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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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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
...Probably. I got some contacts though I guess, but they kind of look weird and I don't really wanna wear them. I'm probably going to have to just wear the glasses anyway.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe tinted glasses - wait, no, without a pupil...

[ Hrm. She starts walking down the stairs again, anyway. ]

Contacts can be super annoying. Mara makes me wear 'em for cosplay sometimes. They always make my eyes itch, though.
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I really don't like them. And they're the kind that, you know, cover your whole eye, so they're really uncomfortable.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Then glasses are cool! You can make it your thing. And if you need a doctor's note to wear them in school, it's not like we don't have an abundance of doctors on our side.
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah I probably need to get one. I talked to a couple before, when, you know. The voices. I could probably get a note from someone.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Did they help?
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
...Kinda. I was just sort of, you know. Worried for other reasons. But it's okay, nothing to worry about.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
...That doesn't really sound that comforting, but if you're sure!! I'm glad it's - well. I'm glad you can think through them now?
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I just don't really wanna talk about it. Sorry. Maybe some other time. [for now he can just pretend he isn't crazy, yep. best idea.]

I'm glad too, they were kind of a pain.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
You don't have to talk about anything you don't want to!

Oh, but you do have to come into this shop with me. That is a thing you actually have to do.
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
What if I object? [not that he is. in fact he's just grinning and following her in when they get there.]
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to take drastic measures! Of...some sort.

[ but soren how can you turn down this shop. there are already mugs in sight. look at these mugs. ]
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, that sounds scary. I guess I have to go in then. [he of course doesn't even want any of this stuff but gift shop wares are still kind of funny to look at so he's not objecting for sure.]
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, look at this.

[ Snow globes! ...Aria is apparently one of those people who has to go over and shake them. She can't actually help herself. ]
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[and he's just kinda snickering and following her around.]

They're just snow globes.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-01 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but snowglobes are cool!

[ But she will put that down. And immediately drift to the next display stand.

She's completely sixteen. ]


Who doesn't want Tuning Towers - what is this? [ A backscratcher in the shape of a tuning fork or an actual tuning fork what is she looking at. ]
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-01 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we should just leave before you blow all your money. [he's amused though, really.]
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
You can't leave a gift shop without getting one thing! The question is just "what thing should I get".

[ Probably not stupid sunglasses with questionable side designs of the tower's silhouettes, but she is picking them up anyway.

This is the most mature and on-point investigation. ]
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-02 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Then maybe you should just buy a postcard. Or one of those shitty keyrings or something.

[yep very mature and on-point, definitely. they are amazing.]
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-02 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I do like keyrings.

[ Aria at least seems to feel better having found the "source", but... ]

Okay, so I'll get a keyring. Are you sure you can survive without these awesome glasses?

[ She's putting them on. ...They look as dorky on as they did off. ]
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-02 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah he's laughing again at how ridiculous they look]

You know what, if you're buying them, I'll totally wear them. Even though they're terrible.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-02 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
This and a keychain will basically be like five dollars. I think I can handle that.
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[personal profile] mood2wiingiing 2013-10-02 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, yeah, you should definitely buy them then.
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[personal profile] eras 2013-10-02 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
And then you'll be stylish and my keys will be even clunkier!

[ He'll see what she means after she collects the glasses and a keychain - a miniature snowglobe thing, the size of a thumbnail - and checks out, handing over the glasses and pausing outside the shop, off to the side of the door where she's not in the way.

Because of course Aria's keychain has various other keychains on it, not all of which seem useful or even easy to tell apart. Some are from various anime franchises, probably from her sister; a few seem to be from touristy places, including at least two from Disney. And others might be along the lines of a mini compass and a mini flashlight.

How she manages that mess is anyone's guess. ]