Sakasa's Journal!

The Limitless Fortress is of disused, condemned buildings that have, through chance or design, clustered together to form a self-contained habitat. Many smaller buildings surround its ground level, serving as the entrance to the fortress, while the core is formed of one especially tall tower only to have construction abandoned mid-way. The remains came to be populated by beings from all walks of life, including one of the men responsible for its construction. The Fortress was soon subdivided into three specific tiers– Lower Town, the Beltline and the enigmatic Babylon City.



// This role-play is by no means parallel to the manga or anime storylines;
this Limitless Fortress role-play is an Alternate Universe! //
Lower Town is self-explanatory. It is the lowest portion of the fortress, with several layers extending below ground level. Accounts state various numbers from thousands to millions of societies lost their privileges to homes or businesses, those who have come to Limitless Fortress because they have nowhere else to go. Consequently, with many clashing independent personalities populating it, Lower Town proves to be a chaotic place – a situation not improved by constant attacks from the inhabitants of the middle level, the Beltline, whose monstrous, murderous inhabitants terrorize Lower Town. From the mayhem, gangs emerge to bring some semblance of control.

The Beltline is the ‘waistline’, the middle level and the most dangerous area of the Limitless Fortress, the citizens of the Beltline are said to be immortal and imperishable, and they 'will rise back from the dead every time they are attacked'. Every single person from the Beltline has a hideous death-like appearance and a frightening strength, many question if anyone from the Beltline are even human at all. A unique feature of the Beltline is that the area is relatively unstable. This is where suicides are often committed. Human bones and corpses litter its very floor and every step you take will most likely lead you to a death trap.

Babylon City is the highest floor no resident from Lower Town or the Beltline has seen. Rumor has it that anyone in Lower Town are all subject to the controlling whims of the mysterious entity known as the “Gods of the Limitless Fortress,” whom dwells within the highest level of the fortress, Babylon City, and controls all that goes on within it. The “Gods of the Limitless Fortress” are mostly made up of powerful individuals, scientists, engineers, artists, politicians, patrons, and super-normal beings - which created the Limitless Fortress as an experimental site where any infinite number of ideas that could be conceived and tested!


// Pertains to Existing Characters, but not limited to… //
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// Pertains to Original Characters, but not limited to… //
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// The test of warping time and space begins here… //
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The Limitless Fortress is of disused, condemned buildings that have, through chance or design, clustered together to form a self-contained habitat. Many smaller buildings surround its ground level, serving as the entrance to the fortress, while the core is formed of one especially tall tower only to have construction abandoned mid-way. The remains came to be populated by beings from all walks of life, including one of the men responsible for its construction. The Fortress was soon subdivided into three specific tiers– Lower Town, the Beltline and the enigmatic Babylon City.



// This role-play is by no means parallel to the manga or anime storylines;
this Limitless Fortress role-play is an Alternate Universe! //

Lower Town is self-explanatory. It is the lowest portion of the fortress, with several layers extending below ground level. Accounts state various numbers from thousands to millions of societies lost their privileges to homes or businesses, those who have come to Limitless Fortress because they have nowhere else to go. Consequently, with many clashing independent personalities populating it, Lower Town proves to be a chaotic place – a situation not improved by constant attacks from the inhabitants of the middle level, the Beltline, whose monstrous, murderous inhabitants terrorize Lower Town. From the mayhem, gangs emerge to bring some semblance of control.

The Beltline is the ‘waistline’, the middle level and the most dangerous area of the Limitless Fortress, the citizens of the Beltline are said to be immortal and imperishable, and they 'will rise back from the dead every time they are attacked'. Every single person from the Beltline has a hideous death-like appearance and a frightening strength, many question if anyone from the Beltline are even human at all. A unique feature of the Beltline is that the area is relatively unstable. This is where suicides are often committed. Human bones and corpses litter its very floor and every step you take will most likely lead you to a death trap.

