[Kratos is not... a wordy or expressive man. When he arrived at the Bay, he quietly listened to the instructions of the hologram with grim acceptance, and wandered all the over city, looking for a place to stay because it's winter in Genessia. He found the map from a few magazines to find his way around.

Truth to be told, he sort of marveled at the sights and sounds and life of the city, compared to his world of Derris-Kharlan where he foresee his people of lifeless beings under his care after Mithos is gone. The technology is different than the magi-technology, he observed.

After a few days, he settled in an inn in Fayren. His lifeless world, the floating planet in space was left behind...for the time being. Still, the mana he sense here on this world is stable as he can use most of his spells while practicing in the woods of the forest.

Ah, it didn't dawn upon him to use the device to communicate to the Network. So speaking into it with a very mild:]

"... ... ...hello."

[Yup. Pause. Not a wordy man. He's one of those strong silent types.]

"Greetings. I'm Kratos Aurion. I'm a swordsman and a mercernary. How do you do?"

[Good start. There we go.]

"Is there is anyone who is a swordsmans around here too? I think I'm rather out of place in this city."

[Zechs had been keeping a low profile since he arrived last month, if only because he isn't much of a network person. Sure, keeping up with posts is a good idea, but he'd rather keep his interactions to a minimum. Especially as of late.

But this post was necessary.]

To those of you with intentions of attending the Second Honnouji Academy, please note that no matter which subject area you decide to focus on, ballroom dancing is a requirement. It must be fulfilled, or you won't receive a certificate of completion of your education. This is non-negotiable, with exceptions to restrictions as deemed necessary from a qualified medical doctor.

Thank you.

[He's really tired of all the inquiries, and complaints. If he had to suffer, then so do they.]

[Nora turns on the feed, and she’s obviously outside, but there’s nothing around her but the dark clouds forming in the background. There is a wind gusting through her hair, and an excited look on her face.]

Hey, quick question. Is this the highest place in the whole city?

[She turns the camera to the back of the device, showing a lovely view of the city from up high.]

There’s a thunderstorm rolling in, and the last one was eeeeeeeverything! I haven’t felt that energized since the tournament! Which isn’t really a long time ago, but it’s definitely been to long!

[The camera comes back to her.]

I need an answer quick so I can get a good spot to catch some serious lightning! Then maybe I’ll do my usual workout routine about fifty times.

[Nora gives a two-fingered salute while faint thunder booms in the distance, before cutting the feed.]

[There is not much in terms of speaking or actual focus on the device itself. Instead there appears to be the sound of laughter. Laughter that appeared to be from quite close to the device. It took five minutes of laughing before finally a voice spoke up.]

Ahahaha. Togetic, you look hilarious. [The laughter continued. Whatever was going on apparently was quite funny.]

Maybe I should get the other members of staff to wear them. [Does anyone really want to know what this is about?]

Video:

Hello.

[Terra flashes a smile at the screen.]

I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve opened another flower shop. This one is in Genessia it’s called Jardin Florissant and is located at 7th Street and Laurel Avenue. I’d love for people to stop by.

Thank you.

Action:

[ooc: Feel free to just show up. It’s currently more sparse than the shop in Attleton.]

Video

[Terra's lips curl into a warm smile as she turns on the video. Her hair is pulled back and lose green curls fall on either side of her face, framing the delicate curve of her cheek. Her smile reaches up towards her eyes and it's clear that whatever she has to say; she's very proud.]

Hello everyone, for those of you who I haven't met my name is Terra. I own a flower shop in Attleton.

[The camera shifts slightly as Terra reaches for something at her side.]

I have two announcements, first is that I want to open a second shop, however I'd need more help to do so. [She wants to spread her love of flowers and opening a second shop is best to do as spring hits it's speak.] If you want to help please let me know.

[Her smile widens slight as if arriving at her main reason for sending out this message.]

The second is that I was able to grow a very special rose. My intent at first was to make it gold but it came out a little bit different than that.

[Terra holds up a rose bud that's delicately held between two fingers. There are thorns along it's stem, tipped with a dark sea blue hue. The rose itself appears to be an off white with small tints of blue. As she spins it in her fingers small glimmers of golden light appear to emanate from it, as if by magic.]

Action; Wildcard

[ooc: Feel free to run into Terra at her flower shop or carrying a basket of flowers around any of the cities or forests. It's spring so she's collecting what she can.]

[Yukiko had been resting since the incident. She had been tired from using her Persona too much and now that she had rested she figured she should at least speak to people and not keep to herself right now. Even if she did have some things to think over. So with the device in hand she switched on, a small smile on her face. In the background her pokemon were currently playing or fighting with air.]

Hi there. It's been a while since I spoke to any of you and now that... The situation is over and done with and I feel better I have a few things I need to say.

[Her smile fades slightly, her eyes looked down, away fro the device. She couldn't help but feel like she had been partly responsible for what had happened.]

