OPEN TO EVERYONE: Summer Gala

[bowdown]

Characters: Everyone!
Location: By the Park swimming pool
Rating: G to PG (any higher rating, please make a private log)
Time: 20th June (FORWARDED DATE)
Notes: Go ahead and add links as you please under the main threads. If there is anything you need or I forgot, contact me and I will add!

Tonight, the park is full of life. Lights show the way towards the swimming pool, where you can find large white tents set up, all connected to each other. Music, loud chatter and laugher come from them, and inside you may find Guests and Natives enjoying the night together, a rare sight after recent events happening in the City. But tonight, all of that is to be forgotten. Maybe.

Welcome to the Summer Gala.

Feel free to leave your coat by the Coat room, listening to music (some songs are even played by Guests such as Karina, Shinji, Nanami, Hamel and John), dance together (don’t forget the Partner’s dance!), enjoy good food and good drinks, and perhaps after take a stroll by the swimming pool and the park.

But please, don’t forget to thank your hosts, Keroro’s and Eve’s Metokkori R and Hikan Café, and thank Cupid, Lily’s Yesterday's Magic, Hyoubu’s World’s End, Condesce’s Betty Crocker Bakery and the Watch for all their help. And if there is any disaster with your clothing and hair tonight, look for Kanaya and she will give you a hand!

■ PREPARATIONS

Condesce [Open]
Keroro[Open]

■ ARRIVAL/COAT ROOM

Condesce [Open]
Sendo [Open]
Saya [Open]
Bumblebee [Open]
Matt [Open]
Re-l [Open]
Naoto [Open]
Lee [Open]
Fujino [Open]
Meenah [Open]
Minatsuki [Open]
Minako [Open]
Duo [Open]
Near [Open]
Hyoubu [Open]
Giroro [Open]
Kanaya [Open] - Clothing Repairs
Edgeworth [Open]
Dolorosa [Open]
Sugata [Open]
Hiro [Open]
Alucard [Open]
Cupid [Open]
Raidou [Open]
JK [Open]
Yuugi [Open]

■ DINNING TABLES

Saya[Open]
Senji [Open]
Re-l [Open]
Duo [Open] *
Josuke [Open]
Vincent [Open]
Sugata [Open]
Hiro [Open]
Naoto [Open] *

■ BAR

Matt [Open]
Re-l [Open] *
Psiioniic [Open]
Senji [Open]
Duo [Open]
Snake [Open]
Cupid [Open]
Meenah [Open] *

■ BALLROOM

Partner's dance
Lily [Open]
Minatsuki [Open]
Minako [Open]
Karina [Open]
Genesis [Open]
Kanaya [Open]
Dolorosa [Open]
Fujino [Open]
Hamel [Open]
Sugata [Open]
Hiro [Open] *
Yako [Open]
Asuka [Open]
Cupid [Open]
Sendo [Open]

■ SWIMMING POOL

Saya [Open]
Matt [Open]
Condesce [Open] *
Hyoubu [Open]
Shinji [Open]

■ LAVATORIES

Condesce [Open]
Yamazaki [Open]

■ WATCH AREA

Neji [Open]
Mello [Open]
Fabiola [Open]
Karkat [Open] *
Gray [Open]

■ PARK

Amaterasu [Open]
Mizuno [Open]

Comments

[mieru_mienai]

[Yuugi really didn't expect the conversation to go in this direction, and it's difficult because Takuto is asking him to consider the situation in a way that is absolutely foreign to him. Doubt or question Atem? Yuugi doesn't know how to do that.]

Heard some things...? [He repeats, uncertain for a moment until he suddenly frowns.] From Bakura? [The lack of suffix makes it clear he doesn't mean Ryou.]

[tauborn]

[He nods.] I mean, not Ryou--the other one.

[Takuto knows what it's like to utterly (and blindly) trust another person, and he's ended up burned by the experience. He doesn't want to see the same thing happen to Yuugi.]

I asked the Pharaoh about it, but he wouldn't give me any answers. He's... got an awful lot he's hiding.

[mieru_mienai]

[Yuugi understands where Takuto is coming from, at least, but knowing what he knows he has to correct the other boy on one thing.]

Protecting--there's a lot that he's protecting. [He hesitates, measuring the importance of explaining against the delicacy of the subject matter, and chooses his words carefully when he does speak.]

His memories hold the key to something dangerous; that's the reason even his name is a secret. In our world the other Bakura is trying to find that key. [Though Yuugi knows his name now, at least. He shifts his weight from one foot to the other, a little uncomfortable with what he's going to say next but it's the truth and maybe about time for Takuto to hear it, if he's wondering which of the Egyptian spirits is the more trustworthy.] The first time I met him he tried to use a roleplaying game to kill me and my friends. If it hadn't been for the other me--[Atem's future self, of course]--we all would have died.

[And Ryou actually did die, but Yuugi will leave that part of the story for him to tell if he so chooses.]

[tauborn]

[Takuto takes this information in carefully. He hadn't known that the Pharaoh's name was a secret--he just thought the the Egyptian preferred the title to the name. Or maybe his name was too hard for most people to say properly. But that's besides the point.]

So the other Bakura, he's been an enemy to you and Ryou for a long time, and to the Pharaoh for even longer. And you trust the Pharaoh because he saved you and everyone else from the other Bakura.

[He shakes his head. It all seems rather simple with Yuugi's explanation, but it still doesn't explain why the Pharaoh had such a guilty expression when they'd spoken, or the words the other Bakura had given him.]

Then what is Kul Elna?