[video | week 28 day 1]

[science_sadist]

[The Hitomi turns on, then off again. A few moments later the video finally picks up again. On it is the distinctively painted face of Mayuri Kurotsuchi. He's steadily gazing at the screen, almost as if he's looking beyond it and into the machinery of the device. Some might mistake that inspection as looking into themselves, dissecting their very

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[Voice]

[snarkshooter]

[Cal's voice is tense. This guy reminds him of some things he's met before.]

Aren't you a ray of fucking sunshine.

[Video]

[science_sadist]

[Mayuri narrows his eyes. He's not in the mood.]

I have no need for pleasantries at this time. What I do need is to get back to Hueco Mundo. Time is of the essence! Or is that too difficult for you to understand? [Forget that manners thing.]

[Voice]

[snarkshooter]

That's too bad, I'm really big on pleasantries. People compliment me on it all the time, and you look like you could use some of my pleasantry.

[Okay, Cal's pleasantry usually involves someone bleeding. He's a bastard and a half, and he knows it. He's just lucky he's better than a lot of people, so his violence gets justified. Most of the time.]

Yeah, and you're not getting back to...wherever. A lot of people are probably real happy about that right now, aren't they?

[video]

[science_sadist]

How wonderful for you. [Complete sarcasm.] And I assure you I'll survive without it somehow.

Hm. Perhaps they are. [He knows what he is and has no problem with it.] But then they'll realize they need my scientific expertise. I do not care if I am emotionally missed. I do know that they'll miss the wonders I create for them.

[Video]

[can_you_eat_it]

What a loud, unsightly wretch you are, coming in here with demands like that!

[There's a definite smirk on Alice's face as she flicks long locks over her shoulder and laughs all too brightly.]

But here! Since your ignorance is going to give me a headache, let Mistress Alice correct you! Your assistant did no such things, Horse-teeth. This place is called Kannagara and the supposed gods of this world are the ones that brought you here.

[Video]

[science_sadist]

Demands? [Oh you have no idea but how demanding he can be!]

Well, Alice, [There is no way he's going to call you "Mistress". The gold eyes narrow dangerously.] I do thank you for what little information you've provided and strongly suggest that you keep your judgments of personal aesthetics to yourself.

What "gods" do you mean? [His world proved to have a lot of ideas people worshiped as gods but to no real avail. There is also the "god-king" of Soul Society but the god part was just a title. So the question is are these gods concepts or very high minded people? No matter. Either he could use to his advantage.]

[Video]

[can_you_eat_it]

[It's not a jundgment - she's given you a name. So guess what? That name is juuust going to stick, right there. Which is way whe waves her hand absently towards the ceiling.]

I dunno what these gods are - they certainly don't exist in my world. But since I'm so generous, Mister Horse-teeth, I'll go ahead and warn you that if you lose your temper or try to kill things there, the flowers will force you to be calm again.

[A beat, as she nods sagely.]

Apparently that tree doesn't like angry people.

[Video] Great, now he has to test this. Thanks Alice :|

[science_sadist]

[So helpful. He's about to say something biting back when he stops abruptly.]

The flowers affect moods? Really? Do you have any proof of this?

[The wheels are turning in his mind.]

Have you first hand experience with it?

[gilded_despair]

[He's only just accepting that this place is what they say it is himself, not through any particular stubbornness but simply through the confusion of coming here from another such place. Of course there he'd had his friends, other vice captains... the last person he was expecting to see was this man. He knows he needs to help him, offer this captain whatever assistance he can. But he can't help hesitating just a tiny bit. The twelfth division captain had always given him the creeps, in a way that most people said his own captain had, and seeing him angry only makes that worse.

But he steels himself, expression blank and head bowed politely when he turns the video on.]

Kurotsuchi-taichou. I'm afraid your arrival here is no fault of your vice-captain's. This seems to be another world entirely, one of many. I have been told it is overseen by Shinto gods but have seen no proof of that yet, though I myself have not been here long. As yet I have found no way to exit this world.

[science_sadist]

Izuru? So you are here too? Interesting. You were supposed to be in the construct Karakura town, defending against Aizen's assault. [His voice implies a "So how did you manage to mess that up and end up here?]

