WEEK 1

[akudamods]

So, the first day is over. You are confined in various ways for the foreseeable future. There are two overseers you can bother, and pods they want you to get into, but many of you would rather do anything else. Honestly, even the flurry of posts on social media don’t seem particularly interested in talking up this prospect; when searches for the titles start to get results, they’re mostly about the posters’ own avoidance or occasional morbid fascination. There are even one or two newly taken pictures of the particularly outrageous and photogenic poses. At least photos are rare enough that you can be confident not every move is being watched. Conditions are much better than Saturday to wander all the way down to the Execution HQ Ruins, take the shuttle to the police station, or investigate other parts of the setting. As the weather forecast said, Sunday and Monday are smoggy and sunny.

What will you do?

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Comments

[fullswingkiss]

[ .... minor regrets about saying he's a member of the Japanese Diet right now, he'd been fully prepared for this guy to be from a wholly different world. Hm. ]

What sets your Japan apart from this one most notably?

[voidseeing]

The advent of Lost Christmas and the existence of the Apocalypse Virus. I haven't been able to find any information on either of those two things here, and I doubt that even the GHQ would be able to erase every trace of both of them from existence. Even if they managed to track down and remove every mention of them on Japanese websites, they would have no power to do so on sites hosted outside of the country. The information would remain in some form or another.

[fullswingkiss]

[ Who the fuck calls some calamity 'Lose Christmas'?? Well, different if it was 'Lost Valentine', that would sound much better. These are very objective judgments. ]

So your Japan was subject to some very different harmful events, I see. In my 2021, society is still widely prospering and the country does not face any large scale threats.

I suppose this makes it a fairly 'neutral' version.

[voidseeing]

[Boy let him tell you the story of Lost Christmas because he was right at the very epicenter of it--

... except for the part where he would really rather not talk about it at all.]

Our Japans at least could still be the same-- Lost Christmas didn't occur until 2029. But that would still make it incompatible with this particular version of Japan.

[fullswingkiss]

No offense intended whatsoever, but I would rather hope they aren't.

[ He'll take a hard pass on apocalyptic viruses. ]

Either way it feels like my Japan could be a plausible past for either your world or this world. An intriguing in-between state.

[voidseeing]

[He nods.]

Which still leaves the question of the nature of this world, and I doubt that asking directly is going to get us any answers.