1st blog -- 「 ｎｏ ｎｅｗｓ ｉｓ ｇｏｏｄ ｎｅｗｓ」

[helperidese]

[ A young man comes out of a meditative position on his bed as he turns on the feed. He looks a little nervous, but who wouldn't be? ]

I don't know who can hear this, but... please, if someone can tell me how to get home... It's very important that I get back to Sternbild as soon as possible!

[ Keeping it simple is probably best. There's

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[hatestoswim]

[She kind of hates doing this sort of thing. You know, telling someone that they're trapped in this place -- not her favorite activity. But at least she'll be honest and not give them false hope. That was a good thing, right?! So have a very small girl glaring at the camera, poking at her own dark x on her cheek. ]

I've never heard of where you're from. Probably some fantasy world like the others.

[Scoff.]

It's exactly like what that guy said. Your mark is because you haven't h-had .. You haven't done anything since you got here! It's just .. it's dark .. like mine .. [Well, that's kind of weird.] It won't go away until you ...

You know.

video; sob, eighty question marks later...

[helperidese]

A fantasy world? There are people here who aren't from Earth?

[ So what if his version of earth has superpowers

Almost unconsciously, he pokes at his own mark again, not quite mirroring her actions. Sudden embarrassment, go! ]

Th-That's what it means? So everyone can see when you haven't...?

video; sob so sorry

[hatestoswim]

[Um, short answer - yes. There are lots of people not from Earth, or from different parts of Earth. Which is weird, you know! Or at least, to Taiga.

She'd totally freak, she's a normal school girl back home. :|]

Tch. Yes.

That's exactly what it means.

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[helperidese]

[ He'll be able to come to terms with this different worlds thing soon enough -- it's not like his life is completely normal -- but the sex part, that's harder to digest. ]

This is the only thing that happens when you don't do it?

[ NEXT powers are limited sometimes, so it stands to reason that if the people responsible for this place are also NEXT, maybe they can only threaten with physical marks...?

Who does he think he's kidding? There has to be a catch. It can't be as simple as a tattoo that does nothing. ]

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[hatestoswim]

[ Interestingly enough, she's having the same amount of trouble with the whole "sex" thing. ]

No. It's not just that...

[Sorry, she's got even more bad news. and the people here, they probably don't have any sort of powers that he's used to. The physical marks are just so everyone knows that you haven't been doing the experiment!]

Sometimes, if the local people see you .. they'll curse you. And those don't go away until you.. do it.