[New Gotham] - Manhattan // Hours Square

This would be the area where Times Square used to be, before the Cosmic Deity did things. It has been mostly rebuilt, serving a similar purpose for tourists, but aliens will find that it is a more hostile work environment, so the actual people that work in the businesses and offices around here are mostly human (or very badly paid aliens). While Times Square was loud and bright before, Hours Square has taken that spirit and taken it to a whole new level: floating, moving billboards are constantly flying around here advertising different products and events. Here people are just a few blocks away from most shows (from traditional Broadway musicals, rewritten to fit the modern context, to alien dance performances and music groups) and various restaurants.

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░░▒▒▓▓Ｉｔ  ｉｓ  ａ  ｍａｔｔｅｒ  ｏｆ  ｃｈｏｉｃｅ▓▓▒▒░░

⧱Jantzen Tretheway⧱
⧰Holder of the Oculus Futura⧰
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It is wise to look ahead. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .but difficult to look
further than you can see
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”Whoa…did we get lost or something…?” Jantzen asked his small monkey friend as he stopped at the curb of one of the streets lining Hours Square—this place was bright and busy and a lot more intimidating than whatever he’d been looking for. He looked at the piece of paper in his hand, which had been given to him by the employment agent. ”The address should be right around here…right…?” He looked around for a few minutes more until he stopped and thought for a moment, looking down at the paper, then looking back up again. ”…This address doesn’t even exist, does it?! Oh, come ON! Am I really that bad of an employee?! Seriously? I swear, I’m going to march right back to that--…which way was it again…?” He tried to look at his directions again to follow them back—but suddenly, a fast vehicle passed right by him as he stood on the sidewalk—blowing the paper out of his hands and down the street—and then down a sewer drain. ”……Oh.”

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An Offbeat Stroll - Time to Know

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⧱Jantzen Tretheway⧱
⧰Holder of the Oculus Futura⧰
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It is wise to look ahead. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .but difficult to look
further than you can see
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At first, as Jantzen kind of stood there dumbfounded at being both lost and directionless, Maniea's shoutng didn't really occur to him--up until the moment when he was suddenly hit with a vision behind his eyes of him being splattered on the side walk by a rampant motorcycle.
"Oh GOD, the blood is EVERYWHERE!" he exclaimed in horror at the third vision of his own imminent demise that he'd seen that day, quickly turning to look down the sidewalk where the ruckus was coming from--and lo and behold, there was the motorcycle--the same one he'd seen in his vision, with the same rider. He abruptly stumbled over to the edge of the sidewalk nearest to the storefronts, pressing himself up against a window to keep from being run over--thinking he was fine when Maniea kind of just passed him by--up until he noticed that Echo was gone. Apparently, the curious monkey, who hadn't actually seen a motorcycle before had taken it upon herself to leap over onto Maniea as she'd passed by. Jantzen looked around for a second--and then spotted Echo sitting on Maniea's shoulder as she continued driving. "Wh--h-hey! Don't monkeynap Echo--! Come back, wait, wait--! Motorcycle lady, hold up--!" He proceeded to kind of run after the motorcycle on foot--which clearly wasn't going to work, but he also was very emotionally attached to his monkey friend. So, he was kind of running after the motorcycle, vaulting over people who had fallen over and nearly tripping over his shoe laces--this was turning out to be a long day. He called out to Maniea as she rode away, trying to be loud enough to be heard over the engine as he ran after her, "I will pay you! Twenty bucks! To bring my monkey back! That's all I have right now! Oh, and a pack of gum, you can have that too! Just come back--!"

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An Offbeat Stroll - Time to Know

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After much though, Mr. Wednesday had decided to start here. Why? Well from here he could pretty much get to anywhere he wanted in Manhattan, and there tended to be a lot of illegals aliens working for cheap around these parts "Be looking for anything suspicious Nankis-dono..." The Orcinian spoke as he walked through the streets. Of course, he was garnering some bad looks from a few humans in the area, unlike most of New Gotham, this part of the city tended to be a little iffy towards aliens. And by iffy I meant totally racist. Wednesday didn't seem to care though, mostly because he lacked the skills to properly read human emotions. And because he was so focused on finding this alien that- oh look there was some lady driving on the sidewalk running people over. Wednesday couldn't really tell if that was suspicious or not... humans tended to be pretty crazy after all. Maybe driving on sidewalks was perfectly normal on Earth. Wednesday turned to Nankis and asked "Uh- is that strange Nankis-dono...?" he asked pointing towards the absolute carnage that was the masked rider. And now she had a monkey on her shoulder. That was fun. Anyways people were dying but Wednesday distinctively remembered that his job was to stop alien threats and this chick LOOKED human.

