April Event Plotting

[soulmods]

April Event - OOC Post

You know the drill! The actual post itself is already up, so we're forgoing a summary this time. This is a post for OOC plotting, questions, maybe even some collaborative effort on figuring out what the more mysterious parts of the event are all about... Oh, and this time around, investigation as well. Please reply here with a link to a thread where your character is in the process of exploring location(s) with another, and we'll let you know if they'll find anything amiss! <b>Characters:</b> Just a list of the characters in the thread! <b>Thread:</b> A link! <b>Description:</b> What are they up to? Which areas are they looking to explore? As always, if you have any questions about this event, please leave them here.

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QUESTIONS

[soulmods]

[oathshackledbird]

Aside from Magi Hot Topic, what other kinds of shops can we safely assume are in the mall area? Primarily, I am wondering about a bookstore and perhaps an alternative medicine/herbal remedies type store (or maybe just your typical incense shop gasp). I assume they would both be okay, but I also don't like assuming, especially when my 'real mall' experience equals about 2 places visited over the years. LOL!

[lapidarius]

so

if one were to investigate, what is the verdict on finding people that might resemble sachiko/does the woman with blue hair in minami-ku look like her at all? ALSO is the incense smell on the girl in kita-ku recognizable to someone who, say, burned illgotten gains from an evil incense shop

Re: QUESTIONS

[crosslaced]

Are books available anywhere in the city?

[loveedition]

Just to confirm/do some potential retconning:

If Character A hears the violin tune and then the monsters, and Character B shows up to help Character A, would it be safe to say that Character B also heard the tune as well?

[loveedition]

Ryoko got a sweet new phone with a blue panda phone strap.

Is she able to go through the phone, and if she is able to, have there been any recent messages, text or otherwise?

[dokkans]

(this better not count as part of those three questions!!!)

Is there a reference as far as colors for Kagaku Yamashita's hair/eyes?

[soulflash]

sooooo just wondering... because Reasons...

What happens if one decides to attack these poor familiars?

[lapidarius]

so about here--is kaneko herself fading, or just the silhouette on her?

Re: QUESTIONS

[fouettes]

Concerning the power regains for this event! I'd like to give rue regenerative energy for her midlevel power, what would be the appropriate percentage of regeneration?

[whitegirldreads]

Is Glitch City (or any of its three smaller zones) a permanent installation to the game? Or is it only here for this month? If telling me would spoil a future event, don't tell me, but I was just wondering!

INVESTIGATION

[soulmods]

[bedream]

Characters: Kyouko Sakura, Sayaka Miki
Thread: here!
Description: They're in Chuuou-ku, eating their way around the mall's food court!

Re: INVESTIGATION

[eatdavesbabies]

Characters: Bro Strider and Karamatsu
Thread: Here
Description: Bro is a petulant manchild and has decided stealing a maid costume at the maid cafe would be a wonderful use of his fucking time.

Re: INVESTIGATION

[ceasetoexist]

Characters: Pokey Minch
Thread: Here
Description: Heading to check out Constellations and say hello to the proprietor.

[ironicoolly]

Characters: Dave Strider, Gary Smith
Thread: here!
Description: Exploring a college campus!

[dokkans]

Characters: B.B. Hood and Kainé
Thread: This one!
Description: Killing blobs, potentially looking around the mall.

Re: INVESTIGATION

[pleasereset]

Characters: Ryoko and Asriel
Thread: http://soulgemmed.dreamwidth.org/74931.html?thread=10904243#cmt10904243
Description: Spying on apartment residents in Minami-ku

Re: INVESTIGATION

[relieable]

Characters: Osomatsu Matsuno, Karamatsu Matsuno
Thread: here
Description: Osomatsu has a sweet tooth, and Karamatsu's hungry. they share some dango (no they don't) and head to the sweets store in Chuuou-ku's mall.

[tunnelsnakesrule]

Characters: Jimmy Hopkins and Butch DeLoria
Thread: Boop
Description: They're in the Chuuou-ku mall, knocking over shelves in one of the stores before a chase ensues throughout the mall.

Re: INVESTIGATION

[crosslaced]

Characters: Laurent & Ryoko
Thread: http://soulgemmed.dreamwidth.org/74931.html?thread=10925747#cmt10925747
Description: They're wandering around the ground floor apartments thus far.

[oathshackledbird]

Characters: Lucifer & Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
Thread: A link!
Description: Chatting and sampling baked goods at the bakery. How much trouble can the devil and an injured man with a sweet tooth get into anyway? LOL!

[lapidarius]

Characters: Noriaki Kakyoin, Madoka Kaname
Thread: here!
Description: They're in Minami-ku, checking out the junior high/high school.

[soulflash]

Characters: Lilith and Osomatsu
Thread: ta dah!
Description: They're exploring in Kita-ku! Currently just browsing the shops and stuffing their faces with food.

[noplan]

Alrighty so just a real quick note since it's getting late, I should be getting to bed and not everyone's going to be piling into Discord:

The name here Bonnie got was Kaneko Kouzai. Meaning of Kouzai aside (it roughly means 'both good and evil', using the kanji for either light/happiness with the kanji for evil/darkness), Kaneko was the name of a magi Sachiko Hatsu fought with previously.

Also worth noting, the translations of the runes. Ni and Neko translated them early on Saturday, and they read 1:1 from a passage in Peer Gynt, one of the books Bonnie found in the basement of the shop.

"In your left eye, first,
I’ll scratch you a bit, till you see awry;"

"but all that you see will seem fine and brave."

"And then I’ll just cut your right window-pane out
See,
here are the glazier’s tools."

"Blinkers you'll wear,
like a raging bull"

"Then you'll recognize
that your bride is lovely
and ne'er will your vision
be troubled, as now,
with bellcows harping
and sows that dance."

"Just think how much
worry and mortification
you'll thus escape from,
year out, year in."

"You must remember
your eyes are the fountain
of the bitter and searing
lye of tears."

Any English majors in the house?

[relieable]

so... reading some information about this passage, and the whole play. Peer Gynt is a Danish play, but it was written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. the play follows Peer Gynt's life story, and he's... shall we say, a lot like Osomatsu, is what i thought upon reading the synopsis.

Peer Gynt is a Norwegian farm lad who wastes his time in lazy dreaming, boasting and brawling--a symbol of the man who ever colors truth and fact in wishful compromises, evasion and selfishness.

the character that is speaking in this passage is actually the Troll King, who I believe wants Peer Gynt to marry his daughter? but she's super ugly (Gynt likened her to a sow), so the king is basically saying he'll adjust Gynt's vision so he won't be able to see how ugly she is.

THE TROLL KING: Yes, my son, you certainly must undergo some treatment to cure this troublesome human nature.
PEER GYNT: What will you do ?
THE TROLL KING: I'll scratch you slightly in the left eye [....]

also a glazier is "a person whose profession is fitting glass into windows and doors." since i did not know.

then later, Gynt says to the Troll King "and it says in the family Bible: 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.'"

this passage is... ah, i fear meaning that something bad is probably going to happen to eyes.