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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-06-30 01:42 am
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Date: July 1st
Location: The Initiative Hold & Courtyard.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled into the Courtyard after their initial briefings. Now with 200% more People-Seeking lists!
Warnings: None.

You've just been hustled and bustled through mazes of information and literal, wide corridors of the Initiative Hold and you've been equipped with your weapon—be it a gun, a sword, or even your existing powers. They've handed you this light netbook and a small pouch of coins (or a debit card, if you're more inclined), and there are several Transports before and after you going through the very same motions. You can hear the Greeter's voice as she walks alongside large groups, telling them all about the history of this place and sharing with you your purpose here in a hurried and urgent tone. "You're in luck that we have enough rooms for all of you; the housing building is getting awfully full. Please, let me show you into the courtyard."

You pass what looks like huge gymnasiums, all with dummies and targets strewn and splayed around the room. Training areas. There are even classrooms, and a few small offices. You're rushed past a large library while the Greeter informs you that you can find almost all your information there, if you've got the time to look—and trust her, you'll have time. You don't spend a lot of time in the bank, and it's a bit of a blur of exchanges with more and more of these strangely-accented and oddly polite-seeming members of the Initiative.

Soon enough, you're in a massive courtyard bustling with all the other Transports. It's not exactly what you'd expect, and it looks more like barracks than anything—huge walls of concrete and stone, separating you from all of the hallways you'd just passed through. It's raining heavily, and dark clouds loom in the air, though it hasn't turned to snow. It's a chill cold, and there are shelters—long cloth hangings that extend from the walls of concrete to house you from the rain, but not enough. Most notably, the courtyard is filled with a marketplace. Even in the cold and the rain, there are several citizens seated at their covered booths and tables, bundled up against the weather. They're selling all manner of their own handmade goods and foods, and citizens and Transports alike are traveling from one small covered shop to another in search of all manner of necessities. Now and then around you you might spot paper fluttering in the faint wind from somewhere relatively dry. It looks like a list.

The Greeter's voice has become so faint now, but you swear you can make it out in the back of the crowds as she tells you, "Good luck. Be safe!"

Her voice is drowned out by the busy marketplace, though even the transactions taking place are somewhat subdued. Nobody is overly happy, really, though most citizens can be found with smiles on their faces. It doesn't seem like they're that shocked to see you, either; even if you're not bound in tattered rags and wrapped in heavy shawls as they are. You're welcome to walk up to a shop, and find yourself something to eat—hey, maybe you'll even find something akin to a raincoat. Or, you can join the others under the coverings against the walls. Where am I? What war? She was talking so fast, and it didn't all make very much sense… did anyone else catch it all?

Welcome to the courtyard. Welcome to the Initiative Hold—and most importantly, welcome to Exsilium.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-15 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[A whole month?

I mean. Sure, she's only really useful on missions because of her eyes and sometimes her flowers do well, in the sense that she sells slightly more than 500 yen worth maybe one month out of the year excluding Seto slipping money in when she's not looking, but they've all been gone, without her, for at least a month?]


You've been here that long, Momo? -- A-Are you okay...?
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-16 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Right. That would sound strange to Mary, oops.]

I-I'm fine, ahaha! We're all fine! [Pay no attention to dying of illness recently. Or Kido dying before that. Ohhh noooo, she is not mentioning either of those things right now. Mary's just arrived. It'd be no good to worry her like that already.]

But, um, don't worry! I know it's weird...
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-20 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yes, please don't. Goodness knows what happened the last time everyone died.

Oh. But that was all just a dream, right?]


I-I'm okay. Everyone else is here too, so... it's okay!
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-21 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, just a dream... Just a dream. Don't think about it, Mary!

That's enough to get a grin back on Momo's face though.]


Yeah, that's right! We're all gonna be here with you! So you don't have to worry about anything.

