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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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...He didn't either, [She adds, glancing to where the cards have gone. It feels important that Stardust realize that too, after all.]
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[Such a rough introduction. But it's clear he cares for his cards well, so maybe that's just Yuusei.]
...Were you just surprised?
[He doesn't expect that to be the answer at all, but it's an out the girl can take, if she wants.]
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...but... [There is no avoiding, at the least, an unanswered question. Such things are matters she wants to avoid, and so despite her discomfort, she answers.] ...he asked Zarc something. ..And Zarc got mad. ...and when he's mad, he feels 'darker'.
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[He tilts his head slightly, confused. He doesn't see anyone else, but...]
Another Duel Monster spirit...?
[Oh, if only.]
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...Instead I came here. ...So now he's stuck.
[Which is good except, y'know, the part where he's now causing her EXCRUCIATING PAIN]
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[He doesn't sound disapproving, but more...pitying? Sympathetic? Huh.]
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[It sounds wrong when he says it like that-Zarc latches onto such thoughts hungrily, and it forces her to look on the bright side.] ...If Ray did it again, then Yuzu, and Serena, and Ruri and Rin wouldn't be able to exist any more. If Zarc just split again, then Yuuya, Yuuto, and Yuugo wouldn't either...Yuuri too, [she adds, as much as she'd rather not.]
...Everyone needs those people. And they needed each other, so I didn't let things happen like they did last time.
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And you think they wouldn't need you, as well?
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...There were a lot of people that they knew, that I didn't. ...People that got hurt, and died, and would have stayed dead otherwise.
...I... ...if Ray did it, she would have been reborn as a new Ray, instead of becoming Yuzu and the others again. ...and if Zarc cut into pieces with Yuuya and the others again, then Zarc would have just done the same thing again.
...even if they did need me, [she says carefully, her fists balling tight,] I wanted the world to be okay more than that.
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...I see.
[He seems like he's weighing his options-should he really tell someone as young as this girl something like this?]
You know there will always be people who think differently of your choice, right?
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...no matter what, that meant those were the choices. ...Either everything happened all over again... [Or...
She frowns, hand twitching as another series of spits and hisses echoes in her mind.] ...Or someone else brought Zarc in. ...Only me and Ray had the cards to do that though.
So it had to be one of us.
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So you were burdened with an outrageous destiny...
[He can't help but chuckle. What is he doing, using his own father's words? Ridiculous.]
You know...I wonder. Somehow, I think even though you were meant to disappear...you won't be forgotten.
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...Well. She quiets, staring at the gems in her arm.] ...That's what was supposed to happen, but instead we're stuff, I guess...
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[He follows her vision, looking at the bracelets melted into the scaly arm. It's not a pretty sight, no wonder she'd wanted to hide it.]
Your bonds with everyone. It'll lead them to you again, regardless. And after that, who knows what could happen? It might surprise you both.
[...i...is he talking to zarc, too? ridiculous. no way mcfucking zarc could be moved by smiles and friendship.]
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[Find your friends, while she finds hers?]
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[The small, wry smile on his face is telling. It seems you aren't alone in changing the world's fate, Reira.]
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[REIRA NO]
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[A few times. It never works. At least he finally understands why, though.]
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[Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-]
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[...]
As you can see, it didn't work out.
[very funny, yuusei.]
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No actually she's calling you out.] ...I was going to come back, at least.
[With no memories, and as a baby, but she'd TECHNICALLY be alive.]
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[And he's sufficiently aware of the callout, if the wry smile means anything. Shame on you, Yuusei.]
I like to think I've learned from that experience, at least.
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Reira rubs her arm absently, looking up and over the table. ...She should probably find somewhere to go from here, before this place closes...]
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