text + video

[tenminutes]

[ First of course, is text to get everyone's attention.. ]

ATTENTION DUCKS!

[ Then it switches to video. ]
Yurippe here!

[ She waves, smiling. She's actually in her desk in the prinipal's office/SSS headquarters right now, not in Rokkenjima. Mostly because rain as background noise makes this less exciting. She points at the screen dramatically. ]

Next month, I want to host an event that will put to the test all fighting styles and determine who on the community is truly the strongest! Consider this a challenge, fighters. There will be two divisions, one for physical strength and one for super-human talents. You can enter either division as long as you follow the rules set out for each one, which I'll announce at another time.

For now, I need a few things to get this started: [ Yuri holds up one finger before her. ]

One! Multiple arenas. If your world has a unique, deserted area that you think would provide an excellent and challenging course for a fight to occur that won't get us arrested, volunteer here. [ Yuri lowers her finger, putting her hand off to the side. ] For one of the more dangerous courses, I'll be activating Guild's traps and Guild territory will act as a field. I'm looking for more than one field though, so just because someone has suggested one, it doesn't mean you can't.

[ A second finger up! ]

Two! Refreshments. There'll probably be an audience right? So there needs to be drinks and snacks. I'm not asking for full course meals or anything, but definitely things like popcorn and meat buns and.. hot dogs on a stick. You know, sporting event food.

Three! Prize sponsors! I've already got a couple of ideas, but clearly the grand prize should be something ridiculously awesome. If you're the most powerful in more than one universe, you deserve it.

Four is Equipment. A camera crew would be nice for the people who don't want to get worldhopped around to the different fighting arenas but still want to watch, but I'm sure we can work something out with our community devices for that. If someone could get some bleachers for stadium seating for an audience, that'd be great. I've got projectors and lots of other equipment left over from the SSS for a lot of other things I'll need, but those sorts of things are definitely needed.

Last but definitely not least! Five! [ A sweet smile and Yuri excitedly leans forward, then back in her nice big chair. ] Volunteers! Brave ones too. If you're going to be refereeing fights, I can guarantee some people aren't going to be holding back so you're going to definitely have to have guts. Possibly immortality. I'll be there since it's not like I can die again, but I'll need eyes in multiple places to keep track of things and people to hand out refreshments. Oh! And on-site medics. Don't want anyone dying, obviously.

That's it, other than that I think I can work out things like that. If you think you'd be interested in fighting, don't volunteer yet. I'll post a sign up later once we get more things together and come up with a roster. It'll probably be sometime mid-February so we've got plenty of time to prepare. Questions?

Comments

[entreats]

[ Yup, sounds accurate. She will just be dragged whenever this girl has an idea, no matter what the time is.. not that she dislikes Yuri, but she's just so extremely not in the mood right now that it makes her grumpy. ]

Do I look like I could use some high tension right now?

[tenminutes]

You deadpan all the time, asking how you look is irrelevant. I mean, we could do something totally crazy to blow of some steam or go straight for massages.

[entreats]

[ .. Yuri. 'Something crazy'. Does she really want to risk it, she could be in a jeep with lions chasing them within five minutes.. but then again, massages don't sound too bad, right? At least she can still be a little quiet and thoughtful during those.

Being thoughtful is a lot more difficult with lions around. ]

I guess if you insist, a massage wouldn't be horrible..

[tenminutes]

Okay.

[ Yuri's going to turn on her worldhop now and she walks Ange through the big door created by it, right into what looks like a janitor's closet. Hey, they've got to sneak in somehow, it's not like Yuri can afford to take them to a spa normally. ]

[entreats]

We could just have gone to my time to get some money so we could go in as normal customers.

[ But fine, fine, we'll do it Yuri's way. Stuck in a cramped janitor's closet. ]

Lead the way, super spy.

[tenminutes]

[ Wow they're not stuck. Yuri turns he doorknob, oh wow, look it's a spa! ]

That'd raise questions about where you went missing to wouldn't it?

