first harvest. video. saturday afternoon.

[bluemikan]

[ This seems like it's working now. Nojiko is already out of the New Feather dress, having managed to get directions to the Welcome Center, where she got a run-down of what was going on. That took most of the morning. The rest of the morning was spent finding her clothing, changing, and then sitting at a corner table in the bakery reading through the entirety of the new arrival guide.

She also had breakfast. A muffin. It was a blessedly normal muffin.

The breakfast was the only remotely normal part of the morning. Now that she feels educated (although...skeptical and still trying to hold all of this information in), it looks like it's time to attempt using the journal, as was suggested to her earlier. She's still at her little table in the bakery, the journal held open in front of her. ]

Hello. [ just getting that greeting out of the way, before plunging onward. ] So, I understand that this is a way of talking to people here. [ The guide explained that, and she's sort of been checking out the last two or three entries, just figuring out how it works. ] And I'm also given to understand that there are people here from many worlds?

I'm not asking for that explanation again. I'm just not sure how I'm meant to find anyone from my own world. [ ...Or if she wants to. It's not like being from her world automatically makes someone excellent company or someone she wants anything to do with. But. ] How do you know if you're from this world or that one? If there were a list of possibilities, I guess I might have a chance of picking home out.

So I suppose I'm really just asking to be found. [ Dry laughter. Well, she's taken care of everything else, so...of course, there might not be anyone else. That had been covered, too. ] If you know Cocoyasi Village or the Conomi Islands, I'd be grateful for a quick word. [ Presumably anyone familiar with geography from home would be from home, right?

A pause. Wow, she forgot something important, didn't she? ] My name is Nojiko, by the way. Thanks. [ Okay she'll just end that there, then, and see what's what. ]

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[video]

[hiken_ace]

[... oh hello there. Well, maybe if he's nice, he'll get more than a name from her.] I've never stopped at Cocoyashi before, but I've heard of it. I take it that means we're from the same world.

[video]

[bluemikan]

[ Well, that was a lot easier than she'd expected. He doesn't look familiar, though. Not in more than an "the face looks vaguely familiar but I can't think why" way; she'd never paid much attention to bounties outside of the Strawhats, okay. ]

Unless the geography on other worlds is pretty much exactly the same.

I didn't get your name...?

[video]

[hiken_ace]

[That gets a small chuckle out of him.] Somehow, I doubt it.

Portgas D. Ace. It's nice to meet you, Nojiko.

[Voice]

[justicereigns]

You're from the East Blue? There's quite a few of us from there.

[Nojiko... Where's he heard that name again? Cocoyasi Village... Nami's, right?]

[Voice]

[bluemikan]

Yep. I run the mikan groves just outside of Cocoyasi.

[ Have a few more hints, man. ]

I've got a few names from Ace. Who am I talking to right now?

[Voice]

[justicereigns]

Smoker.

I'm from Loguetown. Used to be Captain there. [He doesn't want to point out her bad timing what with Nami having just gone home, so whatever. He'll ask about news from home instead.] What's the recent buzz from the newsgulls back home?

action;

[gleamed]

[Rapunzel spies the girl in the bakery from behind the counter in between her baking frenzies. She's definitely never seen her before...and she has blue hair! It's remarkable, and Rapunzel more or less eavesdrops on her while she speaks to the journal. Sooooo she's new, huh? That explains a lot!

She tiptoes over a moment after she finishes speaking to the journal.]

Hello! How's the muffin? Do you like it?

action;

[bluemikan]

[ Rapunzel, such a hair fangirl, really.

Nojiko didn't notice the eavesdropping, and she looks up with a smile; the muffin is mostly gone by this point, although there's a small portion left. She'd been eating it as she read the guide. ]

Hey there. And it's good, thank you; I couldn't have done better myself. You made it?

action;

[gleamed]

[She grins, beaming at the compliment.]

Yes, I did! My own recipe, too. I'm glad you liked it!

video;

[etudes]

Cocoyasi Village, the Conomi Islands.. [ she hums for a moment, as if she's thinking to herself about whether she recognizes the names or not. ]

I don't know. Is that somewhere in the Pacific, maybe..?

video;

[bluemikan]

It's in East Blue. I've never heard of the Pacific...?

