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Togusa

This is Togusa. Feel free to message me at any time.

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[standalonehuman]

Sure thing!

[standalonehuman]

Okay, so are you all STILL okay? What do you mean you haven't eaten all week!

[standalonehuman]

This one I'm going to need to follow up on. Halliday?

[standalonehuman]

................

....Pics?

[standalonehuman]

Is Souji heartbroken he is not a cat?

[standalonehuman]

[Togusa can't muster up a response to this one, though, because he is just laughing and laughing. Thanks for that mental image.]

COAGULATING ALL THE THREADS

[frisyr]

Did you just get all these? Juzo is fine now he's not a bear anymore, Souji's not a fox. I've got pictures though. We did eat, the food turned us into animals, we got stuck in unreality because of a storm and this sphinx named Surina saved us but couldn't bring us directly to her so we went through all these obstacles? We finally met her in space and she brought us home!

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[standalonehuman]

Yeah! I promise I wasn't ignoring you, for some reason nothing went through until now. Retrospec said you were 'offline' until just now.

We need to work through this one thing at a time. Firstly, though, pics? You have no idea how much I need Juzo blackmail.

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[frisyr]

ok when are you free because it's going to be really annoying to send these all one at a time

bring a laptop!!

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[standalonehuman]

[YESSSSS]

You're out at the University, right? City's back to normal, so my favorite coffee shop over there is no longer smashed by one of those birds.

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[frisyr]

No but it's pretty close, I'll come by. I need coffee anyway... See you there

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[standalonehuman]

It's the next afternoon when Togusa is ready to meet. He's waiting in the shop in civilian clothes, and that's actually a tea in front of him for once, he's been running on nothing but caffeine for nearly a month now. His heart needs a break.

But he did totally bring a laptop. He raises a hand in a wave when he sees Emil.

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[frisyr]

Hey Togusa!

I really need a coffee, let's go grab a spot. Mm, I think they made morning buns today, I can smell them!!

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[standalonehuman]

"Emil," the kid always manages to put a smile on Togusa's face (maybe especially when Togusa is giving him a hard time.) Togusa raises the green tea and grabs a comfortable spot, because they're going to be there a while. Doesn't feel bad at all for grabbing one of the couches.

When Emil is back with his order, Togusa nods firmly at him. "First off, how are you doing? Where did you guys even end up?"

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[frisyr]

"Okay, it was totally crazy," he says, taking a bite of his pastry and getting sugar everywhere. "We wound up in a really old doctor's office at first, and everything was like a puzzle to get anywhere? There was a skeleton, like a real one, he'd been murdered, we found his resume and everything, and then there was a pit of skeleton hands that a few of the group fell onto? But then we were stuck in a waiting room once we got out, and they said the doctor would see us now?

"So we wandered into this laboratory and there was an operation room and a bunch of creatures kind of like... a harpy I guess? And she said that there was a mad doctor who was trying to put animals and humans together, and we found some food, and that's when Juzo and Souji turned into animals, and we had to get out before the doctor found us?

"So then we finished doing what we needed to do to activate the rocketship, and we wound up on a space station with Surina, she's a sphinx, and there were these biomes where she stuck pieces of robot, because I guess they needed to be there? And it was easier to send us all in to get them, so she could build us a robot to send us home in."

He takes a breath.

"And that was all!"

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[standalonehuman]

[He needs a minute on this one.]

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[standalonehuman]

Togusa very slowly brings a hand up and runs it over his face to try to diminish some of the feeling of being overwhelmed. "All right. And I thought our adventure was nuts."

"Space? No. We can't start there." He holds up a hand and shakes his head. No. Hang on. Go about this in a systematic way, Togusa.

"You got sent to a doctor's office? That's where you all started out? First off, who was 'we. You sent me a list..." Maybe he can find it in his texts.

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[frisyr]

"Yeah, yeah it was me and Kaiba and Lucy and Penelope and Dave and Juzo and Souji and Carmen and Yato and Elizabeth and Shouto," he says. "We all got kinda pulled into this dark room and we found a door and led us to this doctor's office? But it was really old, like. Not a room, like it had a bolted-down desk and x-rays, like a doctor's study? I guess? A den? I'm not sure what you call this, but it belonged to a guy named Halliday, and he turned out to be the skeleton!"

Togusa of all the people to tell you this story you had to go with Emil.

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[standalonehuman]

Togusa is undoubtedly going to ask Juzo for clarification later, but getting the first story out of Emil was the most entertaining life choice he could have made.

"Halliday," Togusa points at Emil. "You sent me a text about that name. Tell me about him." He pulls his laptop closer and gets ready to take down notes. "You said, memory research?" Anything he can to do help jog Emil's memory, he will.

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[frisyr]

"Um, yeah! We lost all the documents but he was doing memory research or something and-- Surina said we had fallen into unreality, like we were reality? And we had fallen out, and she caught us, there was a storm or something, like a glitch in the matrix? And then things didn't go well for Halliday, he tried to experiment on himself for the memories thing? And he was killed by Dr. Vanderwaale or Vanderwelle or Vandersomething, I don't know, guy was creepy, I think he gave Halliday a bad ... what's the word for brain surgery? Where they take out your brain?

"Yeah, I think it was like that. He wanted to give himself superpowers or something. I guess that's why he went to Vanderwaller."

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[standalonehuman]

Togusa tries not to frown, but, of course they lost all the documents, everyone lost opposable thumbs. Not their fault.

"So. Surina, this- sphinx, you said? She's someone who could sense the same things that Retrospec was talking about. And she saved you and everybody by putting you where you were?" Let's start there before he goes back to what happened to Halliday.

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[frisyr]

"Okay. So... Surina called us champions and she said that she had one true champion, and mentioned that she monitors over us? And that we sort of live in a reality or something and we got pulled into unreality by accident, and she had to place us back? So she built us a mecha and we had to fight this gross organic-looking ship thing and there was a dead guy on board, and he had something in his hand and we put it in the computer? And it said something like...

"The worlds were destroyed and there was a project put together that if there was a shred of memories left they could rebuild slowly into reality I guess? And it was called the Recollé project....

"So I guess it happened in Recollé, that's pretty important, right!"

[ OoC: I'm not sure if we finished the fight and got to the dead guy and the memory stick but ONCE WE bACKTAG IT... ]

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[standalonehuman]

[OOC: No worries!]

Togusa has to think for a second and take that all in. "Very important. Thank you. No, really, that's way better than anything we found."

A long pause, but he has to go back to something that is relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, and maybe it's dumb but "I saw the giant robot, though. What in the world? I mean, good job making the rest of us jealous."

"I got to go see these amazing crystal caves, though!" Togusa can pull up the pictures on his computer, "The pictures came out even better!" He has the pictures all right, but they all came out looking like abstract paintings, rather than real photos.

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[frisyr]

"Whoa," Emil says, breathlessly as he checks out Togusa's photos. "What was there?" He pushes his hair behind his ear to get a better look. He's got a lot more to tell Togusa, but... for now. Distracted by the pretty...!

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[standalonehuman]

"It was incredible! I think- this was really the first time I was willing to admit that maybe these are other possibilities of reality that Retrospec was showing us?" It was beautiful, but not quite in an unearthly way.

He flips to a picture of a masssive green tree, growing straight out of the rock. Then a field of white flowers that look like they are made out of incredibly delicate crystal. "The first areas were just, it's hard to explain, removing some kind of corruption? Things that weren't supposed to be growing there, bringing these plants back to a healthy state. John. Ah, I was with John Becket, if you've met him? Turned out he's experienced with plants, so I just followed his lead."