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Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Dec 10, 2009 15:58:54 GMT -5
Well, Rico actually knew very little about Japanese culture (other than that anime came from there), but he did have a general idea what a yen was by name. Still, that didn't really matter to him.
"Oh, thanks..." He forced a smile and took the ice cream one that was thrusted in his hands and began licking. Might as well start eating the stuff before it melted all over his hands.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Dec 11, 2009 14:03:04 GMT -5
Leona smiled at the familiar flavor shoved into her hand, glad that this is what Momoko had picked out. After putting away her book, she took a lick of the ice-cream, smiling at the result "T-thank you miss Momoko... It's... It's really good."
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Post by mugenginga on Dec 11, 2009 14:19:20 GMT -5
"Oh, you can just call me Momoko! I'd say Momoko-chan but you probably don't know Japanese honorifics. Say, what continent is Radiata on? I don't remember it being covered in school... then again, I miss lots of school, so it could have been covered when I was absent."
And Utonium-hakase insists we take remedial courses. That bites!
Momoko set about to licking her ice cream. Oddly, it seemed she had a system for it and not a drip one was having the chance to roll down the cone. Her head was turned towards Leona as she awaited a response.
(OOC: -hakase is an honorific sometimes used for professors It translates to "Professor Utonium" - Yeah, he totally has the same name in PPGZ. But he's got the addition of a cute genius son named Ken. XD)
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Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Dec 12, 2009 0:13:16 GMT -5
"You know, I never heard our geography class mention Radiata, either," mused Rico. "My school's in country of Foggyland, by the way; specifically, in the county of Winters. Though my native country is Canada."
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Post by gantzgun74 on Dec 14, 2009 16:07:04 GMT -5
Leona wasn't sure how to answer their question. She had read a lot about Radiata's geography, while reading into magic and runes. Being socially challenged helped things as well... ... ...
Well she might as well give it a try...
"U-um..." She thought a second before finally speaking, "R-Radiata is a f-fairly big country with up to 13 different regions seperating it. The very c-central of it's p-power is the City of R-Radiata which l-literally lays in th-the center of the continent..." After taking a second to think, she continued. "Remembering correctly, the regions are as follows... Adien, where Radiata Castle is found, Dova where one can find Earth Valley, where the dwarves live."
That possibly caught Momoko and Rico's attention pretty damn quickly. "Well... ... ..." She sniffled. "More like used to live... Given the Radiata Knights attacked it some time ago..." She cleared her throat in order to continue, "Then there's the Elf Region, home of the Light Elves... They look like humans with glowing wings, however their different from us, and hate us. Then there's the Nowem region where the Dark Elves live. The Nowem Region is a gigantic forest that looks like it's in a state of perpetual fall..." She smiled to herself. "I got to go there once with... ... ... A friend..." The Smile was replaced by a frown, "It was beautiful there."
As if the two's exasperation couldn't get any bigger, after a second of thinking, Leona continued. "Oh! Then there's the Dorse region where the Goblin's live-"
[Someone can pretty much cut her off right there. XD]
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Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Dec 15, 2009 21:12:09 GMT -5
"Is Radiata out of a fairy tale or something???" Rico cut her off. In retrospect, it was probably kinda rude of him to interrupt, but dwarves, elves, and goblins? All the same, he probably had no real room to talk as the continent he attended school at had Mr. Saturns, living piles of barf, brainwashing mushrooms, and those weird, 'borange' Fobby things.
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Post by mugenginga on Dec 16, 2009 7:05:23 GMT -5
Momoko's eyes got wider with each fantasy creature Leona listed off. It got to the point it seemed she'd misplaced her eye lids. However, it wasn't shock that was displayed upon the rest of her face. It was fascination. It was glee. She nodded as Leona continued. The stuttering continued, but she chose to ignore it having decided it was a speech impediment as opposed to shyness. She was still transfixed by Leona's comments when Rico cut the girl off.
Momoko whirled around. The level of her distraction was clear by the bit of chocolate ice cream that had dripped from her cone onto her hand.
"Well, obviously! She's from a different world!" She quickly turned back to Leona, "Hey, why are you here? Are you looking for people that can help save your world? Oh oh! Maybe you're with some interdimensional police! Is that it?"
She sounded very excited.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Dec 16, 2009 10:10:21 GMT -5
Leona timidly shyed away from Momoko. 'Interdimensional police'... ... ... There existed such a thing? "Interdimensional P-police?" She shook her head to Momoko, "I... I don't know what that is..." She scratched the back of her head before she noticed her ice cream cone. It was melting a little bit. "That aside... I... I don't even know if my w-world is okay or n-not."