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＂ＷＡＴＡＨ！ Ｙｏｕ ａｒｅ ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｂｅｆｏｒｅ ｍｙ Ｆｉｓｈｍａｎ Ｋａｒａｔｅ！＂

Wednesday's Theme - Aggression & Victory

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░░▒▒▓▓Ｉｔ  ｉｓ  ａ  ｍａｔｔｅｒ  ｏｆ  ｃｈｏｉｃｅ▓▓▒▒░░

⧱Jantzen Tretheway⧱
⧰Holder of the Oculus Futura⧰
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It is wise to look ahead. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .but difficult to look
further than you can see
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Jantzen smiled and sighed in relief as Maniea began to backpedal, jogging over to her and stopping to catch his breath by her motorcycle. As she gave him her response, he gave a quiet chuckle and began to reply,
”Thank you for stopping…! Oh, and it’s—” But then suddenly they were being shot at quite aggressively. Jantzen looked over his shoulder in alarm, trying to tell whether these people were shooting at them or just shooting a gun for the heck of it—but before he really got to think into it much, suddenly, he had been pulled atop the motorcycle. He was dumbfounded for a moment before he realized he was atop a moving vehicle kind of just sprawled over it, and quickly shifted around, sort of clutching his arms around Maniea’s waist in terror, not wanting to fall off. Echo seemed to be enjoying herself just fine—apparently the monkey was happy for Maniea’s approval. ”Wh-Wh-Why are they shooting at us? Did we do something wrong?!” Jantzen exclaimed, practically holding on for dear life and having to squint his eyes even more than usual against the wind that was kind of battering his face as they drove, since he didn’t have a helmet, and didn’t dare to remove his arms from Maniea’s waist to put his goggles over his eyes. He kind of acknowledged the point a few seconds that this woman had kind of almost run down several people—but nobody had actually died, right? …Right?

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An Offbeat Stroll - Time to Know

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Wednesday just kind of stood there blankly looking into nothingness as Nankis blatantly admitted how crazy humans could be, and then dealt with a person that was a danger to the public by... being a danger to the public. The Orcinian struggled to find words to say to his partner, but generally speaking shooting a hyper dangerous laser gun in a crowded area was probably a bad idea "U-uh... Nankis-dono... I don't think this is a good idea-!" he tried to warn the human, usually he didn't do that because he knew how trigger happy his partner was. But in this case, they could probably get in trouble for that... the Orcinian attempted to find a way to stop the driver without shooting into a crowd... he looked over to a street sign and quickly came up with an idea. That idea being to tear the street sign from the earth and throw it towards the rider like a javelin! YES! That was totally a safer way to go then shooting!

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＂ＷＡＴＡＨ！ Ｙｏｕ ａｒｅ ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｂｅｆｏｒｅ ｍｙ Ｆｉｓｈｍａｎ Ｋａｒａｔｅ！＂

Wednesday's Theme - Aggression & Victory

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░░▒▒▓▓Ｉｔ  ｉｓ  ａ  ｍａｔｔｅｒ  ｏｆ  ｃｈｏｉｃｅ▓▓▒▒░░

⧱Jantzen Tretheway⧱
⧰Holder of the Oculus Futura⧰
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It is wise to look ahead. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .but difficult to look
further than you can see
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"Oh, what do they want--?! I'll never get a job with a criminal record--!" Jantzen bemoaned his situation quietly, looking over his shoulder and giving out a loud yelp of terror as he saw a javelin flying straight their way--however, before he could tell what was really happening, he was under Maniea's arm, and they weren't on the motorcycle anymore--they were mid-air. "We're--We're flying! ...We're flying?!" At this point, Jantzen finally opened his eyes more fully, the bright blue orbs glowing softly as he looked around. He knew that this was a dangerous situation--and if he got a vision in the middle of it, it might very well prolong how long he was going to be alive. He wasn't sure how they were flying and wasn't sure where the motorcycle had gone--but he knew that the one thing he would be able to know would be the future. Sort of. "I-I'll try to help when I can, but this is pretty crazy...! L-Let's just get out of here!"

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An Offbeat Stroll - Time to Know

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Wednesday seemed somewhat offended when he was called a savage by Nankis "There's nothing more savage and dishonorable than a gun Nankis-dono..." he replied rather seriously, however he didn't really have time to go into that conversation because Flying Polyps were flying into the air now. Oh well now it was quite obvious that she was an alien "She's in the air Nankis-dono!" Wednesday yelled, pointing up into the sky melodramatically. This meant no crowds, so obviously it was time to shoot again "USE YOUR GUN! QUICK BEFORE IT GETS AWAY!" he yelled, completely ignoring what he had said to Nankis only a few seconds ago. Obviously Wednesday had no real way of reaching that thing when it was so far away. If he had thrown something up it would have just fallen into the crowd bellow before reaching its target. Wednesday ran down the street to keep his eye on the thing, bumping into a hobo attempting to sell him a jar of fly eyes "Oh- sorry-" Wednesday apologized, bowing before continuing his chase.

