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f̶r̶a̶c̶t̶u̶r̶a̶ ([personal profile] fracturamods) wrote in [community profile] fracturarpg2020-01-02 10:39 pm

[mingle] the space (january).

interim mingle

( WELCOME BACK, TRAVELERS. )



There's nothing but the clatter of train tracks, and the odd feeling of almost floating.

When you wake, it's hard to tell exactly what it is that you're missing - only that you are. There are pieces that aren't quite right, even if you're not sure where those pieces would normally be. Pieces of what, exactly....? Well, if you had to put a word to it, it would be - yourself, probably. Or did you get something back recently?

The place you've found yourself in is strange, certainly. It's probably worth exploring a bit. Though it just as easily seems that the only form of welcome or explanation that you have, comes from nothing more than a slab of marble. It might've changed since the last time you saw it.

You might have changed since the last time you saw yourself too - perhaps with a new emblem on your clothes, or a portrait on your skin.

There's no need to fret that much though. You've already gone through the ordeal once, and you might be able to see results from it. Even so, it's best that you don't get too comfortable, because there is still the unshakeable feeling:

There's still much more ahead of you.
quickpersuader: (Because we can)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-13 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[The answer to that last part is fushigi mystery because how do timelines work.]

So everyone who finds themselves here is forced to travel on the trains?
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-13 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Timelines don't exist anywhere else but at Cetana, yeah. ]

No, no, not like that~ Everybody who travels is a traveler in a way, aren't they? Whether it's on foot or by plane or trekking the world by pogo stick! 'sides, there's nothing forcing people on the trains. You're free to go as you please, however you please~
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-13 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose so.

[Conceding that.]

But I'd still like the answer to my question, if you can answer it.
suddenlybees: (329)

[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-14 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, isn't that a good enough answer? Nobody's forced to go on the trains.

[ In fact, he bets Kino can stand right here beside the slab of marble for the next week, and whatever mystical forces are out here will yoink her away and throw her into mafialand regardless of where she is and what she's doing. ]
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-14 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's a little vaguely worded, so I'd like to be sure of it so I don't get the wrong idea.
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-14 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Like, you can choose to go on the train, but you don't have to?

[ WAS THAT THE QUESTION now he's not sure if he had the wrong idea ]
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-14 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Right. And... adding to that, even if you don't go on the train, are you forced to travel anyway?
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-14 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
That's how it was before, anyways~ I was napping on top of some Danish butter cookie tins, and the next thing I knew, I was getting shuttled along with the crowd at the airport! ...Though I guess it's possible I blacked out and got thrown on a plane without my knowledge?

[ It's very possible. He would do it to somebody else too if he had even the slightest reason to. ]
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Oh no. Is Kano going to have to explain Technology all over again? He makes a mental note not to talk to anybody new for at least three days after they've all arrived, if this happens again, so he can let somebody else take the fall.

For Kino, though, he'll make the effort: ]


Okay, so... you know what fire is, right? Gotta start somewhere.

[ Assuming!! she's asking!! what the hell a plane is, not "oh, there's a plane?" It's hard when he gets just the one word to go off of and nothing else. ]
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. And motorrads, and cameras, and cars.

[Just




no planes.
]
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
What's a motorrad...?

[ Maybe Kino should be teaching him about technology, not the other way around. ]
quickpersuader: (turns into a cloud)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's a two-wheeled vehicle that can't fly. It has a motor to make it go.

[...]

If you're familiar with a bicycle, it's a little like that, but you don't have to pedal.
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Most two-wheeled vehicles he know can't fly to begin with, but okay. ]

It goes vroom vroom?

[ He does the revving hand motion. ]

Like a motorcycle?
quickpersuader: (I hide the tears)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Vroom vroom and the occasional annoying comment, yes.

[The what.]

Motorcycle... sounds similar. Is that what they call it where you're from?
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Annoying comment... like creaking and popping, he's going to imagine, not full on sentences. ]

Yep! The official word for a vroom vroom machine is a motorcycle! And a plane is sorta like one but all covered up and has wings and can fly— I bet you just have a different name for it?
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Um...]

I did help someone make a flying machine using a bicycle before. But that was the very first of its kind, and I wouldn't say it was all covered up.
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, sorry to say, but someone else got you beat on the "first of its kind" thing. But that's sorta what it is! Giant covered up bicycle in the air that holds like a hundred people all at one time~

[ A terrifying thought. Planes are scary and how they stay up in the air is something like black magic. ]
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Wh.........at.]

I definitely would have heard of something like that existing. A way to transport so many people at once would be well-known among travelers.
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
It exists and it's well known~ What, were you living under a rock at some point?

[ Her time period can't be that old, if she has motorcycles. Anything more recent than horse drawn carriages is technology enough. ]
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Shaking their head.]

I'm a traveler. I've seen many countries - more than even many other travelers. That kind of technology couldn't exist without someone having spread the word by now. Travelers talk when we come across each other - it's how we learn of places to visit in the future, and places to avoid.
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
And yet you've never seen a plane... That's no good, now is it? You'd be the laughing stock amongst the travelling community when you get back! C'mon, I'm gonna show you the airport where all the planes are, so you can avoid the embarrassment~

[ Kano walks around to place his hands on Kino's back to forward march her towards the tracks. ]
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[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh.

Well.

Off we go, I guess. His hands are on the upper back, right?
]
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[personal profile] suddenlybees 2020-01-16 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yep! Right on the shoulder blades, ready to let go so long as Kino marches without much resistance. There's probably no train station so they're going to get to the tracks and stand there right on the tracks until they can feel/hear it come. ]
quickpersuader: (turns into a cloud)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2020-01-16 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Good. The traveler does obligingly walk along, and seems content to wait quietly and patiently for a train, even if they do peer around out of sheer curiosity a bit.]