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(Open) This is Halloween!
WHO: Jirou and YOU
WHERE: The floor that Jirou lives on
WHEN: Forward-dated to October 31st and going until sunrise of November 1st
WHAT: It's a Halloween Party!
WARNINGS: Should be nothing but if you feel something requires a warning please put it in the subject of your comment!
Upon arriving in the very nice apartment building, one will find a couple of what looks like secret service agents at one of the elevators. Tell them you're going to Jirou's party and they'll tell you what floor. Step inside the elevator and you'll find it decorated with bats and spooky lights. Just the sort of thing that is perfect for the event you're about to step into because Jirou has gone all out.
He's bought out the entire floor that he lives on and when you get off the elevator the entire hallway is decorated in spooky decor. If you step out of this elevator without a costume then you will be immediately shuffled off to one apartment by a pair of more secret service agent types (Jirou's dressed all the bodyguards this way) and told that you will be waiting here until you can be put into a costume. For those with a costume well it's time to enjoy the festivities!
Every apartment is clearly labeled for what it is. Food and drink. Spooky stories. Scary movies. Party games. Haunted house. It looks like Jirou has everything covered!
In party games, one can participate in all the usual activities. Bobbing for apples, a fun cake walk... Name a fun carnival activity and Jirou has something for it! So have fun and win prizes of fancy pastries and candies! There are plenty to go around so you can possibly win more than once if you really want to put the effort into it!
In the haunted house apartment, you will start in a well lit entryway where you will then be given a ghostly guide (someone dressed up in a ghost attire) and then taken through the apartment to the various scares. A kitchen where it seems that people are on the menu, a living room that seems to have two terrifying children staring at a static screen, bathrooms with what seems like bloody baths, coffins in the bedrooms. There are plenty of jump scares and if you feel that you can make it through this all the way you'll be rewarded with a fancy dessert dining experience. So do try to be brave.
In scary movies there are three movies going on at any given time. In the main area you can get popcorn and drinks then pick from gore, psychological, and random. There is always some movie going on so take your pick for which you'd like to partake in! Ritsu has done a great job in helping Jirou pick out the movies.
In spooky stories you can go to hear lots of terrifying ghost stories! The apartment is emptied out so you'll easily be able to grab some pillows from the helpful ghost at the door then go make yourself comfortable for a night of spooks. Or, if you feel really bold, try to scare friends and stranger with scary stories of your own!
Finally there is the apartment for food and drink. It comes with a full service bar that can provide you with anything but comes with a variety of Halloween themed drinks. Don't worry those of you not allowed alcohol because you have some fun drinks as well. Plus there are delicious snacks to pick from so everyone can be happy as they eat and socialize in this room.
So enjoy yourselves and have a great time because this party is going on all night. It won't be over until the sun starts to rise the next day!
[ooc: Hey guys! So feel free to comment around and let anyone know that they are welcome to come. You don't have to be a friend of or know Jirou to attend. There are only two main rules here. 1. You have to wear a costume. If you don't then you will be put into a costume by Jirou and Fai and they have full creative rights to it. So while you will look AMAZING you also may not end up in the costume you want. 2. No people who are underage will be allowed alcohol. So please if you have an underage character do not have anything like someone slipped them a drink or drunken mishaps or anything.
If you have any questions feels free to PM this journal or message me on discord at eiredragon1#6217 or at![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
eiredragon1! Otherwise spread the word and have lots of fun!]
WHERE: The floor that Jirou lives on
WHEN: Forward-dated to October 31st and going until sunrise of November 1st
WHAT: It's a Halloween Party!
WARNINGS: Should be nothing but if you feel something requires a warning please put it in the subject of your comment!
Upon arriving in the very nice apartment building, one will find a couple of what looks like secret service agents at one of the elevators. Tell them you're going to Jirou's party and they'll tell you what floor. Step inside the elevator and you'll find it decorated with bats and spooky lights. Just the sort of thing that is perfect for the event you're about to step into because Jirou has gone all out.
He's bought out the entire floor that he lives on and when you get off the elevator the entire hallway is decorated in spooky decor. If you step out of this elevator without a costume then you will be immediately shuffled off to one apartment by a pair of more secret service agent types (Jirou's dressed all the bodyguards this way) and told that you will be waiting here until you can be put into a costume. For those with a costume well it's time to enjoy the festivities!
