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Post by Arcran on Apr 15, 2017 14:57:45 GMT
Nordu reads the messages, his face unreadable as he does so. The first thing that struck him was that Shin was (allegedly) going to die. Normally, that would be his chief concern, until he read over the second message again.
"4 individuals will die, attacked by a monster in a public area," Nordu mutters to himself, counting their numbers. There were four of them, which was a bit too uncannily coincidental for his liking. What the hell was this about dragons and Cults? Was this some kind of Triad thing? They were into dragons, right? Still, the earlier message seemed to imply actual monsters, which obviously didn't exist.
"I think Shin is pulling our chain," Nordu states. "None of this can actually happen. An alert an hour before he dies?" the Yakuza man states, looking at the device once again. "How about we all go along with Shin's prank and find somewhere to hit Contract and finish off his little bit of fun, alright?"
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Post by turneround360 on Apr 17, 2017 8:30:44 GMT
"This seems a bit too much for a prank, or rather this is a really strange prank for Shin to pull. I'm failing to see the fun in any of this" Yua starts shaking her head disagreeing with the thuggish man "I mean sure, your right this is all stuff which can't happen but I can't see Shin doing something as pointless as a prank like this - I mean what is it? Some weird cosplay event?" was what she remarked as she pulled herself away from Tsubaki
"I'm saying one thing now though, if this is a prank oh boy is he gonna regret it" Yua's tone gained a serious edge with that declaration, she was happy enough to ditch a gig for Shin's help but if he jerks her around after doing that she was not going to be happy about it "But I guess your right, only way onward is through so lets get a move on then" the girl ceded that playing along would be the only way to sort this mess really out, she didn't have the skills to track down Shin if he didn't want to be caught after all.
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Post by Major on Apr 17, 2017 13:08:57 GMT
Tsubaki picked up the device and examined it while the others red the messages. When they all started talking about it, however, she quickly read the message to catch up. She looked confused as she read and when she finished she looked at the others. "Ummm...so it's a little after 8am. And the thing said it would tell an hour before...but Shin is at 4pm..." She noted. "And ummm first thing is in five minutes so it will be pretty easy to disprove it." She added.
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Post by Goliathus on Apr 18, 2017 5:27:04 GMT
Yoshihira is supposed to give the easily-startled girl a reply but his attention is quickly absorbed by the barrage of new message. Yoshihira goes slow on the message, analyzing them, thinking about them and just frankly ignoring the three people talking and doing whatever they feel like at the moment.
Suddenly, Yoshihira bursts into a loud laughter. "Ha Shin, you always amuse me with your creativity. Now you are trying to tell me the whole area is playing some kind of LARP with us? Are we on Run For Money* now? Hunters are going to pop out of nowhere? Freaking Shin, summoning us 8AM in the morning just to play a prank." Another round of laughter that ends with Yoshihira trying to catch his breath. "So, you guys want to pretend to play? Could be fun, I am game if you all are on." Yoshihira asks, scanning at all three assigned partners of him respectively.
With or without any reply, Yoshihira presses the "Contract" button right away, being a respectful to the game and all that. "Let's see if Shin can keep up with the production value so far."
Run for Money Tousouchuu is a large-scaled Japanese game show where contestants attempt to escape Hunters for a set amount of time. Each episode has its own plot and setting. Contestants are to interact with the world and NPCs(all in-their-characters) to solve missions(failure comes with consequences) and survive.
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Post by flamefist96 on Apr 18, 2017 6:36:44 GMT
Pressing the contract button, the Dex immediately changed screens to a straight black screen with a simple question on it written in bright red text, all four Dex's showing the same question.
"Are you ready? Yes/No"
It was at that moment they noticed the clocks shift to 8:10 AM, and several loud explosions were heard around them. Most notably, several loud explosions erupted from the nearby Shibuya 109 building. The entirety of the building blowing out walls in several areas, and concrete and debrie being blown out in all manners of directions. The building quickly falling to the ground.
The response from the crowd around them was slow, they had taken a moment to process what was happening, though despite that, it was only moments before every member of the crowd started scattering, running in different directions, and trying to get moving quickly despite the newfound chaos that surrounded them. They had to get away from the area as they could see the Shibuya 109 building's concrete and other chunks of wall falling all over the place, some pieces crushing people, other places people were being trampled by the crowd. Many people to scared or surprised to be reacting rationally.
Under them, a voice came from the Dexes. It was Shin's voice, "Are you ready?"
