Game 054 [Action/Voice]

[neverplaysfair]

[ It's windy, and it's cold, but Joshua has an anniversary to celebrate in his own quiet way and he's not going to let the weather stop him. His first stop is to swing by his old room, room 7 at Community Housing 5. It's still empty, but he's not surprised to find that both Hanekoma's graffiti and his own long-disabled traps have disappeared from the walls.

After that, he'll spend some time trying to spray paint one of the not-yet-painted walls of House 38. Of course, given that spray paint doesn't like cold temperatures and really doesn't like wind, that's going to produce a result that's about as neat and tidy as you'd expect. So after a little while wrestling with that, he'll head inside to make himself a cup of nostalgia coffee (not as good as Hanekoma's...) and sit down with his journal to warm up. ]

What was your first experiment here, and what did you think about it? [ He giggles. ] For me, I suppose an amusement park made for a rather gentle introduction. Does anyone else remember the Great Mysterio?

Comments

[mikangirl]

Wasn't that the guy with the goldfish bowl on his head?

[neverplaysfair]

Ah, that's the one. Did you have your fortune told?

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

I think it's the "random teleportation" one for me.

[While a lot can happen in two years, his first experiment always stand out clearly in his mind.]

[mikangirl]

I did! Can't for the life of me remember it now, but I do remember not being very impressed by it. You?

[weaponry]

My first shift involved me believing I was from another world. I'm not sure on much when it comes to something like this but I was a King called Arthur, and, I was searching for my legendary sword Excalibur who was really just some thirty year old man with a new sharp appendage added to his body stuck in a wall. I then walked around the forest for a couple of days looking for dragons. [ She sighs. ] It was vastly unsuccessful and it taught me to expect the most annoying result, not necessarily the worst.

[voice]

[idealism]

How long has it been since your first experiment, Joshua?

[neverplaysfair]

Mine came true. Though I did have to be reminded of it before I realized it.

[Voice]

[neverplaysfair]

You didn't happen to be thrown into the plaza with the large group, did you?

[neverplaysfair]

Most annoying, not the worst... I suppose that's true more often than not. That's a good way of putting it. That experiment was quite recent, wasn't it?

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

Almost three years. And yours?

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

The plaza? Nope. [A pause.] The mass naked group one?

[weaponry]

Depends on your definition of recent. It was one year ago, and a month. [ Not exactly, but, somewhere in that ballpark. ]

[voice]

[proxyerror]

No idea. I don't remember it.

[voice]

[idealism]

I don't even know. Two years?

[mikangirl]

I wonder if mine did in the end. Guess I'll never know now.

Time really flies, doesn't it? That was my first experiment, too.

[neverplaysfair]

It does. Three years already, and yet I can still remember home as clearly as if I had been there yesterday. [ ... then again, he's a bit more obsessive over home than most people tend to be ]

It would have been interesting to know if mine was a simple fluke. [ But considering how detailed the prediction was, Joshua somehow doubts it. ] At this point I'd imagine that most people who were around aren't here anymore. On top of that you'd need to have talked to Mysterio and remember your fortune. At least if it were coming true, it almost certainly would have done so by now.

[Voice]

[neverplaysfair]

[ Giggle. ]

That's the one. I take it you at least heard of it, then.

[neverplaysfair]

... [ A year and a month ago. That would be... well, the moon fell a year ago. Which was the Shift before that? Particulars aren't coming to him, but he remembers for sure the one he thought she was thinking of happened this year. ]

I think we're thinking of different experiments. What do you mean by being from another world?

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

Which one was it?

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

What do you mean, you don't remember?

[voice]

[idealism]

The mindreading one.


That sucked.

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

... With the thoughts that could be literally read? [ Joshua remembers getting pissed and upset at Hanekoma during that one. ]

[mikangirl]

Come to think of it, I think mine was about getting into trouble. In which case, it was probably accurate. [Nostalgia, man. Things have been more peaceful lately.] He might turn up again if Lucetiland comes back. Guess I can always ask him if he remembers.

[Voice]

[de_bel_survivor]

It's not hard to notice it.

[The commotion's rather big, if he remembers correctly.]

I count myself lucky that I wasn't a part of it.

[weaponry]

[ To Tenten, she vaguely remembers the fairy tale one, but, she also remembers one last year upon her arrival. It was more about legends and myths and camelot than child's stories. If only she could express this and be culturally knowledgeable. ]

I just thought I was in a different society. I knew of a small village, everything was so backwards. It just had peasants and kings and I thought I was a legendary warrior, and a guy. It wasn't anything like Luceti, it was like Luceti a thousand years ago. [ There wasn't running water to her and everything was uniquely foreign in terms of time. ]