[etudes]

[ she responds, but when she does, it's almost as if she's repeating something like a machine-- except it's just repeating something from memory that she's read before.. ]

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to Antarctica in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east. At 165.25 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World Ocean covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined.

[Action]

[hollower]

[The bakery is not vacant today, though the occupant sitting by her lonesome seems highly disinterested in her plate. No, Perona's dessert and tea had gone untouched for a good half hour or more, while she leaned her head one one had and gazed out the window. She wasn't exactly looking at or for anything in particular, and her mind was blank save for reminiscing about the news she heard of Zoro's death, and it definitely shows. She has no inclination to move or touch her food. Really, the only reason she's here today and now was because it was habit. Her body moved without thinking.

And here she is, with no appetite and no real desire to be out in public. She'd have preferred to just sulk where she can't be bothered. Oh well.]

[Action]

[bluemikan]

[ It isn't hard to notice that the girl one table over isn't in the best of moods - or that she isn't really entirely there, clearly lost in thought. It doesn't seem to be a good sort of distraction, though, and Nojiko has seen that sort of expression before; she feels required to gather up her journal and the remains of her muffin and go over to the other table, sliding into the other chair quietly.

Someone with that sort of expression badly needs a distraction, by her estimation. ]

Hi. New here? [ That...could explain the distraction, but that's probably not the case. ]

[Video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Well that sounds vaguely familiar... was that somewhere in the north blue maybe?

[He may be a pirate, and an ex-captain at that, but that doesn't mean he's a geography specialist... or a memory adept skeleton.]

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[bluemikan]

[ what the fuck is that ]

[Video] 2/2

[bluemikan]

[ why is a skeleton acting all -

well apparently it's a skeleton that has at least passing knowledge of her world? ]

...East Blue, actually.

[ staaaaaaaaaare ]

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

I'm not sure about those islands, but they sound familiar. What ocean are they in?

[Video]

[bluemikan]

East Blue. [ If that helps at all. ]

[Voice]

[inkdrops]

[Cocoyashi... Yes, she's heard of it. It's not her world, but she's heard of it from the one who grew up there. And hearing of such a place brings a bit of a bittersweet taste to Miyabi's mouth. The news of Nami going home is still young, and it's still a bit painful around the edges. Which may be why her tone is a bit dim when she speaks up.]

I've heard of Cocoyashi.

[Voice]

[bluemikan]

[ Ah. The little girl doesn't sound pleased about knowing it... ]

Have you? Are we from the same world, then? [ Or is there another reason for that tone? ]

[voice]

[alabastajewel]

[Vivi's first impulse when she sees the entry is to laugh. Not with genuine humor, oh no, but a flat, almost bitter laugh, because are you kidding me, Luceti?]

[The way the woman looks is her first hint; Nami had some pictures of herself and Nojiko as children with Bellemere. Still, Vivi doesn't think too much of it until the woman mentions Cocoyashi. Then she gives her name, and there's absolutely no doubt. Nami's just gone home, and Luceti has seen fit to bring her sister here instead. Which brings us to the laughter.]

[It's not long-lived, at least. After the initial burst, Vivi has no trouble composing herself, and then she answers:]

Nojiko-san? Hello. This may be a little hard to believe, but I know your sister. Nami-san. She...she's not here any longer.

[voice]

[bluemikan]

[ Just missed her. That's still a little disappointing, in a vague way; Nojiko's been used to the idea of not seeing her younger sister for long stretches of time since they were children and Nami joined Arlong's crew. After she left that crew she'd joined another, and what news Nojiko got came in the form of official bounties.

She misses Nami, of course, but Nojiko's used to that.

The voice is female, and she does know the name of another crew member she'd never met, so Nojiko hazards a guess. ]

Would this be Nico Robin?

[voice]

[toujoursfluer]

Nami has left, unfortunately. She has a mikan grove, however, north east of town.

[She would have liked to see you here... or then again...perhaps not. Not in this place]

[voice]

[bluemikan]

[ Oh, that's the first she's heard of the grove. And this time she guesses correctly: ]

Nico Robin?