destinystrings | Child Event and Blackout Log

Who: Anyone
Where: Around the city and in the apartments
When: November 15-18
Summary: Little kids everywhere! Also the power grid is on the fritz.
Warnings: Hopefully none!

With the network and the city's electricity once again malfunctioning, the power to most of the city has either been knocked out or is malfunctioning. And since inconvenient things rarely happen in a vacuum in Hinoto-Ri, a portion of the city has also been affected by some strange new curse, reverting to childlike forms. Business in and around the city has ground to a standstill due to the power problems, and without functioning heat in the apartments, extra blankets and huddling together for warmth are the order of the day. It's still possible to go outside as the government hasn't imposed any additional curfews, and the demons during the 13th Hour are as active as ever, but some people may just want to ride this out until everything is back to normal.

((OOC: Feel free to make your own top-level comments either mingling in your apartments or out and about in town. The child event effects are in full swing, and taking place concurrent with the blackout from November 15th through the 18th. Please label your posts with your character's name and location. We apologize for the slight lateness of this log!))

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"U-um...!" It takes a lot of willpower, but she finally manages to speak up. She knows it's rude to speak up against her elders like this, but at the same time...

"Isn't... Isn't carrying around something like that dangerous...?"

"...It is supposed to be dangerous." Noda replies slowly, not exactly sure how else to answer. "It is used for cutting down enemies, after all. If it is not sharp then there is no point in using it."

"Are there enemies here...?"

She was learning naginata herself, but that was different. The enemies weren't real, so she didn't need to use it outside of her practice.

"Indeed, although they only appear during certain parts of the night."　If Noda knew any better, was better at socializing with kids, perhaps he would have said something more assuring to stop making the poor girl worry.

But this is Noda we're talking about.

"Th-there are?"

Good going Noda, now she just looks scared. "Are they... bad people?"

Oops.

"Indeed. They cause mayhem during the time. Fortunately there are those who can combat these beings. I am one of them."

Noda's looking confident and proud of himself. Why are you even boasting of your powers to a little kid...

"So... you fight to protect people?"

There might be a little bit of admiration in her voice. That sounds so brave...!

Admiration directed towards him in any form was his weakness. He gives a smirk, scratching the tip of his nose in slight bashfulness. How the girl put it made him feel like he really was a hero, the main character of a game...

"You can put it that way."

"That's amazing! You're like a hero out of a story!"

Aoi, no. Don't make his head any bigger than it already is.

A hero... While he was thinking about the exact same thing, actually hearing it out loud made his heart flutter with glee. He isn't as immature as how he started off in the Afterlife, so he doesn't get this happy feeling up to his head and just responses with a grin.

"A hero. I like the sound of that! Yes, I am a hero, I can become a main character!"

...Or not. It's all up in his head now.

...? "Become a main character?"

She hadn't really meant it literally.

"Indeed." Noda gives a content smile in response. "The hero is the main character in a story, is it not?"

She nods, but it's become uncertain. "Can you do that?" Like, in real life?

"Perhaps not if this world were less strange." Noda replies, "but we have been called into this world for a reason, so I do not see why not."

At least Noda remembers about the Philemon thing! Just a tiny bit!

Um...

"What do you mean by 'this world'?" Because the way he said it, it was like it was... different, somehow.

"Those who have strange powers are not from his world." Noda replies. "I believe they are called Visitors. Each one has this ID card to carry."

He shows his own card to Aoi, finding it mildly strange she's not aware of it. Any citizens originally in this city should know of this...

She looks at the card closely before shaking her head. "I don't understand. So... there are people here who aren't from earth?"

It seems it hasn't even entirely dawned on her that it's another world entirely. Because even with all of the strangeness so far, that's just impossible, isn't it?

He gives a small, confused frown in response. Doing explanations wasn't something he was good at ever, so he was struggling with how he should word it.

"I believe there are those from stranger worlds."

There was that strange place a number of the visitors stuck in where he ran into that Hizumi-lookalike...

"But you're from earth, right?"

Or has she been talking to an alien all this time? Because for an alien, he looks pretty darn human.

"Indeed, I am." Why wouldn't he? He gives a confused look. "I am a normal human being, but there are others out there who possibly aren't."

Demons sure weren't.

"R-really-?!"

She has yet to run into one, and probably for the better. She'd just start screaming again.

"That is what I have heard, though I do not care much for such details." At least, as long as they don't get in his way.

Sorry Aoi, he's not doing a good job making you feel better.

"So... you don't know what they really are?"

Indeed he is not. She just looks even more afraid now. Good job Noda!

"No." Noda simply replies. And then the most reasonable question finally dawns to him.

"Where are your parents?"

"I don't know... I can't find them anywhere." And she's certainly been trying. But no matter how much she looked, she just couldn't seem to locate them in this strange city.

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