<> (Don't ask about the numbering, it was traumatic.) ( *pats Cham on his li'l wombatty head* ) (My aunt owns a children's book called "found you, little wombat". No, really. It's in this house.) ( Hee. ) <> (*puts two and two together* ...FUCK.) (No... Four.. *hides*) <> (Four is the number of death in Japanese.) (While fuck is the number of...uhhh....sex.) (*eyes that room desc* ...our mission is Trading Spaces, isn't it?) (Woot, I'm on Thren's team.) (: "Two days, $1000!") ( /me watches them GUT the 'spider web room'. :'(''''' ) <> <> ( Watch your step over there. ) (Snark. Yes.) (*takes away Robin's Captain N belt*) (Hurry up and do something before I ping again. >_<) ( Wait, that was session start? ) (You didnn't get off the mission start.) ( ...I had a Captain N belt? And NOBODY TOLD ME? ;_; ) (Well, now you know. So you can properly appreciate the loss.) ( ;_; ) <> * Rochelle stays right where she is: curled on the couch and watching the news. Yay! * Demetreia is a real girl! Well, apparently she was one all the time, but now she is badass. This is no time to quibble over technicalities. <.< * Threnody stays right where he is: sitting next to Rochelle and silently watching the news. Double yay! (This means Deme gets a refit when we get back.) * Katherine is her hot not-so-little self, and is currently on the quest to find the kitchen. * Leopoldo is badass and stuff. He looks a bit concerned about Ian's condition, though. ("Your mother allowed me to borrow this, Threnody." *SNKT*) (Stop it I can't stop laughing!) * Fitzroy is watching Ian's head arc. (I just can't see Deme with a sword. Mainly because she'd break it first time using it.) * Rochelle blinks lazily and yawns a cat-yawn. Aww. ( *crack* Deme: !!! ZOMG I'M SORRY SISTER! ) ( Deme: WAIT EX-SISTER! ) (That's why you give her the nigh-invulnerable HF blades.) * Leopoldo puts his hand near Ian's head expirementally. Does badass conduct electricity? << Our pannel says yes. Tzzt! >> * Leopoldo pulls his hand back and looks at Roy. "Any clue on what happened here?" ( AWAKEN THE VERA. ) * Fitzroy shrugs, "He was just poking at his cybernetics.. then he passed out." << Vera wakes up from her nap! And Katherine finds the kitchen, after a little looking for it. >> * Katherine finds her way to the kitchen, and prays that there's something to eat. "How is this place so damn dusty?" she says in annoyance, as she digs through the fridge. * Threnody stretches, then turns and looks out the window, gets a quizzical look, and then looks at Roch. Looks like they might be faulty.. Kat, you know a lot about cybernetics, right? <> <> <> * Rochelle 's ears perk, and she looks up and out the window, too, before she settles back down. * Demetreia continues being plopped on the couch, head swiveling from Thren to the vague reflections from the wallscreen and back again. "You look...very different in this new body." * Threnody tilts his head at Demetreia, then nods once in agreement before getting up and going to the window, looking out as if he's craning his neck to see something. * Katherine looks up from having taken the first non-preparable thing in there, some wafer things, and started to eat them, and says through a mouthful of something, "Uh... yeah, that's the idea when you work on them." She takes what she can get her hands on and walks over to Roy, then looks down at Ian. "Why, just worried if he's..." a spark crackles from the fritzy skillsoft,"...broken?" * Vera yawns awake and (lags and) stretches. Hey, looks like Vera's awake. Yeah, that arcing doesn't look to healthy. * Demetreia shrugs and pets the Rochkitty. * Vera tips her hat. "What who now?" * Katherine kneels and continues eating. "Nnh. This eating isn't healthy." Which doesn't seem to stop her, as she checks Ian's pulse, an then applies a finger to near the slot. * Rochelle lifts her head again, her ears perking. She stands and stretches before jumping down from the couch and heading over to Thren. (Phone. Parents.) << Ian has a healthy pulse. Katherine gets a little blue zot for her trouble. >> * Demetreia is abandoned. ;-; Not really. * Threnody bends down and picks Roch up. Which looks normal in a reflective surface and FUCKING WEIRD otherwise. (And I'll be distracted too. Parents are talking in my room. To Ard. Over the cell phone.) ( Hahaha! That's funny. <.