Babylon City is the highest floor no resident from Lower Town or the Beltline has seen. Rumor has it that anyone in Lower Town are all subject to the controlling whims of the mysterious entity known as the “Gods of the Limitless Fortress,” whom dwells within the highest level of the fortress, Babylon City, and controls all that goes on within it. The “Gods of the Limitless Fortress” are mostly made up of powerful individuals, scientists, engineers, artists, politicians, patrons, and super-normal beings - which created the Limitless Fortress as an experimental site where any infinite number of ideas that could be conceived and tested!


// Pertains to Existing Characters, but not limited to… //
One experiment done, which to this day is the most secret, is cross-dimensional experimentation. The scientists pull individuals from their respective homes and forcefully reprogram the minds of those they abduct, by implanting a highly advanced computer chip in the part of the brain that preserves memories. These chips will ‘feed’ artificial memories to its host and at the same time suppress the identity of the individual from themselves, while others maybe subjected to amnesia. The computer chips have multiple purposes, not only supplementing one’s memories. They are also linked to the much rumored ‘brain trust’, the artificial intelligence of Babylon City. The brain trust is a super computer, calculating the vast number of possibilities that help aid the “Gods of The Limitless Fortress” in securing their plans. The computer also keeps track of an individual’s progress and whereabouts throughout the fortress with these said brain implants. While, at the same time, constantly flooding the entirety of the fortress with bizarre electromagnetic waves- these waves subtly manipulate and control the electrical brain impulses of the fortress’s inhabitants, thereby warping their perceptions of reality.


// Pertains to Original Characters, but not limited to… //
The second experiment, though not entirely discovered, but certainly bound to be, is the fact that individuals are and will be and/or were experimented on. This will be enforced by the rule supplied by Character Inactivity where the character(s) disappeared due to being captured and have forcefully under gone an experimentation – the patients mind once again wiped clean – after coming close to discovering the truth. The discovery of truth can pertain to the recovery of an individual’s identity, or the truth of the limitless fortress’s true existence or recent plans. Perhaps, the said individual’s and their bodies are modified in order to best suit a plot line, body modification maybe limited to being given an extra quirk added to a limb, or given special powers, maybe cloned, or forcefully placed in a regime in Babylon for ‘reformatting’ in order to control the person’s mind, which sends the individual into a crazed pandemonium of rampant killing, or perhaps something much more worse. This is where everyone is welcome to be creative. It is unclear what it is that the scientists of the limitless fortress hope to gain from their experiments, but it is clear that their test subjects at this point are humans and the study of the human mind.


// The test of warping time and space begins here… //
The so called “Gods of the Limitless Fortress” are testing their fabrication in manipulating time and space, by taking one individual and sticking them into a virtual reality realm and warping time by either slowing it, or speeding it up. In this case, if and when an individual is caught up in a virtual reality realm, it may turn out to be a day for the ones trapped in the realm itself, while the outside world of this realm may not be affected at all, so days or weeks, to even a month may pass by without any knowledge of it. In other words, to put it simply, while everything else on the outside of this fabricated ‘world’ is current to date, their existence has been slowed. This may also apply to warping individuals movements in order to delay their actions, during a fight or just in general. The weave of this spell is limited to the Beltline, or the confined space in which the test subject maybe trapped and limited to. The confined space is called ‘dimensional pockets’ that consist of everything the test subject is familiar with, from family to friends, to things that had made of the time and place they are from. If and when these pockets break, so does the reality of their realm, therefore revealing that their world may or may not have existed at all.

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The Limitless Fortress is of disused, condemned buildings that have, through chance or design, clustered together to form a self-contained habitat. Many smaller buildings surround its ground level, serving as the entrance to the fortress, while the core is formed of one especially tall tower only to have construction abandoned mid-way. The remains came to be populated by beings from all walks of life, including one of the men responsible for its construction. The Fortress was soon subdivided into three specific tiers– Lower Town, the Beltline and the enigmatic Babylon City.



