🌟 Teruo and Tachibana organize a leader meeting for the boat mermaids leaders, Ginevra and Thorn(e) respectively.
🌟 General agreement is to help each other work out what the happ is fuckening with the Deepsong
🌟 Teruo got outed for getting into a fight with Chalice. Takes it in perfect stride and doesn't bat an eyelid. Tachibana gives him some severe side-eye for it.
🌟 The bug's the first one to find Kinji all fucked up from his Song hangover.
🌟 Kinji sings without paying attention and accidentally hits the bug with it. Sorry Ryo
🌟 Hajime is extremely unimpressed by this. And by Kinji in general.
🌟 Hajime learned how to turn his hearing off because of Teruo. Kinji works around this by livestreaming his bullshit hangover direct to Hajime's brain.
🌟 Kinji and Alcuin meet each other properly for the first time.
🌟 Alcuin thanks Kinji for helping with one of his mourning Chorus, and Kinji reveals that he's kept all of Teruo's songs - and thus, his withdrawal.
🌟 To help with that, Alcuin gives Kinji some advice and offers that he consult Lupa on the matter.
🌟 And doesn't understand cameras or photobooths at all.
🌟 Asking where he's from doesn't help anything at all.
🌟 Laughs is severely unimpressed that Kinji's a hunter.
🌟 But Kinji is also extremely unimpressed that Laughs isn't human. So they're even.
🌟 This somehow leads to a very circular debate about the nature of memories. Kinji doesn't realise that Laughs isn't being facetious, he literally doesn't know how this works.
🌟 And shortly after, comes across the other team.
🌟 Tachibana manages to guess exactly what's wrong before Kinji shows up.
🌟 Both Slammers tell their Pogemon that they're from a different world, and - circumstances allowing - they want to bring their Pogemon along with them when they leave.
🌟 Now that Kinji and Rodeo are on the same page again, they're an unstoppable team! And join the Guardia Initiative to help defend against the influx of "evil" Pogemon.
🌟 Like the Burger Sentai Burgerger.
🌟 Really, this is just embarrassing.
🌟 Their buns are toasted in a matter of moments, but at least they got some useful info out of it.
🌟 They later find Yakumo being tailed by babies. So they tail along too.
🌟 Yakumo is in the middle of a very nice dramatic speech when he turns around and sees Kinji and Rodeo there.
🌟 Rodeo distracts the babbies for a minute while Kinji goes and talks to Yakumo proper. Apparently to try and convince him not to go to Nevermore's castle again.
🌟 It doesn't work, but at least he can pass on the info he got from the Burgergers.
🌟 Yakumo's disappeared for a few hours and Kinji has a concern.
🌟 Doesn't expect to find his best friend sequestered away in the room of the guy he hates.
🌟 First attempt at communication fails, comes back later to find Yakumo is still there
🌟 Whatever is happening to Yakki feels like shit, as his stream to Kinji demonstrates, and they discuss options.
🌟 Whatever's cursing Yakumo makes a snide comment at Kinji, which leads to the reveal that Yakumo's gone and gotten in another argument with Tachibana.
🌟 Yakumo's been on edge for two days and needs relief. What better way to get it than fighting Kinji?
🌟 As expected, Kinji kicks his ass. Excellent aftercare, though, as they discuss how to give Yakumo a break over a cup of tea.
🌟 Neither of the boys are particularly happy with it, but the best method is Song.
🌟 And Sing Kinji does - for so long that it draws Tachibana's attention, and he goes to help Kinji out.
🌟 This is a Mistake.
🌟 Yakumo wakes up immediately and attacks the pair of them. Tachibana resolves the situation by turning the bamboo grove into a cafe with Yakumo's favourite tea. As you do.
🌟 And now they're all starting to get along, yaaaaay
🌟 there is a horse can Kinji pat it too late he's patting it anyway
🌟 In rapid succession Kinji learns way too much about Thorne's personal life, that Jules broke Liminal Space that one time, and that Thorne thinks he's hot enough to invite to a threesome.
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2016
AUGUST
Test Drive 15
Hajime
- 🌟 Loudly proclaiming one is a Youkai in front of a Youkai hunter is a Bad Idea
- 🌟 Unless you are Hajime and can actually kill the hunter in return
- 🌟 run cowboy run
Dakki
- 🌟 how do vampires work? LET KINJI SHOW YOU
- 🌟 fight fight fight
Gwen
- 🌟 just two Gaijin being pals and chillin' out
- 🌟 what's wrong with red bean paste
SEPTEMBER
Liminal Space: Scales and Bones
Tachibana
- 🌟 Oh good someone else doesn't know what's going on. Even though they've been here longer. Basic summary of what the heck this place even is.
- 🌟 Comparing homeworld monsters and powers, and maybe tech later?
- 🌟 GRAVITY (sorry Kenzaki)
Hajime
- 🌟 doggy doggy dogGY IS A WEREWOLF ABORT ABORT
- 🌟 gonna fuck your shit up
- 🌟 Tachibana de-escalates, bug photos are taken
- 🌟 Food Fight challenge: initiated
Phillip
- 🌟 Kid's been here a long-ass time.
- 🌟 A bit more info in general on how Jaunts and the whole place here works.
Zed
- 🌟 Literally first day in the game and Kinji's gone and henshin'd.
- 🌟 This guy's cool. Kinji likes this guy
Let's Bake a Cake!
Claudia
- 🌟 Somebody's unimpressed by this idiot cowboy.
Zed
- 🌟 Zed eats glitter.
- 🌟 that's it that's the thread
- 🌟 also a food fight
Jaunt: Lightside/Darkside
Week OneJolie
- 🌟 Kinji gets a new look. This is weird
- 🌟 luckily Jolie thinks so too. Except she always has those tentacle things
HajimeCorTachibanaAlmastRight
- 🌟 Sneaky sentai boys sneaking into theatres
Zed
- 🌟 Someone's writing needs work
- 🌟 like Kinji learned Japanese through rakugo and period drama but this--
Cor/Almast
- 🌟 Stalking pseudo-riders is an excellent idea really
- 🌟 Right up until their pet owl spooks Kinji and makes him reveal himself.
- 🌟 good job man
- 🌟 Kinji ends up revealing that he's an out-of-towner in a quarantined city with magic powers and not even actually from this world
- 🌟 good job man
- 🌟 and somehow he STILL gets on their side
Kinji makes a psychic post
- 🌟 A one-upmanship contest with Jules over whose life sucks more
- 🌟 Joscelin is entirely unhelpful.
- 🌟 Elphaba is forthcoming with useful information on what not to do as an Investigator
- 🌟
- 🌟 Right and Natsumi both grill him, the latter intently.
hint: it's literally everything Kinji didWeek Two
KanjiKastorJules
- 🌟 Sass for the idiot who got stuck as a prop
- 🌟 And useful info on Sensory Livestreaming
DakkiBirdflirt flirtCor/Almast/Bird
- 🌟 Sneaky Ninja Test
- 🌟 Bird: success! Narrowly avoided capture multiple times but escaped with the prize in hand
- 🌟 Cor: success!
- 🌟 He touched the butt and spooked the owl that spooked him
- 🌟 then the owl spooked him again
- 🌟 welp
- 🌟 Almast: fail. But still impressed him, so slight win?
- 🌟 Kinji set off a bug trap and woke the elf up before he could leave like a sneaky ninja
OCTOBER
Jaunt: Lightside/Darkside
Week ThreeAlmast
- 🌟 Meeting up at the Faire to shoot the breeze
- 🌟 Kinji gets some parental angst out in the open. Nothing too intense
- 🌟 More talk about him being an outsider
good job manand accidentally letting the cat out of the bag for Kenzaki tooCor
- 🌟 "what no i didn't punch a guy his nose just broke by itself"
- 🌟 Costume shenanigans are suggested
RiseTomiWeek Four
Almast
- 🌟 Looks like Almast might be hanging up his armour
- 🌟 And- right, they gotta leave soon. That's... yeah.
- 🌟 but hey, Almast's trying to build a giant mecha, that's sick!
24-Hour Concert
🌟 Kastor's... impressed? By Kinji's rock and roll beats
- 🌟 Maria requests Cotton-Eyed Joe and Kinji eagerly delivers
- 🌟 First time meeting Zed's spirit animal, Mister Sparkles.
- 🌟 A sassy Brooklyn boy who normally hates talking. Feel special, Kinji?
Liminal Space: Silence in the Library
Dakki
- 🌟 Dakki is herself again and just as nice!
Feli
- 🌟 Meeting Feli for the first time
- 🌟 Selfies~!
Jules
- 🌟 he needs to chill
- 🌟 srsly
Hajime
- 🌟 Ryo is a bug after his own heart
- 🌟 Hajime tho can fuck right off
Kenzaki
- 🌟 Gravity is still broken. Sweet
- 🌟 Let's do some ninja training!
Tachibana
- 🌟 Meeting up again after the Almast experience
- 🌟 Kinji learns more about Tachibana's story/world
- 🌟 And vice versa for Tachibana.
Right
- 🌟 Bitty's not great with the gothic architecture
The Great Toku Bake-Off
🌟 Kinji vs. Hajime Cooking Contest!
- 🌟 Feat. Ryo and Tachibana as announcers! Feli also wants to join in
- 🌟 Kenzaki and Phillip think this will all end in
- 🌟 Right's just happy there's food
tearsmurderNOVEMBER
Liminal Space: Is Your Refrigerator Running
Kanji
- 🌟 Breaking into cracker town
- 🌟 ...turns out refrigerated crackers aren't really worth it.
Right
- 🌟 Freezer exploration
- 🌟 Bad kitty!
Zed
- 🌟 Sticky bats with cherries
Tachibana
- 🌟 Chatting about temperature and how it sucks
Jules
- 🌟 Someone's scared of balls
- 🌟 Kinji's suggestion for dealing with stress is less than above the belt
Liminal Space: Welcome to the World Series
Week OneHajime (and later, Tachibana)
- 🌟 so illusions of people from the past are a thing
- 🌟 Hajime, to Kinji, looks like the goddamn wolfman
- 🌟 This results in murder attempt the second
- 🌟 and then they both get wrapped up in curtains
- 🌟 literally
- 🌟 Tachibana comes along to help them get out and explain the situation
- 🌟 Tachibana and Kinji take their leave to give Hajime some space
- 🌟 Bonding happens when Kinji accidentally reveals that his family was killed
- 🌟 and then Kinji disappears
Tachibana
- 🌟 Chatting about temperature and how it sucks
Fool ('Don Orlea')
- 🌟 Kinji gets yanked into the Conversation Space for a chat with his Marker
- 🌟 ...one that is extremely uninformative. Kinji only gets the barest gist of what this whole jam is.
- 🌟 Kinji learns that Ambrose and Natsumi are also marked by Fool. Not that he knows who they are.
Tachibana
- 🌟 Sorry for abandoning you mid-chat dad
- 🌟 Kinji's back now and he's got a shiny new mark on his left arm.
- 🌟 And after some discussion on Marks, Kinji promises to help get Tachibana used to the network.
Week Two
Rise
- 🌟 that there's one hell of a romantic bed
- 🌟 Not his first time meeting a Persona user, but first time learning about the Persona themselves
Kanji
- 🌟 Climbing time on the giant chess pieces!
Zed
- 🌟 Shining glowing plasma orbs. Pretty sick
- 🌟 Kinji offers to make Zed his own transfomation device
Right
- 🌟 Bitty learns about Kinji's mark and offers to beat up the Arcana for him
- 🌟 Kinji gushes about his own team a bit, reveals that he tried killing them. Welp
Tachibana
- 🌟 Kinji's feeling a bit nostalgic, Tachibana keeps him company
- 🌟 Missing friends is hard. It's not the same as making new ones.
Week Three
Hajime
- 🌟 disco werewolf
- 🌟 The world's stupidest argument: disco vs. rock and roll
- 🌟 It gets stupider when Kinji tells the werewolf he's a monster hunter when he doesn't know how to kill this specific brand of werewolf
- 🌟 guess who almost dies!
