View source for 2974/What's Your Plan Emi Hoshino

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|Date of Scene=2026/03/13
|Location=Plot Room 1
|Synopsis=Emi tells Mamoru that she has concepts of a plan.
|Cast of Characters=176,38
|Tinyplot=The Nightmare Nexus
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>Mamoru, whatever he's doing, has his phone light up with a text from Emi Hoshino.<br><br> Emi: Hey.<br>Emi: You got time to talk?<br>Emi: I've got a plan but I wanna bring you in on it rather than drop it on you at the big meet up I'm gonna call.<br>Emi: Aoi says hi btw<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>Mamoru is currently being zen in his ballpit.<br><br>At least until his phone lights up.<br><br>Mamoru: sure also hi aoi<br>Mamoru: where to<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>Emi: Uh. Aoi and I can come by maybe? Or we can go get some breakfast or something.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>Mamoru: cat cafe, im home and it's downstairs and they are used to my weird conversations<br>Mamoru: unless aoi is allergic then we can get brk<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>Emi: sure cat cafe works. Aoi says she likes cats too so we'll go there see you soon.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>Mamoru: check<br><br>So when they get there, it's relatively quiet. The cats are as there as ever but a bunch of them are lazing around or napping instead of playing-- it's just there aren't that many people. Mamoru's already at his corner table with coffee: he's got 'I ran a hand through it' hair that's just had a haircut, and he's in a t-shirt and jeans and his leather jacket and combat boots. He waves.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>Aoi follows Emi in and immediately is distracted by kitties. KITTIES.<br><br>She stoops and starts squeeing over a little black cat that rubs against her happily. "aren't you just the cutest little bad luck charm," she chirps. <br><br>"Reow!" agrees the cat.<br><br> Emi drops into a chair in front of Mamoru and looks exhausted.<br><br>"So," she begins, "I've got a -plan-."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>"Blek ket is GOOD luck. See? Him face? I see him, I not dead today! Is good luck!" Mamoru mangles the quote, laughing, waving for Aoi to come sit down too. "Luna's a little void cat with a moon on her forehead, if you see her say hi, she talks."<br><br>He sips his coffee and eyes Emi. "I'm... am I glad? Or should I be worried?"<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>"Is she an alien too? I thought I was supposed to kick those and run," says Aoi. Did she just assume Kyubes and Luna are the same kind of thing? Yes. But why wouldn't she?<br><br>Emi isn't too familiar with Luna herself so she just sort of nods along, then says, "Yes," to Mamoru's question. So both. <br><br>"...Hinoiri took me to KiraKiraFantastica --"<br><br>"I can't believe that's a real name," interjects Aoi as he comes over to sit down. <br><br>"..and I met with Runa so she could help me out with my little 'my actual dreamscape is broken' problem. I got a diagnosis, and we workshopped a solve but I don't like it, and it's going to need your help."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>Mamoru blinks at Aoi. "Just the white one with pink markings and gold rings around its ear hand things. Not all magical talking animals or space aliens are evil," he tells her honestly. Then, "I can't believe it either, and I've been there too."<br><br>But Emi's ... oh, Emi has a diagnosis, and Mamoru's not going to like the solution? He sighs. "I have a few guesses, and all of them piss off my significant others and my guard even more than I don't like them. Let's hear it."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>"Yeaaaaah," says Emi with a sigh.<br><br>"I need to try to dream. And then you need to dream your way into my dreamscape -- with friends, because it won't be easy, and then I need you to help reattach my personal dreamscape to the -actual- dreamscape. So, when the big guy --" <br><br> "Subsy, right?" asks Aoi.<br><br>"Yeah, that's him," replies Emi before continuing, "She likes hearing about all this stuff because she's afraid she's going to forget it all if I don't talk to her about it. Anyway, Subsy blasted his way out of my dreamscape, and when he did, he did some serious psychic damage to me. I have what could be called ... a sort of psychic scar tissue that's interfering with my ability to dream and to access the dreamscape. And that means dealing with whatever that looks like. Given that we're talking about my subconscious here, it's likely to get extremely weird, confusing, abstract, and dangerous, like it or not."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>"Honestly what's normal when it comes to the subconscious?" Mamoru asks wryly, setting his coffee down. He puts his elbows on the table and props his head on one hand. He glances at Aoi and his eyes twinkle. "Aoi-chan, you should talk to Amy-chan, the red-haired girl wearing all red? She has copies of a thousand years of an alternate universe's magical history on her tablet."<br><br>Then he tilts his head to look back at Emi and listens, and then he nods. "As long as it's not something we're not doing alone," he says, "it should work out fine. How do I get to your dreamscape specifically?" He swallows. "Will I be uh working with KenKen."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>"Wait, seriously?" says Aoi, "That's a thing that can also happen?"<br><br>Aoi buries her face in her hands. "Oh, this is all too weird."<br><br>Emi makes a face. <br><br>"...yeah. So that's the question. I don't know, exactly, so it's gonna have to be something we figure out together. As for KenKen, she's not sure she can help even if she's -part- of me. We're basically gonna have to travel deeper in somehow and I'm not really sure yet. But it's fine, everything is fine, we'll get there."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>"Yeah, I met future me. I felt very young," the high-schooler says, very youngly and peacefully, as he picks up his coffee again and sips, then gulps because it's the perfect temperature now. "And isn't there a meme about going deeper? Anyway that's fine, yeah, everything's fine." Mamoru laughs. "We sound like Naru-chan now. Anyway-- I like this plan a lot more than Entrapta's plan, which deliberately put me as bait."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>"Awesome," remarks Emi of Mamoru being bait. <br><br> "We're probably gonna need a stack of roses. Maybe you can bring me to your little dreamplace and then I can try to sleep there, in the dream. That sounds like a place to start anyway. I'm not gonna be of any help once this starts so... good luck. Ha. Haha."<br><br>Aoi looks quizzical for a moment.<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>"...oh, right," says Mamoru, putting his coffee down and taking his glasses off to rub his face. "So we're going to be guessing the whole way, too. But yeah, that's a good start. And I can do lots of roses." He glances to Aoi. "The roses are for breaking out of dream traps by opening doors to my dreamscape. You just have to remember to use them."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:176|Emi Hoshino (176)}} has posed:'''<br>"...oh," says Aoi, pretending she understands that at all. "That makes sense," she agrees, giving a bow of her head.<br><br>Emi agrees, "It sure does," she tells Aoi, rubbing her eyes. <br><br> "And yeah. You're going to be guessing. The best part is that it's likely going to be a manifestation of all the stuff that was in my dreamscape when it got blasted, recombined into fun, hideous, and abstract ways that I can scarcely imagine. Anyway, I should order some breakfast or something..."<br> <br>

:'''{{#var:38|Mamoru Chiba (38)}} has posed:'''<br>Mamoru just crosses his arms and puts his head down on them, on the table, because what can he possibly say.<br> <br>
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