't know your sign, Sagittarius goes from late November into late December - so the end of a harvest season into winter in the Northern hemisphere, and the end of spring into summer in the South.

I'll keep track of the data.  It's kinda my thing.

Oh -- this has nothing to do with anything, but I'm working in the computer labs of the university now.  Drop by if you ever need anything fixed or if you just want to say hi.

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[drakenguard]

Blood wine can be used, although the magic surrounding it can sometimes clash with the ritual, depending on what it is. If we are in desperate need of it,however, we can't be picky.

I will discuss it with Remiel.

[Even if Remiel has the fully evolved form of the technique, Angel's Stigma works on the same method]

[otakuro]

[Woe for being in the first game of a series when mechanics weren't fully worked out yet. Still, the concept of spilt blood as sacrifice ran deep within the tenets of mysticism - within Christianity, even. If anyone fully understood the requirements, it would be an angel of the highest order.]

Good luck, then. I'll let you know if I find out anything else about this attack.

...I'll try to question some of the Scorpios about it.

[drakenguard]

[This was true - if anything, Yamato could see himself being pulled into a long conversation with Remiel about blood sacrifices in general if he had enough time to. It had been a while since he flexed his brain on such a fascinating subject...]

Good. I, too, will keep you informed on any information I unearth. Hopefully we will get to the bottom of this before it occurs again.

[Aaaaaaaand then the conversation is over as far as Yamato's concerned. He still needs to learn how to say goodbye]