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[npc_kun]

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Date/Time: Sunday, July 10th, all day
Location: All over the Sphere- if you need a refresher, please consult our handy World Map and the Events Calendar for a description of the current Wilderness! Remember, however, that new arrivals can appear ONLY ON

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Bazaar

[have_tuba]

This place was really, really neat! She didn't remember how she got here, but it didn't really seem that important. The place may have been unfamiliar, but it never really struck her as strange. Few things did. Besides, what do you do with unfamiliar things? Why, you explore, of course!

She trotted around the booths with all of their pretty trinkets and food and funny two-legged creatures that running them. They were like nothing she had ever seen--then it occurred to her she wasn't really sure what she had seen. Alright, so maybe that was a little weird, even by her standards but when she asked the two-leggers about it they said that was normal. Then they asked her a lot of funny questions like, "Are you from the Wilderness?" "Are you really talking or am I hallucinating?" and "Jesus Christ, where did you come from? Don't pop out at people like that!"

One of the questions that really got her thinking, though, was, "What's your name?" She really didn't know... but maybe that vision she had before was a good place to start? For the

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[eekashadow]

This place was absolutely terrifying.

The poor little yellow pony was very, very quietly freaking out, and she had no idea what she was supposed to be doing or where she was meant to be going or even who she was. It was very disconcerting.

"Um excuse me could you please... um" It was no use, every time she tried to ask one of those strange, two legged creatures what was going on, she would be greeted with a chorus of disbelief or surprise, or even worse, squeals of "OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO CUTE!" why would without fail send her shying away from the noise and trying to find somewhere safe to hide herself.

And then she backed into a very solid (pink) thing and squeaked in fright.

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[have_tuba]

"Whoopsie!" Giggles hopped in place when she felt something run into her, turning around mid-air to see who or what it was.

"Omigosh! You're the first pony I've met all day. I was starting to think it was just me... but that'd be silly." She smiled at the end of her mile-a-minute talking, then took a good look at the yellow pony before her. "Saaaaay, haven't I seen you somewhere before?"

Bazaar

[feathered_earth]

Krile was humming a little tune as she wandered around the Bazaar that afternoon--not cheerful, but content, almost. Having seen Neil again, and all the people randomly popping out of nowhere... well that was worrying in its own way, but she was focusing on the good of the situation. Maybe she'd even see Bartz again, and Sniper would probably hatch soon too--!

--was that--

She stopped in her tracks, looking hard at the spot where she thought she'd spotted a pink pony. That couldn't be right, could it?

[imthefavorite]

What in the world?

One moment, at least the last he remembered, Neil had been sitting in his flat, getting drunk, with the most laid back conversation he'd ever had with his brother. The next, he was...on Fisher Island? He rolled his eyes at himself the moment he thought 'Something is fishy here.' But something was indeed off. For one thing it wasn't nearly as chilly out as he last remembered. It wasn't unheard of to have unusually warm days in spring, but it just didn't seem like spring anymore.

He looked around. Of all the islands to be dumped on, he had to be dumped on the one with the least sturdy bridges. Apparently the tree was upset with him for something. Did it have something against sibling civility. Neil chuckled at himself for that as he took off towards Wellspring. He would have preferred to go through the Bazaar, but there was no way he was risking that bridge.

[interveningly]

Follow-up appointments cut into his free time, but he understood the medical necessity of them. And this one had, thankfully, been fast. No problems with the implanted eye, and no neurological issues either. Getting adjusted to binocular vision once more had proved much faster than the transition to monocular.

As he left the clinic, he spotted a familiar head of curly brown hair. What was Lyle doing here? Hopefully whatever it was, it wasn't serious. Then 'Lyle' got a little closer, and Veda realized with shock that it wasn't Lyle at all.

[imthefavorite]

A slight sense of relief struck him as Neil noticed the familiar face (and hair). No doubt he could judge from Veda if something was amiss with the situation, even if he wasn't willing. Despite the young man's reputation, Neil had always been decent at reading him if something was wrong, even if he didn't quite understand.

