[MOD] Opening Mingle Post!

[backseatduelist]

[You've woken up somewhere unexpected.

Maybe you don't realize it until you've looked out your window, since your apartment's the same, or poked your head out into the hallway. Maybe you've found yourself in a world you've never seen before - or else, one that looks just like home. But whatever the circumstances, it can't be denied: once again, someone's having a good laugh at your expense.

Should you venture into the lobby of a certain apartment complex, however, you'll find a banquet of breakfast treats laid out by unseen caterers. There's meats, eggs, pastries, rice, more pastries, yogurt, various juices, mimosas for those of age, still more pastries...

What can I say? Lots of you are Bakurae.

Enjoy the spread! But be careful. Four kinds of food spark a day-long event in your head.

Turkey sausage: Can't talk turkey! You're incapable of lying.
Cherry danish: Couldn't be sweeter! You'll crush on the first person you see after eating it.
Hot chocolate: Take it easy! You'll find yourself relaxing, taking life in stride.
Tabasco sauce: Fired up! You're full of energy and ready to explore.

Apparently you all aren't off the hook juuuuust yet.]

[[ooc: aaaand we're OPEN! Feel free to thread out mingling at the buffet in the comments below or posting for your characters anywhere within any of the various worlds. There's no set place where characters have to appear in the setting - if Amaryllis wanted to appear in Ancient Egypt, so be it, though there'll be a door nearby for those in branch worlds to return to the main one. This post is just for the buffet in the lobby, however, so if you want to start elsewhere just put up a post!

Please tag both entries you create and entries you comment into with the appropriate character tag. <3 I think I've created them for juuuust about everyone - and if I missed some of the later additions, everyone should have the ability to create tags.

LET'S DO THIS, PEOPLE.]]

Comments

There are too many people to go AHHHHH~ through.

[rookiegamer]

[-this is just a remodeling, right?

Little boys have enough drama in their lives without with strange blue mouse pets wandering off, without adding a bedroom pulling a "this isn't Kansas" on him to the mix.

And yet.

If anyone is in the hall leading up to the lobby, there's a yuugi-boy looking behind a soda machine. Did it steal his money, perhaps?

Oh, right.]

[tinythirdchild]

[And behind him lurks an equally fearsome beast, ready to pounce--]

What are you doing?

[Oh, it's just Mali. Well. She's pouncing, in any case. To try and see if she can glimpse whatever he's looking at.]

[rookiegamer]

[He makes a noise stuck between distracted and surprised, fumbling to keep up under pounce and not hit the- owwwwwwwwww.

Rubbing his head, Upwords looks back, to give a "it's you!" grin.]

Hi- Ah, I'm looking for Temari.

[tinythirdchild]

Temari ran off?! But that's dangerous! If you don't know where you are you should always stick close to people you know.

[Says the girl who left her room without waking up Nee-san.

S-still. She's holding onto your sleeve. She's not nervous about everything changing again, nope, not her! But you're here. That's....nice.]

You have to make that very clear!

[rookiegamer]

-I know... But I haven't seen her since we got here. She must have left to look around while I was sleeping!

[Oh, young hopeful.

But, shuffling back onto the tile, he gives a quizzical look at the clutching before turning his worry frown on her instead.]

You don't know what's going on, do you?

[It's not something that'd make even brave Mali scared. Right?]

two...

[stackthedice]

[Well, isn't this familiar...

In a loose sense, at least. Whatever the location of the complex in the city, it doesn't take more than a quick look up and down the street, to realize where he is.

Does this mean they've moved back into his world? Or someone else's mirroring one? Would he find his own shop if he looked around? What a revelation!

...But. Surely they aren't going anywhere fast, right? No, and he just picked up this drink. He should find a bench just outside and enjoy the cocoa while it's hot.]

three?

[allthemarbles]

[-um. Not to make an uproar or question reality or anything but she doesn't know where she is!

And she's had some strange moments in her life, but none in recollection to compare to waking up in a unknown room, in a strange building, with no one she recognizes in the hall. The fact that she came down stairs and noticed a, vaguely familiar city outside the front doors? Not helping, when she was last on an island.

So. There's a short blond in a blue and white school uniform standing near the buffet, looking lost as a six-year-old in physics class. Does someone want to reassure her this isn't a memory lapse, hallucination, or kidnapping done by a person?]

[devil_in_details]

[So Linner woke up on a bench. A park bench. In a city.

Which clearly wasn't his own world, as returning to that would involve imminent death. He therefore sets off to figure out exactly what trick had been pulled now, and whether the universe has seen fit to give him his preferred company for the duration of his stay.

He breezes through the doors of the building like he owns the place, and spots what looks to be a familiar head of hair.]

Gone astray, milady?

[Though on second glance, even from behind...]

[allthemarbles]

[Eh? Oh, please be a receptionist or a guide or anyone who'd explain-

Things.

