[The feed comes on with Ashura sitting calmly, mostly his face and shoulders shown and not much else, so it is hard to say where he is, but it is some place quiet.

He pauses for a moment, as if waiting for a crowd to quiet, then begins.]

I realize we have many new members joining us, and some of us have been here for longer than we care to remember. And it has occurred to me that we all know so very little about each other - be it our pasts, our names, or even the worlds we call come from. As a general rule, a people usually share a common past and culture, making a sort of unity between them that sits beneath the usual interplay of individual personalities. And those who follow a different culture are looked upon as oddities, or even with fear.

Being here, in Marina, with so many people from so many different worlds and cultures, I thought perhaps as a whole, as a... people, we might come to understand each other better if we understood each others stories and powers. I would hope that it would provide some unity between us, or at least make it easier for us all to get along with each other and coordinate when times call for it. That being said, I am willing to be the one to compile information anyone is willing to share about their culture, their people from their world. You do not have to speak to me, and this is only mine own idea of what I think might help us all, but I am sure this will work for the better of us all.

And in the spirit of this, I offer up my own story first....

[There is another pause, a breath, and he begins - ]

( Ashura's Story )

[He pauses again, taking a deep breath.]

I am available through many means if you wish to tell me your tale, and through my new understanding of technology can hopefully compile them and allow for all to access. I hope this proves to bring us together, or at the least make this place more liveable for us all.

[He stays on the feed silent for a few seconds more, then turns it off.]

[Calling all lllllladies! And you other people too. Timcanpy is a magical golem belonging to one Allen Walker and created by one Cross Marian and he has been sulking for a while now! His boy has a new best friend (man's best friend, in fact) and there is only so much clinging to Cross that a golem can do. Plus, new people have arrived, and that is exciting. Tim wants to meet all those new people.]

[So here is your chance to strike up a rapport with a little animated gold ball with wings! Timcanpy likes the ladies best, but he will accept petting, food, and attention from just about anyone.]

[GO.]

Wh-wha--?! Hey? [Well this voice sounds pretty nervous. She's pausing a moment, the... crimes sinking in, before raising her tone.] This... you've got to be kidding me! A criminal?!?

[Give her another minute of silence. I just dare you. And Chie is just going to keep being in disbelief.]

You've got to be... Yosuke, if -- if this is your idea of a joke, I am so stomping you into next week! [Sorry, Brosuke, she's mad now, and it's being directed at you on impulse.]

//action//

[Having been wandering everywhere in her attempt to uh, flee Acumen and the crazy nonsense, she's only getting herself lost. Slowing to a stop with her hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath, Chie can be found near the ice/roller rink about now.]


(ooc: I am. ridiculously sorry for how late I am to introing her D: seriously guys, I feel like a turd. SO UH, HERE SHE IS FINALLY WOOOOO aaaaand tell me if I screw up.)

[ When the camera turns on, the view is upside-down. Those who have been here for any length of time will recognize the floor of the shelter kitchen, but they might not recognize the two pairs of feet that are also in the frame. ]

[ The first voice is Touma's; his shoes are the simple sneakers that are spaced close together. For the observant, a packet of ketchup was squished flat under one foot. ] --s an accident!

Like hell I'm going to believe that! [ The second voice, Kanji's, comes from the side where two black boots are spread apart in a very aggressive stance. At his foot, there is a yogurt cup that is dented -- probably from hitting something at high speed. ]

I won't lie like that! [ Touma's defensive. Irritated. He doesn't appreciate being confronted on stupid things he didn't even do. ] Why would throw something? If I wanted to, I would've just hit you or--

Oh yeah?! [ The boots move closer, and there is scuffling from above as shirts are grabbed. ] Punk.

[ This... isn't going to end well. ]


(ooc: So Kanji and Touma are being brats and getting into a fight over something stupid. Video replies will be answered after the fight, but if someone wants to tag in Action style and break them up, please put that somewhere in your tag? Any more than one per "side" would be kind of hard to work with, so anyone else will be after the fight is broken up~!)

[Fou: reporting for duty and ready to give a detailed report on the state of the shelter defense security system! Or, well, that's what she had planned to do when she stopped by in the afternoon and found Suzaku half asleep at his desk. So whose bright idea was it to pretend to be the head of the DF while the real one slept upstairs?

Uh-huh, that's right. It was Fou's.

djksal WHAT HAD SHE DONE?! But it was too late now so she'll just be sitting back, doodling cat faces all over the paperwork sorting through the reports and hoping no one bothered to stop by.

Because how awkward would that be?]

((ooc: to the muns, please don't enter these threads with the intent of revealing Fou as Fou! This is just for fun and internal Fou flailing and everything divulged here will be passed on to the real Suzaku, never fear. Also, fouzaku will be making most of the comments to conserve on icon space. Approved by the mods.))

[He's got a bag full of spray paint and already inside the arcade-- just had to wait for Lind. Hopefully the 'starting to get late' aspect was enough to keep kiddies inside.]




((ooc: Quick note! Graffiti-ing up the arcade with random (and probably crude) toons and curse words + messing with the bowling alley once they get bored of the first, just in case either of those are places your chara frequents enough to notice later :x ))

[The artificial sun or whatever it is has just started to peak over the waves. Sasuke has been watching it impassively as he waits for Saya to arrive, seemingly lost in thought though he won't be easy to sneak up on him.]

[It's his conversations with Kitty that have kept his mind churning, but he's ready to shut them up and focus when it gets down to it. Everything else can wait until after practice. He just hopes the girl won't utterly disappoint him.]

( Read more... )

[ Jeanne should be glad that she's gotten in the habit of keeping that digital camera in her purse at all times. Tonight's plans were mostly ruined, thanks to whoever decided to vandalize the Arcade and its attached bowling lanes, and was long gone by now. She took some photos before they turned heel and walked all the way to the pizza shop instead, but not without making a very quick call to whoever was on dispatch tonight. ]

I still can't believe it... who would do something like that? Do they have a problem with the arcade, or something?

[ She sighed, the diner now in sight. Her hand came up to adjust the loose chiffon cover of her colorful spring dress. ] What a mess... [ And what a damper on what was supposed to be a light evening of fun. ]

((OOC: Consider the DF warned of earlier shenanigans -- though the pair will not chat about it for long on the network, or give too many details. Instead, Jeanne is content with making a report tomorrow! Others are still free to discover stuff before the robots clean up. I'm not trying to step on any toes, but these two had plans. ^^;))