[JANUARY INTRO LOG | WORLD TWO]

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Who: All coven members, especially new folk!
Where: In and around the new world’s apartment building where the coven is staying, as well as the rest of Shehui
When: Day 160
Open/Closed: Open to All
IMPORTANT: While some prompts are newbie exclusive, all characters can tag this intro log!

How did you get into this building? This apartment room? What the fuck is going on? Let's refer back to this page for a semi in-depth, wow so detailed, explanation of your current situation. You'll also have a letter slipped under your door with some explanation about your whole coven situation, as well as info that explains you have magic now! And yet what kind of magic is conveniently left out. Are you up to speed? Great. Now, here's the question of the hour: what are you going to do about all this? A ▢ If you're the sensible sort and want to explore your new digs before slinking around Shehui, you're in luck! You've got easy access to your apartment, and it's luckily not on lockdown right now. Feel free to check out your room, raid the fridge -- oh, and saying hello to your roommates should also be on your to-do list. B ▢ Let's say that hanging out with these people is a little overwhelming...that's fine! There are plenty of things to do in the apartment building without interacting with roomies! There are vending machines to prop up, a leisure floor that contains a totally vacant air hockey table and a nice garden to relax in. C ▢ But ah, there's also venturing outside! Out front is the job board, which is a nice place to hit up if you're looking to add to your currently fat but depleting credit account. The problem is that the jobs are currently disappearing quickly, and those around you aren't giving you such nice looks. This apartment building is a known problem area at this point, and your signet doesn't do anything to settle their fears.

D ▢ With new year's week coming to an end, the residents of Shehui are feeling more celebratory than somber now. A lot of businesses are closed in order to enjoy themselves and ring in the new year the right way. A lot of restaurants and bars are currently offering specials, from free drinks to cheap food in order to pull in the holiday crowd. If you're looking to meet people and socialize in Shehui, this is the best way to do it. E ▢ Also because it's the post holiday season, stores are trying to push out the rest of their overstock merch. One item of note that's being peddled quite often is a cell phone. From tiny flip phones to the latest Orange product, cellphones are a necessity in this modern society. Get yours right now and begin texting right away! There are a few social apps that are installed, so you might be lucky enough to connect with another coven member! They also have Redmolar capability, which will automatically allow you to text those with phones in the area. Maybe send some mysterious stranger texts? F ▢ While you're hustling around Shehui, you may realize that the telepathic messages get stronger -- perhaps the new coven members are near? In general, you may be subject to telepathic messages about current Shehui goings on, random thoughts or requests to meet up at so-and-so location. A.K.A. let's utilize that telepathy...it may not last forever! G ▢ Because the week of remembrance is still going on, flowers are littering the streets, though most of them are dead. Bunches of flowers are being sold, and flower fortunes are a popular activity during this part of the holiday. There are fortune tellers on the street who will give you your flower of the year, but it's more fun to have them read with one another! There are digital cards that you can buy that will allow you to read fortunes on the go -- simply tap the screen of the card and your flower will be decided. Not happy with your choice? Too bad! It won't randomize to something different, no matter how hard you try. H ▢ While a lot of Shehui citizens are trying to avoid the coven members like the plague, a small alien child isn't so much concerned with who helps her, just as long as someone does. She accidentally left her house's door open and her five new kittens are suddenly missing! Where are they? Who knows! But she'd certainly like some help looking for them. I ▢ As the day winds down, snow falls on Shehui for the last time this season. The government is getting rid of their supplies that create the festive weather. This is old hat for older coven members, but for newbies? You better enjoy the snow while you can. After an hour or so, it piles up enough to truly be utilized for merriment...this also means that it's pretty easy to get snowed in if you happen to be in a building during the snow fall, which also creates some interactive opportunities. J ▢ Wildcard! How will your character interact with this new and unusual world?

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[endette]

[TOO LATE, HE'S DEAD, HE'S FUCKING DEAD OF A BROKEN HEART AND THERE'S NO COMING BACK FROM THIS]

FUCK YOU MADE ME CRY YOU BIG MEANIE JERK

[And as he types it, it becomes true, because the shock still hasn't worn off, but the relief... No matter how many things were off about this, it didn't matter. She was there. Elise was there.]

where r u!!!

[farsighting]

( Don't they say the quiet ones who don't look like they'd be into that kind of thing are the exact ones who are? She's not in the headspace to make the joke.

Instead, Elise gingerly fingers the area around it, void of any markings even though it's irritating the piss out of her regardless. )

Maybe it's like the alien abductions they talk about on movies...this is an alien world, so it's pretty likely. The people that did it...that's what I really want to know. The government doesn't seem to like them either, so they're out of the question.

