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[Video turns on first, and there is Bridget, sounds and looks like a girl. He gives a small wave.]

Hi everyone, Bridget here. So the guy who was blowing things up was apprehended, right? If not, is there a bounty on him? I've hunt bounties of bad guys like him, so it's no problem.

Another think I like to talk... [Don't mind his eyes brimming with excitement while containing it.]

Prom!

What is it like? I know someone asked but I lost the post! So tell me your experiences. What do boys and girls wear? Is it formal? I like to go but.... I'm not sure what to wear.

[He chuckles lightly with a sheepish smile. He's a dude wearing girls clothes, he's not sure!]

Aaaand, my month is almost up. So I applied for a job instead. Being a freelancer entertainer is hard work! Eh?

[He looks down from the screen. He reaches down and pulls up a big teddy bear.]

I guess Rodger wanted to say something too.

...

He said being an entertainer got him stiff. Um, yeah, that's what he said. Thank you for letting me post.

[He moves his teddy bear's hand like its waving good-bai before the feed turns off.]

[No longer split into two halves of his awful whole, Uai has a touch more clarity. He's actually been childishly avoiding the network since things normalized, but even Uai knows he can't hide away forever.

With some level of reluctance, he appears on the feed.]

So, uh... Rough week, huh? Hope that's not the new normal.

[ ... ] I got approved for my jobs, so that's good. Now that I'm making some stable income, I thought I might look into moving. Are there any good places in Fayren?  Ah, and... I'll be composing freelance for a while. I don't know if anyone has any use for music, but it's an option now? Someone already asked to learn to compose themselves, so I guess I'm not opposed to teaching someone else... if you want.

[Okay, he needs to get to the actual point of this video:]

Also. I'm sorry for threatening to burn down this world and drop you all into hell. That was... extreme. And uncalled for.

Pretend it never happened. Thanks.

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[Another egg victim, who really thought he had outsmarted this system. But when he thought he heard one of the eggs chirp, Uai felt it was his obligated to look after it--

False alarm. It's just another mean egg, out to cause trouble. It slips out of his hands and cracks on the ground, creating a cloudy puff of magic. When it settles, Uai's worst qualities have taken physical form. Before his 'good side' has fully processed what's going on, the evil Uai has already cast a spell. In causes a nearby tree to grow alarmingly fast and grab "Good Uai" with its roots. What little good Uai had in him is now tied in place by roots from a tree. Welp. This sucks.]

W-Wait! Hang on! Can't we talk this out? A, ahhh... S-someoooone! How am I going to get free? Waaah, I don't want to hurt the treee! O-or hurt anyone else, for that matter...!

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[It's the evil side of Uai that has the device. He's being moderately well behaved right now, but that isn't likely to last. His shadowy aura is fully visible and it occasionally causes his form to flicker on screen, like a computer glitch.]

Alright, enough playing around. Maybe the rest of you can afford to lay your roots here, with jobs and material comforts, but I'm done with that. What am I going to have to do to get you all to work harder to find a way out of here? Make this place a living hell? I'd be happy to fulfill that role. It seems to be all I do across the times and spaces anyway, so I've become quite skilled at it. You're all between Hana and I, so it's your fault... I'll count to three and then get started, hm?

(( fun fact: he won't be actually destroying anything or causing wide area chaos. please don't worry! ))

[After much thinking and planning, Sakura waited until night fall to make her move. Too many people are blaming the eggs, and she felt it was time to do something about it.

Under the cover of night and a wand in hand, Sakura called on her magic to release the power contained in a ornate-designed card.]

Float Card! Lift the mysterious eggs from hiding!

[Touching the card with the wand, the magic is unleashed. At dozens at a time, colorful eggs began to float and move to where Sakura (and Tomoyo) can reach. With extra pillow cases in hand, Sakura began to scoop up the floating eggs. What to do with them afterwards is still a work in progress.

Now, after filling two pillow cases worth of these eggs, Sakura looked back to see how her efforts...

Have been entirely for nothing!!]


Ho-Hoeeee?! The eggs! More took their place?!

[What the heck is she going to do now? She can only dispel The Float before someone walks by and sees.

And just in time to. Somebody is already heading her way.]

(While Tomoyo doesn't usually appear on camera herself, she's no stranger to it. She had actually arrived sometime before hand, but wanted to fully understand her situation first. She'll be front and center after turning it on with expert precision.)

Greetings, Genessia.

I was wondering if anyone had arrived here by the name of Sakura Kinomoto? She's my dearest friend. I'm Tomoyo Daidouji, but you can just call me Tomoyo.

(Plus, if Sakura were here then certainly everything would be alright. She could get started on making more adorable costumes for her to wear! After a moment or so, she'll turn it off.)

[She's been here awhile now, and she's always tried to make the best of situations, but today, of all days? It's getting difficult to keep a smile going.

