Day 146 | Open | Action

[stoleyourshit]

Who: Toshiko Yamamoto and whoever runs into her on the Skyway
Open: Open
When: Day 146
Where: In front of a ruined apartment building.
What: WHO BLEW UP EVERYTHING aka Toshiko is super unhappy about sudden floaty land.
Format: idk actiony thing
Warnings: Swearing? Mentions of death? idk man.


[The quiet is what wakes her up first. The sound of nothing, rather than the sounds of the city. For a moment, she wonders how much she drank last night - and then remembers exactly why she's outside. She bites back a sob, and then pushes it away. No. He wouldn't want her to be like this. She has to think... she has to think...]

[Okay. Time to take stock of things. Toshiko takes a deep breath and picks up her backpack. It seems all right, so she pulls it onto her back as she stands, looking around. Looking around at... huh.]

... What the...

[She crouches a bit, trying to see if she can spot any movement. Something's... far off in the distance? Maybe she should head that way. Slowly, she starts walking towards the edge of the chunk of land, and makes the mistake of looking down into nothing.]

[She falls backwards, sitting down hard. Okay. Bad idea to look down. Hadn't she learned that? She'll just... sit here a minute and get her breath back.]

Comments

[paeon]

[ Who can say how long it is until someone appears? When they do, it's probably not what Toshiko expected. Astride a well-bred horsebird is a young woman in some very eclectic dress. She and said chocobo are pecking their way across the magical platforms that construct the way before their eyes, obviously intent on getting to the first living person she's seen since... well, since everything.

Although there's still a bit of distance to be navigated between them, she calls out. Her voice is strong, accent oddly Welsh. ]

Hoy, you! Are you all right? How do you fair?

[stoleyourshit]

[Is... is that a cat-person? On a giant bird? Okay, maybe she did drink too much. And maybe she's asleep. Or maybe she's finally snapped, that works too. Or maybe someone found her and stuck her in an illusion, but she doesn't sense anything like that. In any case it takes her a few moments of staring before she manages to respond. At least she has plenty of experience with mentally translating old-timey speak.]

... Uh. I'm... okay, I think.

[If 'okay' means 'relatively unhurt and questionably alive', at least.]

[paeon]

[ O'danya breathes a quiet sigh of relief. It's hard to say what kind of terrible happenings could have come across the people taken up in the destruction. ]

For which we should all be glad. That makes us both. Can you stand?

[stoleyourshit]

[She pushes off the ground and stands, a little uneasily. Okay. Uh. Let's see.]

Looks like it.

[paeon]

Oh, excellent!

[ She pauses as Daphnes makes an aborted motion, paying attention to leading her mount. It takes a moment to find the direction where the ground wishes to rise and meet them, but they're soon on their way again. ]

This is... not exactly how I imagined spending the day. Have you seen anyone else?

[stoleyourshit]

No. Not since I woke up at least.

[... She pinches herself and winces.]

Okay I definitely am awake.

[paeon]

Always good to check. [ There's a gap here, and it's risky as hell, but she knows Daphnes has made longer. They back up slowly, carefully, then take a running dash forward. Their landing is heavy and not totally graceful, but they make it to Toshiko's piece of land without injury. ]

There we go! [ She dismounts with ease, patting her chocobo on the side for a job well-done, then makes her way to young hyuran. ] Pleasure to meet you up close. May I have your name? I'm O'danya Mitnu.

[stoleyourshit]

I - ...

[Okay, so she doesn't sound Japanese at all - the accent should have tipped her off in the first place, but then again she doesn't sound all that Japanese anymore. She tries to think if she knows of any European cat-people, but nothing comes to mind. Maybe some kind of werecat? Is that a thing? ... Whatever.]

... Toshiko. Where... are you from, exactly?

[paeon]

Depends on your meaning. Gridania is where I currently call home, but many would assume I hail from La Noscea due to my name. [ She shrugs. It isn't that big of a deal to her. ]

Such questions... don't appear to be very relevant at present.

[stoleyourshit]

... Okay I don't know either of those places, and I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep through that much of social studies. Let me guess, you've never heard of America?

[paeon]

That's the first time. [ She nods. ] Though, to be fair, I've done plenty of adventuring in my time and yet never left the bounds of Eorzea. Might it be that you've the same sort of experience?

