first swing » shinjiro

[penitenza]

Who: Shinjiro and you.
Where: Espoir.
Style: I'll match you.
Status: Open.

[Today Somarium, if you happen to be walking along the village- you'll spot +1 hobo asleep on the bench. Yes, in this weather, doesn't he know how cold it is?

>Bother him
Keep walking
Stare at the hobo
Throw a snowball]

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[unfearful]

[Dominic's just walking by, Gulliver on his shoulder, when he spots Shinji.

... Yeah, that can't be good for his health. So this would be one (1) Dominic, gently trying to shake him awake.]

Uh... hey-!

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[Rouses, a sharp edge to his voice.] What?

[unfearful]

[He's been at the receiving end of worse.]

You'll get sick if you sleep outside like that...

[penitenza]

[...]

Sleep outside?

[Now he's looking around.]

..Huh? Where the hell am I?

[unfearful]

E-Espoir... or are you new here entirely?

[penitenza]

..I guess new would probably be the best way to put it. [new or dead.]

[unfearful]

[He places a hand at the back of his neck.]

I realize that this sounds crazy, but... you're in another world, known as Somarium. I assume that you fell asleep, were knocked unconscious, died, or something along those lines just before arriving here?

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..Yeah, one of those.

[Shifting to sit along the bench now, staring out at the snow.]

Sounds more than crazy, but I've heard a lot of crazy things. [Things like the Dark Hour, Shadows and Persona.] ..Somarium, huh?

[unfearful]

Yeah. You'll probably hear it be referred to as a 'dream world', which isn't exactly inaccurate... but it's not a dream world in the sense you're probably thinking of. Things here aren't figments of your imagination. Rather, dreams are particularly significant in this world.

[He holds up his Dreamberry.]

First... you should've received one of these when you arrived.

[penitenza]

[He's listening but since he was nothing to comment upon as of yet, he says nothing. Though he glances to the phone and perks a brow, received a phone?

His hand slips in his coat pocket, pulling out a pretty identical one.] ..Huh, whataya know.

[unfearful]

It allows you to communicate with anyone else who's been brought here. There's a contact list as well; if you look through it, you might find someone from your own world.

-And speaking of which... I guess I should mention that people here aren't all from the same world.

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[Contact list of who's here, huh? Scrolling through it now, quiet for a moment while he glances around for anything familiar.

He's not looking at him but he replies.]

..Not from the same world? [something along the lines of a chuckle.] So, what? Everyone is just being pulled here? What the hell for?

[unfearful]

No one really knows. Apparently, it was always possible to access this world by choice, but over the past few years, that link's become unstable.

[A pause]

There's... a lot that goes on in this world. It's peaceful right now, but that's just a mask, believe me.

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[He sets the phone down, he'll glance more through it later. For now, he scoots a little in case the guy and his..pet(?) want to sit down.]

And no ones' bothered to fix the link? Sounds like a lotta trouble. [...] Care to give me some examples?

[unfearful]

Sure.

They used to be be random, but ever since a year ago, they started occurring monthly-according to the moon, if you pay attention. What happens can vary anywhere from having recurring nightmares to being transported to an abandoned warehouse.

[A weak smile]

As you can probably imagine, it tends not to be very pleasant around these times.

[penitenza]

[..Monthly? The moon.. shit this sounded too familiar. He raises a hand to rub the back of his neck, though still listening. Admittedly he expected to hear monsters or something next, but sounds like it could be anything.]

..Huh, so all you can really do is just put up your guard around those times if there's no way to prevent it.