Wako's Heart

[dramatispersonae]

You are standing in the middle of the main street of a sizable downtown area.

The early morning sun hangs low in the east. The air is salty and fresh – and oh man is your nose sharp! You can smell the people who came in here with you from yards away! Other stuff smells that strong, too! There is a spring breeze in the air. How do you know it’s spring? You just do. It’s the vibe here. Tropical trees and flowers grow in window boxes and small gardens. There are fairly standard shops (a movie theater! A book store! Small clothing boutiques! And so on), with trucks, cars, and bicycles parked at the curbs. There are no people or animals in sight, but there’s birdsong hanging in the air. It seems to be coming in every direction.

Oh. And you’re dressed like stripper clowns.

(( OOC at #zerotime ))

Comments

Re: SOUTHERN CROSS HIGH (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ You're wearing the crazy cosplay again as soon as you're in the hallway.

Also, the auditorium door is open. You can see a stage... ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[preteinder]

[--takes his hands off the camera immediately.

and then touches it it again, seeing if that activates the memory again]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[iwantyour]

Same three kids, eating.

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ Only in a dream! Opening in the main door takes you right into a small room with couches, a tiny table, a small raised stage, a microphone, and a large screen. It’s a karaoke room! ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ It does. It just repeats, though. ]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ The birdsong is slightly shriller... ]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ There's nothing but the window you came in and the door. ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[preteinder]

[I guess I should not steal teammate's memories.

moving on from that, then]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[identityformations]

Same here.

[licks a bit of syrup off his fingertip]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[identityformations]

[...biiiiirds...]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ It’s odd: as you get closer, you’ll realize that all the boats are covered and all the buildings are boarded up… except one. Bizarrely, it is a bright pink building whose sign says “Karaoke.”

Also, Naruto just went in it. ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[myninjaway]

[eeeh what is this, so glad Aather introduced him to the concept of microphones. let's stand on the stage with the microphone]

Huh-- ahem. H-Hello?

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ Then back to normal. ]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[iwantyour]

[tries the door]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[preteinder]

[--! how did he get here first!

runs to catch up]

Re: SOUTHERN CROSS HIGH (SECOND STAGE)

[pitching]

[Oh, thank goodness.]

I will never forsake you again, cosplay.

[Hey, the door's open! ...well, there's nothing else to do but go in and look.]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ Now you’re in a small (for this house, anyway) bedroom. There are toy robots and cars on a shelf, model rockets and airplanes hanging from the ceiling, and crayon drawings on the walls of brightly colored animals. Except... those animals are moving. One of them -- a monkey -- asks in a high, childish voice:

"What do you have to do more than anything? What do you want to do more than anything?" ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ The screen flickers to life. Text scrawls across it: Ready?

Then, more text: Three… Two… One… Sing! ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ Okay, you caught up. ]

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[iwantyour]

I want to help restore Aather... I think that's the answer for both questions.

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[identityformations]

[a little startled, jiii monkey]

Re: SOUTHERN CROSS HIGH (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ You're standing on the stage! And suddenly a memory is beaming into your head.


It’s a production on this stage. The red-headed boy from earlier is dressed like some sort of Victorian orphan, while a new brunette is dressed like god only knows. The brunette starts telling the red-head (character name: Mark!) about the blonde girl he’s seen, which is Wako with a long wig. The story she tells is acted out on the stage…

(Just for you, Hikaru, I’ll note that the boy sounds like Tamaki and the girl sounds like Haruhi.)

You see, once there was a beautiful girl who no one could see (who was long-hair Wako). Her name was Kleis. One day, a young man named Columner with a brilliant aura was able to see her, though he could not touch her. He was content to have a girlfriend he couldn’t touch and no one else could see, until a witch named Ayin (some girl with short hair) calls to him and shows him a strand of Kleis’s golden hair wrapped around her fingers. She explains that her magical eyes allow her to see Kleis, and her “Night Gem” allows her to make physical contact. She offers the Night Gem to Columner on the condition that he successfully sail the ship in harbor to the north.

Columner successfully flies the ship. It is a magical flying ship, and he incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Fish Planet (another girl in a crazy costume), who has made it taboo for anyone to be higher than herself. Columner takes over the throne as king and becomes taken in by the ship’s power. When the witch Ayin comes to take the ship, he uses its magic to counter hers and kill her. His life becomes tied to the ship, and he’s immortal. He locks himself away in the former queen’s tower for a life of solitude.

And that takes us to Mark and the girl dressed like a crazy Statue of Liberty. The girl, a herald of a member of the galactic race “Entropeople,” informs Mark that her people do not use magic and are powerless to destroy or prohibit the use of the ship that Columner left in the world. Mark, she thinks, could sail the ship, since he has Columner’s radiance and can see Kleis. She only prays that he won’t follow Columner’s path.

He says he won’t. He kisses Kleis.

The memory ends. (So the story of life goes on.)

But then, standing in front of you, is the girl with the Statue of Liberty hairpiece. She asks: "Can you follow two dreams at once? What frightens you?"

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[myninjaway]

[w-w-w-what! LOOKING AT THE SCREEN are there words to be followed?]

A-Ah...

Re: SHINDOU HOUSE (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ One of the animal faces morphs. There's an indentation in the wall -- about the size that you could fit your mask in, if you felt like it... ]

Re: PORT (SECOND STAGE)

[dramatispersonae]

[ There are no words, but very generic music starts playing. ]