♪ Our house ♪ in middle of this tree ♪ our house

[npcsofmana]

Who: Everyone
What: The first morning of an adventure begins.
Where: Home
When: Day 1
Other: Be courteous and warn for any of the usuals in your thread subject title if it gets to that point.




You wake up to a serene and idyllic morning.

Outside, a pleasant glow from the sun fills the room including the small crannies in which the beds are tucked. All windows have been latched close, but it's easy to see a gentle breeze ruffling the leaves of branches which loom overhead. Faintly, bird song can be heard from outside. In this place, it'd be a simple matter to close your eyes again and drift back to sleep.

There's simply one problem: this is not where you last went to sleep.

Waking up properly will display not only how the picturesque and cozy little room stands out in stark contrast to where you should be, but that you are sharing this space with someone else. Depending on things, they might be very mundane or very... unusual. Either way, they seem just as bewildered as you are. The good news is that at least all the things you immediately had on you at the time are right nearby the foot of your bed along with what seems like a small gift- a small pouch of some sort of coin. (500 Lucre, although that might not be immediately realized anytime soon.)

Exploring the rest of the house shows it to be otherwise quite empty, except for some writing utensils and paper in what appears to be the study along with basic kitchen tools in, well, the kitchen. There's no food, however, and no decoration. Venturing outside onto the grounds reveals an expansive but not particularly well tended estate including another building that is fairly run down. Attempting to venture down the path from the front door out into the world reveals... well. Nothing. It's a fruitless endeavor.

However, not for long.

Hajime Iwaizumi will be the one to find what appear to be a few discarded children's toy blocks. The Colorblocks immediately seem off in some way, strange even as they should seem inconspicuous. Something about them will compel him to pick them up. The nature of this apparent toy will not be obvious until he ventures near the edge of Home himself. A sound, almost like distant bellchimes, will start to emit from the Colorblocks.

When exposed to the air, suddenly they emit a glow and shoot off into the sky with all the brilliance of a falling star. Its trail is both noticeable and easy to follow, curving an arc through the sky until it falls some distance away... and its impact bursts an aurora of colors through the distant and dimmer sky, encircling the site. As the whirlwind of color fades, what appears to be a town can be just made out...

That is the town of Domina.


Some OOC notes:
➸ Prior to the activation of the Colorblocks, the only books which will be filled out in the Study will be "Artifacts" and "Visitors".
➸ After Domina has been unlocked and some characters have explored the town, "People" and "Locations" will be filled out in the Study as well.
➸ To see who your character is initially rooming with, check the Home page. These rooming assignments are not permanent or mandatory by any means, and characters can change them whenever. Officially letting me know will be present and explained in the next mod post coming in a week's time, but for now we can play it relaxed and loose. Just don't burn down the tree in the meantime.

Comments

[itsjustanaccount]

He's more than here. I don't know exactly what he did, but I think he did something to make this place show up.

[Tsukishima is still looking for the details on that, but he's not sure if it'd make sense even if he saw it when it happened. Hell, he can't even give a funny look to Kuroo when he mentions a talking cat. The person who served him his food looked like a life sized puzzle set, for crying out loud.]

Do you really want me to list every single person I've run into...? Although, for what it's worth, I talked with that same guy.

[nekohohoho]

What do you mean, 'to make this place show up'? [Kuroo frowns. What Tsukki's saying doesn't make any sense to him.]

Also, I didn't expect the list to be that long. [Kuroo looks amused.] You've been socializing, Tsukki?

[itsjustanaccount]

I've been taken to a strange place I don't know without knowing how. Obviously I'm going to talk to people.

[He's an introverted shitshow but, dammit, he's one with common sense.]

But enough about that- there wasn't anything out past that tree when everyone was first looking around, right?

[Tsukishima knows he would have spotted an entire town, after all, and he knows he didn't. That was the point of his own conversation with the man with those dark eyes.]

[nekohohoho]

Honestly, I couldn't tell you. [Kuroo shrugs.] I spent a long time exploring the inside of the tree. Then I came outside and wandered around awhile, and eventually I spotted the town.

[Kuroo's extremely observant, but in this case that's worked against Tsukki. He was observing and exploring so many new things that he probably missed Domina's appearance entirely - may not have even been outside yet to see the empty space it would come to occupy.

He'll believe it if Tsukki explains it - it's no stranger than anything else today, not really - but he doesn't have first-hand evidence.]

[itsjustanaccount]

[One of these days, Kuroo is going to stop living up to that cat reputation his school has... For once, however, Tsukishima doesn't make a jab about it. He simply rests his chin on the back of one hand, organizing the words in his head.]

Something like a shooting star took off from the front of the house. [Since he guesses that's technically what the tree also is.] I couldn't see everything clearly, but there was a lot of color in the distance that faded away... When I reached the front, that's when I saw this town.

Iwaizumi was the only one there. If nothing else, I figure he might know more. [A pause.] I got sidetracked, so I forgot to ask him.

[Although he thinks "hey don't just go running off like an asshole" is a perfectly valid concern.]

[nekohohoho]

[Kuroo gives this some consideration.] ...so what do you think happened?

[Mentally, he makes a note to corner Iwaizumi as soon as possible.]

