paixaorpg | A Place to Sleep [Active]

Makoto walked down the hallway of the hotel, heading for the doorway. She and Setsuna had finished up their meeting and decided to split up for the time being, using it as an attempt to collect information on the place they were in, along with searching for Usagi. Her main plan now was to wander the city and see what she could find, figuring that the cover of night would keep her from being seen a bit more. Caught up in her thoughts, she wasn't paying attention to where she was walking, and accidentally bumped into a young girl.

"Oh! I'm sorry. I wasn't watching where I was walking."

Rika hadn't been paying any attention to where she was walking, either, and running into the older girl almost knocked her over, although she caught her balance before she tumbled. She offered a smile.

"It's okay, I wasn't watching either," she said. "Are you staying here, too?"

Her dark brown hair and green eyes meant she couldn't have been a citizen, after all.

Makoto smiled down at the young girl.

"Yes, I am. I'm just headed out for a few minutes. Are you sure you're ok? I did bump into you kind of hard." Taking into consideration the height difference, Makoto was a bit worried. And also, why was such a young girl wandering around by herself?

"I'm fine! I've just been walking, 'tak tak tak'"--she mimed walking--"all day, so I wasn't paying attention! It was my fault, too! Nipah~"

This girl seemed nice enough, and for that, Rika was glad. She remembered Alice's words; not everyone in Paixao would be kind. But wasn't that how it was everywhere?

Makoto chuckled a bit, continuing to smile. This girl was incredibly cute.

"Oh, my name's Kino Makoto, What's yours?" She asked, still looking down at her. "And, is there anyone with you? You probably shouldn't be walking around by yourself..." She didn't want to come off as being overbearing, but a girl her age probably shouldn't have been wandering around alone.

"Furude Rika," Rika replied. "It's nice to meet you, Makoto-san!"

When Makoko expressed her concerns over Rika's living situation, she responded cheerily: "It's okay, at home I live with Satoko, and she's my age! I just got here, so I don't know if anyone else is here."

She would have to look for her friends once she got settled. It was better to work in a group, after all, and she knew she could trust her friends one hundred percent. If she was lucky, she would be able to find other trustworthy people here as well, but for now, it was best to stick with what, and who, she knew.

"It's nice to meet you too, Rika-chan." Makoto said, then listening to her living. "Are you sure? I don't want to overstep any boundaries, but if you want, I can stay with you until you find someone you know." Even hearing that Rika was used to living only living with someone her own age, Makoto didn't want to leave the younger girl alone.

Rika considered the offer. She had her own room already, but it would be hers whether or not she was actually inside it, and money was hardly an issue. Not having to be by herself was a plus as well. On the other hand, she didn't really know Makoto, so she couldn't be sure of her character, although Rika didn't think she was out to hurt her.

"Maybe for a little while," Rika consented at last. "So I have someone to talk to!"

"All right!" Makoto said, happy to be able to help this young girl. "So, where is your room? You're probably tired from walking all day, and I'm keeping you from your rest." She moved to the side so the girl could pass when she started walking again, then folded her hands and waited.

"One more floor~" Rika said, and headed for the stairs. "Up the steps, 'tap tap tap!'"

She was in a good mood despite her exhaustion; she could befriend more people here, perhaps some who knew how to go home. The idea that there were different worlds was one she was comfortable with; here, however, it seemed as if there were worlds that differed a great amount from the ones she had cycled through.

"Here it is, room 444," Rika chirped.

Not the best room number--four was shi, after all. But Rika didn't believe in superstition.

((OOC: Shi means death. Also four. XD))

Makoto followed the young girl up to her room, then waited for Rika to enter, following after her again. She wasn't that superstitious either, and paid no mind to the number on the door. It was just another number to her. Sitting down in a chair near the wall, she watched the girl for a few moments.

"So, you said you just arrived here? How long exactly?" She asked, remembering that she had been here for a bit over a year...it had been a long time, really. She was always wondering what was going on back at home, if the other Senshi had been looking for her...

"This morning," Rika said, looking over her room. There was a nice, large window, a queen-sized bed, a room that appeared to be the bathroom, and a desk in the corner. Not a bad place at all. She could easily live here for a while. "Have you been here for a while?"

She moved to sit on the bed, her feet throbbing dully now that they weren't in use, but the pain fading quickly enough as she kept her weight off them.

"Yeah." Makoto said, looking over at the girl. "A bit over a year actually." And a lot had happened in that year too...Usagi appeared, then disappeared, Makoto met up with Setsuna and had set a plan of action...it had been interesting, yet little had been accomplished.

She was silent for a while. "I see."

Could she really be gone that long? Longer? What sort of world would she return to? Would Hinamizawa still be there? Would her friends be okay? After all the work she had done...

She fell back onto the bed, staring up at the ceiling.

