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EVENT LOG: DOWN THIS ROAD
Who: EVERYONE going to Ginnungagap
What: the Down This Road mingle log!
When: Days 401-404 ( Feb. 9-16 )
Where: Asgard, Ginnungagap, and the road inbetween.
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!
[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Down This Road event! Remember that you must leave Asgard on Day 401 ( Feb. 9/10 ) if you want to opt out of this month's body horror event! Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] in the subject of your comment, as well as the time and location. Both Honir and Mimir will be around in this log, so feel free to contact us if you'd like them in a particular thread somewhere. Let us know if you have any questions! ]
What: the Down This Road mingle log!
When: Days 401-404 ( Feb. 9-16 )
Where: Asgard, Ginnungagap, and the road inbetween.
Rating: PG-13. Anything higher than that should be taken to a private log, please!
- Day 401 ( Feb. 9/10 )
- Waiting by the Gate of Fire will be several carriages all prepared to take the Travellers to their destination. Natives will help them load into the carriages and provide a personal pack of food and blankets to those that need it, all with a grim face and averted eyes. This journey is one few outside the immortals have ever made, and only several thousand years ago. It's a sacred place, and one they are not entirely comfortable with seeing entered. But their King gave them orders, and so the caravan will depart by midday with Mimir and Honir at the head to lead the way onward.
They will continue riding through sunset and stop to make camp by nightfall. The gods will tell the Travellers to rest up, as the rest of the journey will be a strenuous one. - Day 402 ( Feb. 11/12 )
- The caravan will pick up again for a few hours, but it will come to a sudden halt with a cry of pain from the leading carriage. The accompanying gods will be feeling the same inexplicable wrenching as the gods in Asgard, but this far from the city, its effects will not reach the Travellers in their party. A moment will be spared for their recovery before Honir announces that it's best they continue on foot; from there on forward, it's a hike, and not a particularly friendly one.
Ginnungagap sparsely littered with old trees and short, soft grass on the outskirts of the canyon, streams flowing from varying mountain peaks into the vast space below; deeper within, it is sheer rock and sharp edges that are harsh and unyielding. If one were to look at it from above, they might think someone stabbed a knife into solid stone and carved out a jagged wound, and so it is moving through the canyon itself, where one false step can lead to certain and painful death.
The vast majority of the day will be spent moving slowly and carefully, with few breaks to stop for water and rest while Honir and Mimir negotiate the safest paths. By the time it goes dark, they will be too deep into the canyon and its steep cliff faces to stop without risking losing someone to the jagged rocks hidden in the darkness, and so the gods will conjure small orbs of light to follow each Traveller as they direct every footfall very precisely until they reach their destination.
They will stop just outside the path that leads to the cavern of the Earth Giants' final resting place. There is ample space to make camp and rest for the night; Honir and Mimir will have to vanquish their lights in order to regain their strength, so they will urge the Travellers not to go off wandering on their own. The sound of slowly streaming water and the echo of emptiness will linger just outside their reach in the darkness as they try to sleep. - Day 403
- By early morning, very little sunlight will be able to reach the company from their position on the small plateau, but the gods will wake their companions and relight their guides to lead them further in. It takes less than an hour to reach the entrance to the kingdom of the Earth Giants, and sunlight will flood the ruins in abundance. It may be easy to tell that the sprawling city was once something of magnificence, the architecture careful and precise to maximise their position in the sun carried down into the canyon.
However, nearly all buildings lay in varying states of destruction, as though a large bomb went off at the centre and blew outwards. Every surface is overgrown by moss, weeds, and chaotic tangles of vines. Waterfalls that were contained and utilised in artful structures and fountains have worn down the walls of the cavern and flow freely throughout the ruins, leaving the earth a sodden constant. The kingdom has fallen into complete disrepair in the eighteen-thousand years it's been deserted.
Most notable, however, is the distinct lack of life anywhere throughout the cavern. Ginnungagap on the whole is not terribly occupied by wildlife, but there are animals and insects that can be found roaming the cliffs; here, there is absolutely none to be found. Nothing stirs but the sound of water echoing off of empty walls, and there is, it seems, a very unnatural hollow sensation from simply standing in this space so devoid of life.
It has long been believed that the tragedy of the Earth Giants' obliteration starved this land of its will to thrive, but this is an extreme the gods did not foresee. The Travellers will be free to explore for a few hours, but will be ushered out at the insistence of the unnerved gods before midday. They have a long journey ahead of them, and they will not stop for anything until night has fallen and they are far from this barren wasteland. - Day 404 ( Feb. 13/14 )
- Travel back to Asgard is otherwise uneventful in the wake of their discovery in Ginnungagap. They will arrive to the city pulling itself together after its latest blight, and the gods that accompanied the caravan will give hurried farewells before quickly making their way to the castle to bring news of their experience. The natives will once again help the Travellers unload, this time even more grim than before. Strange things are stirring, and the confusion on both sides will leave many questions unanswered.
[ OOC NOTES: This is the mingle log for the Down This Road event! Remember that you must leave Asgard on Day 401 ( Feb. 9/10 ) if you want to opt out of this month's body horror event! Please put [OPEN/CLOSED] in the subject of your comment, as well as the time and location. Both Honir and Mimir will be around in this log, so feel free to contact us if you'd like them in a particular thread somewhere. Let us know if you have any questions! ]
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Yeah, right in the middle of the city and I've already lived there, so I didn't have to move, besides just into the dorms.
