/JUMPS BACK IN

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

Whoa, uhh...

I mean, not that this is unwelcome or anything? But I kind of thought I was done with the whole world-hopping thing.

Where am I, anyway? This is definitely new and not Disney.


EDIT: I appear to be in Wanderer's Refuge. Very few people will talk to me. Will update as I find out more.

UPDATE: I figured it out! When the newspaper lady realized I was an off-worlder, she explained their customs to me. Apparently, everyone on the world wears a Truth of Heart crystal. They're little charms you can put on necklaces and stuff. Anyway, they show your level of Light or Darkness, so merchants can tell if you're trustworthy or not. I wasn't wearing one, so that's why no one would sell me a goddamn newspaper. But newspaper lady helped me find a mage who could give me one, and now I have it and a Scrier. Everyone has a Scrier too, because apparently the world is in a constant state of flux! This city is pretty stable, but if I had stayed out in that forest, or gone somewhere else, I probably would have gotten lost.

Guys, this world is amazing! You've got to come here. I can't explore this whole place alone.

Comments

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Oh, you still exist?
Dang. That nixes my theory on the new world.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

...new world?

NOBODY TELLS ME ANYTHING ANYMORE.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

I haven't been there yet, but the Star Market's scheduled to take place there this year.
And it's called Wanderer's Refuge apparently. I seriously thought you'd gone poof and turned into a spiffy new world.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

...dammit.

Guess I just haven't been world-like enough yet.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'll make an even coolr world when your time comes.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks.

So...hold on, let me video this here. [A camera clicks on and swivels around to show the general area.] Is this Wanderer's Refuge? I've never seen a world like this before.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Well, like I said, I haven't seen the place yet...

But you're right about that not looking like a Disney world.
You could do it the direct way and ask somebody.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

True, but I figured someone might have posted pictures...

Yeah, let me...ask around...

[Nope that is definitely a lot of trees.]

Or rather, let me find a city first. I'll...be back later.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Good luck and don't get eaten by werewolves or anything.
That forest definitely looks like a good place for werewolves...

[ryuuzoku-aya.livejournal.com]

WATCH OUT FOR SLENDERMAN

[shadowchaser.livejournal.com]

Aw geeze Aya, I'm sure she'll appreciate that.

...Y'know, that answers my question about whether or not it's possible to get creeped out where I am.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT

[ryuuzoku-aya.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE I AM FEELING CRABBY HA HA HA

[ariakitsune.livejournal.com]

Wow, world shifts certainly have a way of bringing people out of the woodwork.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

Apparently! Hi!

[ariakitsune.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiiii 8D

All it's done for me is confirm my theory that I do not like seashells.

So, what's new?

[video]

[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

As I recently told our apparent new resident Nobody, we're destiny's whipping girls. Just when you think you're out, it pulls you back in.

At least you've still got thumbs on this new world, that's a plus.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I...appear to be rather unchanged.

So I got to this city here, and it's got quite a few people, but...they won't really talk to me. I did manage to find out that I am in Wanderer's Refuge, but no one's being terribly hospitable.

Gonna see if I can find out more.

[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not a very fitting name, is it, then?

See if you can find any newspapers. Those ought to give you some clues.

[video] long tag is long

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

[Nope, we're gonna switch to a live-action documentary here.]

No, hold on...wow, this is weird.

I just saw someone selling newspapers and I went to go buy one like you said, but when she saw me, she...I dunno, flicked her wrist at me or something? And then...I can't really describe it, but like...I could see light around her. And then I turned around and saw a couple other people, and they had light too, but one of them was really dim.

Everyone here has light on them except for me. See?

[The camera points at the center of the area, where people are milling about near a large fountain. Two women sitting at the lip of the fountain have light shining from just below their necks. There are groups of traders and merchants dealing with their customers, and everyone has varying degrees of brightness shining from somewhere on their bodies. Two haggling women each shine from their left wrists, and a man in a long coat has something bright in his pocket. Auria points the camera at herself, getting most of her upper body into view.]

See? I've got nothing. I'm gonna see if I can get close enough to someone to find out what makes that light.

Re: [video] long tag is long

[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

Huh. That is weird. If I had to guess, I'd say it's some sort of mark of citizenship, or at least proof that you "belong" in that culture. Something personal, given how it shines from different places on different people...

The guy with the really dim light, what was he (or she, whichever) like? Did they seem like they were down on their luck, kind of shifty, something like that?

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

He must have been pretty shifty, based on what I've learned from the newspaper lady. I saw a merchant yell at him, too.

[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

Heh, thought so. Glad to hear you got it figured out and the misunderstanding all cleared up.

Well, as soon as I get picked up from these woods, I'll see if I can't swing by. That place does sound pretty fascinating, with the built-in karma meters everyone seems to be wearing, hehe.

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

Dude, Auria! You exist!

So what's the new world like so far? Aside from people being inhospitable and all.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

It's really pretty! I woke up in a forest, which borders this really huge city. I'm just in the market area, but it looks like it spreads way farther than that. There's a huge, domed building in the distance, like maybe on the other edge of the city? I'm not sure.

Still working on buying a newspaper.

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

Aw, man, I wanna go! The place looks amazing! But jeez, for a place called Wanderer's Refuge they really aren't all that nice to wayward Refugees, huh? Not cool.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

No, no, I finally figured it out. Hold on, I'm gonna post an update.

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

...Okay, that is totally worth a portal attempt. As soon as we free Eugene Flynn, I am going to try my damndest to get there.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

DOITDOITDOITDOIT

[creepy-son-of-a.livejournal.com]

Many of us were already planning to go there for Star Market.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

Fuck Star Market! Get here sooner!

[creepy-son-of-a.livejournal.com]

That's rather difficult at the moment.

Dark Corridors are being chaotic and Aria tells me that her warp gummi refuses to function.

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

...oh.

Do we know if the World Train is still running? Newspaper lady said it stops here on the first of the month.

[creepy-son-of-a.livejournal.com]

I don't really know anything about the World Train.

Thinking about it I am uncertain whether I want to visit there. If they really judge people by their levels of darkness then I am unlikely to be welcomed.

[ryuuzoku-aya.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU FOR FINDING THIS STUFF OUT

IT IS USEFUL FOR LATER STAR MARKET ATTENDANCE

WE WOULD JOIN YOU BUT THE WORLD SHIFT HAS ADDED SIGNIFICANT DELAYS

FOR SOME REASON THE DAGDA STILL HAS NOT ARRIVED YET

[auriatetsukai.livejournal.com]

So I get that you're a crab thing, but you know you can turn off capslock, right?

[ryuuzoku-aya.livejournal.com]

IT IS EITHER FULL CAPSLOCK

or full lower case

making my phone keyboard juggle between capslock symbols numbers and lowercase with claws is a PITA

SO I HAVE CHOSEN CAPSLOCK BECAUSE LOWER CASE REMINDS ME OF PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE EMO KIDS

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

Hi.

I'm Shaderic.

Nice to meet an old/new face. The Refuge sounds pretty neat, but I don't think I'll be able to make it any time soon...