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arimoi2017-02-26 11:45 pm
holographica) wrote in arimoi2017-02-26 11:45 pm
New World New You
-> (1)
It begins with a bang; then, disorientation, darkness, dismayed voices, and spells that weigh down your limbs like heavy shackles...
The people keeping you captive seem as unsure as you are of what just happened, and argue and mutter amongst themselves, though they don't hesitate to restrain you, chain you to a pipe in the wall of this bottom floor of an underground parking garage, or lock you alone into a smaller room of the abandoned building where the summoning was held. You seem to unnerve them; they don't want to look you in the eye, and if they have to touch you to lock you up, they do so gingerly, nervously.
But maybe, once they leave you to yourself to go and argue and regroup in private, you're not quite alone? You weren't the only person to come out of the array. You have at least one companion in your confusion, one person restrained like you and not wearing the cultists' strange masks. Take comfort, take inventory, and prepare for anything.
-> (2)
The Joyous were prepared for you to attempt escape. Their preparations don't quite match what they got, but even poorly calibrated spells will do something, and the effects of knockout darts and magically reinforced walls don't discriminate. It's time to blow this popsicle stand...
...But you may want to take a moment to comb the area - once the Joyous have had enough time and reason to weigh their options, they'll run, leaving behind the incriminating results of their "botched" summoning. Those less able to escape confinement under their own power may need a hand, or to band together, or, at worst, to wait quite a while for locals to stumble across them...
-> (3)
You step outside into an unfamiliar town; small, sparse, just off a major highway running through the Neloi Flats. A perfect place for a cult looking for an unoccupied building, because there are a lot of those here, as though the town's peak has come and gone, leaving behind rusty signs for roadside attractions and a main street retinue of shops made of sheer stubbornness and spite.
There's not much direction here. There are locals, who will be confused by you, possibly wary and disbelieving. There's a temple, small like the village but likely to have charity you need right now. There's a highway, and following it in either direction will take you to one of two very different cities.
There's a whole country of possibilities before you, in fact. What ones will you chase, and will you do it alone?
[[As of this mingle: go forth and RP! You can treat this post like a game intro, or like a meme post; follow the prompt/s exactly, or alter the details to suit your tastes, or pitch a completely different scene in your own top-level. Let's get some stories started.]]
It begins with a bang; then, disorientation, darkness, dismayed voices, and spells that weigh down your limbs like heavy shackles...
The people keeping you captive seem as unsure as you are of what just happened, and argue and mutter amongst themselves, though they don't hesitate to restrain you, chain you to a pipe in the wall of this bottom floor of an underground parking garage, or lock you alone into a smaller room of the abandoned building where the summoning was held. You seem to unnerve them; they don't want to look you in the eye, and if they have to touch you to lock you up, they do so gingerly, nervously.
But maybe, once they leave you to yourself to go and argue and regroup in private, you're not quite alone? You weren't the only person to come out of the array. You have at least one companion in your confusion, one person restrained like you and not wearing the cultists' strange masks. Take comfort, take inventory, and prepare for anything.
-> (2)
The Joyous were prepared for you to attempt escape. Their preparations don't quite match what they got, but even poorly calibrated spells will do something, and the effects of knockout darts and magically reinforced walls don't discriminate. It's time to blow this popsicle stand...
...But you may want to take a moment to comb the area - once the Joyous have had enough time and reason to weigh their options, they'll run, leaving behind the incriminating results of their "botched" summoning. Those less able to escape confinement under their own power may need a hand, or to band together, or, at worst, to wait quite a while for locals to stumble across them...
-> (3)
You step outside into an unfamiliar town; small, sparse, just off a major highway running through the Neloi Flats. A perfect place for a cult looking for an unoccupied building, because there are a lot of those here, as though the town's peak has come and gone, leaving behind rusty signs for roadside attractions and a main street retinue of shops made of sheer stubbornness and spite.
There's not much direction here. There are locals, who will be confused by you, possibly wary and disbelieving. There's a temple, small like the village but likely to have charity you need right now. There's a highway, and following it in either direction will take you to one of two very different cities.
There's a whole country of possibilities before you, in fact. What ones will you chase, and will you do it alone?
[[As of this mingle: go forth and RP! You can treat this post like a game intro, or like a meme post; follow the prompt/s exactly, or alter the details to suit your tastes, or pitch a completely different scene in your own top-level. Let's get some stories started.]]
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Yeah, we have to get alien phones that work with the alien cell network. I met a guy, he knew what this was, it's just...not the same?
[A lot of things are not the same.
Breaking it down into individual things that are not the same helps.
God for all he knows this woman could be from Jupiter.]