[ There's no way that no one's noticed she's gone. ]

[entreats]

I'll have to face those questions eventually at some point either way, I'm sure. [ As much as she doesn't like dealing with them..

She glances out of the closet, but there seems to be nobody around for now, so just.. casually getting out of there. ]

Besides, I'm sure people are only glad I'm gone. They're probably having a party for it right as we speak.

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri's not going to get all sentimental and say she doubts that or anything... she couldn't possibly know. Well, except for one problem. ]

Your bodyguard is probably panicking.

[entreats]

Amakusa? [ There's a sound that's almost like a wry laugh, if Ange would ever laugh. ]

I bet he just quickly ran away to some other country to start anew. He does it all the time, so I bet he's just glad I gave him the opportunity to.

[tenminutes]

Losing his charge can't be good for his resume. Anyway, it doesn't matter where the people who want you around are. So let's go get massages.

[entreats]

Fine. Let's hope his new job isn't being a half-naked massage person in a spa. [ at least she's deadpanning again? that's a good sign. ]

[tenminutes]

If he is let's hope it's the top half. [ Yay we're walking now. Yuri peeks into a door, then goes in when she sees it's the changing area. ] Alright, let's get some robes.

[entreats]

You sound like you've already done this tons of times before, Yuri.

[ It's a little surprising! Since.. you know, dead and all. For Ange it's not that weird as the heir of a rich family, but.. ]

[tenminutes]

Only once or twice. It's not like I was going to stay home with my parents all the time before I died, so I went places during breaks.

[ It's not like she wasn't well-off... Who the hell can afford a house that's practically a summer home in Japan with that burglars think is the best place to rob in the world if they're not at least a little bit rich? Nowhere near the Ushiromiya family, but Yuri was never exactly a hobo or anything. ]

[entreats]

[ Yuri was no fatty fatty no parents.. ]

Yeah, I've only been a few times too. Sometimes oba-san had to drag me along for the sake of appearances, after all, but I've never been too particularly interested in it either way. [ as expected of Ange.. ]

[tenminutes]

I would've loved to go places with them, but it was easier on them if I didn't go.

[ Yuri smiles at Ange. ] I've never been with another person though, so we're going to have fun.

[entreats]

Sounds omnious.

[ But.. it's fine. If she can just spend some time with the other girl like this together.. then maybe it's okay. Maybe she can just swallow her feelings, even if it'll just be for a few moments. Isn't a distraction exactly what she needs? ]

I hope the people giving the massages here are at least girls though or Battler onii-chan is going to keep us up all night with his screaming once we go back.

[tenminutes]

Battler doesn't have to know about it if they aren't. [ Passing her a robe since they're in the changing room now, etc.etc. ] Let's get changed.

[entreats]

[ GET CHANGED IN FRONT OF YURI?! I.. IYAAAN.. Okay, no, they've already slept half-naked in a bed together, not like she's going to be embarassed about anything in front of her. ]

Point taken. Let's then before we stand around here all day instead, yeah.

[tenminutes]

[ Yeah Yuri's not worried since it's Ange... getting naked in front of other girls isn't an issue.

TAKIN' HER CLOTHES OFF and putting her robe on. Awwww yeah. ]

These are really soft.

[entreats]

[ An Ange is fine too, right. ]

Aren't they supposed to be? [ yup, she's changed too by now. ] I mean, if they weren't, it'd sort of defeat the purpose.

[tenminutes]

[ An Ange is a girl, of course she counts. ]

It's not like I've been in a while. It's softer than I remember.

[entreats]

Let's hope then that the massages aren't worse compared to what you remember then.

[tenminutes]

Probably not. They'd be more seasoned with time or something, right?

[entreats]

They're massages, not cheese or wine.

[ There's a moment of hesitation, but.. well, she feels a need for confirmation that there's actually someone there more than anything after the whole deal with the guy Yuri, so she ends up grabbing the other girl's hand. ] .. Let's go.