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Because all our characters are the modern reincarnates of the characters we know and love, you need a modern mundane AU! Post your character with a couple details about who they are now. Use a prompt to set the scene! And tag around.

->Stranding Shower Inclement weather has suddenly forced you to take shelter. There's someone else under this overhang or bus stop - this might take a while, so you might as well get to know them.

->Mafia Menace Armed thugs with catlike mutations are attacking someone to tell them to stay out of the metaplot! This will end well!

->Cliffside Calamity Vegas has turned into a city atop a mountain. Things are somehow intact, but now the front door to something you have to get in or out of overlooks a sheer drop.

->Superhuman Sighting You have an interest in seeing one of the numbered - is that one there?

->Superhuman Surprise You felt hollow for a moment, and now you're numbered! Suddenly you're that much closer to canon and manifesting a mutation, a power, or a strange memory! Probably in public!

->Wild Card Combine prompts or pick something less alliterative! Monsters! Cultists! Boring days at the mall!

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Khordeshkhistriakhor | Tales of Kolmar

[akhorishaan]

[I tried this guy out back here. Why not try again!]

The gym where Virgil did his laps was inaccessible now, but the rising of the mountain had also led to great flooding and a huge new lake. One problem solved by something else, and now he wouldn't have to pay gym membership! No one stopped him from swimming here.

But today as he shucked his shirt he noticed some discomfort in his navel and under his fingernails. Prying at both with a pin, he dug out thin dirty slivers of gold from his nails, a kind of minute coronet from out of his stomach.

[seed_of_memory]

[since the upheaval, Fuyuka had been investigating the area around the mountain. And she came upon this scene, causing her eyes to widen in surprise. What was this man doing to himself...?]

Sir?! What... what are you doing? Is something wrong?

[akhorishaan]

Oh! Oh, I was just... lint, you know, sorry.

[With how he startles and looks around frantically, and shoves the gleaming metal into the pocket of his swim trunks, that is the Least Suspicious Delivery Ever.]

[seed_of_memory]

... Lint.

[that seems reasonable. She sighs and walks closer]

You do know it's dangerous out here, don't you?

[akhorishaan]

Y-yeah, lint. My shower stopped working and the supervisor won't answer his phone, and it's been a few days...

[In Akhor's canon, dragons automatically change the dirt they sleep on into gold. So when Virgil goes to sleep when not completely clean...]

Um. Sorry? I don't think anything's happened in like a week, it looks fine.

[seed_of_memory]

Yes, well, a lot of this has been severely unexplored since the upheaval. Considering all the murders and everything else that's been appearing, it's wise to show caution.

[she came closer, the light of her flashlight causing the gold in his hands to glint]

... I thought you said that was lint.

[akhorishaan]

It's... it is lint. [There are traces of gold in around his toenails too, and in the empty holes where his earrings would go. Virgil's too confused to make a good excuse.] Or something in the water.

[seed_of_memory]

That is not lint.

[Fuyuka makes a face. She's starting to figure this out]

Sir, are you a numbered?

[akhorishaan]

It's totally lint! I... I wear gold lamay sometimes, okay?

[denialll! he's kinda dim but he doesn't wanna be numbered.]

[seed_of_memory]

[she adjusts her flashlight]

Then, pray tell, what is it doing in your ears?

[akhorishaan]

[He winces at the light.]

-It is? Uh. No, no, I've got earrings, they're cool.

[seed_of_memory]

[Fuyuka sighs]

Sir, please. You don't need to continue this charade. I won't compromise your privacy further, if you would prefer. I am not trying to make this difficult for you.