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✨ test prive #1


✨ TEST PRIVE #1 ✨

[ ✨ In the Priginning... ]



PriPara pan pon~♪ Everyooone, gather around the fountain in PriPara Town Square! This has been a notice from the system~

[ Meganee's voice rings out over the Idol Watch, not long after the first crop of idols wander into the Prieamwidth PriPara. All of them have received their Idol Watches, Idol Time Mics, Jewels, and Looky-Cute Bags from the Meganee in Prism Stone, and heard that PriPara is a Paradise where anyone can become an idol - and their ideal self. All of them have held their PriTicket to the gate in the back of the Prism Stone shop and been transported to PriPara. All of them have seen their new PriPara Style, and met their brand-new selves. They've met a manager, too.

And now, it seems they're to meet...their destiny.

The fountain in question is the only clean structure in the Prieamwidth PriPara, which on the whole would be cute and perky if it weren't overrun with grime, vines, moss, actual trees sprouting where no tree has any business being, and other such accoutrements that make the place look like the setting of a post-apocalyptic novel about a fallen pastel privilization. The fountain, by contrast, is pristine, and bears a certain noble visage.

It's also the site of a frothy bubbling, which grows into a geyser when all the idols are assembled. A splash of water washes over the idols, and a voice from within screams out in the dulcet tones of Suwabe Junichi: ]


MEGANII REBIRTH!!

[ A giant shell pops out of the fountain's pool, opening up to reveal a handsome young man in red glasses with a hairline crack on one rim. He's holding a towel with the word "MEGANE" modestly against his privates, despite being fully clothed, but tosses it away with a "Hup!" as the shell finishes opening to display him to all of the idols. Then, standing tall, he adjusts his glasses. ]

Everyone, good day to you. I am the ally of all idols in the Prieamwidth PriPara, Red Meganii. Providing useful exposition and supporting the idols of PriPara is this -





- purpose.

[ He steps out of the shell onto the fountain's rim. A cluster of Meganee slip behind him to carry the shell away, all muttering "sssh" to themselves to remind each other to be quiet while he's talking. ]

I'm sure you all must have a number of questions. I'd be happy to answer them, but I first wish to direct your attention to the list appearing on your Idol Watches.

[ On cue, everybody's Idol Watches pop open, and said list appears. ]

This is your first set of Idol Challenges. Currently, this Prieamwidth PriPara has lost its sparkle, which has caused it to fall into disrepair. At this rate, a dire calamapri shall befall it - and all the primensions connected to it.

[ "Oh, no!" calls a Meganee, being helpful, but she continues to smile a perfect customer service smile. Meganii nods, grim. ]

In order to prevent this calamapri, your priticipation is priquired. The current system of the Prieamwidth PriPara is beset by system errors, but please, fight against this tide of adversipri and deepen your friendships with each other. Yes! Friendship will save the puniverse! Friendship - and likes!

[ The word "LIKES!" flashes above his head as a hologram, then fades. ]

Please gather likes by taking on the Idol Challenges that will periodically be sent to your Idol Watches. I understand this is a sudden and mighty undertaking, but I implore you -

To struggle because of your own mistakes? As useless as ever.

[ The voice rings out through every Idol Watch, and then, a gold-and-purple helicopter lowers itself down towards the fountain. A figure suspended from a ladder drops down, displacing Meganii, who stumbles and falls off the rim, landing squarely on his behind. The figure lands in the exact same pose as the fountain.

The figure looks exactly like the fountain. And when she opens her green eyes, they flash at the audience. ]


I've made you wait. This is Shikyoin Hibiki. Such a scrap-heap system, if left untouched, would hardly deserve the name "PriPara". Fledge yourselves quickly for me, and raise this defective PriPara so it may shine forever as the most radiant star in the sky - if you can!

[ Any opportunity for her to explain exactly what this means is drowned out by a sudden and mighty shriek of "HIBIKI-SAMA!!!!" from a contingent of idols in the crowd who had looked rather used to this whole PriPara deal already. They swarm the fountain, ringing it in admiration, and yelling things like "STEAL ME AWAY!" and "I WANT YOU TO RAISE MY HEART!"

