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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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"Yeah. Last time, I managed to compare Naoto to Alice and Belle at the same time."

She snuggles up closer.

"This place is pretty weird, huh?" she asks, still enjoying the view anyway.

Carefully, he runs one curled finger over the line of her throat, where a collar isn't.

"... I could get used to it," he admits, meaning plain.

Rise shudders at the touch, and puts her head on his shoulder.

"I was expecting to just go home, you know," she admits. "That I'd have to just treat what we had like a dream."

She blushes. "A really, y'know, inspiring dream, but still..."

"I feel a little jealous I'm not the Souji who gets to be surprised by that," he says, and presses a kiss to her forehead. It is, well, an inspiring thought.

"But I'm happy I still get to be with you. So I can't complain."

Rise sighs, and her smile falters a little. She doesn't let Souji go at all.

"Speaking of him...," she starts, "and Naoto, and Yukiko-senpai, and Kanji, and Yosuke, and...well, what I mean is, should we really keep this up? I mean, now that we don't have to?"

"Well... that's up to you," he says, slowly. "I know... I'm in love with you, and I'd rather not give you up. But even if it was Atia that pushed me to try and have everyone I love, it wasn't the island that made me want that kind of thing. So I'd like to stay together with everyone who's interested."

He's known there would be talks like this since he woke up and found his collar gone, but he can't deny that part of him is dreading these conversations. He can't just give up all but one of his lovers - that isn't a choice he could make, and even if it was... it doesn't feel natural to him anymore.

Rise thinks for a long minute.

"You know you. If you were the you back in a normal world, would you consider this cheating?" she asks.

"...That depends," he hedges after a moment, mouth rippling in an uncertain, unhappy line - but he's not about to start being dishonest now. "The me Naoto and Kanji know said and did things I wouldn't. And everyone I've known more than once... there can be little differences. So I can't answer for him. But I think..." He hesitates again, and gestures with his hands at the air as if turning something unseen, trying to unlock the puzzle of it.

"...If you kept it hidden, I'd say there was a reason you were being dishonest," he concludes. "But if you were open about it... I'd believe you, and I'd understand. I think I'd accept it."