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Post by Arcran on Apr 18, 2017 13:57:43 GMT
"What the fuck Shin!" Nordu shouts as Shibuya 109 explodes. Shin had obviously known the building was going to explode, and had still told the group of them to meet right in front of it. What the hell was he playing at? This was far beyond a prank, and for Shin to know it was going to happen he'd have to be some sort of terrorist. While Nordu was a criminal and a thug, blowing up buildings was reprehensible, even to him.
Still, standing around and cursing wouldn't get anything done. "Move it idiots!" Nordu shouts at the others, intending to get as far away from ground zero as possible. "It said several explosions, and I'm sure as hell not going to be here for the next one!" Nordu bellows, sprinting away as quickly as possible from the Yamato line area, duffel bag bouncing against his broad shoulders.
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Post by Major on Apr 19, 2017 8:30:46 GMT
When the explosion had occurred, Tsubaki had frozen unsure how to react. When the scary man yelled however, it snapped her to attention. "R-right!" She said quickly moving after the man and motioning for Leomon and Calumon to follow.
As she ran on her small legs, she looked at her phone confused at hearing Shin's voice. Ready? How was supposed to be ready for this insanity?! "N-no?" She said between pants. She was not used to running.
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Post by turneround360 on Apr 19, 2017 10:00:55 GMT
Yua instinctively ducks her head at the sounds of the explosion "The hell was that!?" she yells out in confusion before having her attention drawn to the building and its inexorable collapse "Shit, Shit, SHIT!" came a steady stream of cursed before they suddenly took a leap in volume as one of the smaller stray pieces of masonry landed too close for comfort.
Similar to Tsubaki Yua was engrossed in the view in front of her but it only took Nordu turning to run before she was off at a full sprint and freak out "This was not what I woke up for today, I should be on stage right now, yes this would of happened if I was on stage right now!" the girl was managing an impressive sprint and simultaneous rant almost certainly fuelled entirely by adrenaline "Dammit SHIN you arsehole! Already in the shit box just by showing up and then you give me this! I'll kill him myself before bloody 4pm!"
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Post by Goliathus on Apr 20, 2017 3:26:27 GMT
Yoshihira is shocked by the sudden explosion and it just so happened a split second before he could click the button. He is focused on one thing and kind of imagining all the possibilities that might come to life when he hit the button and the explosion completely takes him by surprise. "Holy Mother of God!" He almost drops the phone but quickly snatches it and holds it firmly in his grasp. Before he can come to grasp to the whole thing, all his partners are already running away and he quickly follows, even though a part of him feels like staying and investigate.
"Freaking Shin, you are a genius." Unlike his fellow partners in...whatever game Shin is playing, Yoshihira not really angry at Shin. Amazed and surprised would be the better words. This must be some sort of government plot, right? And Shin happens to know them and invite me to part of it? Nice, Shin, nice. Today might just be the day I can finally exprience the things in the dark. Today is the day he finally proves that the world isn't always that simple. Things in in the dark. All the Cthulu and whatever things can be true.
Is he ready for this? Fuck yeah. And with that thought, he taps the word "Yes" on the device, whatever that means.
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Post by flamefist96 on Apr 20, 2017 3:48:35 GMT
As the members of the group started running they seemed to follow Nordu towards the nearest area of cover. The area between some of the nearby buildings. It takes some pushing, shoving, and angry looks, but the simple fact of the matter is that with how big and scary both Yoshira and Nordu looked, not even getting into the giant orange lion man nearby really made it so people made sure to avoid them as much as the giant explosion.
Which meant they were easily able to find their way in between the nearby buildings into a small back alley parking lot with not a single car or other soul in sight. Judging from the buildings around them, they were in the back alley of a couple tax offices, office spaces, and other things of that nature, but were not in business either now or for some time.
Looking at his device Yoshira saw that his device was now reading, Waiting for a response from the other members of your party.
The other three members had the same message with shin's voice coming out of it say to them, "Are you ready? Yes/No.
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Post by Arcran on Apr 20, 2017 13:48:03 GMT
"READY FOR WHAT?" Nordu bellows at his device, before chucking it down the alley as far as he could. Given his size, it was a fairly significant distance. Nordu breathes heavily for a moment, trying to collect himself as well as figure out what the hell all of this meant. Shin knew the buildings were going to explode, and he did nothing except to warn them. Why? He'd always known Shin was dirty (not that Nordu wasn't, of course) but there was a damn thick line between knowing questionable things and letting a terrorist attack go off without incident.
