Let the game begin
Shibuya
20/4/20XX
MONDAY
MONDAY
OST: Tokyo Emergency
"An increase in theft related crime and extortion has led to the Shibuya district to impose a curfew upon nightlife goers. It will be enforced by police in the late hours, where those who are caught out at night will be escorted to a station or told to go home. These measures have been met with a great deal of backlash, but the Shibuya local council has stated that this is only temporary and is to minimize victims, and will be lifted as soon as the rampant crime wave has subsided. They have assured citizens that the police are hard at work. This large string of crimes has recently been identified to have been the work of an anonymous group, and is now beginning to involve specialists in organized crime. Today we do have a special speaker on this matter and..."
Shibuya, the bustling stylish center of youth culture and night life, like a juvenile version of Shinjuku, where one wears suits and accompany workmates, Shibuya is full of friends and strangers come together. The warm spring day brought in large crowds, undeterred by the increased crime, most people thought about it... "Just don't go out at night, no one would dare commit a crime out in broad daylight, with large crowds all around". This was true for the most part, but some select few knew why this was not truly the case. Either way, the crowds still came to see all the famous and iconic things about this place. From the most famous aspects, like the Hachiko statue, scramble crossing, the 109 shopping mall, and central street, to other more specialized reasons to be here which included the various shops like Tower Records and the Shounen Jump store, or the Starbucks that sat within a massive music and literature shop. There was even a newer attraction here too, a rooftop view of the Scramble that can be accessed from the same aforementioned building.
Still, today, there were a handful of people here not for sightseeing, but for extraordinary circumstances and reasons, to say it was simply business was not quite right, but also not wrong either. Was it duty? Was it self interest? Or perhaps just sheer boredom, that they decided to join with this particular individual. This same individual that approached each one of them separately, his own efforts in recruitment. And it was today that they received a message...
"Enter the Metarealm at the Scramble in Shibuya this afternoon, meet me there"
This was a message that Seiji had sent out that morning. Each individual member of the Liberation Brigade he had finally put together were finally about to meet all at once for the first time. It wasn't a secret to anyone that he had been recruiting people, always mentioning it every so often that he had found someone, and sometimes not at all. Even meeting prior to today on rare occasion. But still, he finally sent out a message to everyone, everyone who had yet to meet. This was going to be their first meeting, but also it seemed like he had something important.
At the time that was convenient for them in the afternoon, they were to simply enter the Metarealm through their app while standing in or around the Scramble. They would simply be transported to the mirror image of their world, and so the location was pretty easy to find. There was no time indicated, just the afternoon, so a little waiting was expected. There was a bluntness to the message too that made it feel urgent, and truthfully it was.
Still, Seiji was not already on site, and so whoever showed up would find themselves waiting around awkwardly with possibly complete strangers, connected only by having been recruited by Seiji.
