[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

[becomeanwarrior]

Can't exactly blame 'im. His paranoia's one a' his good traits, at this point.

I keep gettin' tha responsibility of cleaning up the messes thrust upon me and we have like four different godsbedamned factions headhunting me or my direct family! No shit ahm stressed out!

[ DEEP breath. ]

...Alright. I can't know anything. Fine. Whatever.

What can ah do to figure this out. What do you need from me. How can ah help untangle this Gordian Knot of everyone across multiple realities coming for our collective heads.

[the_deadlights]

Get me and myself in the same room.

[becomeanwarrior]

[ ...Gears turning. ]

Is there anything more to it than "my cousin is clearly plotting some sort of government infiltration and has gone completely dark to everyone".

Like, can I just pinpoint her, figure out a way to teleport us to her location, and chokeslam her so that she stays in one place long enough to make introductions.

'Cause that's like, actually relatively doable so I'm wondering what the catch is.

[the_deadlights]

We can tell you stuff if we're both in the same room.

That's why I came!

::Jazz hands.::

[becomeanwarrior]

...

[ There's a small twitch under his eye as he contemplates this. ]

Does our Noriko know this is how this works. Has she been intentionally avoiding contacting you so she doesn't have to tell any of us anything.

[the_deadlights]

Yeah she knows.

And nah, it's 'cuz she's busy because the right wing in this country wants a genocide of every monster or supernatural human in Japan, ain't ya been paying attention, ya goof?

[becomeanwarrior]

I know that! But she could at least pop up long enough that the two of ya could communicate so we can work on other stuff while she goes and deals with the right-wingers!

Since she's vanished, every goddamn weirdo has come outta the woodwork!

[the_deadlights]

Ain't no time for that.

I'll just have to wait in Kaikori and play pinochle while you deal with the weirdos.

[becomeanwarrior]

How long's explainin' all this so that we got all the information gotta take!?

Her going to ground like this is gettin' on my last damn nerve, I'm tellin' ya!

[the_deadlights]

How good ya at Charades and Pictograph and the like, Cuz'?

[becomeanwarrior]

Ch-

CHARADES!?

YOU NEED THE BOTH OF YA FOR CHARADES!?

[the_deadlights]

It ain't tellin' if we each only give half the info and you guess it!

[becomeanwarrior]

...

[ He pinches his nose and lets out a strangled cry of pure frustration. ]

I hate that that would probably work...

But I'm terrible at charades, so I guess we would need some time to deal with it.

Okay, besides trying to pin Noriko down long enough to get the time for you two to talk. Is there anything else I can do while waiting for our seemingly inevitable demise!?

[the_deadlights]

Go dote on your niece or whatever you need to do to cool your heels, you sound like you're gonna pop.