- 🌟 Right up until Hajime comes back to himself. And has a justified go at Kinji for starting a fight with Ivanov
Tachibana
- 🌟 Casual banter about parties turns into Kinji shit-talking Yakumo
- 🌟
- 🌟 Talking about magic leads to Kinji accidentally outing himself on trying to kill the Igasakis
- 🌟 And then thinking fondly on them makes him accidentally send Tachibana a memory.
- 🌟 Super angsty psychic network practice for both of them!
sorry not sorry2017
DECEMBER
Liminal Space: Welcome to the World Series
Week FourFeliciano
- 🌟
- 🌟 This turns into cuddles by a roaring fire
i chime in with aOut of the spooky ocean and into Feli's kitchen!The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
🌟 Kinji hands over the transformation device he made for Zed
- 🌟 literally anyone could have told him this would end poorly
- 🌟 Zed fills the device with darkness, tells Kinji he's the emperor thereof and fucks off
- 🌟 Kinji immediately tells Right and feels worse
- 🌟 Goes back to a different part of Liminal Space and starts beating up a giant tree to feel better
- 🌟 Mr. Sparkles very carefully approaches him to try and make him feel better.
- 🌟 It kind of works. Therapy bat
- 🌟 Tachibana finds him too, and helps him talk it out
Tarot 101
🌟 Kinji doesn't actually do much here
- 🌟 I just want it on record that he was present and has a pretty basic level of knowledge on the Arcana now
Liminal Space: Nein, auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
Drizzt
- 🌟 People lurkin' in trees, no sir
- 🌟 Except this guy, he's cool
Feliciano
- 🌟 Keeping the little guy company
Dakki
- 🌟 someone's kidnapping Kinji's hat
- 🌟 oh she's cute and playing along, she can keep it for now
- 🌟 They talk history a little bit
- 🌟 Turns out Dakki's from Earth! Kind of! Future Earth super far in the future
- 🌟 Bonding leads to invitations to personal rooms
- 🌟 And weird... animal by-product milkshakes that aren't quite milk but definitely shaken
Tachibana
- 🌟 general chatter mostly
- 🌟 Time to convince dad to come to the upcoming Winter Ball with him!
- 🌟 Look Kinji can even fix your outfit for you! No excuses!
- 🌟 And talks of fashion lead to HENSHINS
- 🌟 More talking shit about Yakumo
sorry not sorry'Cause the last few Jaunts have kicked our ass.
🌟 The second annual Liminal Winter Ball!
- 🌟 Kinji gets himself a very fancy design to wear, complete with mask!
- 🌟 And does a little bit of helping Maria make her candy witch outfit even candier
- 🌟 Someone keeps making Hajime's outfit way too ruffly and over-the-top.
- 🌟 Naturally, this means war.
- 🌟 Jolie isn't enjoying everything so much, though.
Jaunt: The Haunted Isle
Week One
Zed
- 🌟 Fire's dangerous bro
- 🌟 Come down here and fucking fight him
KoteiRosalieRilisPhillipPoecilHajime and Tachibana
- 🌟 look at these two arguing idiots.
- 🌟 fantastic first impression: an overly violent posturing idiot barracuda and a brain-touched seahorse
- 🌟 Named Chalice and Sakuya, respectively
- 🌟 The idiots keep arguing even when Teruo leaves.
Feliciano
- 🌟 Feli has to deal with Teruo after he's had to deal with Chalice and Sakuya.
- 🌟 So somebody's in a bad mood when the cheerful Finvestigator finds him.
- 🌟 Teruo sort of rebuffs him hardcore.
- 🌟 Feli takes a really nasty snap at him before disappearing
Tachibana
- 🌟 About an hour after the first meeting, Teruo comes across Sakuya again. The idiot got caught in a current.
- 🌟 Teruo offers him a ride back to the Cornu and gets tail-hugged for his trouble.
- 🌟 Sasses him for being jumpy, throws in some insults for Chalice for free.
- 🌟 Starts going into Song withdrawal. Tachibana notices, but Teruo ollies outtie.
CassandraCalypsoGabrielleGinevraKenzaki...KenzakiGinevra
- 🌟 And here she is! Not as shaken up as him but certainly sympathetic
- 🌟 Spooky song is spooky as shit
StephanieKaiHajime
- 🌟 ugh, this asshole again
- 🌟 Teruo doesn't want to deal with this he's sleep-deprived from Deepsong and stress
- 🌟 Somehow him getting lunch turns into fucking fishy posturing with the barracuda
- 🌟 talk shit get hit fucko
- 🌟 Or even better, get Sung at and suckerpunched in the ribs.
Tachibana
- 🌟 Sakuya has a sick jetpack
- 🌟 Pep talk for the seahorse; you gotta be smart to make sick jetpacks dude, don't sell yourself short.
- 🌟 And then withdrawal symptoms again.
- 🌟 Good job Tachibana; not knowing what a Siren is immediately makes Teruo suspicious
- 🌟 But at least Teruo explains. And probably doesn't make a great case for Song in general.
- 🌟 what's a moral
- 🌟 And a quick chat about totem forms
- 🌟 Tachibana offers to give Teru any info he finds, something that catches Teruo off-guard. Thanks, man.
can you eat itI Call And Wait (Week One and a Half)
Hajime
- 🌟 Teruo finds Chalice on land. While he himself is beached.
- 🌟 it's like watching two cats posture it's fucking stupid
- 🌟 Teruo is a petty shit at Hajime totally flaunting his legs, and Sings at him again to try and fuck him up
- 🌟 Hajime wins though. And TBH it's kind of impressive how long he can stay un-totemed.
- 🌟 They even manage a civil discussion for all of five seconds about the locals
- 🌟 Until they start posturing again.
The Principal Will See You Now
JANUARY
Jaunt: The Haunted Isle
A White Flag of TruceAlcuinAlosaElphabaElphabaWeek Two/Three
Hajime
- 🌟 Teruo finds Chalice beating up a tree.
- 🌟 Very reassuring as to the barracuda's sanity
Poecil
- 🌟 The fingerling finally meets up with the snake in a more relaxed manner.
- 🌟 Not that Poecil particularly wanted to meet him again at all.
- 🌟 Casual chat about why the Pulao school is here and if they're gonna stay.
- 🌟 And some comments about Song that turn uncomfortably intense.
- 🌟 Resulting in Teruo promising to teach Poecil how to sing properly
Tachibana
- 🌟 Seahorse dad finds Teruo right before the Deepsong sets in for the night.
- 🌟 Offers Teruo earplugs, but the snek declines, to speculate on Sakuya's squishy nature.
- 🌟 Teruo doesn't think the Deepsinger is dying, based on Sakuya's asking the question.
- 🌟 And then Deepsong
- 🌟 Tachibana is unaffected, but gets to see Teruo get lost in it and go to follow it
- 🌟 Trying to hold the sea-snake down works okay, since at least he's not leaving
- 🌟 Blocking his ears works too, until Tachibana's yelling gets heard wrong and Teruo tries singing along to the Deepsong
- 🌟 After that wonderful fifteen minutes, Teruo is back and furious at being embarrassed like that.
- 🌟 He manages to take a moment to explain how it feels so wrong to him.
Poecil
- 🌟 Singing lessons!
- 🌟 With bonus trauma!
Kenzaki (and later, Hajime)
- 🌟 Kenzaki offers Teruo a distraction from all the intense shit that's going on
- 🌟 It ends up going quite well~
- 🌟 Riiiight up until Ryo shows up and drags Hajime along with him
- 🌟 Tense as shit stand-off
- 🌟 So let's Sing the problem away as usual
- 🌟 It doesn't get rid of Hajime but it does get rid of Ryo, and that's the same thing right
Lyall
- 🌟 Teruo finally meets the guy who's making those ear plugs
Ginevra
- 🌟 Ginevra has something important to tell Teruo
- 🌟 The Pulao school has a traitor in their midst
- 🌟 And she tells him this several weeks after her first suspicions
- 🌟 TBF Teruo can get why; he wouldn't trust him either.
- 🌟 But they both apologise, agree that has to change in order to find the actual culprit selling them out, and set off to find out who they are.
Tachibana
- 🌟 Someone beat up the seahorse
It's All Over But The Crying
🌟 The two leaders confront the traitor.
- 🌟 Alexandra admits it.
- 🌟 Nobody is happy about this.
Week Four
Hajime
- 🌟 Hajime is ful-moon-PMSing.
- 🌟 And then Teruo spots him.
- 🌟 Run fish-boy run
Siren Song Log
Tachibana
- 🌟 Teruo awakens Song in Tachibana.
- 🌟 !!!
- 🌟 Teaches him some life lessons on Song and also the Song of Calming
Feliciano
- 🌟 Their first active conversation since Feli insulted him
- 🌟 Teruo's mostly curious about the weird fish who keeps singing along that can't Sing
- 🌟 Something about Singing withdrawal gets deeply miscommunicated. Also Feli is weird.
Week Five
Battle against the Deepsinger
- 🌟 Teruo's kinda just here helping with Song.
Tachibana
- 🌟 what's a vaccine
- 🌟 The answer: weird
- 🌟 Just casually mention how the needle reminds you of your fangs that's not weird.
- 🌟 Casual reminiscing about the past few weeks
- 🌟 Revealing how the Pulao school are dissociating from the ship itself, and going their own way.
- 🌟 And ultimately, their final goodbye.
Poecil
- 🌟 Maybe final goodbye?
- 🌟 He's more or less tempting the kid to come and disappear with them.
- 🌟 Come be his new project, Poe.
Kenzaki
- 🌟 Definitely final goodbye
- 🌟 Better make it a memorable one, he'll almost definitely never see this one again in his lifetime.
- 🌟 fade to black
Ginevra
- 🌟 Ginevra's final act as leader of the ex-Pulao mermaid school is to make Teruo its new leader
FEBRUARY
Liminal Space: I'd like to say a prayer and drink to world peace
Tachibana
- 🌟 Kinji apologises for Teruo's behaviour.
- 🌟 wait Tachibana did you really not realise Teruo and Kenzaki were a Thing? Hajime certainly knew
- 🌟 Turns out both of these idiots kept their totem forms and Songs. Kinji is less than thrilled about that, but it does lead to talk of practice
- 🌟 fight me dad let's go 1v1
Kenzaki
- 🌟 well this is awkward.
- 🌟 not least bc Kenzaki caught him in the middle of some severe withdrawal symptoms.
- 🌟 both of them have lingering memories of being very gay that they would like to not thank you
- 🌟 Kinji shuts that shit down and prompts Kenzaki to go find his actual bae and explain
Feliciano
- 🌟 Someone's fallen into Kinji's hole
- 🌟 Another apology is in order! And that turns to discussion on mermaid totem powers
- 🌟 Some commentary on the weird hole-diving effect in place and their own pasts
- 🌟 And they share memories! Snow's weird as shit man
Ryo and Hajime
- 🌟 The bug's the first one to find Kinji all fucked up from his Song hangover.
- 🌟 Kinji sings without paying attention and accidentally hits the bug with it. Sorry Ryo
- 🌟 Hajime is extremely unimpressed by this. And by Kinji in general.
- 🌟 Hajime learned how to turn his hearing off because of Teruo. Kinji works around this by livestreaming his bullshit hangover direct to Hajime's brain.
Drizzt
- 🌟 So an elf, a panther and a cowboy meet in a hole.
- 🌟 Kinji learns that Drizzt's sort-of-not-quite mum Elphaba is gone, and he empathises.
- 🌟 Then Kinji gets excited about Youkai and shows off some photos and his weapon.
Zed
- 🌟 look he's still mad at you Zed
- 🌟 even if Kinji gets very easily sidetracked by being taught fire by the guy. They're sort of maybe still friends, after all.
- 🌟 And then it turns into pep-talking Zed like yeah, you can totally be a hero bro
Phillip
- 🌟 Kinji kind of really awkwardly apologises for being a bit of an abusive shit to Poecil
- 🌟 Phillip might be so angry at Kinji because he's good friends with Hajime.
