third flame 🔥 (late) May Catch-all

[olruggio]

🔥 Who: Olruggio & ANY
🔥 When: May~
🔥 Where: Around Yumemigaoka + the Slumbering City
🔥 What: May Catch-all! Also serves to help your character get some background information on the Disturbance? Maybe??



i. May 5; Kokuhaku Tea

[It's Children's Day! ... Unfortunately(?), Olruggio has no children of his own. But his partner is a Mentor for a number of young Dreamers and so Olruggio has promised to send them photos of the much talked about but never actually seen cute desserts that Japan has for this occasion.

It's a very difficult job, as you can plainly see.

Which is why he's gone into Kokuhaku Tea to purchase some of the sweet treats for the occasion and taking a few photos of said snacks before enjoying them himself]

Hmm... Glutinous rice really is a fantastic backdrop for just about anything, isn't it? Delicious!

ii. Throughout the first half of May; Slumbering City

[while Olruggio in the waking world is trying to keep a healthy work life balance, in the Dream Sphere, Torch is always at work. Ai's Disturbance didn't leave any particularly lasting scars in the Dreamscape... And based on Chaosbringer's investigation, it seems that no Disturbance has caused lasting damage. They should be grateful for the little things like this, but Torch worries nonetheless.

Between Area Zero that the Figment - Miraidon, for now - has told him about and the residual damage from last year's Anniversary, the Dream Sphere has left a great deal of danger sitting on their very doorstep]

[If you've been assigned to be in a small group patrol with him;] ... We'll just be doing a quick patrol around the city borders. To make sure there's nothing major happening that we aren't aware of.

[if he runs into you while patrolling;] Did you have a good reason for being in here today?

[if you manage to catch him off guard while he's patrolling;] Gah-?! For crying out- Don't just sneak up on people like that!

iii. Mid-Late May; at the DU

[Olruggio can be found in the Union HQ nearly daily, chasing down people with steadily increasing concern following the earthquake and the thunderstorm at the start of the month]

[prior to the hailstorm, he can be found grumbling irritably to himself and looking like death warmed over in any of the breakrooms, curled over with his pencil in hand and what looks like ever more elaborate doodles covering the pages of his sketchbook] 'This is normal', they say... Like there weren't odd accidents that heralded the last few Disturbances...

[Following the hailstorm, Olruggio can still be found frequently visiting the DU, but this time he seems more pensive. Thoughtful, even, as he examines one of the hailstone crystals in his hand] ... I was told all the previous accidents were somewhat natural in form. This doesn't look like it follows the same trend, does it...?

Comments

3-1

[saynotobugs]

No kidding.

[Maki looks up from her cocoon sleeping bag in the corner of the break room. Clearly it's been depression nap hours recently.]

How do these things even reach into the real world, anyway? Think they're gonna spread outside Yumemigaoka?

ii-3 because OF COURSE

[hanamane]

Oop~sie~! My bad!

[The laugh and the entirely Not Apologetic grin on Hanako's face says otherwise, however, as he fully phases through the wall in front of him, floating lazily through the air. After the stress of the past few months, one would think he wouldn't be in the mood for childish tricks like this, but... well. He had to blow off steam somehow, and trolling the adults around him seemed to be as good of an outlet as any.]

Just think of it as me keeping you on your toes! You never know what's gonna pop up here, after all!

[Had this been a year ago, that statement would have been entirely in jest, but now... maybe not so much]

ii - on patrol

[tworo]

Are we not supposed to be?

[The Figment returned to the Slumbering City, after Ai's Disturbance was resolved. It sort of lives here - though, considering it doesn't sleep, it spends quite a lot of time out wander too.

This is the first time it's run into Torch since confessing its true nature. That makes things feel...strange. It stands at attention, arms folded behind its back, the way it once might have for the Doctor. Uncomfortable, but it's also sort of a relief not to be hiding anymore. It's started to feel a certain urgency to return to the crater.]

iii-2

[predecir]

[Bruno's not openly a Dreamer, so he doesn't always get all the Dreamer news from the Union despite working there. It does make things more difficult than necessary, sometimes. He figures the natural disasters are a good excuse for being curious no matter who you are, though, so he sidles up to Olruggio.]

Do you...know what's going on with these? Is something happening in the Dream Sphere?