Nordu throws his bag down on the ground, storming down the alley to pick up his device and hoping it's not too damaged. He slumps against the wall, holding the device against his head. This isn't what he was supposed to do. He got pointed at a problem, and he dealt with it. He wasn't supposed to get stuck with complex moral quandaries.
After thinking even more, Nordu finally puts the device in front of him, fingers hovering over the buttons.
"Fuck it. We might as well know Shin's plan," Nordu says angrily, jamming the 'Yes' button with too much force.
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Post by turneround360 on Apr 21, 2017 1:06:02 GMT
Yua to cover her ears as Nordu suddenly bellows and flinches back as the device goes flying past her and hits something further down the alley "The hell is going on..." she muttered as she slumped against the wall cradling her head in her hands, seemingly losing any sign of the former energy and pep she had when they had originally gathered.
Yua glanced up dispassionately as Nordu placed himself in a similar posture before he mashed his finger into the device. Turing to look at her own for a long moment Well he isn't wrong about that... before she slowly raised her hand, a pointed finger hovering over the 'Yes' button Ah screw it, I'll follow along and drag the answers out of Shin himself! which then pressed the button with deliberate slowness.
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Post by Major on Apr 21, 2017 8:22:16 GMT
"Wait...you are all pushing yes?" Tsubaki asked surprised. What if pushing yes made things worse? Then again, Shin had always helped her out so it was unlikely to put her in any more danger. Then again, the building he had put her near had exploded so maybe she was wrong?
No, she trusted Shin. Maybe he hadn't know about the building and just knew things were dangerous and was hoping that area was safe?
Tsubaki didn't know what to think, but if whatever was waiting on everyone to hit yet like the device had said that meant if she didn't then everyone would be waiting on her. And then they would all be focusing on her and mad at her. Not wanting to be the focus of attention, Tsubaki finally hit Yes, despite not wanting to, making her the last one.
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Post by flamefist96 on Apr 21, 2017 8:38:13 GMT
As soon as she hit yes, Shin's voice came out of the device, "You have initiated the contract sequence, booting Mon contract."
With that the screens on the dexes started flashing with different textures, symbols, letters, numbers and colors, until suddenly a screen of white text over a black background started scrolling at a high speed by the screen. It finally stopped when only one sentence was on the screen.
"Boot Sequence Complete, Summoning your Mon."
With that the small camera on the back of their devices lit up, with a blue light, and suddenly a blue ball fell down to their feet rollign a couple of feet away from them. With a whirl of blue light and pixilated areas four monsters suddenly appeared in front of each of the members of the group.
In front of Tsubaki appeared a blue, and turqoise golem robot thing. That she could only refer to as an "Adorable round thing". It had a strange swirl in the center of it's chest, and it's head was shaped like a knight's helmet. It looked at her, and didn't say anything.
In front of Nordu was a small dog like creature. It seemed different from any dog he'd ever seen, not that he could place why, it just seemed bigger, and less domesticated then what he'd seen from dogs before. It looked far more Feral if he had to put what he felt about it into words.
In front of Sasaki was a bell with two shinto ropes coming out of it's back, it floated a couple feet in the air, clearly making sounds.
A small creature that stood on two legs, with large purple lips, and a black and white dress like body stood in front of Yua, staring at her for a moment.
Shin's voice spoke up from the screen, "You are now initiating a contract with the Mon in front of you. In order to get it's assistance for the future you must defeat it. The Dex's you're holding in your hands will make it so the four members of your party will harmonize with each other, and imbue your body with power that will allow you to damage them. If you want to survive what's about to happen, you will need their help. Let's survive."
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Post by Major on Apr 21, 2017 11:18:09 GMT
"...Wait, these are digidevices?!" Tsubaki exclaimed surprised as she looked at the thing in her hand. "And we get digimon?!?" She said showing the most emotion she had shown since arriving as excitement started to fill her. "I've never seen digimon like these though..." She said before looking at the adorable round thing.
"Hi there little guy! I'm Tsubaki, what's your name?" She asked eagerly barely paying any attention to whatever the device was saying.
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Post by Arcran on Apr 21, 2017 12:47:25 GMT
Nordu instinctively reaches for his duffel bag, slowly pulling out his heavy bat and shield, eying up the dog in front of him. He'd seen what an attack dog could do to a person, and wasn't going to take any chances with this thing.
"Hey you mangy mutt," Nordu coos, spinning his bat lightly in his wrist. "You're not going to make me bash your head in, are you? Who's a good boy?" he says awkwardly, prepared for the dog to leap at him. He'd never really had pets, so how to deal with this thing is a little confusing.