Dakki
- 🌟 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Zaknafein
- 🌟 After Zaknafein makes a post asking for a fight, Kinji obliges.
- 🌟 He gets his ass handed to him but he still has a good time. And hopefully Zak feels better afterwards too.
Lupa (backdated
- 🌟 Lupa comes across Kinji feeling like shit
- 🌟 But Alcuin told Kinji this guy can help with the withdrawal, so he asks about that.
- 🌟 Lupa is nice enough about it, and takes Kinji back to his personal created space to teach him how to meditate.
close enough to Feb right)Tachibana's Fight Club
Tachibana
- 🌟 FIGHT ME DAD
- 🌟 FIGHT ME AGAIN DAD
Groundhogs and Holes
🌟 Kinji informs the less America-inclined Travellers as to what Groundhog Day actually is.
- 🌟 And why it's making everyone act stupid about shadows.
Come with me where the ocean meets the shore
Alcuin
- 🌟 Kinji and Alcuin meet each other properly for the first time.
- 🌟 Alcuin thanks Kinji for helping with one of his mourning Chorus, and Kinji reveals that he's kept all of Teruo's songs - and thus, his withdrawal.
- 🌟 To help with that, Alcuin gives Kinji some advice and offers that he consult Lupa on the matter.
Cassandra
- 🌟 Not even introductions
- 🌟 Just awkward apologies and talk of what happened over the Jaunt.
Liminal Space: Where a kid can be a kid!
Yakumo
- 🌟 holy shit it's his teammate
- 🌟 good to see you too man let's go get tickets for your
- 🌟 Justice has been an extremely forthcoming Arcana when it comes to information. Kinji's a bit jealous
- 🌟 Kinji gets to inform Yakumo properly as to what happened on the Jaunt they just finished
- 🌟 And a little bit on January, as well as how Liminal Space seems to be predicting Jaunts ahead of time.
- 🌟 Then he shows off his new Elementalism skill and makes Yakki jealous
- 🌟 ONTO WHACK-A-MOLE
stupidlawnmowerFeliciano
- 🌟 Oh so THIS is why Kinji got caught before.
- 🌟 at least the dolls are cute
- 🌟 Kinji gets revenge by being allowed to pick up Feli in the crane game too
- 🌟 And then Kinji picks up Feli. bc he can
- 🌟 Discussion on Jaunts turns into Backstory Time with Kinji!
- 🌟 Kinji even shows off the photo of his dad and brother.
Laughs
- 🌟 Someone's twitchy.
- 🌟 And doesn't understand cameras or photobooths at all.
- 🌟 Asking where he's from doesn't help anything at all.
- 🌟 Laughs is severely unimpressed that Kinji's a hunter.
- 🌟 But Kinji is also extremely unimpressed that Laughs isn't human. So they're even.
- 🌟 This somehow leads to a very circular debate about the nature of memories. Kinji doesn't realise that Laughs isn't being facetious, he literally doesn't know how this works.
Jun
- 🌟 Kinji finds a kid getting frustrated
- 🌟 Clearly the correct response is to one-up him at a kid's game.
- 🌟 Incredibly mature.
Tachibana
- 🌟 He is the sneakiest pizza thief
- 🌟 dad met his friend isn't Yakumo so cool dad
- 🌟 Chatting about skills leads to the open offer for Yakumo and Kinji to train in the bamboo room.
- 🌟 Kinji offers his phone to Tachibana to look at the coding for his Youkai Detector app
Artemis
- 🌟 don't worry medieval guy, pizza's supposed to look like that.
Phillip
- 🌟 Ninja powers for skeeball totally isn't cheating. You can tell because Kinji isn't in the ball pit yet.
- 🌟 And he gives the kid some teleporting lessons for his troubles.
Yakumo vs. Laughs
- 🌟 WHAT
- 🌟 WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY IS YAKUMO TRYING TO FUCKING RUMBLE WITH A WEREWOLF
- 🌟 Jumps in fifteen minutes late with Starbucks and a big stick
- 🌟 If these two aren't going to behave then Kinji's going to sing at them
- 🌟 It works until Yakumo tries leaping past Kinji to attack the werewolf and they both get sent to the ball pit.
- 🌟 Kinji immediately follows them both. The werewolf is not forthcoming with info as to what he did to Yakumo so Kinji just sings them both to sleep
- 🌟 Everyone continues to behave until they can all leave.
Right
- 🌟 Catching up with the bitty proper post-Jaunt
- 🌟 Looks like he's already met Yakumo too!
McCree
- 🌟 holy shit it's another cowboy
- 🌟 Kinji shows off his ninja skills and sums up Liminal Space a bit
Drizzt
- 🌟 Drizzt why are you trying to give a ninja a heart attack
- 🌟 honey caffeine is not a poison. I'm sorry but you got Pranked hardcore
- 🌟 our dads are the best aren't they
Early on in the Pizza Mingle
🌟 Maria's growing up and Kinji offers to help her sort out a new wardrobe!
Ballpit shenanigans
Yakumo
- 🌟 Cheating ninja get an extra hour in the ballpit.
- 🌟 Doesn't stop 'em
- 🌟 Let's see how far we can push an attack before it counts as an attack.
- 🌟 This does start to get frustrating and boring eventually, so Kinji plays with Liminal Manipulation while he and Yakumo chat about their Arcana.
- 🌟 Yakumo has Justice; Kinji has Fool, and shows off his Mark to great concern.
- 🌟 Kinji doesn't know what happens if they don't play by the Arcana's rules, but he suggests Yakumo tune in to the network chatter and find out.
Ryo and Yakumo
- 🌟 The bug found their tickets
- 🌟 Kinji manages to save the day by convincing Ryo that the tickets are theirs, and promises to help the bug buy some ties for his everyone.
- 🌟 you're welcome yakki
- 🌟 And they finally escape the ballpit.
- 🌟 Yakumo tries explaining to Ryo why lawnmowers are important, but Kinji interrupts and gives Ryo the exact wrong idea.
- 🌟 They also discover that their hammerspace has somehow become separated from each other. Yakumo's quick to fix that.
- 🌟 For helping him get ties for his weird extended family, Ryo gets Kinji and Yakumo ties as well!
Tachibana and Yakumo
- 🌟 Tachibana comes over to watch the sideshow
- 🌟 Yakumo's embarrassed but Kinji's excited to introduce his allies to each other
- 🌟 Yakumo reveals that he knows a couple of other Riders. Tachibana and Kinji are both surprised by this revelation.
Phillip and Yakumo
- 🌟 Mostly it's just the two idiots seeing how hard their attacks can go before being counted as attacks.
- 🌟 Phillip's just here with popcorn.
Natsumi and Yakumo
- 🌟 Natsumi expects Kinji to somehow not behave like a child around Yakumo.
- 🌟 sorry not sorry Nat
- 🌟 The boys are distinctly unimpressed by her telling them what to do.
Nanja Monja Ninja!
Yakumo
- 🌟 Pre-beatdown with wereLaughs
- 🌟 Showing off skills new and old
- 🌟 And seeing what kind of havoc they can wreak with their combos.
Zed
- 🌟 Guess who's gonna be permanent lowkey salty about that damned armour
- 🌟 At least Kinji's actually good at his.
- 🌟 eat dirt Zed
Yakumo
- 🌟 Post-beatdown with wereLaughs.
- 🌟 By their powers combined, they work out Laughs is the latest werewolf to come to Liminal.
- 🌟 Leads to analysis of fear-based powers and the use of Song.
- 🌟 Kinji needs reassurance that he's not Teruo. Or Kyuemon.
[Video]
🌟 Being useful and transferring a memory for Tachibana bc Dad can't use these new-fangled skills.
FEBRUARY 2.0
Jaunt: Pogemon
Week OneNetwork Check-in- 🌟 Kinji chimes in as himself, points out his sick new cowboy hat
- 🌟 And has nothing but approval for Zed's light-up sneakers.
JulesJulesFelicianoFelixTachibana
- 🌟 Looks who else has a partner!
- 🌟 Rodeo meets Garren and the tinier Pog immediately presumes that the robot wants to fight
- 🌟 This is not an unfair assumption
Yakumo
- 🌟 Someone snuck a flyer on Kinji's back while he was busy fighting Rodeo. So now they're both going to find him for lunch.
- 🌟 Yakumo's a lot more wigged out by Rodeo than Kinji is re: not being a giant mecha.
- 🌟 Some Arcana speculation; Kinji sucks at it, so he directs Yakumo to people who don't.
- 🌟 And after lunch, they head back to Yakumo's room for their time here.
Jun
- 🌟 The new kid also has a Pogemon!
- 🌟 One that takes an immediate shine to Rodeo (and vice versa) while Jun and Kinji talk shop.
Vision Time Again [Third day of the week]
🌟 Kinji contributes.
Week Two
Emperor Emperor
- 🌟 First introduction to the dadliest Arcana is by having him tell someone Kinji is actually a girl.
- 🌟 Kinji learns a little bit about the nature of this Jaunt.
- 🌟 Apparently the Arcana "[observe] what you will do, in hopes that you will step in before things go 'belly-up.'"
NatsumiNatsumiHajimeJoker and Amanefor blackmail probablyDakkiKatieRaidou
- 🌟 Someone's Pogvestigating and not having the best time of it. Kinji offers his services to help a guy out.
- 🌟 Kinji covers Raidou's ass while the guy escapes.
Network Post (Backdated yeeeeah)
- 🌟 Lupa's lost Raidou. Kinji offers the last point he saw the guy.
NatashaNatashaTachibana
- 🌟 Dad and Garren arrive just in time to see Kinji absolutely crush one of his opponents in the tournament.
- 🌟 And then everyone goes and gets burgers.
- 🌟 Rodeo doesn't have any food, so Garren tries offering him some while the Slammers talk about Arcana, and how Tachibana's is playing this round.
- 🌟 The two discuss plans on what they can do to learn more about the history of the world, and what they're supposed to do about it.
Right
- 🌟 bitty why are you smoking
- 🌟 why are you giving off darkness are you okay
Felix
- 🌟 Bitty has so many places to be, one of them should not be a crash landing into Rodeo's legs.
- 🌟 Kinji and Rodeo get to meet Sage!
- 🌟 They learn Felix doesn't have any parents, and Kinji tells the child he doesn't have any, either.
Pogminion and Yakumo
- 🌟 BURGER MONSTER SENTAI ASSHOLE LET'S GO KICK ITS ASS
- 🌟 Kinji's first two moves are to take a selfie and summon Yakumo
- 🌟 It... turns out to be a really disappointing fight. Burger minions are weak as shit, Kinji didn't even need to henshin to fight it.
- 🌟 But doing so anyway has made Rodeo the most confused companion.
- 🌟 Kinji and Yakumo get some very interesting information out of it: namely, that it's working for a more powerful Pogemon called Nevermore
While the above is happening
- 🌟 Kinji makes a network post livestreaming his fight with the burger
- 🌟 It cuts off just after it begs him not to eat it.
- 🌟 General agreement is that the burger monster is fucking stupid
- 🌟 And when Kinji shares the name Nevermore, it gets some interesting comments.
- 🌟 Tachibana points out it's the name of a supposedly dead villain.
- 🌟 Naoto and Jun comment that it's the name of a poetry raven.
- 🌟 Lupa knows that one of Malik's partner Pogs is a raven.
Chie (backdated like fuuuuuuuuuuuck)
- 🌟 Chie's a leggy ball of salt
- 🌟 So of course Kinji goes and is an asshole to her. Including changing her outfit.
- 🌟 Which gets him knocked out of his chair and dragged into a fight.
MARCH
Jaunt: Pogemon
This isn't when the boss fight is supposed to be!!!🌟 mistakes were made
- 🌟 Kinji, Rodeo and Yakumo all get taken by the burger monster to the castle of the big bad final boss of the entire Jaunt.
