IC OPENING/MINGLING POST, by popular demand.

[romancemods]

After exploring The City for a while, you might find a rather nondescript brick building. It's nothing fancy, just another building stuck in the business district. The only notable thing about it is the golden letters spelling out CITY HALL affixed to the facade. Under that, there's a plastic banner hung up. The banner proudly states "WELCOME,

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[theheartofmusic]

This place didn't sound or smell like Tokyo, and Madoka padded around curiously, her hand upon her dog's special harness. She was blind, and Mozart, her ever-loyal companion had a device upon his back like a hand rail that allowed her to grasp it as she and he walked along. It was strange; she'd been on the way to the mall to meet her friends when she suddenly found herself in a place that felt entirely different. However, Mozart didn't seem bothered at all, and she could feel his tail wagging against her leg as they walked about.

After a kind lady gave her some punch, Mozart led her to what felt like a picnic table beneath her hand, and Madoka sat down, petting her dog's head. "Where could we be, Mozart?" she asked him bemusedly, a little, perplexed frown on her lips. "We should ask for directions, ne?"

How about a friend of her canon boyfriend? ..sort of anyway

[tobarino_juubei]

(Except he's lacking his guide-Kazuki. Insert blind leading the blind joke here.Also hope you don't mind I'm going with they've met before at least in his backstory

Juubei! ;o; oh, so glad to see him here! It would be awesome to get a Shido and a Kazuki too :<

[theheartofmusic]

She heard the crunching shift of sand before he approached, and she turned her head in his direction, listening as he came closer. The wood creaked as he took a seat, and the moment she heard his voice, she knew who he was. She remembered having met him before at the hot springs.

At the mention of Shido-san, Madoka's ideas were confirmed, and she gave him a nod and a smile. "Hello," she said politely. Neither of them might have been able to see, but those without sight were not robbed of other senses. She was certain he could hear her smile in her voice. "I am, yes. You are his friend too, ne? It's nice to hear you again."

I know a Shido who I rped as Madoka with a little on D_M, I sent him an LJ pm to find out if he's

[tobarino_juubei]

(still alive, but if/when I hear back, I'll definitely point him here. Also uh...are you icons usable by others?)

"I am yes, Kakei Juubei and you are...Madoka-san correct? Kazuki has mentioned you on occasion as well." Juubei was polite enough, his head turning in her direction when she spoke. "Apparently we were not brought here by accident then, if we're meeting up like this."

Rukia Kuchiki || Bleach || Heterosexual

[runawaysnow]

Rukia wished she was more surprised that she'd been yanked from her world- but that seemed to be happening to her a lot lately. As usual, her goal was to return home; she was needed, and this was not something she had time for... even if the atmosphere was incredibly relaxing and that she'd always loved the beach.

Flopping down underneath an umbrella on the beach, sitting on a towel, she stared at the ocean with impassive eyes. Sooner or later, someone would come along and explain to her what was going on. And the sooner that happened, the sooner she could communicate her wish to go home, ASAP.

[pastaboot]

A beach hadn't quite been what Italy expected to end up on after heading into the building but he wasn't complaining. This was a nice escape from the training he'd been forced into by Germany previously. Fun in the sun was a lot better than laps around a track. Normally one would try to figure out how they arrived at such a strange place but the break was much too appreciated to worry about that.

He strolled down the sand, keeping an eye out for tiny crabs and seashells to pick up along the way when his eyes landed on a figure under a nice umbrella.

"Ve~ You should be out in the water!"

eee! <3 someone answered!

[runawaysnow]

She saw him before he approached her, picking down the beach as though he was looking for shells. She hadn't expected him to come and speak to her, and was sort of .. pleased that he had. Any moment longer and she might gotten up to raise hell and demand why she was here. Instead, she just shrugged.

"No swimsuit," she replied, scooting over on the towel so that she could stay under the shade. Because of her fair skin, she burned easily. "Besides, you aren't in the water either."

It was a good point!

i hope italy is okay with you. i just sorta chose randomly. meep.

[pastaboot]

He tapped a finger against his chin, doing his best to come up with a solution to their swimsuit dilemma then...BINGO "We could swim naked!"

The thought is completely innocent coming from someone who always forgets to put on pants after his afternoon siestas.

DINO CAVALLONE || KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! || Anything lmfao. NOT PICKY.

[kyabarrone]

At first he had wondered if this was some sort of future-past-weird stuff. If it was, he figured that there wasn't anything he could do about it, of course, and after five minutes had passed, he sighed. Apparently he was wrong.

This place is... interesting. He hasn't tripped down any stairs yet, and the atmosphere is comfortable. Dino heads into the City Hall, shocked when he finds out it's a beach. But it's a beach. His situation suddenly seems a lot less problematic, and it's much more comforting here.

[sharkchop]

Squalo isn't sure how he's ended up here, probably some other fucked up trick of Byakuran's to mess with everyone's head but oddly enough he doesn't sense a single amount of hostility from anywhere. Or anyone. That's unsettling in itself but there isn't much else to do aside from look around.

After standing in front of City Hall for a bit, he finally heads inside, a brow lifting as he suddenly steps into sand. Since when do city halls turn out to actually be beaches? Sand takes forever to get out of things. Why couldn't this have been a plain ole field? Or an Italian restaurant.

[kyabarrone]

He's so focused on totally relaxing - because the sun feels really good, and since when do suns exist inside of buildings? Who cares. He's taken his shoes off, letting his feet sink into the sand with a content sigh. It's probably just a dream, anyways.

That's what he thinks until he notices a familiar head of brilliant hair. Him, in my dreams?. He smiles, walking over to join the familiar figure.

"Squalo?"

[sharkchop]

At the sound of the unmistakable voice, Squalo turns to make sure his assumption was right.

"Bucking Horse."

The mafia don certainly looked comfortable enough having taken off his shoes and all. Maybe Dino knew where the hell they were.

"Where are we?"

Open to everyone | IT'S A TRAP

[pastkpoint]

Town hall meeting. Right.

Nono was not expecting this. She had been expecting to wake up this morning, get in a quick workout before school, go and workout after school, clean the house, do her homework, go to bed and start the day over again. Add in the normal hassle of pretending to be Yuuta, and it was more than enough for any highschool student.

But this? No way. There was no way she'd just turned a corner and wound up in some kind of American city.

An American city with a beach inside of a building.

Right now, Yuuta's just standing there, dressed in his school uniform, totally in shock.

Re: Open to everyone | IT'S A TRAP

[other_harada]

...

This made absolutely no sense and it just seemed like her life had been full of incidents like these ever since that night Dark had appeared. Riku stared out at the ocean a little shocked and half wondering if this had something to do with one of those paintings again. She brushed hair out of her eyes before noticing the boy in a school uniform.

"....I don't suppose you know anything about this?"

[pastkpoint]

She turned to look at the other girl, still in shock. Nono could handle a lot of things, loved the adrenalin rush of cheating death, of falling. But this wasn't ski jumping, this wasn't something she'd prepared for and practiced all her life. This was something very very strange and entirely outside of everything she knew.

"Uh, it looks like a beach. Inside."

[other_harada]

"That much is obvious but..." Riku rubbed a hand over her eyes before looking back towards the water. "I would say this makes no sense but somehow I think I'd be proven wrong."

[artwithknives]

Shiki himself was around with blue shorts and white t-shirt. This was his normal beach garb. Well, blue anything was his normal garb. But he perked up a little when he saw Joan and gave a nervous wave.

"Uh...."

[artwithknives]

"Y-yeah, it's me."

He hoped he wasn't interrupting anything. That would be pretty embarrassing otherwise.