choose your own adventure [open]

[actsmagnificent]

Who: Haruka Tenoh & you!
What: A few days in the life of a chauffeur for hire. Who may get roped into some other activities.
When: Feb 27 - March 3
Where: All over the city
Warnings: Nineties anime.


[ option 1 - evening, musicians only ]

[ Hey, awesome! Your band ordered a limo. Or maybe they didn't and someone at this limousine company just thinks they did. Either way, they've dispatched one to come pick you up, and the chauffeur is both 1) very charming and 2) very handsome. ] Good evening. Where can I take you tonight?

[ No matter what facial expression the clients are wearing, this chauffeur keeps smiling. ]

[ option b - midday, outside of brad's diner ]

Step right up! Come one, come all!

[ Sigh. It would be just Haruka's luck that she'd check up on Minako - not even planning on entering the workplace, just peering in the window - when the place was short on staff. So now Haruka's out on the streets with a bunch of flyers, cheerful as can be...on the surface, anyway. Why is she so good at this. Why. ] Brad's Diner is trying a new dessert menu. A snack on your lunch break, sir? Madam?

[ She smiles at a group of high-school girls, who huddle together to support their sudden collective case of weak knees. ] Surely there's a better place to skip school, kittens.

[ She winks. One of the girls faints. Haruka laughs and turns to the next person she sees - you. ] Excuse me!

[ option c - morning, outside the virgo entertainment resort ]

[ If you're up at the crack of dawn, you may see someone heading for the building. But she's not looking at the door - instead, she seems to be taking stock of the windows and general layout.

She's also keeping to the shadows and looking...up. ]

Comments

[actsmagnificent]

[ ...."Blue skin" is pretty familiar to Haruka, presently, yes. And the fact that Ivan's talking about it, with those powers, is....troublesome. ]

I know someone with blue skin.

[ We'll take this slow. Not overinvest. ]

[sponsorigami]

I've... met three of them if the first one I "met" also had blue skin. I didn't actually see him, but he's related to the other two I met later.

Two of them possessed me. One forcefully. The other asked first. I know there's a fourth one somewhere too. They want to help and have.

[ He doesn't ask any further questions on it, but he's hoping that maybe it'll give incentive to seek them out. ]

[faithfulflame]

He's telling the truth. About being possessed.

[Rei offers helpfully, hopefully driving home the point that Ivan's not crazy.]

[actsmagnificent]

[ Haruka definitely looks like she believes. She nods once, face setting. As if she needed any more proof those people couldn't be trusted -

No. No jumping to conclusions. Investigation first. She owes Ivan correct information. ] I'll get back to you.

[ A pause. ] D'you remember much about your....hometown?

[sponsorigami]

I... I know parts. I'm from a huge city much like Vista City, but it's called Stern Bild City. There are three layers: Bronze Stage, Silver Stage, and Gold Stage. All stacked up on each other.

[ A lot of this was bits gleamed from hazy dreams and what he saw in the background of memories. And part of him wants to just say it is Vista City, but Ivan feels that it's not. ]

There are large statues everywhere. It... It doesn't look super modern like Vista City does, but the technology. It's... It also borders a large body of water... a bay maybe. There's a certain school on the Gold Stage--I want to say it's my musical academy, but I doubt that's the truth...

[actsmagnificent]

[ Noticing Rei is also listening, Haruka speaks up after considering this description. ] Different worlds, huh.

[ She thinks this over and decides to share with them some of what she learned. Turnabout, fair play. ] It's likely what you recall won't overlap. You're from different places to begin with. They play by different rules.

[ Where are the Sailor Soldiers from Ivan's world, though? From all these different planets? They're all terrible at their jobs. ]

[sponsorigami]

[ Little does anyone know, but the closest thing to Sailor Soldiers in Ivan's world are the heroes of Hero TV... of which Ivan is one. ]

Yes, I...

[ He gives a small glance towards Rei. Ivan knows that he's been playing dangerously with Virgo, somehow escaping punishment but also risking discovery by continuing. He doesn't want Rei to face the same. But, he's unsure if he should keep speaking in the singular or "include" her. One is a lie. The other may endanger her.

Or would Virgo be able to draw out from him that his band discussed this together, figured it out? ]

I know I'm not from here. I'm... not really a musician, and they did things to me. They took... my shapeshifting away from me.

[actsmagnificent]

They've taken a lot.

[ Haruka grips the wheel tightly. The limo inches forward in traffic. ] Be on guard. At all times.

[ She has had a fun two months with that attitude. ]

[sponsorigami]

I am... I have many reasons to be.

[ While not two months, Ivan has been living in fear that Virgo will strike him down at the tiniest slip. ]