Good morning, Asgard.

[The sleeves of Watson's shirt may be rolled up, but his waistcoat and tie are in immaculate order -- just as are the instruments Watson is carefully arranging as he makes the recording. He's still not entirely comfortable with the video functions of the bracelets, but is making an exception for this special occasion.]

To those that do not know me, I am Dr Watson, late of London. Currently I'm acting general practioner of the Yakuzen clinic, Heimdall. The clinic was founded by Zen in the aim of providing Asgard's citizens with methods of treatment that might be more familiar to them than the services of the hopsital as well as providing the chance for more personalized service. He took me on as a partner, and our staff also includes Miss Tsukiko, whose ability to heal is known to more than a few of you, I'd wager. As I'm sure our current patients will attest, he succeeded admirably.

Unfortunately, Zen is no longer here. We intend to keep the clinic running in his absence. You'll find us in Heimdall and I'll hope that you'll consider our services.

However, Zen's absence has left us with a void to fill. If there are any in the medical profession seeking employment, particularly versed in herbal medicine, or any members of the House of Sigyn or Heimdall who would like to employ their gifts to aid their fellows, I should very much welcome your applications. My thanks.

[And a quick, military-esque bow and the feed ends.]

[Well hello, everyone! At about noon, one of your Gods has appeared in front of you again, cheerfully addressing the network from a nicely furnished living room somewhere (the decor matches the castle, perhaps?) Loki is completely chill about this, nowhere near as uptight as Odin was.]

Hey there, Travellers! This is your captain speaking. One of them, anyway. The name's Loki.

Are you having a good time? How about a miserable one? Either way, we hope you're not bored. The whole point is to keep you going, isn't it? The more you laugh and cry, the better the city gets. Have you noticed yet? It's working. Some things are getting pretty colourful by now, so we really have to thank you a little.

Good thing it's a special time anyway. See, it's the first day of Spring, so for our little world of Yggdrasil, it's the beginning of a new year! Welcome to year 416 of the Last Era, everyone!

To celebrate, to get the year off on a good leg, and to thank you, we'll be allowing another little Q&A here. You can ask us whatever you want as long as you follow a few rules.

One, we don't have to answer repeat questions. We might, but if you're all asking us the same thing we aren't going to explain it over and over. That's boring, and I'm sure you're all perfectly intelligent enough to look at the answers we give other people.

Two, we don't have to answer stupid questions. Self-explanatory, right? If you're repeating a stupid question you're breaking two rules, so don't do that. You might end up regretting it.

Three, you're not entitled to answers we aren't ready to give you. If you can't handle hearing "no", we just won't argue with you.

Simple, right? Now for one last thing, here's a couple of questions you can answer for me, if you want to.

How would you like it if we socialized more? Would it make you more or less comfortable?

Also, what's the #1 thing you think this city is lacking?

Ready? Go.


[OOC NOTE: The mods will OOCly be following the gods' IC rules. This means that if your comment gets skipped we aren't mad at you, it's just that we are all people with limited time too. ;)

This is also the post that will trigger the proving a point plot. If your character was chosen (the list is below), they should comment here asking about their powers. If you don't have time to do so, you're welcome to handwave that they asked and it was ignored, but characters who didn't ask won't be punished. If you were chosen and changed your mind about participating at all, it's fine to just not do it (it doesn't have to be an exact 10 that die), but if you want us to find an alternate, PM us asap so we can do so.

Now for the 10 victims, we chose 5 with more mental powers and 5 with more physical, and tried to pull from the biggest variety of canons as possible. The characters chosen to die are as follows:

Dying from physical powers: Buffy Summers, Cheriour, Dante, Rin Okumura, & Ririchiyo Shirakiin

Dying from mental powers: Charles Xavier, Kainé, Rose Lalonde, Shiki Ryougi, & Sweden

Characters chosen can die anywhere from now til March 31. It honestly doesn't matter if it all happens in the next few hours or if they're all at once on March 31, so don't agonize too much over timing. Just have with it. Check the linked plot info for more details! :)]

[ regardless of whether you've seen Tsukiko or not, she's spent the past two days healing as much as she can and working to lend a hand all around Asgard. This includes spending far too much time outdoors and working rather relentlessly by the second day.

And if you were in Sigyn, you might have seen her finally sit down to catch her breath and conk out there, at which point, one (1) childhood friend had to carry her up to bed.

