[Jaunt] Check-in

[shiroganeheir]

[Naoto's mental voice is higher than usual, and definitely worried.]

Can someone please tell me what's going on? I seem to be stuck in a compact. Again. If someone could help find me, that would be greatly appreciated.

[She coughs and composes herself.]

At any rate, those of us who are Investigating should likely check in. Please let us know who is here, and any information you might have. For those who are new... welcome to your first Jaunt.

[Another pause.]

Oh. And I am Naoto Shirogane, usually small with a blue hat, but sometimes larger. Or a rock. Or a cat person. It is complicated.... but I always have my hat.

Comments

[wildmagician]

... I'm myself, but I'm very uncomfortable with the form I've taken.

[fridgeninja]

... Again?

[leftbehindagain]

What do you mean again?

This is Naoki. If I can sort out the... kind of baffling amount of information that seems to have been dumped into my head when we got here, there's bound to be something useful in it.

[callyourname]

... What the hell is this?

[shiroganeheir]

Mako put me in a compact when he evicted me from himself.

[shiroganeheir]

What form do you have, senpai?

[rustyhonesty]

What's wrong?

[shiroganeheir]

Mako. That pretty much says everything.

What sort of information? Is there a chance for a summary?

[vrepit_no]

What the quiznak...?

[Oh, whoops, did he think that out loud?]

Did you say that you're in a compact?

[shiroganeheir]

What is what? I cannot see anything at all.

[wildmagician]

I'm a very, very tiny and weird-looking owl. I didn't wake up in any compact though.

[shiroganeheir]

Yes. Or at least it is quite a lot like what happened when I was in a compact.

[leftbehindagain]

We seem to have been dumped into a monster-partner anime, down to the local year being closer to the time we were born. Pogemon, apparently. They're from another dimension that's connected to this one.

Possibly you ended up as one?

In any case, there's some kind of tournament going on next week.

[shiroganeheir]

Oh, dear. That sounds... difficult. I am not exactly certain my current situation.

[leftbehindagain]

...I don't know. What is a quiznak?

[shiroganeheir]

... Oh, for Izanami's sake, I'm in a pokeball.

[leftbehindagain]

More like a poke...pog...thing?

[callyourname]

Where are you? Have you seen Eren and Armin?

[ Not the answer to his question but...]

[vrepit_no]

...As in, a small container or a makeup set?

[rustyhonesty]

Jean here and I'm myself for once... nothing really strange going on with me except everything seems kind of out of my league here. [The whole city is a mash-up of different senses violating things.] I do feel a bit weird. Something is definitely up but I don't know what.

Are you going to be okay though? I can try finding you somehow.

[senpaidol]

Uh. I think you're in my compact, Naoto. Somehow. Hang on a sec, let me try to get you out.

[vrepit_no]

Ah, sorry, it's an alien swear word. I'm not sure I ever got a direct translation, actually.

[highsteaks]

I think you're actually kind of cute this way.

[She says to the entire network while standing five feet away from him.]

[shiroganeheir]

Makeup set in this instance. I had an overlay who was able to perform exorcisms, and he pulled me out of him, and put me in a compact for a time.

[shiroganeheir]

Oh, thank you, Rise. I... appreciate it.