A Meganee takes charge while Hibiki attempts to avoid Meganii's fate. ]


....So, as Meganii-san and Hibiki-san said, what happens to the Prieamwidth PriPara is up to you. Everyoone, please take on the Idol Challenges suggested to you, and pay no mind to any aberrant occurrences! This is the system~

[ And with that, the meeting ends. And everyone's life as a PriPara idol - begins! ]

[ ✨ Idol Challenge #1: "Clean the Prieamwidth PriPara!" ]



[ Idols wishing to combat the physical lack of sparkle in the Prieamwidth PriPara can pick up cleaning supplies from a pair of Meganee riding about PriPara Town atop robotic Proombas (which also wear glasses). The two Meganee have everything an idol could desire for a nice, deep clean job: gloves, aprons, sponges, soap, mops, brooms, dustpans....plus more Proombas and a single pressure cleaner. With such supplies, this challenge looks easy!

But beware. The Proombas have minds of their own, and have a tendency to steer towards the Hibiki statue with adoring hearts in their glasses eyes. As for the pressure cleaner - it's unwieldy. Sometimes it spurts water in odd directions, and coincidentally always manages to hit somebody else with the spray.

Can you manage to clean up the Prieamwidth PriPara, or will you just make a bigger mess? ]


[ ✨ Idol Challenge #2: "Snap your first Friend Ticket with someone!" ]



[ An equally simple-sounding challenge: make a new friend, then symbolize that friendship by trading PriTicket stubs. But a system error has prinfected the Prieamwidth PriPara, and anyone trying to befriend somebody else will end up saying the opposite of what they mean! "Your dress is so cute" turns into "Oh my Goddess, you're wearing that?", "What lovely weather" into "I wish it would rain...."

On the bright side, any friendship that can surmount an obstacle this high is bound to last. Do your best! ]


[ ✨ Idol Challenge #3: "Take your first lesson!" ]



[ This is as much of a challenge for everyone's managers as it is the idols themselves. Within PriPara TV are a number of lesson rooms, equipped with balance beams, sound systems, and a mysterious octopus-shaped device that can be used to practice handshakes (the tentacles move around at varying speeds, and the idol has to shake them, rapid-fire). Scattered papers indicate that the balance beams can be used to practice poise by walking atop it with a Go board balanced on one's head. The octopus also has a lever on the side that can control its tentacle speed.

With your manager providing instruction, and perhaps a new acquaintance by your side, see if you can't practice a thing or two. There's even a handy video that you can watch to learn a specific dance.

Just be aware....it's been a while since these rooms were used. So the lights flicker, and the sound system crackles. Mysterious silhouettes flash across the TV screen while watching the video, too. Those who frighten easily might have a hard time focusing.... ]


[ ✨ A Genius's Five Seconds And The Common Man's Five Seconds Are Different (NPriC Printeraction) ]



[ While all of this is going on, Meganii is hurrying about on roller skates with a flashing siren atop his head. He is flanked by a panda on either side of him, and if an idol appears to be in trouble, up he shall skate, making his own siren noises. ]

Whee-woo, whee-woo, whee-woo! Troubled idol, how may I serve you? I'll give you the special 100-Wink Service!

[ He then....proceeds to wink. And wink. And wink. If you don't interrupt him with your question, or your problem, he will just keep going.



On the completely opposite side of the engagement spectrum, a single patch of cropped foliage has been cleared on a balcony on the PriPara TV building, overlooking PriPara Town (how is unclear, but the butler in a goat suit off to one side is...still chewing). Upon this balcony, a table with an umbrella has been erected, and Hibiki enjoys a tranquil cup of tea. Her eyes are on a laptop in front of her, where she's watching everyone work from various camera angles. ]


So this is the limit of the newly-hatched idols....Well, there's no need to rush. Prolonging their desire for my participation is best.

[ And she sips her tea, stubbornly refusing to do a bleating thing. How lofty she is. How above everybody else. Literally and figuratively.

Surely, nothing could disturb her elegant repast! ]


[[ ✨ oopri: Pricause the Prieamwidth PriPara's prilationship to time is....compricated...all threads done in the test prive may count as game canon if you so choose! Conprider this not only your printroduction to what the game will be like, but your character's printroduction to the settpring, as well. Best of luck with the Idol Challenges! ]]
royalroseofearth: (wait wha?)

