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[personal profile] hoennmaihime
Who: Haruka Minamoto and Kyouya Hibari
What: Making each other's acquaintance.
Where: Locke City Council Animal Shelter
When: June 7th, Friday, late afternoon

There was something Haruka's life had been lacking since she'd moved to Locke City: the presence of animals. Even though she'd never been in a position to own her own pet, that hadn't stopped her from seeking out their company time and time again while growing up. Their open affection and relative honesty was comforting to her, and more than she saw from the people around her. Whether it was from the pets of whoever was hosting her that month, her frequent visits to zoos all over Japan, to occasionally helping out at animal shelters when she could, animals had been an almost constant for her while growing up. Around them, even now, her heart grew softer and her smiles more willing to show themselves.

Now that she was confined to Locke City for the foreseeable future - her hobby of exploring countries forcibly taken away from her - her best option for entertainment was to focus more on the interests she'd already established. And thus, Haruka found herself milling around Locke City Council Animal Shelter's lobby, waiting for the appearance of someone who looked like they could inform her how to begin volunteering there. Preferably that afternoon.
happybirthdaytoyou: (beyond infinity)
[personal profile] happybirthdaytoyou
[Eugene has chosen to write his numbers in frosting on a shiny reflective worktable in the back of the main branch of MAGNIFICENT BAKERY. Mort and Rhonda are lucky he didn't do the same thing on the living room coffee table. Because of this, the first thing anyone sees is the bakery ceiling while a deep voice shouts from off to the side:]

SO! By way of these secret numbers, I have gained access to an equally secret supernatural network! MAGNIFICENT!

[And now the owner of that voice is leaning over the table. He appears to be a middle-aged Japanese-American man, wearing chef's whites, with a streak of flour on his cheek and a very manic expression covering the rest of his face. It's a face that many people in the numbers club have probably seen before on bus shelter advertisements.]

I look forward to learning more about this secret numbers club! However, there is one thing I must know first!

… when are your birthdays?

[How else is he going to know when to make the cakes?]
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[personal profile] visionarykitten
Gomez didn't get out of the apartment much. He tended to stay indoors, unless his ehhif Alex deigned to take him somewhere, but today he was just so bored... and Alex was just going to sleep all day, so he made sad-kitten eyes at him when he got home and got permission to go explore. He even got a door opened for him, rather than having to bolt out and hope nobody caught him, like last time.

And now he was out and about, sniffing at the park, strolling down main street, getting chased out of stores and then stuck up trees by yappy little dogs... it was an adventure, anyway. Even if being treed was embarrassing and a little scary. He stared down at passers by and occasionally cried at them as lost-kitten-ish-ly as he could. He needed down! And he needed petting!

And food!

Run into him in the park, on the sidewalk, or when he's stuck up a tree. He's wide open.
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[Arthur has spent a bit of time exploring this network, and he's been getting ever more excited over everything, because holy cow, this looks cool, and screw consequences, I have something exciting to play with. So he'll open up a video feed using his webcam. He is grinning broadly, waving merrily, and looking like a kid on Christmas morning.]

HELLO, EVERYONE!

[He'll turn to address the goldfish sitting in a bowl on the table next to him, even going through the trouble to adjust the webcam so the fish is in the shot along with him.]

See, Slippy? I TOLD you it would work! OUTRAGEOUS!

[And then he laughs. It's not a crazy man laugh, but man, this guy is certainly in a good mood.]
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[personal profile] strongestcoward
[The newest addition to the network is an exceptionally pale and unbelievably effeminate man. No one would be blamed for mistaking him for the opposite sex, especially considering that he is wearing baggy clothes that show nothing of his figure. Not helping things is the fact he's sitting in a garden with a large bundle of flowers on his lap and that his voice is so softly spoken and unearthly calm.]

Earth is commonly estimated to be 4 and a half billion years old. Human beings, on the other hand are approximately between four million and two million years old depending on the definition of human.

