vatheon | Tokunaga squashes all!

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Tokunaga squashes all!

Who: Anise and anyone!
Where: the plaza
When: Morning~
Style: Whatever
Status: Wide open

[No crickets. That’s the first thing Anise notices, even before she opens her eyes. The second thing is she's soaking wet, clothes irritatingly sticking to her, jarring her mind from sleep and setting it turning. Can her parents just not pay for the roof to be repaired? Again? Damnit Papa, how is Mama supposed to recover properly if she gets rained on?!

When she moves to get up out of bed and opens her eyes, she notices the third thing. This is not her house in Daath.

Bug-eyed, Anise leaps to her feet and immediately morphs Tokunaga for battle, raising the puppet’s mass enough to climb on its back and look wildly at her surroundings. A big rocky looking plant, unfamiliar architecture... is that a shark?!

With a loud exclamation of surprise and a sudden flail at seeing that great big sea creature swim right on by, the young guardian topples backwards off her plushy perch and lands hard on the cobbles with an immediate squeal of irritation and indignation that echoes ominously across the plaza.]

Where the hell is this?! Where is everyone?!

[The demand echoes back across the plaza, causing a nearby towel vendor to stare at the sudden outburst, too sluggish to turn away before he catches Anise's eye. She has half a mind to go and demand answers from the poor man; have Tokunaga shake him so all the information tumbles out. Kidnap the Fon Master Guardian, will they?!]

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[That voice was certainly familiar, and Jade almost wanted to see it play out. However, with Anise is this kind of mood, she was likely to actually injure the poor man. To the end of upholding peace and non-broken bones, Jade waved to her from a good few feet away, smiling as always.]

Anise~

Colonel!

[She quickly abandons her assault on the poor vendor ~~who promptly runs like a bitch~~ and has Tokunaga lumber over to the fonist before shrinking him back down and putting on her best cutesy smile.]

I woke up in this weird place and I was soooo~oooo scared! [She wiggles dramatically, as if to show the extent of her fear. Yeah right.]

I guess it's okay if you're here too though. Where are we, anyway? This isn't Daath.

[He handed her a towel that'd been draped over his arm, listening to her with an expression of mild amusement.]

Oh, I'm sure you were absolutely terrified~

[As for where they were, Jade shook his head.]

No, it's a place called Vatheon. A city under the water.

Under water? Well that explains the shark.

[She takes the towel and dries off as she talks, pigtails bobbing up and down with the vigorous movement.]

Is it part of Kimlasca? I've never heard of anything like that in Malkuth! Though I guess I'd never heard of Yulia City either.

We're not really on Auldrant anymore, unfortunately~

[He held up a hand, the other still in his pocket.]

And no, there's no way to return currently.]

What?! Well how did we get here, then?!

[She brings her hands to her chin, not panicking but definitely dismayed.]

Who did it? What do they want with us? Did they kidnap Ion too?!

They had, but he was sent back to Auldrant.

[A tiny hint of a frown at that, but it quickly vanished as so as it came.]

As for what it wants from us, there's really very little clue as to what it needs. It seems to want us for energy.

Booo, you mean I missed him?! And now he's back home all alone with no one to protect him!?

[Despite the rising timbre of her voice, Anise grows determined more than panicked. Her path is certainly clear; find a way to get out and back to Ion, no matter what it takes.

But if even Jade hasn't figured a way out yet, that could prove difficult.

Hey, waitaminute...]

Colonel, if you just got kidnapped too, how do you know this stuff already?

I've been here for a few months, unfortunately.

[He adjusted his glasses.]

I've been rather good about not being idle in that time.

What?! But that can't be right, I just saw you yesterday!

[She brings her hands to her hips, making a very unamused face at Jade.]

C'mon Colonel, you can't expect me to believe that. If you didn't want to tell me you could have just said so.

You saw me on Auldrant, yes. I've been here a long while. What was happening when you last saw me, though?

..How could I have seen you yesterday and you've also been here a long while?

[Geeze Colonel, make some sense! Is he going senile?]

We were gonna go to Sheridan to get the thing to measure the core's vibration! You don't remember?

I do. However, the Coral-

[He motions to the large thing a bit away.]

has the ability to remove us from different times. Unfortunately, it doesn't make much sense, but that's the truth of it.

Different... times? What does that mean? Like you from one morning and me from the next morning?

[How.. what?!]

It's a bit grander that that, but in simplest terms, yes.

...how grand are we talkin' here, Colonel? How far in the future do you want me to believe you're from, hm?

Ah, spoilers~

[He doesn't know much about time and space travel, but he's far certain that things on Auldrant need to be left as they were. Events were supposed to happen in a certain order and Jade shouldn't mess with it. If Anise went home, things... Events, much as he didn't want some of them to happen, needed to progress as they had. No sense mucking up someone else's timeline.]

Booo! C'mon Colonel, that's no fair!

[Her tone stays light and childish but a small pit forms in her stomach. When was he from? What does he know? She can't assume he knows about her involvement with Mohs but what if...

Wait. If this is an entirely different world she doesn't have to worry about that, does she? Mohs isn't here. He thinks she's out on a mission. She's safe for now. Her parents are safe for now.]

Well fine, I know how much you like your secrets anyway!

[Don't they all?]

Of course~

[And it's well-known that Jade's secrets stay with Jade as long as Jade wants them to.]

Well why don't you tell me more about here, then? Unless you wanna keep all that a secret too. How can coral pull people places? Is it like a hyperressonance? If it is, maybe we can figure out a way to make it send us back...

[She sounds doubtful though. If Jade hadn't figured it out after a few months, a little suggestion from her wasn't going to get the job done.]

[Ah, where is Guy when you need him.]

Well, it depends on who you ask. Some think it's a deity, for instance. No matter what, the Coral is powerful enough to hold up the barrier. You need to touch the Coral frequently or you become sick, and to my understanding, comas are unfortunately a usual occurence. I have yet to experience one, but Guy seems to have had one or two since my arrival.

The Coral is not like anything I've seen; unfortunate, at that. I've been studying it, but it seems to be its own unique entity, deity or not. It can heal, among other things.

[But he doesn't want to depend on that, hence the tall boot still on his leg. Alister still owes him for that.

Normally, though, Jade would withhold information, but at this point, it's going to be a long haul before he gets most things figured out. Anise was precocious and crafty; amongst those, she was smart. He'd trust her with some information and go from there.]

There's an island above. I haven't visited it yet, but a new associate lives up there at present. I'll see if she can offer more information in the future.

So really all we know for sure is the coral's powerful and we can't leave?

[If Jade's only discovered that much in the 'several months' he says he's been here then they really might be screwed...

She looks down, hand on her chin to think when she catches sight of the large boot encasing the Colonel's leg. In her surprise at the new surroundings, she'd completely missed it.]

Woah! What happened?!

Apparently the good source of information left us a while ago. I've not found a way yet to get into contact with Thalassino.

[At the exclamation, Jade looked down. It was quiet now that Alister has fixed it up.]

A small accident. My leg is just healing at the moment~

[At the mention of someone she doesn't know, Anise just glosses right over it. As long as the Colonel know what's going on then it'll be handled. Still, that leg...]

What kind of accident gets your leg turned all fontechy. It's like something Dist would make. Well, sort of. His would be more...

[Roses? Feathers? Ostentatious use of glitter paint?]

Garish.

It was made by a man who crafted it more like something from his world.

[At the mention of Dist, Jade just rose a brow and shook his head]

Were it Dist, I would have not worn it.

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