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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2013-09-24 08:29 pm

[General Log] Tuning Towers, Sept. 22 onward.

Who: Any and all!
Where: The site of Tuning Towers (and/or en route accordingly), at the heart of the business district in Locke City's downtown.
When: September 22nd and onward.
What: Following that mysterious buzzing sound to its strongest point! Perhaps you made plans with numbered associates for a trip downtown, or perhaps you went a-wandering alone to follow the noise yourself - surely you'll hardly be the only one.



[Tuning Towers, the third-largest building in the United States and Locke City's most prominent feature, from a tourist perspective in one sense and quite literally by another - look up and marvel, if you will, should you not be a bit too distracted by the circumstances.

Even if you needed to focus to tune into the buzzing in your brain at the start of whatever trip you took, you'll find that by the time you come close enough to the tower to feel a rising sensation of tremors beneath your feet - unnoticed, as far as one can tell, by the crowds, which almost never lack presence around the building - you'll be able to hear it very easily without even trying. It isn't terribly intrusive in the first couple of days after the return of the lights in the sky. As September moves on and into October, however, the intensity will grow all the more overbearing.

It is, indeed, even worse if you enter the building - only the ground floor is accessible to the unauthorized by the tower's maintenance and management or personnel of the companies making use of it. Apart from that, among the indoor crowds, you'll find nothing unusual on the ground floor - and if you'll find that the buzzing loses its strength the higher you go if you take a trip up to one of the observation floors.]
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September 28 | Arthur Curry and open to whoever wants in on this trainwreck

[personal profile] italktofish 2013-09-29 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
It hadn't taken long for Arthur to notice that buzzing after returning to town after leaving to celebrate Granny Curry's 100th Birthday Extravaganza. Skimming the network let him know where it was coming from, and so he decided he'd have to be subtle in his own investigations. After all, a school bus driver didn't have much cause to go over there without the benefit of a field trip.

So Arthur decided to go in disguise. He'd dressed as a tourist, complete with horrible loud Hawaiian print shirt (that he was actually quite fond of), a map, a giant camera hanging around his neck (maybe he'd get some pictures of the place without looking like a spy?), and a Swedish to English dictionary. The dictionary was, he thought, the best part of the disguise. He'd pretend not to speak much, if any, English if someone tried to give him any trouble. The plan was flawless.

Sure, he couldn't actually speak a lick of Swedish, but hey, he'd seen the Muppet Show. He could fake it, right?
shiromadoushi: (Anime: *sweatdrop*)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-09-29 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
What.

What

WHAT was he even seeing...


Seconds later, Bakura's cellphone is out, recording video.
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-09-29 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Arthur has no idea he's being recorded, nor would he care anyway. He's just walking through the tower, minding his own business, and taking pictures here and there. At least the gawking the pictures involve looks very touristlike.

...and now some guy is asking him a question about the camera, and Arthur is jabbering away in "Swedish" and pointing at his dictionary like he doesn't understand a word the other man is saying.
shiromadoushi: (Fanart: Facepalm)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-06 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...This was going from bad to worse... Much as Bakura thought Arthur was an absolute loon... he was still part of the club...

Sighing, he pocketed his phone before adopting a scowl. "もう、おまえ!何をやっていると思いますか?!" he exclaimed, striding forward to snatch the dictionary away and shake it in Arthur's face. ”ばかやろ、やめてなさい! 恥ずかし、これ!”
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-10-06 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, hey, kid from the Numbers Club. Given the way things were working out with the guy asking questions about the camera and the fact that Arthur didn't speak a lick of Japanese, there was only one thing to do: jabber right back at Bakura in "Swedish" with a fist shake and a bit of pointing at the camera.

He has no idea what's going on.
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[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-06 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"かまわない! バカバカし。。。! しんじあれない、おれ。。。 さあ!こちにこいで!” Bakura grabbed Athur's wrist to haul him away. His grip was pretty strong for his scrawny frame, but if Athur resisted, he'd have some trouble.
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-10-06 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Arthur allowed Bakura to haul him away, mostly because it got him away from the nosy guy getting worked up about the camera and partially because going with Bakura meant he'd maybe be getting some idea as to what was going on.
shiromadoushi: (Sigh)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-06 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
”ほんとに何を、おまえ。。。” Bakura sighed as they got further away, angry tone replaced by a much more tired and baffled one. "こまった、あなたは。。。”

He hadn't remembered to swap back language yet, whoops.
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-10-06 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, at least since they weren't around anyone else, Arthur felt safe enough in swapping back to English. "Say, chum, do you think you could talk in English? I can't speak anything but that or fish, even if I was doing a pretty good job of pretending I can speak Swedish, if I do say so myself."
shiromadoushi: (Cluelessly Innocent)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-06 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Eh? 何を-- aaah!" Bakura exclaimed, covering his mouth with a hand before giving a small embarrassed laugh. "Aaah, sorry, sorry! Was stuck a moment there..." he shook his head before letting go of Arthur and turning to face him. "And you were doing a horrible job of it... Were you trying to get locked up in the loony bin or something?"
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-10-06 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I wanted to go investigate the Towers, I figured they wouldn't notice one more tourist up here!" Arthur shrugged. "And I figured that if I pretended not to speak English, then no one would bother me!"

Okay, so maybe he hadn't thought this through as well as he should have.
shiromadoushi: (Fanart: Facepalm)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-06 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"You made yourself stick out twenty times worse than you would have if you just stood there looking at it!" Bakura pointed out, covering his face with his hand.
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-10-06 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but I'm in disguise! They're just going to remember some tourist! Not a bus driver!"

...Well, he tried.
shiromadoushi: (There isn't?)

[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2013-10-06 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"They're going to very strongly remember a wacknut with your hair...." Bakura pointed out with a deep sigh. "Look.. next time, before you do something like this, text me and I'll make you a better cover story, okay?"
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[personal profile] italktofish 2013-10-06 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Arthur ran a hand through his hair. "Hey, there are a lot of good-looking blonde guys with this hair out there!" He had to grin at that offer of help, and if Bakura wasn't careful, he was going to find himself the recipient of one comradely slap on the back, because Arthur was taking a swing. "OUTRAGEOUS! What sort of cover story do you have in mind?"