- 🌟 And when they get inside, Nevermore's first action is to kill the burger that led them there.
- 🌟 tl;dr total clusterfuck
- 🌟 oh and Yakumo's sword, shuriken and Nintality got stolen
Week Three
Yakumo
- 🌟 After they fought Nevermore, the bastard dropped them in a dumpster and left them to
- 🌟 Kinji still has Rodeo, even if the poor Pog's beaten up so badly he got Pogged, but they're all alive. It's fine it's cool.
- 🌟 And then he severely offends Yakumo by calling him out on what just happened when it's all just as much his own fault.
diesuffer.Yakumo and Jun
- 🌟 Attack of the slobber monster!
- 🌟 Yakumo gives Jun some direction on how he can be Useful.
Yakumo and Jean
- 🌟 Jean finds them too
Yakumo, Joker and Amane
- 🌟 As do Joker and Amane.
- 🌟 Yakumo learns the hard way that Hajime will remember all of this later.
- 🌟 But for now Kinji just tries to negotiate with the children to not mess them up any further.
Yakumo and Tachibana
- 🌟 Eventually Tachibana pings Kinji and comes to help them.
- 🌟 And he comes bearing clean clothes and healing pogs!
- 🌟 The former is unnecessary bc Ninja but the latter is sorely appreciated.
- 🌟 Meanwhile Kinji and Yakumo have to actually exit the dumpster. Not so fun.
- 🌟 Both of them smell disgusting.
- 🌟 Kinji takes a moment to change his outfit.
- 🌟 Rodeo's back out of his pog, yaaaaay.
- 🌟 Tachibana calls them a ride back to their hotel, before talking logistics on attacks with Yakumo.
Network Post
- 🌟 Kinji gives out what useful information he and Yakumo have discerned from fighting Nevermore for themselves.
- 🌟 Kinji has a great deal more relevant information than Yakumo bc he's actually been paying attention to how Pogemon work.
- 🌟 he also gets into a fight with Yakumo bc of course he does
Natsumi
- 🌟 Kinji runs into his fellow Fool at the tournament, and reveals he fought Nevermore.
- 🌟 The girls immediately berate him and Rodeo.
Katie
- 🌟 Katie's the former hero of this world; she of all people deserves to know first that Nevermore is back.
- 🌟 Kinji might be fudging some of the details but it's accurate enough.
MalikMalikMelissaMelissaZed and Mr. Sparkles
- 🌟 Rodeo's having a wander on his lonesome. He needs some time to think after learning Kinji is a Pogemon belonging to someone else
- 🌟 (This isn't actually true but like Rodeo has a point of reference for sentai)
- 🌟 And finds Zed trading decent Pogs away. Here let- let the actual fighter help.
Tachibana and Garren
- 🌟 And shortly after, comes across the other team.
- 🌟 Tachibana manages to guess exactly what's wrong before Kinji shows up.
- 🌟 Both Slammers tell their Pogemon that they're from a different world, and - circumstances allowing - they want to bring their Pogemon along with them when they leave.
Week Four
Network Post: Travellers Assemble!
- 🌟 Kinji and Yakumo supply a great deal of relevant information to the cause.
Pogminions
- 🌟 Now that Kinji and Rodeo are on the same page again, they're an unstoppable team! And join the Guardia Initiative to help defend against the influx of "evil" Pogemon.
- 🌟 Like the Burger Sentai Burgerger.
- 🌟 Really, this is just embarrassing.
- 🌟 Their buns are toasted in a matter of moments, but at least they got some useful info out of it.
Zed
- 🌟 Zed catches a monster the boys happened to miss.
- 🌟 Kinji tries to give his friend(?) some more lessons on how to be shining.
- 🌟 ...it's debatable how much sticks.
Tachibana
- 🌟 Dad calls him out for threatening Malik.
- 🌟 no shame no regrets shit needed doing
- 🌟 Kinji still gets an upgraded Searcher out of it though.
Kanji and Piyo
- 🌟 The duo spot Piyo using a Delta Factor-enhanced move and love it.
- 🌟 Kinji looks like he belongs in a TV show from Kanji's universe.
- 🌟 Even if Piyo doesn't want to fight, he can still be useful!
Jun
- 🌟 The boys go rushing into the Pogemon world first chance they get.
- 🌟 And happen across a scared pupper and his exasperated Slammer.
Yakumo
- 🌟 They later find Yakumo being tailed by babies. So they tail along too.
- 🌟 Yakumo is in the middle of a very nice dramatic speech when he turns around and sees Kinji and Rodeo there.
- 🌟 Rodeo distracts the babbies for a minute while Kinji goes and talks to Yakumo proper. Apparently to try and convince him not to go to Nevermore's castle again.
- 🌟 It doesn't work, but at least he can pass on the info he got from the Burgergers.
It's The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny!
The Battle against Nevermore
- 🌟 tl;dr Travellers win
- 🌟 and Yakumo gets his gear back!
Week Five
Ambrose
- 🌟 Ambrose offers Kinji victory tacos
- 🌟 Brief chatter on both being heroes back home.
Yakumo
- 🌟 oh that lawnmower Pogemon that followed Yakumo back has Pogmented.
- 🌟 oh my god it looks like Otoroshi--!!
- 🌟 --Yakumo he's not going to kill a Pogemon come on. He'll escort it back to the Pog world with you.
- 🌟 Kinji almost does a better job of explaining why they have to leave than Yakumo does.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Kinji may be the only person in Pogtopia who's not sick of burgers.
- 🌟 Except then Yakumo turns it into fish and chips.
- 🌟 Which leads to a great deal of back and forth and generally being sassy assholes.
- 🌟 Yakumo has concerns about telling Rodeo about how they'll have to go back to Liminal, but Kinji's got it sorted.
- 🌟 and then everyone goes off and fights
Liminal Space: They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken
Dakki and Rappy (backdated to hell and back)
- 🌟 Kinji and Dakki meet up and learn that both of their Pogemon came with them!
- 🌟 This is a Concern because Dakki was Infiltrated. And now Rappy's panicking because 'Katie' is gone.
Kenzaki
- 🌟 Kinji tries playing "golf" and smacks Kenzaki upside the head.
- 🌟 sorry bro
- 🌟 Maybe let's not discuss murder in front of the kids.
Hajime
- 🌟 And the same thing happens to Hajime
- 🌟 sorry not sorry bro
- 🌟 Rodeo meets who Joker actually is
- 🌟 And immediately wants to fight him.
Yakumo
- 🌟 And Yakumo too, but he fakes out.
- 🌟 But they're both bored so let's fight
- 🌟 Goes about as standard as you'd expect from them until Yakumo's over-the-top attack sends Kinji flying back into a pool.
- 🌟 And turns on his merform to keep from panic-drowning.
- 🌟 Yakumo does not appreciate this
- 🌟 And after some minor heart attacks and an Emergency Henshin, they start fighting again.
- 🌟 It doesn't last very long.
Artemis
- 🌟 Kinji sneaks up on the guy in the Workshop
Thorne
- 🌟 Somebody's joyriding and Kinji is happy to take full advantage of it to joyride Thorne
- 🌟 Thorne doesn't appreciate this.
- 🌟 She tries to throw him off, but only succeeds in knocking off a dummy.
- 🌟 But Kinji still stops when she gets legit mad.
Kanji
- 🌟 oh man Kanji's way more into this than Thorne!
- 🌟 In that he doesn't actively try and throw Kinji off until he stops very suddenly.
- 🌟 it's okay Kinji's fine.
Tachibana (and Yakumo)
- 🌟 Kinji and Rodeo go and stick their heads in Tachibana's workshop.
- 🌟 Rodeo and Garren immediately go off and do their own thing while Kinji and Tachibana discuss the logistics of making a full-size mecha.
- 🌟 Kinji shows off how he can possess vehicles, so they don't need a control panel, but Yakumo jumps into the buggy as well so he can scold Kinji.
- 🌟 Turns out he only cares so much because he and Tachibana have some kind of grudge going on.
- 🌟 Kinji tries to get them both to talk it out properly, but it ends with Tachibana storming off and feeling like Kinji's taking Yakumo's side.
Tachibana
- 🌟 After that disastrous conversation, Kinji goes and tracks Tachibana down later to explain things better.
- 🌟 Tachibana kind of starts projecting his own insecurities onto Yakumo's way of life.
- 🌟 Dad is determined to get his angst on and Kinji isn't having a bar of it.
- 🌟 Discussion on Tennouji, and Kinji continues calling Tachibana out on being
- 🌟 Kinji manages to turn the conversation around by talking shit about Yakumo, before he gets Tachibana to help him print some photos of/for Hajime.
a masochistan isolationist.Jarlaxle
- 🌟 Let's get wasted aka Kinji doesn't know how to drink whiskey and Jarl has no intent of teaching him the proper way.
Feli (and later Yakumo)
- 🌟 guess who's drunk
- 🌟 Feli AND Kinji! Except Kinji's way more so and keeps getting worse as the thread progresses.
- 🌟 She tries to throw him off, but only succeeds in knocking off a dummy.
- 🌟 But Kinji still stops when she gets legit mad.
All Aboard The Shadowy Express [Dungeon Rescue] (forward-dated to next Mingle)
- 🌟 Right's in a Dungeon and Kinji goes to help out.
Motorcycle Noises...
- 🌟 Kinji commentates on the racing.
APRIL
Liminal Space: Look again. Your Liminal is now Intro.
Hajime
- 🌟 Bugs are a lot better at navigating moving Liminal Spaces than robots. Ninjas are also better at it than Undead.
- 🌟 Said Undead is also super fucking 90s Radical and looks ridiculous. Turns out it's Delta Factor, which freaks Rodeo right out.
- 🌟 Kinji's teasing of Hajime leads to, surprise surprise, another fight with Hajime. But at least it's mutually consensual.
- 🌟 Kinji wins! \o/
Dakki
- 🌟 CASTs do it better too. At least Rappy's also having trouble.
Pidge
- 🌟 let's race shortstack
Yosuke
- 🌟 OH THIS GUY
- 🌟 This guy got sucked into a wall and thrashed by Rodeo in a fight.
Cassandra
- 🌟 Cassandra wasn't on the Pogemon jaunt, she has no idea what Rodeo is.
- 🌟 Kinji's happy to explain, and also go into his own powers a bit too when those come up.
- 🌟 Talks up his own Nintality a little bit too.
Shaun and Beeca
- 🌟 Another struggling Slammer, another entirely competent Pogemon.
- 🌟 Rodeo finally gets put away in his Pog to stop the poor thing getting motion sick.
Casper
- 🌟 Someone doesn't know how to use a baseball bat.
- 🌟 But Casper does know how to do a posturing contest right, and that pleases Kinji to no end.
- 🌟 Kinji nerds right out when Casper mentions monsters, and starts showing off his selfies
- 🌟 what's a power ranger
- 🌟 And a brief discussion on the Arcana and what their less-than-subtle Liminal might mean.
Captain Jack Sparrow
- 🌟 Someone is showing off time-period inappropriate everything to the pirate.
Istas
- 🌟 what the fuck is that
- 🌟 Someone...weirdly civil.
- 🌟 Until Kinji mentions he's a hunter. But he manages to recover from it shockingly well.
- 🌟 He didn't die basically.
- 🌟 And even got mostly on Istas's good side again by helping her find a room and complimenting her clothing.
Kazuichi
- 🌟 Peeking over the guy's shoulder while Kazuichi works on a bitty robot.
Percy
- 🌟 Kinji gives him a brief update on the jaunt Percy missed.
Natsumi
- 🌟 Someone else is having great trouble with the movement.
- 🌟 Kinji offers to help with her wardrobe, and even shows off how he actually can be fashionable.
Feliciano
- 🌟 Kinji goes to apologise to Feli about getting drunk on him last Liminal.
- 🌟 And gets to meet Undine, Feli's new Persona.
- 🌟 Kinji's not here to discuss his personal life, let's change topic onto Right's dungeon.
