001 - Minato Arisato - Entry

[zeroth_card]

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Minato Arisato. I have met some of you already around the campus and I will probably meet the rest during classes. I hope we get along, at least until we get sent back to our original worlds.

Something I have noticed while talking to people, BTW - there is a good chance this Time Compression thing will bring people

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[robinsknell]

*oh dear, romaji. He hadn't thought about that particular hurdle of being stuck in a different world before. There's a few typos in his reply, but he writes back in Japanese*

Good morning, Arisato. It's nice meeting you! I'm Murasame Tsukumo. Thanks for the bilingual post. It's a little overwhelming suddenly being dropped into a world where everyone speaks English, isn't it.

Have you met someone from your own world? That could certainly get awkward.

I'm not an Amber, but I'll point them to this post if I happen to meet any.

[zeroth_card]

[Minato didn't spend all does nights building his Academic stat for nothing, you know. He writes back in both languages, since this is a public entry, after all.]

Good morning, Murasame. It's nice meeting you too. It's really odd to have the language barrier thrust upon you like that, yeah.

I've met two, though not people I had met personally. One's a J-Pop singer, oddly enough, and the other is some sort of junior detective from a rural town.

Thanks, Murasame. Which group is sponsoring you, if you don't mind my asking?

[robinsknell]

*still in Japanese only over here. He might like to write in both languages once he's been able to do a little more studying, but at this point he's not too confident in being able to make himself understood.*

Huh, that is pretty weird. I wonder if you and I are from the same world. At first I thought meeting people who spoke Japanese would be enough to prove that all on its own, but now I've also met someone who knows Japan, yet comes from a country I'm pretty sure doesn't exist back home.

I'm sponsored by the Diamond group.

[zeroth_card]

That might be hard to tell. I only think those two people are from the same world because they mentioned the city where I've been studying, and because I recognized the singer.

Let's try to confirm whether we're from the same world or not: what year was it before you got sent here? Which were the more recent national news?

The Diamond group, huh? Sounds like a good one, judging by their requisites.

[robinsknell]

Hm, let's see... 2008? I was in Tokyo. Recently there have been a lot of headlines about high school boys disappearing, and high school girls falling into mysterious comas. They call it Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.

I hope it's a good group. (LOL) They said to pick the one that seems to suit you best, so with any luck, I'll be able to live up to it. It's very impressive that you got Amber, though!

[zeroth_card]

...huh. It looks like we're from different worlds then, because I'm from late 2009 Iwatodai, and I don't remember any headlines about this Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.

Actually, a lot of the groups sounded interesting to me. Amber looked like it would fit me best, and I guess the sponsors agreed with me. (LOL)

[robinsknell]

I was between Diamond, Pearl, and Amber myself. But I figured there are probably people who could use Amber more than me, so I didn't want to use up one of those few spots.

It's very strange to think of more than one Japan in the universe. (LOL) It would be nice if your world didn't have that syndrome at all. I hear it's not very pleasant.

[zeroth_card]

Oh we have another syndrome, though; it's mostly limited to Iwatodai and the sorrounding area, but it's not very pleasant either, from what the people who recover from it say: we call it the Apathy Syndrome.

[robinsknell]

Apathy Syndrome, huh? What are the symptoms?

[zeroth_card]

Grayed hair, sickly complexion, and a complete unwillingness to do anything: they don't speak, they barely moan; they don't move unless someone guides them and don't dress or eat unless they're helped into it.

Usually, someone afflicted recovers after a month at most, but there's been a wider spread of afflcted in the three months before I ended up here.

[robinsknell]

That sounds pretty nasty... I definitely haven't heard of anything like it back home. Have they found a way to treat it at all?

[zeroth_card]

...not really. It seemed for a while that the illness was affected by the moon's stages, but other than that they don't really know how it happens or how it's treated.

[This is one of those moments where Tsukumo might have figured Minato knows more than he's letting on... if they weren't communicating on a BBS. LOL indeed.]

[robinsknell]

*CURSES, FOILED AGAIN. Maybe he'll get the opportunity to eavesdrop it off you at some later date. For now, though, he's just sitting there on the other end of the network feeling rather horrified and concerned.*

That's pretty unusual. I've never heard of an illness that changes with the stages of the moon before. Or is it normal where you come from?

[zeroth_card]

Not really. It's the only illness that seems to be affected by the stages of the moon, that I know of.

[robinsknell]

Very strange.

Well, not that I'm excited about anybody being here, but at least we can hope there's no Apathy Syndrome to worry about in this place.

[zeroth_card]

I somehow doubt we'll need to worry about it here. Though I know that's probably wishful thinking.

[Hey, Tsukumo. That? Right there? Should be a big "ask him about this in person later" sign.]