[Event Post] Kaikori: The Eye of the Storm

[duelacademynpcs]

::So anyone implicated with the disaster at Heartland City, you've been hurried away into Kaikori, the private gated community owned by the Wakahisa family.

It is a surreal place, caught in perpetual twilight. Resembling Ballonlea and Glimwood Tangle from Pokemon Sword & Shield, except the mushrooms are replaced with crystals growing out the ground and trees, it centers around a circle of shops and buildings including a convenience store, a gym, a small school to tutor the children of Noriko's friends and key employees, before branching out into company apartments to the south east, a motel and an inn to the west, and private homes in the North West to North to North East.

Perhaps you would like to take a break, interact with others, and breath before things likely get worse.

Fortunately, every time the government seems to come into Kaikori, they've been unable to locate Yamamoto Suzume, Wakahisa Noriko, or Mr. and Mrs. Tsukumo. So for now.

A piece of twilight paradise before things likely get so much worse.::

Comments

[1/2]

[kattobingore]

I've never really worked out at a gym, but hey, if they have stuff I can challenge myself with there, I'll check it out!!

[2/2]

[longingfreesia]

I'll apologize in advance if he builds some crazy challenge and then crashes into it.

[1/2]

[kattobingore]

Yeah, it's difficult enough dealing with some crazy lady who wanted to nuke Heartland just to draw out one specific person, but the whole anti-monster stuff the government is pushing makes things even harder.

I mean, we saved Heartland and WE'RE supposedly the bad guys because we transformed into our other forms and used powers and stuff.

[2/2]

[longingfreesia]

To be fair, we did probably destroy the fishing industry in that area, but the ocean was the nearest 'safe' place we could force the dragon into to absorb the explosion.

Re: [2/2]

[whitrthanwhite]

He'll have to apologize to Noriko. Mrs. Wakahisa as she owns the gym. Maybe my mom, Violet, I think she also has a stake in it.

But insurance should cover it.

[the_deadlights]

With regards to which part, Dahling.

[becomeanwarrior]

[ You feel a chill run down your spine, dear cousin. And there's a distant rumble of thunder... although the weather's quite pleasant, isn't it?

Except if you look to the direction of the thunder, you'll see a figure approaching. It's your cousin! Except he's wearing a red-and-gold robe fit for a warlock with green gems pinned in the breast and sleeves.

...And his eyes are a bright gold, and it feels like their stare could cut through the darkness of the void itself. ]

Wakahisa Noriko.

[the_deadlights]

That's my name, don't worry it out, y'all.

::Jazz hands.::

[becomeanwarrior]

[ Your cousin is in a dead full sprint at you now. ]

WAKAHISA NORIKOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[ RUNNING CLOTHESLINE. ]

[the_deadlights]

GAAAKHHAHAKH!

::She's been nailed in the throat enough that you've impeded her ability to talk! And she's soaring through the air a 7 foot tall woman with demonic horns soars through the air propelled by a clothesline!::

[becomeanwarrior]

WAKAHISAAAAAA—

[ RUN, JUMP, GRAB. ]

NORIKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[ BLUE THUNDER BOMB into the grass. ]

[becomeanwarrior]

[ ...And then all the fury leaves your cousin as he exhales. Practically lets you go. ]

Phew. I needed that.

[the_deadlights]

WHHHHHHHHHYYYYY

::Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine::

[becomeanwarrior]

Because Queen Suzume nearly blew up an entire city WITH AN ATOMIC DRAGON.

[ Stands. Brushes himself off. Helping you to your feet. ]

You do remember which poor jerk is going to be covering for your collective asses, right?

[keepersouha]

To be fair, that is... probably an issue, but I'm half-certain that's what happened when some insurrectionists tried to launch a missile at Domino, from what I heard.

[the_deadlights]

EmpreBlrgle. Can't talk.

And I was wrapping time-space to prevent a self-sentient shard of one of the strongest Abyssals from the Pit of the World Unmade from getting out of control!

And it's not my fault I couldn't find this place sooner.

::Whiiiiiine, flailing her arms like a bimbo.::

[observershikou]

Mostly? The part where an alternate of my dear wife is also a mad queen who thinks anything can be solved with liberal application of, apparently, nuclear dragon.

[becomeanwarrior]

I have heard secondhand that a certain Baron Akeley was kept preoccupied, which is if nothing else a good thing as he's been a thorn in the side of my lower self. So. Thank you for that. At least.

[ Sighs. ]

...I'm going to assume you had a better reason for not finding this place than just 'getting unfathomably lost', for both our sakes. Domino hasn't changed that much...

[the_deadlights]

I LIVE IN KYOTO.

AND OTHER ME AND LULU KEEPS MOVING THINGS.

[becomeanwarrior]

YA STILL KNOW HOW TA USE A GPS, YA DAMN TIDDY-BRAIN!

[ Coughs. The accent slipping just a bit. ]

Anyway, the past is the past. So. Let's trying and start at all the threats we need to handle imminently and work our way through them.

[the_deadlights]

She might be able ta see through the tech and I ain't needin' no plastic box ta tell me where ta walk, ya self righteous high cotton fake who's ashamed o' his own roots!

::Oh she's a hick hick.::

And I can't talk 'bout 'em.

[becomeanwarrior]

Well soh-ree that I prior-i-tize anyone able ta understand a damn word what come out of my mouth!

[ Oh no. Oh nooooo. ]

Why can't ya talk about 'em. We know who's here, right? Ain't that damn Geas over an' done with!?

[the_deadlights]

Oh she has worse things to use than the nuclear dragon. And it's unlikely you'll let 'er use another one for a long while. He needs the other four to keep Japan stable from Australia, America, Russia and China.

But I dunno, if you wanna try to talk to her, go ahead, but do you think she'd listen to a version of her husband who didn't have the balls to become Emperor?

[the_deadlights]

Nope, not until He Himself says it's off. That's why me and me ain't been able to talk shit about shit.

[becomeanwarrior]

...

Now, excuse me for not knowing just how Obsidian-brained He Himself has gotten in your world, but ah would think: "My wife just nearly started interdimensional war with a gods-be-damned nuclear dragon" would mean ya can talk about stuff now.

...She don't got any more of those, right? Cause I only got one spunky teenager in a mech and myself to really do battle on that scale in reserve. 'Less Jinn remembers he has that sentai mecha I prototyped...