Mao's Battlebook: Entry 001 ♪ action

[blazing_heart]

<sub>[Hey Luceti!

There's this one redhead, who's walking around the village as if he was looking for someone. He doesn't really seem lost, but judging from clothes he's wearing, he's obviously new here.

After a moment of searching though, he scratches the back of his head and makes a thoughtful look. It seems he won't find his friends here. But they're okay for sure, so there's nothing to worry.

And so, instead, Mao turns around and walks up to the first person he sees.]</sub>

Excuse me! Can you tell me where am I?

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[immamartillo]

[ He nods, sighing. ]

You bet they do. Sometimes they'll take just one person, but the experiment on the whole village come about once a month, I think.

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[blazing_heart]

But this isn't right! Can't we do anything to stop them from doing that?

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[immamartillo]

The things that take people away don't seem to respond to pain. As for the guys runnin' this place... I don't think anyone's ever seen 'em.

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[blazing_heart]

...Then what can we do?

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[immamartillo]

[ He sighs, feeling bad for being so blunt about the whole thing. ]

Keep your eyes peeled for anything to use against them. But for now, you gotta get settled in. Besides your clothes, did you have anything important with you before ya got here?

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[blazing_heart]

Yeah! I had my tonfa!

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[immamartillo]

What's a tonfa?

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[blazing_heart]

You don't know? It's a kind of weapon.

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[immamartillo]

Never heard of it before.

[ But he's really interested now. ]

If you've got your clothes, then we can go to the weapon shop next. It might be there.

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[blazing_heart]

You'll see when I get it back.

_{[he nods.]}

Let's go!

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[immamartillo]

Follow me! It's not too far away.

[ He manages a small smile, happy that Mao seems to be adjusting well. Then Firo heads to the door, propping it open as he glances back to make sure Mao's following. ]

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[blazing_heart]

Alright!

<sub>[And he follows you again.

but wait, he never introduced himself, right?]</sub>

Ah, right. I forgot about that... My name's Mao!

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[immamartillo]

Firo Prochainezo. Nice to meet'cha, Mao.

[ He pauses and then laughs bitterly. ]

Or not so nice, I guess.

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[blazing_heart]

Huh? Why not?

_{[oh c'mon Firo, this place's not that bad~]}

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[justdumbluck]

You'll understand once you've been here a while.

[ He sighs. ]

It's calm most a' the time, just keep on your toes.

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[blazing_heart]

Is that so?

_{[well, he'll find out sooner or later, right?]}

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[immamartillo]

Yeah. Nothin' happens for most of the month, there's just a few days where everything goes to hell.

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[blazing_heart]

...When you say it like that, I think I don't really want to see for myself what exactly happens then...

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[immamartillo]

Yeah, you don't. It ain't pretty. The moon fell once.

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[blazing_heart]

The moon did what?!

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[immamartillo]

It kept comin' closer every night and then...

[ He scratches his head. ]

Well, nobody actually saw it fall. But it got really close and then everybody blacked out. ...And then everything went back to normal.

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[blazing_heart]

Huh, this place is really weird...

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[immamartillo]

Yeah.

[ Looking at Mao, he feels bad for giving all the bad news right away. He feels the need to be honest, though. ]

A lotta people go home eventually. You just might be stuck here a while.

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[blazing_heart]

Finally some good news!

_{[Mao smiles.]}

I'm a little worried about Eugene and others, though... But they're gonna be fine, so I guess I shouldn't worry.

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[immamartillo]

Some people have gone home and gotten dragged back here, and they all say that time doesn't move while we're here.

Are they in trouble?

[ He can sympathize; when he left he was looking for a friend he (mistakenly) believed to be kidnapped. ]