//SCENARIOS.EXE
PHASE I [ 20 00 ]
The evening begins promptly at 8:00 PM. There will be crowds gathered, lining up to get in. Everyone will be allowed, children, adults, the living and flesh-filled, the robotic, and the undead. The music will be thumping as far as the sidewalks outside, and the first thing everyone will notice would be bowls of candy everywhere as far as the eyes can see. They'll be sitting on top of the tables in all their innocent glory. For the most part, they are harmless.
But not the candy corn. Never the candy corn. Within it is a secret chemical that causes those who consume it to exhibit attraction to the nearest object/person to them, whether it be inanimate or otherwise. They will feel compelled to be close, to kiss and touch whatever is around them, though the effects only last an hour or so. Consider it a low-leveled aphrodisiac of sorts.
PHASE II [ 2122 ]
You're dancing. You're moving to the music. Or you're clinging to the walls and wondering why you're even here to begin with. That's when the holograms start playing around with you. The image flickers frequently until a face appears. You can swear it's talking to you beneath the music.
'We need you. We want you. Join us. Come to the back room. Number 005.'
The closer you get to the hologram screens, the louder the voice becomes until it disappears completely, leaving you to question how real it was.
PHASE III [ 2217 ]
For those brave enough, you go into Backroom #005. What awaits you there is a room full of masked and costumed figures. You don't know if they are human or not, but they watch you eagerly, inviting you to join their private party. Unfortunately, if you chose the backroom, you chose wrong. You chose very wrong. The door is going to be slammed shut and locked, and all the figures will then pull off their masks and reveal faces familiar to yourself. Faces from your world. They'll ask you accusingly why you haven't saved them yet. What's taking you so long. Did you forget them?
Their eyes will glow as they crowd in on you, yelling and growing more caustic until the lights flicker. When you can see clearly again, the entire room will be empty save for a single glass of wine sitting on the table. You'll be sure someone was inside just a moment ago. You were definitely talking to someone. You can't be going crazy, right?
PHASE IV [ 2345 ]
Fifteen minutes to midnight. The music is getting louder and more intense. You've been eating candy or drinking all night (or avoiding food entirely if you're wise enough). Yet the music lures you in with its haunting tone, and you spot in the middle, a masked figure dancing more hypnotically than the rest. He's waving his chainsaw around as he puts out his lethal dance moves, and you are being drawn by the music into a violent dance off. You can fight the feeling, you can try and run. Unfortunately, none of the other natives and robots see the masked man but you. Only outsiders can see him, and the closer you get, the more you reach out to touch him-
you discover he's only a hologram like any other. Your fingers move through his shape, and distort it, but you're still so sure it's real.
BONUS [ whyo'clock ]
One of the back rooms has a beautiful fortune teller by the name of Aria. She will be seated inside, welcoming individuals or groups of people to give them their fortunes, and she will be giving them bizarrely specific and intimate details about their life from their underwear preference to how many partners they've slept with and how many moles they have on their ass. Prepare for awkward embarrassment. Ah, but what does the future hold in store? She'll smile when asked, and then her face will fall apart until a drill protrudes from the center to try and stab through your face. If your reflexes are fast enough, you can dodge it. If you're too slow, prepare for a hospital visit to the CERES Medical Facility.
Once that ordeal is over with, her face will reconstruct itself back to normal, and she will smile and say your future looks very bright in CERES.
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"There you are." She says simply, almost as if it was obvious she took great pains to find him. Oh how she wanted to just hug him right then, but still she remains frozen on the spot despite the warmth of his hand practically making her insides warm up. "Do you know where this place is?"
She still refused to believe their home was gone. She'd wanted so badly for him to go back to it with her.
All the same she isn't sure if it's happiness or anxiety that settles in her chest. She found him at last and she should be happy, right? Yet she still feels nervous, as if she's crossed a line and he might even be upset with her. He had left for important reasons, after all. She should have respected that but at the same time she'd gone with Megumi's encouragement, had taken Yahiko with her to help in her endeavor, and here they'd somehow ended up on a different path but still with the result she wanted.
