Hexaflexagon

Sekai no Owari no Sora: The Sky at the End of the World

And there you all go have some exposition and Plot! At this current moment everybody should be arriving at Jizakai City by either train, car or boat and starting on their way towards the Hotel which will sort of serve as the staging area for everything. For reference Jizakai is on the border of distinction between large town and small city as stated its primary export is medical technologies but it also has a large fishing community as well. Weather is seasonal so during the summer as it is things will be warm but not too bad thanks to the sea breeze. But beside that you can assume it has average city stuff like parks, and schools etc.

Sekai no Owari no Sora: The Sky at the End of the World

Two Months Before Reality Convergence
Location: ????
Time: 3:00 AM

Two men one taller than the other stood talking to one another in a large cylindrical space, above them a large glass cylinder twinkled with light. The walls were covered with paintings a Rembrandt here, a de Matteis there spaced out evenly by the mass array of book shelves that stretched upwards towards the ceiling. The two men were dressed like simple business men in suits and could of been going to any place of business to conduct an important meeting if not for the time. The taller man was towering in height and thin as a twig almost as if he had no fat or muscle to really speak of and he stood slightly hunched over. His face was composed of what seemed to be entirely of sharp lines almost vulpine in appearance was small glaring eyes a dark brown in cover. Though this meek appearance was thrown off by a closer examination of his hands what where calloused and thick with long fingernails sharpened almost like claws, kind that only came through years of physical labor or maybe throttling necks.

His companion only came to about the middle of the taller fellow much more squat and compact. His black suit unlike his companions was wrinkled and seemed to fit him all too well anymore meant for a smaller man. He was not necessarily a fat men per say but his did have a strong mass to him, his arms threatened to rip through the sleeves with the bulging muscle and he had little to no neck to speak of just one large square brutish chin. He had a full beard that came down to his sternum and strong large eyes that took up a majority of his face with an almost pit bull like head structure. Unlike his companion he was wearing gloves of white, meticulously cleaned to not show a speck of dirt at all. The way he moved and was speaking to his companion suggested that he may be the subordinate in the pair but they seemed to be more likely to be partners. An unlikely pair the two as it were, the fox and the wolf.

"So I believe you have heard Mister Wulf." The tall man asked his short companion as he sipped at a glass of red liquid in his right hand, the liquid coming up against his mouth and staining it blood red in color. They way the tall man asked suggested an air of excitement and of anticipation about it.

"Of course I've heard Mister Fox. It's all the big news in the world of the Magi. A reality convergence in Jizakai City they say the city will be alight with fire and blood. A fun time don't you think." Mister Wulf replied licking his lips as he smiled reveling exaggerated and large canines that shined with a predatory delight.

"Oh certainly. In an unrelated note what would you think of a Japaneses Vacation Mister Wulf? See the sights, meet the people? I hear Hokkaido is beautiful this time of year." Mister Fox asked quizzically his hands clasped together and moving the large fingers interlocked and flexing showing the strong veins popping through.

"Well we haven't been to Japan since the affair at Honnō-ji have we. Going back would be splendid idea Mister Fox." The small man laughed deeply, a dark laugh that simultaneous filled the room and sucked the life out of it like some sort of leech.

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One Month Before Reality Convergence
Location: Vatican, Italy
Time: 11:50 AM

A man dressed in the clerical clothing of a priest and a women dressed in simple garbs walked the grounds of St. Peter's Square in intimate conversation. The man was tall and broad shoulder, bespectacled and of apparent Irish descent. He held himself in a calm and friendly manner as if anyone and everyone could be his friend. He had in his hands several dossiers filled with information that he casually flipped through while he talked to his companion. Each one had a picture of a person and several lines of information most seemingly biological data heights, weights etc but others including Magery proficiency and other more exotic items. His companion was a smaller women with black hair and apparent South American descent she had strong and fierce brown eyes and the way she carried herself suggested that she had some sort of power, an earpiece was fitted into her left ear and she would occasionally stop to listen more clearly to whatever it was saying. As the two moved through the crowd of tourists and religious pilgrims taking pictures and the like they discussed business casually.

"I assume everything is ready for next month?" The man asked as he thumbed through another dossier his hands were clean and the nails seemed to be trimmed with a high level of care to the roundness of the curve to the approximate length.

"Yes Father, all our agents are ready to move and reconnaissance operations have already begun. We just need your approval on who we are going to send." The women explained and what she said was the truth. Preparations have been going on for some time known, church operatives had been sent to get a very solid understanding of the city before things went down. Like most invested in the Convergence hundreds of thousands of dollars were being pumped into these operations to make sure everything went as smoothly as possible.

