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Meng Yao ([personal profile] filialdeception) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-10-06 07:54 pm

.:An Adventure to Remember:.

Who: Meng Yao, Subaru Akehoshi, Rantarou Amami
What: Some basic lessons are happening in the background, but some (mis?)adventures as well. Surely nothing will go wrong in a wonderful place such as this? Other than MY growing premature grey hairs. Either way, it's Exchange Program time, bby.
Where: Lanling Proper, and Koi Tower.
When: October 11th - October 17th.
Warnings: Potential death which will happen regardless and/or violence. Disturbing themes may be mentioned because JGS exists and golden end Lanling is still questionable. Just happier.

WELCOME TO LANLING—



The city is home to what is currently the largest cultivation sect around. It is prosperous and filled with many smiling faces. There are children who run through the streets, shop owners showing their wears, and people frequenting the establishments—inns, restaurants, you name it.

At the heart of the city is an important compound, Koi Tower. It seems to unfold before anyone who comes near it majestically, starting with the stairs and ending with the peerless infrastructure. It's terrific state is more than can be described in mere words, needless to say.

There are various gardens here or there, filled with a majority of the sect's symbol and flower—Sparks-Admist-Snow white peonies.

There is also one lotus pond located on the premises, but that is located somewhere towards the inner families' lodgings, and anyone passing through had better be someone who is part of the Jin Sect or a servant lest they wish to get into trouble.

As expected there is a magnificent reception area, a banquet hall, and another more extraordinary garden that houses a painting well done by a cultivator of renown. Said cultivator can be found around the city at certain points.

On the flipside, there are cultivators who are rather stuck up, though that goes the same for a good amount of the residents. Though the Sect Leader, Jin Guangshan is rather insufferable even if he is unfortunately talented at conducting himself with grace. Then there is Jin Zixun, who is neither graceful nor talented, but far more easy to encounter.

There is also, of course, the Treasure Vault. Another place that is actually guarded periodically though there are some dips in security due to the overconfidence the people have here.

Though even in this idyllic setting, there are places of ill repute if someone were to go looking around. Such as where others would sell weapons or other...things that are illegal or frowned down upon supposedly in Lanling. Hidden deep within the forest nearby that is essentially also part of Lanling, there is even a strange training ground that has been sectioned off by members of the Jin Sect. Going further where that is concerned is something that should be avoided lest anyone would want to experience a rather trying time, putting it very lightly. At the very least they'll shoo any wanderers away as long as they don't cause trouble or try to truly sneak in.

This is a city of golden times. But it doesn't mean that is the case for those outside of it or not caught within its golden age.

But whatever the case, their ends will be the same. Though, before that, shouldn't they enjoy their time while they still can?
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-15 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[this place... is quite spiritual. and subaru knows that meng yao handles a lot of that stuff, too -- had helped the little shopkeeper once before, so maybe... maybe...

anyway. subaru'd asked for a nice place to have tea with his fresh friend and so here they are, having tea. he's just trying to figure out how to bring this up without spilling too much information that isn't his to really give, so after a lull in a conversation about "if a bird had human arms, do you think it'd swing it and wing it (hit and run) or do you think it'd be more ground based"--]


Can I ask you something kinda funky, Maimai?

[like

the bird question wasn't funky. also maimai is his nickname now i'm sorry.]
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-18 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[the faster someone accepts a nickname the better, so meng yao is doing well.

subaru probably got the same just for simplicity's sake, and he stares down at the liquid as he works it out in his mind.]


So, like... you do soul stuff. I was wondering if you knew what to do when a soul was taken out of the cycle. Like, can it be put back in, or is it just... gone.
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-18 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[i don't think it's possible for them to re-enter it.

subaru's face falls a little and he turns it away, leaning against his hand. he can make the impossible, the not possible, possible. he just has to try hard enough and something will happen, right? maybe he should try and get more info about it, or...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,]


'Cause a dear friend of mine... sort of took themselves out of it in trade for something important, and they asked me to help them. I wanna change their future, so that they don't not-exist when their time runs out.

[he said he would, so he has to do everything he can to that; and they're doing everything they need to on their side, too... subaru doesn't think for a second that maybe he's gotten in over his head, just that it's about as tall of a mountain as overthrowing the iron grip of his student council back home -- he just doesn't have his friends here to help out.]
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-18 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooooh boy. subaru debates laying down for this, but sits up straighter instead and nods.