Firstly... I am sorry for not speaking up about someone from my world. I thought I could keep an eye, but it seems that I was wrong. If I had just spoken up to begin with then maybe... None of what happened would have happened.

[She did feel like she had to take a lot of the blame onto herself if anyone needed someone to blame.]

Secondly, I apologize to those who get taken because of it and for the fact I couldn't help. [She figured that was all, right? There wasn't much else she had left to say.]

That is all, really. Thank you for listening.

Who: Open!
What: Nova City Carnival!
Where: Nova City
When: Monday, March 7th - Sunday, March 13th
Warnings: N/A






( Carnival! )

Who: Chopper, Amagi Inn residents/staff
What: SHENANIGANS! Also, Chopper checks in
When: February 23rd
Where: Amagi Inn
Warnings: It's Chopper, language may get inventive

Little hooves paced for a full minute outside the inn. It wasn't really due to nerves or fear, it was something a bit more basic than that. Did he want to go have dinner somewhere or did he want to deal with the Inn first? Did they have food? A few sniffs and yes, they did have food. Well, that solved it.

Maybe.

Hopefully.

One pint-sized doctor reporting for a room and food! Except he'll only get the door halfway open before poking his head through for a careful look around first. New territory didn't always mean friendly territory and he didn't have any nakama or friends to watch his back at the moment. And Punk Hazard was still too recent to be completely carefree.

"Er... Hello?"

Hello everyone! My name is Yui Kusanagi for those who don't know me. I just wanted to talk to everyone today about potentially learning self-defense or other combat methods.

A large number of people here have superpowers or special abilities, but for those who don't at least learning a way to defend yourself in emergencies is important! Those of you with abilities may be able to enhance your training by learning new styles or methods. It's also good for learning discipline, staying fit, and as a method of stress-relief. Sand Gym is a great place to go and it doesn't have any membership fees, only the cost of daily or monthly passes.

I recently joined as an Iaido Instructor at Sand Gym for anyone who would like to learn that, but we also have Judo and a couple of other practices as well. I'd encourage anyone interested to look into it! Please consider Sand Gym today!

[ There's a brief pause. She's at her other job right now, the one she does in the mornings.. aka cleaning up the shrine. ]

Also.. do parks normally pop up around the shrine?

[The transmission is obviously an accident as the lower third of the view is covered with what is probably a shirt pocket. It starts with a few seconds of nausea-inducing spins in an office chair complete with the sounds of plastic and metal spinning against each other. At last the view settles on an examination room. Two seconds pass before the feed suddenly jumps down to only a foot or two off the floor and exits the room to start a very random exploration of various hospital corridors.]

So far, nobody has been afraid of me... This is so fun! I need to buy a cotton candy machine! And a place to stay...

[Several more hallways and the feed times out.]

[Allen briefly considers his choice of words before opening the 'video' feed, wondering how much information he should be willing to give and who to give it to. He was usually secretive with this kind of information, mostly because he could handle these kinds of situations himself, but right now... well, it was better to be safe than sorry. Not to mention everyone he had encountered up until now had been pleasant, so he had hope. So, he posed his question.

In reality, he was at work right now, busy working away in the kitchen of Amagi Inn, but the video- one fabricated on the spot by other parts of the computer that was his brain- depicted him as being in a park. The voice being heard also came directly from his thoughts, so Yukiko wouldn't need to hear him talking to himself obnoxiously as if he had a bluetooth headset in his ear.]

So uh, who here knows how to work with nuclear technology? Or nuclear reactors? Nuclear anything, for that matter? I'm asking for a friend.

[Laughs.]

...Okay, here's the deal. I'm kind of a... robot. Kind of. I'm a shapeshifter whose abilities are fueled by a nuclear-reactor powered device, about the size of a human heart or a closed fist. Sufficiently advanced technology, magic, alien origin story, yadda yadda. The thing about that usually is, at home, I have a ship capable of retrieving the fuel I usually need to run the thing- Helium-3.

In short, the outside of me is fleshy, because I want it to be, but the core of me is a machine, and while it won't be for a little while longer, if I run out of fuel, my powers go kaput. [He makes a brief raspberry to accent his point.] I can sustain myself for short amounts of time with electricity, but that's pretty much a stopgap. Not to mention I don't want to put the block out if I have to recharge.

Something also tells me a couple thousand red bills isn't gonna cut it for what I'm asking for, but then, that's why I'm asking, huh? If you can help me, I'll find a way to compensate you, since for the time being I've still got full access to my abilities. I'm also accepting alternative fuel sources compatible with my reactor or total replacements, if they can suffice for what I need them to do. Other than that, not much to it.

So, anyone who can help out a nuclear-powered shapeshifter around these parts?

[After her rather eventful 'expulsion' from her former school, Mirai had grown used to waking up in caves. That isn't what surprised her. What surprised her was the fact that she woke up in one without her friends around! In fact, this wasn't even their cave at all! And this thing she was in? Well, it was more comfortable then cave floor at least. But that wasn't important!