Every apartment is clearly labeled for what it is. Food and drink. Spooky stories. Scary movies. Party games. Haunted house. It looks like Jirou has everything covered!
In party games, one can participate in all the usual activities. Bobbing for apples, a fun cake walk... Name a fun carnival activity and Jirou has something for it! So have fun and win prizes of fancy pastries and candies! There are plenty to go around so you can possibly win more than once if you really want to put the effort into it!
In the haunted house apartment, you will start in a well lit entryway where you will then be given a ghostly guide (someone dressed up in a ghost attire) and then taken through the apartment to the various scares. A kitchen where it seems that people are on the menu, a living room that seems to have two terrifying children staring at a static screen, bathrooms with what seems like bloody baths, coffins in the bedrooms. There are plenty of jump scares and if you feel that you can make it through this all the way you'll be rewarded with a fancy dessert dining experience. So do try to be brave.
In scary movies there are three movies going on at any given time. In the main area you can get popcorn and drinks then pick from gore, psychological, and random. There is always some movie going on so take your pick for which you'd like to partake in! Ritsu has done a great job in helping Jirou pick out the movies.
In spooky stories you can go to hear lots of terrifying ghost stories! The apartment is emptied out so you'll easily be able to grab some pillows from the helpful ghost at the door then go make yourself comfortable for a night of spooks. Or, if you feel really bold, try to scare friends and stranger with scary stories of your own!
Finally there is the apartment for food and drink. It comes with a full service bar that can provide you with anything but comes with a variety of Halloween themed drinks. Don't worry those of you not allowed alcohol because you have some fun drinks as well. Plus there are delicious snacks to pick from so everyone can be happy as they eat and socialize in this room.
So enjoy yourselves and have a great time because this party is going on all night. It won't be over until the sun starts to rise the next day!
[ooc: Hey guys! So feel free to comment around and let anyone know that they are welcome to come. You don't have to be a friend of or know Jirou to attend. There are only two main rules here. 1. You have to wear a costume. If you don't then you will be put into a costume by Jirou and Fai and they have full creative rights to it. So while you will look AMAZING you also may not end up in the costume you want. 2. No people who are underage will be allowed alcohol. So please if you have an underage character do not have anything like someone slipped them a drink or drunken mishaps or anything.
If you have any questions feels free to PM this journal or message me on discord at eiredragon1#6217 or at
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[ See, Kiryu would not have guessed that was where Kashuu was going with this, so he's pretty surprised. ]
That's pretty rad. So you're like a sword spirit?
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Mm, yeah. That guy, Okita Souji? I'm pretty sure I was, um... his. Or something.
[It's still weird as hell to refer to himself like the object he had once been, though.]
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Wow.
[ He almost wants to ask if Okita brought him to life with his love or something but that seems... weird. ]
That must be pretty weird to realize.
[ Like, he's gotten back "oh, I was a criminal," he can't imagine "oh, I was a sword" ]
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There's just a lot of weirdness going on in this conversation right now, though he seems to be pretty well-settled about most of it. It's just a thing you gotta get used to when you're a sword!]
It's... yeah. Weird's putting it super lightly. I mean, imagine if you remembered you used to be a table or hairbrush or something, y'know? But I guess swords are kinda in their own tier.
[Considering how many of them are still prized museum pieces today.]
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Yeah, that's not really something you can prepare for. Swords are cool, at least. And a lot of effort goes into making them.
[ At least Kiryu is still human... ]
Maybe you were a spirit living in the sword? Is that possible?
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Mm, yeah... I've been learning a lot more about 'em recently, since I didn't pay much attention before. I guess it's pretty cool.
[The entire creation process and how it's treated, that is. As for that, he shakes his head.]
It might be possible, but that wasn't the case for me, I'm pretty sure. I don't remember being "born" or anything, but I don't think I was anywhere before that sword was forged.
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[ Kiryu, your nerd is showing real bad. Kiryu nods. ]
So you remember... being with Okita Souji, as a sword?
[ A sentient sword... ]
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[The irony is not lost on him now...]
Ah— But yeah, something like that. I remember that guy coming to get me for the first time, and being at his side in a fight.
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[ He can see the irony but he won't comment on it. His dad's in jail and he remembered being a criminal so that's not a thing he's gonna talk about. ]
That's pretty cool. [ Is it? Kiryu's not really sure what to say... ] Does that mean the sword was like, your original body? Has Retrospec sent you one?
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Either way, the reactions are enough to get him to laugh a little.]