[His watery amber eyes slowly glance from side to side as he speaks, eventually starting to arrange the flowers into a block of Oasis.]

Life existed long before them. Jellyfish for example, are at minimum five hundred million years old and potentially seven hundred million which makes them amongst the oldest of the still extant animals. Evidence suggests that life itself is between four and three and a half billion years old.

[Pausing to stare at a particular flower, he apparently decides it is not of quality enough to be used in the display and is set aside delicately. The task is continued with other, more suitable decorations.]

But science has discovered planets estimated as old as twelve point seven billion years old and the universe itself is considered to be approximately thirteen point eight billion years old. It is easy to see that in comparison, Earth, life on Earth and humans are not especially old. Humans believe it to be notable because it is the basis of our civilisation but it is potentially insignificant. Mankind's claim to ownership of Earth is tenuous, in itself. Disputes over land occur daily and have never not been an issue in human history. What right have they to declare it their own?

[Apparently finished with the arrangement, a small smile slips into place. It's a professional little piece made of subdued colours. Those who know their flowers will note it is made primarily made from those that symbolise strength or persistence.]

On the other hand, all life instinctively protects itself. Perhaps the concept of a 'right' does not exist in the natural world.

[Raising a hand, he waggles his fingers in a dainty 'bye bye' manner.]

A little while ago, I punched the teeth out of a werewolf. It felt quite natural.

[And with that, he swipes a finger over the glass to disrupt the connection to the network.]

((ooc: Just to note, mistaking Dorje for a woman is not mandatory but is encouraged.))
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[personal profile] handcuff
Animals have far more sensitivity to their surroundings than humans do, they can sense changes in the environment that we can't. Canaries in coal mines. domesticated pets warning their owners of natural disasters to come. Survival of the fittest. "Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce." ... the point being that when things start going wrong, we're usually the last ones to notice.

... by the way, I heard that there were a lot of freak animal attacks last month.
[ that, and he volunteers at an animal shelter. ] I can pretty much guess that's not unrelated to whatever all of this is about. [ although, to be sure, the details are still rather hazy for him. he can only make inferences and guesses at this point, though his are more or less in the right direction, at the very least.

and now for something completely different: ]


there's an animal following me around when I'm not in public places. a bird. I don't really know why ...

[ he won't directly come out and ask for it, but this is his way of soliciting advice on what to do about it. ]
sinningsaint: (♠ Facepalm)
[personal profile] sinningsaint
Okay, I've done my best to lurk around here and figure out what's going on in this 'Network.' Let me see if I got the facts right:

-Some of you enjoy goofing off here, but there's some serious stuff going on.

-Those of us with 'numbers' can slowly start getting weird things like weird languages and randomly appearing scars and useless skills with toys and memories for things we haven't experienced. (Extras? Is that what we're calling them? That's the most creative thing you guys could come up with?)

-Those creepy statues at the art gallery are using magic or something to convince people to like them, to buy from Thunder corp, and are sending us to some weird forum where aliens(?) talk about us like we're weeds and want us to agree to leave them alone so they don't kill us.

-People are getting haunted by...werewolf ghosts? I really hope I got that part wrong.

-Child spies? Vampires? What??

-A cat somehow randomly got on here.

I'd think this was all some weird ARG I stumbled across, like I Love Honey or something. But I can make my hands glow for some reason, and I can't imagine how an ARG could pull off THAT. This is some of the weirdest things I've ever heard of...Last Legend fans would call this contrived.
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[personal profile] skickpowered
We had Nabe tonight~! (≧∇≦)/


[Al puts up a picture of some tasty hot pot on the table.]


Well we're not celebrating anything right at that time...

Plus, I guess my auntie was in the mood to cook Nabe anyway.

But either way, it's delicious~!

So delicious~! ( ^∇^)~♥



[Unaware to the poster, his entry somehow shows up in the network. The entire entry is actually written in Japanese. So, uh... those who aren't well versed in the language may not be able to understand.]