🥂 HEAVENLY BLANC VOID PARTY 🥂
Who: Everyone!
What: Heavenly Blanc mingle and info exchange
Where: The Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café
When: "August 1"; but really, what is time
Content Warnings: N/A
Maybe you heard through word of mouth, or got an invite from the barista and barkeep directly, or spotted the handwritten paper invites hung up around the area, but there is a gathering happening at the Heavenly Blanc Bar and Café TODAY! So feel free to stop by, hang out, have some drinks, and share some stories.
🍺 DRINKS: Coffee will be served by Ren, and Tifa will be handling the other drinks. There's a wide variety behind the bar, ranging from alcoholic to the non-alcoholic, with delicious cocktails (yes, including virgin ones for the minors) to pick from. And before you ask - no, if you are underage, you may not have alcohol. Tifa will be very strict about it, and anyone who tries to bypass her imposed law will be subject to room temperature tapwater for the rest of the party.
🎲 GAMES: Various boardgames that came along with Le Blanc will be made available for all to play, including a Shogi board for the strategically inclined (and whoever knows how the heck to play it). Along the side wall are two pinball machines, and while they don't light up and make sounds, the mechanisms inside them still work, so they aren't completely out of the picture! Next to them, between the jukebox and the door is a dart board. Please do be mindful when throwing darts, as the light filtering into the bar through the front windows is very minimal.
🤔 INFORMATION EXCHANGE: The important part! When all are gathered inside the bar, Tifa and Ren will make a small announcement for everyone:
 "Now that we've all had the chance to take a look around and get our bearings, I wanna encourage everyone to exchange what you know, or what you've found. Even share it with the rest of us! Locations, ideas, theories - anything that could be useful in helping us all figure this out. We all come from different worlds, but we're stuck here, so we're in this together until we're not, yeah? Let's make friends and play nice, and most importantly, have fun today! Oh, and if you're coming and going, make sure to close the door nice and tight behind you."
"It's nice to see everyone. Since we're stuck here together, let's cooperate well."
☕ OOC NOTES ☕
This is the open mingle post for the Heavenly Blanc void party! Please feel free to top-level and tag around.
There is a top-level included here for you to post OOC notes of what their characters have discussed on the log, as well as their own thoughts about the world. If there is anything important that people should know, please reply to the top-level with the information, so that it's easy to find for everyone. General info posts about what your character will be talking about are fine as well. Just please try to avoid multiple edits if you can as you thread if you are going that route! for the sake of my dw inbox...
Because this is an info exchange/mingle post, we encourage thread-jacking. However, we know that not everyone is into that kind of thing, so if you are okay with others hopping into your threads, please be sure to indicate it in your top-level.
Questions about the log can be directed to the ooc post.
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"I wouldn't call them 'lofty ideals'," Sam protests. "I've lived for half a century and they haven't gotten me killed so far." Congrats, Kaiba, now you know how old Professor Oak is! But not his name.
"But yes, I got that bite treated." Holding out his bandaged arm. "It's good to see you're alright too...." This is where he would address Kaiba by name if knew it, but they never exchanged names. "I don't think I ever got your name."
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Most people do there, Kaiba. It's not only a game, it's an immersive experience that tests the limits of a person's strategic abilities and it's also highly collectible. Unlike the standard 52. That being said- they could use one of those. Sure. Only one, to dash those dreams of canasta.Excuse him while he suppresses an eyeroll. "Still seems as if the risk outweighed the reward." It's not as if the old man had gained the undying loyalty of the monster in question.
Looking briefly to the other's arm, he didn't offer further commentary. "Spare me your fabricated concern for my well-being." This guy had no reason to care whether he lived or died (
Oak could just be a decent human being- but the skepticism as always was high). "It's Seto Kaiba, I'm the CEO of a major corporation, and an elite duelist". An elitist when you get right down to it. "You?"no subject
"Oh, I don't mind. I've gotten worse from the Pokemon I work with." He does frown and cross his arms (at least his bite has healed enough that he can use that arm normally without pain, as long as he doesn't do anything too strenuous with it) at the word 'fabricated', but doesn't comment on it. He's not going to spare him basic decency, though, sorry Kaiba.
"Professor Samuel Oak. I study Pokemon." At least he doesn't offer a hand to shake, which might relieve him.
