Lost

[anoceanofatma]

Who: Jun and others
What: AMNESIA!
When: August 15
Where: The front gates of Daybreak Academy initially, plus other places.
Warnings: Angst, probably

-Front door-

It was around 8am. One moment, the road from the school to Soleil proper was mostly empty. The next, there was a man standing there. He had high quality clothing and was holding a staff made out of something not immediately unidentifiable. It was blue. There wasn't any kind of special effect. No glowing portal or shimmer of sparkles. One moment he wasn't there, the next he was.

He blinked a few times, staring blankly into space for a while, as he tried to take stock of his situation. He...felt okay. Physically. Checking himself he could feel two arms and two legs and a head and they all felt like they worked like they were supposed to. He wasn't sure why he was hanging out on this road but before this he'd been...

...What had he been doing?

He didn't know.

Oh god. He didn't know anything. The world seemed to get all swimmy as the enormity of it fell on him. He didn't know where he was or who he was or why how he had gotten here or anything. He fell to his knees and clutched at his head as if he could squeeze some memories out of it, the staff clattering to the ground next to him. What was going ON?

"What the FUCK?"

-Later-

His name was Jun. He remembered that now. He still knew what chairs and TVs and phones and shit like that were, he knew how to talk (several languages, apparently), but anything specific was just blank.

Still, he was apparently at a school that dealt with magic and monsters, so that was probably okay. They'd agreed to give him a room to stay in at least until he figured out what was going on. So his immediate future looked okay.

Of course, it wasn't the most pressing concern he had right now.

Jun poked around the school, looking around at anything, anywhere, in hopes that it might jostle some kind of memory loose. He wasn't going into random people's rooms or offices but short of that, Jun could be found anywhere he would be allowed into, just looking kind of simultaneously interested and lost.

Comments

later, room

[stavros]

[Kokoro is sitting on her bed reading some manner of teen magazine. Her head snaps up immediately at Jun's entrance.]

Oh, you must be the new roommate! Greetings. I'd been told there was someone new.

[anoceanofatma]

Yeah, I guess that's me.

[He has no luggage.]

[stavros]

Did your luggage cart get stuck in the elevator? I thought they were usually good for that.

[anoceanofatma]

Don't have any. I'm Jun. I guess you're...Kokoro?

I didn't think they'd do co-ed rooms...

[stavros]

The school appears unconcerned with that particular social norm. Yes, my name is Kokoro Belmont. How do you not have luggage? --Wait, is that personal? It's personal.

[anoceanofatma]

I lost it. I'll just...get new stuff. Somehow.

[He has money. Enough to last him for a while.]

[stavros]

Well, if you say so... Are you sure you're all right?

[anoceanofatma]

Of course I'm alright. I'm just kinda tired. It's been a long day.

[stavros]

I would suppose it would be, if you've lost all your things and you're less concerned about that than something else. My apologies; I'm unsure whether I would be able to assist at all, but I can at least explain whatever you need to know about the school. Although popular culture is another thing entirely, it would seem.

[anoceanofatma]

There's so much to take in right now. This is like a school for mages?

[stavros]

Not only them. There are Hunters and Rune Guard -- I'm both -- and those who have contracted with Outland beings or are such themselves. And then the Candles, who emerged far more recently. It does get somewhat complex.

[anoceanofatma]

Maybe I'll fit in here after all.

[stavros]

There are enough different people here that perhaps anyone can find somewhere they fit well. Though adjusting... can be difficult.

[She sets down the teen mag, open to an article entitled "What Your Teachers are REALLY Thinking," right next to the page on "Our Favourite Back-to-School Memes."]

later

[hawkwardness]

[There's not much to do when classes aren't going on, and his belly is full. Sit around, browse the internet on his phone, watch whatever's free on youtube. Or drift above the school, watching people go about their days.

Like Jun is, except... guy seems sort of confused, the longer Tobias watches. Eventually, he lands on a perch near Jun, 'speaking' to him with a voice that isn't quite sound.]

< Hey. Are you okay? Do you need help? >

[anoceanofatma]

[Jun stood up straighter, suddenly, as he heard a voice that wasn't quite a voice. He looked around, trying to find the source of it. He briefly noted the bird as an unusually large one, but didn't pay it much mind in favor of looking for something more human shaped.]

Hello? Who's there!?

[hawkwardness]

< It's me. The big brownish bird. I'm talking. Sorry, you looked confused. >

[...and talking wildlife never helps!!]

[anoceanofatma]

O-oh.

[Properly focusing on the birb.]

