Checking in... [Morning After Arrival]

[summerorange]

...I think I got it now...

[Don't mind that, fellow Investigators; she's just mentally steeling herself.]

Good morning, everyone. I think that, since we've had some time to get settled into this world, we should start checking up with each other to see what we've learned so far. Even if it's doesn't seem important now, it may be later.

Also...if anyone knows who among us might be their other selves, it might be best to share that with everyone. That way, we can avoid any potential confusion. After all, we don't want the wrong people learning about who we really are.


[Private]

Daiki? Are you...still you?

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[wickedestwitch]

I'm me.

There's some sort of performance coming up in the Opera, and it isn't weird to be green.

...and yes. The natives learning about us tends to... not go well.

[summerorange]

...hello, 'me'?

A performance, huh...? Any idea as to what kind of performance it might be? Though...should it be weird? I know it's rather odd to see blue and purple people, but since everyone seems to be acting rather normal for citizens...

Especially certain types of natives - those who would take advantage of such knowledge against the greater good.

[morethanashadow]

Phillip here. Um, I know a whole lot about this place even though I've never been here and not Infiltrating. Which is weird.

[summerorange]

Phillip-san, good to hear from you again.

[And oh, no...not again. Not another one.]

You do? It's not a world that you've been here before and forgot about, is it?

[professorwolf]

Don't worry, Phillip, I have the same thing. I spoke to Daneel about it, it's apparently something that happens sometimes as we get more experienced at Traveling.

[comebewe]

Really?

What do you know?

[leftbehindagain]

This is Naoki. I do have one interesting thing that's not part of the jaunt, exactly.

[What follows is a brief livestream of what can only be Liminal Space - where else would have a giant chessboard covered in grey marbles? In the side of one of those marbles is the door to Aiya, its awning highlighted by the sunset 'sky.']

I'm pretty sure Kanji's infiltrating - he would have answered me by now if he weren't. I just hope Istas-san isn't in a position where she'll be expecting regular food refills. The door to the workshop's here, too, but I have no way of knowing if that's unusual or not. [Time will tell, or someone who actually checks up on Leo can chime in.]

Anyway, most of us from Inaba are infiltrating, and Helena-san seems sure Claudia-san is too. Seems like it's one of those jaunts where most of us are with the locals.

The boarding house we all started at was redecorated very recently. And then there's the menu - there are bakeries and sweet shops and stuff in other parts of the town, and there's alcohol available at the cafe, so it's not that elves can't have grains or refined sugar. So why not serve any of it at the boarding house?

[memoryandtheft]

The same reason you get vegan cafes sandwiched between a sushi place and a pizzeria, probably. People keep all kinds of weird diets.

[Says the woman who used to occasionally subsist on pop-tarts and coffee.]

[neverfeltthatway]

Armin here. Sansa's also investigating. Eren, Mikasa, Jean, Alcuin, and Thorne are all infiltrating.

There seems to be a divide between people who can see in the daytime but not at night and people who can see at night but are blinded by light. It... it almost seems like there are two separate cities that just happen to be in the same place.

[summerorange]

Yes, I've been noticing that... It seems like we're supposed to be the third type who can see decently in both conditions. I know my own night-vision seems to be a little better in this world than in any other world.

I wonder how they keep things running, though. Do you think that they might be making special glasses for both sides?

[Private]

[justakamenthief]

In all my glory.

[Private]

[summerorange]

[There's a sense of relief coming across from her.]

Of course you would say that...

[A brief pause.]

Have you found a room yet at the boarding house? I think there's still a few spaces in there, and I can serve as a reference if I need to.

[papacerberus]

This is Lupa. I haven’t discovered anything to report back on yet.

[summerorange]

I see. Thank you...Lupa-san, right?

[dreamingking]

Tybalt here. I’m looking into these couriers for the moment. Whether or not the cats are interested in my presence is still to be determined.

But the Trumps changed the color of my hair; how rude.

[summerorange]

That does seem to be quite a popular job right now. I'm looking at a couple of positions myself.

[If only, though, so that she can stock up on all these lovely lady outfits that has drawn her eye.]

Your hair? What's it supposed to be?

[fridgeninja]

Black Souji, reporting in. Naoto, Rise, and Yosuke are infiltrating or in dungeons. Probably Kanji-san, too.

