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WHO: You!
WHERE: Around the city!
TIME: All Through Day 1
DESCRIPTION: CITY TOUR MINGLE!

Maybe you stayed in Coba, maybe you went home and came back, or maybe this is your first time here, but everyone is suddenly greeted to a friendly, female voice over an intercom (or maybe it's a some other device? Depending on where you're from)

"Welcome citizens. We hope you're enjoying your visit! Transport will leave in twenty minutes for the Coba city-wide tour!"

If you follow the voice, you'll find yourself at a bus stop. Or is it a fancy monorail? A carriage? A couple of horses? Coba is flexible and will change herself to suit you, after all. And if you get left behind, don't worry! There's free cabs anywhere in the city, who also will be more than happy to give you their own version of the tour.

The Coba city-wide tour boasts an hour of informative information regarding Coba's most important locations, some extra brochures (with some extra savings in there, of course), and will finally return you to the place you left from.

Of course, maybe the tour isn't for you. After all, the party is still going on, and now Coba's businesses are really beginning to open and advertise what they have to offer. Have you checked out the free hotel room? Or maybe you're grabbing a free meal? Or maybe, just maybe - you're looking into an apartment!

Either way, Coba hopes you've been enjoying yourselves. She has so much to offer you.

(welcome to the first official post! Mingle to your hearts' content, and don't be afraid to make your own posts, either!)

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"Time messed up? How so?"

You mean... more than there being nearly as many different continuities of his world as there are members of the group here?

Yeah. There was pretty much no reason not to at least get this part out of the way now. "Well, neither you or Naoto-kun recognize me beyond the fact that I'm in the current Featherman series," she said, before giving him a bit of an uneasy smile. "I mean, it's not like we suddenly became close friends or anything, but... the way we met kinda makes it hard to forget someone."

"...Oh, so you showed up from after us, is all. Ain't so bad, all things considered." Hey, Chie's apparently here from after several months in Faerie Hell, not to mention the bulk of the group's time on Fuck Or Die Island. It could be worse.

"Do I wanna ask?"

"You say that like you're used to time being even more messed up than that," Yukari said, but she does have a bit of a smile on her face now.

"And... maybe? Considering what was at stake and all, it didn't really go bad. No one died or got seriously hurt or anything. Just... you know, typical Shadow related stuff. And you know, one super shadow or god or whatever manipulating things to try to end the world. Going into more details might be not so smart though. Since we don't know how this time-travel pulling thing actually, you know, works."

"Nine'f us with at least seven different timelines going, I think. They're all more or less the same thing, but not everything's exactly the same."

...Shadow-related stuff, huh. Kanji frowns a little. "So that wasn't just Her Nibs screwin' with Naoto's head, huh? Well, word is we can go home whenever, so I guess I'll find out sooner or later."

"... Seven different timelines? God, that sounds like a massive headache, even if they're all pretty similiar."

Hopefully if more people from their world showed up, it wouldn't make said headache worse. But that last part gives her a bit of pause. "... 'Her Nibs'? Who exactly do you mean by that?"

"A little, yeah, but it's worked out okay." So far, anyway. He doesn't know much about where Chie's been, just that it doesn't seem to've been much fun.

"...Well. Did Naoto mention where we were before this?"

"... No. That didn't come up," Yukari mentioned, frowning a bit at that. So there was more than one of these places that could bring people against their will? That really wasn't something that she wanted to think about right now. Who knew what could happen with that?

Still, she didn't want to bug Kanji for the details right now, though she had to admit that she was just a little bit curious about it. "I guess it was just wishful thinking to hope that there was only one place like this then, wasn't it?"

"There was a demented sex goddess involved." She can probably draw her own conclusions from there.

"Probably, but so far this seems a lot nicer than anything else I've heard about."

... Right. Okay then.

"I'm... going to keep from asking anything else about that. Ever."

Anyway, anyway, back to a different topic that's not going to make her want to scream and shoot things. "... Well, at least we managed to luck out with this one." She looks around for another moment, before sighing. "I still wish I had at least some sort of idea of what was happening here though."

"Totally fair." But if some of the Investigation Team are a lot more casual with each other than she might expect, that'd be why.

In any case, he's happy to let the subject drop. "No kiddin'. Still, ain't the first mystery we've tackled, and it doesn't sound like it's your first either."

Yukari can't help but grin a bit at that. "Nope, Far from the first weird thing I've had to deal with. Though I have to admit, this one seems like it'll be a lot nicer." No sign of monsters or the end of the world yet, after all. That was always a plus.

"So what was yours, if whatever I haven't hit yet wasn't your first round with Shadow crap?"

It can't have involved the TV world, Kanji knows that much already. Teddie wouldn't have been so wowed by Souji if he'd met other humans before.

"It was back in 2010," Yukari began. Kanji didn't really need the full details, and after already having explained most of this to Naoto, she didn't really want to go through it again. "Do you remember Apathy Syndrome? That was... well, that was because of the Shadows that were around Port Island back then."

Apathy Syndrome doesn't really ring a bell - this is Kanji, he didn't pay much attention to the news in middle school. Or until he got mixed up in the Inaba case, really, and that was because it was their best shot at finding the next victim.

There is one thing that makes him frown, though. "Shadows in Port Island? How the hell'd they get outta their world, though?"

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Well, you have her father and the Kirijo group to blame for that, but those details were probably a bit too deep for it to be worth mentioning. Especially since it'd make even more awkward questions.

"Some people got a bit too carried away with seeing what they could do with the Shadows, and things got pretty bad for a while. There used to be a time called the Dark Hour when the Shadows could appear, but it's gone now, so that's not something we usually have to worry about anymore. Except for the odd cases where we do, obviously."

Yukari paused for a moment though, before shaking her head. "But... the TV world's existence did answer a few questions that I had back when that was all going on."

...wait a sec. Shadows on Port Island.

Is that why Naoto thought infiltrating the Kirijo Group was a good idea? It'd explain a lot, but that's not something worth bringing up right now, not really. Ain't like Naoto got more than shot at anyway.

"Yeah? Like what?"

Yukari sighed. "Well, part of the experiment that caused the issue I had to deal with involved gathering a lot of Shadows. But... at the time as far as we knew the Shadows only existed during the Dark Hour, so I always wondered where they had gotten enough of them to even do anything that caused a problem in the first place. The TV world answered that question, or at least that there might be another place like it where they could've gotten them from, I guess."

"Another place like it, probably. If Souji hadn't been the first human Teddie met, I don't think he woulda been so bowled over."

And as much as Ted hangs off of Souji... well.

Yukari blinked, before the meaning of that hit her. "I guess, but it was a long time ago," she said. "I mean, it was around twelve years ago when that experiment happened. Maybe Teddie just wasn't around back then?"

It's not like Shadows were around forever, after all.

Kanji shrugs. "Who knows? Ain't like Teddie's real clear on how old he is."

He's just glad Ted never ended up on Atia. Even if he's not a year old himself, his understanding of the world certainly is.

Yukari nodded. "And it's not like the way they look makes sense for their age either," she said, frowning as she remembered Ryoji. "He's not the first shadow that could take human form that I've met before." She added, realizing that that little bit of context might just be a bit important.

"...Really? Huh. You'd think one was weird enough."

Interesting.

"Yeah, you'd think, but apparently it's more common than it sounds."

But at least the real Teddie didn't exist to summon something that'd kill everyone. That helped with things a lot, didn't it?

"Hopefully not that common. Teddie's a handful by himself."

There is that, yeah.

"Anyway, uh, don't think I caught your name, and I doubt you wanna be called Feather Pink-san."