I guess so. [IT'S SOMETHING. He's not sure if "cool" is it, but he'd rather it be called cool than weird.] Oh— Yeah! I, um... Actually-- [Give him a second; he carries a bokuto bag slung over his shoulder at pretty much all times these days, but since there are a number of kendo students moseying around, he never looks too out of place.
Except when he opens it, it's definitely a real sword in there... If he's familiar with pictures of Souji's sword, he may recognize it. Otherwise, it's just a very nice-looking blade with a tsuba shaped like a flower and a deep red lacquered sheath.]
This is the one they sent.
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Woah. That's super rad. [ Carrying a weapon around is nbd in his opinion so he's not all too shocked. ] Is it weird to ask if that's... your original body?
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S'not weird, don't worry about it. But yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. I have some kinda connection to it and everything, y'know? Like, I can tell where it is or feel if someone picks it up - stuff like that.
[The sword life is weird as hell.]
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Thanks, Yakuza.]Wow. That must be a weird experience. How long ago did you find out?
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Mm, maybe a month or two? [He had it mostly figured out even earlier but he Refused to admit it.] Back when all that crazy stuff was happening and people went missing, it was pretty obvious.
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[ Yeah, that month sure was Something. ]
Did it help you fight the monsters at all?
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[Which sure did work out because Weirdness Aside, that was a dangerous month.]
But it's more like that's kinda when all the pieces of memories I had clicked and made sense, y'know? It's super frustrating that they come to us like this, though... All broken up and stuff.
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[ He still feels kinda bad about that, just a bit. ]
I know what you mean. The way things are right now, even with everything I've remembered, a lot of it doesn't make sense. It's hard to know if there's going to be that one memory or that one detail that'll make it all make sense.
[ There sure won't be one like that for Kiryu... ]
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[OTHERWISE he sure would have been in an even bigger world of hurt... Never Fight A Yakuza.]
Mm, right? You can't predict when it'll come along, either. Having all those gaps is a real pain... I wonder how many weird misunderstandings are happening over the city just 'cause people are only remembering bits and pieces of stuff.
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Right, I'll bet it happens a lot. Even at first, I didn't even realize Majima was the same guy he was in my memories.
[ Of course, Majima had two eyes and has longer hair than Kiryu remembers, so... ]
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[SADLY which he's come to realize over the months, considering he and Yasusada tend to be the outliers among their Retrospec peers.]
Did he look pretty different? I could tell Yasusada was in my memories right away 'cause there were only a few little differences.
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[ They're lucky like that, he knows. ]
But he was really different from how I remembered him. For one thing, he hadn't lost his eye yet here, whereas I'd only known him with an eyepatch. His hair was shorter, and he dressed... really differently.
[ He didn't wear a shirt. Ever. ]
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[Granted, tonight was the first time he's met the guy face-to-face and he isn't wearing a shirt now, so his meter is already skewed.]
I can't imagine how weird it'd be to be that different from the you that you remember, either. I think I was mostly the same, and so was Yasusada... I haven't really remembered anyone else, but it's kinda crazy, isn't it? To think that you might not get that someone you know here is someone you knew back there 'cause they look totally different.
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He's starting to look more like himself. Or himself from back then, anyway.
[ Kiryu's not going to say he prefers one or the other. He likes Majima however he is, long hair, short hair; shirt or no shirt. ]
Yeah, it's pretty weird. Our lives are pretty different from how they used to be, but sometimes they're the same, too? Like I'm a real estate agent now, and I did some real estate work before, too. But I wouldn't be surprised if one of my coworkers turned out to be someone I've forgotten or something like that. This Retrospec stuff can really throw you for a loop.
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[His own changes had been quite small, now that he's seeing what other people are having to deal with. Missing limbs, missing eyes, sprouting horns... He's grateful that some unusually sharp dog teeth and red eyes are the most he's had to deal with.]
That'd make sense too, though. I think that people kind of tend to... I dunno, end up around each other if they have ties from before? That's what it seems like to me, anyway. Especially if it's tied to stuff you used to do or be involved with in the past, too.
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[ Of course, Kiryu's changes have mostly been positive so he's not one to talk. Majima's on the other hand, had brought memories of torture and given him a serious handicap, so yeah, destiny or not, it's shitty. ]
Maybe that has to do with things being meant to be, too. Like, even if we don't realize it ourselves, subconsciously we get drawn to each other because it's familiar or something.
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