- 🌟 And vampires. But that's a less fun conversation. So Kinji drags up photos of Yakumo in drag to lighten the mood.
- 🌟 And that backfires too, so Kinji just pulls some cowboy rope tricks out.
Zed
- 🌟 Pranks
- 🌟 And teaching Zed what quantifies as a decent one.
Right
- 🌟 Bitty's doing so much better after his dungeon!
Maria
- 🌟 Candy showers!
- 🌟 Kinji bemoans his unable-to-make-food state.
The Curse Chronicles
Yakumo
- 🌟 Yakumo's disappeared for a few hours and Kinji has a concern.
- 🌟 Doesn't expect to find his best friend sequestered away in the room of the guy he hates.
- 🌟 First attempt at communication fails, comes back later to find Yakumo is still there
- 🌟 Whatever is happening to Yakki feels like shit, as his stream to Kinji demonstrates, and they discuss options.
- 🌟 Whatever's cursing Yakumo makes a snide comment at Kinji, which leads to the reveal that Yakumo's gone and gotten in another argument with Tachibana.
Tachibana (and Yakumo)
- 🌟 Kinji comes out to steal Tachibana's laptop and make a tracker app to try and find out what's haunting Yakki.
- 🌟 Tachibana reveals his own searcher, one that can track the Yoloninja's Nintality - and also the energy of the curse bothering Yakumo.
- 🌟 Before Kinji can get it on his phone, Yakumo goads him. It's on, bitch.
Yakumo (and Tachibana)
- 🌟 Yakumo's been on edge for two days and needs relief. What better way to get it than fighting Kinji?
- 🌟 As expected, Kinji kicks his ass. Excellent aftercare, though, as they discuss how to give Yakumo a break over a cup of tea.
- 🌟 Neither of the boys are particularly happy with it, but the best method is Song.
- 🌟 And Sing Kinji does - for so long that it draws Tachibana's attention, and he goes to help Kinji out.
- 🌟 This is a Mistake.
- 🌟 Yakumo wakes up immediately and attacks the pair of them. Tachibana resolves the situation by turning the bamboo grove into a cafe with Yakumo's favourite tea. As you do.
- 🌟 And now they're all starting to get along, yaaaaay
Yakumo
- 🌟 Kinji finally worked out Room Creation and makes the Igasaki mansion's backyard for Yakumo to relax in.
- 🌟 And because threads march on without the muns' input, Kinji teaches Yakumo fire. And they play-fight with it.
- 🌟 Rodeo Does Not Appreciate this.
- 🌟 And then everyone settles down for a cup of tea.
- 🌟 Yakumo breaches the subject of Kinji's 'suspected relationship' with Feliciano
- 🌟 This gets extremely awkward extremely fast. And when they finally resolve it and get to be gay again,
BAM new Jaunt.
Jaunt: Olympus Upended
Week One
- 🌟 Immediately upon arriving in jaunt, Kinji's hat gets stolen by a wind spirit.
- 🌟 And he uses teleportation to get it back, which surprises the wind spirit like hell.
- 🌟 The pair of them have a very awkward first meeting because the spirit can't understand Kinji's accent and keeps frisking him
- 🌟 And then they spend the rest of the day playing in a field.
- 🌟 So this guy's also a Heraclide
- 🌟 Seems nice enough apart from insisting that Kinji go and get drunk with him.
- 🌟 They get into a brief pissing contest that turns into a short-lived brawl when Kinji impresses him with his reflexes.
- 🌟 innyourendos
- 🌟 Kinji stops Hajime from beating up some poor random who happened to be in the wrong place
- 🌟 Unfortunately, that means Kinji takes his place, and a beat-down starts.
- 🌟 Hajime fucking bites him
- 🌟 But before Kinji gets beaten to death in week one, he gets rescued! And immediately falls unsconscious.
- 🌟 And when he comes to, Kinji's in a strange house with a strange figure standing over him.
- 🌟 As soon as he can, he tries to escape. And when that fails, he attacks.
- 🌟 Turns out Galen can heal himself. Welp.
- 🌟 He takes being attacked surprisingly well, and keeps fixing Kinji up. They chatter about their angst.
- 🌟 And Galen even gives him a ride back into the city!
- 🌟 Just going for a starlit stroll after getting woken up by Cloud.
- 🌟 Comes across a fair damsel who appreciates that he knows about the stars.
- 🌟 Wind spirits are assholes.
- 🌟 Gelos shoves Kinji off a ceiling to see how he'll react.
- 🌟 Kinji's response is to roll with it.
- 🌟 May or may not accidentally giving this new wind spirit advice on how to successfully kill people.
- 🌟 They get philosophical about how to regain energy, gain power and create Trials.
- 🌟 Then Cloud fucks off to go bother Galen about it.
Network Post - Percy is so very sorry
- 🌟 Kinji reports that the Riders are all missing. Natsumi agrees to chime in when some of them start showing up.
- 🌟 He also has a little bit of pity and a lot of amusement for Jules' house getting destroyed.
Jarlaxle
- 🌟 Elf boy is checking in to see if anyone's spotted the other Drow.
- 🌟 Kinji has not, but he has got some advice on the nature of Infiltrations.
YakumoCloudDakki
- 🌟 Yay they're both still themselves!
- 🌟 Kinji gets antsy about his Mark, but Dakki misinterprets and shows off hers as well.
- 🌟 What a good friend.
ShiroShuraFeliciano
- 🌟 Kinji buys a himation and needs help strapping it on
- 🌟 Thank you Feli for teaching him how to dress himself.
- 🌟 Kinji doesn't really approve of Feli wanting to go up the mountain but some things can't be helped.
- 🌟 Then the pair of them go to the market to get snacks.
HajimeKarisTachibanaGalenNetwork Post - A Couple Days In
- 🌟 Kinji shares that Hajime and Tachibana are both Infiltrating and Hajime is an asshole
- 🌟 Helena offers mundane help to prevent the bite wound from scarring.
- 🌟 Lyall reports that his overlay is technically in charge of Hajime's and is severely umimpressed.
- 🌟 Feli actually does heal him, using his Lifey powers when they meet up in person.
Aquiloulis
- 🌟 Chit chat.
Cloud
- 🌟 Wind spirits are assholes.
- 🌟 Cloud rips up Kinji's tent in the middle of the night demanding to play
- 🌟 Kinji uses his Hammerspace and freaks the hell out of Cloud.
- 🌟 And makes an oath on his life that he "won't ever try and contain" Cloud.
- 🌟 They get philosophical about how to regain energy, gain power and create Trials.
- 🌟 Then Cloud fucks off to go bother Galen about it.
ThorneSeleneLaughsGelosMingling with the Mini's
🌟 And now for something completely different.
- 🌟 Rodeo is trapped in Liminal while Kinji is on Jaunt.
- 🌟 So he goes and meets up/hangs out with all the over leftovers in the fruit salad world.
- 🌟 He and Garren find each other and hide at Hajime's for safety.
- 🌟 And because timey wimey, Rodeo also finds Blade and they both head to Hajime's too.
- 🌟 Playing fetch with Aquapup, the poor baby needs a distraction.
- 🌟 (which also comes in the form of Beeca taking him back to the workshop)
- 🌟Beeca also bothers Rodeo. Both of them really hate the sugar rain.
- 🌟 Mothman and Rodeo kind of just confuse each other.
APRIL 2.0
Jaunt: Olympus Upended
Week TwoKaris
- 🌟 Puppy!
- 🌟 ...puppy belongs to Karis.
- 🌟 Fuck.
Casper
- 🌟 Someone made a mistake in trying to rob Casper.
- 🌟 Catching each other up on gossip and plans.
- 🌟 And making plans to spar when they get back to Liminal.
- 🌟 goat pee
Altaïr
- 🌟 Angry stab-uncle spots Kinji taking photos
- 🌟 And realises hey, maybe this could be useful for getting reference pics from the libraries here.
- 🌟 Come on Kinji let's go bootleg everything
SaraSaraiFeli
- 🌟 Poor Feli's all but having a panic attack on the mountain.
- 🌟 Kinji accidentally turns it into a full one when he livestreams Feli a bit of earthquake.
- 🌟 He does not know Feli has Issues with earthquakes.
- 🌟 At least he manages to calm his friend back down, and drops the telepathic call so they both don't get distracted any further.
McGonagallAgoraeaMinako
- 🌟 Just two Investigators pulling temple duty.
- 🌟 And gossiping about Jaunt shit over the Network.
Percy
- 🌟 dude don't walk out into the ocean alone
Tybalt
- 🌟 Let's help the giant telepathic kitty Traveller.
- 🌟 Can't do portals or cure Tiresias, but he can offer fire for warming Tybalt up.
- 🌟 So they head to a temple so they can both dry themselves by a proper fire.
- 🌟 And towel Tybalt off.
Kohaku
- 🌟 Kinji opens by being a massive hypocrite.
- 🌟 "if yer tryin' t'find words that'll make y'all stand out" really Kinji
- 🌟 And now he's just showing off. Using his fire power and Wardrobe Manip 2 to help dry Kohaku off.
- 🌟 Kinji learns that Hajime's overlay really has been trying to fight everyone.
- 🌟 And towel Tybalt off.
Thace
- 🌟 You could at least try and be subtle, man.
Galen
- 🌟 Uncle dad-taur is back from the mountain!
- 🌟 ...not with good news.
- 🌟 After sharing info, Kinji gets another ride on Galen's back, to the centaur's house once more.
- 🌟 And after seeing it's intact, Kinji gets forcibly put on Angst Reduction Duty.
- 🌟 At least after that he manages to get Galen to have a goddamn nap.
CloudYakumoNetwork Post: Gathering those Plot Bunnies
- 🌟 Kinji gets his ass on the Network and reveals everything he's picked up from Yakumo and Galen.
- 🌟 tl;dr shit's fucked let's go fix it.
- 🌟 Naoki reveals that this is supposed to happen; the gods are meant to die.
- 🌟 Casper has a Concern for Kinji because Titans are fucked up in his own world, but Kinji reassures him.
- 🌟 A lot of discussion goes on.
- 🌟 the Doctor won't stop fucking arguing
[Mid-Jaunt] someone's biases are starting to show (technically forward dated to Week Three)
🌟 Kinji meets all the Titans, spread out over two days.
- 🌟 Day One Psychic Post: feat. Arke and Selene
- 🌟 Yakumo finds Arke, and convinces him to talk to Kinji and include him in the plan.
- 🌟 It's uncertain going for a bit, but together they manage to get Kinji on Arke's good side, and the immortal runs off to fetch other Titans.
- 🌟 When he's gone, Kinji and Yakumo spend some time faffing about and winding each other up. They are so hype guys.
- 🌟 Meeting Selene is a surprise. Kinji's already met her once this jaunt already without knowing she was a Titan.
- 🌟 She seems to approve of him, at least. So much so that she offers him immortality.
- 🌟 ...welp.
- 🌟 At least she takes it well when Kinji politely declines.
- 🌟 Day Two Psychic Post: feat. Helios and Prometheus
- 🌟 Helios first, in the morning (of course).
- 🌟 He's much more to the point about everything than the other Titans have been so far.
- 🌟 Not much for either of them to add, but Kinji offers up Galen as a potential new god.
- 🌟 Saving the best for last, Prometheus is the final Titan for the day.
- 🌟 He seems to approve of Kinji on principle. Thinks he's audacious
- 🌟 ...aaaaaand offers to make him the new god of storms.
- 🌟 please stop offering him godhood oh my god he doesn't want this
MAY
Jaunt: Olympus Upended
Week ThreeNetwork Post: Progress Report A
- 🌟 Kinji posts his livestreams of Arke and Selene on the Network.
- 🌟 Casper offers Kinji his direct assistance, but Kinji turns it down.
- 🌟 Chie tries starting shit with him and Kinji calls her the fuck out.
Network Post: Progress Report B
- 🌟 Less chatter than the first post.
Galen
- 🌟 Immediately post Titan dealings, Kinji stumbles across a familiar puppy.
