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kaisou2022-02-20 12:50 pm
learntoread) wrote in kaisou2022-02-20 12:50 pm
Intro
WHO: Tabia & You
WHERE: The labyrinth & the city
WHEN: At night
WHAT: A 3300 year time skip
WARNINGS: None
-Labyrinth-
[ Well, this is new.
Tabia wanders the unfamiliar halls, hand running over the hieroglyphs covering them. She recognizes the symbols, but they don't actually connect together to form coherent sentences. It gives the whole sandstone labyrinth an unsettling feeling.
As she explores, she begins to pray. ]
Come to me, Thoth, O noble Ibis. O god who longs for Khmunu, O dispatch-writer of the Ennead, the great one of Unu. Come to me and guide me back to the land we both call home. You are the one who has given advice. You are the one who has given advice to the motherless man. Shay and Renenwetet are with you. Come to me that you may advise me, and that I may be reunited with my mother and father...
[ And so on. She doesn't stop trying to find the exit on her own as she chants, though; Thoth won't swoop in to bodily carry her to safety, but he might express his power through her actions, and guide her out of here. Maybe she'll find an exit... or maybe she'll find someone else exploring this pyramid. ]
-Kaisou-
[ When Tabia emerges into the city, all theories of where she is turn to dust. She has no frame of reference for this wondrous, surreal city of shining towers. Even the sky is unfamiliar, with the bands of light flowing across the stars.
This is Duat, she figures. She must have died, and been sent to be judged before Osiris. Given all the evidence, it's the only sensible conclusion. If she's right, then all these other people are other spirits of the dead, and all those depictions of what the spirit world looks like were severely lacking in firsthand accounts. And those things roaring down the streets are... well. One step at a time.
So Tabia finds herself wandering the streets of the city, looking for any kind of indication of where she needs to go from here. Also, looking at the buildings, the cars, the signs, the stars... Really, looking everywhere but where she's going. Her antiquated dress and shaved head mark her as an obvious outsider, so maybe someone will spot her before she runs into someone or gets hit by a car. ]
WHERE: The labyrinth & the city
WHEN: At night
WHAT: A 3300 year time skip
WARNINGS: None
-Labyrinth-
[ Well, this is new.
Tabia wanders the unfamiliar halls, hand running over the hieroglyphs covering them. She recognizes the symbols, but they don't actually connect together to form coherent sentences. It gives the whole sandstone labyrinth an unsettling feeling.
As she explores, she begins to pray. ]
Come to me, Thoth, O noble Ibis. O god who longs for Khmunu, O dispatch-writer of the Ennead, the great one of Unu. Come to me and guide me back to the land we both call home. You are the one who has given advice. You are the one who has given advice to the motherless man. Shay and Renenwetet are with you. Come to me that you may advise me, and that I may be reunited with my mother and father...
[ And so on. She doesn't stop trying to find the exit on her own as she chants, though; Thoth won't swoop in to bodily carry her to safety, but he might express his power through her actions, and guide her out of here. Maybe she'll find an exit... or maybe she'll find someone else exploring this pyramid. ]
-Kaisou-
[ When Tabia emerges into the city, all theories of where she is turn to dust. She has no frame of reference for this wondrous, surreal city of shining towers. Even the sky is unfamiliar, with the bands of light flowing across the stars.
This is Duat, she figures. She must have died, and been sent to be judged before Osiris. Given all the evidence, it's the only sensible conclusion. If she's right, then all these other people are other spirits of the dead, and all those depictions of what the spirit world looks like were severely lacking in firsthand accounts. And those things roaring down the streets are... well. One step at a time.
So Tabia finds herself wandering the streets of the city, looking for any kind of indication of where she needs to go from here. Also, looking at the buildings, the cars, the signs, the stars... Really, looking everywhere but where she's going. Her antiquated dress and shaved head mark her as an obvious outsider, so maybe someone will spot her before she runs into someone or gets hit by a car. ]
Kaisou also 1/2
But you know what? Not her problem. Girl prolly just living her life, wandering around in her cosplay or LARP gear, Tachibana's not about to get into that.
At least... ]
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WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!
[ Tachibana is dashing over by instinct, grabbing at this girl's wrist to pull her back before she gets intimately familiar with the usual isekai-inducer, truck-kun.
