Season Paradox: Pregame Assembly

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

"Hmm, a mysterious one you are, alwel, maybe I shouldn't of left my home" *Smirks*

[John Dark Souls]

*Wine casually ditches Roy that seems to be sound asleep and approaches the group at the bench*
"Hello to you too. Everyone calls me Wine so please do so as well. How about it guys, willing to share an interesting story or 2 in the name of our glorious meeting here? Without doubt, being a swordsman at this time and age must have earned quite a few tales to tell, no? What about you too, Nagato? You seemed to be looking for Library so I take it you read a lot of books, right? Any interesting stories from those you are willing to share?"

[Ravan]

"I'm interested too, I want to learn more about the outside world other than just what I've read in books. My story seems to have been kinda depressing too, so maybe a happier one?"

[Hereiss Aelori]

"I can see we have some rather interesting students, and perhaps teachers, this year. Everyone seems so friendly. Then perhaps I will tell all of you about this particularly intriguing phenomenon called rift energy."

"This brings me back to my earlier speculation regarding chimeras. Rift energy is able to link conceptual entities into the physical world, it's what enabled the creation of the chimeras on the asteroid laboratory I mentioned. Of course, I've only heard about this from some of the others here. The trio that works in the basement seems to be using it as the basis for their research, however absurd it sounds."

"Well then, carry on with introductions and such. I must remind the principal that the speech shouldn't last longer than six hours."

-Darius walks off-

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

After seeing the man in red hair approach and ask for conversation, Tsurugi gladly took this as an opportunity to speak with everyone about his past.

"Ah, yes. I've been in all kinds of duels. One that stuck out to me the most had to do with this young lad from London. His father was very successful and bought his son a gateway to the finals. It must've been a shame for him when I took his son down in three moves. However, the father annoyed me because his son had so much potential that got taken away from him. That's why I've taken a respite from fencing for now, so I can focus more on the academic world."

After listening to the Language Arts Teacher say something about rift energy, Tsurugi felt intrigued and wanted to learn more about it from someone else.

[Giorno Giovanna]

-Raidou flourishes his cape, revealing his summoning tubes,pistol and blade.-

"Hoy!  I've had a few adventures in my day, I've seen and fought a few deities too.  But I fear those tales would take too long to tell."

"Instead I'll tell you a secret, you see my name isn't actually Raidou.  You see Raidou Kuzunoha is actually a title, one passed down ever since Demons began residing in our world.  I am the fourteenth in a long line of Devil Summoners tasked to protect The Capital from destruction."  

"Oh I might have forgotten to mention, I'm not from... Here per say.  I belong in another universe, you see we Kuzunoha have access to a... well, how would you put it?  A trans-universal superhighway?  I must have miscalculated and ended up here somehow, and I can't seem to get back.  But this universe is interesting, one thing I'd like to know though.  What year is it?"

[Touwa Nemu [Hitomi]]

-looks up to see the red haired man Wine-

"Stories?"

"It's not the act of reading I like, any other medium would suffice, it's the content. I enjoy statistics, and data is necessary for Bayesian probability to be used. I suppose I lack in that area, which is why I read."

-realizes that wasn't actually a story-

"Well, as for why I'm here, my "parents" forced me to attend school. I thought I'd seem out of place but..."

-glances at Raspberry, Snake, Corvo and Kamui-

"That doesn't seem to be an issue."

[Ravan]

"I... I knew I might have looked out of place here, but... is it that bad?"

-Stares pleadingly at the others for an answer-

[John Dark Souls]

"Ho hoo... So Darius did indeed have a continuation to that story. But believe me my friends when I say that story of his is yet to be over, no, my storyteller's soul is 100% sure of that. The guy is building up interest while waiting for more people to introduce themselves and join in on his story-time building up the interest for it. Yeah, that should be the case. He is quite a story-teller himself!"

*Raidou's words seemed to have lighted a blazing fire inside of Wine's eyes, he almost shouts out while spreading his arms in overly exaggerated fashion and strangely without being loud enough to interrupt principal's speech*
"Everyone, just look around at all of us here! We are all such a combination of uniqueness and personality! We all have trod different paths until now but we have all arrived at the same place at this school assembly! And our friend Raidou here even mentions himself being from a different universe! Now what if per chance, all of us here came from different worlds, realms, dimensions, universes, etc?! Doesn't that make you all the more so excited about the stories we might share! If any of us per chance might go to their homelands afterwards and then share our tales with other people, they might even live on in hearts of people from other universes! Come on! I know you have more and more interesting and amazing tales to share with me and each other!"

[Ravan]

"I just went through the Dragon's Gate personally, it's a mystery to many over in my land, but... evidently I popped up over here. You might be right with that different assortment of... well, a lot of things when it comes to us. I wonder if this land is a place where people from other places congregate? It'd make sense, with our rather colourful group. I wonder why that is..."

[Heihoukon [Tsurugi]]

Wine's words impacted Tsurugi greatly. He knew that he had never seen Raidou before arriving at this school. If Raidou really was from an alternate universe, it would explain why they never would have met.
However, Tsurugi also reflected on his studies, which delved into matters of probability theory, similar to what Nagato was talking about, which made him believe the likelihood of Wine's theory being correct was less likely than winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning twice all in the same day. But for some reason, the way that Wine carried himself in his speech was very well done, which stuck out significantly to Tsurugi.

"I'd sooner buy the fact that only Raidou traveled here from another universe than believe all of us did the same. I don't recall seeing any of you before, but that doesn't mean I'm from another universe! I mean, haven't at least some of you guys met each other before all this?"

[Giorno Giovanna]

-Raidou stares deeply into Wine's eyes-
"So, what year is it exactly?"

[Slaine Troyard]

Wine's passionate display might have went unnoticed by the Principal - who was clearly engrossed in giving his incredible speech of a life time by the look of things -  but it did wake up the military-dressed teenager sat on a nearby chair--who awoke to the sight of a man staring passionately into Wine's eyes. A very disturbing awakening indeed. To be Slaine was to suffer.

 "From different universes?" He asked, weighing every individual with a cautious, almost submissive gaze. A sigh passed his lips. "Does the name Vers sound familiar to anyone?"

[John Dark Souls]

*Wine looks back into Raidou's eyes and replies*
"2017? Yeah, that should be the year."

*Wine looks away o the teenager in military uniform and replies to him next*
"Hmmmmm... I think the meaning of vers that I know isn't quite the meaning that you know. And is certainly not a meaning that should be put into words out loud in this kind of place, yeah.

[Giorno Giovanna]

"86 years, oh man Raidou...  What have you gotten yourself into."

-He slides down the wall until he hits the ground, where his sits with crossed legs-

"So um, would someone mind explaining to me what happened in the past 86 years?"