[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

[tinythirdchild]

It's not! What part of this is anything - like -

[Being dragged when the lightbulb goes off.]

...your home's like this?

[You live somewhere so big and tall?! She's never seen anything like it herself....]

[rookiegamer]

Yes! It's Domino- It has to be! I don't know where exactly, but. I recognize that shop over there!

So, so my house, it should be here...

[Too bad he doesn't know the directions from here.]

[tinythirdchild]

We're at your home?

[How did this happen. She blinks back what certainly aren't tears. She wasn't ready! She can't leave everyone from the last place - a-and she doesn't want to go back to reality either, she doesn't want time to start up again.....

She doesn't want to think about going home.]

--Then we have to find your family. Which way?

[Squeezing your hand really tightly now.]

[rookiegamer]

Maybe! I think so... I never walked here alone, so it's hard to tell for sure where to go...

[Sorry, the trail off came as he turned to answer her, and check the back street at once. But, seeing her face, it's all about her in a second.]

...what's wrong? Do, you not want to be in Domino City?

[tinythirdchild]

No! I....

[So this is a city. It's...much bigger than town, and....

She shakes her head.]

This is my fiiiiiiirst time in a city! That's all. So you are in charge of finding us fun things to do!

And your home. I-if you've come home, you need to let your family know. Otherwise you'll get in trouble.

[rookiegamer]

Me?

[But, but he doesn't know where to go! And if this is home, he has no money, or idea where a phone is. He could go in to ask...

But, Mali's uncertain, too. That might have as much to do with his calm revelation, as the shift years will do.]

Yeah, if time's restarted, I'd be expected... But, there's no helping that. We just need need to figure out where we are.

[And so he looks around with slow, distracted steps, untiiiiiil- He points down one alley.]

That looks like a main road! I might recognize something down there?

[Sorry, overwhelmed girl? Will going through to a "busy" area be trouble?]

[tinythirdchild]

[Time - noo, it can't restart! If it restarts at her home, then...then...

She nods fiercely.]

Let's go! I want to see everywhere you like.

[And it's her turn to drag you again.]

[rookiegamer]

Ah, there's- no rush-!

[Someone just doesn't get it. Moreover, he's wondering how he'll find anything with her leading, but to the road is fine...

From there though, depending on any existing traffic, he'll be craning to look for something familiar...

There isn't any landmarks exactly, but he makes a noise and tugs her hand as he points up. At a sign.]

There! If we follow that, we'll find the museum! I went on school trips there, so I should know everything from there!

[tinythirdchild]

Great, let's go! To the---

[To the what? There's a lot of people around and it's making her dizzy. Especially when she looks up, up, up at the buildings.]

What's a museum?

[rookiegamer]

Oh, it's a big building where they keep old stuff- anything you can't, replace I guess. Like famous paintings, or things people dig up, or like- the first telephone.

[Not that he's seen the last but it sounds right... Hey, uh. Is she watching ahead of her? Either way he's trying to guide her in the art of people-evading.]

Are you okay?

[tinythirdchild]

[Mali responds to this by bumping into someone, then looking over with a kind of dazed expression on her face.]

Course I am. Let's - hurry and go, okay?

[It was so much more exciting to see ALL THE PEOPLE with her sister around....Not that Upwords isn't good company, but he's also not a grown-up.

Not that she needs a grown-up. She's an independent lady!]

[rookiegamer]

-sure...

[Man, he'd have her stop in a shop to adjust, if she's struggling, but if she wants to hurry... Best thing would be to guide her to run right after him, right?

Besides, it's not two blocks before things get familiar for real, and Mali's guide gets a +10 confidence boost, complete with pointing up some looong stairs.]

That's the museum up there! And, and my place. It'd be that way, if we cut through the plaza...

[tinythirdchild]

[Her eyes get even wider, but in excitement now since she's been given something specific to focus on.]

That's all full of old things? Wow.....it's so big.

