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W-Wha? Hey, why is suddenly so dark?

[Yoh blinks as he stares into the darkness for a moment. Just a minute ago he had been talking with Ren and then... Then he finds himself there, in a small space, his body twisting and mostly uncomfortable due the position. Definitively he didn't get himself there on his own. He shifts, trying to get more comfortable, specially his back which is aching like crazy. In the process he kicks the walls of the tight space where he is and brushes against something that seems to feel like clothes.]

What is this, a wardrobe? Oi, Amidamaru?! Can you hear me?!

[He tries calling for his friend, his companion, and there's almost an immediate response. But something is off.]

Huh? Amidamaru? I can't...

[Maybe someone would like to check who is locked in their wardrobe some time soon?]

[Hours later and after getting a crash Luceti course, Yoh decides to play with the journal and get the hang of it. The feed turns on to his carefree laugher, even if he has many reasons to worry and be down, he's not going to let it be shown easily.]

Hehehe, look at this! This is quite handy, it reminds me of the Oracle Bell. I wonder if the bells have this feature too? I should ask Silva when I have the chance- Ah, it's on!

Hey! My name's Yoh Asakura, I arrived here today, nice to meet you! I have been told that there's a smithy in the village and that it's were weapons tend to show up. Does anyone know if there has been a new couple of swords there lately? They are very important to me so I would like to get them back as soon as possible.

And... No, nothing else, never mind that. Just wanted to ask about the swords. Thanks!

[He wanted to ask if there was anyone who recognized him but if his friends are here they will notice him just with what he had said so far anyway. And despite the way Luceti seems to be he's not going to just go and start talking about shamans without knowing a bit more and getting a better feeling of the village. Specially not when he himself isn't sure if he's a shaman anymore, what with how he can't even see or hear Amidamaru. At least he knows his friend is there, he can feel it in his heart and sense his emotions but... That's all. Yes, definitively not going to just go and talk about spirits until he has a better hold of his ground.]

[Anyway even if he has asked through the journals, Yoh's not up to just sit and wait so he will go and check the smithy himself. After all he asked about swords that had recently appeared but who knows, maybe they have been around longer than him with how crazy this place seems to be. And so Yoh will be off to explore the village, if he's going to be stuck here for God knows how long he may as well get used to it and know where everything is.

He will make stops at the clothing store and the item store besides the smithy. Eventually finding his way to spend two hours just staring at the landscape while standing on a bridge. He isn't someone to call attention on himself, just a normal dude, specially after he gets proper clothes. But he will be sure to pay attention all around him, others may have no reason to come and say hi, but he may decide he has reasons to do that to them.]

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Huh? The.. 'Oracle Bell'? [ it sounds a little interesting.. ] What would that be?

... Um, wait! I mean.. of course it's very nice to meet you as well! Welcome to Luceti, and I hope you're doing okay so far. [ he sounds happy enough to her, at least. ]

[There was a rustling of items being shifted around and a voice emanating from his bedroom closet. Arsene Lupin III, head buried in a book that was part of the prize awarded for solving a complex puzzle given to him by his girlfriend, stares at it with glasses askew.

Clearly, the quiet of Luceti was really driving him mad.

The tome was familiar, but nostalgic. He could tell the stories without reference, adding his own flair if he wanted--he set it aside, knowing full well that he pick it up again whenever he wanted.

Gun in hand, he wanders over. He'd shoot if he was truely mad. If not, no more bullets would be wasted in a place where ammo was scarce.]

I'm pretty sure I'm not called 'Amidamaru'. [There's the click of metal on metal as he unlatches the safety on his Walther. A thief himself, he doesn't take kindly to his own abode being broken into.] Care to tell me why you're in my closet?

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It's just something I used to have, it received messages and displayed some info on its screen but I'm not sure if it served to communicate like this book does. I never need to use it at least.

[He's pretty sure that the Patch could do it though, but shamans themselves? Maybe the Patch didn't think it was necessary or something.]

Ahaha, thank you for the welcome! And I'm okay, yes, the pain at my back is receding and I'm alive so I definitively could be worse.

[He laughs again.]

What's your name?

[Definitively that wasn't Amidamaru's voice. It's strange, in a way it's almost like being back in the Yomi Cave, except that he can still feel Amidamaru around, he knows he's there but... He can't hear him or sense him as clearly as he should. However that's a matter that he has to push to the back of his mind now, that voice wasn't from someone he recognizes and as it seemed to think he was addressing to him Yoh assumes that person can't see Amidamaru either.