Fran found the Actua Are hotel easily, not having to look at the map a second time because she had already memorized its contents. On the train, she had read quite a bit of the information available to her in the journal and picked several crystalline leaves, as it had instructed her, as she walked from the station. She had passed many more of the blond people as she walked, and she had greeted each of them. This had made it take quite a while to reach the Actua Are hotel, and the light of the artificial sun had become dim and ruddy.

'Hello!' she greeted the concierge when she arrived at the front desk.

'Hello,' the concierge replied, raising an eyebrow at her. 'You're looking for a room?'

Auron hadn't been specific about why she was supposed to come here, but it was a hotel and so it was logical that she would want a room. 'Yes, thank you,' she replied with a pleasant smile.

After being given a key and directions, she wandered up to her room, number 446, and stepped into it. It was clean and inviting. She smiled and went to sit on the edge of the bed. She sat there for a while and nothing happened. She had gone to the Actua Are like Auron had suggested, but she really wasn't sure what she was supposed to do now. Being as she did not actually require sleep, there wasn't a great deal for her to accomplish in the hotel room.

After considering for a while, she rose from the bed again and wandered back out into the hall. Perhaps she would find something that would tell her what to do.

Makoto smiled sadly at the young girl. She seemed concerned at the amount of time she would be there. Sighing, she stood to go close the door, which was still open. As she placed her hand on the knob, she noticed another girl standing in the hallway. She looked a little bit lost.

"Hi!" She said. "You ok?" She asked, smiling at her. She really did look a bit lost.

Upon hearing Makoto address someone else, Rika sat up, hid her sadness, and looked curiously out the door. The woman really did look lost.

"Hello," she said, smiling. "Are you new, too?"

This place did tend to be disorienting.

'Hello!' Fran said with a bright smile as, for the first time ever somebody else greeted her. She repeated it a moment later when a second, smaller person did the very same thing. Curious. 'My name is Fran. Yes, I am new. Doctor McKay made me about four days ago!'

She smiled happily at the two girls, they were both younger than anyone she'd ever met before, as there were no children on Atlantis, and she had also never seen anyone with blue hair before. She decided to comment on it. 'Your hair is quite lovely. I've never seen that a human with that color before,' she said and then smiled at the older girl by the door. 'Yours is very beautiful too, but I have seen that color.'

Makoto smiled, a bit confused at what the girl was saying, but trying not to show it. Made her? was just one of those thoughts, along with a bit of confusion about the hair color comparisons. But, she shrugged it off, knowing that there could be stranger things out there.

"Ah thank you." She said about the compliment to her hair. "I'm Kino Makoto. It's nice to meet you Fran-san." She said.

((OOC: orz, hopefully I'm getting the suffix right...please correct me if I'm getting it wrong.))

"Thank you!" Rika said cheerily, as if she hadn't been sad at all moments earlier. "I've only ever seen it in my family. Mion and Shion have green hair. Nipah!"

"How could you be made?" she asked. "Things are made, not people!"

'It's wonderful to meet you both!' Fran said happily, though she wasn't sure if Nipah was supposed to be the smaller girl's name or if it was just some sort of exclamation. She gave the girl another friendly smile as she answered her question. 'That's very simple. You see, I'm not a human, even though I look like one. I am an artificial humanoid machine made up of microscopic machines.'

She continued in a natural tone, as though there was nothing odd about her previous statement. 'Doctor McKay made me based upon technology the ancients used to create the Replicators.' She looked slightly unsure. 'The Replicators are gone now though, so I'm not sure what my further purpose is.'

Makoto listened to Fran's explanation and was a bit confused, but at the same time, didn't doubt what she was saying, with some of the people she had met before as a senshi.

"Well, welcome to Paixao." She said, smiling.

Rika raised her eyebrows. This was something new, something she hadn't experienced in Hinamizawa. Tilting her head, she examined the woman--or whatever she could be called--curiously. She looked human, at least.

"Make your own purpose," Rika suggested; there was something unsettling about being a slave to programming. It was too much like fate.

'Thank you!' Fran said, smiling at Makoto and then at the smaller girl's suggestion, she looked a bit stumped. 'I'm not sure it's so easy as that,' Fran said, wrinkling her brow. 'You see, most of my programing is inactive, as a saftey precaution, and nearly all of my independant decision-making is among that portion that is inactive. I'm simply not capable of making a new prime directive for myself.'

As she was speaking, Fran's journal made a small chiming noise and she glanced down at it, still held in her left hand. She flipped it open momentarily, taking only a nano-second to read the message Pikachu had left before flipping it closed again. A delighted smile bloomed on her face as she felt a rush of excitement. 'Oh, this is wonderful!' she exclaimed.

Makoto thought for a moment. It was weird to hear Fran describe herself as she did, and Makoto was still a bit confused.

