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FEBRUARY 2021 EVENT: PART ONE
CHAPTER TWO, PART 1: A LIGHT LUNCH
Good times, great olives, Uliveto's.
INVITES AND INSISTENCES | BISQUE AND BREADSTICKS | FONTINA AND FOCACCIA | MUNDANITY AND MISHAPS
INVITES AND INSISTENCES
After a fairly low-key January, you start hearing the buzz on February 1st: The Happy Homes Association is inviting you to a luncheon on Friday! Stylishly dressed women in coats and hats are inviting everyone they know in the neighborhood, coming up and knocking on your door to invite you personally to come along. “Noon on Friday at Uliveto’s,” one of them tells you with a bright smile. “There’ll be food and drinks, and the whole community can get together and mingle a bit!”
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BISQUE AND BREADSTICKS
On Friday, February 5th, Uliveto’s is easy to find — just follow the train of cars headed to North Santa Rosita, where the restaurant sits just off of Main Street with a parking lot that’s packed full. Hopefully you’re willing to walk, because it looks like the luncheon is in full swing! But as you get closer, you see that the ladies of the HHA have things down to a science as they welcome neighbors, invite them to join one of the many tables set up in the half of the restaurant they’ve taken over, and integrate newcomers into conversation.
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FONTINA AND FOCACCIA
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As the luncheon continues, you may be able to notice some of the HHA volunteers scurrying back and forth, taking turns manning the doors and the small table where Betty’s taking donations and issuing meal vouchers. Watch long enough and you’ll be able to see that all of them are ultimately reporting to three ladies who confer at a smaller table set back from all the mingling, talking amongst themselves and from time to time making notes in a small ledger. At about half past noon, one of the women stands, calling out, “May I have your attention, please?” She has to repeat it a couple times to be heard, but after a minute or two everybody settles down. The woman nods toward all of the guests, then turns back to the table, allowing one of the women to stand and make herself known. Tall, graceful, and neat, she takes a look around the room as she speaks — does her gaze linger a moment on you?
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MUNDANITY AND MISHAPS
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After the luncheon, things in Santa Rosita continue on as normal. The weekend comes and goes, the work week begins, and the cold February wind blows… But when you wake up on February 10th, some of you are missing. |
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OOC INFO
Welcome to the first part of February’s event! You can use this entry to top-level for the event, but feel free to utilize the log and network communities as well. Sign-ups to have your character abducted are located here; please fill out the form provided along with any other pertinent details.
You may play with the townsfolk NPCs as necessary in your threads; non-Robbied neighbors will be cordial and happy to make small talk and will try to maintain the pleasant atmosphere. Robbies will, as always, be mindlessly optimistic and complimentary about everything—you may find that most of the Robbies have congregated at their own table and are bubbling with excitement over just about anything.
There will be a top-level posted for Rosemary below. If you would like to have your character interact with her, comment with your starter there. The mods will respond to tags for Rosemary until February 15th.
Any questions can go in our FAQ thread below. Try to check and see if your question has already been answered on the plotting thread first here.
Remember — part 2 of this event is coming February 15th!
You may play with the townsfolk NPCs as necessary in your threads; non-Robbied neighbors will be cordial and happy to make small talk and will try to maintain the pleasant atmosphere. Robbies will, as always, be mindlessly optimistic and complimentary about everything—you may find that most of the Robbies have congregated at their own table and are bubbling with excitement over just about anything.
There will be a top-level posted for Rosemary below. If you would like to have your character interact with her, comment with your starter there. The mods will respond to tags for Rosemary until February 15th.
Any questions can go in our FAQ thread below. Try to check and see if your question has already been answered on the plotting thread first here.
Remember — part 2 of this event is coming February 15th!
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[She'll shake hands since that's what's expected of her here. Presumably her husband and kid (that's taking some getting used to?) are around here somewhere, but she's sure they'll be fine without her company for a few moments. Not like she's actually married or actually has a kid (probably for the best!).]
I realize since you're new, there are probably far more pressing concerns, but if I may ask, Fodlan?
[There's a blank look on her face because she hasn't heard of that one before. And she's heard of a lot of odd places.]
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(Normally he would bow but it hadn't taken him long to figure out it was customary to shake hands here. See? He's learning. Adapting. )
Hah... you've never heard of it? (No surprise. Most people haven't. He hadn't seen any other familiar faces at the luncheon either. So it's really just him and Felix? Hm.) It's a pretty far away place.