[summerorange]

...I sincerely hope that they're all Infiltrating instead of in dungeons.

[professorwolf]

Lyall here. I actually know quite a bit about this place, it seems, if anyone has questions. I can even apparently give a tour of important places. Armin is quite right about the divide, they're called Lightsiders and Darksiders, and Dusklings do in fact cater to both for communication and such.

The city wasn't always like this. There was a plague, or something like, that apparently caused it all, over a millennia ago.

Er, and that's not as long for them as for us, it's only a few generations for them. They live hundreds of yeas. Elves, and all that.

[comebewe]

A plague? What kind of plague leaves you and all your descendants only able to see in the light or the dark?

[comebewe]

Matthew here. They don't run their city on electricity. They're using something else for power, but we haven't been able to identify what it is yet.

[lunchleader]

Doeß it feel like anything close to electricity, or something else entirely?

[wholeheaded]

Ambrose, in the same boat as Phillip with suddenly knowing a whole bunch of stuff about this world. Ah, it seems like Tick-Tock and Asa are infiltrating and Daneel is... doing that weird half-infiltrating and half-not thing again, I dunno how well he can access the network. He's a Lightsider.

[summerorange]

Half-infiltrating and half-not? How is that even possible?

[awondrousplace]

Helena Wells checking in!

Claudia is Infiltrating, as are most people I know other than Naoki.

I do not have much information yet, but I have found a couple fantastic book stores.

[Helena, your priorities.]

[summerorange]

Oh, she is? What name is she going by in this world?

Bookstores, huh... don't suppose there's any good history books there as well?

[what_do_you_see]

Rorschach. Riddick is infiltrating. [The voice is gruff and somewhat monotone - not many people have heard the man over the psychic network for months and months.]

[ninjayeehaw]

[This voice certainly sounds uncertain of itself. The psychic network takes some getting used to.]

Kinji here - I ain't sure we've met yet. But I met two Riders before, Tachibana and Hajime, and they're both Infiltratin'.

[uzoda]

Oh, geez, they're both? Really? What're they doing? Did you manage to see?

[Kenzaki, meanwhile, is a lot more used to this. And also, kind of worried.]

[failgoyle]

This is Jules, I'm here!

...and Thorne's infiltrating but she was telling me that someone's poisoning Dusklings and so maybe we ought to listen to her?

[leftbehindagain]

She's also convinced they're sending people to Hell every seven years. I'd take it with a grain of salt. Or twenty.

[forcechanic]

Jaina here.

My dad's investigating too.

[ofinspiration]

Oh, fine, I'll play along with the roll call for once.

I'm still myself, but the other gods... aren't. Neither is Jay, as far as I can tell. [ And that's the extent of the people she cares about. Except for Phillip, who's already spoken up. ] ...so this is probably going to get tedious and annoying fast.

[uzoda]

Kenzaki here! Uh, and I think everyone else has everyone else I know covered.... oh, wait, Istas is infiltrating. Don't think anyone mentioned that.

[lunchleader]

Istas is back? Wow, I didn't know that before. Who is her other self?

[naturaltwohands]

I am Drizzt Do'Urden. My father, Zaknafein, and myself are only changed in body. He is taller, and I am a... teenager. [Which Drizzt is not happy about, judging by the way he says the word.]

Guenhwyvar, my black panther companion, is completely herself. No one seems to be minding her much, oddly enough.

From what I gather so far, the elves here are all one race, or treat themselves as such, besides the sight related distinctions. I do not believe the Darksiders use infravision like my father and I do to move in the dark, unless their eyes do not glow when using it like ours do. How they really navigate the world is beyond me, as there are not even visible stars to provide light.

From early inspection of the local plants and animals, we seem to be in temperate climate. I spotted a handful of deer, and the birds are also similar to what I've seen back home. How can another world have wildlife so similar to my own?

((OOC: lemme know if you want the check in to come before or after our mingle thread!))

[gotabadfeelingaboutthis]

This is Solo.

I haven't figured out too much yet.

Except that someone's got a sense of humor and has been putting alternate versions of someone from my world into the jaunts.

And every time someone says Light Side and Dark Side, I think of the rest of my family and their Jedi mumbo-jumbo.