Oh god, I googled myself!

Why did I google myself?!

[The video's got an odd pinkish tint to it, and there's a young woman with wings staring at it in confusion.]

Okay, is this a new feature of this thing? Couldn't Yan Lin have given me an instruction manual?

Um, hello? Weird...duck...thing... I don't suppose anyone could explain this to me?

[Community, you are looking at... oh, what was that new Precure's name, the one with the long golden hair that saved Hayate a few weeks back? Cure Sunshine, wasn't it? Anyway, you're seeing her apparently training. Her long hair flows out behind her as she hops from point to point, and at one point skims across a pond as if skating on it. She makes various twists and turns that would make a normal person sick, and throws out punches and kicks from time to time, plus the occasional massive sunflower-shaped shield.

And all the while, there's a huge smile on her face; like she hasn't felt this alive in months. Which, truth be told, she hasn't. So she pinballs about with glee.

Several minutes of this pass before Itsuki sighs and sits down, looking in a nearby window at her still-transformed reflection, breathing hard.]

I didn't think it would be this tiring... but I didn't think this would be so exhilarating, either. Or that my costume would be so revealing... I wonder if there's something better I can be doing to train, though. I want to practice some more...

[Comment? Make suggestions? Poke fun at?]

Why do they bother teaching us anything before summer? I mean, it's not like we're gonna remember anything when we get back...

( reach out to the truth of my life )

[Another view of this limousine...]

['Welcome to the Velvet Room', the man sitting across from the video's perspective says. He seems a little suspicious, but his voice and demeanor aren't hostile in the least.]

With your new bond, you have awoken to the Star Arcana. [The woman--Margaret--speaks, and as she does a glowing card floats down and disappears into the book on her lap.]

Now then, your story is drawing towards its climax. [Igor spoke again, hardly moving as he did.] As such, I imagine several surprises are lying in wait for you.

Your fate is at a crossroads. [Margaret continued, pensive and quiet.] If you fail to solve the mystery, your future may close before you. [She turned enough to look towards the camera--towards Narukami, in reality. Her tone grew faintly ominous, taking on a sense of warning.] No matter how thick the fog may appear, there is but one truth...Defeat is not the only thing that can bring your story to an end. You would do best to remember that.

[With those words of warning, the video faded to black.]

( Read more... )

It's the day of the Tanabata Festival, and Yayoi is fielding traffic to and fro from the Mysterious Library and meeting people who are coming in with their own worldhops. You may see some of her teammates around including a fairy named Pop around today, but for the purpose of it, everything is funtimes!

There's a lot of people around and arriving at the front gates of the festival grounds, there's a ton of stuff to do, such as fish catching, food vendors and other assorted games. Have a ball and mingle. Because tonight, the Smile Precure are in for the fight of their lives.

Pegasus Day is upon us as well, since Marchenland celebrates the same occasion on the same day. So try not to ride the Pop!Pegasus around too much.

(ooc: minglepost, have fun, tag around with CR etc.)

[Itsuki is pretty obviously very spooked by something; what in the world could have happened?]

Girls, I'm sure you've all seen this post by now. I specifically have four problems with it:

[A screenshot of the pan across the Heartcatch team.] One, I'm not a Precure yet, though I recognize what I know will become my form. Two, Yuri can't transform, so her being there is physically impossible. [Another still, this one of the Suite team.] Three and four. We've seen Melody and Rhythm fight, and their team is two, not four.

Are there any other discrepancies? And more importantly... what does this mean?

[Five minutes after the original posting, there's new text:] And I almost forgot, Yayoi's whole team is missing, which is five more people that should be there but aren't. Isn't that odd?

I'm coming to realize that some kind of... force... has tied community members together, literally, via red strings on their pinky fingers. It looks fairly widespread, so I'm a little concerned... is this sort of thing normal?

And more to the point... [Chrono holds up his own hand, with a string tied on; he looks like a kicked puppy.] I don't seem to be immune myself. What does this "red string" mean, anyway? I haven't heard of it before.

*Honoka's face shows up on the computer screen. And she's not looking happy. At all. She's completely drenched in fact, and her eyes are narrowed in barley concealed rage.

On Honoka. She was usually never like this. At all.

It took her a few more moments, but she finally managed to speak.*

I. Can't. Stand. This. Anymore.

*She ducks out of the way of the screen, showing that it's pointed at a window. In the view of the window, it was thundering.

Or more accurately, in HALF of the window. The other half was perfectly fine.*

This makes no sense at all! It completely violates every law of physics that I can think of.

*The half rain half not rain decides to change at this point. Turning into a blizzard. And a tornado. At the same time.

And the house isn't shaking or being affected at all, it's just outside that window.

Also a rain cloud suddenly appeared over Honoka's head and now it's storming right above her.

She's just... going to scream again.*

How are we supposed to fix this!?

Hi everyone! My name is Yukishiro Honoka, and I'm new to this community here. I'm really excited to be part of something like this, even though up until yesterday I didn't even think it was possible for there to basically be an internet that spans different worlds

But even so, I'm really excited to be here, and I'm really excited to see what kind of knowledge is available here. The internet makes it a lot easier to research and learn about new things, so I can't wait to see what kind of knowledge other worlds have that mine doesn't.

So... I guess I might want to start that by asking a question, shouldn't I? So, everyone, what type of world do you all come from?