utopiamods: (The right way to fight Exaclan)
Rakuen Moderators ([personal profile] utopiamods) wrote in [community profile] rakuen2011-04-04 01:34 am

ROUND 4 - NEW PLAYERS & ROUND CHANGE

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 anyone onboard is ushered off and directed to the front lobby of the school. You 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.

Anyway, the many screens are far more interesting. Once a good number of students are gathered inside the building, they all activate at once to show a cheerful, almost cavity-inducing woman in the school uniform. She smiles, waves, and launches into her speech without further ado.

"Good afternoon to our new students here at Utopia Academy! Thank you for choosing to enroll with us for this, our first semester of the new year. Our battle system is the best in the world, set up for you, our students! I hope that you all had a fun journey here, and that you've all made some new friends! You're going to need them soon, so keep them close, okay?

"Now, I'm going to explain the rules for you. Make sure to listen carefully, and remember, you can find all of this and more in the Exaclan manual!"

She outlines the battle system for the newbies as she has every round previous, then claps her hands. The screen goes blank, and the following appears:

PLAYERS FOR ROUND 4:
Dahlia Hawthorne
Edward Elric
Gino Weinberg
Kanaya Maryam
Lelouch vi Britannia
Rudy Roughnight
Sherlock Holmes
Shiro Tougyu
Suzaku Kururugi
Takuto Tsunashi
Tomoko Oashi
Zoro Roronoa
trollofthree: (JUST AS PLANNED)

[personal profile] trollofthree 2011-04-05 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"You'll just have to fight, I guess." Gino shrugged, hand dropping from the other knight's shoulder. Hook, line and sinker. "But you must've been planning to do that already. Come find me when you have your Weapons!"
swordofzero: (no!)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-04-05 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gino!" But Gino was gone, Suzaku swallowed a curse, not that he knew any good curses, he had always made a point not to swear in Britannian and the school had taken Japanese from him.

He felt anger boil up inside him and looked around. He needed to find Lelouch, he needed to save Nunnally from Gino, he needed to save everyone from Gino.

He clenched his fists at his side and looked around the room.
allurprincess: (yeah just be yourself)

screw it, just have all my characters

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-04-05 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"-aku! Suzaku, are you okay? You look a little pale..." Sora had run over in the meantime, and was looking up into his face with all of the concern she could muster past a bright smile and excitement coming from every pore. "Tomoko's a Player! Ah, but so is Lelouch... Do you think Utena would protect him for you? It would be better if we could work together, but if Tomoko and Lelouch are both... hmm."
swordofzero: (determiny)

/steals all elles character forever

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-04-05 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I..." The anger abated and left the moment Sora turned up. He listened to her babbling and nodded. "Utena... yes I could ask her. Do you think she would?" It was a small thing but the practical advice cut through all the worries about what to do about Gino and Nunnally and FLEIJA.

"Sora in your school, it wasn't like here was it, you didn't all work together?" He wanted to talk through the problem with Sora but he did not think that she would be able to understand if he used his world and the history between Lelouch, him and Gino so he was trying to find a way using Sora's experiances to help.
allurprincess: (uhhhhhhhh.)

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-04-05 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I know she would! And-- eh, together? Well, no... Not really." Sora blinked at the question, "I had some allies, though...?"
swordofzero: (lost in thoughts)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-04-06 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Suzaku nodded, he had guessed as much. "So sometimes there were people in your school who wanted to hurt others and you had to fight them, not just to earn tokens but for real?"
allurprincess: (I swear to you!)

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-04-06 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"We don't have tokens at all," she agreed. "It's only a game to the boys. To save the girls... To save everyone, that's why I fight."
swordofzero: (pic#732312)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-04-06 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku nodded, to save everyone. Well then this would be something Sora would understand. But first he had to check, because he wasn't sure. He knew that injuries wern't real here, pain was but injuries wern't. Except if your weapon broke you went into a coma. But he hadn't seen anyone get hurt in a way that would be serious in his own world.

"Pain is real here, but injuries aren't but what if you got... shot in the heart or something. In my world that would kill you, but here... what happens?" He shook his head, he wasn't explaining well. "I mean, can you die from exaclan weapons?"
allurprincess: (but then who was the thief)

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-04-06 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"It can be painful... but the damage from Exaclan isn't 'real', even though I heard that a lot of people were hospitalised before I enrolled there. Even afterwards, Tougyu... Um." She shook her head a little, to clear it. "It doesn't have to be real to be wrong. Why?"
swordofzero: (you want me to do what?)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-04-07 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
Suzaku nodded, he had expected so much and Sora was right, it didn't have to be real to be wrong. He sighed, "Nunnally, Lelouch's sister," he explained though Sora probably knew who she was anyways, "Her weapon is something very dangerous, in our world it could destroy an entire city," his head was becomming fuzzy again but he continued on.

"Here it could end up hurting everyone, and Gino knows this and is still determined to use it in battle." He sighed again, but Sora was the one who knew the system, he needed her help if they had any chance of stopping Gino.
allurprincess: (curse your sudden but inevitable-)

you are determined to make my characters fight each other aren't you :|

[personal profile] allurprincess 2011-04-09 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you sure?" Sora stared at him, expression suddenly anxious. More for Suzaku than anything; he looked so grim, with that unfocused look of someone on the verge of losing their memories again. "But weapons in Exaclan can only..."

No, they could hurt people outside of battles. She paled. "How can I help?"
swordofzero: (determiny)

Yep! Gino v Sora would be awesome

[personal profile] swordofzero 2011-04-09 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Suzaku nodded, glad that Sora understood the urgancy. "Well I need to find weapons for Lelouch first, hopefully I can convince him to take five weapons and win so Gino can't fight him because he is not a fighter." He would lose, and Gino would end up with more weapons to use.

"We need to find a way to persuade Gino to pass Nunnally on, or make him promise not to use her weapon but he seemed pretty determined. So we need to fight him, but make sure he can't hurt everybody." He sighed, he had no ideas, he just hoped Sora had some idea of what to do.
Edited 2011-04-09 21:50 (UTC)