Fate was strange like that, it seemed.
Almost as if realizing her face is injured, Kaoru gasps, bringing her hand up to her cheek only to withdraw it with bloodstains. She hadn't wanted him to see her in a mess like this but unfortunately she wasn't getting that wish tonight. He would have to take her blood smears and all, it seems.
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It's never easy.
Nonetheless, he takes a breath, about to answer her, but he notices her cheek at the same time she remembers it. "This one will explain later. Come." Keeping hold of her hand, Kenshin gently tugs her along until he reaches a beverage table. Here he grabs a napkin and fills up a small glass with water before turning back to Kaoru. He wads up the napkin and dips part of it in the water, gently cleaning the cut on her cheek. "What happened?"
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"Uhm, well... I'm still making sense of it, actually. One moment I was speaking to a woman. She said-" she falls silent, immediately feeling heat rise to her cheeks as Kenshin had definitely been a topic of conversation and not one she was willing to admit to. Taking a breath to gather her thoughts, Kaoru continues speaking,
"She said she was a fortune teller and we spoke for a while and then she just- she changed this weird metal thing came out of her face - or where it used to be - and nearly drove itself into my head! I moved away as much as I could and then I hit her a couple times and ran when I was sure she stopped moving."
Hesitantly, she raises her bokken. She'd used it to hurt an innocent, hadn't she? Surely she was the shame of her dojo, but at the same time it was alright in self defense in this instance, she thinks. She had been attacked after all and she wasn't an idiot either. She still felt some guilt about it. Lowering the wooden sword again to her side, she shifts her gaze away from his so that she can't see the disappointment or worry that would surely follow.
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He hopes it isn't some trick, some new development as the night goes on that will just try and drag him further down. But she feels real. Looks and sounds real, and Kenshin has grown used to the sound of her voice and how frustration, as well as a little bit of embarrassment, can color it.
Looking back to her face, he can tell she's upset, probably about attacking this fortune teller, but Kenshin doesn't scold. Instead, he just lightly rests his fingers upon her wrist. "Not everyone here is human. There is a good chance she was a machine." Besides, if Kaoru was attacked first, then of course she would have protected herself. She shouldn't be ashamed here.
He takes his hand away after a moment. "Is Kaoru-dono hurt anywhere else?"
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"No, I'm not hurt - not seriously - but... are Yahiko and the others really gone? Is what they say really true?" She reached out then, feeling like he could anchor her in the harsh truths of their situation. His hands were weathered by years of swordsmanship but still were warm to the touch as always. She had gone in search of him but had lost Yahiko as a price. It made her feel hollow to realize it.
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The others.
It isn't Kaoru's fault that her bringing them up only reminds Kenshin of the situation they're in; of course she's worried, she's Kaoru. But he can't say that everyone is fine, because as far as he knows, they aren't. Soujirou is here, yes, and Kaoru now, as well, so there's still a glimmer of hope, but there's just as good a chance that no one else will be saved. Kenshin cannot, in good conscience, give Kaoru false hope.
He just looks down at their joined hands and remains silent for a few long moments. He wants to offer up something, but it's difficult. "As it stands now, it appears to be true. This one cannot tell what the future may hold."
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"You're right." She bows her head, trying to shove her worries down beneath the surface. He needed her as she needed him right now and it wouldn't do to make him bear the brunt of all her insecurities about all of this.
"Uhm... did you think I was dead too? A girl told me that you were here already but if that's true, they told you the same things about me, right?" It made no sense. How would whoever they were even know that sort of information? They clearly were not in Japan anymore for that sort of thing to reach here quickly. Somehow it didn't seem to add up, but at the same time if it was true of Yahiko and the others was it really a good idea to hold even a small bit of hope>