By the time she steps out of the cave she has more then enough knowledge to understand what has happened to her, but that doesn't mean she is just going to sit back and accept it! She's a girl at home on the internet, so the thought of reaching out to a bunch of strangers for answers wasn't that unusual to her. Of course she, much like many brought here, doesn't believe what she's been told anyway! Her youthful face looks like its doing its best to look calm, and her voice was only shaking a little bit. She was a big girl now, being alone wasn't that big of a deal!]

H...hmph! Is this someone's idea of a joke? Kidnapping is against the law, you know!

[Not that she was a person that really lived inside of the law back home, but that wasn't a thing anyone needed to know.]

Whoever you are, you must be pretty talented for me to have not even noticed it happening. I'll give you credit for that! And to have sneaked past the others as well! But your story writing is awful, who would believe any of that stuff? Some different world? That doesn't even make any sense!

[Her arms cross over what passes as her chest in an effort to look tough and in charge. Needless to say, she isn't exactly imposing.]

[The hut that Thrall had built on the outskirts of Fayren could be seen rather brightly at night these days. Bonfires, and paper lanterns decorated the area around the hut at night, and Thrall himself could be seen wearing crimson robes rather than his normal ebon armor. When he addresses the network, the scene around him is pretty festive looking.]

With the recent events, I believe now is more appropriate than ever to celebrate what would be the Lunar Festival in Azeroth. The Lunar Festival marks when an alliance of ancient races managed to repel an invasion from the demonic Burning Legion. It is a time for honoring the fallen, remembering our ancestors, and looking toward the future.

If any are interested, I am more than willing to open the celebration to all here.

[Well... these devices aren't much different than her Golem that she used for the Black Order communications but this technology is completely baffling to her. Boy, her brother would absolutely love the idea and to tinker with it.

After a little bit she actually figures out how to broadcast after reading her pamphlet but the holograms confuse her further. Her feed seems to catch her trying to put her hand through the hologram of the girl with White hair, perplexed more with the ability than actually listening.

Only when it goes away does she give a small 'oops'.]

Um, hello?

The pamphlets here said that this is- not somewhere I'm used to. I've yet to travel to North America but I've never seen a city like this.

And this technology? I-Is there someone who could kindly explain if there's an outlet for the Exorcists Order or a Church that I can try to find my brother?

[The feed opens to a view of Aoshi from torso up. His face is a calm cold mask as he swings one of his kodachi, weaving a wall of steel around himself to deflect cuts and thrusts from as yet unseen assailants. The sharp-eyed, however, may note that his attackers' hands are pure bone.]

Yukiko. Try to keep the Ryders busy. Their meal tonight may be... delayed.

[Four blades suddenly fall upon him, seeking to overwhelm his defense. He has to use both his hands to meet the impact, and doing so sends the device clattering to the floor. The last thing viewers see before the feed dies is Aoshi's shadow on the wall, drawing his second sword as his opponents close in anew.]


(OOC: Aoshi got pulled into Castlevania while picking up beef for the Amagi Inn. Occurs right before this.)

Who: Ike and anyone who wants to tag him
What: Ike gets teleported into Dracula's Castle -- after sunset. If he wants to reach safety, he must fight his way out of the castle and through the streets of Everglade.
Where: Dracula's Castle -> Everglade
When: January 25, after dusk
Warnings: Creatures of the night, a blessed sword slicing through said creatures, and plenty of badassery to go around.

( He may not be a Belmont, but he certainly matches them in pure badass. )

[OoC Note: You can find Ike either fighting his way through minions in Dracula's Castle, or through packs of monsters and other creatures of the night in the streets of Everglade. Either way, he'll fight as long as he has to, until he's either teleported somewhere else or he reaches a house whose residents are willing to take him in.]

Who: Aoshi Shinomori and You
What: Aoshi's a newbie and is getting the lay of the land like any onmitsu would. Come say hi.
Where: All over Genessia City (ending at Stone Ridge)
When: January 19, from early morning to about midnight

[He might be as lost and confused as any newcomer, but Aoshi Shinomori's not exactly the type to announce his presence. As soon as he's used to the communicator, he quietly checks the network for any signs of people he might know. Failing that, he goes for posts within the last 48 hours. Just... reading. Absorbing. Gleaning information that the welcome message didn't already tell him. Anything to learn more about what he's gotten into here.]

[His tour of Genessia City begins half an hour later. From early morning till midnight, a tall, dark, and gloomy longcoated man with what looks like a nodachi will be walking the streets. His slow stride and the way his gaze lingers a little too long on sights you're already used to should tip you off that he's not from around these parts. Ergo, a newcomer.]

[Say hello. He doesn't bite.]


(OOC: Since this is a whole day tour and Aoshi fully intends to see everything, you can pick a time and place and assume he's made his way there. \o/)