🥂 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.
Have fun! |
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[Akechi reaches into his inner jacket pocket and pulls out a small notebook and pen, flipping it to a blank page.]
Could you describe your experience to me in detail? Whatever you think is pertinent to our situation here. And... my apologies, I don't believe I caught your name.
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[And then...he'll explain.]
I was brought to a place called Fellden by means I still don't fully understand. If I were to have to explain it, I would probably call it magic...because magic was something that did exist in that world. It was something I was able to learn to use while I was still in it.
Myself, Kacchan, and some others were asked if we would lend our strengths to save Fellden, which was considered to be a world between worlds that was responsible for the structure of every other world in existence. We would have to save Fellden if we wanted to protect our own homes, so...as you can imagine, it wasn't a hard decision to make, even if the circumstances surrounding it seemed hard to believe.
This realm was ruled by multiple gods, and we were separated into two factions serving beneath two who had ideas for how to save Fellden that were constantly at odds: the Emperor and the High Priestess.
[Izuku shifts, rolling up his sleeve so he can show Akechi a tattoo on his bicep, the constellation Gemini. The brand given to him by the Court to signify him as part of that faction.]
We were at war for several months. I feel like it may have been reaching some sort of head when Kacchan and I were suddenly brought here, but...I will be honest in telling you I have no idea if what we were going through has anything directly to do with what's happening here. I feel like if it did, we would have heard from the Emperor, or one of the gods, or...something. But so far, there hasn't been anything like that.
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[Akechi nods in return, then starts taking notes, written in neat Japanese and bullet-pointed. He really does look like a detective like this, writing down the information he deems important while occasionally looking up and nodding as if to reassure Izuku that he's still listening. He doesn't go so far as to draw the tattoo, but he does commit it to memory.]
So to summarize, [he says finally, tapping the back of his pen against his notebook,] You were taken from your homes in a manner not unlike our arrival here, and yet you were informed of your expectations and purpose by these "gods."
[Frankly, the existence of gods doesn't bother Akechi so much as the concept of being told what to do by them. If there's one thing Akechi doesn't like, it's being given a divine command.]
Did they ever imply the existence of gods who didn't interfere quite so directly in the lives of mortals? Perhaps those who wanted to capture sentient beings for study in a controlled environment?
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Even the cliffnotes he's given people have been hard to believe, he knows.]
That...I'm honestly not sure. I do know that there were some gods that people there worshiped that we never interacted with as directly as some. Maybe they could have the power to do something like that if they wanted, but...I don't think that was ever the goal of any of them. They were more...gods of various concepts, like Death for example.
[So, not an idea that should be completely rebuffed, but also not necessarily exactly what's goinng on here.]
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[In the same way that it seems to be outside the realm of the creatures in the Metaverse. Akechi nods, closing his notebook with a decided snap and tucking it back into his jacket pocket.]
Thank you, Midoriya-kun. [And he remembers to give a smile that looks encouraging, nodding once.] No matter how irrelevant it may seem in the moment, the more evidence the better. Only once we have all the pieces can we begin to solve this puzzle, wouldn't you say?
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[Izuku smiles back, appreciative. He's glad that some others here are as interested in finding answers as he is.]
If I happen to learn anything new, too, I'll make sure to let you and the others know.
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[A beat, and then he crosses his arms, bringing one gloved hand to his lips thoughtfully.]
Ah, my apologies... you said there was another who went through the same experience you did? Kacchan, was it?
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One thing that was different though was that Kacchan showed up in Fellden a couple months before I got there.
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[He taps his finger against his lips thoughtfully with a quiet, appraising hum.]
May I ask another question? If it's not too intrusive, that is. Ren and I are, shall we say, from different points along a linear stretch of time? The last date he remembers is December 24th, whereas I myself was in Tokyo until January 12th. However, to my knowledge, he was there with me until that point.
What about you and Kacchan-kun? Was he from months in your future, to account for the time you spent in Fellden, or is time more malleable than that?
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Ah...that's a good question, actually. It's not something he's thought about until now, mainly because...]
We both remembered things being from around the same time. I don't think it was the exact day, but it was really close. He was working on getting his provisional license still, and that's the last thing I remember from that last week or so, too...
[He brings a hand thoughtfully to his chin.]
As for the time we spent in Fellden, I never experienced him leaving or anything to account for the months he was there before me. So I don't think time moved the same way there as it did back home.
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How interesting. The theories of how time progresses through multiverses has been the subject of debate for many scientists and philosophers, but there's never been much in the way of concrete evidence until now.
[He taps his fingertips against his lips with another thoughtful hum.]
Thank you, Midoriya-kun. You've given me much to think about. If you don't mind, could we speak again another time in the future? After we've learned more about our surroundings, I'd like to compare notes once again. You have a unique perspective on things.
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[They may come up with new theories for things, they may not. Izuku plans to keep tabs on everything he's able, as well as keep an eye out for evidence that the logic Fellden operated on has somehow bled into this world.
He just wishes that, if the culprit does involve gods in some way, that they don't try to push them into a seemingly ceaseless war like before.]