"Good, good we must not let these heathens seize more power. We must destroy it, at first opportunity for that is the Lord's wish." The man proclaimed sternly as he flipped to the next person and he stopped for a moment at the face. It was a young girl with a pretty face, bright blue eyes and long blonde hair. He looked over her profile and hummed to himself. Her magery skills were impressive to say the least. He turned to his associate and showed her the picture. "And who is she my dear?"

"Anemone Shibuya, she is one of Akio Shibuya "children" part of his breeding program as you are well aware. She has Japanese proficiency and her skills are developing quite well so we figured we would throw her in. If you would rather we did'nt we could change it of course...." The women asked curiously, as her companion had not shown any interest in any of the faces that had been displayed to him so far.

"Just keep tabs on her if you may."

"Of course Father. Anything else today?"

"No, no that will be all for now."

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Three Weeks Before Reality Convergence
Location: Somewhere in China
College Of Magi, Research Complex E
Time: 4:00 PM

A lone women sat at a large desk in a large room vacant expect for six large pillars that stood in front of her. Each of the pillars was currently glowing with energy and on them where words that said Director and then a Complex with a letter A-G skipping E of course for her own complex. The voices filled the room as they all seemed to be in a great debate with one another. The directors rarely talked to one another each separated by thousands of miles, and each in charge of their own little world without disturbances. It was easier they way, the College was more productive that way. But sometimes they were forced to interact with one another. They were currently in a hot debate over the upcoming Reality Convergence.

We cannot take part it would delay our research!

Of course you would say that. But the energy we could gain from it could help our project.

Yes, Yes the idea of unlimited energy does sound most promising.

Oh you shut up! We all know you are just saying that because you want to sleep with her.

Well I'll say the audacity of you!

Is it truly worth the risk?

The Keepers will most likely destroy it before anyone gets to it anyway.

Because none of us ever try! What if we took the initiative!

Because its damn suicidal that's why!

"Will you all shut up!" The women sitting behind the desk spoke the pillars. The all quieted at the sudden outburst. "In case any of you have forgotten you elected me lead director. And I say we are going for the opportunity it presents well outweighs the risk."

"....If I may speak E." I thick Russian accented voice spoke from pillar B.

"Yes what do you need B." The women asked trying to hide the exhaustion and the oncoming migraine that was fast approaching her.

"Jizakai will be the perfect place to gather more field data for our Project Miracle." The voice asked experimentally but this only raised the other voices in anger throwing words around like unethical, torture, child destruction and other words with much more distasteful meanings.

"Silence! B if you feel Miracle is ready for a field operation on this scale you may proceeded. But we will also be sending ground agents of our own to oversee the operation as well. For while your data is promising we will need more results to make sure anything is conclusive."

"That is all I ask thank you director."

At that the conference call ended as each of the pillars deactivated. The women let out a sigh resting her head against the solid wood of her desk as she used a free hand to activate the display on her computer and started sifting through names looking for agents that they could send.

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Two Weeks Before Reality Convergence
Location: Australian Outback
Abbey of The Void, Pacific Wing
Time: 2:00 PM

The magi were outside practicing their destructive imagery upon the open ground. There was hole lines of them moving in firing lanes with an instructor above counting down from five and then they all fired in unison at a clump of targets further down the way. The Pacific Wing of the Abbey of the Void the deeper you want in look more like a military encampment than a research institute as it is so claimed by the officials. Magi of all ages and genders were drilled in combat with magery, channels and standard weaponry all around, forced to ruin through PT training and when they weren't doing that they were studying and learning. Two man from an observation tower watched the proceedings from below. They were both dressed in white robes emblazoned with the emblem of the abbey of similar height and standing they seemed to be close associates, though one seemed significantly older than the other.

"The training is going well it seems." The older one remarked

"Yes, all in preparation for the Convergence, those pitiful weaklings will never expect a show of force this size. The power is as good as ours!" The other retorted confidently with great bravado.

"That is what you said the last time Ezekiel and the time before that. We of the upper order are starting to tire of your failures. We do not need to remind you what happens to failures." The older man replied his voice as sharp as a knife stinting with a vicious poison.

"Of course, the Abbey is for the strong not the meek. I will prove my worth don't you worry Laurent my men will seized the power, we will claim the day and bring this pitiful world one step closer to ruin."

"Hmph time will tell, Ezekiel time will tell."

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One Day Before Reality Convergence
Location: Jizakai City
Time: 9:00 AM

"Dear Ms.Yoshiyuki as an envoy of the Guild it is your responsibility to ensure that events go as planned and proceeded accordingly. We understand that your duty as a Keeper comes first but as your employer we hope that both of our interests align accordingly. The quick and expedient end to this Convergence will help promote peace and prosperity needed throughout the Magi world. The closing of this Convergence before any with evil intentions can claim the power behind Heaven's Door. All are enemies here and nothing is sacred...."

