first order of business.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, this may seem sudden, but how would you like to take up your sword and forge a new future for Japan?

Comments

[misskittyclaws.livejournal.com]

Sorry bucko, but Japan is a radioactive wasteland now. Or so I've heard. Plus, I appear to have left my sword at home.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

...ah, might I ask from when in Japan you came?

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

Sword. Forge. That's funny. Anyway, I don't think Japan exists anymore as a nation, based on what I've heard. I don't have a sword either, so I can't join the party.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

..."When"?

Ten-something years after the invasion, probably.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, it can be a metaphor if you need it to be. A sword is a bonus, not required.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

...What.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

Invasion...would you be referring to the Black Ships? Are you from the Bakumatsu?

[misskittyclaws.livejournal.com]

Didn't the nice men in the white coats explain things to you?

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

I thought all that about nuclear wasteland and repopulation was some kind of really awkward metaphor!

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Black ships? I suppose some of them were black, but...

...Why, are you?

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

What exactly did you have in mind, kid? Form a new Japanese nation?

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

I come from after the Bakumatsu, in the tenth year of Meiji.

There are other Japanese here, but most of them seem to be from a much later time! It is something of a relief to meet someone from more similar circumstances here, I must say.

[misskittyclaws.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's not.

I probably should have said that the Japan on this world is a radioactive wasteland. Your Japan should be back in your reality exactly as you left it. At least, that's how I'm guessing it works.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

I'm not a kid, I'm Katsura! And my original plan was to rid Japan of the invaders that plague her skies and reform our nation, but now that I've been re-informed that this is not Japan, that Japan no longer exists, and that none of this is a really, really stupid virtual reality video game I was forced into in the hopes of making some spare cash... I'll have to think about it and get back to you.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

It's true, Japan is gone.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Well, then I need to get back as quickly as possible.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

The bakufu fell?

[misskittyclaws.livejournal.com]

"Possible" seems to be the biggest issue with that. The official word is it isn't.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

You can't be serious. What kind of idiot builds a transportation device that isn't backwards-compatible?

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

...Not a man with sunglasses and a really annoying laugh, right?

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

Yes, it did.

[hostbu]

DO I!!

[misskittyclaws.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the kind of idiot who built this one. And can't say I've met anyone like that here, no.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

So I've quickly become aware.

I don't suppose that there's a way to reverse the effects of the radiation?

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Well, at least there's some good news to be had here.