"Yo!" He picked up his pace slightly and raised a hand in greeting.

Sure enough, as he got closer, the look on Veda's face proved telling. Neil took a breath as he approached him, figuring that keeping a cool attitude was the best way to deal with Veda, whatever the situation may currently be.

"Everything okay? You don't seem unwell at all." He gestured back to the medical building as he addressed Veda.

[interveningly]

Veda opened his mouth - and then closed it again when he realized he had no idea what to say. This... shouldn't be happening. Couldn't be happening. He wanted desperately for it to be true, though. But then again... it could be like the memory he had. There but not really. Still de-

He cut that thought off abruptly. There was one way of finding out. "Are you... really here?" He had intended it to sound like a demand, but his voice betrayed him, his own uncertainly filtering in.

Weapons Tree, closed to Neil

[feathered_earth]

Krile had been far from her usual chipper self since Sniper's death. She'd taken extra Hatchery shifts and generally hung around there, trying to picture the expression on his face if he should hatch while she was there. It helped, but only a little.

Still, the shop needed minding and the books needed doing. The rain and heat were keeping things quiet, which let her work over the numbers in peace and quiet while she kept her journal open on one side, glancing at it occasionally...

...Well things were getting very strange today. Krile pushed aside the ledger to read a rather lively entry from a person who seemed to have just appeared somewhere outside the Hatchery.

[imthefavorite]

Having grasped his situation a bit more effectively after seeing Veda, keeping an eye on the journals, and walking around the housing section, Neil decided he'd better go see a few people. But having already contacted a few and not knowing how to reach his brother (save the journals, but it was busy enough that he very well may get looked over), he headed for the place he thought would be the best bet for finding the next friend on the list: the Weapons Tree

[feathered_earth]

Krile did a double take when the door opened. Lyle was her first thought, but once she looked past the face and he began speaking, it became obvious who it really was. People appearing. But she hadn't expected... if he came back she'd thought it would be out of a cocoon and remembering nothing, not walking into the shop like he'd never been gone.

She was too shocked to do anything but stare at him, barely even comprehending what he said. Rifles? Scopes? He and Gundam had taught her everything she knew about them, but he might have been speaking a foreign language for all she knew.

Well, except for that last word. Right. Krile didn't even bother with getting up--she just vaulted onto the counter and then into him, holding him as tight as she could.

[imthefavorite]

When she came barreling into him, it was bittersweet. He had to remind himself that even though it felt like yesterday that he last saw her, it had been considerably longer for her. It was hard on his friends, and he felt simultaneously guilty and angry that it had happened. All he did for a long while was hug her back, taking in a deep sigh.

After a nice long moment he spoke, this time somewhat quietly.

"See..it's okay. Everything will turn out somehow."

He waited a moment more. "...Did you...get my letter?"

Open and anywhere~ (just let me know when/where!)

[subject_e0057]

It was different from the other times he had waken up in a new place.

Generally he woke up exhausted, with a cold sheen of sweat and a telling, contented silence in the back of his head, practically brimming with self-satisfaction that churned up a cold dread in his stomach... but not this time. Yes, he had woken up underneath a tree in the park, when he should have been confined to Bastet's house... but there wasn't the sense of something being intrinsically wrong this time.

He let out a soft curse and adjusted the bandages over his injured arm, before standing.

"It's too warm," A shade of himself lounged like a cat on one of the branches of the tree, staring intently across at further islands. "It was winter." A cold golden eye swiveled quickly to look at him, the creature's lips breaking apart into a mad grin. "You think time left us?""Hallelujah," He frowned, picking up the journal carefully-- and maybe a little envious at the ease of which the hallucination swooped down from the branch, the projection bearing no matching

SYard, sometime... Tuesday-ish?

