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Ryuko Matoi ([personal profile] guitar_case_vagabond) wrote in [community profile] bravenewworld2016-01-31 09:43 pm

Look Who Missed the Party

The thing about being on the road for a chunk of time like Ryuko's been, it means you miss out on a big chunk of local news. It gets even worse when your Warp Band communications drop out like hers had just the day before. At the time, she'd found it kind of annoying and weird but nothing worth getting bent out of shape about. Wasn't like she had anybody to talk to anyway.

At any rate, it meant that the sight of the damaged city and the bustling activity of workers was a bit of a surprise. But at least it meant that one new arrival to the city was going largely unnoticed as she wandered through town. True, the sight of a teenage girl carrying a large metal guitar case strapped to her back was a pretty uncommon one but there were more important things to worry about, right?


It's not until sometime later that she's come to a stop, leaning up against a wall and checking out of her new Warp Band that she plugs into the signal network, pulling up the video function.

"So, uh, I just got into town." She glances around and tosses something up and down in her free hand. A lemon. She catches it and lifts it to her mouth to take a bite out of it, skin and all, chews and swallows. "Kinda gettin' the feeling I missed something. What's the deal?"


[OOC: Intro post! Feel free to respond to her on video or run across her in person. She'll just be kinda out bumming around town for the time being.]
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[personal profile] platinumlucifer 2016-02-01 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ryuko must not have been paying good attention. Then again, Excellen's back was to the younger woman, her blond ponytail bobbing as she got to work trying to fix a piece of equipment.

It was fair, at least. The blond didn't recognize the other girl's voice at first, too enveloped in what she was doing to register it. ]


One of the gods came and had a temper tantrum, then left before we could give it a good spanking.

[ You have a few seconds before she turns around to run to react, Ryuko. ]
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[personal profile] platinumlucifer 2016-02-01 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
A real what?

[ Was that some young kid slang? Excellen turned in what likely was the slowest, most excruciating few seconds of Ryuko Matoi's young adult life. ]
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[personal profile] platinumlucifer 2016-02-01 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Excellen's expression quickly changed once she noticed who was there, leaning against a wall. ]

Ryuki?! Is that you!

[ Target acquired. You're not getting away, friend. ]

What are you doing here? I'm so happy to see you!

[ She descends. Run. Run fast. ]

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footprints_on_your_face: (but we disregard the danger)

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[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2016-02-01 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chie's out among the populace in her official capacity as a Sword of the Savior, helping with cleanup duty. She's still pretty low ranked, but everyone is being asked to pull overtime and pitch in. And she feels especially responsible for not being able to save more people, so she's working as hard as she can. Still, it's easy to tell that she's tired and depressed, and just trying to distract herself with the effort and pain that comes with extreme physical exertion.]

What a mess...
footprints_on_your_face: (so many secrets)

[personal profile] footprints_on_your_face 2016-02-01 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chie tends not to sweat that kind of stuff too much, as long as people aren't actively breaking the law or hurting people. If Ryuko is helping, she's okay in Chie's book.]

Whoa! Sorry.

[She's seen super strength like that - she's dating someone with it, in fact - but it's still impressive if it takes you by surprise. Still, she doesn't recognize this girl.]

...You new here? You picked a pretty bad time to visit, unfortunately.

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ideologic: (...)

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[personal profile] ideologic 2016-02-01 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[A fellow traveller who blew in at the wrong time, Kon was currently sharing Ryuko's sentiments about being completely and utterly lost and confused about the mess that had become of the shining city he had heard about in the rumors.

Standing in the shambled streets with his stance squared and ready to move at a moment's notice, Kon lifted his hand to look around the city...]


Damn. This place looks like hell.
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[Deal with a rampaging god once and you learn the tells. That, and there was a visceral unease that had Kon on edge. He eyed the woman curiously when she spoke up-- and, hand on his hip, tilted his head at the wreckage.]

Just heard? I was out on the road last night. No one in the area got any sleep.

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ofpromisedvictory: (sad sword in snow)

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[personal profile] ofpromisedvictory 2016-02-01 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[A girl, even paler than usual which is impressive for someone with metallic-gray skin, answers the Warp Band in a slightly slurred voice.]