Hello, stranger. She's not sure what to make of you, but you don't look like staff. In fact, everything from appearance to comments just continued the baffling trend. But, a polite greeting never hurt anyone.]

-ah, I'm afraid so. Do you know where this is? I got turned around, somehow.

["In my sleep."]

[devil_in_details]

[Ohhhhhhhh wow. Oh, wow. Doesn't this just figure.

Sorry, Marble Drop. Your "receptionist" just ran a hand through his bangs, chuckling. Laughing, actually.]

You don't say! Why, so have I.

Perhaps we can make the most of it together. Provided no one interrupts with a misconstrued tantrum. I should warn you: around me, this has been known to happen.

[allthemarbles]

[-oh, Linner. This little lady doesn't know she's the lower level of your missing gal. What is she to make of this twitchy amusement?

Or. Any of that?]

Ah... Well, I don't see why anyone would do that now. But if they do... At least it'd be someone you likely know?

[But woe, she's still left at a loss-]

You don't know which city we're in, then?

[creamfluffed]

[Candy has no idea where she is, but the food in the fridge in the lobby is awesome.

Currently stuffing her face full of everything high-carb in sight. Including a whole stack of cherry danishes. They're just so yummy!]

-he's not ready yet. He's not ready- pff, I wanna know which one~

[heavilyovercast]

[Whoopsie! Do not look up, Candy. There's a boy just like you in nondescript wear and vague expression making a rather un-noticable pass behind you.

Sure, he's confused as anyone where he is. More so, given he was in the city of Madril last he checked. And Anzu's gone. And he's never seen a building like this. Or that much food-]

Forget the food, slave! You hear me? There's a GIRL over there!

[Oh, what could be so distracting about that, voice from nowhere?]

assuming she can hear nightshade??

[creamfluffed]

-ehh??

[She straightens in mid-munch; it wasn't the talk of "slaves" that got her, but rather a mention of a "girl".

She glances behind her, but isn't quite sure who just spoke out in protest....looking about for the subject, now.]

Ah - sorry...did I do something wrong???

ooooh, yes. No point to the evil king unheard!

[heavilyshadowed]

[The voice draws a curious side look - and proper stare - from the fellow, but it doesn't stop his chewing of some sausage so much as slow it.

Making it obvious that he's not speaking. As his shadow shifts and bends and lifts into a shaded, wispy, bat-winged double.]

You tell us! Why do you look like my slave, huh? Is it some illusion spell?

[backseatduelist]

[There's a road. There's a real road and heeeee went out driving on it. He's still not home, and he doesn't know when he'll get there - his room is exactly the same, down to Iris's pendant (he checked, feel loved), so he's not too worried about the connections he's made being disrupted.

Brunch bursts into the lobby windswept and exhilarated. A real city. He'll take the changes as they come, but now he's got a real city he didn't have to think up himself. Optimism isn't his default setting, but what can he say? He drove a real motorcycle down a real street. Don't mess with his buzz.

Presently, however, he's starving. And there's a fox by his feet with a grumbly tummy, too.]

[gotanyfives]

[Wow, this place is weird and eerily familiar. Lily's not sure she likes it.

She is sure, however, that she likes this turkey sausage. It's a good snack while she contemplates the apparent move in the lobby.]

[ofsexandwar]

[There you are. Eating junk again. If your skirts start getting tight, young lady, we are having Words.]

Good, you're still here. Eat quickly, our plans for the day have - altered somewhat.

[gotanyfives]

[Just to As if you spite Luna, Lily picks up another sausage and starts eating.

Between munches,] What's that suppose to mean?

[ofsexandwar]

[Oh you. Luna drops some fruit on your plate while filling her own.]

You've looked outside, correct? We're testing the limits of the new environment.

[riverblossom]

[There's somebody wandering around the streets looking very lost and very cold (she's, uh, not wearing much and it's cold here!).

Very cold...]

[onlymydiabound]

[And there's somebody else dashing out of a clothing store cackling at the top of his lungs, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and carrying a load of other such attire.]

That's what you scum get for dropping your guard! You'll never catch the great Bakura in a hundred years!

[The great Bakura might want to watch where he's going so he doesn't run into any smoking hot women. Literally.

But since when has his luck been that good?]

[riverblossom]

[She'll go down as soon as Bramble collides, and chances are Bramble and his spoils will too.]

Hey, hey! Watch where you're going.

[Wow those are really nice clothes you have there.]

1/2

[onlymydiabound]

[Ow. Ow ow ow.....

What the....]

Same t' you! It's sensible to clear when someone's --

[onlymydiabound]

[......dammit, he ran right into a pretty girl and didn't even feel any of the good stuff.]

Well. I just thought I'd announced my presence plenty.

[With a glance over his shoulder (no pursuit? Really?) he quickly begins gathering his things.]

If anyone asks, I went left. Okay?

[He intends to go right.]