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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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Not exactly. Our town was tiny, but we've got a lot of land, so people are pretty spread out.

[Headtilt.] I think that's only 'cause I'm from the US. You said you were from... Shi-something. Shibooya? Where's that again?

Shibuya's a ward in Tokyo, Japan. That's where I'm from.

Not a lot of people and a lot of land... That's really the opposite of what I'm used to!

[Okay, he at least knows where Japan is. Tokyo, not so much, thank you American educational system.]

Yeah? It's kinda the opposite there, isn't it? The big cities in the US are the same, but I wouldn't know. I haven't actually been to 'em.

[It's okay, Hibiki's knowledge of US geography isn't that great, so it's even]

Oh, a never-left-his-small-town kind of guy, huh? That's prime material for being the protagonist of a high fantasy story! Or a sidekick.

Hey! I left town for college. Whitmore's way bigger than Mystic Falls. [Still, going from one small town to another slightly-bigger-than-average town isn't much of a trade.]

Wait, what do you mean, protagonist of a high fantasy?

Okay, I take that back. But what I meant was, you know, that's how a lot of fantasy stories start—like in books or video games. The protagonist grows up in a small country town, goes out hunting or foraging, then comes back to find his village burned to the ground and everyone he loves dead, murdered by an evil empire with a lot of black armor. He goes out for revenge, gets strong, makes friends, kills a dragon, and then ends up destroying the empire and marrying a princess of noble kingdom somewhere.

[He pauses.]

They never talk about how the economy and politics probably collapse afterwards because a common country boy is now king, or the devastating PTSD he's probably developed, but those stories aren't as fun.

[If he were drinking soda or something, this would've been the perfect opportunity for a spit-take, because those were so not the books he read growing up. It's even arguable that he READ anything longer than a sports magazine or comic book trade...]

Uh...

I'm not exactly trying to destroy an empire. Or marry a princess. I'm kinda in the wrong genre for that.

[Well, Hibiki reads, but most of those points were pulled from years of borrowing other people's video games and playing them.]

We can do genre mashups. Just because we're in an urban fantasy setting, doesn't mean you still can't have empires, princess, or even dragons! They can be metaphorical instead of literal.

[Metaphorical, huh? Going by that logic, then his girlfriend would be a princess... and maybe this city's a giant empire of some kind. (He's not a reader, but his imagination's still pretty out there.)]

My life's more of a crappy Simon Snow movie, but I guess we could.

What would your life be like? Something like this, or are we talking one of those Japanese sports comics where everything hinges on the outcome of that big match?

Simon Snow?

[He thinks about this for a brief moment]

My life wouldn't be a sports manga—I can't narrate a four panel monologue in the time it takes to throw a basketball. It would be more of a romantic comedy!

[He winces in what he hopes is sympathy.] That bad?

Simon Snow's this big series about a boy who finds out he's a wizard. It's a global phenomenon where I'm from - we're talking a series of eight movies, seven books, and thousands of poor kids being named after their parents' heroes.

I don't exactly have magic, but you might as well lump me in with them.

Hey, what's wrong with romantic comedies? It means I've gotta a lot of love in my life.

[And...wait, that series sounds familiar. Was that the name of the series, though? Maybe it's a translation thing, or a different worlds thing. Either way, he has a feeling he knows exactly what it's about.]

Oh, okay, I think I know what you're talking about. Not the worst of things to compare your life too. At the least, it means your life is interesting, right?

They're also super cheesy. [He wrinkles his nose.] Man, I've sat through enough of them with my girlfriend to know.

I guess, though if we're talking life genres - I'd take a dumb sports comic over those weird supernatural settings. I could do those monologues. Beats attending a funeral once a month.

[His expression sobers.]

—Yeah, that would be an improvement. I'm sorry to hear that.