+++ 奇跡国 - Miracle Country +++

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[ souji watches with puzzlement as the kiseki ladies row away in their own raft. they wave and chatter at him as they vanish into the horizon. weird ]

That wasn't very helpful. [ and now he's stuck on this tiny island ] If they want me to die again, then they should have picked something quicker.

[ RATHER THAN STARVATION... ON THIS ISLAND... he picks up the journal, glances out over the water, and then... tosses it into the ocean after the disappearing raft, so whoever's opening it on the other end might get a few wet spots whoops, before it miraculously reappears on the island next to him. ]

...Huh. [ he's going to keep on doing this, sorry ]

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[ HOPEFULLY THE NEXT THROW DOESN'T CLOBBER SOMEONE IN THE HEAD. Souji gazes at a likely target ahead, which could be you, your raft, a floating tree branch, the water, etc. He takes a step back and tosses the book out over the air and to its intended location. ]

[ except it comes back, right? and despite being weirded out by this at first, he finds it very convenient in order to continue throwing the journal at whatever the hell for his own amusement. okay look he thinks he's in like a purgatory, and what else is there to do??? ]

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Hello, Kiseki.

[ Yuuki is inside when she comes into focus. It's clear she may have been outside earlier, though, if the pretty white sundress, parasol in her hands, and sunglasses is anything to go off of. She's been spending most of the daylight hours inside, but if she wants to get anything done she has to venture out still, at times.

And she doesn't like staying in when everyone else is out enjoying themselves. It's clear she's exhausted though, an arm wrapped around her waist. She puts on a smile, though, and the shades help veil her eyes.]

I heard that there might be magicians, or wish-granters here in Kiseki. [Outside of Watanuki-- she hesitates to use his name, though, when she knows that Himawari is mourning his loss. ]

If you are one of those people or know someone who is one of those people, please respond. It's important. Thank you.

[ She bows politely before cutting the feed. ]

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[ Yuuki was trying to find an area not currently affected by the antics of Miracle Country. If they find the train stations, will they be unaffected? Are all the other Islands currently in the same state?

It was her intention-- but she's not feeling like her typical, stronger, self right now. And the sun really is unrelentingly hot. Which is why anyone who finds her in the raft she procured will find one pureblood vampire passed out, her eyes spinning, and overheated. ]

[Tonight, after an uneventful, peaceful day, it'll be the perfect moment to sleep and relax and get ready for another morning in Kiseki.

Except not, because apparently someone doesn't want people to be able to sleep. Late into the night, coming out of various places around the hotels and outside of them there will be a probably familiar sound. If you bother to look it up, you'll find cuckoo toys hiding in cupboards, under beds, on top of shelves, and so on. These will not only do the usual cry, but carry a sign around their necks saying feed me.

If ignored for long, their crying will only get louder and louder. Can you simply destroy these? Absolutely, but only to be replaced by others eventually. So the solution is, obviously, to feed them!

What do they like? It depends. Some of them will take any kind of edible food, others might be pickier and want specific things - sweets, or vegetables, and so on. How insufferable or not your little bird toy is, is up to the players. And yes, the toy will physically eat the food given to them, although they won't be too responsive beyond that. Once full, the bird toy will close its eyes and seemingly fall asleep.

And more importantly, it will shut up.]

[Anyone who regularly passes through the area opposite to the shopping district might notice that there's a new building, near the library. Small, and would-be-unremarkable except for the fact that it's entirely painted in soft pink colors, it has a sign up above its door, with little wings on each side.

"Sheriff's Office".]

[Today, Kiseki feels like having a little music! Or maybe a lot. At any given time during the day, as your characters go on doing their usual routines, all sorts of fitting (or not) music will play around them!

Music from any genre or time (even instrumentals) may play, of course. Your characters joining in and singing along or even dancing - I'm looking at you, Daigo is entirely up to them.]

[With less experience using the journals, it's taken a while to figure out there's a way to make a PSA that Pan can't interfere with. But he has managed it]

I know this might sound odd, but for anyone who's met Peter Pan - that blonde kid who arrived recently - you need to be careful. He's the nastiest person I've ever met, and he's ridiculously powerful. We don't really know what the hell he might be up to, but you don't want to mess around with him. Or get caught up in his crap. [BASICALLY JUST STAY AWAY FROM HIM HE'S THE WORST.]

[He sighs, looking at what he's written down. He... hopes it'll be enough. It's not like Emma and her parents can't cover whoever doesn't believe him, they've got enough friends between the three of them]

[During the evening, everyone with a bit of magic in them will feel a loss, that something - someone - is missing. Watanuki has gone home, his shop now entirely left to Rumpel, except there are small packages laid out on the porch, in a neat row, each bearing a name on them. The names belong to those who have, at any point, approached Watanuki for a wish: Yuuki, Jamie... and of course, even though he has no way to pay the price of gifts now, Himawari and Doumeki.

But even if you don't go anywhere near the shop tonight, you will see black butterflies flying in the darkness, dissolving into nothing if you try to touch them.]

[[OOC: With Watanuki gone, feel free to make up a wish if you want your character to have received something! The mentioned packages contain more blood tablets for Yuuki, spider's web for Jamie, a glass necklace with a miniature sunflower inside it for Hima, and a bottle of sake and a plate of fried shrimp for Dou. Feel free to use this post for general mingling! ♥]]

[Anyone listening to the journal or passing by the Welcome Center today will hear a baby's cry and Snow White shushing him, cradling him close and rocking him gently, trying to get him to sleep again, even though it's clear that she's moving relatively quickly, all things considered, in order to find Emma and Charming]

Shhh... it's alright. It's alright now. [She smiles, soft, as the baby shushes] We'll find them...

[Happy (belated) CLAMP day, everyone! We're following our tradition and having an event for the date.

This year, it's a memory sharing event. Characters will find that they're holding a feather (or perhaps more than one), and they'll know that this feather contains a memory. It could be anything, big or small, happy or sad, that much is up to you. Now, they hold these representations of their own memories for a reason! They're meant to hand them over to someone else. In doing so, the person they give the feather to will experience this memory in a vision. There's a catch, however; the person receiving this memory has to be someone who didn't experience it or witness it too.

Now, if they decide they'd rather not give it to anyone, they'll realize the memory contained in that feather is slowly fading away from their own memories. They'll forget names, faces, events from the memory, until they eventually forget it entirely. Sometimes the memory fading will be a lot faster, and they'll know they have to act quick and don't have the luxury to be sitting around considering who to trust with it. They'll know that, unless shared with someone, the memory will be forgotten entirely. Or, well, "entirely", as Kiseki would have mercy and return it to them, after several weeks (how much is up to you).

The memory exchange will happen when someone else touches the feather - and it means that, yes, you can force someone to see your memory, or you can forcefully view them yourself. And while feathers with memories only work once and then disappear, they could reappear with the same memory in them later.

Of course, the event isn't mandatory, your characters being affected by it at all is entirely your choice.]

[hello, Kiseki! it's been quite a while! if you're wondering what happened to this handsome gentleman, he sort of took a vacation.

out of pure embarrassment.

the thing is, that little incident with him being bittified was SO mortifying that for the past few weeks, it's been hard to find Rumpel when he's not in his Watanuki's the shop.

you might see him now, though! he could be on any one of the islands, sneaking around and generally being dodgy. he'll be by a fountain, looking around to see if anyone's watching, and pulling a very suspicious looking bottle with green glowing liquid out of his pocket...

uh oh.]