♪ 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

[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.

[nekohohoho]

500 sounds like a deliberately chosen number. I'm not going to dump all mine out here to confirm or anything, but I'll consider it a working hypothesis we've got the same amount.

You're probably right, though. And we don't know what exactly, or how much, we're going to need. We're going to have to keep an ear out for ways to make money.

[itsjustanaccount]

[Reaching over, he starts to put back the few coins he’d taken out.]

Do you think monsters drop coins when they’re killed here?

[It’s dryly said, but he's only half sarcastic.]

[nekohohoho]

You mean, does this place work like a video game? [Kuroo's quick fingers filch one of Tsukki's coins, and he starts spinning it on the table.] It kind of feels like one, doesn't it?

Do we even know that there are monsters here? I mean, by the standards of our world, a lot of these animal people would probably qualify as monsters. But I'm assuming you mean actually hostile, non-intelligent creatures.

[itsjustanaccount]

[For the love of- Tsukishima frowns at Kuroo’s petty theft and he makes sure to put away everything else just so nothing more gets stolen.]

Being suddenly transported into some fantasy world only happens in fiction. It’s a good a guess as any.

And yes, that’s what I mean. I mean, we’ve only found two places, haven’t we? The first was the tree house we woke up in, and the second is this town. Who knows- maybe a classic video game dungeon will show up.

[nekohohoho]

[Relax, Tsukki, Kuroo will give it back. Once he's done playing with it.]

So...are you suggesting nowhere else exists yet? That's a pretty weird thought.

[itsjustanaccount]

Could you see anywhere else to go?

[Leaning back, he quirks an eyebrow up pointedly.]

[nekohohoho]

No. [Kuroo rests his chin on his hand.] Honestly, though, I wasn't really looking for anything specific so much as taking in as much as possible. I did see a lot of...nothing, I guess you could call it. [He frowns.] I've never seen an actual...absence of anything before. What do you make of it, Tsukki?

...either way, since there was literally nothing out there, I paid a lot more attention to stuff around the tree. I don't know whether or not I might've missed something out there while looking around, especially if things just pop up out of nowhere.

[itsjustanaccount]

What I make of it is that we’re out of our depth.

[That’s it, blunt and simple. None of them have woken up from a silly fantasy dream, everything feels as real can possibly feel, and the regular needs of the human body don’t let any of them delude themselves otherwise. Whatever is going on… It’s not something that they prepare you for in a Japanese high school.]

[Still, something comes to mind.]

...I wonder what the people around that town think of everything? When we went there, it seemed like everyone was acting like it was just another normal day.

[nekohohoho]

It's worth asking around. Especially since this is the only place besides where we woke up that we've seen, and it's a town full of people, and we would have noticed if they were all gathered where we were. So the question is, were they somewhere else before this place appeared - and if so, where - or did they appear with it? Because they definitely weren't at the tree.

[itsjustanaccount]

I think we’d all remember if there was a giant talking vegetable walking around or a big bird…

[After all, despite the exceptions, it seems like most people in the tree from what he can tell are human or… humanoid enough that it still counts.]

Anyway, I can go ask. I’ll probably start keeping up cooking duty with Yamaguchi, so going down into town for supplies will be regular for us.

[nekohohoho]

You guys don't have to do it all on your own, unless you actually want to. [Kuroo tilts his head.] I can help, at least. And I feel like most people should at least volunteer to take the occasional shift, though I can't really enforce that or anything.

You don't have to go around asking on your own, either. [Kuroo grins at him.] Want some company?