Mamoru Chiba - Sailor Moon - OTA

[personal profile] royalroseofearth 2018-10-30 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
1 - A Royal Cleaning

Well, Mamoru may be dressed up in some version of his royal vestiges, but that doesn't mean that he should consider himself excused from helping. Draping his coat and cape along one chair, he begins to roll up his sleeves in preparations to help out.

Still, there's a small concerned frown on his face for a moment. A place like this, just now opening up to anyone and everyone who got these strange tickets...it's certainly suspicious, but he'll play along for now.

Shaking his head, he grabs the nearest bucket full of mop and cloths, and smiles politely at anyone else gathering supplies. "Shall we try and work at one area together?" He offers. "We could try and get things done faster that way."


2 - An Earthly Attempt

Mamoru pauses next to a tree at some point, feeling like he's alone. It appears to be young, and he can feel his crystal humming inside of him. Maybe... Well, it's not like he's going to use it very much for the moment, so surely it won't leave him too tired.

A moment of closed eyes and focused thoughts, and he feels his staff summoning into his hands. Tapping the tip that houses his crystal against the tree, he sends a small amount of power into it. "I know you enjoy the sunshine here, but it might be best if you move into the forest--"

He doesn't get very far, though, before the tree starts to move on its own accord...and happily hugs him with its branches. A very immature squawk rises out of his throat as he tries to wriggle his way out of the wooden grip. "W-waitasecond--!?!"

Perhaps he could use a hand here...


3 - Practice, Practice...

This is ridiculous, Mamoru decided. Yes, Idols are supposed to be able to dance and sing - both at the same time. And yes, he knows that he might not be fully used to doing such things. So when his 'manager' suggested that he try and practice with some seemingly easy numbers, he thought that it might be a good idea. AT the very least, it will help him toughen up for any future battles...

But after just fiften minutes of it, it's pretty visible to anyone that he's very green to performing on stage. He finds himself collapsing into the nearest chair, breathing hard and brushing away some random strands of hair away from his face. "...and Minako-chan wants to do this stuff as her day job?" He huffs in disbelief.


...Hibiki... [Closed to...well, Hibiki]

"Are you sure that's such a wise idea?"

Should Hibiki look up, she will find a caped figure standing on a nearby tree branch. Cape flowing in the wind, he looks more like a royal than an Idol, especially with the staff in his hand. He peers down at this apparent leader of this town, a small frown on his face. "Would it not be better to lead by example?"
priforpalps: (pleased)

Fuwari Midorikaze | Idol Time PriPara | OTA

[personal profile] priforpalps 2018-10-30 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Idol Challenge #1 ]

Ah, sheep-san, this way, please!

[ This corner of the Prieamwidth PriPara is being cleaned...by animals. Birds are picking up stray twigs for use in their nests, and grazing animals are eating up all the greenery that had grown everywhere.

In their midsts, a petite girl holding an old-fashioned twig broom is sweeping up some dust, wiping her brow with an expression of wholesome satisfaction.

The sheep in question above lumbers past you on its way to join the grass-cutting team. ]
Thank you. With everyone working together, we'll get this place looking spick-and-span! Maa-maa-maa ee-hee!

[ Every animal pauses what they're doing to sigh wistfully, hearts in their eyes, then gets back to work. Fuwari giggles. Working together with everyone is such fun! ]

[ Idol Challenge #2 ]

Oh, dear....It happened again.

[ Fuwari looks forlornly at the large piece of Priss cheese she's holding. ]

Whyever do I keep mistaking this for my PriTickets?

[ She looks around, worried. This poor PriPara needs her help, and she can't even begin completing this Challenge....

Ah, but there is someone she can give her cheese to, at least. Fuwari hurries over, a bright smile on her face. ]
Ah, excuse me! I have a piece of delicious cheese here, and I'd like nothing better than to keep it all to myself!!! So there~!

[ Then, she gasps. That wasn't what she'd intended to say at all! How awful! ]

[ Idol Challenge #3 ]

IT'S ALL TORIKO'S FAULT, TORI!!

