[open] party @ my house

[brocon]

Who: Anyone!
When: Prrrobably fast forward to the evening of 11/22
Where: Ayumu Narumi's apartment
What: City-wide meeting
Rating/Warning: There shouldn't be any. Please let me know if there's anything that needs to be f-locked so I can change this accordingly.

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[ Whether it was through Oz or Ayumu, or possibly an anonymous tip-off or some other, you were invited to a small gathering! Of course, the only ones invited are non-natives to the city.

It's probably strange to be invited to a stranger's apartment, but Ayumu didn't want anyone who shouldn't be involved to listen in on what they were talking about. Had it been at a public place, that could have happened. And besides, having people over for a very serious reason also gave him a very serious reason to cook. There was a pretty wide variety of food, from finger food, pasta, meat, rice, and some desserts. He was particularly good at cooking that the people who usually ate his food back at home wanted to marry him, but whether or not you'd find his cooking delicious is up to you.

Ayumu welcomes anyone to enters most likely wearing an orange apron and a spatula on his hand. The first thing he tells anyone who enters is to remove their shoes and leave them by the door. He's got everything ready, and his apartment looks comfortable enough. There might not be enough chairs, but he set up some mats on the floor for people to sit on. His living room/receiving area was right across his dining room, so there was ample space for all his guests.

Once there's a good number of people around, he calls everyone's attention. ]

Right.

My name's Narumi, and this is probably going to be the last time you'll see me. [ Socialising is hard. ]

I arrived here just before Halloween. I want to know about the strange things that have happened before I arrived. From my experience, there might be a pattern to these disruptions. The CEO apparently dismisses these as "glitches." The ghosts and people losing a sense or their entire body is one.

New people usually arrive every two weeks, but there weren't any lately. They should have arrived the past week. A disruption was probably supposed to happen, too, but it didn't. I don't know if this is another "glitch" or not, but it's definitely a change from what you'd probably call "the usual".

If anyone who has been here longer can talk about past "disruptions", then the floor is yours. Knowing when and how long they happened would be good to know too. If we can at least figure this out, then we'd be able to have less casualties. I'm sure at least one person here in this room has died in this place already.

I also probably wouldn't talk about what happens here through those devices they gave us. It'll help to be careful.

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Note: City-wide meeting mingle GO. Feel free to make your own top-level comments, and you are more than welcome to threadhop! INTERRUPT YATA WHILE HE'S TALKING, GO. Actually, don't do that.

Talk about Serious Things, or whatever you feel like your character would contribute! If your character wouldn't speak in front of everyone, that's fine too. Anything goes! No breaking of furniture or else Housewife Ayumu will get very angry. His room is also off-limits, and so his his spare bedroom. If anyone would like to notice his interior, there's practically two flower vases in each room, decorated with irises and lilies of the valley. There's also a keyboard somewhere in the living room. The instrument, not the gadget.

If anyone wants to play around with the idea of stirring up trouble, please assume that Ayumu will throw a slipper at any troublemaker's head.

Comments

[bakudanma]

_{[ I'M NOT STRANGE, I'M KATSURA. ]}

Tenka-kun, have I said something to make you think like that? You don't believe I vandalized one of their means of transportation and that's why I'm a fugitive?

[sunshrouded]

I believe you could've done something worse than vandalizing... Don't get me wrong, that's pretty bad too, but I could get away with that back in my home town if I had a good reason...

[Tenka was also his town's golden boy so you know what just ignore whatever comes out of his mouth.]

But hey, I didn't say fugitive. That's all you.

1.2

[bakudanma]

Ah, well.. if you really want to know the horrible thing that I've done...

2.2

[bakudanma]

Back in school during my 2nd year, I cheated off of a test and I looked at Takasugi's when he was distracted. I'm.. I feel really bad about it, even to this day! I don't deserve any of the scholarships I was given—! And to think, nobody knows that besides me, and now you! I've been waiting 1X years to tell somebody and it's been grating on my heart since then!

I'M SO SORRY, TENKA-KUN.

_{[ THIS IS REFLECTING BACK TOO FAR. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POLICE ANYMORE. ]}

[1/2]

[sunshrouded]

[NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH POLICE.

ABORT MISSION, ABORT-

Except Tenka just has a quick reply:]

You keep surprising me, Katsura-kun.....

[sunshrouded]

I wouldn't have taken you for someone who went to school!

[RUDE AS HELL

WHY IS HE SMILING WHILE HE SAYS IT]

[bakudanma]

Of course.
I was a scholar student and one of the top in the class.

_{[ he's very serious and actually telling the truth. ]}

[sunshrouded]

[Man, that's way too easy-]

Do you get there from cheating off other people besides Takasugi-san.....

[bakudanma]

Ah. No. It was luck he got the answer right when he wrote it down. He wasn't the best student and still acts like an 8th grader-- setting things on fire and such.

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . . Tenka is distantly reminded of his own little brothers-]

Maybe he still has hopes of growing out of it....

[bakudanma]

He's a lost cause now. Ah, he fell off his training bike long ago and has lost the will to try again the correct way. I wouldn't worry about him. He isn't here right now, so he's even more irrelevant than usual.

_{[ such ill feelings for this guy for some reason, but you know. ]}

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . . . . ]

You know, I can't tell if you actually dislike this guy or if you really like him.

[Tenka are you even listening--

Except no, he is. It's the same way that Tenka would talk about some of his friends and it sounds like someone that Katsura has known for a long time so.... Maybe he's just being derisive because that's just how their friendship works???

It's a shot in the dark but Tenka's the type to speak his mind so there you go.]

[bakudanma]

<sub>[ They were childhood friends. He would even sneak food to Takasugi when he was punished by his family and left to starve. They switched schools together; they grew up together and learned to be samurai together with their new sensei and Gintoki.

—But, they all sort of went separate ways after the war. Things were alright for awhile until Katsura had a change of heart. It wasn't in him to be an antagonist like Takasugi is now. ]</sub>

He's something treasured but a soiled person.
An ivory toilet that hasn't been scrubbed in years.

[sunshrouded]

[ . . . . . Tenka snorts at the comparison but-]

Ah.... I know exactly what you mean. Someone who means a lot to you but you want to punch them in the face really hard?

[Tenka's person like that is in the city, though.]

[bakudanma]

_{[ do you, though. ]}

One day, somebody may have the absolute bravery to unclog him and flush all of the **** away.
Today isn't the day for that, though.

It's one of those horrifying instances where you are not sure if the water will go down all the way after somebody has eaten rotten sushi. And in that moment, you feel the need to evacuate the bathroom with your yukata stripped in indecency for fear of your life.

_{[ That's Takasugi. ]}

[sunshrouded]

[What a gross, long-winded metaphor.

And yet Tenka finds himself nodding in understanding. Apparently comparing people to toilets speaks to him on a spiritual level.]

I see.

We're lucky he's not here then.

[bakudanma]

I'm not sure what he would do under these instances.
It might do him well, though. He could learn from the videogames such as Floppy Bird.
_{[ He keeps bringing up Floppy Bird. It must have been some life changing experience. ]}