[farsighting]

IT WAS THE PHONE YOU BUTTHOLE

( Her fingers type it before her brain even thinks about anything else. It's like for a second everything feels normal, even if it just got way more abnormal. She could cry. She could laugh! But the relief is mutual in that she feels a lot less on edge. Elise can handle one special person in her life being missing more than she can handle her whole world being completely absent and unplaceable. )

in the city. there are a lot of shops and streets so i'm not 100 sure yet.

where are you? ?

[bulletbiter]

[ Julius' eyes tell nothing but resolve. Quiet acceptance, without a hint of fear. Once a God Eater takes up the oath, they sign their lives away to die. That was just how it is.

Somewhere within them is a spark of gold - or maybe, it was just a trick of the light. ]

Then... thank you, truly. I can be more at ease, knowing this. [ He smiles - a small smile, but genuine nevertheless. ] I can only be killed in a single way. I shall prepare you a tool to use.

[ Of course, she deserves an explanation. Such things of death and killing a friend aren't easy for anyone to handle, so he hopes she will understand. Taking a deep breath, he lets his expression settle to something suitably somber. ]

Decades ago, monsters appeared on the Earth, in my world. They consumed all that was in their path. City walls, firearms, not even the strongest weapons we could use could stop them. So we named them the Aragami, beings of godlike and terrible strength. They could only be defeated by one of their own kind, naught else. To give humanity a fighting chance, some of the survivors chose to take the essence of the Aragami into themselves. Thus we could wield weapons and drive them from our homes. Yet, to take their spirit would mean that one runs the risk of turning into a beast.

[ Thus the need for care and maintenance. A God Eater would fight until they fell in battle. Five, ten years for the most part. ]

Should someone transform... then it is the duty of their teammates to put them out of their misery. Here, I have no one who can do that for me. No one, but you.

[allbroea]

[ W H Y ]

Dare I ask what dokemon is.

[endette]

omggg that means literally nothing

h/o

[And then Jörgen, like any sensible boy openly weeping in the streets, climbs his way onto some roof. Deaf to anyone's protests, he cups his hands around his mouth.]

ELIIIIIISE! FOLLOW MY VOOOICE!

[it'll work]

[endette]

it's a video game u collect ALL the cute monsters and take over the competition or w/e because ur the best monster owner

[farsighting]

( Oh my fucking god...her brother is a mess, but what else is new. This emotional baby mess that she has to protect. Time to put her thick thighs to use and sprint around this god damn city until she hears him and his caterwauling.

When his voice is finally loud enough to be heard with full volume, he's visible -- on a roof, she should have known. )

GET DOWN, DORK! ( She yells it with tears streaming down her face. Keeping them in is impossible anymore. )

[endette]

[And like that, he jumps down to the blurred vision of her. It's an awkward landing, and his ankles will have something to say about it later, but right now he doesn't care at all. He's busy lurching towards his sister and lifting her up off her feet into the strongest hug he can manage. There's something a little off about it, but!!! Elise is here!! And he's never letting her go, now!]

Sisterrrrr! You s-scared me! Where the heck have you been?! I know you can handle yourself, but jeez!

[farsighting]

Sorry being abducted by aliens didn't involve being duct taped to you somehow.

( Some good-natured ribbing among twins. Jörgen looks a bit different compared to how she remembers him -- different hair, different missing tooth. But it's unmistakably him.

Honestly, who cares right now? As long as he's here, that's perfect. )

Besides, if I didn't go phone shopping we couldn't have had our "missed connections" moment... ( The cheerfulness can't last that long, however, as she cries for a moment, completely silent. Everything is so wrong, but Jörgen makes it a little more right. Now she can rest easy knowing he can still be protected. )

[endette]

[He's seriously never going to set her back on her feet. Even if times they'd been apart, there was always the promise that the other would be following close behind. There was no guarantee like that when you were snatched up into another world without warning.]

It's a magic cult, not aliens... [Which is less ridiculous, obviously. God. Okay. Okay, time to figure out what's happening.

...Huh, that's Different.] Your arm's there. Huh.

[allbroea]

[ don't lay your traps so obviously, okuni ... she'll never catch him this way!!

he is, admittedly, taken aback by the sheer bluntness of the statement, especially given his signet is hidden quite (un)comfortably under his cravat. they're not in a particularly crowded area, though, so it's not like he has a reason to deny it. ]

... Okuni, then. [ uh, hm ] You aren't wrong; I am a member of the coven, as far as I've been informed, but how did you know that?

[ is there something else that stands out aside from the signet ... did she just nonchalantly guess. ]

[farsighting]

( She's okay with not being put down...for now. The second things get even a little hairy, though, she's springboarding off his chest and stabbing a fuck. )

You can be in a magic cult and be aliens. ( Like...she's pretty sure this is not Earth, anymore. ) They also might have scrambled your brain a little...I've got two arms and they're both right here.