(Very specific.)
I guess most people here haven't heard of it but the same can be said for a lot of other places here.
(He doesn't recognize a lot of the lands people claim to be from? He doesn't even recognize the one they're in right now.)
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[Though she can offer a little more reasoning than chalking it up to generic human nature.]
Not to mention it does help with painting a better picture of where people are brought here from. Though it does seem like it's still quite the wide net.
[Across time and space and who knows what else, really? If it wasn't so different, she'd compare it to Chaldea's summoning system, but that doesn't really work.
Or whatever or whoever brings people here is really into whaling every other month.]no subject
(He rubs his hands together.)
Like when we're out of the cold.
(It's not... as cold as it could be and it might even be a nice day for those used to this sort of weather but Claude is not used to it.)
Maybe you can tell me about where you're from too...?
(That's her cue to tell him something? Maybe? A name?)
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[And that...all the other things from a couple months ago aren't happening. Though she's going to assume someone else might've told him that or someone will, so she won't immediate bring up the doom and gloom of zombie children and reindeer monsters and things are awful and Valentines is coming up, so maybe feral cupids or something are on the horizon, who knows?]
I'm from Japan originally, but I've traveled all over the world. More recently, before here I mean, I was in Hawaii.
[There was sun and surf and eldritch horrors and time loops so...maybe not that different from here, actually.
But anyways, she's never heard of Fodlan, so she wonders if he's heard of those? There's a point to it, she's not just trying to show off a collection of passport stamps or anything like that.]
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(Snow is rough. It's cold and hard to move in and when it gets too cold, he can't feel his fingers and oh boy does that make using a bow and arrow difficult.
Japan, though? Definitely isn't ring a bell and neither is Hawaii.)
I can't say I'm familiar with either of those places. Is there anyone else here from there?
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[It's just a little joke, that's all. Going from the tropical weather to winter would certainly be an adjustment.]
There are a few from Japan, but as I said, it seems to be a rather wide net. Some aren't from the same world, or even the same planet.
[And in that respect, is it a little similar to Chaldea's summoning system given some of the absolute nonsense that's summonable with that. But she won't go into that mess, Claude's new and look she doesn't even subject the people she's known here for a while to Fate explanations if she can help it.]
I suppose if it weren't as wide, it would be easier to tell if there's any common factors among us that may have played a part in our being here, but unfortunately...
[Unfortunately once you get into different worlds and magical beings and Daylight's part robot, and then you've even normal people, so at that point narrowing things down is difficult.]
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It's complicated, huh?
(Relateable. Sometimes your "father" is your classmate from the future.)
Everyone's different ages and from different places. It's hard to find much in common but in a situation like this, you'd think there was some sort of reason. And if there was something special... it's strange that they'd take it away from us.
(It's weird that his Crest is gone? How does one just lose a whole Crest!? It makes him wonder if... something was done to his blood or something? )
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I think that's one of the more complicated parts of our situation. Bringing people here would be difficult yes, but removing or suppressing various abilities, that would be even more complicated.
[At least she thinks so, she's pretty sure there's no catchall solution for taking away all her stuff and everybody else's powers too. There's so many different types of abilities and features, so it's hard to imagine how it was done.]
Forgive me for prying, but from that comment, am I right in assuming you're missing something as well?
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Something, yes.
(But he doesn't elaborate. He's a talker by nature but there are some things he prefers to keep to himself until the right time.)
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[Several things actually.]
And I completely understand not wanting to share what those things are with strangers.
[She gets it! Though she's pretty sure they're being quiet about it for very very different reasons.
Also maybe she should mention those somethings might be able to come back, but she's not really sure how that all works yet, so there's the dilemma of what if she says it and it doesn't happen? That would be terrible.]
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(Except he absolutely would. But let a noble schemer charm and tease. He can't help but be curious about what she's lost too, though. It might be interesting to see how powerful this world is. Is there a limit to what they can take away?)
... Not without establishing a warm, lasting friendship, of course.
(Get to know people! Get them to open up! And then pry for their secrets.)
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[Plus there's a number of other things that should probably be considered more important. Like all the spooky awful stuff.]
I do hope we can be friends though. I've yet to get on anyone's bad side here, and I certainly hope to not find an exception to that rule anytime soon.