[itsjustanaccount]

He uttered a magic spell. A pixie granted him a boon. One of the books is magic and he was the only find the right one. He's actually the Chosen Hero this place was waiting for all along.

[He leans back in his chair, frowning.]

You had a conversation with a talking cat. Without getting the answer from him, it could have been anything as far as we know.

[nekohohoho]

Phasing, Tsukki. [Kuroo gives him a rather dry grin.] I didn't ask what actually happened, I asked what you think happened. Seems like you've got a theory about how that's connected to this town, right? So I want to hear it.

[itsjustanaccount]

You want to hear everything.

[Which isn't an answer, but Kuroo should be used to this by now. For whatever reason, he wants sass instead of a polite underclassman. Still, at least he seems to consider things carefully. He still has no idea how they were all brought here, or how this place showed up.... Frankly, it all feels like a dream still. But...]

...Maybe whatever he did could be made to happen again.

[nekohohoho]

You still haven't said what you think happened the first time. [Kuroo's complaint has overtones of exasperation to it.] You said something about making this place show up, and how it wasn't around when people first came outside. You mean you don't think this place was here before?

[itsjustanaccount]

I already told you that. I know it wasn't.

[nekohohoho]

And then it was? [Kuroo's eyebrows raise.] So what's your theory on how that happened? Whatever Iwaizumi did, I don't know how anyone could make a place appear out of thin air...much less one of us.

[One of us, in this case, meaning the volleyball players from Japan.]

[itsjustanaccount]

Maybe it was just a coincidence then. Right time and the right place. [He shurgs.] ...But it doesn't seem like it.

[nekohohoho]

We probably can't afford to brush off anything significant here without some investigation anyway. [Kuroo's gaze is a touch distant as he mulls things over in his head.]

...you noticed the tree's kitchen didn't have any food, right? [He'd missed Tsukki's announcement of that fact, but apparently Kuroo confirmed this on his own at some point.]

[itsjustanaccount]

It’d been hard to miss it. That’s why I came here.

[Curiosity, as far as he’s concerned, can be saved for when the basic needs have been taken care of. The tree has shelter and water, he has his own clothes- that just left food. It’s a temporary solution, but what can you do?]

[nekohohoho]

Well, buying food's all well and good, but even if we all had sacks of money left in our room...I don't know how far that's going to go. Especially if we don't figure out some ways to make more. [Kuroo rests his chin in his hand.] I think probably we'll need to pool everyone's resources, figure out how much we've got to work with to keep us all running until we can figure out a way back home. Or until we get dropped back where we're supposed to be without explanation, I guess; that seems more likely.

And we'll need to figure out how to get more money, because I saw more people wandering around than I talked to. Seemed like the tree's got quite a few residents. And I'm pretty sure most of us need to eat, to say nothing of any other kind of supplies.

[itsjustanaccount]

You’re talking like I haven’t thought about this already.

[When he’s actually been able to think about things instead of lost in how disorienting this all is, that’s been one of his chief concerns. The other, of course, was how do we get back home, but if they couldn’t do that… They’d have to make do living here.]

[nekohohoho]

You thought about these things already, but you went off and bought yourself a meal before anyone could suggest you add your money to a shared fund? [Kuroo cocks an eyebrow.]

[itsjustanaccount]

I apologize for not wanting to starve before everyone could be gathered together for a plan.

[nekohohoho]

I'm sure you were just wasting away. [Kuroo grins.] So how far does our money go here? How rich or poor are we, compared to the prices of things? You bought dinner, so you've got to have some idea.

[itsjustanaccount]

If everyone got the same amount... Then I think we'll be good for a while. Then again, I bought one of the cheaper things. It's just bird, not anything fancy.

[Reaching into his jacket pocket, he pulls out a small cloth pouch the contents of which clink together. Carefully, he starts to set a few out.]

The amount each one stands for isn't hard to figure out... [He starts to separate the coins into more or less four categories.] This stands for one, this for five, ten and twenty.

[nekohohoho]

So in other words, everyone who's not an idiot will be fine. [There's a brief silence in which they can both consider that statement.] ...I'll warn Bokuto.

[Kuroo watches Tsukki lay out the coins with interest. He'd glanced in his bag, tossed it in his duffel bag from home for safekeeping, and then had promptly forgot about it. At the time, there hadn't been any prospect of being able to spend the money on anything.] Have you heard what they call the money here?

[itsjustanaccount]

Since Asaahi-san is around, you can tell him as well and he can manage Bokuto-san just fine.

[Fingers crossed, anyway.]

It’s called Lucre. For this, I only had to pay 11 Lucre in total.

[nekohohoho]

And how much did you have to start with? [Kuroo hasn't counted his yet. But then again, there's nothing to say they'd have the same amount even if he had, so it's still worth asking.]

[itsjustanaccount]

I can’t promise I’ve counted it all correctly, since it’s a foreign currency, but 500. If we only focused on food, it would keep us going just fine.

[Resting his chin on the back of his knuckles, Tsukishima frowns.]

But depending on how long we’re stuck here… We have to consider clothes, along with whatever necessities we’re missing at home. I can’t speak for whatever country this is, but back in Japan, I know that those tend to be more expensive than food.