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Not every town is abandoned, as time continues its shenanigans. This one is as run down as any other, cobbled together with parts and debris, but it seems intact enough, its plant dangling over the town, people going about their business for the most part unperturbed.

For the most part. There is some grumbling, most of it more nervous than angry, that their new neighbor is a well known monster, and how dangerous it is to be so close. The only reassurance, nothing bad has happened yet.

Yet.

Sitting in the rocking chair of his newly acquired home's creaky porch, Knives Millions does absolutely nothing to any of them. He hasn't harmed anyone as yet, but part of the town seems to be from his time, not whatever base timeline it is, and running on reputation alone means he's so far been unbothered in return, and the plant is being treated with exceptional care. Had she been, before he arrived? He wasn't sure. But he can tell from here her mood was content, so he does nothing besides sit there, rocking idly, and cleaning the gun he'd liberated from someone else several days before.

A beat up jeeplike vehicle sits in the shade behind the house, and there is a tiny, perhaps six or so inches high, little sprout of broad leafed green growing determinedly by the porch. With the door wide open, it's fairly obvious this home had once been occupied with people distinctly Not Knives, but there's no signs of violence.

It's peaceful enough for the moment.
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[ he's been awake since before the sun rose and the labors of his training are littered across the desolate landscape in the shape of sliced and diced rocks, old cans, and whatever metal or bits of wood nai could get his hands on. he hadn't wandered too far from the makeshift camp rem had set up, but he didn't want to be too close either.

after all, he needed the space to practice without worry of accidentally hurting her - or anyone - as he practiced using his blades. he was still unsteady in controlling them past the length of his arm, but if he wanted the precision control his perfectionism demanded, then he knew no amount of training was wasted.

now, he stood in front of a tall rock formation. he knew from the top he'd be gifted with the sight of everything spread out in all directions. he wants to see everything.

he just needed to scale it without falling and injuring himself in any way. simple enough.

his progress climbing up is slow as he tries to keep his grip from slipping, nails digging into the rock where he finds purchase. with any luck, he'll make it to the top without any issue. ]
nurturing: (the showers on the earth)
[ A small podunk town outside of Lost July now houses a small science station, cobbled together by pieces from an escape pod. Rem has been busy cataloguing everything she's managed to put together about both NoMan's Land and this glitch in it so far. Her data pad is overfilled with information, including some pre-downloaded survival tips for hot climates.

It means she's not longer horribly sunburnt, at least.

A radio dish and a messy attempt at a solar panel has been somewhat haphazardly attached to the roof of the house she's taken over, but there hasn't been enough parts to finish them so neither of them have been working right so far. The radio sends signals, but the receiver doesn't work. She keeps trying, though, and the adult Vash she met had been helping her set everything up so that she could live there.

Right now she can be found outside of the house, shaking out blankets and hanging them over a line. Vash had left to find more provisions, and she wanted the other bedroom to be clean when he came back. It's very domestic, and she's singing softly to herself. ]


Sooo... on the first celestial evening, a pebble from somewhere out of nowhere drops upon the dreaming world~♪

[ Rem has held it together fairly well so far, but she can't deny the nightmares and the rush of grief that falls over her in the times she's alone in the house, scarred to the bone by the catastrophe she barely escaped. All the dead in the crash, and all the suffering on this planet. ]

Sooo... on the second celestial evening, all the children of the pebble held hands and composed a waltz~♪

[ Rem shakes out another blanket - a smaller one this time, perfectly sized for a child. She needs to get that radio working so that she can try to contact other settlements and see if anyone has seen small versions of her twins. While she met an adult Vash, she's worried that this timeline mess also means that her little twins are around. ]

Sooo... on the third celestial evening, the children's waltz spawned rippling waves across the waking world~♪

[ Then there was Nai. She still hasn't found him, not even an adult version, and she's not stupid - she knows what he did now, but he's her boy, and she needs to know more. She needs to understand why, and she's not ready to hear that something happened to him. She can barely stand the well-hidden (but still obvious to her) sadness in Vash's eyes. ]

Sooo... on the fourth celestial evening, the waves showered the ground upon which every child wandered~♪

[ She shakes out clothes this time, her ship uniform changed to some salvaged clothes and a hooded cloak that protects her from the sun. ]

Sooo... on the fifth celestial evening, the showers on the earth became its beacon of existence~♪
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Time is ... strange.

Alba Scutum had been abandoned long ago, when their plant was taken. The world's since moved on, the population not big enough anymore to sustain little pop-up towns forgotten and worn down by sand and time.

It was, as far as Delphinium was concerned, nearly a perfect location. Nearly. She'd been careful, since arriving and figuring out more or less what was going on. Through her network of sparse connections to her kin, she'd gathered those willing to take a chance at a life away from the safety of the cities, and migrated, taking those hardy people with her. Only two dozen or so, but it's enough for a start. Enough to move what remained of Alba Scutum to the coast of the Great Sand Sea and begin again. With so few people, one Plant is plenty. It took a while to move the stone and supplies from Alba Scutum closer to the coast.

And then the rumors began. A new port for sand steamers, though it could only take one at a time, because it was a little port at best.

With things to trade that such a tiny town couldn't possibly sustain with just one Plant. And wilder yet, vegetation. Actual vegetation, protected ferociously by the townsfolk, spiny and rubbery leaved and not particularly friendly looking, but green and alive in an otherwise empty desert. They'll sell seeds and seedlings, for the right price. But don't demand too much, or the entire steamer will be turned away.

It's called White Shield now, squatting at the base of a steep-walled canyon to protect it from the wind and make steamer arrivals easier to dock and unload. Easy to see from a distance by sand steamer by the pair of still under construction windmills up on the cliffs to either side of the canyon. The town is still small, but it has an inn and a bar, a little general store, white-stoned buildings and a well-sheltered squatty kind of tower with a single small Plant bulb that surely must have an excellent view, wires and cables trailing down through the rest of town. And scrubby tenacious desert plants tucked all around buildings, rocks and sheltered places, covered in spines and determinedly growing. At night, one or two species even flower, the scent clean and fresh and entirely foreign to this planet. It lures worms in like little else, glowing sparks in the night. They too, are determinedly growing.

Like the town itself.

Had it even been there a few days ago? It looks like it must have been there for months.
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Spoilers for the Trigun Maximum Manga; Spoiler-free Introduction Prompt after the Cut. )


[Wherever your character was, whatever they were doing, when the rifts in reality opened, they will have found themselves rocked by a massive earthquake that lastes a few short seconds before settling with a loud crack, like thunder. While no damage will be left in its wake, the characters themselves will realize that though the planet appears to be the same, it will quickly become evident that they are in an alternate reality of the place they call home. Are they standing in the rubble of a once-destroyed city now remade whole? Is the bar they had been taking refuge in suddenly gone, leaving them tumbling to the sand with nothing but their drink in their hand? And what of the friends that had been standing by their side seconds before? This is where your stories begin.]

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