- 🌟 Only this time it's accompanied by a centaur. Much more relaxing.
- 🌟 And he gives Galen the downlow on what's theoretically happening.
- 🌟 And makes mention how he recommended the centaur for godhood. Welp.
Arke and Yakumo
- 🌟 The three are off on the road, raiding temples and taking names.
- 🌟 Except Arke is so much faster than the yoloninja that he has to keep stopping and waiting for them.
- 🌟 The two defend that humans aren't as useless as Arke seems to think.
- 🌟 He actually seems to consider it, too.
Gelos
- 🌟 Kinji just wants a break
- 🌟 Gelos just wants to murder the guy who's been messing with his brother.
- 🌟 Trees are not a soft landing. And running for his life immediately afterwards is just the best recovery time.
- 🌟 Thank you for coming to his rescue Yakumo. Kinji's leaving now.
Broly
- 🌟 MONSTER YOUKAI HOLY SHIT LET'S FIGHT IT
Network Post: [A day or so after the Werewolf Mess]
- 🌟 Kinji is first to realise what Lyall's vision might be, and gets to see it for himself.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Take two on camping with a wind spirit.
- 🌟 Yakumo's struggling a bit with being opaque, so Kinji offers some advice.
- 🌟 And himself as a viewing screen for what form shifts ought to feel like.
- 🌟 Yakumo starts to get a bit homesick for his own body.
Galen and Yakumo
- 🌟 Kite's gotta break eventually, and Galen's there to catch Kinji when he falls.
- 🌟 And breaks Yakumo's mind.
Kohaku
- 🌟 You wanted to spar, Kohaku. Let's go.
- 🌟 Kinji's a bit tired but like that's going to stop him from owning.
- 🌟 He's down for weapons but Haruka suggests sticks.
- 🌟 Probably for the best.
- 🌟 He takes round one easy on her, but round two lasts a grand total of five seconds.
- 🌟 You asked for this Kohaku.
- 🌟 Kohaku might not have magic ninja bullshit but Kinji can still teach her some sick flips.
Network Post: A Return and a Rant
- 🌟 and yet another Traveller rejoins the Investigating side.
- 🌟 Kinji gives Kanji the lowdown so far.
Rodeo and Feliciano
- 🌟 Meanwhile, in Liminal Space.
- 🌟 Feli is hiding and Rodeo has nothing to do so hi!!!
- 🌟 There is a coffee mess so Rodeo goes to help clean it up--
- 🌟 --aaaaaaand his arm glitches out bc Feli's cursed, so Feli goes and hides
- 🌟 and has a panic attack at Kinji because he thinks he broke Rodeo.
- 🌟 (Rodeo's fine)
Zed
- 🌟 Time to check up on his somehow more irresponsible friend to see if he got anything good out of the mountain trip.
- 🌟 ...turns out yes.
- 🌟 Kinji's gonna borrow that Divine Ball Chopper thanks.
Network Post: Just in case there was any doubt...
- 🌟 Kinji supplies intel and gets offered to meet Bernkastel in person to make plans.
Network Post: And now for something completely different
- 🌟 Good on you Jules
The Lady of the Crossroads, Mysteries, and the Golden Land of the Dead
- 🌟 Kinji gets invited to Bernkastel's special meeting for cool and reasonable people.
- 🌟 Not much besides general discussion on how Beatrice the Golden would be a good option to nominate.
Week Four
Arke and Yakumo
- 🌟 Time for the three of them to go and get Arke's wings back.
- 🌟 YEAH
KarisHajimeFeli
- 🌟 Just casually saves Feli from a crumbling building nbd.
- 🌟 The Nation ain't doing so hot. But Kinji gives him a hit of Song to help out.
- 🌟 Feli's feeling a bit useless but Kinji gives him a pep talk and gets him on water duty.
Dakki
- 🌟 She needs a hand and Kinji obliges.
- 🌟 Not in... the most appropriate way possible. But it's help!
Network Post
- 🌟 Kinji gets summoned for info purposes.
Hajime
- 🌟 This time when Kinji finds him, it's to help him in a fight.
- 🌟 Armour up, kicking ass and taking names!
- 🌟 Just casually decapitate the hydra in front of the guy who told you he just got decapitated Kinji
- 🌟 real cool
- 🌟 still, they work out how to beat it and win!
Network Post
- 🌟 Claudia does a check-in.
- 🌟 Kinji checks in on the hydra and Hajime's state of alive.
- 🌟 Also chimes in at the mention of 'Titanspiracy' and gives his two cents.
Network Post
- 🌟 Percy also does a check-in. Checking if he's allowed back in the game if he can play nice.
- 🌟 A certain cowboy has certain opinions on how it should go down.
- 🌟 (since Percy is pro-Olympians and Kinji is pro-Titans, none of their convos go down well).
- 🌟 They get into major disagreements
- 🌟 Until
mum and dadClaudia and Altaïr step in and tell them both off.Week Five
Galen
- 🌟 Tachibana finds Kinji half dead on his feet.
- 🌟 And offers to give the poor suffering ninja a break.
- 🌟 By putting him to sleep by magic for a bit before letting Kinji sleep in his tent.
- 🌟 They have a nice catch-up chat about everything that went down.
- 🌟 And Galen gives Kinji a blessing: to always be warm whenever he wants to be.
- 🌟
too bad he doesn't keep it after the jauntJunKosmasYakumo
- 🌟 Yakumo helps keep him sane towards the end of it all.
- 🌟 Some brief discussion on how the jaunt might end and the potential for an actual "both Arcana can technically lose" ending.
Arke
- 🌟 Arke has a gift for him! It's a blessing!
- 🌟 "You will be able to find any that you seek, when you come bearing a message for them"
- 🌟 ...yay?
DrizztDurisHajime
- 🌟 Someone's still elfy and being harassed by drunk Heraclides
- 🌟 oh how the tables have tabled
- 🌟 Kinji goes snake form to scare them off, knocks one out cold.
- 🌟 Hajime smothers the other with demon cockroaches.
Galen (and Sousanna)
- 🌟 Oh hey, Galen's dead girlfriend is alive again.
- 🌟 Good for him!
Hiroshi
- 🌟 Hiroshi might be drinking to forget. Let's try distracting him.
Gelos and Yakumo
- 🌟 One final attempt at murder for the road.
- 🌟 Gelos just picks Kinji up and throws him into the ocean a few hours' swim away.
- 🌟 Kinji fakes out drowning, turning into snek form to hide.
- 🌟 And Gelos goes and tells Cloud the good news. He murdered the guy that was corrupting his brother!!
MAY 2.0
Liminal: Gather up your jackets and move it to the exits
Ninja Nap TimeYakumo
- 🌟 After Kinji gets back to Liminal, the first thing he does is go and sleep.
- 🌟 Yakumo comes and wakes him up, and they hang out
and be gayKenzaki, Blade and Rodeo
- 🌟 And while Kinji naps, Rodeo gets up to mischief.
- 🌟 Hi Kenzaki! Hi Blade!!
Laughs
- 🌟 Oh great, the wind is still harassing Kinji.
- 🌟 At least it's a step down from attempted murder again.
- 🌟 MESSAGE FROM Laughs FOR Yakumo: "It will be safer for you next time to not act out of character for his overlay that much."
- 🌟 why does laughs even caaaaaaaare
Altaïr
- 🌟 Photo delivery for Altaïr is a success.
- 🌟 ...except he didn't need to print literally all of them
Network Post
- 🌟 Ambrose has some questions about checking his blood.
- 🌟 Kinji has recommendations that aren't actually terrible.
Casper
- 🌟 Kid's holding Kinji to his promise of having a good ol' fashioned beatdown with him.
- 🌟 But first, Kinji teaches him how to make his own room so they don't have to use Kinji's.
- 🌟 FIGHT FIGHT GO GO GO
- 🌟 TRAUMATISE CASPER GO GO GO
Hajime and Rodeo
- 🌟 Rodeo busts into Hajime's restaurant and uses Cor and Almast's super secret sign language at him.
- 🌟 And then Kinji comes by to collect Rodeo.
- 🌟 ...who spills the beans on them testing Postman Sense.
Network Post: Regarding goats
- 🌟 Kinji adds his two cents to the whole infiltration-relationship pot.
- 🌟 This turns into a kind of intense DNM with Kenzaki
Cassandra and Rodeo
- 🌟 Cassandra is probably not the greatest person for Rodeo to be hiding behind.
- 🌟 Not like it's hard for Kinji to find him anyhow.
- 🌟 Catching up on Jaunt shenanigans!
Bernkastel
- 🌟 Kinji thanks her for her help during the Jaunt.
Network Post: Meandering thoughts on nothing in particular
- 🌟 holy shit another Youkai Hunter!!
- 🌟 Eren needs Youkai explained to him but Kinji is more than happy to oblige.
Right and Rodeo
- 🌟 And the bitty's next on the list to be barged in on!
- 🌟 Rodeo and Right don't recognise each other from the Pogemon Jaunt. Fair enough really.
- 🌟 Kinji catches up soon enough.
Rodeo and Hiroshi
- 🌟 Rodeo's off bothering people while Kinji looks for him.
- 🌟 There's a guy lying down, let's bother him!
Matthew
- 🌟 Looks like Kinji's not the only one who kept something of Arke's.
- 🌟 Kinji gives him a quick brief on what happened while Matthew was infiltrating.
- 🌟 (This is their first as-themselves convo, as it turns out)
Yakumo and Rodeo
- 🌟 Kinji and Rodeo are sparring, and Kinji loses. Tag in Yakumo!
- 🌟 Yakumo's style is so jarring to Rodeo that he can't keep up, and Yakumo takes pity on him and tries to teach him how to fight.
- 🌟 This has... mixed results.
- 🌟 And results in Kinji jumping back in for a three-way brawl.
Dakki and Rodeo
- 🌟 Dakki comes across the boys sparring some more and says hi!
- 🌟 Yakumo's style is so jarring to Rodeo that he can't keep up, and Yakumo takes pity on him and tries to teach him how to fight.
- 🌟 This has... mixed results.
- 🌟 And results in Kinji jumping back in for a three-way brawl.
Tachibana, Garren and Rodeo
- 🌟 Kinji finally gets to say hi to Tachibana when he's himself again!
- 🌟 Tachibana's not doing so hot, so Kinji tried distracting him (while Garren and Rodeo go play video games YEAH)
- 🌟 Kinji gets overexcited when he gets Tachibana to show off his centaur form, and asks to see what it's like on the inside.
- 🌟 But when they try it, Kinji accidentally uses Consciousness Transfer.
- 🌟 Which makes Tachibana completely flip out and shut down in shock.
- 🌟 He recovers after a few minutes, and Kinji gets him to calm down properly soon after.
- 🌟 Kinji also gets to hear the entire backstory behind how that particular trigger came about.
- 🌟 He doesn't leave until he's dead sure Tachibana's gonna be okay on his own. God does he feel bad about this whole mess.
Network Post: On the topic of unexpected skills
🌟 When he's sure Tachibana's fine, Kinji checks in on the network with the news on the skill.
- 🌟 Reviews are
- 🌟 Natsumi especially is super wigged out, and Kinji learns this happened to her in reverse one time. Pretty badly.
- 🌟 Kenzaki tries to warn him against using it on Tachibana, except...
- 🌟 Yakumo is the sole except to the revulsion, and immediately scoops him up in Liminal to do some testing.
mixedmostly negative.Thorne
- 🌟 there is a horse can Kinji pat it too late he's patting it anyway
- 🌟 In rapid succession Kinji learns way too much about Thorne's personal life, that Jules broke Liminal Space that one time, and that Thorne thinks he's hot enough to invite to a threesome.
- 🌟 ...good to know?
Yakumo and Dakki
- 🌟 yes Dakki's allowed in their room Yakumo gosh be nice
Get me out of this cavern (or I'll cave in)
🌟 Feli falls into a dungeon and Kinji is one of his rescuers.
