[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.::

[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!

[observershikou]

*... holding his head a bit*

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

[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"?

[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.

[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?

[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.::

[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.