Are there a lot talking birds around here? Is this something I'm going to have to get used to?

[hawkwardness]

< Birds, no. Talking animals in general? Probably. I'm not a familiar, but there are plenty of people who have familiars. >

[anoceanofatma]

Of course, familiars. Makes sense.

[Thinking back Jun realizes he DOES know what a familiar is, though not where he learned this information.]

I'm Jun.

[That's about all the greeting he can do.]

[hawkwardness]

[That's Tobias's entire cover story right there. Sometimes you know things for no logical reason at all.]

< I'm Tobias. Are you looking for something? >

Later...

[nevernoaction]

[Ren had grown used to people showing up all the time at the school now, so it doesn't strike him as being out of place.

What does catch his attention is how this person seems to be poking into everything.]

Can...I help you?

[anoceanofatma]

Nope.

[Well that was fun thread ov-]

Actually...

I don't...look familiar to you, do I?

XD

[nevernoaction]

I can't say that you do. Did you just get here at the academy?

[This is an unusual enough situation that Ren doesn't mind in a bit more in the way of small talk.]

[anoceanofatma]

Yeah. Just this morning.

[Please don't ask where from...]

[nevernoaction]

But you seem like you're not sure why you're here.

[That seems to be a safe enough assessment, based on what Ren is looking at.]

[anoceanofatma]

It's a cunning illusion. I'm here because I want to go to school, obviously.

[nevernoaction]

Obviously.

But you look like you're not sure how you got here.

[anoceanofatma]

Oh so you're some kind of expert on me now!?

[Jun is flustered, and is expressing that with anger. That emotion calming power might actually be useful here.]

Hope this is cool

[nevernoaction]

[Ren usually doesn't use his powers without asking first. However, given this person's level of agitation, he makes a decision to just go with his powers this one time.

He takes a moment to crouch down and touch the ground, sending his powers through, and then stands up, as though he were merely stretching. Ren's power to calm is silent and to Jun, it feels like all of the agitation and anger is abruptly not there, hopefully giving him a more positive experience.]

Not at all.

later, outside fucking somewhere

[strings_theory]

[Jolyne wandering around the school wasn't really unusual and she mostly always ended up outside at some point or another. Which is why she's taking notice of this new person poking about.

She's rolling her eyes and slowly making her way over, arms crossed over her chest and flanked by her Stand as always.]

You look lost, the fuck's up?

[anoceanofatma]

I'm lost is what the fuck's up.

[strings_theory]

Kinda fuckin' figured, what are you looking for? [Sorry, Jun, she is the most uncouth person in this school. Probably.]

Damn, thought they would've waited until closer to classes again to drag new people in, but what the fuck do I know.

[anoceanofatma]

What am I looking for...?

[Everything?]

How about something to eat? Maybe things will seem less baffling on a full stomach.

[strings_theory]

[Food, huh? She's humming and just looking to see what time it is.]

I think it's getting close to dinner, so you'd be looking for The Grand Hall in that case. Come on. [She's motioning towards a direction with her head and already turning to move.]

There's little vendors with all kinds of shit in the center of this school during the day, but dinner's always in the Hall.

[anoceanofatma]

Grand Hall. I feel like I should probably know where that is even if I'm not hungry.

[He fell in to step next to Jolyne, letting her lead the way.]

I don't know you, do I?

Front Door

[theycallhimmrpchan]

Ryoga was - he doesn't know where he was, just in town, when someone just appeared. He blinks twice, rubbing his eyes.

"You all right?" The young man questioned in accented English as he approaches him, hands up to indicate that he has no intentions of doing any harm.

[anoceanofatma]

"I don't know!" Jun answered in equally accented English. Apparently he knew English, so that's something. Didn't stop him from being on the verge of hyperventilating.

Gotta get a grip. Can't show weakness. If you're not okay, just fake it until you know what's going on. Jun focused, going through mental exercises to he didn't know the source of but that helped him regain control of his mind. "I'm.....I'm fine."

[theycallhimmrpchan]

He starts, shaking his head. "You just appear," Ryoga gestures. "Lost?" He asked.

[anoceanofatma]

"I just appeared? I wasn't here until now? Like-" he made a sort of explosion gesture with both hands. "Poof?"

Well THAT raised a whole lot of questions.

[theycallhimmrpchan]

If Ryoga was quicker on the ball, he would realize how many questions it would raised. Unfortunately, he's not that kind of person.

"That is right. You weren't there - and then you were."

[anoceanofatma]

"Do...people appear here a lot? Also: Where is here?"

Might as well get the basics down.