[ If you enter this practice room, you'll see an octopus machine with....all its tentacles on the floor, having fallen out of their sockets. Next to the octopus, a small blue bird is fluttering, screaming at the top of her lungs. ]

THE MACHINE COULDN'T STAND BEING USED BY TORIKO SO IT GAVE UP THE GHOST, TORI! THE MISFORTUNE OVERLOADED ITS CIRCUITS, TORI!! TORIKO REALLY IS NOTHING MORE THAN THE BLUE BIRD OF UNHAPPINESS AND YOU SHOULD SHAKE HER INSTEAD, TORI! SHAKE HER UNTIL ALL HER FEATHERS FALL OUT AND SHE CAN'T STAY IN THE AIR AND SHE FALLS ON THE GRILL READY FOR SALTING AND SAUCING AND TURNING OVER THREE TIMES UNTIL SHE TURNS A SOFT GOLDEN BROWN, TORI----

[ Fuwari, calmly, kneels down. She is in a pink nurse costume, and is gathering up the arms, one by one. ] Toriko-san, it's all right. Octopus-san will be fixed in a jiffy.

[ The bird bursts into tears. Now the floor is slowly being flooded. ]

THIS PRIPARA IS DOOMED TO FALL APART JUST LIKE THIS OCTOPUS, TORIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
priforprince: (sideways)

✧・゚: *✧・゚:* ~Hibiki~ *:・゚✧*:・゚✧

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-10-30 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. So this Prieamwidth PriPara, defective piece of scrap that it may be, attracts idols with some semblance of panache. Perhaps there's hope for it.

Hibiki lowers her cup, waiting to speak until it has clinked elegantly against its saucer and she's leaned back in her chair. "The example I set is as a source of unobtainable admiration. To participate on their level would rob everyone of their ideal."

Discretely, Ando swallows whatever he'd been chewing and presents Hibiki with a slice of chocolate cake on a silver platter. Hibiki lifts both fork and plate: her favorite treat. Acceptable. "A jewel removed from its crown is a rock."
velvetinmate: (but we gonna raise hell anyway)

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[personal profile] velvetinmate 2018-10-31 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Akira looks up when Mamoru approaches, pausing as he picks up an apron. Akira's not as freaked out as he could be--it's not his first experience in another world, after all, and this one's far less dangerous.

He smiles back at Mamoru and nods.]


Sounds like a plan to me. Two pairs of hands'll make the work go faster and all.

[... Never... mind that this place needs a lot of work...]
royalroseofearth: (let me just whip this out)

[personal profile] royalroseofearth 2018-10-31 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Mamoru's a little relieved that there's another guy caught up in all of this. He didn't want to be the only male 'idol' being pulled in. Though...he'd rather not have anyone else pulled in in the first place, but that thought is not appropriate for the moment.]

Right. Let's start with these tables around here. They do look like a good place for public mingling...

[He pulls off his leather clothes, tucking them away so as to put on rubber gloves instead.]
royalroseofearth: (Mister Mysterious)

[personal profile] royalroseofearth 2018-10-31 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Are you sure that is the kind of ideal everyone should aspire to? I was given to understand that each of us are here under the guise of our ideal selves."

He leaps down from the tree branch to smoothly land near Hibiki's table. Whether his sudden landing right next to Ando is scary to the butler-goat remains to be seen.

"Besides...not all jewels are destined to remain locked within a heavy crown."
Edited 2018-10-31 03:45 (UTC)
velvetinmate: (young blood run like a river)

[personal profile] velvetinmate 2018-10-31 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, for sure.

[Once Akira gets his apron tied and a pair of gloves on, he starts working on clearing off one of the tables.]

So, what do you make of this whole... situation?
royalroseofearth: (...can I help you?)

[personal profile] royalroseofearth 2018-10-31 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Mamoru focuses on the chairs strewn nearby, wiping off a couple layers of grime with a wet cleaning cloth. He pauses only for a brief moment to consider Akira's question.]

...odd, to be honest. Not that I can't see its appeal - especially for young women. I know at least one back home that would see this place as a heaven waiting to be restored.