< Or something. ) * Katherine grimaces slightly at the zot, then pulls open Ian's eyelids. "He's probably fine, but I'd hit whoever installed it with a hammer." She munches on the little wafer things. "Or something." * Vera gets up and wanders over to a window. She leans on the sill and looks out, offering a low whistle. "All things considered, this is kinda cool." ( He self-installed it. ) (She looks like a cat both ways though, right?) * Rochelle looks out the window, ears still perked. * Demetreia trails Vera to the bandwago--window and looks out. "I suppose?" (Yes.) (Black cat, green eyes.) (I thought she looked like Rochelle outside of the reflective.) * Vera grins. "Yeah. Got my hat. Got a poncho. Got a gun. So far, so good." ( Kitty! ) (Nope! I'm a cat no matter what.) * Fitzroy gets up and starts to walk around the apt. "This looks a lot like my Red Sweden apartment, doesn't it?" Hammer? Why don't you just head-butt them? (No, that's why we couldn't tell who she was until you told us. ) (Ah.) * Vera reaches into the poncho and checks her pockets. "Hell, wonder if I have cigs, too." (Then strike the non-making-sense part of my last pose.) * Katherine chuckles and stands. "Because I'd like to avoid the murder rap in some dimension, thanks." * Threnody sets the cat down. Aww. (Then Godzilla attacks and we were all eaten.) * Rochelle stretches, prowls a bit, then ends up back at her spot on the couch. * Katherine starts to stretch, and then stops herself and just rubs her arms. "Ugh. So," She frowns slightly, then says, "Is everyone cybered up, or is it just that this woman really likes replacing large parts of herself?" I'd hazard a guess that I'm cybered. Got the TSM jack, anyways. * Threnody puts a hand up. He's volunteering for something! Maybe. * Vera shrugs. "Beats me." (I pick Thren to be on my kickball team.) (Dangit.) (Bwar. When do Magikarp turn into Gyarados again?) (26, I think.) (Damnit. I need an Exp. Share) (The 'throw in first round and trade for another' trick not working?) ( That slows down after a while. ) (Just takes time and I am impatient.) (Aaaah.) * Katherine looks at Thren for a sec, then Leo. "If you were, Vera, you'd feel it somehow. Probably." Kat tenses her legs for a second and frowns. (...stupid Abra! *whack*) ( HAHAHAHAHA ) I don't have a lot of cyber. Looks like I've got a head comp though. ( HAHAHAHA!) * Demetreia blinks. * Vera shrugs. "Guess I don't, then." * Threnody has a seat and decides to get back to watching the news intently. * Rochelle has already been doing that. She's one up on him! * Katherine nods slightly, and her hair moves around a bit in weird fashions. (SOMEONE DIES) ( Well, that's one way to get the action going. ) ( Then again, with this group the reaction would probably be something like: "...he's dead." "Bummer." "...yeah." ) ("That sucks.") (You know, my not speaking? ACtually has a roleplay use that nobody's explored so you can all bite me. >_<) (I'm a cat?) * Katherine goes back down the hall and says, as her hair continues to play with itself, "Pretty sparse on the food situation, too. Mainly just nanojunk." Yum. <> <> (He likes what he sees, I bet.) * Fitzroy is impressed, whatever it might be for. * Threnody continues to flip between news channels. Roch must be rubbing off on him. Plus he has opposable thumbs and controls the remote. Haha. * Leopoldo takes a seat and looks bored. "Nothing good on. Just news news news about corporations." << Roy has worked himself into a harness built into the spiderweb of input devices in the other room, and jacked himself into something. He's totally not paying attention to anything.>> <> * Rochelle stays curled up. And watching TV. Being a cat is good. * Katherine contiinues to work her way down the hall, munching on her unspoiled spoils from the kitchen. Work it, Kat! * Vera is looking out the window. Awesome. * Demetreia stays being spaced out. It seems becoming human again, mentally, really hasn't changed much. * Threnody frowns at the TV, looks at the cat, then frowns and looks back the TV in consternation. <> <> * Katherine mms and hums something to herself as she opens the door. * Ian has stopped arcing and is twitching a little. Anyone notice a serious lack of, well... Mars? * Threnody nods once and flips channels to the History Channel. It's worth a shot. <. <> * Ian groans a bit, and starts trying to sit up. * Threnody tilts his head curiously, then nods at the cat and keeps watching. * Rochelle