A Picture's Worth

Who: Ash, Pukamon; YOU! (OPEN)
When: Thursday August 25th; evening
Where: Desert, Server continent, digital world
What: Real world city kid meets the digital world outback, and perhaps other Chosen/Tamers. Did I mention he's never been to the digital world before? Because he's never been to the digital world before.

( bla bla bla Melbourne )


( There's a tall white kid and a Pukamon yelling at each other in Australian accented English in the middle of the desert. WHAT NOW? )

Who: Pukamon and Tailmon
When: February 7th (backdated)
Where: Shiokaze Park, Odaiba
Summary: Digimon hanging out in the real world. Now illustrated!

( Who needs their partners to hang out with them? )

Who: Ash, Pukamon; Ash's managers, random Disney cast members and guests
When: January 5th 2011 (the most epic backdate of all)
Where: Epcot, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
What: Pukamon wants Ash's Disney benefits!

( This is so long, for reals. )

Who: Ash, Pukamon, Maria, and Leormon; briefly NPCing Ash's buddy
When: Sunday August 15th, evening (the most epic backdate evar)
Where: Central Park and beyond, New York City
What: On a road trip up the Eastern Coast, Ash and Pukamon get shown around the Big Apple by a local and meet some Chosen for the first time in America.

( tl;dr )

Who: Anyone in Japan!
What: Shopping
Where: Some random shopping mall in Tokyo - unspecified ward so you don't have to try and justify your character being there :)

If there was anything Ash found harder than saying no to his girls, it was shopping for them. Or shopping for anyone but himself, really. It didn't help that his brain insisted on converting every pricetag into Australian dollars, wondering if things would be cheaper at home.

As a distration from his own instinctive arithmetic, Ash flopped onto a bench and looked at his shopping list. The Japanese half of the list would hopefully be easy enough, as he was fobbing them off on Kenzie and Katia, but on the Australian side, he'd so far only managed to get Pukamon out of the way, buying his partner the rather tongue-in-cheek gift of a Tamagotchi. That left his parents, his sisters, Katia, Tegan, and possibly Wallace. He had a rough idea of what to get most of them, now he just had to find them.

Ash checked the list again. Kenzie had requested a yukata, but apparently you shouldn't buy them just going off measurements, and he didn't know any girls in Japan her size. He was enlisting Meg-neechan's help to buy Katia some silk, and his host parents' help to get his parents' presents. So unless another visit to the toy store gave him some genius ideas on what to get Nic and Dani, that really only left Tegan's present. She'd asked for Death Note yaoi doujinshi, and he'd naïvely agreed before finding out what exactly yaoi was. Now, on the way to K-Books, he was beginning to have third thoughts (the second thoughts having hit him when Tsubasa-kun had blushed and told him what yaoi entailed).

He stopped in front of the bookstore, tossing up whether to go inside or to just tell Tegan that you could only get doujinshi at conventions and he'd managed to not go to any. After getting bumped into and probably sworn at by three people, he moved off the main walkway, but continued to simply stare at the bookstore...

(OOC: Come shopping! Even in the likely event that Ash has never met you!)

Who: Ash and Ryo and a few NPCs including various bar folk, a transvestite, and Ash's host sister
What: Meeting under unsavory circumstances
Where: A gaijin magnet bar in Shinjuku ni-chome
When: Friday night, November 2nd

In retrospective, Ash should have figured out what kind of scene Shinjuku Ni-chome was when he noticed there were too many guys around. But while he was a fairly visual person, he never thought that much about what anything meant, just what it looked like; and as soon as he'd started to wonder, Meg-neechan had shoved her sake cup into his hand, declaring it a sign of friendship, and he'd been reduced to wondering where the hell she'd gotten her fake ID instead.

God, he was drunk. After the sake there had been the Asahi Super Dry and the Orion Southern Star and the...the...the kanji on the bottles were starting to blur together. He'd decided a while ago that getting drunk was probably the best way to cope with guys hitting on him and his host sister thinking he was gay, and this stuff was stronger than the Carlton Draught he leaned towards at home. (This logic would make a lot less sense once he sobered up, but damn it had been a while since he'd had a drink.) He couldn't exactly leave, either - he didn't know how to get home on the train and didn't have enough money for a cab, and if he got picked up by the police, he could be deported! What a stupid way to finish the exchange.

Tsubasa, damn him, was asleep at this time of night, and he was never very good at the 'pretending to txt to avoid eye contact' thing. So that kind of left his digivice as a potential plaything. Maybe he could pretend it was a Tamagotchi?

( Ash is stupid on foreign public transport. )