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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. ♥ ]

[personal profile] idkmybffxiao 2011-02-06 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck with that. Mei is latched on like a vice.

"I can't believe it you're really HERE and alive and it was so scary and--" The girl ignored the yelling and squirming at first, but the damage to his coat eventually dawned on her. She sat up, though still on him, and blinked. "Aaah! You're hurt!"

Wait.

Waitwait. More importantly, what did he just call her?

"HEY! DON'T CALL ME A STUPID BEAN GIRL!"
Edited 2011-02-06 22:54 (UTC)
aureus_veritas: (what'd you just say?)

[personal profile] aureus_veritas 2011-02-06 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ed frowns slightly. At the very least, he can sympathize with that. He can still vividly remember the time spent without his right arm, how strange it had been to come to terms with the fact that it wasn't there. It had been even weirder going through rehab for the automail and adjusting to how that felt.

But that's still not enough to convince him. "Well, you're still alive. And what's more, I'd think that an experience like that would want you to skip the battle thing altogether and jump straight to 'Someone get me home before that happens again.'"
summerstars: (Default)

[personal profile] summerstars 2011-02-06 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"If I could... But I have some proof I can't just walk out of here expecting to end up where I came from..." Grenn grimaced.

"Considering I have to put on my artificial legs to effectively use some of these weapons, I'd be out of here in a second if I could be sure... But you actually think it'd be so easy as to just follow the tracks?" Grenn raised her eyebrows at him and shook her head again.

[personal profile] leftthesafetyon 2011-02-06 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Instead of coming any closer, Meryl sat down on the closest wall possible. This other girl still looked apprehensive, but she was at least not running away. That had to be a good sign, right?

"It's a gun- It resembles a Magnum Desert Eagle, but the recoil isn't half as bad, I think." She had no idea that people came from different times or cultures with different weapons here, so she assumed she'd know what she meant.
frozen_desires: (Default)

[personal profile] frozen_desires 2011-02-07 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey." The greeting was short and curt as Tougyu skulked up to the other with his hands jammed into his pockets. Shoulders hunched in his perpetual bad posture, the SC member gave Kuchinawa something that was a cross between a sneer and a grimace.

"Looks like you got lucky this time."
queenscheckmate: we are young (thinking about it; situated thoughts)

[personal profile] queenscheckmate 2011-02-07 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Kallen somehow (really she amazes herself) gathered herself to go to the lobby. Even though it was near the end of the announcement, she did show up. Just in time to see the names flash on the screen. Her name wasn't there and quite honestly, she was relieved. She was no condition to fight, not now. Not when she was on edge and having slight hallucinations.

There was nothing more for her to do here. She started to make her way back to the dorm because she was no in mood to go to class. Unintentionally, her shoulder bumped into Sherlock on the way back.

"Sorry," she muttered, not really looking up.
cheesetwo: (Curious - Oh really?)

[personal profile] cheesetwo 2011-02-07 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Turning at her name, C.C. regarded the stranger coldly. For someone who knew her name, he sure didn't look familiar. She had a pretty good sense to mentally note the names and faces of all who knew her directly, so he must have gotten her name from elsewhere.

"You..." she started. "Who the hell are you?"
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[personal profile] monkeystail 2011-02-07 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Huashi frowned. A what now?

"A whatnow?" She saw no problem in repeating her thought and planted her fists on her hips. People really should learn to speak so others could understand them!
dancingflames: (【Neutral】 Say what?)

[personal profile] dancingflames 2011-02-07 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Having come to see the list, Mai stared at the monitor as the Player list appeared, hoping to see some familiar names, even if that meant more people trapped here. Upon inspecting it, the screen did say "Mikoto" but it had something unfamiliar attached to it...

"Minagi?" she said outloud to herself, the words ringing hollow in her head. In the end, it was most likely that it was a completely different Mikoto. But it did raise another question that Mai strangely did not know the answer to: Mikoto's family name. She was fumbling for answers, but simply nothing was coming to mind. How she managed to forget that would beyond her if not for having known about other memories she lost in this place.

Still, she was looking through the crowd, just in case she caught sight of someone in the crowd who was new. Maybe her friend and roommate (or ex-roommate anyway) was here too, though with the sea of heads and bodies in the way, she has not spotted that shorter girl yet.
awildcatappears: (relaxed; thinking about the future)

[personal profile] awildcatappears 2011-02-07 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
After her conversation with Gaara, Mikoto approached the front desk. That was her next move. She had a room... a dorm she needed to go to, one that belonged to her. Not that she had much with her. Miroku was with her, but when she arrived here, the sword wasn't with her.

"I think I'm a student here now, so I have a room, right?" she asked the woman at the desk.

And once the formalities were done, she took her room key and turned around. Mikoto caught sight of familiar stature.
dancingflames: (【Inquisitive】 What was that?)