// This role-play is by no means parallel to the manga or anime storylines;
this Limitless Fortress role-play is an Alternate Universe! //
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This is a live journal role-play community based off the GetBackers anime.

We are a relatively new community, working to strengthen our foundation. If you are interested in joining, the rules are very flexible and the application process is simple; both of which have been revised into the simplest of forms. As this is an all FANDOM, we are looking for various characters of all kinds from different medias, videogames, comic books, movies, TV shows, and anime!

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This is a live journal role-play community based off the GetBackers anime.

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Why the color grey, why the animal wolf... why enigma?
Yes, this is a reference... only to those that know what the hell I am talking about!
Once you get my drift, please confirm with a comment under this entry …

No wonder I am so psychologically warped…
… My mother of all people closest to me has just planted the seed to my self destruction!

Got a letter from the credit collection agency, seems I owe the government five hundred dollars in cash, in full by July 18th, something I cannot afford. This is the kind of shit I don’t want or need to deal with right now, considering my financial destitute.

It has come to my attention some time ago, that I am not happy living here, that I am not happy in general and it has shown in my development of angry obsessive rants and daily routine, not to mention the stress of bills and so forth. That my own mother and I have been discussing the possibility of my moving somewhere else, relocating in another country with a different name, not only for my safety, but my own sense of happiness. And finally I broke down to tell her that I wasn’t happy here, I wanted to do something with myself, to advance career wise as well as a secure sense of belonging. And therefore displayed interest in many things that I probably wouldn’t or couldn’t be able to achieve here since the government has fucked up in so many ways, and sucking my finances without permission. That and this city holds bitter memories. And I am at high risk if I stay here for the next 25 years I maybe even hunted and eventually killed by one of his associates.

Nevertheless, I have considered my options and have had many friends say that I may as well just up and take what little I have to start life all over again somewhere else. My significant other is willing to help me in that regard, as well as his mother. My mother is very aware of our relationship by now and has supported it. She’s even agreed that it would be best that I go from the pacific side of the world, to the Atlantic. Where I may find myself at peace, not to mention a sense of belonging and happiness. She told me to forget my bills, save the money and work towards getting my passport to move down into the states, where I may have a better chance as finishing my upgrading there and getting onto the career path of my choice. My beloveds’ mother is willing to help and has gone so far as to send information on how I may become an American citizen. And possibly go to college…

My mother is looking into talking with my trustee about the inheritance left to me. She is going to inquire that instead of my turning twenty-five to receive it, maybe by the age of twenty-four, I can use that to relocate. And even then I will save that money to better the lifestyle that I deserve, for fuck sakes; I certainly hope these plans are set in stone in the long run. Because, I do not believe that I can handle any more disappointments. Now all that needs to be done is the study up on what is needed to relocate and how much money needs to be saved. I am also reconsidering my decision to take up another full-time job in order to pull this off and ensure victory over defeat. I read and or hear about success stories about people dropping everything in the pursuit of happiness. Well, I am about to put that to the test in order to save myself. Wish me luck.

By the way, I will also be changing my journal again… I will bestow upon me a new name, but until then… this journal will do. And will be deleted without warning. Let me know if you’ve show interest in keeping me as an lj friend. I will not keep those who have not shown interest in keeping in touch… I will remain tight lipped about it as well. I will only friend those few to my new journal within time, those few dearest to me, important to me… and visa versa- henceforth my new years resolution begins.

Solo: can you tell me my stuff on astrology?

Sakasa: uh, your sign?

Solo: Aquarius

Sakasa: Oh god, I am trying to remember here!

Sakasa: Your sign is represented by the waterman, but your signs element is Air.

Solo: thats... so weird

Sakasa: And I think the sign has two ruling planets, Saturn and Uranus, if I remember right.

Solo: Really? O.o

Sakasa: Yeah.

Solo:...im getting images of hotaru and haruka making out now o___o

Sakasa: It would sound: “I am a Aquarius, symbolized by the waterbarer; my sign's element is Air. My sign is ruled by the planets Saturn and Uranus, healing color is green.