... he led komaeda through it, and he oughta tell amami too... but meng yao needs to know the full of it, without sparing a detail, to get a better idea. especially if it can be reversed. so it's a little nerve-wracking, because of what it is and who it's about and how much they probably don't want it to get around but they asked him for help so--]


Yeah. It's Boss -- the shopkeep, the one you helped before. They've got a contract that lets 'em stay in school with us, and I got it out of them that it's in trade for something super important. It's why they're working so hard to sell stuff, 'cause their end of the deal is that they raise a ton of money by the end of the school year and they get whatever that "something" is.

[... he droops a bit.]

But... they said they won't exist after graduation. This is all the time they've got, 'cause they signed away their existence. After the school year ends, they won't come back -- ever.

What's happened has already happened, and there's nothing I can do about that. I won't scold them for that, for doing what they did at the time, 'cause they made their choice even if I wish they hadn't, but I'm gonna give them a future. [...] Or the chance at it, at least.
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-24 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[aaaaaaaaaaaaa they are more than friends atm but that's fiiiiiiiine subaru isn't going to address any of thaaaaaaaat there are important things,]

I like the second step the best.

[he wants to punch something. even if that something is a god. that sounds pretty fun. but these are... definitely steps he can take, can work out, even if it's "unlikely" or "difficult", however infeasible it may be -- it gives subaru some direction and hope, even if he'll dig into it more with kazuki later too.]

There's gotta be an alternative though, right? Even if it's unlikely, there's always more than just one way to go about things! It's just usually the tougher choice, or the one people'd think is impossible... but I'm used to choices like that.

[... even without the rest of trickstar here, he can do something, maybe... even though having them here would be so, so nice... and yet he doesn't want them by nature of what "this" is...]
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-10-30 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[sometimes beating someone's face in is the solution. it's fine.

also please teach subaru how to wield something]


Heheh~, thanks for the vote of confidence. ♪ The sky shines brighter when it's got a lot of stars in it, and hope's the same way -- it doesn't matter if it's a dim light or one that's bright all on its own, they all come together to make a sight worth looking forward to!

[which is something he and komaeda can debate endlessly on but whatever. subaru breathes out, feeling lighter than he did before, and wonders again how he'll approach about it with amami... who he really should have told in the first place, but had a feeling it wouldn't have ended up so well.]

I feel a little better now, too~. I knew it was a good idea to talk to you, Maimai, you seem pretty reliable. ♪
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-11-05 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to the praise and also to!!!!!!!!! wielding a weapon!!!!!!!!! which just sounds sort of cool he has no intentions to u...se it on others if necessary yeah but he's not gonna think of that right now!]


I wanna use a spear! Or even just a pole! I think they'd be suuuuper fun to hit people with! Especially the pole!

[long ranged capabilities... poking natsume...]
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-11-05 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[a dagger... cool knife tricks then. subaru's not offended by the tease in the least, considering the first thing he did when he learned how to use a whip from lucifer was smack shin with it.]

Yay~, thank you Maimai~! And sounds good to me! What's first, shifu? Also, do weapons have cool names like in video games?

[he's... picked up a little from the various jobs meng yao'd suggested to him, though it's more of "he's a little confused but he's got the spirit" in terms of knowing if it's the proper way to address someone!]
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-11-11 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Now! Now now! I've got nothin' else goin' on, I wanna learn to fight!

[he has... some... combat practice thanks to performances and working on a movie set, but the real thing is different; the former is mostly blocking and making things look real with the full knowledge that nothing will come of it one way or the other, but real combat means someone's going to end up hurt.

it's a very boyish thing to be excited by the thought of wielding sharp objects though so that's mostly why he's excited he likes moving around and learning something new]
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[personal profile] starrypoint 2021-11-16 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[subaru tips down the rest of his and eagerly follows at meng yao's heel, paying attention to the way they traverse in case he'd like to come by on his own sometime and practice... whatever it is he's going to learn to practice today. correctly wielding and using it, he supposes as he watches meng yao bring out the dagger, marveling a little at its fanciful beauty, and notes the way to hold it, how to best use it in

stabbing,

okay that's fine he'll learn how to do cool twirls and stuff with it in time. striking the abdomen... would definitely cause trouble, he remembers amami and dito's bit, but it pushes too close to fatally wounding someone and subaru thinks maybe he'll just try and disadvantage them instead.]


Yup! And I got to dance with one during a performance last year, so I'm a little more familiar with it than anything else~. Just that though, I dunno how to fight with it. [...] And, uh, can you teach me how to... disarm and stuff people too? In general, not just with this.

[the dagger. the weapon master can teach him how to maybe do it with a spear or pole if possible, but. in general is fine too]