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[Maya asks, wiggling her finger in Chiro's weird pawhand before her eyes flick up. Halllelujah is definitely not talking about different cellphone providers, but the idea she could be in a whole other world is still a bit foreign despite, well. Feeling like she's just come out of a book.]
Wait. Aliens?!
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[He was joking. But. It really is the best way to phrase it?]
And - uhhh wait. Um, have you seen the maps?
[Here take one.]
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Yeah, but it's still earth, right?
[She asks, looking over the map she's been passed before frowning. She'd been convinced earlier that those people.... the Joyous? Well, whoever they were, they had seemed to be involved with the mess in Labyrinthia until... everything else happened.]
And not like, a magical book or something like that...
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I...don't know? I didn't ask the priestesses or whoever what planet we're on, I think they already think we're a bunch of lunatics.
[He pinches Chiro's nose to prevent him from chewing on Maya's finger. The little demon snorts and leaps up to make himself comfortable on her shoulder instead.]
No matter what the answer is, none of this makes any sense.
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[Maya muses to herself before Chiro jumps to her shoulder, at which point she gleefully scritches at his little ear. What a great weird puppymonkeything.]
It could be magic, or something, right?
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...Buddy, what are you doing there. Chiro is reveling in the scritches and cuddled up to the side of Maya's head.]
Man, he really likes you.
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He's cute!
[...In a way, anyway.]
Man, magic cellphones? Labyrinthia didn't have magic cellphones.
[What a bummer, right? ...But Maya's taking all this information in stride.]
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THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS, THAT ARE HERE AND NOT ELSEWHERE, and also a lot of things that are elsewhere and not here, and this is all very confusing and concerning. He doesn't even bother to ask about Labyrinthia, because the answer is going to be yet more sci-fi bullshit.]
...You're really keeping your cool, huh.
[He's not complaining. That's not a complaint. It's mostly wistful-sounding. Please keep being chipper forever, it's helping.]
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[Maya shrugs her free shoulder.]
This is... the second time this week I've ended up in some weird place.
[This week.]
It's kinda freaky, but the only way to solve the case is to keep going!
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For a moment, because he doesn't have the guts to stick to it, and his gaze darts down and away bashfully. It makes sense, anyways, the general idea of it - bad shit happens, you get used to it, you toughen up. She's right.]
Sucky thing to get used to. Did the first time have masked weirdos in basements, too?
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Well, he wasn't in a mask...
[The first time.]
Uh, but last time had to do with a magic book in London. Way fewer basements, honestly.
[I'm sorry Hallelujah were you expecting a conversation that would be normal in any way]
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London? [Okay, wait, he, thinks he knows that? That's familiar?] That's, uh, on Earth, though, right? Same planet as Tokyo?
[can we establish that you, at least, are not an alien]
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That's where I'm from.
[Yeah, mmhm, the Japanese republic of.]
Which means youuu're from Tokyo, right?
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[well]
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I was in London for a business trip, is all. But...
[Maya scrunches up her lips as she thinks about it.]
Like... the demon foot that appears when you don't clean your house? Or like, seven-levels-of-hell demons?
[Look, you gotta clarify sometimes. She doesn't know if she should be thinking about old storybooks or old... teachings.]
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[This. Is.
Weird?
And Hallelujah just looks kind of at a loss. How do you explain demons.]
I guess that...answers my question...? [He looks at Chiro, wide-eyed, and Chiro chatters.] Wow.
["Wow" puts it lightly. Very, very lightly.]
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[She says despite Chiro, still unaware, and crosses her arms.]
Well... Unless people can be demons.
[....They can, in Hallelujah's world, just in a way more literal way.]
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Chiro provides a distraction from his freeze-up by jumping off from Maya's shoulder and floating in front of her, pau-pauing mischievously. I'm a demon!! Look at me, here I am!
Hal unfreezes.]
We-heh-hell, uh, now you have?
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Then, good to meet you, Mister Demon!
[...Because they can't be bad if they're this cute, right?
poor hallelujah's going to need antacids or something.]
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Chiro cackles and chirps and licks Maya's hand.]
Chiro's safe. [Just to establish that.]Since he's with me. Others aren't, so if you run into one, don't...just, don't, anything.
...Not that I think you will, I haven't seen any here. Maybe it's just Tokyo. [Hunh.]
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Or maybe... You're from a magic Tokyo.
[Why on Earth would this be on Maya's mind, you ask?
.........yeah she's got her tokus on her mind]
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???]
Well, yeah, that's demons.
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And yet, she seems so surprised and enthralled. Again.]
That's it! You're from a magic world, too! Like Labyrinthia!
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What she's talking about is so far beyond him that he just stares blankly at her for a few seconds, then gives her a slow, confused shrug.]