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[initiates]

Date & Time: Evening, 10th February 3312
Location: Transport Room
Characters: Open To All
Summary: Everyone is brought into the transport room at roughly the same time, in a great succession and flow of imported individuals. Everyone is being lead around in small bundles, or left to their own devices together inside the Initiative Hold.
Warnings: None.

Widespread and crowded, everyone is being transported into this unusually bright room with an efficiency that is almost horrifying. One after the other, new people are appearing -- being led, shown around and then ultimately abandoned with one final phrase; "Good luck."

The Initiative Hold is wide, like a small town in its depth and industry. You've received your weapon; you've got your keys, your netbook, and one of those robed strangers has shoved a small pouch full of what you can only assume is money into your open palm. You've been given an apartment, but where on earth -- are we on earth? -- is it? Your best opportunity right now is to mingle; at least, that's what everyone else appears to be doing. Those strangers in the robes have left. They're tending to the people who are arriving, one by one and in a quick procession. Energy bustles all around you, as you're strapped up with your sudden gifts and looking around.

Hey, maybe you'll even see some familiar faces.

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[fivetimesover]

Orihime was no stranger to strange new worlds but this time it was different. Every other time she had found herself somewhere new she distinctly remembered deciding to go there. This was different, she didn't remember signing up for this.

She's walking slowly through the hold, trying to take everything in. Of course since she's juggling keys, a bag full of money, a computer and a rapier it's less like walking and more like stumbling around over herself.

[bottlegreen]

Laurence had been perfectly content to ignore this entire mass of people, having gotten as many answers already as anyone is wont to give, for the promise of a room and a bath. But he pauses to see Orihime, a frown briefly crossing his face. That young woman appears to be trying to handle a sword. Half shocked by the impropriety of it, and half concerned that she'll stumble, drop her considerable load, and cut herself, he immediately changes direction and strides over.

The fact that he has his own odd handful of things to juggle doesn't stop him from making a formal bow, dusty, dirty, and unshaven as he is.

"Begging your pardon, Miss, but you seem to be having some difficulty. Would you permit me to lend assistance? I might carry your rapier, perhaps."

[fivetimesover]

"Wha?"

Orhime was surprised to see someone approach, and even more surprised by the bow. She tried to return the favor only to drop her key on the floor.

"Oh, ah, sorry about that."

She apologizes as she shuffles the rest of her items, trying to figure out how to reach down to retrieve her key.

"I don't want to be any trouble though, you have a lot of things to carry too, right?"

[bottlegreen]

After rearranging his own hold on things, he immediately stoops to retrieve her key. He keeps it held out, should she want it back, but not proffered. He can't very well thrust one more thing upon her, of course.

"I do, I must admit that much; however, I have the larger pair of hands for it, and the easier time of it." He tries to summon a smile with that, but it just comes out looking tired. "I assure you with utmost sincerity that it should be no trouble at all to ease your burden, if only you would permit me to."

[fivetimesover]

She watched as he quickly picked up the key for her. He was being very kind but his tired expression worries her. She can't ask him to carry her things, not if he needs to rest. She adjusts her items so that she has a free hand and reaches back out of the key.

"No, really I can do it."

[stonefaith]

She catches Bariyan's eye because she's moving a bit like a landslide waiting to happen. Bariyan shifts his weight from his left foot to the right, watches her approach, and takes a couple steps to the side in order to place himself in her direct path.

"Hey, girl." Bariyan becomes suddenly overly self-aware of how odd and raspy his voice sounds, and compensates by speaking even more softly. He can barely hear himself over the rest of the people here. "You're gonna drop that sword on your foot if you're not careful."

[fivetimesover]

"Oh, hi!"

She greets enthusiastically.

"Hmm, I don't think I'll drop it, maybe if I use it like a cane though? That's probably not good for it, is it?"

She stands there with a distant look, like she's pondering all the new and unique ways one could possibly carry a rapier.

[stonefaith]

"--Oh? Probably not." Bariyan gives her a pleasant but vague smile, looking in her direction but not quite seeing her.

He snaps out of his vagueness in the next moment, and holds out a hand. Having abstained from choosing a weapon, he's got rather less to juggle around than Orihime does.

"Bariyan, by the way" he says.

[fivetimesover]

"Bairyan," She lets the name roll over her tongue.

"That's a really cool name! I'm Orihime Inoue."

She introduces herself. She notices his gesture, an outstretched hand as if to offer her assistance.

"…oh, I don't want to be a bother though, I'm sure I can get it."

And as she finishes her sentence, as if on comedic cue, her pouch of money flops to the floor.

[stonefaith]

Bariyan echoes her name back under his breath. "Orihime In...o..." It's fairly obvious fairly quickly that Bariyan's going to have trouble with that part of her name. He starts to look very concerned, and is therefore glad for the distraction of her dropped money bag.