"Maybe you could find some friends to be with? They could probably help you with finding a new directive!" Makoto suggested, smiling. Friends could possibly help, and if Fran didn't have any from her home here, she could find more, Makoto included. Then, she heard Fran's journal chime, and watched as the woman checked it.

"Ah, a good message?" Makoto asked after Fran had finished checking her journal. Her news had mostly been disappointing, with Usagi disappearing before she and Setsuna could find her, then all the things that had been happening to other people.

Rika nodded in agreement with Makoto's suggestion about friends. They had certainly helped her out of all sorts of situations (that they had caused some of the situations was beside the point). She was surprised at the speed Fran read the message--so she really was some sort of machine?--and waited curiously to see if Fran would elaborate on the message.

'A wonderful message!' Fran agreed, smiling brightly at the two girls. 'It's Pikachu. He's so nice and smart and he figured out exactly what I should be doing!' She recited the last two sentences of Pikachu's message to her without having to look back at the journal. '"It's not always easy knowing who's good and who's bad, but, maybe that could be your task while you look for Doctor McKay! Trying to help other people who're being hurt, I mean." You see, it's perfect! This is exactly what I was programed for!' She beamed proudly at the two girls, delighted by the sense of purpose she was now filled with. 'I will protect people!'

"Well, that's great!" Makoto said with a big smile. She was always happy to hear that people were getting good news here. She felt like she had been trapped there for so long without any good news.

"Since you might be wandering around, do you want some company? I'm getting ready to start some wandering of my own, and I could use some." Makoto offered, trying to be nice, and hoping Fran would say yes.

ooc:........I am so so so so sorry that this is so late. Graduation/moving/job hunting took up so much of my time the past month or so. I'm going to be on top of things now. *is a failure*

Rika beamed. "That's a good purpose. Just don't get hurt!"

Rika was familiar with protecting those close to her. But it so often led to her own pain that she knew care was needed. Still, it was certainly worth it. She was glad Makoto was offering to go along, at any rate. Rika had to stay and wait for Keiichi.

Fran beamed at Makoto's suggestion. 'I would be delighted to wander with you, Makoto!' she said happily. 'I'm not sure yet how to find people who need my help.' She smiled at Rika as the smaller girl cautioned her. 'Thank you! I will be careful and avoid damaging myself!'

"If anyone needs help, we'll be sure to find them." Makoto said with a smile. "If you want, we can even do a post on the message board so people know that help is out there." Makoto was excited to find someone to walk around with, instead of being alone. Since she and Pluto had split, she was hoping to find someone to explore with.

"Good luck! Nipah!" Rika said, beaming at the both of them.

She really hoped neither would get hurt. Fran seemed dangerously naive. But Makoto seemed less so; hopefully with the two of them together, they would manage to stay out of trouble.

'Oh that's a wonderful idea!' Fran exclaimed joyfully. 'We can do that right now!' she flipped her journal open again and her fingers flew over the keys nearly too fast to see. 'There now! They'll know and they can tell us! You must know all about helping people, Makoto!' she beamed at the tall girl and then turned as Rika wished them luck. 'Thank you, Rika! I'm so glad I met you!'

Makoto watched as Fran opened her journal and typed the message, she assumed on the message board. Reaching for her journal, she opened it to see if there was anything from Pluto while she was thinking about it. As she was checking, and seeing nothing from Pluto, but many different posts about a monster attacking the city.

"Well, I don't know if you've heard something already on that post, but it seems like there's a bit more trouble than we know of already." She said, tapping her screen when she finished reading something about the Sin-Spawn running amok in the city.

Rika tilted her head at Makoto. Would Keiichi be all right out there? But surely he would arrive soon enough, right? And it might not be anything near him, after all. She could check later on tonight, and if she had to, go after him. But perhaps she should wait--if she moved, he wouldn't be able to find her, and that would possibly send him barreling into danger.

"Oh yes!" Fran said as she saw the other notices near the top of the message board when hers finished posting. "That monster is definitely hurting people!" she folded her journal again and pushed it into her chest for safe-keeping. Her nanites parted to make way for the device and then closed up her 'skin' and dress after it's passage, nestling the journal in the area where her lungs would be, were she human. "Let's go there quickly!" she said, turning back to Makoto, her eyes bright with excitement at again having a purpose.

((shall we go join one of the sin-spawn threads now?))

Makoto clicked her journal off and placed it in her pocket, nodding as she did so. This monster seemed to be a big danger to the entire place, and she wanted to help get rid of it if she could. Moving towards the door, she turned back to Rika.

"Are you coming too?" She wanted to make sure that the young girl was safe, she would figure out how to henshin later. She was sure there was an empty place somewhere.

Rika shook her head. "I have to wait here for my friend!"

And she would. She would never abandon Keiichi like that. Even if she hadn't had to wait for him, she had been walking around all day, and was exhausted. She needed a night's sleep before she could do any more exploring.

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