Sakasa: I can't believe I remembered any of that shiat!

Sakasa: and did you know, if there was a sailor scout that represented the sun, their sign would look like ( . ) a circle with a singular dot

Solo: A tit? O.o

Sakasa: Yeeep. That's probably why the creator of sailor moon didn't make a sailor scout representing the sun.

Sakasa: SAILOR SOLAR FLARE!

Solo: XD!

Sakasa: "I am sailor solar flare, guardian of the sun! I am the center of everyone's attention and maker of the moon, and on be half of the sun, who flashes you until you are blind, I SHALL PUNISH YOU BY BITCH SMACKING U UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH MY MAGICAL JIGGLING TIT OF ILLUMINATION!"

Solo: *dies*

Sakasa: Well, hey, sailor starlight’s have uterus and other famine shit like that, they need one sailor scout at least representing tits

Solo: lol!

Sakasa: She'll rip open her sailor uniform, tits hanging out and say: "TITS OF ILLUMINATION" and by using your imagination, you can only imagine that it would give a whole new meaning to the reference of "head lights"

Solo: where are you GETTING this shit from? XD!!!

Sakasa: XD

For the first time in forever, I contemplated suicide. It was a scary thought. Then I reflected on the scars on my arms. And I fell down into a warp hole due to all the stress today. My financial situation is the shit that has my anxiety at its peak. I haven’t had to take meds for a panic attack in forever, but was forced to pop a few. My anger has been causing me to grind my teeth down to the second or third layer, and I have been getting even more aggressive with my words towards people. I give looks that could kill. Hell, even murdering someone has grown appealing. Now, this is where I should be scared. I just want to pick a fight with someone; I want to hurt myself for the drama.

Life is boring; how the fuck did I ever manage?

Today, I found out that to get anywhere, and or to be anyone, you have to have something called a high school diploma. And now I can’t go to school because of my financial situation. I get paid tomorrow and after the weekend is up, I won’t have any money for myself due to the bills and rent. My mom is willing to buy me food. At least I got a roof over my god damn head. I am so fucking scared of being homeless. The thought of returning to the trade of the streets appealed to me, but I regained my self-worth after all the shit I had been through. I won’t sink so low to sell myself. God, why did I have to drop out of school? It was easy to get out, but fucking hard to get back in.

Fucking government has to make things more complicated, due to the cut backs on funding for schools and hospitals around here, things have been weaning out of control. Now the public transit systems here hiked up their fares, which puts even more a strain on us poor folk. My funds have nearly depleted due to payments and I still fucking end up with nothing. I won’t be able to go back to school, because I would need several articles of paper and even then I still won’t have funding to return to school. The only thing I can do is look to get another job and work till I drop, like I did the last time. I am aching all over… I am just down right tired.

Why can’t life just be a fucking fun place to enable me to just… be?

And I am falling again, into the darkness of my mind…
… Thinking too much as the pessimist that I am, fuck!

This afternoon I spent a few hours of time with my sister who came over and took my mom and myself out to eat. We had Chinese food. From there, we took off back homeward bound and decided to do a bit of window-shopping. Out of that, I got my mom to buy me second hand shoes, band name hush puppies. God, brand name shoes for two dollars, practically new?! Fucking-A, you can’t beat that, whomever had them last hardly ever wore them. Or never wore them at all. And while standing in line to purchase our new found treasures, I was occupied by beautiful ornamental porcelain decorations and my mom, seen something that I had over looked, of course, I wasn’t looking at the top of the shelf, I didn’t get that far up.

Atop the shelf stood a beautiful sculpture of a geisha, perfectly proportioned, beautifully detailed and painted masterfully. I was awed. But, being the poor folk that we are, not necessarily rich couldn’t afford the doll due to having bought other stuff already. My sister bought my mom a beautiful portrait of a gray wolf; amongst other trinkets she was buying herself. I myself, practically broke, didn’t have anything on my persona, other than what my mom would come to buy, the shoes. So, I stood longing, poking my sister for money and she to, knew how I love the Japanese culture, felt sorry that she couldn’t purchase it for me. Thus, we left the store.

