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[yellowglasses]

Who: Chie Satonaka and everybody else ever

Location: The plaza

Time:  Evening

Status: Open~

 

 

There was a girl standing in the plaza examining her wet track jacket, making an annoyed grumble. This was just a great to wake up, wasn't it? She unzipped her jacket and fanned it out a bit to shake some of the water off of it, not that it really helped dry the rest of her, but at least if she didn't have that on Chie figured her body would dry quicker. After her jacket seemed to be less wet than before (although not by much), she tied it around her waist.

 

Securly tied, she looked up to see who would have dumped water on her, only realize she didn't even have the slightest idea where this was to begin with.

 

"W..where exactly am I? This isn't Inaba at all!"

 

How did she get here? Where even was here?! She appeared to be in some city that was underwater, from the look of things. The only conclusion Chie could come to was this was some strange world inside the television, but it didn't make sense to be back in here when the murders were all done and over with by now. Besides, there was no reason she'd wake up here alone, and drenched with water at that.

 

She took this moment to admire the dome above her and the plaza in general though, moving her wet bangs out of her eyes a tad bit. It looked so...different from the inside of the television, so real. There wasn't any dense fog in the air either obstructing her vision.  But at the same time it was a very drastic change from her usual country town scenery back in Inaba she was so used to.

This couldn't be inside of the television though, no. Chie was somewhere completely new and foreign to her. But why?

Snapping back to reality, the girl looked around the plaza. She decided reaching out to the nearest passerby would be the best thing to do, it was time to get some answers!

 

"Um, excuse me? Could you tell me where I'm at?"

Comments

[undie_boss]

"Huh?" Eikichi turned to look the girl. Well she looked normal, at least. Not an alien, not a Nazi, not a samurai or a ninja. Normal and probably his age.

"Vatheon," he replied with a shrug. "Kinda like a weird Atlantis."

[yellowglasses]

Chie didn't exactly pick the most normal looking person to stop for questioning, but beggars can't be choosers! Besides, if there had been anything she'd learned from getting to know her friend Kanji, it'd be that you couldn't exactly judge someone off their appearance so..

"Vatheon? I've never heard of it, but yeah it does sort of look like Atlantis." she murmured, looking back up briefly.

"Um..could you tell me how exactly I got here?" she let out a short yet embarrassed laugh due to how silly she must sound, "I don't really..well, know, exactly. I just sort of found myself here. Wet."

[undie_boss]

Eikichi was far from normal, wearing a modified school uniform and looking like a Visual Kei rockstar.

He shrugged and shook his head. "Beats me, babe. No one seems to know how you get here. I just got here myself."

[yellowglasses]

..Did he just call her 'babe'? That was a new one. She looked a tiny bit surprised at that but brushed it off.

"You too? Well...I'm sure if we looked into it we could find out something!" After all, Chie and her friends did just solve a murder case. If she and some others put their minds to it, this could be solved too! Or so she thought.

"Oh! Right, I'm Chie Satonaka! Nice to meet you.."

[undie_boss]

Yup, he sure did.

"Yeah, the locals don't seem to wanna talk about it," Eikichi shrugged again. He'd done plenty of investigating, as well, hunting down the Masked Circle and their assault on Sumaru. But that was too much work and seemed more like Maya's friend's thing.

"Eikichi Mishina. Same."

[yellowglasses]

"Don't want to talk about it, huh? I don't know about you, but that sure sounds suspicious to me." End one mystery and fall into another one. This was just wonderful...

"Alright, Eikichi. I'll remember it! So what have you actually managed to get out of the locals by the way? If you don't mind my asking of course, I just really would like to get as much information on this place as possible." she asked, grinning a bit.

He sure was strange looking, but hey, if Chie managed to find someone she could actually talk to in Vatheon that was great! She sure wished her friends from back home were here though..

[undie_boss]

Eikichi was pretty easy to talk to, if you didn't insult him or call him names. Then he'd kick the talker's ass. Literally.

Anyway. He shrugged and shook his head again. "Even with my masterful persuasion skills, I couldn't get a word outta them. They just smiled and didn't say a word. Really creepy."

[yellowglasses]

"Oh wow, not even a little bit? I figure you got atleast a few words out of them...That is a little creepy."

She eyed a nearby local from the corner of her eye a bit. There must be something big they were hiding from the people who appeared here if they didn't want to say a single word about it.

"Well, if I look I'm sure I can find someone who's not a local! They'd probably have more information on how we got here. Or better, how to get out..."

[undie_boss]

Eikichi shuttered. He was used to people talking. They spread rumors, they talked gossip, they talked about what was going on. It was the best way to find out information and spread rumors so they came true. But here? Not at all. The locals were pretty friendly and talkative until one asked about this bubble place. Then creepy!

