Test Drive Meme!

[paradisamods]

TEST DRIVE MEME Welcome to the Test Drive Meme! Whether you're considering joining paradisa for the first time or you just want to test out a new muse, this is the place to do it. Only character journals allowed, please! Feel free to have your character roam any of the castle's rooms, grounds locations, or City Royale. Thanks for your interest, and have fun! Premise: You wake up in a giant, magical castle. Everything is beautiful and the castle grants material wishes. It also provides a magic journal to every resident that allows everyone to communicate with each other like a two-way radio.

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Hisoka Kurosaki l Yami no Matsuei

[deathofempathy]

[Okay so. This is. Weird. Castles? There is nothing like this back home. Even Meifu and the temples around Japan are nothing like any sort of traditional castle like this. He can't help but be uncertain since this is definitely not where he fell asleep. It instantly puts him on edge, looking around warily, cautiously. The fact that he isn't immediately with Tsuzuki does nothing to curb his anxiety and caution either.

Hisoka searches the rooms, using his empathy to try and track down if any of his colleagues are around at all, to find someone who can explain what is going on. He has yet to realize the whole wishing deal. He just wants to find out what is going on. To find his colleagues, assuming any of them are even around at all.

When he finds someone, he stops them if they don't seem too busy to ask them what is going on.]

Excuse me?

[omnomcinnabon]

[And coming up right behind him is Hisoka's partner, who is forever late and easily distracted. This place is too big and interesting to simply walk through. Tsuzuki needs to stop and look at everything.]

[He's not expecting to see the back of a familiar head. Tsuzuki'd recognize the empath anywhere.]

Hisoka? Wait up!

[deathofempathy]

[Hisoka pauses, instinctively picking up on Tsuzuki and his familiar layers of emotion. At least he hadn't been too far off when trying to track down his partner, it seems. He turns and gives Tsuzuki a look.]

Do you know how hard it is to track you when you run around exploring like some kid in a candy store, you idiot?

[It's Hisoka's way of saying he's actually relieved to find him. Really. He's just not as open and outwardly relieved as his partner is right now. This whole situation has him on edge in spite of the supposed wonders and wishes and the potential this castle grants.]

[lord_wizard]

[It wouldn't be the first time Felix has been stopped in the halls, and there was any number of reasons for it. He turns to face the boy, arching a brow at him with a flat expression that could either mean boredom or complete dismissal, though in reality he's privately wary. Mentally, the wizard runs through anyone he might have offended lately, but he's kept quiet over the journal lately. It's been one of those months.

He certainly appears to fit into the decor a bit more than Hisoka does, with his heavily detailed tailcoat and cravat and armload of books.]

Yes?

[deathofempathy]

I was wondering if you could tell me about this place? Also, if you've seen any of my colleagues. I assume if I am here than my partner is around here somewhere.

[Tsuzuki is currently bounding around exploring from what he can tell, so it's harder to locate him than Hisoka anticipated. Otherwise he wouldn't have bothered to ask around like this. He notes the wariness though. And likely returns it just for the fact that this is a stranger and this situation is weird and possibly dangerous, suddenly finding himself in unfamiliar territory like this. A hand reaches to run through his hair, clearly annoyed and exasperated at the situation.]

[lord_wizard]

[The boy's exasperation is understandable, but Felix has been through this scenario in multiple variations over the years, and in some sense has become inured to it.]

Your first question is a rather tall order, but I can start by answering your second - namely, I am not sure who your colleague is, but if he was with you just before you found yourself here, I can only tell you not to expect him to be here as well. The castle in which you find yourself is responsible for you being here, but it can be selective about who it chooses, or from when it does so.

[Which only scratched the surface of things, but he'd see how the boy reacted and go from there. He didn't place too much stock in the composure of teenagers]

[deathofempathy]

I know he is here somewhere. I can tell. I just need to find him but he keeps -- moving around.

[He's not sure how to explain his empathy, or if he should in this strange castle. But he tries to listens, frowning as he waits, not wanting to interrupt before he questions again. The main part that worries him is the mention as to when. Would that mean that Tsuzuki might not remember as much? More than him?]

From when? I assume you mean....what, that people might remember more or less than others from their home? I'm just going off of the context here.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix hums thoughtfully at that and fixes the young shinigami with a piercing look, looking for any trace of magical talent. He had his own way of knowing, for example, if his brother was here, but it was for reasons he did not like discussing and was specific only to that one man.]

Yes, that would be the effect. The castle cares as little about time as it does the borders of universes.

[He'd make a dismissive gesture at that but. Books.]

[deathofempathy]

So I've gathered. I didn't know about the time part though. I'll...keep that in mind.

[Really, this is all just. Frustrating. He shouldn't be bothering with some stupid castle. Not if Muraki isn't here. Not if here he can't be sure whether he might be able to gain more power to better protect Tsuzuki. He purses his lips, glancing to the side briefly. Hisoka can't help being blunt, bristling almost with his desire to leave, to find Tsuzuki. But gathering information is important too. Tsuzuki can wait, it might be easier to track him down in a bit once he has stopped running around like a kid in a toy store.]

Anything else you think I should know if I just got here?

[lord_wizard]

There's a lot to learn, I'm afraid. Some of it more immediately relevant than others, depending on what you find important.

[He could drone on about the whole thing for quite awhile, as it so happened, but the kid didn't exactly look like he had the patience to sit through a whole lecture.]

The short of it is, you cannot leave until the castle sends you back. You are a resident until then. Accordingly, you...and you colleague...will have rooms and journals appointed to you. The castle will provide for your needs, and you may wish for nearly anything you need and the castle will give it to you. But know, also, that the castle is unpredictable and occasionally dangerous and extracts prices for it's gifts. You've already lost something for being here. Any questions so far?

[Somewhere in the middle he'd started treating the boy like one of his students back home]

[deathofempathy]

[Hisoka listens, frowning. None of what he hears makes him any less cautious about the situation, if only getting more wary.]

I don't suppose there is any way to figure out what the...'price' is that I've lost? I don't much care right now for wishes, so long as I have the basic necessities, but that loss seems...concerning.

[The danger he could deal with. There was danger back home. Danger in being a shinigami anyway. So Hisoka isn't too concerned about that part. It's the mention of a price, something being lost, that worries him.]

[lord_wizard]

[Felix shook his head] Nothing very simple. The first step would be to check your person for anything you might have carried with you. The next would be to attempt some skill you find particularly valuable to see if you are unable. The rest I imagine you'd have to locate your...colleague...to most easily confirm. [And because he can't resist asking.] What is it that you do?

[deathofempathy]

I didn't really have much on me. I'd recently been released from hospital. But I'll keep that in mind.

[Hisoka is almost too distracted as he ponders and frets over this loss aspect that he nearly misses the last question. How to answer that without giving too much away?]

I'm....we're, I suppose like detectives might be the simplest way to explain.

[lord_wizard]

That explains all the questions, though aren't you on the young side for that kind of occupation? [Felix, you hypocrite]