[ Note that Eorzea itself wasn't ever fully mapped until relatively recently, either. Global geography is not exactly a popular subject to learn back home. ]

[stoleyourshit]

I came from a different country, but yeah, I've been all over America.

[Okay. She can deal with this. Maybe.]

[paeon]

Then you would be no stranger to travel. Would you be up to accompanying me to locate anyone else? We can't be the only ones here...

[ But she can't imagine that everyone would be as unscathed as herself or Toshiko. ]

[stoleyourshit]

Sure. I think I saw something off in the distance. I don't know if it's some kind of town or... something... but it might be a good place to start.

[paeon]

Which direction would that be? It's our only choice for now, anyroad.

[ As she says this, she moves back to her chocobo and easily climbs back up into the saddle, maneuvering around Toshiko to walk alongside her. ]

[stoleyourshit]

[She stretches her legs, shoulders her bag, and points off in the distance. It's hard to see, but there's something there.]

That way.

[She eyes the gap, and bounces on her heels once, twice, three times, before running up to it and leaping over it. Her heel catches on the edge, but she recovers quickly.]

Ta-da~!

[freedom_engineer]

[And while they're doing that, what should appear in the distance? Why, the land seems to be floating into the shape of a roadway ahead of someone, and he seems to be coming right towards them!]

Hello out there! You three seem lost! Give me another minute or two, and I'll be right over to you!

[paeon]

[ O'danya makes the same leap moments later, aided by the fact that she is on a giant bird with long, powerful legs. She grins down to Toshiko, but her attention snaps forward at the approach of another person. Her hand raises high in greeting. ]

I would say be careful, but it seems you've found your way around these paths before!

[stoleyourshit]

[The sound of a new voice draws her attention, and she raises her hand to wave.]

We don't have much choice anyway.

[On a floating chunk of land above an endless abyss, where else are you going to go?]

[freedom_engineer]

[Though still at a distance, Colin grins and starts to jog towards them. He's inwardly amused at how he must look, the very earth rushing to meet him as he runs certainly seems egomaniacal from an outward glimpse. Still, he arrives at their little spot of land after just a moment.]

It's a lot easier than it looks.

[He gives each of them a quick look, smiling at the sight of the chocobo.]

So, quick primer... you woke up here, and the environment is shattered. There's a place you can go where everyone who wakes up out here is heading. When you get there, you'll find an amulet.

[He holds his up for inspection.]

This amulet will pull the ground in to meet you while you're walking out here.

So... you two from the same world, or did you just happen to meet out here?

[paeon]

[ O'danya lets him give the primer, although most of it seems more than obvious. She isn't going to judge how many times he may or may not have had to say similar. She is a young woman with cat-like ears and a long, fluffy tail but that's nothing odd to her. It might be to Colin, and it definitely is to Toshiko, but where she's from, this is beyond normal. ]

We only just happened to meet. My name is O'danya Mitnu. Well met.

Actually, pardon, but did you say the same world?

[stoleyourshit]

I'm Toshiko. And... well. It's the explanation that makes sense. You probably wouldn't get many places in my world looking like how you do. Normal humans don't walk around with ears and a tail.

[In the Underground it's more normal, but she's not going to bring that up around people she doesn't know.]

[... That amulet looks really nice, though.]

[freedom_engineer]

It really is a sad state of affairs when this is the place that makes sense.

But yes, multiple worlds, O'Danya. There's... well, there's a whole lot going on that you need to know, but I'm probably not the best person to tell you. I have issues with being too blunt, among other things.

Anyway! O'Danye, Toshiko, it's nice to meet you. You've arrived at a good time, the gods of this world have given us a harvest festival, and we're on day four. I was just coming out to make a quick look for salvage and any sur...

[He cuts himself off and smiles. "Survivor" has bad implications, even if it's true.]

New arrivals.

[paeon]

[ Toshiko earns herself quite an odd look. ]

It's normal if you're miqo'te. [ Yeah, that is kind of the term to describe all of the enlightened races. The term you're looking for here is hyur. ]

Harvest festival? It's almost as if I haven't left home at all. How long is it to last?

[ She'll get to the "salvage and sur—new arrivals" later. ]

[stoleyourshit]

Not where I'm from.

[The mention of the 'gods' makes her scowl, though.]

Great. More gods. Just what I need to be dealing with.