[personal profile] dancingflames 2011-02-07 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Searching to see if the Mikoto she knew was the one on the monitors, Mai spotted a short, dark-haired girl through the sea of bodies. Was it her? This girl certainly looked about the right size. Moving as quickly as she could through the crowd, she approached the girl from behind. "Mikoto?" she asked, coming closer.
bitofafiction: Distracted, startled, perhaps even confused. (>= and some are merely spaced)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-07 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Think nothing of it."

He has another unintelligible flash of tactile memory when he looks at Kallen. Did they talk while he was in the latter stages of sleep deprivation? Or did she feature in his nightmare of dubious origin? He can't recall.
queenscheckmate: we are young (side look; determined)

[personal profile] queenscheckmate 2011-02-07 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Don't mind that the view of her back may remind you as her shadow walked away after killing Euphie.
bitofafiction: Looking down, pensive, unsure or regretful. (== come all the same)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-07 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yes. That.

He starts after her. "Excuse me, miss..."

The events aren't clear in his mind; all he has to go on is the memory of pain in his left hand and a sword in his right. But something about her is ringing a bell and Sherlock would dearly love to find out what.
dancingflames: (【Sigh】 Really...)

Assuming in the meantime, Mai confused Road for Mikoto

[personal profile] dancingflames 2011-02-07 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
So much for that. Mai sighed, making her way through the crowd after misidentifying someone else as Mikoto. She made her way back through the crowd, having pretty much given on her search by now. But that was just when her eyes caught on a face, near the front desk. A face that was a much better match. A perfect match, in fact.

"Mikoto!" she called out, waving over the crowd
awildcatappears: (take you down; middle of a fight)

lmao sounds like a title for a drama

[personal profile] awildcatappears 2011-02-07 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah--" Mikoto heard her name and froze. Was... that Mai? But why would Mai want anything to do with her now. Mikoto knew that Mai was mad with her, but she couldn't remember why. But she did remember was the rage and hate in Mai's eyes. Mai was her enemy...

...

Bringing herself to her senses, she walked away from the voice.
queenscheckmate: we are young (backside look; yes?)

[personal profile] queenscheckmate 2011-02-07 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Kallen stopped and turned around, hiding her hands behind her back. "Yes?"
cheesetwo: (Not enthused - If it's necessary)

[personal profile] cheesetwo 2011-02-07 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Not really having an answer to that, C.C. chose to ignore that question. Instead, she asked another of the Britannian. "I suppose that means you know where 'here' is?" An indirect question, but if she could get answers without directly admitting she was at a disadvantage, that would be best.
bitofafiction: Looking straight ahead: calculated neutrality. (>= with his dignity on maximum)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-07 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
His eyes flick down to her arms in an effort to read the position of her hands by observing what he can see of them.

"Have we met?" he tries.
queenscheckmate: we are young (unsure about the problem; hm..)

[personal profile] queenscheckmate 2011-02-07 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Her hands linked with each other as she looked up at him. "No, I don't believe so."
waddles: smaaaaash23 @ LJ (Default)

[personal profile] waddles 2011-02-07 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Weapons and players...

"What a terrible game." Rafiel murmured softly to himself as he watched all those unfamiliar names scroll up on the screen. It was so much to take in at once, really, such technology as well as the fact that he was bound to this place with no promise of freedom... an unusually fascinating cage but one nonetheless.

He didn't even have his wings to carry him up and over these walls... though he wasn't sure why. Perhaps that was one of those lost memories the girl had spoken of, knowing only that he couldn't but not why he had lost both his ability to fly and to change into his natural form. With a sigh, he turned upon the crowd that surrounded him and gazed out upon their faces with feelings of trepidation.

"Is waiting all I can do?"
waddles: smaaaaash23 @ LJ (Default)

[personal profile] waddles 2011-02-07 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I know of only one land, Tellius." Rafiel explained serenely, seeming unfazed by her declaration of something that seemed so far-fetched. "This is a different place?" He inquired next, feeling a touch of worry inside him.

If it truly was another world, the others would not be able to find him. He would end up worrying Nailah and his father...
bitofafiction: Looking up. Considering or evasive. (<= I know it sounds absurd)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-07 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
"You seem familiar. Perhaps I merely saw you somewhere."

It's likely, in fact. But that doesn't explain why his hands remember trying and failing to hold a gun.
queenscheckmate: we are young (no other option; falling away from me)

[personal profile] queenscheckmate 2011-02-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"It's a big school," Kallen started, "But I happen to wonder around a lot, so perhaps you've seen me along the way?" She was trying to ignore the fact that there was a dripping noise coming from behind her that only she could hear.
bitofafiction: Looking straight ahead: calculated neutrality. (>= with his dignity on maximum)

[personal profile] bitofafiction 2011-02-07 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I, too, have a propensity to wander. And yet."

He frowns in thought.

"What did you dream last night?"

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