JUNE
Liminal: The stars look very different today
Ninja Nap TimeYakumo and Tachibana
- 🌟 Sparring with Tachibana turns serious when they make him bleed and realise he has Immortal Ichor.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Kinji's feeling hurt and betrayed by Yakumo conspiring with a werewolf.
- 🌟 It's definitely not a comfortable discussion, but it's a necessary one, and ends with the concession "I won't if he won't."
- 🌟 And because Kinji's still feeling cockblocked it ends up in a fight.
Tachibana
- 🌟 Tachibana feels up to trying Consciousness Transfer again.
- 🌟 Kinji has his doubts but he's not gonna say no.
- 🌟 It doesn't really last very long before Kinji decides Tachibana's had enough.
- 🌟 He did his best.
Fools Rush In
🌟 Ambrose gathers all the active Fool-marked Travellers for a meeting.
- 🌟 tl;dr Fool should Win
- 🌟 Everyone thinks Reimu's a bit of an idjit.
Send for the Captain ashore; Let me go home
🌟 The latest All Souls Rest chorus. As usual, Kinji is present.
- 🌟 Kitty asks him what's up.
Liminal for reals
Shiro
- 🌟 These are kind of shitty spaceships, is the general concensus.
- 🌟 Kinji apologises for cheating at their drinking game.
- 🌟 And gushes about being a ninja.
Jason
- 🌟 New kid in town!
- 🌟 Kinji gets to give him the 101 about Liminal Space. And offers to fight/train him.
Xena
- 🌟 Xena is back!
- 🌟 She is a little bit intimidating and not particularly pleased by some of his early descriptions of events.
- 🌟 But Kinji gets his second wind and she starts approving of him.
- 🌟 And they make a promise to be ready to fight each other without warning. As you do.
Not that Kinji knows she was gone, they didn't actually interact during The Haunted Isle.Jean
- 🌟 There is a stable.
- 🌟 Kinji has to go and check it out.
- 🌟 Aaaaand there is a talking horse. She's very nice, though. And belongs to Jean.
Yakumo and Laughs
- 🌟 Kinji just wants to do some science, see if a hurricane can defeat the eternal fog.
- 🌟 All it does is get Yakumo and Bob in wind spirit form to heckle him and try to steal it.
- 🌟 Understandably, Kinji gets kind of mad at them both for being a hazard. It's a bit rich really.
- 🌟 Laughs proves to be too frustrating for Kinji to deal with, and he nopes out of his own thread.
Rodeo and Hiroshi
- 🌟 Rodeo crashes his joyride near Hiroshi.
- 🌟 Thank you for literally helping him get his head on straight, sir.
Zed
- 🌟 Someone doesn't appreciate being batted around by hats.
- 🌟 Zed we know you're trying and we love you
- 🌟 But how you went about things in Greece was distinctly south of Lawful Good.
Matthew
- 🌟 Some awkward small talk.
- 🌟
seriously these two have the weirdest chemistry when they're not InfiltratingTachibana, Garren and Rodeo
- 🌟 On your left
- 🌟 Sorry about scaring Garren into not being able to fly, Tachibana.
- 🌟 While the grown ups chatter, the Pogemon get distracted by playing with a UFO.
- 🌟 And then the Pogs get lift-off. Bye dads.
Tachibana
- 🌟 After their sparring match with Yakumo, Tachibana retreats.
- 🌟 And Kinji goes to talk him out of it.
- 🌟 Tachibana kept a whole heap of things off of Galen.
- 🌟 But he doesn't know about healing, so Kinji just slices his own arm in order to make Tachibana trigger it unconsciously.
- 🌟 It work but still, what the fuck Kinji.
Matthew
- 🌟 There is a cassette tape cow and a cassette tape player room. Matthew why.
- 🌟 Let Kinji wrangle that cow for you, this was literally his job.
- 🌟 And let him listen because he wants in on this.
- 🌟 ...
- 🌟 okay nevermind no he doesn't
- 🌟 The fuck Arcana is this.
Kenzaki and Blade
- 🌟 Cow wrangling to save Blade from himself!
Jaunt: Showtime
Infiltrating as Ken Tagami, manager and headliner of the Shooting Stars.Dayeek One
PhillipPhillipnot that Phillip knows itfrontman to be harassing him.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Hey Yakumo, enjoy Kinji being all passive and panicked.
- 🌟 Yakumo basically demands Ken's paperwork off him and delegates the manager to a more reasonable amount of duty.
- 🌟 Thank you weirdly compelling stranger.
TachibanaTachiKittyLiloRodeoRhodes andKenzakiKazRhodes and
- 🌟 Gotta help his boss out when she's trapped up high of her own accord.
AmandaAmyNatsumiNatsumiKohakuKelly AnneHajime and RyoRyo and NoodleZed
- 🌟 And yet another manager to give Ken grief.
- 🌟 Only this one's an Infiltrator Persona so Zed really gets to appreciate how pathetic Kinji looks right now.
- 🌟 And is also the manager of Ken's direct rival on all fronts, Audio Outcast.
- 🌟 Good times...
BernkastelEricaAmy
- 🌟 Ken's finally done with today and he just needs to faceplant for ten minutes.
- 🌟 Amy mostly offers the idea of local cryptids stealing the missing band.
SoujiMarshallRiseLisa K.JesseJesseTachi
- 🌟 And after that nice break he goes back out and into the city to check on the motel.
- 🌟 Where he runs into Tachi, who offers to get him a drink.
- 🌟 It's some good relaxing banter, at least. And he gets a ride back to the tour bus on Tachi's bike.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Someone comes and unexpectedly knocks on the tour bus after Ken gets back from all his work!
- 🌟 Thank you for everything Cloud let's go get a drink to celebrate everything not going to shit.
- 🌟 Cloud insists that they can walk, but Ken sure as hell doesn't know the way.
- 🌟 Oh, that poster? Of Totally Real David Jemmant? Yeah Ken can introduce you tomorrow he's the Shooting Stars' frontman.
- 🌟 During this walk, as can only be expected, they get horribly lost and ask for help from someone Yakumo would much rather forget ever happened.
- 🌟 And Ken keeps trying to take the blame for the evening going weird. Stop it.
- 🌟 At least he's happy to offer another chance at going out for drinks together.
JUNE 2.0
Jaunt: Showtime
Dayeek Two
Phillip
- 🌟 Before Ken goes to get changed into Shooting Star, he gets caught by Phillip.
- 🌟 Who decides that flirting with Ken is the correct course of action.
- 🌟 They have matching earrings, after all.
Jesse
- 🌟 And right after Ken has changed into Shooting Star, he gets caught by Jesse.
- 🌟 Not that it's an issue, Jesse just has something he wants to talk about.
- 🌟 Which Ken pushes back, to Jesse's blatant displeasure.
- 🌟 sorry bro
Zed
- 🌟 While they're both in a record shop in the city, Ken's guard notices Zed being a prick.
The DoctorZiggy StardustLaughs and Yakumo
- 🌟 Yakumo's just lining up to get a signature from David Tennant. NBD he's not gay Tennant is just amazing.
- 🌟 Laughs is less convinced; he can smell that Star is actually Ken. Sorry Laughs Yakumo is so ignoring you.
- 🌟 Exceeeeept Laughs is right. That's totally Ken.
- 🌟 such heartbreak for Yakki.
MariaMariaDeathAgent d'EathTachi
- 🌟 ho my god it's Star, Tachi's his biggest fan.
- 🌟 Mostly Ken just really enjoys seeing how different everyone acts when he's Star.
Lisa K.
- 🌟 Jesse disappeared after the concert where the hell did he go, Lisa is trying but she's not really reassuring.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Jesse is still missing but Yakumo coming by the trailer is a good destress for Ken.
- 🌟 Also... a ninja. Apparently.
Yakumo and Tachi
- 🌟 Tachi swings by to check on Ken at 2am because clearly that's a reasonable time to be actively out and about.
- 🌟 Yakumo's still giving Ken a pep-talk and learning as much info as he can.
- 🌟 He's being... weirdly open about being a ninja. What the hell buddy, you're doing Ken a concern.
Dayeek Three
Jesse
- 🌟 Oh hey, look who's finally back at seven in the morning!
- 🌟 Now that Ken's done panicking, what the fuck Jesse where were you
- 🌟 The conversation turns very rapidly intense. Turns out these two have a lot of shit building up between them.
- 🌟 This was... not a healthy conversation.
Kelly Anne
- 🌟 Ken could really use something to take his mind off of that mess. Unfortunately, Kelly doesn't think it should be hard labour.
Phillip
- 🌟 Looks like someone else is in a bad mood, too.
- 🌟 Phillip is the one to tell Ken that Jesse went and played a few sets with Jacob.
- 🌟 This is... a very unfun revelation. Thanks, Phillip.
Tachi
- 🌟 Ken's having a bad day, so what's better than a friend coming up to him with some beer and a shoulder to cry on?
- 🌟 Even if he doesn't necessarily go crying on it, he appreciates the beer. Beer is good.
- 🌟 Unless it's drugged.
- 🌟 What the fuck Tachi.
Time for jail!
Zed
- 🌟 Zed's voice is the first Ken hears when he wakes up.
- 🌟 Props to Zed for trying to bring Kinji back to himself, but he already went and burned his Memory Restore on someone else.
- 🌟 So now he's just staring creepily at Ken.
Dakki
- 🌟 Dakki is a far more comforting presence than Zed. Even if this is technically Ken's first time meeting her.
- 🌟 She gets to hear about how Tachi probably drugged Ken! Yaaaaaay.
Yakumo
- 🌟 oh god Yakumo's here too he's so sorry Cloud
Allura
- 🌟 Allura tries to be comforting, and it almost works! A reassuring, confident voice is much appreciated.
JULY
Jaunt: Showtime
Alien Prison Break
(Technically present, but never commented whoops)
Dayeek Four
Yakumo
- 🌟 Ken gets broken out of jail! And gets thrown back on-stage right in time for his concert!!
- 🌟 And after that's all done Ken outs himself as being Shooting Star!!!
- 🌟 And after that, when they're done playing, he rushes off-stage and kisses Cloud!!!!
Rhodes, Kaz and Ryo
- 🌟 Meanwhile, after the Shooting Stars perform, Rhodes finds two members of Wild Cards making out.
But something's bugging you, something ain't right
- 🌟 Ken finally manages to tell his bandmates what actually happened, why he disappeared and what went down after.
Yakumo
- 🌟 And finally, finally.
- 🌟 The promised Date
Dayeek Five
Tachi, Garry and Rhodes
- 🌟 Garry comes up to Ken to deliver a message for Tachi.
- 🌟 Which Ken tears up, and he basically demands the other roadie bring Tachi and Rhodes here so he can Tachi a piece of his mind.
- 🌟 It's an extremely uncomfortable situation. Nobody is happy at the end of it.
Phillip
- 🌟 Well this is just weird.
- 🌟 Phillip offers to take Ken on board his own band if Ken doesn't end up actually wanting to retire.
- 🌟 And Ken tells Phillip how he and Zed were actually straight-up FBI-kidnapped.
- 🌟 They're kind of bonding.
- 🌟 What the hell.
Dakki
- 🌟 Ken's jail buddy comes to visit him after everything's over and makes sure he's okay.
- 🌟 And learns a few things about Texas and Ken in general.
LupaGeordiDakki and Rhodes
- 🌟 Rhodes is totally bludging on the job, and he finds Dakki at the record shop.
- 🌟 She has a very cute laugh. Rhodes is very taken, and keeps trying to make her laugh more.
- 🌟 is v cute.
Yakumo
- 🌟 yay he's still here!!!
- 🌟 And he has a parting gift for Ken - his own dragon earring.
- 🌟 swoon swoon Cloud you're a damn gentleman.
Jesse
- 🌟 And at the end of it all, Ken finally gets to spend time with just Jesse alone, like they promised.
- 🌟 There's a bit of shit-talking on Phillip, but mostly the boys just spend the night being hella gay about their respective British gents.
