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Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2011-02-05 10:33 am

Round 1 [new characters and round announcement]

You're falling, and you can't remember why. It's a sickening feeling that makes your insides lurch; the darkness and the vertigo combine, and all you can think of is a story you heard once, somewhere.

- I remember now. It's a simple story that everyone knows. A legend of a Princess, the Demon Lord who kidnapped her, and the Knight who fought to save her.

The Demon Lord had kidnapped the Princess countless times, but every time the Knight bested his challenges and rescued the Princess.

No matter what tricks and ploys the Demon Lord used, the Knight would always triumph in the end. This was because--


The world tilts on its axis one last time, and the dream slips from your mind as easily as it arrived. A new voice intrudes on your sleep.

"Next stop: Academy Main Entrance. This tramline terminates here; all change. Next stop: Academy Main Entrance. All change."

Sunlight streams through the windows of the long carriage, making the seats almost uncomfortably warm beneath its waking passengers. The air is muggy and thick, the atmosphere deeply tired. Your nausea settles, slowly. The last of the dream fades.

"We have arrived at Utopia. Repeat, we have arrived at Utopia Academy. Could all passengers please leave the tram, as it is terminating here."

The tram pulls to a stop outside the academy station, and the students onboard are ushered off and directed to the front lobby of the school. They can't miss it; there are signs up pointing toward the main entrance, reading "New student orientation" in big, bright letters. If anyone should care to move off the path, try exploring somewhere else, a teacher will conveniently appear to shoo them back toward the lobby, assuring them that "all your questions will be answered inside".

The lobby is big and spacious, looking more like a university or perhaps a fancy international hotel than a high school. Stood around are any number of students in the uniform of the school. Some of them even look awake. There are several receptionists at the desk towards the back of the lobby, but for now they seem busy with paperwork.


[ Note: the round announcement will go up in a thread once you've all mingled. ♥ ]
aureus_veritas: (thinking and plotting and thinking)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ed's eyes widened. "Wait-- Something's blocking your alkahestry?"

He then turned his gaze upward, looking around at all the buildings. "If there was a giant array... We could verify it with a map or a view from higher up..."
aureus_veritas: (calm and steady)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ed's frown deepened. He'd just forget all over again? Great. This place got better and better all the time.

"Then I guess I'll have to keep myself from asking about it."
greennotgold: (Huh?)

[personal profile] greennotgold 2011-02-07 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll, um, I'll buy you a Memory Charm next time I'm a Player!" he promised. "Maybe you'll remember it then."
earlofpudding: (not bad at all)

[personal profile] earlofpudding 2011-02-07 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well aren't you prepared. Tsuki Aoi, eh? Is she in here?" Lloyd certainly wasn't going to go talk to her right this instant, but actually having an idea of who she was would be a good starting place.
aureus_veritas: (calm and steady)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
He looked momentarily startled, then he waves a hand. "You don't have to do that..."
summerstars: (Default)

[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-07 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
She almost takes that hand, then pauses. Shakes her head and then takes his hand and shakes it.

"Grenn Atair. Sorry... um, for hesitating, but there's a penalty for non-vowed Weapons to touch Players, but I remembered it's not in effect today," Grenn said with a grimace and shrugegd apologetically.
greennotgold: (Deep in thought)

[personal profile] greennotgold 2011-02-07 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"But-- we can't buy them for ourselves," he said. "We can only give them away. So if I have the money, I might as well!"

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-07 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, and Fletcher's alchemy, so it must have gotten yours, too." So heads up. There will be no transmuting for any of them. "The desk gives out maps, but if you want to see everything from up above..." Mei points upwards. "There's a clocktower."
aureus_veritas: (WTF IS THAT)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Ed looks confused for a moment, but then that gives way to looking annoyed. "Damn, this place has rules for absolutely everything, doesn't it?"
aureus_veritas: (what'd you just say?)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dammit," Ed growled. No alchemy. This was going to prove a little more difficult than he'd initially thought.

His gaze followed where Mei was pointing, looking for this clocktower. He then nodded, mostly to himself, but he gestured for her to follow him to the desk anyway.

"Then we'll get both. Can't hurt."
summerstars: (not good)

[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-07 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"They do... Yes." Grenn said with a sigh and shook her head. "Anyway, don't touch anyone if you don't know they're a Player, or your own Weapon."
aureus_veritas: (that's not bad at all)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh." That kind of changed things, didn't it. Ed looked uncertain for a moment, but nodded anyway.