She's not fast, but she was already watching and close by, so it's hopefully enough. ]
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[ Tabia flinches as truck-kun, horn blaring, charges through the space she was just occupying. This city is dangerous!
Wait. If this is Duat, then how can it be dangerous? Isn't she dead? ]
...What would have happened to me if I had been hit...?
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You'd die! You'd definitely die! Don't throw your life away like that!
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I see... I thought that I was dead, and this was the afterlife. It seems that I almost made a terrible mistake. Thank you for stopping me.
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What part of this looks like the afterlife!?
[ Tachibana doesn't mean to be loud, but it's obviously in surprise, not like yelling at anybody. ]
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I emerged from a labyrinth full of unknowable messages, into an impossible city of shining towers! Even the sky is alight with magic! I can't think of anything else this place could be.
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Oh.
Oh that's not cosplay is it? ]
Where are... you from...?
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[ It's not cosplay. ]
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This is Earth, a country called America. So, uh, welcome to America I guess?
I just got here yesterday myself. My name's Tachibana.
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It's a pleasure to meet you... I am also from Earth, from the kingdom of Egypt. I have never heard of America, so it must be a distant land indeed.
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[ Hold the phone here. Tachibana isn't a world traveler, but she's seen social media and caught world heritage TV programs. ]
They have buildings like this. And cars. In Egypt? [ And never heard of America?
Something doesn't add up. But at least the outfit makes sense now. ]
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[ That might explain the scale of this place. The kings of America must be very wealthy if they can afford these impossible obelisks as their tombs. ]
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No! No no no. This is just a normal city! Probably.
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[ Are you some sort of country bumpkin? Egyptian country bumpkin? Desert bumpkin? ]
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I think... much of what I believed about the world is no longer true. Perhaps this is a completely different world than the one I know...
Labyrinth
Ancient Egyptian temples, though? That's new. New, cool, and also more than a little bit spooky with how lost she was! Did this mean she was going to get isekai'd all over again, like Yuu?
There's somebody else here too, reciting some kind of ultra-spooky prayer. Pasqualo gawks at Tabia as she turns the corner.]
Um...
Nice spoken word poetry? Really dig the meter!
[Yeah, that's all she got.]
Re: Labyrinth
[ And here's... someone? Maybe a ghost. She's pale as death, and that hair... actually no, Tabia's hair is about as loud when she transforms, so forget the hair. ]
It was a prayer to Thoth, to guide me through this maze. I don't suppose he sent you here?
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[Alas, Pasqualo had a dragon phase when she was younger rather than an Egyptology phase, so she has no idea what Tabia is talking about.]
I'm just Pasqualo! What's your name?
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My name is Tabia, scribe in the service of the temple of Thoth, god of truth, victory, justice, and writing. Where are you from?
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And you're from... [Pasqualo looks left, then right, then left, then back at Tabia.] Egypt, if I had to take a completely wild guess?
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Yes! So you're familiar with my homeland. You'll forgive me for assuming that you aren't Egyptian yourself. [ What with the whole... everything. Nobody in Egypt looks like that. ]
I'm afraid I've never heard of New Joisey, or old Joisey for that matter. Is that where I am right now?
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Nnnnnnnnnno. At least I don't think so? It'd be pretty weird if I got tossed back to Runoff Falls right after I got isekai'd, [sorry that one of your first human interactions here is with a horrendous weeb Tabia] 'specially since this place has the same weird vibe that the forest I wandered in through had... [Pasqualo strokes her chin, squinting at the hieroglyphs. Nope, still can't read them!]
Then again, I wouldn't discount an Egyptian temple showing up in the Pine Barrens somewhere. Anything's possible.
But yeah, this is probably Kaisou. Or on the way to Kaisou, at any rate. C'mon, we can try and find the way to get you out of here together! I don't think either of us wants to be stuck here for any longer than we have to.
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...Yes. Yes, that would probably be for the best. I don't know this place, but I find these inscryptions very unsettling.
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So... I guess the only thing we can do is keep walking? [She smiles sheepishly.] I'm sorry that I don't have anything more helpful to offer...
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Wait. That's entirely plausible now that I'm thinking about it. I literally met the L'il Jersey Debbil.
Nobody really knows why or how we got isekai'd here, but we're all trying to make the best of it! Gotta be there for each other, you know? We're all in this crazy thing together. Or at least that's how I think of it. [Pasqualo smiles as she walks through the Labyrinth with Tabia.]