At least now he knows he's in a closet, it makes sense. Except because he doesn't know how he got there. And what was that metal click?]

I would like to know how I got here too to be honest! I swear I was just minding my own business with my friends and suddenly I was here.

[Ah, maybe it was useless to explain that. It didn't make sense even to him after all, he may as well just say that he wasn't talking with this guy but with his spirit companion. That may be more credible than "I appeared here suddenly".]

Oh.

[Safety is put back in place, gun returned to it's holster.] It's that season again, so this is pretty normal--hang on.

[Lupin opens the door, revealing his decently balanced mess and the skinny teen in new feather clothes. He manages a smile, torn between amusement and disappointment.]

This isn't the wierdest way to be dropped in, kid. I hate to inform you too, but you're gonna be around for a while.

Name's Lupin, since you're in my closet. Welcome to Luceti.

That season?

[A season in which it's normal for people to appear suddenly in other people's closets? He may not be the best student out there but he's pretty sure there's no such a season.

When the door is opened Yoh can't help to moan in pain at the sudden light, closing his eyes and trying to get some shadow with a hand. Fortunately it doesn't take long for him to be able to look at the man properly. Yeah, definitively not someone he has ever seen. Though by the way he's talking that's... Normal?]

Ah... My name's Yoh, sorry for intruding your closet... Is it really that normal for people to appear suddenly here?

[He would ask about the "be around for a while" but he has the feeling it may be related to suddenly having appeared in the closet anyway. The boy shifts, trying to get out of the closet, slowly because his back really hurts if he's not careful.]

It's no biggie. Like I said, it's pretty normal. Every two months this sort of thing happens. The other day I had a strange girl sitting on my couch reading a book too, so you're definitely not alone.

[Sympathetic, he offered a hand. No one could accuse him of being anything but a nice man, even if he didn't normally make a habit of helping new feathers.]

Whatever the reason, people tend to be grabbed from where ever and whenever when they are pulled into Luceti. Those wings? They're about all you're given. That, and a journal.

...you don't happen to see a journal with your name on it, do you?

Oh... I think I would have preferred to appear on a couch, though.

[Yoh accepts the hand easily, getting out and stretching a bit. He already knows it's pointless, if he can't heart Amidamaru, seeing him would be... Still he seems to look around, except that he just looks at a pointed direction where there's nothing but a wall. It's faint, so faint that he's not really sure if he's seeing it or just imagining it, but there's what seems to be Amidamaru's shape. He can feel the samurai being happier but it doesn't last as Yoh shakes his head signaling silently that he can't see him.

He focus his attention on Lupin again, he will deal with Amidamaru and his powers later. Listening to what the man is saying about this place could help with that. He looks at his back the moment the wings are mentioned, in the closet it was hard to make them out and it was all too painful to make proper sense of "oh what hurts here are wings that I have now". To his credit Yoh doesn't seem to be too shocked, probably because, well, he has just been told he has them and that it's normal here, he's more shocked about the fact that people are taken from wherever and whenever and thrown into this place.]

Oh, that explains why my back hurt so much. They are pretty sensitive, aren't they? ... Do they serve for anything besides being there?

[He also turns to the closet to look for a book, while checking the pants to see if they have pockets in which a book could have been slipped. He wasn't holding one in his hands so if there has to be a journal it should be either inside the closet or in a pocket. He finds it in the closet's ground.]

You mean this, right? Am I supposed to keep a journal while being here?

[He shows the journal with his name clearly written on it.]

Trust me, a closet is much better than being tossed onto a boat in the middle of the ocean with no oars. That's already happened to someone this month.

[Lupin takes his glasses off as Yoh rummages around in the closet and sets them aside--they were more for fashion rather than necessity. He liked the look of them. More than a little intrigued and amused by the teen's acceptance and adaptability, he continues his explanation. Maybe he really was genuinely a nice guy?]

Fortunately, the wings are only sensitive for a few days, maybe a week at most. They're pretty pointless, but you'll want to protect them regardless. Losing one is a lot of pain; losing both means you die.

...though, death is cheap around here. It lasts for a week, and you're returned blind or missing something else important. You might want to avoid it because of that.

As for the journals? We all have them. [He gestures to his own innocuous looking book sitting on the obnoxiously zebra-printed sofa. The fact that it's been punted a few times is clearly evident.] You can't get rid of them, so don't even bother. It always comes back, even if you burn it. It's kinda handy, though, even if it's a pain to have around. It's less a book and more a mini computer. You can talk to other people in the village with it, and there's even an informational guide in there somewhere.