"Right. Well, I'll be sure to return the favor."
ninjasloveme: (blank; naruto I killed sasuke for you)

[personal profile] ninjasloveme 2011-02-07 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"A flail," the answer was automatic. Enough so that he had to stop and frown, and try to recall how he knew that. Also included in that pause was the vague feeling that he had a lot of teaching ahead of him. "Are you familiar with them?"
greennotgold: (Default)

[personal profile] greennotgold 2011-02-07 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you." Finally, Fletcher managed to smile.

"Um-- I should go make sure my brother's okay... I'll see you later."
aureus_veritas: (that's not bad at all)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't mention it." Ed managed a small smile back.

"Oh hey- I didn't catch your name. ...Or am I just gonna forget it again if you tell me."
aureus_veritas: (calm and steady)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-07 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right." Ed nods, attempting to cement that in his mind. "Thanks for the heads up."

He then sighs, glancing around. "So how exactly does this weapon thing work, again?"
wasabisandwiches: (« she » ❤ turned her tender eyes to me)

[personal profile] wasabisandwiches 2011-02-07 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
All in all, Cécile concluded, it could have been worse. As it was, it seemed vaguely similar to some military training exercises, which splashes of the improbable thrown in. She couldn't say she was happy to be here, but there were, at least, good points: tactile, empathic holographics? How did those work? If she was going to be allowed to experience them, she could study them... and oh, she looked forward to that.

She looked forward distinctly less to the battle and weapons system. She thought she understood most of it alright, but she wasn't fully certain-- much like piloting a Knightmare Frame, she imagined it was something you simply had to try once. She blinked, looking a little startled, as she found herself incapable of remembering how one actually did pilot a Knightmare Frame. How did you... turn one on...?

...Well, maybe she was just-- experiencing some strange aftereffects of whatever brought her to this place! She must have been drugged, after all--

She smiled a little nervously before turning her attention back to the screen, and then to the other people in the room.

The best thing to do in this situation was to talk to the rest of the people in the room and try to figure things out, she imagined. Who to approach first?
greennotgold: (In these hands)

[personal profile] greennotgold 2011-02-07 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, right--! Sorry. I'm Fletcher Tringham." He hoped Ed didn't forget it... He looked up to the monitor again to try and remember his brother's. "And, um, my brother's is Russel. It was nice to talk to you!"
Edited 2011-02-07 20:45 (UTC)

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-07 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't worry! I still won a fight even without alkahestry!" And she's a tiny thing, though already knowing how to fight had helped with that quite a bit. When he started towards the receptionist desk, Mei latched onto one of his hands so she could hold it as they walked.

She hadn't even thought about it. That reminder that Ed had given her about Al? Gone.

"So we're going to climb the clocktower?" The girl sounded excited. Running about, solving mysteries in enemy territory with Edward? That sounded soooo romantic.
summerstars: (hmm)

[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-07 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Grenn grimaced and spread her hands, palms up.

"The original 'vow' is that you promise to protect and... 'own' them. You don't have to say it like that, though. I think... the protection bit is most important?" She really, really can't stand the 'own' part.

"Then before a battle, you can draw the weapons."

trollofthree: (pic#704769)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-02-07 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
And with the inevitability of a trainwreck in a cheap action film, Gino closed in just before they reached the desk. Arms folded, he slouched in his typical obnoxiously tall way, and grinned a little too widely.

"Hey, you found someone! Gonna introduce me?"
themerryway: ([?] - warm)

[personal profile] themerryway 2011-02-07 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's right," she says warmly. "For a while. I hope you'll find it nice here-- of course, the goal is to ultimately get home and back to what we were up to before this," she thinks distantly of the interrupted ceremony. "But I think it's okay to enjoy yourself while you're here."
discarded: Miwako Aihara (Amidst flowers)

[personal profile] discarded 2011-02-07 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Miwako stared up at the screen in confusion. How could a place like this really exist? They were expected to fight? If her mother knew about this, there was no way she'd be allowed to stay...

She looked to the strange-looking girl standing nearby. "Um... is this... is this real?"
bitofafiction: Eyes closed, serene, content. (<= it's good to be home)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-07 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Regardless of its relation to reality, then, we have all been afforded the experience of dying. I don't consider that a kindness."
monkeystail: (smile)

[personal profile] monkeystail 2011-02-07 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Huashi looked up, briefly startled, because the girl had been reaallyy quiet at first. Huashi shrugged and tugged on one of the tails that framed her face.

"Sure! Though I think we all would prefer if it wasn't," Huashi said with a grimace. She didn't feel nervous around this girl. Too sweet, too quiet, too ordinary. There was no danger here, so Huashi grinned at her.

"Probably get used to it soon! Do you know what you should do now?"

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