blinks sleepily. <> * Ian mutters, "whathe*hell* did I drink, I can'believe this hangover..." * Demetreia eyes Ian for a second, then reaches down to give him a hand. <> Nnnothanks, I'll sit for n-wait, who ar - oh, crap. We changed dimensions again, didn't we? Yeah. <> * Ian leans back against the wall. Happy wall. * Threnody laces one hand under his chin and continues to watch TV. Seeing him in any reflective surface is probably really weird. <> Yeah, you don't remember what happened? It's starting to come ba...woooh, the colors... * Katherine chuckles at the hammocks, and muses, "Cheaper than futons..." before checking out/trying to open the hatch. <> <> * Katherine eyes the lights for a second, then reaches up to rub her head, stopping just short before she cuts herself again. Well, just don't touch that thing on the back of your head again. * Katherine then closes the closet door and walks back out to the main room, giving the kitchen a lingering glance as she passes. ( What, this th--*ZOT* *thwump* Everyone else: Aw, not again. ) Yeah, I figured that. I wonder what it is. Could have Kat look at it. * Katherine appears in the main room, as if she walked there. "Well, not much back there but the bad food, a closet bathroom, hammocks, and a door that I'd put some creds on being keyed to Roy." * Ian leans back again. "No hurry. Any idea where we are yet?" * Threnody gets up and stretches, then ambles into the kitchen! * Katherine lets Thren by, and looks around. "Where did Roy go?" She points at the other door. "In there?" * Rochelle gets back to her feet, stretches, jumps down from the couch. She saunters off after Thren. <<"Into" being figuratively. The kitchen nook faces Thren; Nanopaste, refrigerator, and microwave.>> Seattle, I'm guessing. Huh. Funny thing is, if you haven't guessed it, Mars seems to not exist or something. * Rochelle has a seat at Thren's feet and looks up. Up and up! * Ian nods. "Someone was guessing at that before, too..." * Katherine decides not to wait for someoe to answer after all, and goes to check the other room. * Threnody looks down at Roch curiously, while continuing to exemplify 'always bet on black'. That is...odd. <> ... goddamn. Have anything to add, Thren? Or is somethin' keeping you from talking? * Threnody nods. * Leopoldo leans back against a wall. "I'll take that you mean yes to both." * Katherine chuckles to herself and turns around, letting the geek work on it. * Threnody grins faintly at the cat, then waves and looks for, uh... a door to the magical outside. He manages a strained %% Back soon %% to everyone. * Demetreia frowns. "...what?" * Rochelle pads after Thren. She glances back at Demetreia with a very uninterested cat look. Go figure. See ya Thren. * Ian blinks. "Uh, good luck..." * Leopoldo glances at Demetreia through those badass shades of badass and sits down on the couch, motioning for Deme to have a seat too. "Need an explaination?" * Katherine glances at Roch, then Thren for a few secs, then shakes her head. * Demetreia follows Leo. "Er...it would be appreciated." * Demetreia hangs her head. "I am sorry. I...am confused." <> * Leopoldo smiles. "There's only one way to fix that." * Threnody takes it! He won't be deterred by minor obstructions like 'doors'. * Rochelle stalks after. Thren has hands. He can open a door. <> * Katherine rubs her face and then stands there for a little bit, quietly. So, what's got you confused most? <> * Ian looks down at his belt, picks up the beanie, and stares at it. "...dear gods. I really am in the part, aren't I." Well...everything. I...was not told very much before coming here. Yeah, we should probably be doing something. Where's that kid who has all the answers? (Out buying fish! ^_____^) (Fish! XD) * Ian hmms, heads into the bathroom, and peers at his head in the mirror. * Katherine thumbs at Roy. "Roy'll probably have a story if Anders doesn't show up anytime soon." Worked last time. * Katherine sighs softly and mutters, "There's got to be a way to work this damn thing," as she paces back across the room. * Leopoldo hmmms... "Where should I start, then?" Why we're doing this? ...that would help? * Ian comes back out, flops down on a free chair, and starts looking through his own pockets. (Uh.. Honestly? *I* forgot why we're stuck here.) (... <_<) (Oh, right! I remember now!) * Katherine 's hair moves around a bit, and she has a frown