But darn it, because of what today is, she is going to do it. Here's a cute smile to start your day, Genessia.]

It's... Kind of hard to wake up on your birthday without your family or friends around to celebrate with you. Isn't it?

What does everyone do here on their birthdays?

[Mami was wandering through Genessia. Well, wandering makes it seem like she doesn't have a purpose, and maybe she doesn't. Either way, she is carrying a yellow egg shaped gem in her hand, and looking at it occasionally like it would tell her where to go. She's been doing this a couple days now. She knows that this world was different than hers, but she wasn't going to stop her daily patrols just yet.]

[She was paying more attention to the gem in her hand than the other people on the street so there was a good chance of her running into someone.]

[It was still very late at night. A time when everyone should be asleep. A good girl like Sakura should be one of those sleeping, yet she wasn't.

She was still getting used to the layout of the city and wanted to familiarise herself with it more. But she wasn't going to do it where she can be seen.

Or attacked by ghosts.

With a peculiar bird-shaped wand in one hand and a large card in another, she stands in the darkness behind the home for children, she taps the card with the wand.]


[Large wings grew on the wand, and Sakura mounts it like a witch would on a magic broom, and she takes off high into the sky to browse this strange new world from the air, noting the roads and landmarks taught to her, giving her a faster and larger view of all that makes up Genessia city.

She had best be careful, any stargazers about may spot the weirdest looking bird ever flying through the sky. Those who are near the children's home might spot something landing behind the building.]

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[Later that day, when the sun is nice and high in the sky, a little girl with a pretty smile is on the network.]

Good morning, everyone. I have a question about this world.

What are some of your favourite places to go to here?

[Sakura was quite pleased with herself for having her own team of cute little mystery creatures to have as friends. She's never had a pet before, since Kero doesn't actually count, so she doesn't have the fullest idea about "Pokémon."

But she was now in the park in Genessia, letting her little animal friends play. Or... Something. Litleo was nudging Skorupi until the scorpion was fed up and started fighting back. Sakura had to break it up more than once.

Happiny was more behaved, though. All it did was go around picking up rocks to put in its pouch, trying to find the biggest, egg-shaped rock it could find to imitate...a kangaroo, maybe?

Lastly, she doesn't know where Spinarak went.]

Lilipup, I didn't know this would be hard...

[Lilipup being a dog Pokémon that Madoka lent her. The puppy barked as it glanced around the park. With the way the fur on its face looked, Lilipup looked like a parabolic dish.]

I'm going to look for Spinarak... Can you make sure Leo and Rupi don't fight?

[Lilipup barked again and hoped off the bench to bark at Litleo as Sakura walked off towards a more wooded part of the park. She figured, as a spider, Spinarak might hide here, but no real luck. She would call for it by name and nickname, but the green spider never appeared.

Sakura eventually came back to her Pokémon.]

It's no use... I can't find Spini anywhere...

[For anyone that's paying attention today, there's a weird video that comes over the network. The closeup of a face that looked clearly irritated, along with a large burn scar on one side. The perspective of the view turning back and forth as the young man turned around his device a few times. Making an annoyed sound in the process.]

This is so stupid!

[Hopefully no one gets sick as the landscape zooms by in all directions before being turned to the ground. Giving a view of brown boots with a gold stripe going up the front, the toes of the shoes curled upward.]

How can they call this a smart anything! It's not smart at all!

[Someone might have not read his instructions thoroughly out of impatience and is now doing this wrong.]

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[This can't be happening! Lost in some foreign land and no way to call her friends or family. There must be a payphone or something around to call home. After she got over the shock of waking up on what looks like the set of some alien movie, the little girl dressed in her Tomoeda elementary school uniform rushed out of the Bay and into the city at large. Before she got far, she encountered the hologram calling itself 'Weiss Schnee.' While Weiss was very pretty, all of that was completely forgotten when she said they were now in a entirely different world from her own and with no way to go home. It was in the early hours of the night now, she shouldn't be out here now, not in a city that was completely foreign.

And these strange animals... They seem pretty domesticated with how they do not appear afraid of people, or hostile.

Sakura was doing her best not to panic, telling herself everything is going to be all right. She can be found sitting alone on a bench somewhere in Genessia city, where there were plenty of lights and people around, looking through the contents of the box. Reading the brochures, putting on the amulet, which she will need to adjust later so it isn't tangled with another she has hidden. Finally, the instructions for this crazy spacey-looking phone...]

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Hello? Is this working? I'm Sakura Kinomoto, and I think I'm lost. I'm from Tomoeda, Japan. I listened to Miss Weiss Schnee, about being in another world... T-This isn't some sort of joke, is it?

Genessia City
[A new light and resident arrived in the city from the bay today. He is a rather small creature, a small bodied yellow furred feline with a pair of white feathered wings that is probably no bigger than putting your two hands together. He has a small knapsack wrapped around his back and forelegs, that carries his starter pack, including his communication device, which is a very small iPhone and his money. The phone which he fiddled with it before, after he pressed a few buttons, but forgotten to turn it off, so there is a brief flash of him caught on camera on video, and then darkness. However, the video kept playing, so people can hear the audio part.]

