WELCOME TO KANSAI

[akudamods]

Where are you? When are you? According to the smoggy sky above you, "noon" is a reasonable guess. You are in Dotonbori, though it may seem unwise to get closer to the bridge over the river or any iconic signs. Wandering past this single city block will be met by police robots, stopping your way with a hologram that claims you are on "probation" and will soon be given a "briefing", that the next robot scans and copies. There are human citizens in this area, at first simply stunned by your arrival and appearance. Over the minutes, though, they notice the information circulating on all sorts of holographic surfaces, and they begin chattering suspiciously about you.

The holographic surfaces aren't the only bright light in the city. You also find yourself experiencing glitches multiple times over these first few hours - parts of your body temporarily turning into bursts of color along with a burst of intense pain, or briefly losing awareness of yourself and coming back into focus a good few centimeters to the left, making an agonizing adjustment to sensory non-deprivation all over again. The other "Akudama" seem to be undergoing the same phenomenon of inexplicable sudden little changes in location. Akudama - that's what the citizens are calling you under their breath from the other side of the narrow alley street.

Want to bum a cigarette regardless? Hide in a karaoke booth and scream? Hey, you do you, buddy. Looks like nobody is coming to give you trouble just yet, unless you make it yourself. Maybe those "Gifts" some of you have will make sparks fly.

Comments

[fullswingkiss]

My accusations are certainly small fry compared to what everyone else allegedly did. I appear to be one of three people here who have never been accused of taking a life and one of the others is an 11 year old child.

[ He's... unwisely kind of intrigued by this but the part of him that's actually a normal man is dead inside and maybe a little more scared than he wants to admit. ]

What was anybody thinking, putting me here?

[thefifthchild]

[He snickers.] If it helps, most of the crimes mentioned on my profile happened before I turned ten. [Absolutely does not help.]

People can be guilty of only small crimes, and still be deeply terrible people all the same.

[fullswingkiss]

Don't you know it.

[ Just leaving entirely open if he means himself or other people. He doesn't think it matters anyway. ]

Your upbringing must have been... quite something.

[thefifthchild]

[He shrugs, nonchalant.]

My grandfather is a monster. [A beat.] Both of them. But the maternal one is the one who raised me.