"That's not too hard, babe," Eikichi added. "Anyone who's not a local, like you or me, has this beautiful mark." He pulled his collar out so she could see his mark on the side of his neck above all his necklaces. "Locals'll give you pretty much anything here free, except for useful information."

[yellowglasses]

There he went calling her babe again. Chie really wasn't used to being called that sort of thing, especially by a guy she just met.

She stared at the mark on his neck though, it was peculiar. Did she have one, then? Looking over her arms and legs, she finally did notice it on herself. It had been strategically placed under the sweatband on her left arm.

"That's a weird place for them to put mine I guess..wonder what this mark means." She asked aloud mostly to herself, as she covered it back up. "Everything's free though? Giving free stuff to the people they kidnap just really adds to the creepy vibe this place gives off.."

[garbagecanned]

[It wasn't like he was expecting to see her again, after all. And the new arrivals were new arrivals - they were all as wet and confused as everyone else was.

So, in a way, he guessed he was becoming a little immune to it. Of course he did try to help when he could (and if he was feeling like it), so when he turned to face Chie, he wasn't expecting to see her there.]

Chie? Is that you??

[Even though that was a stupid question - how would he be able to mistake her?]

[by_my_will]

"You're in a place called Vatheon," Tieria responded, stopping when she addressed him.

"Vatheon! Vatheon!" The basketball sized round metal robot next to him bounced a little, flapping at her.

"New arrival?" She looked a bit wet.

[yellowglasses]

[Chie had just randomly pointed at someone without thinking, she didn't think it would be someone she knew of all people!]

Y-Yosuke?! Yeah, it's me.
Where are we? How did we even get here?

[yellowglasses]

"Vatheon, huh? I've never heard of it."

Chie looked at the robot. It was kind of cute, actually.

"Yes, I am I guess. I mean I just sort of found myself here...I figured it'd be best to find out how that happened as soon as possible."

[undie_boss]

Eikichi shrugged and shook his head again. "Dunno, but the locals seem to worship us like gods." It was weird, and Eikichi had seen plenty of weird. Persona, demons, rumors coming true, a Nazi invasion, and ancient aliens. And somehow, this place ranked up there.

[by_my_will]

"Not many new arrivals have," Tieria said. "I had not either when I arrived. Same as you. Just found myself here, alone, and wet." The word 'wet' was met with a frown. He hadn't liked it, either. "I do not think anyone is truly aware of just how we arrive."

Haro just flapped at her, tilting a little to the side as it studied her back.

[yellowglasses]

"But how could not one person know? Doesn't that seem really..strange?"

[garbagecanned]

[Wow, okay then. He's happy to see her, though.]

Beats me. You just kind of show up here with no warning and explanation...

[He shudders at the thought of how he appeared here. It had been battle of the Coral, part one.]

But anyway, this place is called Vatheon.

[yellowglasses]

[Oh don't get her wrong, Chie's happy to see you too Yosuke. It's great to know she's not alone here!]

Vatheon? I've never heard of it..

..how long have we been here?

[She assumed they arrived at the same time, after all she did just see Yosuke before appearing here! So he couldn't have been here much longer than herself.]

[yellowglasses]

Worship them like gods. Huh.

"Yeah, this just keeps sounding creepier the more I learn about it. Ahaha.."

[undie_boss]

"It ain't all bad," Eikichi shrugged. It was still here, after all, and he could be away from his overbearing traditionalist father for a while. "Once ya get past the creepy occultist feel. No demons, no Nazis or Maia, no people in the sea of your soul telling you what to do."

The last part was a bit cryptic to most, it seemed. He and his friends had gotten stuck in a battle between beings of light and dark, between Philemon and Nyarlathotep, in their competition to see if humankind was worthy of living. Stupid otherworldly beings.

[by_my_will]

"Those in charge know, but they have not shared anything." Tieria frowned. "Everyone arrives in the same way. Unaware that anything has happened, or how it has happened. And wet." He was still pretty unhappy with the word wet.

[yellowglasses]

"People..in the sea of your soul..." That sounded a little too familiar to her. "I guess you're right though, things definitely could be worse! Atleast nobody is dying here.."

Or at least, to Chie's knowledge. For now Vatheon seemed safer than, you know, jumping into a television to save people who were shoved in by a murderer to be killed by their suppressed selves.

[undie_boss]

Eikichi shrugged and shook his head. "Long story. I could tell ya sometime, babe." And that follow up statement was true too. "Yeah, no explosions or people disappearing. Much safer than Sumaru City was."

[yellowglasses]

"Those in charge?" Was there some sort of ruler over this place? That's how it sounded to her, anyway.

"Hmm...well, if nobody knows then I guess that trail for information is dead. Thank you though, it's nice to know a little more than what I did." Chie put her hands on her hips and sighed. This was quite the predicament wasn't it? But she couldn't help but wonder about the Haro a bit. If it had shown up like everyone else, wouldn't the water have ruined it?

"Is the robot yours? How did it arrive without getting wet?"