Mingle: On a clear day you can see forever
Matthew
- 🌟 Stars. Hell of a lot of them, huh.
- 🌟 Oh, Matthew was on walkabout. Cool.
- 🌟 Kinji gets a valuable lesson on not portalling in front of locals.
- 🌟 By being taught how to portal.
- 🌟 Which confuses Matthew, bc Kinji has Teleport and Liminal Manip.
Kohaku
- 🌟 The water's fine, Kohaku, come join him. He's a snake but that's cool, it's fine.
- 🌟 Don't mind as he shoves you into the water.
- 🌟 :D
Jean
- 🌟 Boy you are so drunk. It's cute.
Phillip
- 🌟 Oh, good. They both have the earrings still.
- 🌟 Arcana are the fucking weirdest.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Stop ignoring Kinji you asshole or he's gonna bust out of your can of tea and attack you.
- 🌟 ...he may have underestimated how much Yakumo would want to murder him for it.
- 🌟 But at least they're finally talking, and he's getting answers out of his bff.
- 🌟 Turns out Yakumo is way too gay to function and also keeps making arguments up as to why Kinji's upset of his own accord. Not the greatest idea.
- 🌟 At least they hash that out properly. And then Kinji can show off the earring!
- 🌟 Then he goes and mortally insults Yakumo, which leads directly to trying to kill each other with each other's weapons.
Tachibana
- 🌟 This guy is also drunk.
- 🌟 Kinji's just gonna help him back to his room.
- 🌟 Tachi is a very conversational drunk. And he cries when Kinji presents the model they're gonna be basing the mecha off of.
Altair
- 🌟 Let's see if the assassin can't teach the ninja any new techniques.
Natsumi
- 🌟 He keeps saying he'll teach her how to be FASHION, and now he finally can!
Kenzaki
- 🌟 These two might still be a little bit gay for each other.
- 🌟 While under the truthy influence of Liminal Alcohol is actually, surprisingly, the best time to figure that shit out.
- 🌟 Conclusion: they're not each other's types. And that's okay.
JULY 2.0
Mingle: I scream, you scream, we all scream (for intro mingles)
Chie
- 🌟 Kinji continues to be best friends with Chie.
- 🌟 Meaning he gets suckerkicked in the stomach by her.
- 🌟 Such good friends.
Jules
- 🌟 Before he tries the ice cream, though, he gets distracted by the Star Earring.
- 🌟 And Jules very kindly offers to help change the settings for him!
- 🌟 But Kinji'd rather learn how to change them himself instead. Much more convenient.
Yakumo
- 🌟 Then Kinji gets into the caramel and all hell breaks loose.
- 🌟 An attempt at reining it in is made by Yakumo.
- 🌟 As can only be expected, this turns into these idiots fighting.
- 🌟 Or trying to, when neither ninja can lift their weapon.
Yakumo and Zed
- 🌟 And Zed decides the heroic thing to do is to step between and stop them.
- 🌟 Neither ninja takes this particularly well. Especially when he starts using darkness to do so.
Yakumo and Dakki
- 🌟 Dakki also steps in to stop the kids fighting!
- 🌟 Thought admittedly it mostly works because she's now an old-school CAST that the ninja don't recognise.
Tachibana
- 🌟 And when that's all done, he comes across Tachibana!
- 🌟 By crashing into him. Smooth.
- 🌟 Rodeo is having real difficulty keeping up with him.
Kohaku
- 🌟 A child, a robot and a furry meet at a picnic...
Jesse
- 🌟 Kinji retained all his memories when he got caramelised. Jesse did not.
- 🌟 Which means Kinji can show off everything he knows how to do, and try and goad Jesse into fighting him.
- 🌟 The outlaw has severe reservations about fighting a child, even one as determined as Kinji.
Malin
- 🌟 It's probably not a great idea to leave the obvious vampire around the Youkai Hunter,
- 🌟 ...apparently because it results in the hunter getting hypnotised into submission.
- 🌟 Rodeo's fucking pissed.
however small he might be now.
Rodeo and Ryo
- 🌟 RYO GOT SO BIG
- 🌟 WHAT THE FUCK
Rodeo and Shiro
- 🌟 Of course Kinji has to run into the responsible adult.
- 🌟 But then he's the one to tell Kinji about the raspberry relish.
- 🌟 And accidentally make Kinji really want it.
Tracer
- 🌟 New girl on campus! Welcome to Liminal have a bitty ninja.
- 🌟 He's less than pleased about being told he can't beat her in a race.
Feli
- 🌟 And someone very child-like has gorged himself on ice cream.
Tachibana, Garren and Rodeo
- 🌟 When Kinji next finds the Rider, they are both children.
- 🌟 And Kinji is coming down off his sugar high, so he is tired and stressed and upset.
- 🌟 And to his eternal embarassment, he starts crying.
- 🌟 Very shortly after he turns back to normal, but still.
- 🌟 Time to give Tachibana some more therapy!
Ambrose
- 🌟 Kinji might be done trying toppings, but Ambrose is still going.
Right
- 🌟 And the actually-a-child is no longer one, and sporting a rainbow mop.
Cassandra
- 🌟 Cassandra's not really into ice cream.
- 🌟 But she's down for chats about the Arcana, and about their part in the shitstorm that was Achaia.
- 🌟 And that's how Kinji learns she doesn't know how to look back at old network posts.
The tenets of the hypothesis that humans have no soul are disputed.
🌟 Kinji has a bad fucking time.
do you believe in magic [cw: truthiness]
- 🌟 At least he has Song to put on the table.
Mingle: Tea time won't be the same
Phillip
- 🌟 Dude's offering lessons on how to stop monsters, how can Kinji pass that up?
- 🌟 Even if they're not monsters in the strictest sense as Kinji knows them.
Rodeo and Cassandra
- 🌟 As usual, sparring matches with Rodeo are a lot more space-consuming than can be reasonably expected.
- 🌟 Sorry for almost braining you, Cass.
- 🌟 Kinji needs to learn to stop talking about food around her.
Rodeo and Tachibana
- 🌟 Target Practice! Fight ON!
Yakumo
- 🌟 After the hellhole of Laughs's dungeon, both of them need a break.
- 🌟 And both recount what they went through in there. Kinji was only in for a few days; Yakumo was there for a month.
- 🌟 Seems like they both need a bit of reassuring after that.
AUGUST
Mingle: Tea time won't be the same
Uh oh, it's magicAlcuin
- 🌟 Kinji offers his services in Song to help Alcuin teach it, if need be.
Jean
- 🌟 Comparing magical stylings of Ninja across the multiverse!
- 🌟 And Kinji learns a thing or two about Questing Country.
Yakumo
- 🌟 TBA?
[Video]
- 🌟 Pops his head in to chip in his two cents.
Jaunt: The Unquiet Dead
Infiltrating as Kris Thompson; a young American who's dating Harrogate Museum's curator, Skye Hartley.Week One
YakumoSkyeHiroshiJamesPearl
- 🌟 Do you need a hand little girl?
Matthew
- 🌟 Who is this lost sassy hobo
- 🌟 Well he can see ghosts, like Romeo can.
- 🌟 And he's easily bribed with baked goods.
AltairFather BrownAmbrose
- 🌟 Wassup fellow American fellow, welcome to Bumfuck nowhere!
BruceZedEmperor of DarknessAceGrandpa AceCasper
- 🌟 Romeo doesn't like ghost boy at all. no sir
Raidou and Inugami
- 🌟 dog dog dog!
- 🌟 ghost dog, hi hi hi!!
McCreeJaimeMadoka
- 🌟 Let's have your people talk to my people
- 🌟 which means let's set up a youtube interview date
VilariValerieMaria and Skye
- 🌟 Maria accidentally possesses Romeo, but that's okay because they're friends!
- 🌟 They can go and get sweets together!
- 🌟 And write messages in flour for Kris to read because Maria really wants her cookies.
- 🌟 This isn't concerning at all, what are you talking about.
Yolotube: The Myths, The Legends, The Shitposts
🌟 A log for all of the Yolotube videos to go up on.
- 🌟 First on the agenda: Continuing on from the MaRomeo post!
- 🌟 Having a big old seance with Maria in Romeo's body, asking her questions about where she's from and what's going on.
- 🌟 All this lovely useful information being thrown onto the Internet!
- 🌟 Followed later by Protective Runes 101
- 🌟 For when your dog keeps getting possessed.
- 🌟 Interview with a Tourist: Madoka's time to shine!
- 🌟 Back with Dr. Durante: A comprehensive history of what went to shit in Harrogate last time
- 🌟 featuring poor Alcuin who was there for it.
- 🌟 Sightseeing in the Sinkhole!: the boys make their way underground when the sinkhole opens up.
- 🌟 Witches in Harrogate?: Skye's spiel about Ella being a witch who cause a car accident for the two boys.
- 🌟 then they get shut down by the government.
- 🌟 and then Skye makes a very important blog post about Harrogate being under a quarantine.
Week Two
James
- 🌟 Wake up in the morning with a quake and panic
Maria
- 🌟 Time to leave Yolotube another message!
Crazy Taxi was better in the arcade
🌟 first of all
- 🌟 holy shit Kris and Skye did not expect to get into this cab and have it get taken over by an insane ghost.
- 🌟 they want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride
- 🌟 they do but not without the taxi itself plummeting into the sinkhole
Ace
- 🌟 Of course the boys are going down the hole grandpa, why are you surprised
Skye
- 🌟 TIME TO GO DOWN SOME HOLES
- 🌟 LET'S FILM EVERYTHING
Matthew
- 🌟 But before he goes in one of those days, he checks in on Matthew.
- 🌟 Because when you're in the car that mows someone down, there's a bit of a guilt complex afterwards.
- 🌟 Matthew doesn't really approve of his and Skye's idea to salvage shit from the hole.
Pearl
- 🌟 Pearl finds a sad pupper.
- 🌟 Let's take him back to his owners!
MalinMarySkye and the Harrogate Theater
- 🌟 Regrets
- 🌟 Everything is 8spooky20ever and these two are just gonna leave thanks
Fact finding
🌟 Souji and Kohaku team up to investigate the Museum for some answers from Yolotube
Week Three
Skye and Romeo
- 🌟 Have a particularly traumatic nightmare, Kris.
- 🌟 At least you have a boyfriend and a pupper to help you afterwards.
Pearl
- 🌟 Kris has been putting up protective sigyls and banners to keep the Museum safe from ghosts.
- 🌟 And tends to a small girl who has been taking the lack of sleep very roughly.
- 🌟 She can hug a puppy, drink some hot chocolate and help him make more posters!
Pearl
- 🌟 thanks I hate it
AlluraArtemisFeli
- 🌟 It takes Feli a little bit long to click that Kris is in fact an infiltration.
- 🌟 But it's a nice conversation, just shooting the breeze.
Valerie
- 🌟 A friendly ghost drops past to just enjoy some company.
James
- 🌟 Guess who has two thumbs, a heaping pile of cakes and zero sleep!
- 🌟 This guyyyy
- 🌟 So James takes pity on the poor bastard and gives him a ward to induce lucid dreaming
- 🌟 This being a thing he can do is news to Kris.
Jaime
- 🌟 PTSD is a son of a bitch.
Riddick
- 🌟 Well. That's one way to learn his friend's dead.
DelaunayDelaneySEPTEMBER
Jaunt: The Unquiet Dead
In which the simplest explanation is probably conmenDakkiDanielleSkye
- 🌟 hi boyfriend are you okay boyfriend they'd better not have hurt you
Skye and Julien
- 🌟 They have nothing better to do than riff on their idiot jail companion.
Alcuin
- 🌟 Someone's tetchy.
Skye and Delaney
- 🌟 Oh good, they're being put under house arrest instead. Wonderful.
- 🌟 Except no because it means being driven.
- 🌟 Skye has a panic attack and has to bail out.
Week Four
SEPTEMBER 2.0
Jaunt: The Unquiet Dead
In which the simplest explanation is probably conmenDakkiDanielle