[A short laugh.] Do you wanna get out of the rain now?
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-21 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[And Momo's grin is of course infectious, so Mary smiles back, a little sheepishly and weakly in the weather, but it's definitely a smile.]

Y-Yeah -- let's get out of the rain...!
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-21 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Momo only grins wider when she sees Mary smile, very pleased with herself. Mary smiled, after all!]

Hehe, come with me! I'll keep you dry with my umbrella. [Aaaand she's backing away, backing away.]
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-22 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[And she's still a little on the slow side as she moves, soaked to the bone and all, but she trails behind Momo as best as she can.]

T-Thank you, Momo...!
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-22 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fine, it's fine! We're friends.

[Realizing Mary's not moving as quickly as she is, Momo slows down.]

Do you want to go look for the others? Ah! Or to dry off?
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-23 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She mulls it over. She'd be more comfortable dry, but. But -- ]

... Is Seto okay...?
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-24 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, right, Seto! Momo hasn't exactly had the chance to see her with him much yet, but she's been able to gather that they're close.]

He's okay. And I'm sure he'll be really happy to see you.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-24 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's okay. Well, of course he must have been -- Kido and Kano wouldn't let him get hurt. Wasn't he important to them, too?

She'll see him for herself soon, but for now Momo's word was more than enough. She wouldn't lie.]


That's good...! I'm... glad he's okay!
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-27 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She grins, quickly nodding.]

Yeah! So let's get you dried off so you can see him again. Come on, let's go!
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-07-31 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Okay...!

[And she's still slow, of course, but she's excited too and it gets her spirits up. Example: If she moved at a snail's pace prior to this, now it's more akin to a turtle.

But she's coming.]
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-07-31 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Good enough for Momo! She's coming, she's coming...

Soon enough, the apartment building is coming into view.]


We're almost there! I don't know if we have any clothes that can fit you, but I can get you some towels.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-08-02 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I-I can wear Seto's clothes...! It's okay...!

[She doesn't want to bother Momo any more than she has to. She knows Seto won't mind if she borrows one of his shirts until she gets ahold of clothes more appropriate for the weather.]
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-08-02 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah? Really? But Seto's so much taller than you!

Can you really wear them? [The thought of Mary in Seto's clothes is... kind of funny to her though. Heh.]
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-08-03 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...! His shirts are really long... I can wear one while my clothes dry.

[So not Mary in Seto's weird one-piece hoodie, Momo. ... And nothing for her to go outdoors in, so she'll still have to go shopping later, but... they'll get there.]
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-08-03 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, the mental image was funny while it lasted. Momo nods though, humming thoughtfully under her breath.]

Oh! Then we'll put your clothes somewhere where they can dry fast... Heh, that's really nice of him to do.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-08-03 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Seto's... a really good person.

[Mary already seemed happy enough just being around Momo, but her smile softens farther as she says that, into another kind of expression entirely. This is definitely a thought that she thinks and feels with all her heart, and it's clear from that just what Seto means to her.

Or something like that.]
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-08-03 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's... sweet. That's what it is. Sweet, seeing Mary say that. Momo can't help but smile a little wider.]

That's good... I don't know him well yet, but he's really great, isn't he? He's a good friend.
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-08-04 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... he's really great. ... I hope you get to talk to him more...!

[She'd like that. Her friends should be friends with each other!]
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-08-04 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure I will! I don't know how long we'll be here, but... It's better if we all stick together here, hehe...

[She's all about making friends right now anyway.]
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-08-05 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... we should stick together. After we go home too...!
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[personal profile] eyecaptivating 2013-08-05 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods.] Yeah! Even when we go home, I still want all of us to stick together. So... We should still spend a lot of time together then!
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[personal profile] paraleyes 2013-08-06 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
... When we go home... l-let's go to the amusement park!

[Since she didn't get to but Shintaro did and that makes sense! She has absorbed enough fiction to be aware of and alright with this concept.

But she doesn't remember getting to go. Because she didn't. And that's upsetting.]

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