[He rinses off the cloth in a bucket before he adds:]

And you?
velvetinmate: (don't care what your old man say)

[personal profile] velvetinmate 2018-10-31 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Odd's a good word for it. I'm just grateful it's a benign sort of odd instead of like... actively dangerous or anything.

[A pause.]

... As far as I can tell so far, at least. [Back to cleaning off this table.] It certainly won't be boring, I imagine. I've never considered myself idol material, to tell you the truth... Celebrity life just seems inconvenient.
royalroseofearth: (...can I help you?)

[personal profile] royalroseofearth 2018-10-31 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[That made Mamoru gives Akira a curious look. Has this teenager dealt with dangerously odd situations before himself? The events surrounding the Dead Moon Circus is still fresh in his own mind, which is why he's doing his best to remain courteous and helpful...but not overly friendly.]

Small blessings there, I suppose. I'd hate to have to deal with any true threats at this point.

[Even if Mamoru feels confident enough to handle most things that could come their way...he thinks. Still, his tone turns sympathetic, even as he finishes cleaning one chair.]

It does seem like living in a gilded cage, doesn't it? Everyone thinks that it's grand to be rich and famous, but there's all kinds of rules and customs one has to follow as an idol.
velvetinmate: (baby sell that soul)

[personal profile] velvetinmate 2018-10-31 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Frankly, Akira has no idea if his Metaverse abilities work in a place like this, and he's not sure he wants to find out. He can, at the very least, still feel his Personas, still hear them, so that's... a relief, of some sort.]

I'm certainly not helpless, but... Mmn, I suppose that's something to worry about if or when it comes up. I'm pretty good at thinking on my feet, at least.

[He nods to the next part as he grabs a sponge to start cleaning the table, now that it's been cleared off.]

It doesn't seem worth it, if you ask me. What good's fame when the public can turn on you at the drop of a hat? [He's seen how the public turned on Akechi. He doesn't like it.] And living under a microscope? No thank you.
priforprince: (2001)

here is the difference between hibiki and haruka. haruka's fist would be up his ribs

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-11-01 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Fear not, Mamoru. If mysterious masked men leaping from impossible perches were enough to frighten Ando, he would have long ago been declared unfit for this job and permanently dismissed, doomed to spend eternity wandering as a stray goat. As is, he seems to take it all in stride.

Hibiki also remains unruffled, even chuckling to herself. A delicate, graceful sliver of cake (it is, it turns out, possible for a sliver of cake to be graceful - behold!) is shaved from her slice. "This is a task that may be safely left to everyone else," she explains, no longer bothering to dress up her intentions. "There's no need for me to make an appearance."

Her head tilts slightly, her smile polite - but pointed. "Or do you believe you aren't up to the task?"

A dashing young man who isn't afraid to make an entrance. Yes, the Prieamwidth PriPara is already very interesting, very interesting indeed.
lunchleader: (Oh this is not good...)

Right Suzuki - Ressha Sentai ToQger - OTA

[personal profile] lunchleader 2018-11-01 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
A - New place, old face

Right blinks in surprise as he looks over himself. This...is oddly familiar. One moment, he was just a kid who happened to find a very shiny ticket near the new Prism Store in town. The next...well, he's in his 'grown-up' form, wearing the grown-up version of his clothes. Weird...good-kind of weird, but still...

Oh, wow, this place is a disaster, and they need everyone's help to restore it? Welp, Right's just going to sigh...and start reaching for the broom. "Might as well get all the chores out of the way before we can have fun..."


B - Making New Friends!

Right grins happily as he looks over the next item on the list. Making new friends? Man, that's just a day for him that ends in 'y'. And the idea of stuffing his new bag with lots of friend tickets sounds wonderful. Maybe he can show them off to his best friends once he goes back home - hopefully, some of his potential new friends have phone numbers...

But as soon as he approaches someone and opens his mouth, instead of saying "Hey, wanna trade tickets?", he instead says, "Hey...wanna stay the heck away from me?" The stunned look on his face makes it clear that it's soooo not the intended question.


C - Idol In Distress!

Right ignores the new flying pygmy monkey, the one who claims to be his new 'manager'. Who cares if he claims to be related to Ticket? That's not important right now. (Even if trying to figure that thing out logically makes his head hurt...) Right just looks up at the Meganii that comes skating up to him, and looks like he's seeing a savoir.

