[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

[the_deadlights]

::This is a 7 foot tall dark skinned woman with horns in a kimono, smoking on a pipe, sitting on a bench.

She feels like irresponsibility and shenanigans incarnate.::

[daschillyone]

*Garrett enters the community, taking a walk, for no reason other than he can. Despite his desire to not play favorites with students, Kamala had quickly become his favorite, and given the troubles she had been going through, he hoped maybe her getting a chance to see him would improve her mood slightly. If nothing else, Garrett got a nice walk in.*

[observershikou]

*Well, Shikou really wants some answers right about now, you know.

So he was trying to track down Noriko, and got........ close enough.*

Do you know why Suzume is considered to be public enemy number one, right now?

[the_deadlights]

Because another Suzume from an alternate reality tried to nuke Heartland City with a deterrent weapon system you gave her as part of her advance work here.

Oh hey, I can spill beans!

[redderthanred]

::You spot the 'princess' of Kaikori coming out of the tutelage school, wearing a halter top, a cute skirt and teenage appropriate leggings, sighing.::

[observershikou]

*... holding his head a bit*

When you say "you", do you also mean an alternate reality version of me?

[kattobingore]

*For the first two or three days there, Yuma and Kotori had stayed inside the apartment they had temporarily been given to stay in, resting and recuperating, with Souha checking in on them to see how they were doing. During that time, Yuma had caught Kotori up with what was going on and why the attack on Heartland happened, once she had regained consciousness.

Although they needed rest, they had been feeling the need to get some fresh air after spending the last few days indoors and curious about Kaikori, they decided they felt up for a small walk in the area just outside where they were staying.

Walking slowly, hand-in-hand, they explored the area around them, before taking a seat at a nearby bench.*

[the_deadlights]

Yeah. Sorry about this, Shikou.

[observershikou]

What exactly are you apologizing for? Could you have done something in particular to not cause... This? Specifically?

*sitting down next to you*

[the_deadlights]

... Let an entire park be consumed by one of the things from the primordial oceans of chaos, obsessed with learning how to put together a human... ish body.

I tend to make things worse.

::Sighs painfully.::

[observershikou]

This sounds like something entirely separate from Suzume being public enemy number one, you know.

Did even more things happen that weren't just "apparently there was a nuclear threat"?

[whitrthanwhite]

::Trot trot trot, in sneakers, wearing a light jacket and a fashionable skirt, a woman who feels like she passes for a teenager or 20 something at first glance walks by, doing some exercise.

You know that woman.::

[keepersouha]

You're both doing well enough to move?

*your local physician has found you.*

[theheadmonarch]

Yes, I was stuck in Heartland Park creating a mobius strip time loop and trying to contain a 'Demon' for nearly a year!

... We need a better term for those things besides 'Demon'.

[observershikou]

... Abyssals, maybe?

[theheadmonarch]

Abyssals. Primordials. Primal Horrors. Chaosians? We can workshop a name for them that isn't Demon because that feels well, rude to people from Makai and well.

::Motions to herself.::

[observershikou]

Right, right, it always did feel like a misnomer...

... but that's besides the point. Are you saying that because you were focused on that, it made the situation escalate to... this?

[theheadmonarch]

The other Suzume wanted me to come with her and go back home so she can turn this entire reality into compost so her Suzaku doesn't turn into a Magical Girl anime poster.

[longingfreesia]

*Kotori glances at her as she walks by, recognising her.*

Shiroko-san?

[observershikou]

... and why are you here, in that case?

[longingfreesia]

*Kotori greets them with a small smile*

A little. We're still quite exhausted and hurt quite a bit, which is why we haven't gone too far from the apartment, but we felt we needed a bit of fresh air.

*When the both of them arrived, you found that, surprisingly, they didn't break anything in their tussle with the dragon, but Yuma had some severe bruising to his upper abdomen and Kotori had the head injury and a dislocated shoulder. Both also had pretty severe exhaustion from the battle.
Kotori now had her left arm in a sling and she would probably need some physiotherapy on it once the swelling and pain in the shoulder reduced.*

[the_deadlights]

I think we should give peace and cooperation a chance, as the Eastern Empress of Japan is very 'if all you understand is hammers, everything sure looks like nails'.

[whitrthanwhite]

::Turns.::

That's my name, don't wear it out.

Why are you two here???

::Blink blink blink.::

[longingfreesia]

We stopped a nuclear attack on Heartland and now we're wanted terrorists, it seems.

[whitrthanwhite]

Yeah, that's basically why I stopped anything resembling heroism and became a fashionista.

Nothing but trouble.

::Grumbles, hands on her hips.::