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Let's not talk about Wheeler, who was by far the least financially secure of the three and a loser.... I mean- why would you want someone like Wheeler being able to afford whatever? Really?"..." More of this Pokémon nonsense. With so many people proclaiming the creatures were real it was getting harder to assume it to be some kind of mass delirium. There had to be some explanation for it since he wasn't going to start believing any time soon.
"That explains the coat," and not much else. How can you build a career around fictional monsters? Er- excluding himself of course, which made total sense. "So you're under the same delusion as many of the others.."
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"Delusion?" He shakes his head, with almost a pitying smile. "Didn't you hear? We all come from different worlds. Pokemon might not exist in your world, but that doesn't mean they're a delusion. I'd show you mine, but Pokeballs aren't working right now." Not that showing him would help much; he must have seen the Pokemon of the others by now, and another Dragonite wouldn't do anything more to convince him than the first one did.
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The most pessimistic."Ive heard, but I have my doubts." Stiff, and immovable as they are. "In order to accomplish something on that scale it would require technology at a far greater stage of development than what is currently available- and... my company is at the cutting edge." There's more holes in this theory which he proceeded to point out. "It also relies on there being either life on other planets or alternate dimensions of which there is also no evidence of- despite the explorations into space."
"So if there's nothing of note in the Solar System it would have to come from further out in the galaxy- and by the time you crunch the numbers of traversing that distance it further loses plausibility."
"Meanwhile, a simulation could account for all of this... even why you all insist that fictional monsters are real." Yes- he might have just implied that you and the others of your world are also not real. "That I could produce. Easily."
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"Have you considered the possibility that other worlds might be more advanced than your own? Just because you're incapable of such a thing, doesn't mean no one is." But that would mean Kaiba has to entertain the idea of other people being 'better' than him, wouldn't it?
"I'm not sure how you can say Pokemon are fictional when you've seen them. And if they were an extension of this 'simulation' of yours, wouldn't everyone be familiar with them, not just a few people?"
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"Heh- also not likely." Yes, it would be a large concession on his part, and one he's not willing to entertain. The perils of having been a brilliant child prodigy with no one to really challenge his own overinflated ego over the years.
"I bet it's a trip going to the movie theater with you- I suppose you think everything you see on the screen must exist in reality too." He scoffed, with the shake of his head. "You're even more daft than I thought, old man. No, that's not what it means at all." It's as if basic logic was so elusive to these people."As you can already tell the code is incomplete and disjointed as evidenced by the structures and the creatures which are amalgamation of other parts. The NPcs would likely be no different..."
"So, no. They would not all have to be programmed with the same knowledge, or prompts."
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"There's your problem. If you want to solve a mystery, you have to be open to every possibility, not just your own pet theory." The word 'arrogant' springs to mind, but he bites his tongue because he's nice like that. Instead:
"So if this is a simulation, then I say you're the NPC here, not me. What can you say or do to convince me you're real?" He might be trying to make a point about the reverse situation, here.
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"I've been listening to what everyone else has to say.." He'd just been chucking it all in a metaphorical dumpster soon after. Arrogant didn't even begin to cover it, but it was no less true.
"Once again you're starting from a false premise." Allow him to explain. "The form you see before you, most likely isn't real. It too would also be part of the simulation. The better question is who are the player characters and who are the NPCs." So- he doesn't think this version of himself is real either. "The players would be the ones hooked up to the machinery in reality-".
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"Let me rephrase, then: What can you do to convince me that you're a player character and not an NPC?" Samuel is a patient man -- he had to deal with Gary for ten years, after all, but Kaiba is testing it. (All the insults aren't helping.)
((Just checking to make sure we're cool with all the negativity going on, like it's all IC and not OOC yeah?))
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The professor had exhibited the patience of a saint so far. There weren't many that could stand to listen to someone so close-minded for an extended period.
"That wouldn't be easy to do," Kaiba admits, pausing to consider it longer. ".. I suppose I can't. It's not as if I can show you the control room from inside here."
((With a question like that I feel like I need to apologize for my character. Seto is just a really negative person that thinks himself to be superior. I'm sorry for the unease, but I have no ooc qualms with anyone in the game. I was feeling a bit guilty for his responses to Oak though not that you could see me say so on plurk ^^'. I love Professor Oak))
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"If you think this is a simulation, that's fine, it's one possibility. But I would advise you to keep your mind open to other possibilities. And for Heaven's sake, don't go around telling other people their memories aren't real." If he had proof of such false memories, that would be one thing, but otherwise....
