Summaries! No, really!
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petroniaCurrently 100 pages into Mirage 14 and quietly dying. I'd explain but I'm still having a Laurell K. Hamilton-esque argument with myself over what technicalities feasibly disqualify sex from being "real" sex. ...It's a better pain than what the Wadatsumi Arc gave, though, I have to say. XD;;
Chapters 1-2 here.
Chapter three (she narrates drily) begins with the aftermath of one of Naoe's pick-ups, as he takes his leave of the hotel room and the lovely lady therein amid mutual compliments made all the more effusive by their awareness that they will never see each other again. [My akogare in melodramatic BL is precisely this type of secondary female character - "Givenchy, slim waistline," says Naoe - she gets the best deal IMO. The innocent sweet girlfriend types get steamrolled or kidnapped or raped, but the worldly woman with her cigarettes and Gucci handbag gets Sex - and the City - and on occasion the opportunity to ironise at the main m/m couple for being silly angsters on top of it.] What she says about his voice... this and other comments later on, and one realises why it's inevitable Hayami Sho got roped into the role.
Naoe gets down to the parking lot to find Ayako leaning against his car, armed with a fistful of snark and the latest in their investigation. After she finishes chewing him out for sleeping around ("Not that I'm worried about your health, but if you don't sleep and run yourself into the ground your spiritual powers weaken." HA HA THE IRONY IT BURNS), she gives him the run-down. As follows:
Two weeks ago, in early April, a collision occurred in Osaka Bay between a small cruiser and a commercial shipping vessel. The cruiser sank, but the crew were all wearing life jackets. After they were rescued they insisted that a) there was a dense fog that made visibility nil, even though the weather report showed no such thing; b) they kept to their set course by compass, even though the analysis showed they must have wandered off considerably for the collision to have occurred; and c) while in the fog they were surrounded by a WWII-era military fleet that glowed faintly as if with its own light. The passenger who made the statement - one Aida-san - had lived in Kure (an important WWII naval base) all his life, was old enough to have had an uncle in the Imperial Navy and to have seen pretty much every class of battleship deployed in the Pacific with his own eyes, and a rigorous teetotaller. XD What he couldn't identify was the boxy wooden ship that was sailing there as well.
Ten days later another collision occurred off the coast of Hiroshima. Same story, except this time there were casualties. After that mysterious lights began appearing on the surface of Osaka Bay at night, visible from a distance, like flames dancing on the waves. What drew Naoe and Ayako's attention was their location: close to the Kizugawa estuary where the Mouri (at the time allied with the Pure Landers whom Nobunaga had besieged) fought and won a pitched naval battle against the Oda. It was that battle that prompted Nobunaga to rebuild his fleet with metal plating and... no, trust me, this information is important, take it down, there will be a quiz. XD Naoe and Ayako had made an appointment with Aida-san to get his story first hand, and found him a reliable witness. Naoe got him to identify the wooden ship as well, by showing him pictures. It was one of Nobunaga's two-storey iron-plated monsters. Naoe and Ayako decided the ships were probably a form of tsukumogami, which made me blink until I thought about it some more and was like, well, in a certain sense that is what a ghost ship is, isn't it? A manmade object turned sentient and unfriendly through abandonment? XD Just a very large one.
The day after that, mysterious ferry passenger disappearances start making the news. People would get on a ferry commuting daily from - say - Hiroshima to Etajima; a fog comes out of nowhere, the harbour loses radio contact with the ferry, it never gets into port, and eventually they find it floating in the middle of the ocean, completely devoid of passengers or crew. Naoe and Ayako, alarmed, decide that Ayako would stay to investigate the lights in Osaka Bay, and Naoe would head for Hiroshima to investigate the ferries.
Naoe meets up with one of the "nokizaru" investigators in Hiroshima, who tells him about an odd rumour: the battleship Yamato has been sighted off the coast where it was sunk a good fifty years previous. [Lord love Wikipedia. Read the article, the information is also important, I'm just too lazy to retype. =_=] He also informs Naoe that the leader of the nokizaru, Hakkai [no, not the Saiyuki character, dammit] is in town and would like to aid Naoe in his investigation. This is unusual because Hakkai normally doesn't budge a finger without Kagetora's direct orders.
Naoe and the nokizaru take the ferry to Kure. In the process of getting onto said ferry they learn that a) they're being followed, b) the sea is simmering with reiki, and c) Naoe's spiritual sense is so alarmingly dull at the moment he can't pick up on a) or b) at all. In fact, as he stands on deck in the sea wind moping over how his power loss is almost certainly due to his exhaustion with Kagetora who is EATING HIM FROM THE INSIDE OUT LIKE A METASTASIZED CANCER IN ITS TERMINAL STAGES etc., none other than Kousaka Danjou comes up right behind without him noticing. XD;;
[Too tired, will continue this tomorrow. Kousaka snarking and pirates and... things...]
Meanwhile, Takaya and Chiaki are leisurely making their way down to Hiroshima by train under the guise of their school trip, trying to discuss Yami Sengoku sotto voce while Morino Saori waves a box of Pretz in their faces and berates them for not playing Uno with her. Of course, then Chiaki stands up and is like YO MIGHTY CHIAKI WILL KICK YOUR ASS WHAT'S THE MATTER OUGI TAISHOU SCARED OF MY CARD DEALING SKILL0RZ? ...It's the least of Takaya's headaches in this arc, I have to say, but a sign of things to come.
Chapters 1-2 here.