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I guess that's true, or they could be tossed into the middle of the ocean without a boat and without knowing how to swim, That would be definitively worse.

[And pretty much an instant death. Yoh listens to his explanation with attention, the man is really nice to be explaining so much to him, specially given the circumstances. Normal or not, he still appeared in his closet out of nowhere and without permission. Lupin is definitively a nice guy, as nice as any human can be, of course, which doesn't actually mean much. But then again it doesn't matter at the moment.

He doesn't seem very alarmed about the new regarding death... Or surprised about there being a prize of some kind for being revived. Though he wonders how they manage to do that, but from the way Lupin talks it doesn't seem as if the people here don't do it on purpose. She decides not to ask though, even Yoh can order his priorities properly even if it seems like the opposite at times.]

I see, that's really convenient! I'm sure I wouldn't be able to keep up a personal journal anyway.

[He laughs. As he flips the pages backwards, discovering how the pages seem to grow in number as he does yet the book doesn't get any thicker than it was.]

You can even backtrack to things done before you arrived?! That's amazing!

[But... Woah, how many pages are there here...]

How many people are here anyway?

[So many entries, this definitively doesn't seem like just a bunch of people.]

I'm Madoka..! Madoka Kaname. [ at least the fact this person sounds.. well, pretty carefree and happy makes it easier and she stops tensing up a little. ]

So it's maybe sort of like a cellphone, that 'Oracle Bell'?

Hm, sort of, but not the same. It had a pretty specific use after all, and as I said I don't know if it served to talk with others. Mostly, having it was proof that you qualified for something, that's all.

[Well, from what he has been taking in regarding Luceti maybe talking about the tournament wouldn't be dangerous. Still he won't say a word about spirits for now.]

It's nice to meet you, Madoka. How long have you been here?

Oh, hey, you're here like I am? Hi! I'm Maron~! Have you found your clothes yet, Yoh?

Yeah, I just arrived today! Nice to meet you, fellow new resident!

And actually I'm on my way to the plaza, I heard that the stores are there, so I hope to get some clothes there at least. Specially shoes.

[Not that walking around shirtless is a big difference for a guy who tends to walk around with the shirt unbuttoned and nothing else under it.]

[The kid was taking the information as if it were something relatively normal and interesting, not with the shock or panic that many new feathers displayed. It was refreshing to see, and Lupin finds that he doesn't mind going through the litany for Yoh. Comforting a panicked person was not his specialty.]

...I'd say there's a few hundred of us, but the numbers vary because people come en masse like right now, or they're sent home at scattered times. Just because we're stuck here doesn't mean it's not possible to go home, but so far no one's figured out a way to do so of their own accord. We're sent home as suddenly as we're brought here.

Which means....there's probably been close to a thousand individuals that have been through here as far as the journals go back, though never more than a few hundred at any given time. Some people have been here for several years too.

[Shock and panic would serve for nothing anyway. Just as it wouldn't serve at the moment to be all focused and worried about Amidamaru and his powers. One step at a time or taking everything in as it goes, he will have time to worry and panic later if he wants to, even if it's useless.]

Oh, so there is a way to go back home! That's awesome! And it's all random? So it doesn't matter how long have you been around?

[Of course there's also the chance of ending being there for years and years rather than for some days or months, but he will worry about that when he has spent six years or whatever in Luceti. At least it's not hopeless even if the hope has an almost null stability as it makes gambling a safer game.]

Do you know for how long have those people been around? The ones that have been here for several years, I mean.

Four years? Six years? [He's seen them in the journals, but hasn't personally spoken to any of them. Friendly as he is, he hasn't gotten to know too many people in town. The result of his own cageyness, mostly--certain lifestyle choices leave you with certain habits that are hard to break, even in peaceful circumstances.]

But yeah, the comings and goings are all completely random, so don't get your hopes up. You also might want to be on your toes, because ocassionally robots come to pick people up at random and take them to the people who run this place for experimenting and testing.

...It's pretty not cool, but it's very hard to stop even one of those robots. Skinny kid like you? Don't try to fight them if you see them.

Yep! You should be able to find the clothes that you came here in, along witha lot of other types! [there's a giggle here.] I had to find something different, I was in gym clothes before.

[And Yoh just... Laughs a bit, carefree and optimistic even if his expression clearly shows a light worry and his smile is more resigned than happy.]