So here she is now towards the end of the day, face flushed from the onset of a fever-- from wearing herself out or from the cold, your guess is as good as hers. She's also looking incredibly groggy and disoriented. ]

H... huh? I thought I was downstairs... [and she's starting to lift a hand to rub her eyes and blinking when she... can't.

Namely because that hand is being held captive by Suzuya, who is also conked out, only he's using the side of her bed to lean against. Tsukiko continues to stare down at him for a minute, before her eyes soften. ]

Is this your way of telling me to stay put? Even asleep, you really act like a mom, Suzuya. [ and she has to giggle, though that shifts to a cough. Another minute, and she finally addresses Asgard at large. ]

I don't know how long I was out, but... what's the situation? Is everyone all right? I think I've slept enough that I can still use my healing--

[ and once again interrupted by one annoying cough. Yeah, she's not going anywhere else tonight. ]

[The feed starts up with Kiri grinning at it and looking really excited despite the whole monster attack outside. When he steps back a little, there's a good view of his room...and the floor is covered with tons of junk and miscellaneous items (like masks, weird looking animal dolls, and...carving knives?!). One might wonder how he managed to get his hands on all this stuff, especially the expensive-looking winter jacket he's wearing (with a ridiculous amount of white fur trim) and some white gloves to go with it. There's also smudges of what looks like charcoal and leftover pencil scratchings on his walls.]

Hey Tsuna, I figured out what my ability is! [Kiri looks incredibly proud of himself, it's practically beaming off him. Next, he steps to the side and gestures to his bed...which is piled with all kinds of winter clothes.]

If anyone else needs warmer clothes, I've made a ton already, so feel free to help yourselves. I wouldn't mind making more with exact measurements if none of them fit.

[But now his expression becomes more serious:] Just be really careful when you come pick them up. If you're too scared to go out, I can bring some to you. Those monsters walking around are really dangerous, so everyone's got to watch out for each other.

Uh.

[ so this starts off with the confused face of one (1) viking. the communicator bracelet? one thing. the... greyness? another thing. the gods? oh god what is this was this some divine... thing, for all he said before. did he do something wrong. he's hoping this is a dream but this is looking very, very unlikely.

all this thought processes to an awkward pause on camera. oh, right, he had this thing rolling. talking--words. what are words. ]

Uh, right! So everything I said about my hometown being grey? Yeah, I take that back. This is worse. This is-- [ rubbing his eyes ] --actually grey. On a scale of greyness, that's worse. Maximum greyness. A 10 out of 10, you might say.

This is kind of weird. Sitting here, talking to myself. Is anyone actually getting this? Was this some... you know, wild trick? Besides the whole kidnapping thing. I'm not sure which one is worse.

[ what is he even saying he doesn't know. another pause. ]

You know what, let's try that all again! I'm guessing we're all in the same situation here, so. Hi. I'm Hiccup. Nice to meet you... uh, people. People I don't know.

[ . . . wow this was a failure. a whisper of: ]

Laughter and tears. Iiii have a feeling I'm going to be doing a whole lot of that second thing.

[ before this shuts off. ]

[so it's another normal day in the sigyn house. sun is shining, birds are singing. wake up, try to go back to sleep only you can't because the birds are singing a little too loudly because they're buzzing right around your head. Video feed flicks on revealing a rather frazzled Tsuna who is doing his best to ignore the tiny yellow birds who are currently dive bombing his head, squeaking out odd phrases like 'GO MAKE FRIENDS' and 'TALK TO PEOPLE' and 'DON'T BE A HERMIT!!!'

He has bigger things to worry about. Such as the many valentines cards on his desk that seem to have angry messages written all over them. Thanks Enma]

So um. D-Do people normally celebrate Valentines like yesterday? I mean, instead of girls giving chocolates [ducking another divebombing bird and squawks himself, frantically waving them away] on Valentines and boys giving back on White Day? It was a bit different from what I'm normally used to, I guess.

[the screen suddenly fills up with feathers and Tsuna shrieks, snatching his bracelet off the desk as he runs out of the room] -OKAY! OKAY I'M GOING, I'M GOING, STOP DIVE BOMBING ME!!!

Anyway I guess that isn't really important but I heard there were a lot of new people arriving lately? W-welcome I guess and don't worry this sort of thing isn't nooooormaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal--

[and the feed finally clicks off]

[[ooc: Tsuna's been cursed by one of the gods for being a hermit and not interacting with people like he should ever since he decided to hole himself up in his room since the dragon attack. Don't mind the birdies that will be following him and attacking him until he makes some attempt at human interaction. Then they'll just disappear into thin air. Action for all of sigyn as Tsuna tries to shake off the birds. weeps what am I doing]]

[The first thing popping onto the screens will be two curious green eyes of a young woman with brunette hair, who is closely inspecting her bracelet.]

