Test run for mayfield_rpg

[jintetsu]

[A. Afternoon | John Doe Park | Jintetsu by himself]

[The walk here might have agitated him, but after he'd been in the park a while Jintetsu had begun to calm down. The trees may have been perfectly uniform from a distance, but when you climbed them they were just trees, and something about sitting in the branches soothed his anxiety a bit. From here it was harder to see where he was, easier to keep to himself. And once he'd snapped off a dead branch and taken out the folding knife he'd found in his room, his hands had something to do, even if it was nothing more than aimless carving.

Wafer-thin wood shavings and the occasional leaf drifted downward as he whittled away at it, but he didn't think to hide them. If he was discovered, it couldn't be any worse than when he was out in town at large, now would it.]


[B. Afternoon of a different day | Jintetsu's house, congratuations you're his not!family!]

[Anyone coming into the kitchen after school may find an interesting sight. Jintetsu is seated at the kitchen table, trying to puzzle out his math homework, but a katana with an eyeball set in the hilt lies on the counter nearby, with the phone handset laid next to it. It's a win-win arrangement - Jintetsu doesn't get distracted, and Haganemaru (the sword) gets to talk to people besides him for a change. ... But it doesn't make the homework itself any easier, and Jintetsu's getting visibly frustrated.]


[C. Same afternoon as B | Phone | Haganemaru by himself]

[So yeah, moshi moshi, Haganemaru desu.]

All right. Hello? Is this thing turned on? I swear, I'm never gonna get the hang of all this technology. They're telling me I can just talk into this device and everybody in town can hear me. In that case, better watch what I say, huh? Ha ha. I'm not even sure I want to go announcing who I am with God-knows-who listening in.

[Eyes Jintetsu for a moment, who's still hard at work on a bunch of stuff he can't help with ........]

But it's not like I have anything better to do, I guess. I'm Haganemaru, nice to meet you. Don't worry, a friend filled me in on the basics about this crazy town, so I'm all out of stupid questions. But the one thing that's been bugging me lately - apart from everything else that's been bugging me, anyway - it's this thing about "other worlds." I hear everybody here comes from a different world, however the hell that works. Somebody want to fill me in on that? Tell me - I don't know, tell me about your "world." I'm curious.

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[jintetsu]

[Oh so the phone does work. Not that he thought it didn't!]

What do you mean by dimensions, though? What does size have to do with it?

[jackofallcharades]

[He's not sure how the phone works, exactly, but there are voices coming out of it. Might as well keep them company...?!]

No, no, I didn't mean those dimensions! I think you'd call it... different spaces of reality? You could call it a different world and make it simple, but they're more closely related than that.

[jintetsu]

Even calling it a different world isn't simple! That's a pretty fundamental concept. When you say "the whole world," it's supposed to mean "everything." But now I hear people talking about worlds, plural, and on top of it here you go about dimensions and realities. What's the difference?

[jackofallcharades]

Well, when you talk about a different world, or dimension, or reality, I guess you're talking about someplace that has different rules from what you're used to? Someplace very different.

Sorry, I'm not very good at explaining this kind of thing.

[jintetsu]

Hn, sounds that way. [no haganemaru don't be rude just because you're anonymous...]

Okay, let's try this a different way. What are the rules wherever you're from? Is stealing legal? Water flows up?

[jackofallcharades]

[Luckily, he's used to people who like to communicate in grunts...]

Not like that! Stealing was most definitely illegal and water flowed downward, but all bets were off in the Abyss. That's our other dimension.

[jintetsu]

The Abyss? [SOUNDS PRETTY SKETCHY.]

[jackofallcharades]

Now that's really hard to explain. It's a place of darkness where time and space are all bent out of shape, and it's where Chains come from. That's really all I know about it.

[jintetsu]

... I'll take your word for it. [Time and space have a shape??? Chains what??? Yeah he doesn't even understand algebra very well, so let's leave the quantum physics alone for now...]

What about your first dimension? The non-Abyssal one.