Bariyan smiles as he picks it up. He holds it in his fist and raises an eyebrow at Orihime. "You sure about that? It's no problem, really. I've got nothing."

[fivetimesover]

She lets out a nervous laugh as the money makes a clank on the floor. Why did it have to do that? She bends down and puts her netbook and key down so she can stack them and retrieve the money.

"It's ok, I can figure it out, really!"

She's determined to get this, after all the fumbling she's beginning to feel like it will prove something if she can. She picks up the stack and stands back up.

"Oh, you can just call me Orihime, it's my Sir name."

[stonefaith]

"All right," Bariyan says, relinquishing the money pouch back to her. She seems to have a slightly better grip on things now that she's rearranged her belongings, anyway. "Good to meet you, Orihime."

He takes a step back to give her some space, and nods towards the rapier. "That's a lovely sword, by the way."

[fivetimesover]

"Thanks, it really is pretty. I'm kind of surprised they let someone like me have it."

Her voice got soft towards the end of the sentence and she glanced away to the floor. She wasn't sure she was ready for the thought of being on any kind of battlefield again.

[keytoblivion]

Aqua too was hardly a stranger to world travel, even less than Orihime perhaps, but even she had to admit that the forces behind this particular one were... certainly unique, to say at least.

She was looking for a quiet spot to be sure to be undisturbed for just a moment, when she comes across the other girl... who really looks like she could use some help.

"Miss...? Would you like me to help you carry those?"

[fivetimesover]

Orihime looked over to the girl that was addressing her, she had as many things as Orihime but somehow she managed to look so poised. Wow, she was really cool!

"Really? I don't want to be a bother…"

[keytoblivion]

Well, it helps when video game mechanics grant you rather large hammer space pockets. Aqua smiled and shook her head.

"It's a bother. May I?"

She reached over, ready to take whatever Orihime was comfortable handing to her.

[fivetimesover]

"But what if we have to go to different places?"

She was thankful for the offer, but she was also a little reluctant to give anything up in such a strange new place.

...It's *not* a bother, self. Also, sorry for the late. orz

[keytoblivion]

"Then I guess, I'll have to walk a little more. Don't worry, I don't mind."

She was still holding out her hands, though she tried her best not to appear pushy.

[costumechanger]

Previous experience with space and time travel allowed Zoë to recover her equanimity pretty quickly. Having already transformed her uniform into more civilian clothes and tucked her things into the pockets of her skirt - choosing to have her native powers enhanced instead of taking a weapon had benefits - she was looking around the room at the others who'd been brought there when she spotted Orihime.

Between seeing the other girl's uncertainty and the difficulty she was having carrying all of her things, Zoë couldn't resist the impulse to go over to her and see if she could help.

"Hello, there. Looks like you could use an extra set of hands."

[fivetimesover]

"Oh, hello"

she greeted as she repositioned the netbook. She let out a little laugh.

"Maybe, they should have given us bags too I think."

[costumechanger]

"That would've been a good idea, actually. Some of the weapons they had looked pretty unwieldy." Zoë's own hands are conspiciously absent of any weapon. Glancing around, she didn't see much in the way of spare fabric, the room being pretty barren other than the people milling about. "I'd make you a bag, but there doesn't seem to be any suitable material available. I could probably add pockets to your outfit if it doesn't have any, though. That'd give you somewhere to put the smaller things at least.

[fivetimesover]

"Oh wow, you can sew? I was in the handy crafts club at school but I was never as good as Ishida-san," she realized as soon as she said his name that this person would have no idea who Ishida-san was.

"Ah, a classmate." She tried to clarify. She paused a minute before responding again.

"No, I don't have any pockets. They didn't put them in the girls uniforms. It's strange because the boys have them."

[costumechanger]

"No - well, I can, a little - but that's not how I intended to do it. It's probably easier to just show you than explain..." Zoë winks like a magician about to show off a magic trick. A casual gesture and green light dances around the sides of Orihime's skirt as the fabric there stretches inward and reforms it self into pockets, one on each side. When she's finished, it's almost like the pockets has always been there.

"See? All done."

[fivetimesover]

Orihime watched as the light seemed to do the impossible, creating two pockets on the front of her uniform jacket. It was amazing, she had seen many unique powers before but nothing like this.

"Thats so cool!" Her voice sounded giddy, excited by such an interesting power. "Thanks!"

She put her key and money in one and the netbook snugly in the other. Now all she had to carry was the sword. She held it awkwardly at the hilt, maybe this would still be a little tricky.

[costumechanger]

She couldn't help smiling at the other girl's excitement. "You're welcome. Making or changing clothes is my favorite aspect of my powers."

Noticing the awkward way Orihime was holding her sword, she asked, "Not too familiar with the weapon you chose, are you?"