Yuko Yoshiyuki let out a tired sigh reaching into her right ear she pulled out the small little transfer device that kept on playing the same recorder message to her on repeat and crushed it in her hand before discarding the small electronic pieces upon the ground. She was dressed as a normal girl of twenty years of age though from the definition in her arms and legs one could make the assumption that she was an athlete of some kind a gymnast maybe or kendōka. She was standing by one of the doors of her trains respective car, they had been moving along for an hour or two now heading up from the south to the northwestern side of Hokkaido prefecture towards Jizakai City. Jizakai was once little more than a farming village and now it was a bustling city mostly with medical technologies being the city's largest source of income. But it was still a sleepy city nothing like Tokyo or even Kyoto where you could still feel the country air among the skyscrapers with no airports you either had to a train or do to its location on the water a boat.

Later the train arrived at Jizakai Terminal and Yuko got off taking her small suitcase with her and stepping off. A smooth feminine voice welcomed the new arrivals and warned those that were leaving to mind the gap. As soon as she stepped out she felt it in the air, the magery you could almost taste it with the oncoming reality convergence Magi from all over were coming either to compete or to join in the festiveness and watch the bloodbath and every person getting off the train next to her had at least a faint sense of magery to them. As she walked out she saw something that caught her eye, a girl maybe twelve years old was holding a large white sign over her head printed on it said the following. Ms.Yoshiyuki Yuko raised an eyebrow but approached none the less. The girl was looking the other way so Yuko impatiently tapped on the sign. The girl turned and gasped stepping back before correcting herself and speaking.

"Oh! You must be her! Your even more pretty than in the picture!" The little girl voiced with the sort of chipper voice that either made your hurt fill with warmth or make you want to strangle her. Though she did seem eager and ready to please so that was something at least.

"Uhhh... thanks, I guess. And you are?" Yuko asked still slightly confused and wondering if this was some sort of trick or something else. Was the girl an assassin? She did'nt look like any assassin that Yuko could imagine.

"Oh pardon me! I'm being so rude. My name is Aoi and I'm from the Magi's Affairs office! I'm supposed to escort you to the Hotel. Its going to serve as the Neutral Zone during the competition so that the likes of you can sleep easy and the spectators can watch the bloodbath without getting hurt!" She explained her chipper voice not going all too well with the images of gore and violence that is cast with the mental idea of bloodbaths.

"Yes... I know how the neutral zone works. So should we get going?" Yuko asked who truthfully at this point was frankly just tired and needed to lay down for a little bit, all the traveling she had done recently was not helping her sleep schedule.

"Alright then follow me!" The girl explained and then ran towards the door leading outside. Yuko sighed and followed suite dragging her suitcase behind her as she moved past the boundary of inside and into the summer heat. She was already regretting taking on this mission.

Sekai no Owari no Sora: The Sky at the End of the World

@Skyswimsky
Don't worry from what I've seen everything seems to be in order and should work just fine. You may post your killer death girl into the character tab.

@MonkeyBusiness
Everything else looks good. Normally I would prefer a history to be written but since you seem to have come to an impasse I'll allow you to play it by ear. You may also post to the character tab when you see fit.

So that would be everyone so far meaning I'm going to start working on the Intro post and once that is done my own character sheet shall appear. In the meantime I ask you all to think of how your characters are going to think about one another as we progress, just to flex those brains of ours.

Persona Ø (Accepting 1 Player)

First we got dragged down a giant hole, then we got stuck in a twisted frigging alternate reality thing, then we got psychoanalyzed by demented television sets and now a trio of evil slime monsters are trying to murder us. You know I think I'm starting to tired of this crap. The eldritch creatures slurping and moving about in completely alien ways were definitely not the welcoming committee that any of them had hoped for. Masako looked towards the others watching them raise their own weapons of choice be it baton, bow or fist and followed suit raising the rubberband gun and pointing it down range bracing it with her off hand to steady herself. Yeah she'd shot a toy gun before and her father had taken her shooting out of the country once or twice but she had never shot a live thing, Where these things even alive? Turned out she wouldn't be able to get her answer as something happened to Kazuo involving blue fire? What in the world was happening.

Moments later whatever just happened as a thing came out of Kazuo or was Kazuo coming out of it? Needless to say Masako was very confused but a bit grateful as whatever just happened or did'nt happen because this worlds air was apparently full of PCP as those creatures where dealt with in an extraordinarily brutal and efficient manner, black slime becoming asseverated in instant flashes that took less than a second. As Dai and Shinku voice their on exclamations Masako chimed in her own looking from Kazuo to where the monsters had fallen and back to Kazuo who seemed normal enough. Though it seemed that Kazuo was more focused on something that was happening behind them at the moment. As if whatever had had just done was perfectly natural and happened all the time, it was actually part of his Monday routine to kill slime shadow things or whatever. "Well.....Shit."