( As evident by the fact that they're grabbing him right now so she doesn't feel like his tall ass is gonna make her fall over. That's in between wiping the tears off her face, anyway.)

[endette]

[He accepts his new life as a springboard.]

I mean, yeah, I guess...

[This other part...is a little too much for his emotionally rattled brain. He can see now that it isn't just the arm, it's her hair, and clothes, and cadence, and...that life in her eyes. It was still there. God, it was beautiful.]

Oh man, we need to talk. And about things I don't really understand that well.

[osuni]

[She's glad he trusts her enough to tell her why, but that's about the extent of it.

She can't be glad of anything else -- of a world where Julius had to make that choice to save everything he knew. Because at least the Kumou twins hadn't had to choose to become vessels, that had been pure chance, even if they did end up choosing a lot of things that ultimately isolated them. So, in a way, Okuni can understand having to take up a hard choice, but...

That was more than a hard choice.

Her eyes flash in dismay as she listens, but that's also the extent of which she'll show her emotions. This is a world that Julius has had to live with the entire time...]

I see. I was a little arrogant when I said I understood earlier. ...Yours is a curse you accepted. [a burden willfully undertaken... She understands better now.]

Still, my answer's the same, Julius. I'll use the weapon you give me.

[She doesn't want to.... but sometimes life just doesn't work that way. And better it was her, someone Julius trusted enough to tell her the reasons, then a random bystander.]

Until the day when you decide to take it back.

[rather than, "the day when you lose all your humanity" because really

if he's still alive, then there's always a chance.]

[allbroea]

[ he can't hold that against her, at least. it is a process ... ]

It's fine. If you haven't heard of Zemuria or Aidios, I doubt we're from the same place at all. If you meet anyone who has heard of them, I would appreciate it if you contacted me at this number. My name is Jusis Albarea.

[farsighting]

( Since they've calmed down a little, Elise sizes up her brother -- she was right in her initial realization that her twin certainly looked different. Clothes can change, duh...but his hair? His tooth? )

Yeah...like why you spent the morning getting an alien -- magic cult alien -- haircut. Not that it looks bad.

( That's the more minimal of the concerns, though. ) What happened to your tooth...?

[farsighting]

okay!! can do.

just because i don't know doesn't mean i don't want to know tho! what can you tell me about this...stuff? places?

[sluggard]

[He does not grin, he does not grin, he does not--

Okay, he totally does.] Yeah? Guess it probably will be once I can really figure it out.

My bow, uh... Sorta? I don't really have one right now, but there was a guy making weapons.

[endette]

[!!! She think he looks cool!! That's what that means, no take backs.]

Ahh ha... That. [Okay, Elise can utilize her own feet.] Come on. We'll find someplace quieter to discuss it. Don't need anyone knowing more business than they have to about us...

[Hey look, it's not just his appearance that got a bit edgier. Anyway, off to...that district everyone was avoiding last time, maybe? Some secluded corner of the city, anyway.]

Okay. So... What's the last thing you remember before coming here?

[allbroea]

What is a video game?

[ yes he thinks people are playing zemuria board games or something. ]

[endette]

bruh

[pigii]

you can do lots of things!
you can call people and send messages... but i guess we can do that in our heads anyway?
um
you can play games too, but smartphones are a lot better for that... (︶︹︺)

[ you can't even play hate die on a flip phone. what is the POINT. ]

[farsighting]

( Thanks, gentle giant. She nods in agreement immediately, perfectly aware that sharing more information than necessary with the world at large isn't a great thing to do. At least, the paranoia that still exists in her mind is certainly afraid of it.

Woop, woop fast forward to a silent, awkward walk to wherever they are now. It's a distinct contrast from the tone of just a few moments ago. She thinks for a while, even though she knows what her last memory is exactly. It's just that when she revisits it, it's like she gets stuck in a loop for a moment. The thought is all that she has for right now when it comes to her. )

I was with Hotaru. We were going to bed after talking for a while...what about you?

[bulletbiter]

[ For better or for worse, God Eaters were the last hope of humanity. Horrible things become acceptable when the alternative is even worse. So in this way, Okuni need not feel bad - because their circumstances were different. Assuming they were the same isn't something he can fault her for. ]

All of us understood the consequence when we signed ourselves into this life. Even if it is terrifying... we wanted to protect our homes. [ Not 'our families', because most of them are already dead. Most of that most were killed by the Aragami. ] It feels less of a burden when we had friends to share it.

[ Yes, you're his friend now. Accept it. ]

I was about to turn, once. But they didn't lose faith in me, so I was able to keep my sanity. Thank you.