Sakura? Sakuuuuraaa? Where are you? Are you out of school yet? Come back home...

[He'll be flying around Genessia city looking for Sakura, calling out for her...until his calling stops. Why? Because he become distracted when he was oogling in front of a sweets and bakery shop hovering in front of the window. Kero-chan loves sweets!]

Ooooh! What is this?

[He waited for a customer to open the door and flies right in, to hover about the store to fawn over the sweets that is on display on the shelves.]

Cookies! Chocolates! Biscuits! I want some! Oh, potato chips! I want those too. And soda! I like soda! Coffee? Tea? Iced coffee?

[He pokes and prod the sweets inside the boxes and tin cans on the shelves. He flew over to the canned bottled sweet beverages stored inside the glass fridge. This is one hungry little beast!

Attention shopkeepers! Perhaps this strange winged stray feline have wandered in your shop!]

[As the feed opens, the camera seems to be suspended in the air by nothing, gently bobbing up and down as it displays Mewtwo with a pair of blades made of energy hovering near his wrists. He's been working on using the blades to cut through a rather large column of solid granite that he procured from elsewhere, seemingly using it as a training dummy. When his voice comes over the feed, he doesn't seem to pay the device a single ounce of attention.]

I have been here for some time now, and this 'holiday' has come before. However, I am curious. What is the point? From what I can tell, humans celebrate horror and fashion in equal parts for no reason, and it is perplexing to say the least.

[Now where the heck has this little 9 year old been? She had more important things to do, like school and homework and other 9 year old things.

As she confirms that the video was working, she offers up her usual cheery, youthful smile.]

"It's now the fall season, so that means it's a good time for sports. Since it's not too hot and not too cold. So I want to know if there are any sporting events going on that I can sign up for? Any others, I can attend as a part of a cheer squad."

What are your favorite foods, Genessia? Your favored ingredients?

No junk food answers!

Who: You! Anyone and everyone is welcome to come!
What: A Festival of Fireflies with games, food, rides and more!
Where: Genessia
When: August 15th-20th. Starting at 7pm
Warnings: Be sure to warn in your threads appropriately.


[The gates are open and the air is filled with the sound of music. Whether you're a reveler, a vendor or anything in between-- come and enjoy the festival!

The Firefly Masquerade post is here]

[The feed starts with a view of the Bay's ceiling, from beneath the water. A second later and a hand reaches out and picks up the device, wiping it some. There's a glimpse of bright pink hair before the holder lowers the device to her side, seemingly unaware that the video was transmitting.]

This... shouldn't be happening... I need to find the others... I need to find Greg... Maybe Garnet will know what happened...

[Whatever she's talking about, she seems pretty worried. She stops to listen to the explanation of Weiss' hologram before venturing out into the city proper. She was easy to spot, at least. Eight feet tall, 10 if you counted the hair. She wore a black t-shirt with "Mr. Universe" on it, though the shirt stopped just short of her hips, and the white dress that extended beneath it looked as elegant and fancy as the shirt wasn't.]

H-Hello? Is it working...? Oh, dear... [ the video is shaky — like, really shaking, as sakura holds her phone with trembling fingers. uncertainty and fear make themselves crystal clear on her features as she looks down at the device, speaking as best she can. ]

The see-through woman said that we could speak to others on- on here. Can anyone h-h-hear me? Ryoma? Takumi? Hinoka...? [ ANYONE? she lists off another series of names and the longer this goes on, the more desperate sakura sounds, the shakier her voice gets, like she's on the verge of tears. ] Please, someone answer me! I-I have to get back... I ca-can't stay here!

[The view: what appears to be a large metal goblet of some kind sitting in The Bay. Judging by how the water only seems to be covering up the very bottom, it must be huge. Massive, even. At least 20 feet tall.

A voice speaks, accompanied by flashes of light from somewhere behind it. It sounds vaguely masculine, but also elderly and fussy. You can easily imagine it belonging to someone who owns a second hand bookstore and putters about in carpet slippers and a robe.]

Hello? Helloooooo?

This is most unfortunate timing. We only had another 142 years before the ritual was complete. Where are we?

[A second voice cuts in. This one sounds like a woman. An impatient woman who probably beats people up for a living.]

That's not going to get any one to listen to us. You've gotta put the fear of me in 'em. Like this:

HEY! ALL OF YOU! WHOEVER DRAGGED US OUT HERE BETTER DRAG US BACK OR I'LL GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT! I'M WARNING YOU I'M REALLY GOOD AT GOUGING!

You know you don't have fingers anymore, right?

Shh! Don't interrupt me when I'm posturing!

This is all doomed to tears. I can feel it now.