lostcarnival | ⇨ THE MATRIX

Who: EVERYONE!
When: S1:D22 - S1:D??
Where: Visiting the Matrix.
What: The carnival arrives at its next location, as outlined here. This is a general mingling log for convenience purposes, but players are welcome to make as many other logs for this purpose as desired.
Warnings: Could be a lot of things.

THE MATRIX↴

"What IS the Matrix? The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

► INSIDE: On the inside, it all seems so normal. Beyond what you know of the reality you've stepped in, every bit of this place feels just as real as it did back in the carnival. If you were to forget where you'd just come from, would you know any different? The simulation of Chicago is identical to how it would have been in the early days of the new millenia, to anyone who comes from a similar Earth. Humans bustle around you, oblivious to the world outside of the Matrix that they were born into. One bright side to it all is that this hyper realism means the coffee tastes just as good as it does in real life. Anything you could do in real Chicago you can do here - and perhaps even more.

► WHITE ROOM: But before that, you were here. The White Room is a loading program, intended to port objects and people into the Matrix. You arrive as a reconstruction of your true physical form, but common sense suggests that for some of you, entering the mundane world looking like yourself isn't the best idea. It's in this empty world that you will be able to load in whatever physical objects you are, and change the way you present your own body to the system. Changes can be little, or big, but whatever you do, the body has to be able to function according to Earth's physical laws. Don't forget, if you die here, you die in the carnival too.

► DEJA VU: It doesn't matter what you're doing, but at some point you'll notice it - something around you has repeated itself, like a line on a skipping record. Maybe it's the same person bumping into you twice in a row, or the same cab driver yelling at you to get out of the way. It's like reality has rewound and repeated itself, and after the fact you have no proof of it happening beyond the memory of what you saw. You don't know what it means, but something about it is chilling. It may be a good time to find a buddy.

► THE ONE: It won't necessarily come naturally, but in a moment of need you may find yourself bending the world of the Matrix through sheer belief and force of need. How you bend it will always stay without the rules of the universe, at least for now, but when it comes to enhancing your own physical characteristics, just about anything is possible. It will not be easily reproducible, not now, but it could be your first view into the window of what's possible.

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[The first time they'd met, she had said that he wouldn't recognize her, if he remembered and met her thirty years down the track. Watching her do away with the changes, the legs, the fae marks, Yuugi slowly realizes he's seeing the real Carly, underneath the changes and her time in the carnival, and stops in his own remaking to watch with some fascination.

After a moment, he continues on with his own, hands rubbing his jaw until his teeth are "human" enough, ears blending into his hair easily. He then glances back and smiles softly as he spikes his hair again with a sweep of his hands.]

I knew I'd recognize you if I met the real "you".

[Carly gives a good stretch before turning to look at Yuugi herself-and, erm.

Are the whites of her eyes supposed to still be black?

Naturally Carly misinterprets Yuugi entirely though.] Eh-?! Th-That's no fair though, I didn't know there'd be a time where you actually got to see what I used to look like..! [She panics, shaking her head.]

[He smiles, and while there's a cheeky tinge to it, he can't help but wonder. Yuugi tilts his head as he spikes the smallest bit of blond at the front up, then frowns and pulls it back down. No, it was supposed to be down, right? Regardless, he shakes his head at himself, then considers her.]

Um, well, you're...it's not bad though, right? What you used to look like?

[Though, did all people in the future have black instead of white around their eyes? Yuusei-kun hadn't, so he guessed not.]

Oh? [She beams, swaying a bit on her feet.] You think so?

Mmhmm! If there was one thing I learned, there's nothing wrong with the way you look.

[So take it from a guy with personal experience in that department, Carly. Yuugi looks down at his dress shirt, then rolls the sleeves up halfway along his forearm.]

This is a little more...dressy than I'm used to.

Looking good and not looking wrong are still pretty far apart though! I'll take it as a compliment..~

[In any case.] Ah, right, you said you're more used to your uniform...

And a bit more...bells and whistles-y. [He waves a hand.] I don't know if they have images or clips of the Battle City tournament in your time...

There are a few!!

You used to have this great big pendant, [she notes, ignorant to what she's going on about.] So it seemed like that alone made up for any accessories really...

[Carly. Carly, hun.]

The Millennium Puzzle.

[Yuugi's hand goes to his torso, before he catches himself and drops it to his other arm, rubbing it instead. For a moment he considered recrafting it here, in the white room, but he shakes his head at the thought as he inhales.]

I had to...it was lost. A couple of months ago.

Puzzle..? It didn't really look like a puzz... [Ah.

Lost.] S-Something that big..!? Just what happened..!?

It was put together like a puzzle. [He makes a small hand motion.] Nobody had solved it in over three thousand years.

[The question makes him hesitate a bit, feet shifting as he bites his bottom lip.]

H...it needed to return to its final resting place.

Three thou...

[She pauses, and begins to sputter, the words 'final resting place' hitting quite a point.] A-Are you telling me it was haunted?!

You were carrying haunted gold the whole time!?

[He splutters a bit himself when she says that. Maybe that hadn't been the best choice of words, but, well, she wasn't wrong. Talking about Atem still feels like walking on pins and needles, though, so even though he nods he's a bit hesitant about it. Yuugi links his fingers together, biting his bottom lip. He might as well...]

Well...it's not like he really had much of a choice. [Really.] You see, the puzzle held the soul of a great Pharaoh, one who had saved the world from a terrible darkness. But at the cost of his own life. All record of him had been wiped from history because his name was a key in its release from its prison.

[Yuugi waved a hand.]

I didn't know any of that when Grandpa gave me the puzzle. I didn't even know that when I blacked out a spirit was using my body until Duelist Kingdom. I don't think he even really fully understood that he was his own person either.

[Well honestly speaking, it still sounds pretty haunted. This whole soul of a great pharaoh deal isn't helping it-it's adding a lot of really heart tugging drama, but it's not changing the haunted part, though Carly does try to let Yuugi finish before she really says anything.

...Well.] S-Sounds really haunted, still...

...Huwaaaahh, you guys really get into a lot of messes, you, Jack, Yuusei...first old dragons, now old kings..!

Eheheh...I guess so.

[He'd never really considered it being haunted, but he can see how it might sound like it. When most people thought of Egypt they thought of curses and mummies.]

It's kinda...we were a team so it's...he always helped me. That was what my contract with the Ringmaster was. To get used to being without him.

[Though he does tilt his head at something she says, looking puzzled.]

Ah, old dragons? Yuusei-kun didn't...well I mean it's not like we really talked before we took on Paradox.

O...Oh...

[That's...rather sad.

...It makes talking about the Crimson Dragon and Signers a lot easier than it normally would be (though that's partially because she can avoid the Dark Signers for now...

...For now.] Ah! Well, basically there was this big Crimson Dragon thing, and he'd choose people to mark with parts of him; and those were Signers! Jack and Yuusei were both Signers, so they had a Signer Dragon!

And those dragons, and the Crimson Dragon, do that every 5000 years, like regular guardians or something..! [Casually Not Mentioning The Enemy MMMMMM]

⇨ THE MATRIX

white room~

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