Do not try to defend Nemu's idiocy. [Because somehow she is to blame, at least partially.] What else have you gathered about this place? "Kannagara", as I've been told it's called. And so it's the "Shinto" gods to blame? Really. [The gears are turning in his mind.] How is it that this different world has the same Shinto gods as the world of the living?

[gilded_despair]

[The blond very nearly flinches when the man uses his given name, especially with that tone but he served under Gin for far too long to give himself away that easily. His face is carefully neutral, his head bowed respectfully.] I was there, sir. And after battling multiple foes had turned my attentions to healing other officers. The boy, Kurosaki-san, arrived from Hueco Mundo shortly before Iba-san and myself were cut down by Aizen

[science_sadist]

So, Kurosaki made to to Karkura. [A bit of satisfaction in his voice. Notice that he doesn't comment on your being cut down.]

Another world you say. Please, describe it. And how exactly did you get moved from the Karkura construct to this other world, to this one? Be precise as you can. Your travels may hold vital information. [He's not holding out much hope, the third squad lieutenant never proved to be much of a keen observer of humanity - so to speak.]

[He doesn't respond to the "compliment" as it isn't one. It's a statement of fact; of course he'll find a way out. It may take him some time but he will find it.]

The people here are quite small minded it seems. As you have the advantage of an earlier arrival tell me, where might I procure equipment and a space to set up such a laboratory? I'll need it to make any progress towards a way out.

[Video]

[pinktintedgamon]

[Well...this was new. Unfortunately, the last person he'd seen that painted his face so oddly and spoke with such an unpleasant manner - well that had been Joker.

Suffice it to say Raikou was not impressed.

Even so, that didn't mean this man was actually anything like the other - and he had mentioned a few key words that he recognized.]

Excuse me, Kurotsuchi-san? But did you know Ukitake-san, Abarai-san, or Kuchiki-san by chance?

[Video]

[science_sadist]

[Mayuri is a little taken aback to hear those names. How could all of them have been transported here. He had kept close tabs on them, especially since the betrayal of Aizen.]

I am quite familiar with them. I take it that they were all here at some point as well. Which brings up an interesting quandary of how they were in two places at once.

Do you have some sort of hypothesis of how this can be true? [He himself has come up with at least three. But it's always good to hear the general theories of this world's populace.]

[Video]

[pinktintedgamon]

Ah, well they were all here for about a year, as time passes here. And they've all been gone for roughly one to three months, give or take. Rukia-chan longer, and Hisana-san was only hear for a short time.

[Hmm. Still measuring the painted man here, honestly. Still, give a little common or easily inferred information to help that task of understanding along? He can do that. Quite easily, in point of fact.]

Actually, I do.

[Video]

[science_sadist]

A year passed? Really? [He didn't notice any change in them, no year's worth of strength or anything to indicate that they had left.]

An eyebrow raises.]

Do you care to share them?

[Video]

[infiniillusion]

[Kanda is very much unimpressed by all of the demanding shouting happening. In fact, it makes him annoyed. He only bothers to have manners with Generals, and this person is some measly captain, not to mention probably from some other... world.]

[So his response is short, and, frankly, a little unfriendly.]

You can't get back. That and you're in no position to demand anything.

[Video]

[science_sadist]

[There's that word, again: "demand". It seems that many of this world aren't used to dealing with those who expect nothing less than the best. Well, they'll learn. They'll have to, if he is to stay here.]

[Dangerously]I hardly think I'm demanding.[He has ways of dealing with those who disobey and talk back.] I simply wish to get back to my own lab and world. [That isn't unreasonable at all.]

[Video]

[infiniillusion]

[Blind and deaf to that danger, he is. Not moving a hair, in fact, and otherwise radiating the not being impressed at all thing.]

Like I said, that's impossible. Deal with it.

[Video]

[science_sadist]

[Mayuri could care less if this person is impressed or not. He does however present an interesting challenge.]

Impossible you say? I think you give up too easily. Maybe your small mind cannot conceive of a way to leave this place. I however shall find a way to exit this world and return to my own.