Not so Ordinary World

[Liddo-kun]

An ordinary person, part of an ordinary family, attending an ordinary school, leading an ordinary life in an ordinary world.

Day in and day out, repetitively grinding out the same motions.  Get up, eat, go to school, return, sleep, and repeat once again.  You told yourself then what a chore it was to live a life like this.

You wondered if there wasn't something more.  You wondered if there couldn't be something different for you.

You wondered, wondered, wondered....

What if now, the extraordinary was now ordinary and the ordinary the extraordinary?

You had wished for something more.  You wished for something different.

You wished, wished, wished....

And now that you have it, what are you going to do?

...wish granted...

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GM note(s):

So that's the vague premise above.  All I can promise is semi-coherent posts with a fair bit of descriptive writing.  Anyhow, I'm bored and easily amused, so I'm looking to recruit one player who shares said sad fate.

Posting speed will vary, depending on my work schedule, so just post a reply as quickly as you see one from me and all will take care of itself.

Hopefully.

What will this game be like?  One word: weird.

I'm going to throw stuff at you, the player, and it's going to be your job to react to it as you see fit.  It's a read and react thing, as if I give you a scenario to act out and you do the best with the materials given to pull off a convincing enough acting job - improvisation.  I'll work off of what you give me and we'll go from there.  Sounds easy enough, right?

So if anyone is interested, give me a reply post along with what you'd like for a character name (Japanese preferable), or leave it to me to make up, whichever.

I reserve the right to randomly dish out kicks to the head if I feel you're torpedoing my game.

^_^

[Kwokinator]

I'm interested! :D

Unless you think my writing skills is too lacking to play ;_;

As for character name, I'm phenomally uncreative with names, especially Japanese names, so just make one up for me.  As long as I'm male, it's all good ^_^

[Liddo-kun]

OOC:

Poppycock and rubbish.  I'll make something out of... er... whatever it is you are, and create a fine product.  If not I can conveniently turn around and blame the whole failed venture on you.

Amusing, no?  I got a good chuckle out of the thought, personally.

^_^

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IC:

Expecting to get a restful night's sleep was on the menu for Maki Taguchi, but what a shame, the chef had a change of heart and tonight's special was a heaping helping of insomnia with a side order of the munchies.

The being hungry part was easy to explain.  With mom enjoying a week long vacation at the hot springs with her girls, it left father and son some quality, bonding time to enjoy "Boy's Night Out" - fighting over scraps of instant ramen and packets of meat bits with mystery sauce from the local 7-11.

The insomnia was harder to explain though.

Under the blanket, over the blanket, sleeping on your back, sleeping on your sides, sleeping on your stomach - nothing seemed to help.  Glancing at the clock on your nightstand, the angry red numbers read 2:55 AM.

5 hours until the start of school.

Fun, fun, fun.

[Kwokinator]

With an angry growl, Maki kicked off the blankets and went to grab a couple of books from his schoolbag to see if he needs to do anything before school.

[Liddo-kun]

The wooden floor of your room is cold to the touch as you softly pad your way to your bookbag.  Undoing the straps and flipping through the pages of your texts, you find the mangled chicken scratches that constitute your English homework (you just know you're going to get called in class) and the Math assignment....

You spent the good part of the night, reading through your notes eight times and wasted seven sheets of scratch paper trying to make heads or tails out of the problems.  You tackled the same problem 13 times and came away with 13 different answers, each solution not resembling its siblings in the least bit.

Your wrist watch gives a short beep then, telling you that it is now 3:00 AM.  It's about that time when an odd noise catches your ear.

It's soft.  So much so that if it wasn't the dead of night you'd have probably missed it altogether.

You strain to identify it, but the closest you can figure is that it's like a scratching noise followed occasionally by the sound of something small, but hard, hitting the wooden floor of the hallway outside your door.

[Kwokinator]

"Sounds like a cat bouncing around or something..." Maki muttered to himself, and opened the door to see.

[Liddo-kun]

Stepping outside the door you don't see anybody, but then again, it is quite dark out in the hall.  The light from the window behind you does help somewhat and you're able to see an object on the ground, near your feet.

[Kwokinator]

Backing away from the object just in case, Maki looks down to see what said object might be.

[Liddo-kun]

It's a nut.  To be precise, a peanut.

You recall there being a dish of peanuts your dad was munching on earlier, while slugging back a bottle of beer and watching his Tokyo Giants get creamed on television.

Klakitty Klak

From farther down the hall, it's the same sound as before.  This time you can make out the soft sound of something moving, heading towards the attic staircase.

[Kwokinator]

"Must be the old man or something..." Maki said to himself.

His curiousity is aroused as he hears the sound again, and decides to investigate further by following the source of the sound.

[Liddo-kun]

The walk to the staircase is unusually creepy.  It seems darker tonight for one reason or another.  You find yourself taking cautious steps since it's hard to see, but grimace as the floorboards creak and moan in displeasure.

It's not long before you're standing in front of the staircase.  Looking upwards, it seems to be nothing but shadows.  Then from the top of the stairs...

Klak

Klak

Klak

Klak

Klak

The peanut spins and rolls to a stop by your feet after tumbling down from up top.

[Kwokinator]

The way up the attic and the attic itself is probably way too dark right now, especially since it seems to be darker tonight.

Maki turns away to search for a decent strength flashlight somewhere before continuing his exploration.

[Liddo-kun]

It doesn't take you long to find what you're looking for as you always keep a spare in your bedroom in case the power goes out.  Flashlight in hand you're back once more at the foot of the staircase.

Turning it on illuminates the path up the stairs.  Everything seems clear from what you can tell, although you note that the peanut from before is gone now.

[Kwokinator]

Maki idly wonders what happened to the peanut, but just chalked it up to whoever it was that dropped the peanut must have picked it back up.

Maki makes his way up the stairs to the attic, making sure to properly illuminate all his path and surroundings.

[Liddo-kun]

Step by step, you head towards the top.

Creak.  Groan.  Creak.  Groan.

You counted your footfalls and hadn't even hit twelve paces when an odd tingling feeling creeps up from your ankles to the top of your head.  You notice that it's getting a bit colder now for some reason - you can see your breath fog up in front of you.

The doorway to the attic is just a bit further, you can just about see the...

Klak.  Klak.  Klak.  Klak.

...yet another peanut go tumbling by you.

You hear it hit seven steps on the way down before its distinctive sound stops entirely all of a sudden.