“Move.”

It was less of a suggestion from Kazuo but more of a command and Masako was not one to argue with the kid that could do whatever the was. So she moved back as she heard the rest of her classmates began to arise from behind her. She turned to face them once she made some distance and well they looked wrong in a way. They had the masks upon their face like Kazuo's had materialized but unlike his they did'nt seem to be a cohesive whole they seemed almost forced upon the face, almost constricting the face and the bright yellow eyes loomed into their few still sane classmates and those eyes felt like death itself was looking back at them. That was before they started talking between the hideous crying and shouting, the talking was worse as whatever had taken over their classmates bodies used them like a puppet, the voice the same but off with a slight delay between the words just slight wrong enough to send a shiver down the spine. Soon though they moved towards the group and commenced their attack.

"Well this is the last time I take a geography class.." Masako muttered to herself as she back up a bit more. Luckily at the current moment it seemed that Masako was not any of their classmates intended target at least allowing her to process the situation before things got crazy. She moved to a ranged position where she had a clear firing lane keeping the rubberband gun out and ready to fire as needed. Hopefully though she did'nt need to shoot anybody, I mean they were just rubberbands but she did'nt want to actually hurt any of these people they just seemed hurt and confused not exactly vicious well beside the whole trying to kill them part that is. Come on happy thoughts don't start panicking now Masako you got this. She tried thinking of a plan in her head but they really did'nt have that many options did they? Running away was out of the picture because they couldn't just leave them here, their probably not going to give up their weapons without a fight, so what the only option was to incapacitate them and hope that they don't suffer permanent damage of some sort? Yeah it seemed all their options kind of sucked but fighting was the only one that could maybe work. So they might as well get the fight over as quickly as possible shouldn't they? To prevent extended injuries?

"Hey transfer student! Do you think you could do whatever you just did before again to try to knock them out? Since I would prefer that we did'nt all get our brains bashed in by the angst brigade! That would just only add to their angst later!" She explained hoping that Kazuo at least had some sort of plan that was a little more refined than hers.

Persona Ø (Accepting 1 Player)

Don't worry, Hex, I got your back. The opposite team better pray to YHVH right about know. Someone over there better go fuse a Persona with Salvation. I'm salty right now; just stubbed my toe on my desk and half of you guys are weak to fire. You didn't think I read the resistances did you???

@Blu

Ladies and gentlemen our protagonist and potential savior of mankind. Who also happens to maybe be a homicidal manic. It will be a miracle this doesn't end up SMT apocalypse style by the end of it all.

We can always take out their legs? Tis but just a scratch after all. We'll give them iced coffee later. :D

@Bleu Chess

Of course we bust their kneecaps to cripple them and then make them drink their ice coffee to magically heal them! It all makes sense now! XD

Though what worries me is if they are all going to find their inner selves now and get their personas. What Efed up plan does @Blu have for us three who stayed relativity sane to acquire ours. I'm slightly scared.

Persona Ø (Accepting 1 Player)

<Snipped quote by Hexaflexagon>

Pssh, who says I'm retreating? I'm 'bout to Agi the living shit out of someone right about now. You punks are lucky I don't have access to my Megidolaon. I'd spam that all day just like Beezlebub in SMT IV.

@Blu

Well I'm sorry that not all of us have magic powers. XD

Mass Effect: Omega Serenade

@Dervish
Well shit was pretty crazy and chaotic. He could of been broken off from the team or something. And post should be up at least by the end of today it is 12:21 AM if you guys want some reference. :3

Persona Ø (Accepting 1 Player)

So we have a bunch of angst dominated teenagers (God damn where is Dr.Phil when you need him) trying to kill us and its not like we can hurt them because we don't want to actually bash their heads in. So we run away and hope that we don't get murder while they come to terms with their angst? You know not like sissy men or anything just tactical retreating yeah tactically retreating. Totally not running away. Nope not at all.

Persona Ø (Accepting 1 Player)

@Blu

"Thomas, he's the cheeky one.
James is vain but lots of fun.
Percy pulls the mail on time.
Gordon thunders down the line.
Emily really knows her stuff.
Henry toots and huffs and puffs.
Edward wants to help and share.
Toby, well let's just say, he's square!
They're two, they're four, they're six, they're eight,
shunting trucks and hauling freight."

Of course and he was in cahoots with abandoned clown train.


@AquaAzura
I think I'm more terrible because I laughed. Oh well can't spell slaughter without laughter can you? xD

Persona Ø (Accepting 1 Player)

And there you go more fucked up memories to add to the pile of fucked up memories. Now with one hundred percent more trains!