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Was it a nice place? If it houses its students like that...
[Most would find it more convenient to simply take the bus or train, so it must have been a fancy place indeed.]
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[ Sound proof too. Perfect for his crush to get murdered in his room, c-cry. But ah, this question... ]
Yeah, it's nice school, since it's a super-exclusive academy. Or at least I'm guessing, but it probably was.
[ He lost two years of his memories, which included his school life there so he can't really answer that question properly... ]
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You're only guessing? You don't know for sure?
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[ Not a big deal, right? H-Haha... ]
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Did you hurt your head while you were there or something?
[It's just a hunch, but even with a dumb question like that... if it turns out to be wrong, this guy will probably fill in the blanks himself.]
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[ Getting hit over the head with a pipe and falling down a garbage chute after a failed execution, though? That counts... ][ Sure sounds weird when he says it... ]
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So you're a type of amnesiac?
.... WOW I LOST A WHOLE SENTENCE IN MY LAST TAG I'M SORRY HOW DID THAT HAPPEN
IT'S COOL
He actually stops and turns to see Naegi's face properly, but... Even after some scrutiny, that's not really the face of a liar. It's far too open. So then...]
Wait...
What do you mean by that? Someone took them?
[Congrats Naegi, he actually looks legitimately surprised for once.]
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[ So he just gives a small and slow nod. ]
Y-Yeah. It's kind of a long story and I don't know how they did it, but I know for sure that they were taken away by a classmate of mine.
I'm a liar
Then again, it's not like he can claim his own school is exactly ordinary. But classmates who steal memories? Really?
It's the former headmistresses that do that, not classmates!]...Just what kind of a school do you go to?
... OFF TO BED WITH YOU, YOUNG LADY
Um, it's a school where only the super-top in their respective fields can attend. I'm not one of them, though, I just won a lottery to attend...
[ Naegi is the only normal guy, surrounded by people who are the best of Japan, but man... this is sounding weirder and weirder by the second, huh? ]
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[Forgive him if he sounds just a bit disbelieving.]
...We should probably keep walking, but I'd like to hear more about this school of yours if that's okay. It sounds like an interesting place.
[An understatement. Although he turns to walk again, he paces himself, slowing down to the point where Naegi should be able to walk side by side with him.]
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[ He knows, it sounds super ridiculous. To be honest, he was pretty surprised about it too... ]
[ But once Yuusuke starts walking again, Naegi follows. Noticing that he's at a slower pace now, he quickens up to walk beside him, still trying to be careful not to trip over anymore rocks. ]
But what do you want to know?
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It just sounds like a really peculiar place. You said it's for the best of the best, but they still accept someone by lottery? And a classmate was even able to steal your memories...
It's just not making a whole lot of sense to me.
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[ He takes half a second to figure out how to word everything properly before going. ]
The school I attended, Hope's Peak Academy, is a super-exclusive academy that doesn't hold any entrance tests or accept applications. They scout and invite students on their own, who must super-excel at their field of expertise and also be a high school student. So, a few of my classmates have titles such as Super High School Level Swimmer or Super High School Level Detective.
The year I was accepted, the school decided to hold a lottery with each regular high school students all across Japan, like me, and pulled out my name. So, I was accepted as Super High School Level Good Luck... I don't have any special abilities, so I was only allowed to attend because of my luck.
[ A small weak chuckle at that... It's always kind of embarrassing whenever he has to tell why he got to attend such a grand school, that he only got in because of sheer luck, while all of his classmates are talented in ways he can't even dream of achieving. To say the least, he's kind of insecure about being so average... ]
The classmate who took away my memories was a Super High School Level Fashion Girl, but... she was also Super High School Level Despair... I don't know how she managed to take away my memories, but I think she might have had some kind of help doing it.
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[It sounds so... ridiculous. Pretty much the only thing giving Naegi any semblance of credibility here is the fact that he's so obviously honest about these things.
Still, you'll have to give him a minute to figure out where to go from that.]
For being so picky about their students, it doesn't sound like they made the safest decisions when it comes to actually accepting them. How'd someone like that get in?
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It was a really powerful group too, so I guess it's not too surprising that they can do something like erasing memories.
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Still, that title implies that the entire group is made up of high school kids. Could people like that really become so powerful?
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[ H-He doesn't even know... ]
But I don't know, to be honest, how they got so powerful. Maybe if they were other Super High School Level students, maybe they got some influence to help? But even then, it's kind of pushing it...
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...I kind of assumed we were from the same world, but it looks like there's no way that can be the case. [He'd probably have heard if a giant robot destroyed a city.]
An operation like that would need a lot of support. You don't just make a giant robot out of nowhere - that stuff takes some serious money.
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[ He hasn't heard from anyone else that their world is all messed up like his, but then again... that doesn't come up in a conversation very easily. ]
As for the money... I suppose the Super High School Level Fashion Girl would make a lot of money from photo shoots. She also had a twin sister who was a mercenary, so even then, it might not be enough, right?
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Seems like a high bar to set for some high school kids, even if they're the best of the best. They had to have gotten some pretty serious support from somewhere.
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I would have asked more if the leader or her twin sister were still alive, but I guess I'll find out more once I go back home.
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