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＂ＷＡＴＡＨ！ Ｙｏｕ ａｒｅ ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｂｅｆｏｒｅ ｍｙ Ｆｉｓｈｍａｎ Ｋａｒａｔｅ！＂

Wednesday's Theme - Aggression & Victory

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░░▒▒▓▓Ｉｔ  ｉｓ  ａ  ｍａｔｔｅｒ  ｏｆ  ｃｈｏｉｃｅ▓▓▒▒░░

⧱Jantzen Tretheway⧱
⧰Holder of the Oculus Futura⧰
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It is wise to look ahead. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .but difficult to look
further than you can see
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Jantzen, hearing more gunshots, looked back at their pursuers again--only to realize that the gun hadn't been fired yet--he'd heard the gunshot in his head, as an effect that came along with the vision that suddenly flew before his eyes. A vision that involved them getting shot and falling--which didn't bode well at all.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa--left--! F-Fly left! Leftleftleft--!" Jantzen shrieked in terror just before the real gunshots broke the air with their sound. Nankis had started firing, and visions were flashing before Jantzen's eyes now like a poorly edited movie, cutting in and out of each other. "Left, then up--!"

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An Offbeat Stroll - Time to Know

░░▒▒▓▓Ｉ  ａｍ  ｎｏｔ  ａ  ｓｕｂｊｅｃｔ▓▓▒▒░░



░░▒▒▓▓Ｉ  ａｍ  ａ  ｐｈｅｎｏｍｅｎｏｎ▓▓▒▒░░

⧱Sven Zeret⧱
⧰Showstopper⧰
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Outrun your past. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .chase your future
treasure your present
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Sven finally caught up with the others, having decided not to get his hope sup and think something actually useful was happening--and as he came to a stop by Serova and saw Schizophora, he let out a loud sigh and looked downwards, clearly upset as he let out a frustrated growl.
"You're fuckin' kidding me...Hey, bugbrain! You came here shouting about some kind of crazy power, and you run right PAST the gunfight to grab that--thing--?! Have you ever considered that you might be--I don't know--batshit crazy?! Show me ONE useful thing you can do with that goddamn eyeball jar, right now! Prove to me this wasn't a total waste of fucking time!" Apparently he wasn't planning on lowering his voice, despite the fact that Serova had made a very good point--he kind of hadn't realized that the gun people could very easily turn on them if they were too obviously an evil organization bent on world domination. Right now, he just needed to shout his anger out--as usual.

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A Stubborn Defiance - Until It Breaks

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Wednesday let out a sigh as Nankis began to talk about women and cows "Political correctness is a thing Nankis-dono-" he spoke in a passive-aggressive manner before Key Master bumped into him. The Orcinian simply bowed to the woman in response "No my mistake ma'am-" he told her "Please stay away though, this place is danger- ous..." Wednesday slowly froze up as he looked to the Wesclox and realized that she was standing aside... LORD SCHIZOPHORA. "I KNOW IT'S HIM! I KNOW! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG! I DON'T THINK HE APPRECIATES SCHEDULES NANKIS-DONO!!" he yelled before abruptly pulling out his nunchucks. He pointed out towards them, freeing himself from Nankis' grasp as he called them out "Hold it! We're Kalem Klub! You all are under arrest, understood yes!?" he stopped momentarily as Nankis called not-bug guy, to which he just let out a sigh and shook his head. Swinging his nunchaku, Wednesday called out to Secret Society once again "SURRENDER NOW!" it seems that he had forgotten about Maniea or Jantzen.

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＂ＷＡＴＡＨ！ Ｙｏｕ ａｒｅ ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｂｅｆｏｒｅ ｍｙ Ｆｉｓｈｍａｎ Ｋａｒａｔｅ！＂

Wednesday's Theme - Aggression & Victory

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░░▒▒▓▓Ｉｔ  ｉｓ  ａ  ｍａｔｔｅｒ  ｏｆ  ｃｈｏｉｃｅ▓▓▒▒░░

⧱Jantzen Tretheway⧱
⧰Holder of the Oculus Futura⧰
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It is wise to look ahead. . . . . . .  . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .but difficult to look
further than you can see
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Jantzen gulped as Maniea made a very good point about the fact that a criminal record wouldn't mean anything if he was dead--dead was definitely a thing that Jantzen didn't want to be. He kept his eyes open as they stayed airborne, hearing Maniea protest back at Wednesday when he referred to her as an 'it,' and spoke,
"They're trigger-happy and rude...! Where is law enforcement going these days...?" He sighed in relief as Maniea managed to dodge the volley of blasts from Nankis' gun--that was one more potential disaster averted. The increased crime rate and women stealing proclaimed from Manny a moment later didn't seem to quite reach his mind, as he was very focused on staring straight ahead, awaiting any other potential visions that might come their way--until he did catch one, murmuring, "Ah--they're going to fight..." And just then, the two suited men began shouting at Schizophora. Jantzen didn't recognize the bug man, but what he did recognize was that at least the big whale man was distracted now--however, that didn't solve their being shot at by the other one problems. He noticed Maniea repeatedly looking back at the scene they were rapidly leaving behind, and went ahead and asked her, "Did you drop something back there--?"

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