♪ 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]

Ponies aren’t supposed to be blue.

[At least, not on normal Earth.]

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow wants to get indignant over being told what she can or can't do, but this is such a weird comment that all she can do is look at him, slowly blinking.]

...Who says?

[itsjustanaccount]

Science. There’s literally not a single report of a naturally blue pony.

[Probably literally, anyway. He’ll admit this isn’t exactly something he’s studied indepth, but still.]

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow blinks slowly, then lifts one hoof with ultimate deliberation to curl it around and point it at herself.]

So, uh, that science is wrong.

[itsjustanaccount]

Or maybe you’re a mutant.

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow drops her head to her hoof.]

No. I'm a perfectly normal color for a pony. Really.

[itsjustanaccount]

Where you’re from, maybe, but not where I’m from.

[Sighing, he shakes his head.]

Anyway, that's not the point.

[elementofloyalty]

Yeah, the point is -- what the HAY is going on? [She waves a foreleg furiously at the tree and everything around it, right back to indignant that all of this is happening to her.] 'Cuz I have no idea at all. At ALL.

[itsjustanaccount]

No one does. Still, I don’t think screaming into the air is going to help our problem at all.

[elementofloyalty]

It does if somepony answers. [This is so logical she can't help but feel bad for the guy. Twilight Sparkle he ain't.] How do you know nopony knows what's up unless you ask them all?

[itsjustanaccount]

[What did he do to deserve this? Kuroo and Bokuto should be enough penance for whatever he’s done in his life. Tsukishima pinches the bridge of his nose.]

Screaming into the air and talking to everyone to find answers are two different things. You can’t just assume everyone is going to come running just because you’re yelling at nothing.

[elementofloyalty]

If you live in a world where you don't sometimes have to be loud to get what you're after... [Wow, Fluttershy would sure love that world. But what a boring world it would be!] Besides, whoever did this sure doesn't deserve us being nice about it.

[itsjustanaccount]

It’s a lot less annoying, for one thing.

[But he still has to deal with it. Ugh. He shakes his head again.]

I’m not saying be nice. But why would whatever brought us here come just because you’re yelling?

[elementofloyalty]

Might not have heard us up till now.

[This makes perfect sense and Rainbow Dash will not hear a single argument against it.]

[itsjustanaccount]

[...Ah. Of course. He’s dealing with an idiot.]

So the the best use of your time is yelling and hoping someone ears you?

[elementofloyalty]

You got any other bright ideas? [Rainbow just glares at him.] I've been all over here. No ponies, no Discord, no sign of trouble, just this weird place full of mostly human people.

[itsjustanaccount]

How many people have you actually talked to since you woke up?

[elementofloyalty]

Uh, a couple.

[Not... everypony. That's for sure.]

[itsjustanaccount]

[He sighs. Who’s surprised? Not him.]

Alright- try that first, or at least get an idea of what kind of people are wandering around looking confused. Unless you’d like to explain to me how that isn’t reasonable, of course.

[elementofloyalty]

So far the kind of people wandering around looking confused are "you guys". [When she waves at him, she gets that he means 'humans', right?]

[itsjustanaccount]

[Yeah, he can surmise that much.]

So you haven’t seen any other talking animals or something like that?

[elementofloyalty]

Whoa, hold on. [Rainbow holds up a hoof to stop him right there.] I'm not a talking animal, okay? I'm a pony. You don't call me an animal and I won't call you one, all right?

[itsjustanaccount]

[He’s absolutely rolling his eyes. If Rainbow Dash kicks him, no one will say he didn’t have it coming.]

Fine. So you're a pony. Then what should I call anything else?

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow shrugs.] Whatever they want to be called, right?

[This isn't too hard for her. She might use certain adjectives or descriptors for humans, but they're humans!]

[itsjustanaccount]

And if I’m describing them to someone else and didn’t have a chance to ask them yet?