Week 2

[thecastle]

Friday's harrowing events are clear in the minds of many—first and foremost, the death of Rika Furude, and of course the reveal and subsequent "sentencing" of Asch the Bloody. It also serves well as a reminder to everyone that the gloves are off, there won't be an easy way out for anyone and it is unlikely that there will be an option to 'wait it out' in the hopes of not participating in this 'game'. Or, as The Sage and The Teishu put it:

The Challenge.

Despite how you felt about the trial, it's likely that some rest would be welcome after all that transpired. Fortunately, some of your fellow warriors have taken it upon themselves to provide a reprieve of sorts, if you'd rather not be alone.

As if the events of the trial are supposed to be nothing but routine, dawns comes once more Sunday morning, punctuated with the sound of the rooster crowing obnoxiously. Any light sleepers hoping for their rest to not be disturbed may find themselves disappointed. Though, if anyone should wish, they may feel free to try to fall back asleep.

But, maybe that time can be better spent wandering. It seems that some places may have mysteriously unveiled themselves. It might do well to check them out. Or not. How anyone chooses to spend their time is ultimately up to them.

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(OOC: Welcome to Week 2 of Ukimiya! Feel free to comment to the weekly top levels and thread as you like, and redeem coins at the wishing pool.

You can contact the sage with your pendants here, and the teishu here.)

Comments

[bratsitter]

Not particularly at this moment. I was honestly curious-- how can it be self contained but connected to different universes?

[all this mumbo jumbo...his sister was the scientist, not him. Kazuho would have a field day if she met Ros]

[bratsitter]

[wow that was uncalled for!! leave his pride alone]

Thanks. I wouldn't have guessed.

[grumble grumble sarcasm grumble]

[fedorascout]

[In that case, buddy, you're an old man among ninjas. Congratulations]

What do you do as a ninja, anyway? There are tons of legends about ninjas, but I suppose hearing it from a real ninja will be much more interesting.

[originallutece]

[Oh, well, all right. She settles down a bit.]

Because universes are inherently self-contained. You know that already; it's why you've never met another world before now. But one can create doorways-- temporary connections. They're not sustainable, but you can drag things through.

Or at least: that's how it was in my experiments.

[bratsitter]

And you've actually done this?

[that's impressed as hell and also scary as hell. What impact would other universes have if they connected? It doesn't sound like it would lead to any good.

Actually-]

So you think we've been dragged through one of these 'doors'?

[bratsitter]

[amazing]

I'm leader of a Tactical Assault squad. If there's a big mission that'll probably involve fighting, especially if it includes kinjutsu, then I'm part of it. There are other divisions and specialties in my village and others though. My sister works in the research division.

[heck yeah high clearance positions]

[originallutece]

Yes.

[She says it simply, a neat answer to both his questions.]

But I can't imagine how they did it to me. I'm not . . . I wasn't . . .

[She pauses for a moment.]

Because I know so much about those doorways, about that field of study, I was also in a position where it ought to have been impossible to take me away. And yet they managed it somehow. I can understand how they did it to the rest of you; I can even understand how they revived the dead. But they shouldn't have been able to take me.

[She isn't saying it self-pityingly, or with an air of despair. Indeed, she might well be talking about a particularly devilish math problem: something that's giving her trouble, that's irritating her by not making sense.]

[tangas]

[ miyamura will only benefit from that because yukimi is sure to share. ]

I vote for curry.

[pseudoregelia]

Well, if you ever find yourself with something good, let me know! We can see about trading then.

[tangas]

[ no one ever walks away from miyamura when they should. ]

Your life, your liver, your choice I guess. Go ahead and drink away your man pain. No one's here to judge.

[ which is a huge lie. there are absolutely people here to judge. ]

[tangas]

[ A-HA ]

So you know it's a he!

[tangas]

[ mahiro that's just asking for the girl to be like, "and other girls aren't?? >:(" ]

If that's a good compliment, wouldn't the stick up your ass be smaller?

[professionality]

Please don't be so pessimistic! I'd like to think nobody else will have to be tossed outside from now on.

[blacksong]

[Likewise she grabs her own bucket and starts heading back.]

Tell me about it. Just talking to them makes me feel like the world's already ended. [At least he's taking her wanting to kill her sisters better than Tiki.]

[irrationalities]

[no!? it has cooties okay

But in all seriousness, he really doesn't seem to be affected by her speech that much, aside from just a deepening scowl.]

I've haven't needed people to hold my hand for the past couple of years now. What makes you think that being in a place like this would change that?

[irrationalities]

[tbh he was just trying to backhandedly insult miyamura there so uh]

I was just doing exactly what you suggested.

[bratsitter]

I'm sure there's plenty of other things that could go wrong. This kind of stuff always likes being unpredictable.

[bratsitter]

Yeah sure, I'll keep that in mind, brat.

[he's a grump but he is actually grateful for the offer]

[bratsitter]

[that's fair, and also totally true

he's rather dubious on where you got curry tho]

...Did you make it?

[bratsitter]

So by knowing about these doors, you shouldn't have been able to be stolen through one?

[or was Ros protected somehow? either thing seemed rather questionable, although that could be because his world didn't have theories for this that he knew of??]

[originallutece]

Not just knowing.

[She pauses for a long moment.]

There was an incident when I was thirty-eight. The machine myself and my other half had built in order to access those doors was sabotaged, and we were, in one sense, killed.

[She doesn't sound all that upset by it.]

But the problem with killing people using a machine like that is that there are unknown consequences. It isn't a fuse box; you can't simply overload it. Robert and I were killed, yes, and yet we weren't. We were . . . scattered among the different worlds. We were dead, and yet at the same moment we were alive. We found ourselves . . . I suppose you could say we were above it all. We could travel from universe to universe, world to world, as easily as you walk from room to room.

Nothing could touch us. Nothing could hurt us. Except now I'm here.

[pseudoregelia]

Only the past couple of years? Then, you did before that?

[pseudoregelia]

You might want to try talking to the others about it, too. Kurosaki-san offered to make trades like that with me, after all.

Besides, it's good to help each other!

[maddogs]

Havin' too much knowledge can be really dangerous, though.

[maddogs]

I imagine we'll get all our shit back after this, right?