genessia | [Audio] / [Action] By the Bay

[Regaining consciousness was odd for the high school boy. After having experienced, perhaps the worst thing in his life, his new setting felt serene, majestic, nothing like where he was before.]

Did I…die? [Again.]

[He wondered. Ryuuji didn't notice the box on his chest before sitting up. After having felt it land on his lap did he pay any attention to it.

Okay. This is weird. First a hotel that tries to kill you and now a starter kit to this Genessia city.

Then it hit him.]

LUKE!

[The teen was almost certain the redhead was with him, but it was hard to tell because he went in and out of consciousness due to being sick. It was night…and he really didn't remember any of what happened. Maybe he did die again. Either way the redhead was nowhere to be found, maybe he should utilize this videophone.

Ryuuji found himself outside of the Bay, though still horribly confused.]

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So this…Genessia place…is nowhere near California, is it--or Japan for that matter?

[Not that I've ever heard of Genessia either.]

And has anyone seen a red haired, fair skinned guy? He has green eyes and is about 165cm tall? His name is Luke. I was kind of…with him before I came here.

[I hope he's okay.]

Sorry for bothering you with my questions. I just have no idea what's going on.

[(Luke)]

[The redhead had awakened with a start.

Although his memories were fuzzy, his thoughts were racing. Where had he been? What had he been doing? What…had happened?]

…

[Reading the pamphlet answered the question of where he currently was. The other items were surprisingly informative, as well (it was a good thing there were instructions with the device). His chest tightened as it sunk in. He was in yet another strange place…?

Then, suddenly, without a thought--]

Takasu!

[Ryuuji- Was he okay? Last Luke remembered, he'd been incredibly sick. He needed to find him, damn it! Within minutes he was up, feet moving before he'd even consciously told them to. It wasn't long afterward that he heard a familiar voice. Steps freezing, he listened to the words, eyes widening as they landed on the source. The dark-haired teenager was talking on the weird device, and standing only feet away.]

You're okay!

[Ryuuji may have not needed to use the network had he realized they were brought together, just not at the same time. After living through the Californian hotel, the change of pace seemed…less dangerous.]

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I [pause] I know.

[He was only there for two months, but that was two months longer than he could stand.]

Back in California, it was the year 1969, and a lot of people came from strange places I've never heard of, or places I have, but with different history.

You've just won the award for being the oldest person I met here in Genessia. I knew a couple of older people from before, but the only people here I knew from long ago here are from the 80's.

..Though no one seems to be able to tell me what year it is here so it might not actually be a long time ago.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm not from the 60s.

[Far from actually.]

I was pulled from my home, in Japan, to some strange hotel in California. We we told it was the year 1969 and the guy who ran the hotel was trying to build some utopia where everyone could live happily.

[To say it went horribly wrong, was an understatement.]

Strange things happened…at night… [He didn't really want to talk about it because it brought back bad memories.] Before I knew it, I woke up here--wherever here is.

So you time traveled into a horror movie.

[ That's what it sounds like to her. Well, the start of some kind of horror movie anyway. ]

I guess that's one way to put it.

[His life started to sound like a badly written fanfiction in that case]

What about you?

Miserable life, got killed, extremely long afterlife in which I tried to get vengeance against god but just ended up making friends, faked reincarnating and moved to live with someone in 1986, broke that same someone's timeline.. fragment-- whatever it's called, actually reincarnated, regained memories a couple of months ago, then ended up here.

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[Wait, what?]

You're...not serious are you?

Absolutely serious. That's the summarized version.

I've seen some pretty crazy things back in the hotel...[but]

Nothing as crazy as what you just told me.

You just had to hear about it, don't complain. At least you didn't have to live through it. [ There's a pause, then: ] Some of it, anyway.

[ Being dead and all. She seems so blase about it, too. ]

I don't mean to be rude. [Really.] Is it anything like here?

This place specifically? Not really. Except for the non-humans. Apparently they give necklaces to the real people so that they can tell them apart here. We just had to figure it out by talking to them in the afterlife. That's the biggest similarity, though.

Necklaces? [She means this weird thing that was included upon arrival?]

Does that mean there are fakes here?

Apparently. I haven't talked to them enough to really investigate it in depth yet, but that's what it seems like.

[That's weird.]

Is it something we should be concerned about?

Well, they aren't like the NPCs in my world in a key way, so I'd say they're probably safe. Apparently some of them get a little rough or form gangs or something, but that's nothing normal people don't do on occasion.

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