That caught Momoko and Rico's attention once more, as she lowered her head. Taking a few licks of her ice-cream cone, she continued. "Y-you see... W-we were in the middle of a w-war, before I got h-here..." She sniffled a little, "I... I don't even know HOW I got here... O-one minute I was sitting at my home on my bed... T-the next, there was this b-bright flash of light..." Tears started to appear. "N-now here I am... I don't know how I got here..."
She took the ice cream away from her face upon saying this. Suddenly she didn't feel very hungry...
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Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Dec 16, 2009 11:22:52 GMT -5
Rico was listening so intently to Leona, he didn't even notice his ice cream melting all over his hand.
"Whoa..." Listening to her story of where she was before she appeared on the station, he tried to recall what he was doing before he appeared there. Last thing he remembered, he was visiting Dr. Andonut's lab... what was he doing there again?
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Post by mugenginga on Dec 17, 2009 10:20:58 GMT -5
(OOC: Interdimensional Police = Momoko is a sentai/hero otaku. I'm pretty sure one of the Super Sentai versions dealt with that...)
Momoko realized she'd said something wrong. She looked away and down at her ice cream cone, carefully licking up what had dripped down. She thought for a moment. A war? And Leona didn't seem to have come here by choice. She looked up again.
"I... Well, my friends and I were checking into something when things got kind of crazy. If I had to guess I'd say we're all from a different world. I know in television that usually means someone summoned us to help save their world, but there's always a period of confusion..."
Momoko looked up and looked around. Shouldn't the person that summoned them or someone representing the summoner be showing up soon? She sighed. She should check her communicator, but she didn't want to get in trouble for that. Kaoru would lay into her if she blew her cover. The Professor and Ken, too. She finally felt a twang of homesickness. And worry. They'd been investigating what the Professor had thought might be Him resurfacing. Her friends would need her to help them fight!
It was a pretty large contrast to how bubbly she had just been. Now she seemed almost depressive.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Jan 13, 2010 13:56:51 GMT -5
Leona noticed Momoko's change in facial expression after a couple of seconds and instantly felt worse then ever. She knew that she had been responsible for it, that was just why she shyed away from most social interactions, she just didn't know what to say.
But still, she had depressed a friend, something she wouldn't be able to live with if she let it go on. With that in mind, she decided to try a different approach. "B-but, I-I'm here at least!" She tried to adapt a smile, on her face as she said this. "A-and... And I'm sure I'll get home okay, with your help."
In essence what had happened was, Leona taking a page out of Momoko's book, trying to act a little lighter to up the emotional morale. She reminded herself of her old pal Marietta as she continued, "M-... Maybe we could find these, P-Powderpuff Girls Z you were talking about m-miss Momoko."
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Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Jan 14, 2010 20:40:36 GMT -5
Rico shrugged. "Well, not like I have anything better to do, eh?" he said. "If you guys are gonna go looking those those PPGZs, I'll come along too."
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Post by mugenginga on Jan 14, 2010 22:54:55 GMT -5
Momoko looked up, "Oh, um... well, I don't think they'd be able to help much... I mean, they've got this giant mecha but its really hard to miss.. um..."
Well shoot. I can't exactly tell them I'm Blossom...
She looked around again. Maybe she could tell them? Then again, the only person that had ever told anyone was Miyako. And she'd told the guy she liked who had been hit with black light. If she told these people she didn't even know, it might be a problem. She turned back to the group.
"We'd know if they were here! Hey, don't look so depressive. Its not your fault or anything!" Momoko waved a hand at Leona to try and settle her down.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Feb 1, 2010 11:53:17 GMT -5
Leona was, of course, put down at the fact that Momoko didn't know where the Powerpuff Girls Z was, but of course, seeing Momoko in a better mood helped cheer her up a little bit.
"I... I know." She gulped a little bit, before looking down at her ice cream cone. The stuff was almost a quarter of the way melted at this point. Deciding to finish it, Leona brought the ice cream cone back up to her mouth and helped herself. "Mo-Momoko..." She looked to the girl curiously. "You wouldn't h-happen to know these P-powerpuff Girls Z, personally would you?"
It had been weighing on her mind Momoko's eariler behavior. She seemed to keep on going on about how 'cool' Blossom was. Now this could've been just the ramblings of a hyper super fan, but still, she was curious.
[Of course Momoko can always lie saying she got to get their autograph once or something like that.]
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Post by DM: Dersite Merchant on Feb 1, 2010 16:25:02 GMT -5
Rico thought about what she said (that's what she said), and added, “Yeah, you do seem to talk about them like you really know them.”
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