(post-mingle) text; un: UEHARA

[metafictions]

Good morning, everyone. I hope you're well.

[read: he hopes that you're not too hungover and that none of you died out there last night.]

Despite the different clans to which we've been assigned, we all find ourselves in strange territory in Jigoku-cho. It may look close to what several of us recognize as Japan, but as you might've already discovered, familiarity does not guarantee similarity. The other day, I met a man who could have easily been from my world, perhaps even my continent or country-- only to discover he hailed from a completely different planet.

So, I'd like to begin gathering information. [He's no Sutoku, but this is important to all of them, and-- as he's been taught-- there are no shortcuts when it comes to investigation.] The more that we know about our fellow lost souls, the more we will have to work from as we learn more about this place and why we're here. We can start with something simple. If you would like, please share where, and when, you are from.

I'll start. I am from Tokyo's 25th Ward, in Japan, on Earth, in the year 2005.

(ooc: feel free to threadjack around! ✌️)

Comments

[horrifictie]

i would hope not. revachol is already hell on earth.

[ or maybe, it's just life. he isn't too sure when he's only been alive for a week in the shell of a man forty-four years old. ]

i was sure i was dead. i was shot before i woke up here! but then could it be we are in hell without being dead? maybe we were taken too soon by mistake. or maybe it's just a lie, or a euphemism?

[metafictions]

Is Revachol so bad?

[Okay, now we're getting somewhere--] Blekksprut a few comments above you is in a similar boat. They were in a fight that may or may not have killed them. Perhaps that has something to do with it. Or, like you said, we're being lied to about where we are.

[horrifictie]

ok it's not that bad. but it has been forced into stagnation by outside forces. more like limbo than hell.

do you remember what happened to you before your arrival then? if we're looking for connections and patterns anyway.

[metafictions]

[That sounds a lot like the Wards back home, honestly. Speaking of...]

I went bowling with a friend.

[Okay, that's not a lie, but--] Like a few others have mentioned, however, I was in a life-or-death situation shortly before the bowling alley.

[horrifictie]

so then you didn't get to go bowling before you came here?
that's a shame.
we should go out bowling together sometime!

[metafictions]

[Why is everybody inviting him out... he was supposed to be gathering information...]

We did, but it was just one set. We were killing time for something more important.

If I can find a bowling alley here... okay. It might be fun.

[horrifictie]

aren't we all just killing time until the end?
which, well, has come for us! sort of.
this was not the apocalypse i was promised to be honest but that's fine.
what is bowling actually?

[metafictions]

[.........]

You asked me to go bowling, and you've never been bowling before?

Put simply, you roll a ball down a lane to knock over a set of ten pins. I suppose I'll have to take you after all, to show you how it works.

[horrifictie]

i think i went once, a long time ago.
this might be a good time to bring up that i have amnesia.

[metafictions]

[harry you should have brought it up earlier?!]

Yes. That's... definitely very good info to have on hand.

Maybe it'll jog your memory. I'll find an alley and let you know.

[Unfortunately, they'll meet again on a bridge first, buuuut... it'll happen.]

[horrifictie]

[ He's also surprised he didn't mention it right away, it's his favorite conversation starter! ]

ok cool!
really looking forward to it.