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Post by turneround360 on Apr 21, 2017 13:21:57 GMT
As much as Yua would like to be distracted by the creature which just spawned itself from the device, the Dex in her hands she had a more worrisome thing to deal with, the fact motes of light were gathering and were in fact being emitted from her "Guys, GUYS! Am I glowing? WHY am I glowing!?" the young teen jumped up in shock sounding distressed, catching the tail end of the continuing announcement of her Dex didn't help her state in the slightest "Defeat? Damage? Survive!? They gonna attack us!?" what normally would of been a look of interest and curiosity at the odd creature before her was now full of fear.
Yua attempted to back away from the creature, but ended up just pressing herself hard against the wall of the alley instead, the "This is not what I signed up for!" Yua started shaking her head at the odd creature "You, you can just go away and leave me alone!" her words were punctuated by her jabbing her finger in the direction of the creature. Unnoticed by Yua was the fact each jab cause the gathered lights to increase and volume and intensity before the final one launched them all as glittery blasts of light at the odd purple and black thing.
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Post by Goliathus on Apr 22, 2017 2:38:00 GMT
As soon as he presses "yes", he sees the text of utter disappointment. "Waiting for a response from the other members of your party. Oh come on Shin, you designing a MMO guild raid in real life?" Between all the frustration from getting party-blocked from having fun and all the running and catching up with the group, Yoshihira found himself with the party in a quiet corner down the street. A safe and quiet sanctuary over the all the chaos on the outside.
"Hey you guys, let's press 'yes' so we can pl--" As he raised his head to look at the other members of his party, he saw another copy of the device he was holding flying right by him. "Wow man, calm down before you hit anything or break the device. We can't do anything without it." He said to the man walking pass him to the device, who was unlikely to listen to him anyway.
"What about you two?" Then, he saw the two of them pressed the device before he could say anything else. "Okay, alright." Looking back at his screen, he saw what looked like a hacking screen with all the letters and symbols flying around at high speed. Usual Shin stuff, nothing to be surprised of. The real surprise came later at the form of some "fantasy creatures" popping out of the device to right in front of all four of them.
"What in the world?" Taking the time to look around, he saw a dungeon guardian of some kind, a rather regular dog but somehow gave him the ferocity of a werewolf, a little purple-colored maid-cafe fairy and in front of him, a living Shinto bell? Is this even real life right now? Are these...ghost or demon or something and the device is holding them in? Praise the Holy Trinity, these things are real, they are real! He IS right the whole time.
As if that was not enough excitement for the day, he felt something awakened inside him. It was the first time in his two and a half decades stay on Earth that he had felt such a thing. He felt as if he was imbued by something within him, vivifying him for the upcoming...battle? He was not certain about battle but it was the answer he would assume from what Shin just said. Unsure of what to do, he just eyed the Shinto bell, presumably possessed by some kind of demon, and going through all the occult knowledge in his mind to see if he could recall any creature that resembles it, and its weakness.
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Post by flamefist96 on Apr 22, 2017 5:39:31 GMT
With each of their thoughts thinking about how to handle the Mon's in front of them, Tsubaki next to the small adorable round creature doesn't seem to respond to Tsubaki only looking at her for a moment, and then started to pull it's fist back, rearing into some kind of punching posture.
The dog in front of Nordu growls at him, followed by several angry barks, clearly ready to pounce on him. It gets up, and starts arching it's back, making it seem bigger as it bears it's fangs at him angrily.
Though the one that has a violent reaction to her counterpart is Yua. Whose finger jab in the direction of her counterpart conjured a massive blast of strong light energy at the Mon in front of her causing it to be knocked slightly back as it attempted to hold it's ground in response to her attack. It was hurt, and clearly angry, making strange unintelligible sounds at her.
The moment it did, the bell that hadn't even had been looking at Sasaki turned it's gaze toward him and started to shake violently making loud somehow angry sounding jingles at him.
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Post by turneround360 on Apr 22, 2017 13:21:49 GMT
"Huh?" was Yua's eloquent response to the luminous act of violence she had just perpetrated "I can shoot lasers!?" was the conclusion she came too. The slow rising awareness of some new capability within her gave the girl some confidence that allowed her to not flinch and actually take a step towards the strange creature and its agitated babbling "Oh, you liked that huh" the Yua's illumination steadily started to increase once more "Ok then you can have another!".
Clearly Yua was attempting to repeat the previous attack she had made, but what she got this time was not the same, the burst of light was nowhere near as condensed or focused and looked more like a shotgun spray of blinding motes of light; painful to look at for sure but not in anyway meaningful.
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