A few hours into the Jaunt

[rustyhonesty]

I've never done this before, but there's a first time for everything.

It's about time to do a check-in to see who are investigating - or at least have an infiltrator persona. My name is Jean Kirstein and... I don't investigate very often.

Apparently, I arrived with an ID that says I'm 21. So I guess age up, or down, is normal in this Jaunt. I also got a surprise guitar and seem to know how to play it...? Anyone else had something like that happen to them?

I won't ask if anyone has an idea of what we're supposed to do, since it's so early on the Jaunt... but it's good to keep your eyes open for any information that seems important.

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[thornsofmalkav]

I'm one day old and I get to go sort of home? Yay?

This is also technically my fifth time if you count investigating by way of death as full investigations and not partial... but yeah, I know what you mean.

Anyway, the music festival does kind of strike me as the thing we might be here for, just because they bothered to dump us right there. Dunno what'll happen afterward, though.

[rustyhonesty]

If you ever felt old, you no longer need to.

The last time we had a specific event that lasted only for a few days, we were dumped out of the world. In Doki Doki no Gakuen, for the second time there was a visit... but nothing says that this isn't just a prologue for something else.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh right, that's when everyone went back to anime high school while I was in space. I'm kind of envious. I mean, I've always wanted to go to Japan.

[rustyhonesty]

I can't say I enjoyed that trip, aside from the company I was in. Too much noise and weird things going on...

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, but didn't you guys have a nice, short, non-traumatic Jaunt?

[rustyhonesty]

Well, that's one other good point. Nothing too major happened.

Except a bar had a fire.

[thornsofmalkav]

See, that's not so bad.

[rustyhonesty]

I guess.

[It's what happened after that still stings a little as a memory. When he got his heart broken for the first time.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Given that we all almost died in space until the weird alien baby that Space Alcuin and Space Vilari had hidden in the engine hatched, I figure a single bar fire isn't that bad.

[rustyhonesty]

Well... no. No it's not. That sounds like shit. [Really, he sounds kind of shocked over something like that happening.

But then his voice is back in passive aggressiveness.]

Yeah. We who were on the Walkabout got it easy. I get it already. Can we move on already.

[thornsofmalkav]

... yeah. We can. Sorry.

[Anime high school: the sore spot among many a Traveler.]

[rustyhonesty]

[Jean sighs.]

No, I'm the one who should apologize. I should be over these things already, but I guess some things stick around longer than I thought.

[He's sworn not to lie to himself anymore, so he'll take the feelings as they come. He still aches.]