[Event Post]

[maximumogredrive]

You can find some scruffian stooping at your place of work if you work in a supernaturally themed business. This includes SAI or OOPARTS, but isn't limited to that. He can also be found in the DA or local library, pouring over newspaper articles and history books.

He seems like he's trying to make conversation, but is waaaaay too awkward to know how to approach something.

Comments

[memoryistime]

*Shian works at SAI.

... Who is this loiterer that's hovering around the place right now...*

[windsbygone]

*DA.

A (currently) third year Soran has found you doing some... researching or another.*

... You're still alive, aren't you?

[maximumogredrive]

"I mean, I guess so.

Alive is a way to put it."

He pushes the books of quantum physics aside, rubbing his head.

[maximumogredrive]

He sort of perks up at you Shian and... waves? Oh no.

Wait... he looks... No. No, if you took away the beard and about twenty-thirty years...

"Do you work here?"

[windsbygone]

What, you're not fully sure?

I mean, you seem pretty physical. And you just talked, too.

... unless I'm hallucinating you right now.

[memoryistime]

*oh no why am I being acknowledged-- and you do look familiar. hrnm.*

In the sense of the word, yes, I work here. What's it to you to know?

[maximumogredrive]

"You look... familiar." He stands up and puts a hand out, measuring your height, then to his chest...

"Oh." Clears his throat

"Anyway! I'm looking for info on... y'know. Stuff. Parallel dimensions, specifically."

[memoryistime]

*... that was weird, but okay.*

Parallel dimensions? What about those?

[maximumogredrive]

"No, no, just... this is all so weird, even for a DA kid. I expected to fall into a portal back home or just wake up and this dimension's all a dream or something.

But instead, here I am."

[maximumogredrive]

"Uh... travel between them?

... Your name's Samasu Shian, ain't it?"

[memoryistime]

*Huh, I know about /other/ dimensions, but parallel...*

... Yes?

What does it matter what my name is, in this case.

[maximumogredrive]

"You were in middle school the last time I saw you is why it matters.

Wakahisa, my classmate teases you relentlessly when you two meet and I try to keep the whole thing civil and calm. You're pretty cool for a kid and I'm looking forward to you being my junior in a few years."

[windsbygone]

Yes, you seem to be... persisting pretty well, in this case. *scratching his head. kinda situation feels a little familiar, but that's silly.*

Maybe you are really just stuck here?

[Local Library]

[wherethemiceare]

::You see a deadringer for your Noriko, in equal deadringing Gyaru clothes, with very Legally Blonde glasses that fail to hide the fact she's a ditzy Gyaru who may or may not be a useless pile of curves.

She is plopping what look to be occult tomes on a different reading table in the library. And reading through them, and mangling the languages. As she writes stuff down with a glitter pen with those fluffy hair ends.::

[memoryistime]

... wait, what?

Kid, I barely did any "middle school", and I sure as hell haven't been hassled by Noriko for that long.

[maximumogredrive]

"I'm... beginning to think that's actually the case. And I'm not a big fan. I mean, not that you guys ain't great, it's just... not the same. Does that make any sense?"

[maximumogredrive]

"Yeah, I'm from a parallel universe.

I think?"

He scratches at his chin, then snaps.

"Oh jeez, I forgot to introduce myself! Briar, Cassius. But you can just call me Cas."

Re: [Local Library]

[maximumogredrive]

"Wakahisa!

Oh thank the mountain gods, you're here and with your brains and MY brains, we're almost one whole brain!"

[???]

[theheadmonarch]

::You find yourself in a library alright. But it's made of floating book shelves in a blank white space that seems to go on forever.

Did. Did you die. Is this Heaven?

Did you end up in NERD HEAVEN?::

Re: [???]

[maximumogredrive]

This is hell, I'm definitely in hell. And no lockers to shove nerds into!?

"... hello? Gods? I think there's been a mistake. I was expecting more catgirls and fighting in my afterlife."

Re: [Local Library]

[wherethemiceare]

...

::Looks up, and then points to herself, like, "Are you talking to me?".::

[memoryistime]

Uh... sure, "Cas". *yeah that's a name I have heard before... but not in that form...*

You think you're from a parallel universe, then? Where Noriko's your classmate and I'm a middle-schooler or something?

[windsbygone]

No, no, I get it. You want familiarity, not weird deja-vu stuff going on.

But what'll you do, then?

Re: [Local Library]

[maximumogredrive]

"Yeah, you! Now we just need Sully or Mamoru and I think we can go home. This dimension HAS them but they're all weird and traumatized, I think."

He starts to slow down, since you haven't reacted by slapping him for insinuating you were dumb. Or hugged him.

"... Ya ain't Wakahisa, are ya?"

Re: [???]

[theheadmonarch]

Who are you and what are you doing in my Boudoir and Bedroom? And why do you think it's the afterlife?

::There's an angry barely dressed blonde older woman whose hair and fashion belongs to the 1980s. You get the sense thunder and lightning might crash from the angry look on her face.::