"Oh, thank Goodness, I'm so glad you came!" He grabs the other man by the shoulders with a desperate, distressed look on his face. "Please tell me...where's the food? I really need food...I'm star~ving~!"

Of course, if someone else overhears them and offers a positive answer themselves, Right's not going to complain; anything to help cease the grumbling of his tummy...!

Wildcard!

[OOC: Want to thread with him, but don't seem interested in any of the other prompts? Toss one of your own up at him!]
chiencolat: (doggedly)

Akira Kenjou | KiraKira ☆ Precure a la Mode | OTA, woof

[personal profile] chiencolat 2018-11-02 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Idol Challenge #1 ]

This is awful, woof....

[ Akira blinks, trying not to let that "woof" she keeps saying bother her. She supposes it comes with the dog ears and tail, both of which twitch as she surveys the crumbled-down wall of this shop.

Then, taking a small round compact out of her pocket, she lifts a tiny whisk and stirs the frosting inside. ]
Guess we'll try this, woof. Excuse me!

[ She hails a passing person. From her whisk, what looks like an entire wall of frosting is now suspended. ] Sorry to bother you. Could you tell me if the top of this is level, woof?

[ Idol Challenge #2 ]

Sniff, sniff.

[ Akira is on all fours, smelling the ground. She has someone else's PriTicket in her mouth, having found it where it'd been dropped. Now she is tracking the owner.

With her nose. ]
Sniff sniff.

[ Look out. She's about to sniff your feet. ]

[ Idol Challenge #3 ]

Like this, woof?

[ Akira has a Go board on her head (flattening her fuzzy ears) and her arms stretched out on either side of her as she stands atop a balance beam. "Bark!" yips the tiny dog sitting atop a shinai in the corner. This shinai has been supplied for managers to whack the floor with, keeping time for their idols, but as this dog is like two inches high, that's not happening.

What is happening, however, is a miraculously graceful balance-beam walk. Moving her feet in time with tiny barks from the corner, Akira all but strolls down the beam, Go board not even wobbling a bit. A spare rose or two even blooms at the corners of the frame of vision of anyone beholding this. ]


Hey...this isn't so bad, woof!

[ When Akira chuckles to herself, sunlight streams into the room.

There is no window. ]
incrediblystressedout: (unbelievably stressed out right now)

Joey Claire | Hiveswap | OTA

[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2018-11-02 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
#0

One of the newcomers, a young woman of indeterminate but apparently late-teen age after the magic of PriPara adjusts her appearance to that of an elegant young dancer from an earlier decade, claps politely while bearing an expression that says nothing more or less than 'what the heck'. Seeing one of the people not swarming Hibiki and figuring them for another new arrival, she sidles over and quietly asks.

"Uh...I think I get the idea they're trying to get across, but...why does everyone keep saying 'pri'?"

#1

Ugh, cleaning. Easily Joey's least favorite chore, next to dishwashing. On the other hand, it's somehow less depressing when it's community volunteering instead of your own house. Still, though, she's a lot more intrigued by these little robot doohickeys than the more mundane tools. Real life robots that clean for you? Surely, this is a truly magical fantasyland. On the other hand, she's trying to use three at once and they're getting a little out of hand.

"Hey! You guys get back here! No spacing out looking at pretty statues!" she shouts, trying to get their attention by chasing after them and tapping them with a broom. "That's management work!"

#2

Okay, making friends is something she can do. Considering how quickly she befriends whole different species when she puts her mind to it, Joey considers herself something of a friendship specialist by now.

"Hi," she says to the first person she sees. She would normally try 'first person she sees who looks relatively normal' but she doesn't want to be at this all day. "I think this whole place is pretty dumb, so how about we fight?"

Wait, what?

#3

Okay, poise and balance, Joey can do. She's been practicing this twice a week and unofficially in most of her free time since she was about six. She probably isn't up to doing jetés on a balance beam with her new center of gravity, but she's working on it.

Byers, who had undergone his own transformation into an even more cartoon-looking pigeon than his normal fluffy self when he entered this realm with Joey, sits on top of the octopus machine looking bored. Or possibly hungry. He coos to get Joey's attention, leaving her standing sideways on the balance beam.