"There are people here I've never met who claim to know me, and while it's a possibility that some or all of us have false memories, that idea doesn't get us any further in putting our heads together to figure out what's going on here." That's all they can discuss, really. Possibilities. It's not like they have any proof one way or another.
((It's all good, just wanted to make sure. Last thing I want is an IC disagreement bleeding into OOC. <3))
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"We'll see," Delivering a rather non-committal answer to all of it. It wasn't as if he'd never gone along with someone else's crazy ideas before- though look where that last one ended up. It was becoming tiresome having these some kind of disagreements, so for the sake of convenience it might be wiser not to tell the npcs they were fake....
"It does detract from the root of the problem." You got one over on him, professor- don't push your luck. "... Wait. What did you just say?" Finally noticing that Oak had mentioned something unique and of some significance in all that low-key lecturing. "So you've met people that recognize you, but you don't know them?"
((I could so hear him saying that Good Heavens line. Oak you are too good for my cynical ceo brat XD. No prob! Again I'm sorry for the uncertainty. I love everyone in this bar, so to speak!))
Warning for oblique reference to teen/underage pregnancy? *shrug*
"There's a twenty-year-old man named Blue who claims to be my grandson. But my grandson's name is Gary, and he's ten years old. I'm too young to have a twenty-year-old grandson, anyway." Technically Blue is 21/22, but he's rounding. And technically he is old enough to have a twenty year old grandson, but, well... subtract 20 from 50 and divide by 2, and that's the average age Sam and his offspring would have had to have been when they became parents. (Not that being 50 with a 10 year old grandson is much better....)
"Lance claims we're closer than we are as well, and corroborates Blue's story. I've at least seen him in passing a few times, but I wouldn't even call us acquaintances." He scratches his head.
"Assuming we're all telling the truth, we'd have to have come from parallel worlds." So he's a little more amenable to the idea.
((Thank you! Yeah, he's a sweetheart.))
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As the professor explains, Kaiba is silent, just listening for a change. This is the reason he was here in this café in the first place, to find new or unique details not found before. He could have pointed out that it wouldn't have been impossible for Oak to have a 20 year old grandson- he refrained, not wanting to get into this guy's personal life anymore than he had to.
Now, Lance was a name he recognized. Travels around with a Dragonite.
That's what's important, right? The dragon. "I see.... well that does complicate matters further, doesn't it?" Heaven help him if alternate universe Wheelers start showing up. The story explained why the man was more willing to believe the parallel dimension theory, but Kaiba spared him of another way it could fit into simulation theory. It was clear by now that they both differed on the subject tremendously.".... The central question being, what is the point of any of this? Why go to this much trouble?" The questions this time, were more to himself.
((YW, He really is! Bless him!))
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"That's the million-dollar question, isn't it?" He'll comment on that question anyway; he's sure it's been on all of their minds at one point or another. "Assuming this isn't all some kind of cosmic accident." Like he said, they have to consider all the possibilities; and the idea that there isn't some kind of intelligence behind this, that they're getting pulled here at random, is one of them.
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The dragon envy would be real, ok. If Kaiba could summon his Blue-Eyes White Dragon he'd be thrilled."Possibly literally," Not sure if the professor was just using a common idiom or aware of the potential financial gain to their captors. "..." A cosmic accident. At least he manages not to roll his eyes this time. He's just as certain that there was intent behind this as he is that this is a trick.
"Then the universe has a terrible sense of humor."
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He understands how frustrating it can be to not have any information on something so important -- he's a scientist, after all, solving mysteries is kind of his job. Just the mysteries of nature rather than the mysteries of man, in his case.
He is indeed just using an idiom, because, well... he honestly doesn't think about money that much. He's got enough to do his research, and to keep himself and his loved ones comfortable, and that's really all he needs.
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Despite having been mildly interested in the games assembled, he hadn't engaged in a single one of them aside from darts.
Somewhat ironically considering his prime suspect."I think we're done here..." It surprisingly had rewarded him with something he hadn't heard before, but he was no less closer to his aims.
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His notebook of observations he's made so far is still there if he wants to look through it, but as far as discussions go, he gets the impression that the boy isn't interested in small talk.
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As he's getting ready to move on, he glances briefly to the sketchbook that he hadn't noticed before. It's currently open to the Pidgey page with it and it's alternative. That matches up to what he heard earlier and the resemblance is unmistakable.
Still- he doesn't allow it to delay him for long nor does he reach out to flip the pages. He'll just find some wall space to occupy. Parties really aren't his thing.