So that's how it is, guess I can't consider this just an undefined peaceful vacation period.

[Not that he would have done that even without the information about the droids, not when he can't see or hear Amidamaru as he should. See, he even jokes a bit about it. Even if it's not a joking matter at all, really, people who run the place for experimenting and testing? So he's a guinea pig now? That sounds just horrible and annoying. Maybe that's why he can't see Amidamaru properly, maybe they are already experimenting on him or want to gather data of what he does to try to recover that capacity.]

That really sucks anyway, and we can't even defend ourselves a little. I guess that not even suicide is an option when the droids come, right? It may just make things easier for them to experiment and get you to lose something important. Oh, well, i will be sure to follow your advice, there's no need to make things worse than they are.

[Even if he can fight, if those droids are really that hard to defeat it may be best to just politely accept his situation and go along with it. At least until he's sure that he can still use his oversoul and all.]

At least you already have a gym uniform that way, no need t find one. I was in pretty normal clothes so I'm sure I'll find something, I'm not picky about clothing.

[Well, it would be nice to get his uniform for the Shaman Fight but it's not vital and would Anna really want him to keep advertising the onsen even in a place like this? Yes, of course she would.]

Yeah, sorry about being the bearer of bad news there. You're correct in your thinking too. [The little changes don't go unnoticed, and he is genuinely sympathetic.] If it's any consolation? You don't need to worry about anything important that you have going on at home. When I said every when, I meant that. Whenever you get sent home, you'll be dropped off at the same point as if nothing happened. Odds are that you might not remember this place either.

The memories are part of the reason why some people don't really want to leave, actually. Among...other reasons. It's really not a terrible place, and everything is pretty cozy except for the random experiments that are run and this barrier that no one's broken yet.
Who knows? Maybe some of your friends are here too.

Ehehe well sort of, they're for practicing gymnastics, so they aren't used for much else. It would have been really weird walking around in that all the time.

[She'll stop for a moment, remembering that he had mentioned swords.]

Um, you also mentioned swords, right? I didn't really have anything dangerous with me, but I can go look and ask if there's anything new that turned up for you!

[The thought of worrying about Anna and the others hadn't crossed his mind anyway, again it would be pointless even if he knows it's a situation he should worry about. He should focus first on what he has in his hands, if he returned and things had gone on and such? He would have thought of something then. He already has a slight idea of what they should do regarding Hao anyway and honestly, being dead or alive doesn't really influence on that. Still knowing that he won't miss anything is relieving.]

Really? That's awesome! I would have been very worried about missing anything important while I was here. I didn't set a video to record any of my favorite programs.

[He laughs. It's not entirely a lie, he didn't set a video to record anything and he would have been very worried, but he would have pushed away those thoughts and focus on his own pinch. He doesn't need to say that though. Just as he doesn't need to talk about how important matters were back home, it would require getting in unnecessary explanations anyway.

He's not sure he likes the idea of losing memories, even if he doesn't have anything important to remember yet. But if that's the way this place works... It's the way it works. He doesn't like the idea of dying one day but that's how things are, there's no point in getting upset or complain.]

So this is a place where no one would like to be for starters but it's not so terrible to have everyone wanting to leave every single day, is that so?

[Some of his friends, it's strange to think that but from what Lupin said Yoh knows it's possible. The problem would be from when they were from, specially in some cases, like Faust or Ren for example. Not because it would give him problems but because they would still be troubled about things that the ones he just was with had gotten over already. Amidamaru is there, though, he can feel him even if he can't see him, specially when the feeling intensifies at Lupin's words, as if the samurai was telling him that indeed he was there. Yoh smiles, not worried at all.]

Yeah, maybe they are or maybe they will come as well later on. It's okay either way, everything will work out.

[His infamous catchphrase, it's more directed to Amidamaru than to Lupin though but it doesn't matter. Yoh shows no sign of being talking to anyone else after all.]

Oh! You mean that gym clothes! I thought you mean like the gym uniform for physical education at school or something.

[He laughs.]

Yeah, you could say that those swords are a family heirloom, I had them with me before coming here and I've heard that those things we have will appear here as well so I thought it was worth checking. I will drop by myself later but if you could also take a look it would be really helpful.

[ Proof you were qualified.. She thinks it over for a moment or two until his question shakes her out of those thoughts, just making her answer instead. ]

Me? Um.. I think it's almost been a year by now.. yes, that's right. I came here back in May of last year, and it's March now, so it's pretty close.

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