Fortunately, having remembered she had ten dollars, my mom having five and me having three dollars in my pocket, pooled our money together… God, I was ecstatic that I went running back for the beauty took her off the shelf carefully and purchased her! She’s now on the top of MY self with the rest of the geisha dolls, which is to say, it seems I have made it a hobby of mine to collect the things. I immediately hugged my mom and sister for their generosity. I am not high maintenance believe me. Any little thing is graced with smiles, love and hugs. I cherish the things that are given to me. And man, I was glad they pulled through like that, it was so unexpected. And I just noticed something.

I got one geisha doll from my mother on my 23rd birthday, another at Christmas time shortly after from my sister… and the third being one we all bought together.

So lucky to be loved! ^^

Someone: Well, I considered... No, it's just very basic. I'm the one making it more complicated then it should be.

Sakasa: Why? What’s wrong?

Someone: I had a nightmare about a sasquatch attack...>.>

Sakasa: Sasquatch...

Someone: If I get attacked by an 8-foot hairy monkey-man, I'll be sure to take pictures of its dead body.

Sakasa: Do monkey's have balls?

Someone: Yes, they do.

Sakasa: M'kay, so then kick him hard, unless there is one ape out there wearing a jock strap strutting around practicing pelvic thrusts going "Who's ya daddy?" then I’d suggest kick him where it hurts XD

Someone: XD!!

They act like I let it run my life, and every time someone says, “Oh, you playing on your computer again?” Uh, no, actually I have a life outside cyberspace too you know? And it only adds fuel to the fire of my hatred of their ignorance. I am not that little girl consumed by the Internet, for fuck sakes. I haven’t even been on it for the last couple of days, because I had things to do, or wanted time outside my house. All I can do is roll my eyes at those people who think that I am an Internet geek; sure you make it sound like it’s my life. But, I have plans I hope you know. Fucking morons! And when I got plans made out involving someone else, does it ever work out the way I want it too? No. What the fucking hell, are you complaining about me for?

Anyway, I got bored and restless being cooped up in my room so I went out to an event, bought a new t-shirt that reads: “Native Pride” (always wanted one of those) amongst other little trinkets and treated myself and my mother to a movie, 1408, it was a good movie over all, though the ending sucks monkey balls. Originally, it was to be just my stepfather and me that Sunday evening. I couldn’t get a hold of him. But, I saw a lot of interesting things out in front of the art gallery, lots of singers and dancers on stage. Different types of music! Though, most of the people, fanatics about our cultural celebration, stood in the rain. Which later on lifted into clear blue skies and bright sunshine. I do have to admit, there was a bit of lightning and thunder that day, and I am mightily terrified of lightning and thunder, just like a cat scared of water.

Tonight, is practically the first time I have been able to log on the net, since Sunday. I have been mostly trying to arrange my schedule to best suit my needs. After having gone on a binge, I feel trapped and I don’t want to end up in that loop again. After all, I have come way to far for anything or anyone to interfere with my plans. Today, I received a couple of e-mails in response to my previous inquires regarding my interest in policing and peace officer careers. Interesting fact, is that I have to make an appointment with one regarding peace officer training, speaking with an instructor about what might best suit me, or their requirements, visa versa, whatever~ The next would be attending a policing career council, where they brief you on the requirements, the rigorous training required, the works. So, then I’d have a better idea on what I am getting myself into.

