First Prayer: I'm not your only friend...[Open]

[faithfulflame]

Who: Rei Hino and you?
What: Day in the life of Rei Hino
When: Some nebulous day between 12/17 and 12/21, or whenever works
Where: Residential District, Gym, Shopping District, Research/Tech District
Warnings: None at present?


Residential District/Research District

[Rei's always enjoyed taking walks in her free time, getting to know the area around her and taking in the sites. She's been given a day off, a small thank you for a project deadline completion, and she's taking full advantage. It's different here, of course, given the alien nature of so much of the architecture but that's actually part of the appeal. She's reminded of what she's seen of her own world's future, and while the CERES logo plastered everywhere isn't entirely her favorite thing in the world it's nice to see some of the advertisements she's been working on around.

Eventually she'll make her way into the Research and Technologies District, looking around at all the sterile government buildings and ominous labs too. It's idle curiosity, combined with her family being involved in the civic system, that catches her interest. As well as possibly finding an entryway into CERES' facilities for later.

She's not paying the most attention to her immediate surroundings, though, so she might just bump into you, or brush past you. Trailing behind her, too, is a Cybuddy, this robot taking the form of a fuzzy baby panda bear. Whoever said she couldn't like cute things?]


CERES Gym:

[Next on her list is to find Abe no Sousei's kendo school. With a little help from Edgeworth, she's actually acquired a shinai of the proper size, and she'll turn up at the gym with that and a bow, wearing some pretty standard exercise clothes (scarlet and black of course) and begin warming up if he's not in yet. She'll start off with rock-climbing, an activity she finds herself actually doing pretty well at, and then move on to perform some pretty impressive gymnastic feats. After that? Archery.

Catch her taking a breather at the juice bar, or maybe watch while she's working out? Whatever strikes your fancy]

Restaurant:

[With all that done, it's time to get dinner. And that means heading out to a restaurant and then to pick up some stuff for the rest of the week. The restaurant she's hitting up claims to serve traditional Japanese dishes, and it's worth a try, she figures...though when she gets the food she orders, Rei's lips quiver in absolute disgust. She doesn't yell, but she gets up and carries the plate over to the counter, dropping the tray down hard enough to clatter and catch staff attention]

This is not Hōtō-nabe. [Ugh.] This is not even remotely close. It's green. And it smells like garlic. And since when are edamame purple? I'd like a refund.

[Naturally, she is going to be that customer. Or that fellow patron. Or...whatever.]

Shopping

[And with that fiasco out of the way, she has to settle for less familiar food, in this case a fried fish sandwich. It is what it is, and she'll eat it, but it leaves her wanting. So it's off to the store, where she goes through a little of everything she'd consider “traditional”, gathering up a rather full basket. Sorry if you were looking for that super-secret sauce or those last pickled plums, she's already reaching for the last one...]

Wild Card:

[No prompts to your liking? Watch to catch Rei in between things? Do it!]

Comments

[ridethathippo]

Me? Nah, not really. I have some basic training, but it's mostly so that I can move around an Action Field easily. [N-not that she would likely know, which is always something Yuya has to keep in mind when he mentions Duel Monsters in some way. (Which is all the time. His geeking can't be held back.)]

Action Fields are a lot like how ViViD works, but there's no pain filter. So you gotta be careful!

[faithfulflame]

And...an Action Field is something you use for what? To make money like in ViViD?

[ridethathippo]

If you're a professional, yeah. They're for playing Duel Monsters-- it's a popular game back home. In Action Duels, normal holograms of your cards become real!

[Yuya hops off of his seat on the balance beam, spreading his arms out wide like he's addressing an audience.]

Duelists locked in battle! Kicking the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters! They storm through this field-! [He's pretty enthusiastic about the chant, be he stops short-- laughing to himself as he rubs the back of his head.]

It's basically like a sport back home.

[faithfulflame]

A sport? Out of a...card game?

[That sounds remarkably Korean, honestly. The Era of Starcraft...]

So you play a card game with holograms and you can get hurt with it?

[ridethathippo]

You can only get hurt if you're in a stadium specifically made for Action Duels. Otherwise, the holograms are normal.

[He drops down to the ground, taking a seat there to do some leg stretches.]

I'm gonna be a professional Action Duelist, so that's why I know some gymnastics and acrobatics. It helps with navigating whatever field design comes up and with dodging too.

[faithfulflame]

I guess that's common in your world then? Holograms? Because all I know in mine is that card games are played with cards?

[And even that's not clear. Are they played with holograms? Or computers or whatever? She's a 90s chick...]

[ridethathippo]

Oh, yeah! There's still cards, but having a duel disk is an important accessory. Mostly 'cause of the holograms. Because it's really great to see your monsters come to life!

[faithfulflame]

Duel Disc? [She blinks.] Sorry for all the questions, this is all just so drastically unfamiliar to me. Where I'm from there's...only one card game that doesn't use poker cards. And this doesn't sound like Sorcery the Congregating.

[ridethathippo]

It's fine. [HE COULD TALK ABOUT DUEL MONSTERS ALL DAY IF HE COULD.] What's the Sorcery game like?

[faithfulflame]

Well, I know it's a game played with cards? And...it's from America. I don't know much more than that, but there aren't holograms. There were just big events for it in Tokyo not long ago, that's all I know.

[ridethathippo]

Huh...Can't say that rings any bells. [Although perking up at the last bit:] I'm from Japan too! Guess we're from different versions or something!

[He's...far too used to the concept of different dimensions now.]

[faithfulflame]

That's probably true, yes. I'm from Tokyo. What about you?

[Since she won't just assume he's from Tokyo too. But she seems happy all the same, since fellow Japanese are good.]