[interveningly]

The last week has been far too mad, even for the Sphere. Deaths and then arrivals right after. And Lockon. That got a special category all to itself. Predictably, Veda's response to all of this was to bury himself in work - both his job and his own side projects. And the dog had been noisy in the way he had managed to learn was 'I want out of the house'. Not for any particular reason, just 'out'. So he'd decided on a trip to the Scavenger's Yard, hoping to find some more parts for his and Barry's little experiment, and looped Veda's leash around something heavy enough that the little creature couldn't run off and get lost down here.

Hell yeah! (also diff. account for icons lol)

[twice_onsundays]

The Scavenger's Yard was, thankfully, the same as it had been when he had left it- people milling about for parts and bits and gizmos amongst the ever-present piles of stuff. What mostly caught his attention, though, was a very familiar yapping. And not just any yapping. But a dim, repetitive little bark, always the same pitch and tone, as though just incessant noise.

So of course, hearing Veda(dog), Raise moved quickly to shift his position, locating the yipping animal leashed to a large, rusted bit of scrap. "Veda?" Maybe he sounded a little too happy- he had been hoping that his dog had still been in the Tree-- and rather healthy looking at that.

Ignoring Hallelujah's scoff, he knelt down to pick up the dog, wriggling bit of fluff lapping at the air around him happily. "Who brought you here?" He had still yet to see Veda(meister), entirely too focused on the stupid little dog for the moment.

[interveningly]

Veda glanced up at the sound of his name - though it became rather obvious that the newcomer was referring to the dog, rather than him. And that the newcomer was... familiar, like Locokn had been in the beginning. Not quite the same punch to the gut, but the sense of uncontrolled emotion was still there.

"You know the dog." It was a statement rather than a question, given what had just transpired in front of him. Many people knew the dog, really, but he usually knew them in return, instead of this familiar stranger.

a branch - semi-closed

[callingforyuu]

What had happened to all the snow?

Ember was sure he had just been out wrapped up in his warmest clothing as Sky and he threw snowballs at each other. Within the time it took to blink, his location had drastically changed--and Sky was no where to be found.

This just didn't make any sense at all. "Hello...?" Where had Sky gone anyway? ....How was he supposed to get down anyway?

[answeringkarma]

It was very odd what just happened-- not that what'd been happening hadn't already been odd to begin with, but.

One moment, Sky was writing a reply in his journal (in his own blood, no less) and then trying to pull some spike thing out of his other hand, and the next he was.. somewhere quite high up.

"What the--!" Bloodloss coupled with sudden lack of area to stand on caused him to stumble on the tree branch he was on. And, in looking down, he caught sight of--

"--Ember?!"

Woah, there. Almost toppled over.

[singingalleluia]

Gray had been, for whatever irony of gray skies brewing, in the middle of a sudden hurricane you realize. And what does a shounen protagonist who doesn't know he's such do in such a situation? Run around without stopping to breath and help everyone he can, naturally. That meant moving at a bit of a clip, even as he looked over he shoulder as if someone had just called his name, right into--

--sunshine?

And a sudden stabbing sensation that wasn't pain exactly but it flared in his left eye, like shifting transparencies that made him clap a hand over it with a muffled cry of surprise. Something's---there?

All in all, enough of a sudden what this is what, hold on he was just---what! that he didn't even realize the tall figure with black hair he was barreling straight into until he crashed into Sky's back.  "Ah! Pardo---" Overbalancing, overbalancing. Trying to grab onto Sky to keep them from both falling and who else was there and what was--was that--nevermind! "Look out, miss

[callingforyuu]

An uncomfortable whinge lurked in Ember's chest as something deep in his make-up recognized Gray's cursed eye. However, Ember wasn't really focusing on that as two heavy teenage boys slammed into him where no one had been standing before.

He hadn't even a chance to answer Sky's confusion when he felt the world shift and he was falling. "Holy--!" Ember reacted instinctively to latch his tail onto one of the side offshoots of the branch they'd been standing on--effectively stopping his own fall, at least.