[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 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?

[rookiegamer]

[Upwords, is just giving these hunched sullen looks, until she actually asks. Boy, look at that serious face.]

No, it's so we can learn things about other places we wouldn't know about, if we didn't have stuff from then to look at. Like, I wouldn't know about, Egypt, or pharaohs, without people finding this stuff and keeping it. Or, Troy? Or, even stuff that happened here, with the samurai or shoguns?

[tinythirdchild]

[She doesn't know what any of those things are. And she thinks it might prove your point.

So in the face of this Incredible Logic, she wibbles a moment, then sticks her nose in the air.]

They still shouldn't dig up people.

[rookiegamer]

I, guess not... I don't know a lot about how it's done.

But, maybe we should see, what they're doing with them here?

[tinythirdchild]

[She's really not sure, but....it's not like she isn't curious.

So she looks down and slightly away.]

Well, okay. We did come inside and everything.....

It's - this place, right?

[She pokes the map.]

[rookiegamer]

Ah, I think so... that's where they had some feudal display last I knew, so- It's downstairs, that way!

[Now, will he be able to lead her right to it - hoping, hoping there's nothing too insulting about it all down there - or will the Greek statue display on the way distract?]

[tinythirdchild]

Okay....

[She'll get distracted by the shinies along the way, but only slightly. There are important things she has to figure out!

She may be a small Tombkeeper without a special destiny, but if she's the only one around, she has a Duty. It makes her feel important.]

[rookiegamer]

[-oh, phew. Someone might be speaking too soon, but the first room at least is just a mass of wall displays. One block in the middle of benches of some, tiny trinkets under glass, but namely just large slabs of figures in faded colors and symbols along the sides.

They, must be from tombs or something, but it's nothing too bad, yet.

Right? Girl he's glancing at?]

[tinythirdchild]

[She is squinting very hard at one of them.]

Nobody took care of these. You can barely read them.

Definitely could have used some....awesome people.

[rookiegamer]

-who are you thinking of?

[Something says not refurbishing people or something...]

I think most of these were found after they were abandoned a long time, though.

[tinythirdchild]

Nobody. I'm not thinking of a-ny-bo-dy.....

[Though....

She looks at him very seriously. He's been surprisingly useful so far today! And though she'd get in big trouble if she told....and it's fun to have a secret destiny....

It's no fun when nobody understands her point of view.]

Unless.

You can keep....a secret.

[rookiegamer]

...ah, of course.

[Who's he going to tell he- Er, that is, he's handled some pretty big ones so far, and she's a friend, so he'd not tell!

He'll just look, really uncertain and curious all at once.]

[tinythirdchild]

[That is not an encouraging look, buddy. But very well! She has deigned to trust you.]

Then - and if you breathe a word you'll be punished twice as bad as me --

[SECRET FURTIVE GLANCES. ARE WE ALONE? GOOD.]

The awesome people, who look after tombs and make sure the people in them are all okay -

are me.

Guess who got interrupted in tagging by LIFE? (whoops, here it comes again!)

[rookiegamer]

[Gerp- Does he even want to know about...

Wait.

Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare time.]

S-so you. Is that why- The puzzle and-

[-that is, huh?]

Gasp! Anything but THAT! (<3)

[tinythirdchild]

[She puts a finger to her lips.]

This is a secret that's lasted three thousand years!

You can't spill it to anyone, you understand?

But it's all true. My family lives in a tomb and we protect it.

Because there's a great important Pharaoh who's coming back.

Noooo~

[rookiegamer]

E-even if it's another you?

[But then, maybe not all "Malis" are these keepers... And if Mali asked him to keep quiet, he has to keep his word!]

Okay... But, do you, know when the Pharaoh's returning?

[-never mind him clutching his backpack strap. Doesn't mean a thing, nope!]

[tinythirdchild]

Soon!

[She hopes so, anyway, nodding.]

Duel Monsters has been invented. So it's only a matter of time!

[That makes so much sense. So much sense. Right?]

[rookiegamer]

-so, Duel Monsters is part of it, too? The pharaoh's return?

[Not a huge shock, if he puts together everything he's learned back at the hotel... But he's still considering what he needs to do with this knowledge.]

Does that mean, it's important to learn how to play the game?

[Isn't he taking this seriously?]

[tinythirdchild]

[She nods.]

The prophecies don't say. But there are cards involved, and these are right! They have to be!

They're on the walls of my home.

[She is pretty sure she can't give away the Great, Big, Big Secret. She's not even sure she should know about it in the first place, but she's a very talented eavesdropper.]