Chapter three (she narrates drily) begins with the aftermath of one of Naoe's pick-ups, as he takes his leave of the hotel room and the lovely lady therein amid mutual compliments made all the more effusive by their awareness that they will never see each other again. [My akogare in melodramatic BL is precisely this type of secondary female character - "Givenchy, slim waistline," says Naoe - she gets the best deal IMO. The innocent sweet girlfriend types get steamrolled or kidnapped or raped, but the worldly woman with her cigarettes and Gucci handbag gets Sex - and the City - and on occasion the opportunity to ironise at the main m/m couple for being silly angsters on top of it.] What she says about his voice... this and other comments later on, and one realises why it's inevitable Hayami Sho got roped into the role.
Naoe gets down to the parking lot to find Ayako leaning against his car, armed with a fistful of snark and the latest in their investigation. After she finishes chewing him out for sleeping around ("Not that I'm worried about your health, but if you don't sleep and run yourself into the ground your spiritual powers weaken." HA HA THE IRONY IT BURNS), she gives him the run-down. As follows:
Two weeks ago, in early April, a collision occurred in Osaka Bay between a small cruiser and a commercial shipping vessel. The cruiser sank, but the crew were all wearing life jackets. After they were rescued they insisted that a) there was a dense fog that made visibility nil, even though the weather report showed no such thing; b) they kept to their set course by compass, even though the analysis showed they must have wandered off considerably for the collision to have occurred; and c) while in the fog they were surrounded by a WWII-era military fleet that glowed faintly as if with its own light. The passenger who made the statement - one Aida-san - had lived in Kure (an important WWII naval base) all his life, was old enough to have had an uncle in the Imperial Navy and to have seen pretty much every class of battleship deployed in the Pacific with his own eyes, and a rigorous teetotaller. XD What he couldn't identify was the boxy wooden ship that was sailing there as well.
Ten days later another collision occurred off the coast of Hiroshima. Same story, except this time there were casualties. After that mysterious lights began appearing on the surface of Osaka Bay at night, visible from a distance, like flames dancing on the waves. What drew Naoe and Ayako's attention was their location: close to the Kizugawa estuary where the Mouri (at the time allied with the Pure Landers whom Nobunaga had besieged) fought and won a pitched naval battle against the Oda. It was that battle that prompted Nobunaga to rebuild his fleet with metal plating and... no, trust me, this information is important, take it down, there will be a quiz. XD Naoe and Ayako had made an appointment with Aida-san to get his story first hand, and found him a reliable witness. Naoe got him to identify the wooden ship as well, by showing him pictures. It was one of Nobunaga's two-storey iron-plated monsters. Naoe and Ayako decided the ships were probably a form of tsukumogami, which made me blink until I thought about it some more and was like, well, in a certain sense that is what a ghost ship is, isn't it? A manmade object turned sentient and unfriendly through abandonment? XD Just a very large one.
The day after that, mysterious ferry passenger disappearances start making the news. People would get on a ferry commuting daily from - say - Hiroshima to Etajima; a fog comes out of nowhere, the harbour loses radio contact with the ferry, it never gets into port, and eventually they find it floating in the middle of the ocean, completely devoid of passengers or crew. Naoe and Ayako, alarmed, decide that Ayako would stay to investigate the lights in Osaka Bay, and Naoe would head for Hiroshima to investigate the ferries.
Naoe meets up with one of the "nokizaru" investigators in Hiroshima, who tells him about an odd rumour: the battleship Yamato has been sighted off the coast where it was sunk a good fifty years previous. [Lord love Wikipedia. Read the article, the information is also important, I'm just too lazy to retype. =_=] He also informs Naoe that the leader of the nokizaru, Hakkai [no, not the Saiyuki character, dammit] is in town and would like to aid Naoe in his investigation. This is unusual because Hakkai normally doesn't budge a finger without Kagetora's direct orders.
Naoe and the nokizaru take the ferry to Kure. In the process of getting onto said ferry they learn that a) they're being followed, b) the sea is simmering with reiki, and c) Naoe's spiritual sense is so alarmingly dull at the moment he can't pick up on a) or b) at all. In fact, as he stands on deck in the sea wind moping over how his power loss is almost certainly due to his exhaustion with Kagetora who is EATING HIM FROM THE INSIDE OUT LIKE A METASTASIZED CANCER IN ITS TERMINAL STAGES etc., none other than Kousaka Danjou comes up right behind without him noticing. XD;;
[Too tired, will continue this tomorrow. Kousaka snarking and pirates and... things...]
Meanwhile, Takaya and Chiaki are leisurely making their way down to Hiroshima by train under the guise of their school trip, trying to discuss Yami Sengoku sotto voce while Morino Saori waves a box of Pretz in their faces and berates them for not playing Uno with her. Of course, then Chiaki stands up and is like YO MIGHTY CHIAKI WILL KICK YOUR ASS WHAT'S THE MATTER OUGI TAISHOU SCARED OF MY CARD DEALING SKILL0RZ? ...It's the least of Takaya's headaches in this arc, I have to say, but a sign of things to come.
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Date: 2005-04-02 07:52 am (UTC)Am bogged down in formfilling currently, but am rushing to get to 13 and 14 so I can understand what you are laughing about and CHIBI BUNNY DOUJINSHI mitaaai. =x
Thank you!
Date: 2005-04-02 12:04 pm (UTC)Sarah ^^
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Date: 2005-04-02 04:44 pm (UTC)Since I'm not 20 years younger? Thank god for those of you who do get the language... so I can know what's happening through you gals summaries.
I'm curious about what the pick-up woman at the beginning might have said about Naoe's voice, though :)