[She lets go of his hand to run forward for a better look. What a big, pretty building! This is what she'd like her house to look like! And everyone would know ~Someone Important~ lives there....]

[rookiegamer]

Yep! It, ah...

[Hey, weren't they going to his house? Mali? Aaaaaaaaaaaa-

Without much choice, he's chasing her up the long steps, yelling ahead.]

There's a kid's room through the right of the lobby! And, and exhibits downstairs, and statues and stuff up! And-

[And breathing. Breathing is good!]

[tinythirdchild]

[Guess who's not listening, la la la? Mali rushes and rushes to get a better look, but this

is a lot

of stairs.

She falls on her hands and knees when she's finally in the lobby, gasping for breath....and then grins at all the pretty tile. It's so cool and quiet in here....

Will you find her before she gets herself lost in the museum?]

[rookiegamer]

[That. Depends.

For some little boys, are not energetic.

But- Assuming she's not halfway through already, Upwords flops against the glass door and staaaaaaaaaaares at her through it comically before he lets it fall open.]

Why'd you... Do that... There's, no...

[Gaaaaaaaaaaah he needs to find a fountain! Excuse him while he walks right by the awed girl]

[tinythirdchild]

[Mali is trying to read a helpful map of the museum while you get your drink.]

I thought dinosaurs were dead. Are they here because this is a place for old things?

[And then! Gasp!

It says "Egypt"!]

[rookiegamer]

[...Huh? Oh, sorry, he was busy dunking his face in the fountain spray. Upwords blinking her way.]

Huh? Oh, yeah- they just have some bones and stuff, that came from them. Maybe an egg...

[Hey, what's with that reaction? That's worthy of a walk over and peek and-

Oh.]

I- don't remember that exhibit... I, guess it's new?

[tinythirdchild]

[It's weird.....it's weird! She lives with a bunch of old things but no one is supposed to look at them. Museums are weird.

Is this why they're not allowed too much contact? Would they end up in a museum if they--]

Hey- They don't -

They just keep things here, right? Not people?

[Because otherwise she might have to go check there aren't Tombkeepers in this "Egypt" thing.]

[rookiegamer]

...wha-

[If the completely uncomprehending stare isn't clue enough, the complete double-take? Does that say?]

What?! No- No way! Nobody's in a museum! Ex-except maybe performers, in art galleries or something. But that's workers! And... And I think, they show bodies, sometimes... I saw those in pictures... But, no, nobody alive!

[tinythirdchild]

Oh......

[More staring at the map, heedless that people have started to stare at them.]

It's wrong to show off bodies. Dead people should be protected. Or they won't make it to the afterlife safely, and then they can't come back if they have to.

[She says this with absolute surety.]

[rookiegamer]

Oh... [Fidget.] Well, they are protected, here. The, museum people make sure the body will last a long time.

[Kind of awkward to say, when everyone living here would be cremated at death. But, that doesn't seem smart to say.

Instead he shuffles closer, since their talk might be heard by onlookers.]

My grandpa, he said lots of other tombs, they get ruined by people who just want the gold and stuff, and they destroy the bodies.

[tinythirdchild]

That's awful!

[She doesn't seem to care about being overheard.]

Everybody can look at them forever and ever and ever? And they're taken to begin with! That's awful!

Taking somebody out of the tomb is no better than being the robbers themselves! That's why w---

[Eeeeek.]

Why awesome people are sworn to protect them!!

[rookiegamer]

[GAH!

Someone stumbled back from the intense. And blinked back all confused - especially on her own stumble - before stuttering an answer.]

B-b, but... But isn't it important, for them to be remembered, too? Who they were?

[Oh please be true, he has no clue what he's talking about...]

[tinythirdchild]

[This seems utterly foreign to her.]

The people guarding them can do that. It's everyone else's fault if they forget, for not doing a good job honoring their dead.

Is that what these "museum" places are all about? Making up for forgetting?