Hello? Can anyone hear me? [After a while, she’ll move away from the bracelet on her arm, smiling at whoever was watching the feed.] I don’t know how many of you can see this, but the maid explained how we can communicate with one another through these. It was hard to believe, at first. I’ve never seen anything like this before. [Raising her arm containing the bracelet, she will continue to admire the device.] They’re a pretty advanced world, aren’t they? The people living here, I mean. I think Cid would love to tinker a little with this. I’ll have to show it to him once we return home, it’ll definitely be useful for everyone to keep in touch. [Especially with the other members of the committee.]

[After realizing she was beginning to get off track, Aerith decided it was a good time to go straight to business before she continues to talk about everything and anything. But where should she begin? There was so much to ask in so little time. She wanted to get well-acquainted with this world because there must be something she can do to help.]

…a world without color. It’s difficult to take it all in after everything that’s happened. I always thought the Heartless were the only things to worry about, but... [Placing a worried fist over her heart.] Why did this world lose it’s color? I can’t help wonder if it has anything to do with the darkness affecting the world’s heart. [Then again, she hasn’t seen a hint of any Heartless or Nobodies anywhere. It’s a little strange.] Has anyone discovered anything yet? The maid didn’t explain further about our purpose other than to restore this world’s color. Any and all information will be great to hear. [And just as the worried look appeared, it will slowly melt away to another friendly smile.] I hope we can work together in solving this mystery. It’s going to be tough, but we should be able to restore this world if we all pitch in. [Yup, she isn’t too worry about reaching their goals because she’s already noticed the number of people in color.] I hope to hear from my Sigyn housemates as much as everyone else. Thank you for your time.

[And with that, the transmission will end.]

[Action | About 20 minutes into the attack up to post-dragon and onwards | Temporary Healing Station @ Folkvang Comfort House in Freya ]

['How did a perfectly normal, peaceful day get this bad?'

This was the very thought that crossed her mind, as she attended to yet another faceless civilian with her usual gentle ways -- and the powers bestowed upon her for her stay here, the power to Heal.]

Hold still. [she would say, as she shut her eyes, and eased the energies from within her to come forth and soothe the wounds of the civilian.]

[anytime during the attack, or even after the dragon has left, feel free to join right in with any characters that have already been following Keine to this location, or even those that would stumble in, bring any wounded, and along those lines.]

[Video | After the Dragon has left]

[when Keine does appear on the feed, she seems to be covered with just a bit of soot and dust -- if anything, an obvious speck of dirt can be seen at the side of her chin. Her expression is as neutral as can be, as she would say the following.]

Now that the dragon has left, I'd like to call for the help of any who are still able-bodied.

Once the fires still remaining have been put out, help us, by searching for any who are wounded, and quite possibly trapped in any buildings and houses, and bring them to either where I am, the temporary Healing Station at the Folkvang Comfort House, or the Hospital in Sigyn - whichever is closer, of course.

Keep alert, everyone. We can get through this together.

[a little smile to express her gratitude, before the feed cuts.]

[[ooc: do thread with each other on the post, other than just with Keine! The more the merrier! And it's nigh impossible for a smaller, inofficial establishment to deal with certain more serious wounds, so needing cooperation from multiple characters would likely be necessary!]]

...I wonder if they were telling the truth, about there being no way out...

[the feed feed flickers on and zooms in on someone's neck]

---Is this working? Oh, okay I think it's on

[the image moves up and Tsuna's face appears. He's a little battered, his uniform is kind of dirty and there's a huge bandage plastered over one cheek but overall, he looks fine. If incredibly nervous and worried. He's also very distressed but he's trying not to show how much it's bothering him that he's been dragged here. There are people counting on him back hom]

Uhm...hi! I'm Tsuna and s-sorry to bother everyone but I think I'm kind of lost.

[the feed spins around as Tsuna tries to figure out where he's suppose to go]

Can anyone help me? This is really confusing, I-I'm not even sure what we're suppose to do to bring colour to this world.

[all of this gray was seriously creepy]

Ah. I was also just wondering- Is there anyone else from Namimori here? I saw Kyoko-chan but if there's anyone else...

[he sighs and forces up a smile]

Thanks, anyway.

[and if anyone is hanging around the Sigyn district, you'll probably notice Tsuna with an odd orange bundle in his arms walking around in circles]