"Uh, not sure what that's for, Byers," she claims, banking on pigeons not having much of a memory for things that aren't where to get food. They'd both gotten an explanation when they came in. Nonetheless, she walks over to offer him her hand to fly to. "I think we should leave it alone."

Byers gives her a side-eye - which is a glare for prey animals - then hops down, landing on the control level for the machine.

"Byers, hey!"

Suddenly, Joey finds herself in a whirlwind of friendly tentacles, struggling to shake as many as possible without getting smacked. Thank god she's wearing her ballet slippers or she'd be having a lot more trouble dodging...
priforpalps: (sweatdrop)

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[personal profile] priforpalps 2018-11-02 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Because it's PriPara," Fuwari explains, also keeping her distance from the Hibiki swarm (with the skill of an expert used to handling this crisis). Hibiki-san cares so much for idols....even if the way she expresses it, and the way her audience responds, is quite forceful. "They don't use 'pri' nearly as much in my homeland, the Palps, either."

Having thus established this surefire connection, she smiles at the other girl. "Could this be your first day in PriPara?"
incrediblystressedout: (this is fine)

[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2018-11-03 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Considering I don't know how any of that means anything, uh...yes," Joey admits. "I need to stop walking through weird doors, but this one seems nicer than the last one, at least."

She turns and faces the blonde girl with a polite and much less forced smile. "So...the Palps? Are those anywhere near the Alps?"

A part of her deeply hopes not, even if that would make a reasonable question sound more like a dad joke. She can live with a dad joke more easily than someone randomly prepending p's to place names.
incrediblystressedout: (this is fine)

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[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2018-11-03 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Does that girl have dog ears? Is it weird that Joey finds the idea of a girl with dog ears inherently trustworthy? If you can't trust a dog, who can you trust?]

[Joey momentarily ignores the small proomba army she was trying to herd herself, and instead looks to what the girl with the ears is asking about.]

I can hel...p?

[Wait.]

Is that frosting just hanging in the air?
incrediblystressedout: (this is fine)

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[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2018-11-03 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Pretty rough, huh?" Joey asks. She'd been stretching before taking her own turn at dancing, but she notices the older-looking boy getting tired out at a rate that screams 'noob' to her, or would if that word had existed in 1994.

"You're new to dancing, right? It takes a while to build up stamina," she says, trying to be comforting without being condescending.
chiencolat: (dog days of summer)

[personal profile] chiencolat 2018-11-03 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah...I guess that would look strange, woof.

[ Akira smiles a reassuring smile. It is bright, and casually charming.

You can, indeed, always trust a dog! ]
It's all right, woof. I can use it to fix the shop, woof.
priforpalps: (crest)

[personal profile] priforpalps 2018-11-03 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"'Alps'?"

Fuwari has lost the train of this conversation already. Oh dear. It must be one of those primited pexpress trains, or perhaps a pullet train...?

No, no, that isn't the point! "Wherever might those be?"
velvetinmate: (but we gonna raise hell anyway)

#1!

[personal profile] velvetinmate 2018-11-03 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Those animals aren't the only ones stopping what they're doing. Though, instead of sighing wistfully with hearts in his eyes, Akira's eyebrows are shooting up. This almost looks like something out of a Disney movie... Prisney movie?

... Though after a moment or so, he does register that she's sweeping up some dust, so he comes over with a dustpan.]


It's already looking way better than it did before.
incrediblystressedout: (thrill 'em with daylight)

[personal profile] incrediblystressedout 2018-11-03 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
By remaking it out of the stuff you put on top of cakes?

[Joey's asking the question honestly, and has a brief moment of wonder if that's why her dad had piled all those baking supplies in the basement.]
velvetinmate: (baby drop them bones)

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[personal profile] velvetinmate 2018-11-03 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Incidentally, first person she sees does in fact look relatively normal! ... Though he does visibly pause at the question, then frowns and tilts his head.

"I'm certain fighting is exactly what we need to be doing in this situation." Akira immediately freezes after he says that. That was supposed to be 'I'm not sure fighting is what we need to be doing in this situation.'

"... Ah." Well. This was going to get really inconvenient really fast.

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