Speaking of getting myself into something, I think this relationship between Solo and myself is wonderful. But, and yes, there is a ‘but’… so long as I am here and he is there, it is the distance that separates us, along with our fear of loosing one another. I have been here before. And being the pessimist that I am, I don’t have any expectations of anything greater than what we have to come into being. Though, at times I have thought about it, even dreamt about it in a daydream, a hopeful glimpse into the future. But, I don’t expect anything to go beyond what we have now. He is still… I’d like to help him in any way that I can, but at times it is rather tiresome. I am just not that willing to commit, the thought is appealing, don’t get me wrong, but having so many misfortunes happen over the course of many events passed, well…

Not the only one to ask in regards to future reference, many have asked me before…

Sometimes, even the thought of it getting that serious scares me. Which is why I said to ask me on my twenty-fifth year. I want to see how long this relationship will last and if he really were the one, then he’d ask me again then. I was told, on two different occasions that I was to be wed on my twenty-fifth year. So, it would depend how long our relationship lasts. I rather get to know a person for a couple of years, before I answer a question that leads to a life long partnership. That is what I believe. And I will hold those people who told me to their word. Wow, I didn’t mean for this entry to turn out so seriously, but despite that, I think before anything else, we got a lot of work to do and I have all the things I want to do planned out in my head.

Getting off topic, I want to finish what needs to be done before this week is up…
Man, this week has gone so fucking fast, I can’t believe its Tueday tomorrow~!

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Today, I spent the afternoon with my mother, we went out to eat and watch several events play out before our eyes, a tribute to our heritage and culture. She crossed paths with a long time friend of hers, and during that time I spent some time with my stepfather, he’s a veteran. After having my hamburger, I wandered the grounds outside the art gallery, when I crossed a table with a couple of police officers occupying it. I looked over pamphlets and application forms that lay out across the table, and read a few pages, only to place the papers down and turn to my mom who I had tapped on the shoulder, asking, “What would say, if I decided to become a police officer?” She looked at me, looked at the police officers behind the table and smiled, “I think it would be good.”

Sitting down accompanying my stepfather and his friend, I immediately finished a couple of soda cans and went back to collect the necessary papers from the officers. I found to my amazement, that the invitation of recruiting new members was extended to my kin. And it did me good to read success stories on other people’s adventures being a police officer. I returned to re-join my mom and stepfather, telling them how I had at one point or another thought about making another career change, from telemarketer to security guard. But, this (holding the pamphlets) intrigued me. The training sounds like something I need, its rigorous and standards are set high, but with good reason and for a good cause.

Unfortunately, looking over the requirements, you need grade twelve diploma, or equivalent. I had thought about returning to school this year, only to have that idea go down the drain a few days ago. The government is no longer funding the school I was dying to return to, thus forcing the school to shut down if they don’t receive the necessary funds in order to keep the doors open. And I am not the only one disappointed! I blame the 2010 games on this. The government has been cutting back on a lot, like affordable housing, forcing hospitals to close and many schools to shut down. I say, this has been going on far too long; all I can do is hope things turn out for the best.

The pamphlets I brought home with me have contact information to police officers if you had any questions. What I plan on doing is writing up a lengthy e-mail with my thoughts, and questions on how to achieve my goals. In the mean time, I am looking into actually trading in my current job for security; I need experience under my belt. Not to mention the money. Being the age that I am now, I have to say it would take me 6 – 7 years if I want to become a police officer by the age of 30. Not only will I have to change my mentality, but my physical stamina and equipped with a certificate of criminology and a class 5 drivers’ license, which is 3 years experience behind the wheel.

Though, I have to say all this is ironic. I remember, I never used to like police officers, where were they when I needed them? And here I am considering becoming one? If anything, I cannot count the officers that weren’t there to help me, but I can ensure that the next person that needs help, will not go without receiving it. Because, I will be the first one at the scene; besides, life as it is now is rather bland and I am slowly finding that my job as a telemarketer only fuels the flames of hate towards ignorant people. If I get a job as a security guard, I can say that at least, I got off my ass and actually done something. That is, if my employers don’t stick me behind a desk with monitors.

A few days before this event, my mom had gotten information on whom to contact about security guard training. Funny thing about that, how everything falls neatly into place… Now all I need to figure out is the school I will be attending.