An epic battle between the gods happened here - or rather, one god assaulted the city of Union and was repulsed by our own efforts and those of other gods.

I'm rather surprised it wasn't visible for miles, honestly.
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[personal profile] ofpromisedvictory 2016-02-03 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
At any rate, welcome to Union. I am called Saber. I feel I should apologize for the mess, as I could have done more to prevent it...

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heartandsoul: ([Tsk] Night in the dark dream)

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[personal profile] heartandsoul 2016-02-02 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Lotta shit.

[It's a rather...blunt response from Maka, and it's unusual for her to not give an actual explanation, but the dark circles under her eyes and the general demeanor of "freakin' exhausted" explain it.]

Zealots thinking they know what's right came in with their dragon and razed us.

[...And just who is this girl anyway, coming in out of nowhere? Where did she--no, Maka, it wouldn't do to be suspicious of every person that comes in to Union. She genuinely doesn't look like she has a clue of what's happened.]

...It was a bad time. Sorry we're not in the best shape for housing guests right now, our last ones left a mess.
heartandsoul: ([Ugh] Let the speed mend it)

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[personal profile] heartandsoul 2016-02-03 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a little more worried about the poison that dragon threw up all over a district and the dead people at any rate.

[...Maka, that's not nice. She sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose and shutting her eyes for a second--okay, get yourself together, Albarn.]

Anyway, that's where we are right now. Um, we're all on cleanup duty, so I don't know how helpful anyone's gonna be to a new person. ...I, uh, made sandwiches, if you feel like eating something besides a lemon.

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expertonshutters: (And if I need a rhythm)

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[personal profile] expertonshutters 2016-02-03 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Is that who he thinks it is? Wh- well. It's good to see she hasn't changed. He doesn't turn on the video, yet. He'd rather her not see how completely bed-ridden he is right now thanks to that Dragon (on top of Other Reasons). So hopefully Ryuko recognizes the voice.]

Besides the Dragon that blew the place up? Because if you missed that, man did you roll in at a funny time.
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[personal profile] expertonshutters 2016-02-03 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Party isn't exactly the word I'd use. Be glad you missed the worst of it. It wasn't pretty.

[Looks like she had yet to recognize him. Heh.]

What brings you all the way out here? If you're looking to start fights you might be in the wrong city.

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[personal profile] frozenflame 2016-02-03 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
The wall she's leaning against happens to belong to what was once Yukiko Amagi and Fuuka Yamagishi's little shop. A flower shop and engineering workshop, that's now missing most of the front. From inside there's a rustling, the sounds of sweeping and the rumblings of a pair of Pokemon. Vague "Saur saur..." sounds mostly.

And then a young woman steps out and smiles somewhat sadly, brushing sweat back out of her face. Tossing down a pile of debris, she faces the stranger.

"An enemy attacked Union. She brought a dragon God with her."
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Yukiko's joined by two Pokemon, a Venusaur dragging a shattered lump of wall, and a Chestnaught with a huge box full of shattered flowerpots. They junk is added to the pile for the pickup crews while the girl herself lets out a sigh and looks at Ryuko tiredly. She doesn't mind the girl loitering, she wouldn't even on a normal day. It's a reprieve from work, and something else to focus on besides dragging out bits of broken pottery.

"It did, yeah. Probably because of what we did to it's partner in Glacier."
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[personal profile] divine_braid 2016-02-03 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
The sight of a teenage boy, bandaged and limping, with what looked like a few new tears in his jacket, and being apparently scolded by a few of his more protective Pokémon might draw some attention, too. He flinches a little as the light glints off that metal case for a moment and glances over to see what it was that was flashing at him. She didn't look like she was on one of the visiting rescue teams...

"If you're expecting the usual Union hospitality, we might be a little short on it for a bit." He was getting used to visitors showing up in town to see what this place was about. But the tourism industry might be closed down for a little while after last night. He didn't sound bitter or angry or anything; more like he was stating a fact and leaving it out there for her to make her own judgement.
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"I feel like it, too," he said, giving her a slight wink. "Thanks." He shrugged a little. "But I was never one to just sit around and do nothing."

He tilted his head a little at the guitar case.

"Were you doin' a gig or something?"

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