[The PORTAL has been set on a desk, pointing towards Bowen and his bed. His room looks exactly the way one would expect a teenage boy's room to look, complete with cheesecake posters. There's some music murmuring away in the background, but it's turned down low.]Right. Time to listen up, Promenade! I have an announcement to make, and I will repeat ( Read more... )

[ Practice makes perfect... Yeah, yeah, of course it does, Vanille. That is totally why he is bleeding out all over this video. But is he calling for help? Fuck no! That would be much too intelligent. Bowen starts talking, but he sounds reasonably out of it.]...Mr. Stark? I know I was really embarrassingly drunk when I said it, but I definitely ( Read more... )

[ This time when the video clicks on, it almost looks like an accident. Ichigo is flopped on the couch, apparently fiddling with his PORTAL, and there's a long pause between the video kicking on, and him actually looking at the camera to speak; ]So. It seems like it's been one freaking crisis after another around here. Plus with just plain day-to- ( Read more... )

[ No way he's doing this as video. He cares to much to do it as a text message, but having to ask is humiliating enough. ]

I need advice. There is this woman... Mina Harker. I don't deserve her forgiveness for the things I have done to her, but I'm selfish enough to want it and I have ran out of ideas.

[And that would be Ace sitting down on the beach, mask on, hat off as he works away on something off to one side.  The PORTAL is in its typical Den Den Mushi state and it turns itself on when Ace brushes a hand past it to pick up more raw materials, constructing a simple straw hat and the Den Den moves just enough to show that there's an already ( Read more... )

[ The video starts with the image of what seems to be a very big vase, rocking back and forth as if it were to fall down. The view then shifts a little to reveal the cause--a set of particularly large, mean-looking carnivorous plants sitting on top.  ]Death, torture, goddesses, demons. This city just keeps messing with your world view, doesn't it ( Read more... )

The roads here seem endless. The sky is just as bad.

[She sighs, before murmuring to herself.]

That's going to take some getting used to.

My name is Naoto Fuyumine. [A little pause. Well, for all intents and purposes, it is.] If you need help, I hope you'll let me know. I'm from House 12. I...couldn't help but notice that there seems to be a lot ( Read more... )

What do you remember doing before waking up in this world?

[It's a completely innocent question-- perhaps almost inappropriate, given the fact that people are still freaking out. But Kamui has a reason for asking-- he always has a reason. A few lines from Genero's (exceedingly long) post had piqued his interest, and of course he just cant let that ( Read more... )

It's come to my rather unfortunate attention that as of late, we have newly awoken sleepers within our midst, here in the city. Now, usually one would think they would be overjoyed to come here, but further research and probing suggests they are all actually ungrateful and rude. Hostile, even, in some cases. Honestly, most of them act like children ( Read more... )