on her face. We were supposed to be testing some machine that would be used to cross dimensions. Why they didn't just send a robot in and back... I still don't understand. But it hopped us to another dimension, and since then we've been going through a number of'em, some really weird ones. * Katherine pipes up, as her hair does a particularly odd twist, "The robots worked, remember." Yeah, that's the funny part. It means someone fucked up. Story of our lives. * Katherine snorts. * Ian has found a few cartridges, and is turning one around to insert in his head. "Uh...if I start sparking again, could someone make sure I'm not dead? I'm wary, but I kind of want to try this out." * Katherine nods at Ian, then suddenly her hair then falls flat on her back, lifelesss, and she does a full body shiver at the same time her eyes widen. "Oh god, ew." Sure thing Ian. * Ian blinks. "...what's wrong, Kat?" * Katherine grabs her hair and shakes a handful of it at Ian. "This is the sickest slick I've ever heard of. She put wires straight into her brain, and... ugh." She lets the hair go. "God." * Demetreia blinks. "Wh..." * Ian blinks, and twitches a bit. "That's...creepy." * Leopoldo shudders. "That sounds ugly." So, Deme, is there anything else you'd like to know? Yeah, that's pretty ew. * Katherine closes her eyes, then the hair becomes shiny and such again. "It sounds ugly... but that's way beyond what we can do." What happened with...what we were doing? I heard something about Anders, and Dorian, and the newscasts have also been very confusing. * Ian pops the cartridge into his head. Uh. Good you're sitting down, I think. ( Ian's a portable NES! XD ) ( *uses Ian to play Mario* ) * Ian plugs his TSM jack into the keyboard, after some fumbling, and leans back to type. "Huh, it looks like this works, anyway. I wonder wha -" Newscasts? You mean the ones here? * Ian begins typing. No, back..."home." * Vera chuckles. Well, uh.. I don't know what's going on back home. We've been kind of, you know... stuck. * Ian looks...fascinated. * Katherine walks over towards closer to the couch, and says, "Well, before we left, Dorian tried to kill all of Anders' crew, becausse he works for the Concordat, and then fled to TC. That's about when you went to... er... Thren's mom's place." (Ian is directly hardwired to porn.) (Dunnoogle!) * Demetreia looks shocked. "...oh." * Katherine waves her hand. "And then, Sig-Asp and Vernon needing a punch in the face and all this." Oh, you're you're referring to that. * Katherine shrugs. "Well, I figured she can't be that into the local history, whatever that is." She leans on the back of the couch. * Ian unplugs his TSM jack, sets the keyboard aside, and swaps out the cartridge for another. "This...is also sort of creepy. But I think it's useful." * Robin is now known as Anders * Ian looks around, and promptly flushes bright red. He fumbles for the cartridge and takes it out. Really, Anders has just been showing up and giving us hints on how to get home again. It's like...instant knowledge. * Leopoldo blinks. "Really. That's interesting." <> Uhm, hello. * Ian starts paging through his cartridges, but is interrupted. "Hi, Anders." * Katherine closes her eyes. "Uhg, Anders." Think if we say his name three times real fast he'll disappear? * Anders blinks at Katherine's reaction. "Er..." * Demetreia starts. "...oh!" * Katherine turns to Anders and looks at him with a slight frown. * Vera watches. Watch. So, what do you have to tell us, Anders? ( "Your mission is to plant a tree!" ) Well, uhm, surely you've noticed that Deme has joined you, and I'm sure you'd, er, like to know why. That would be most helpful, Anders. * Demetreia nods cautiously, looking as suspicious as she gets. Which normal!Deme can't really achieve, but maybe badass!Deme can. Too bad no-one can see her. Well, you see, your psychic mass was on a trajectory that would carry you into nth-dimensional space with no real way of, of return. After months of thinking about it, Vernon came up with a plan to alter your trajectory by altering your psychic mass. * Anders glances nervously at something you can't see, as if looking for approval. ...would you please tell Vernon that even the more patient among us are, at this point, considering using him as a soccer ball? Months? * Leopoldo nods in approval. "Could you do that?" And, wait, months? Nah, don't tell him that. They, er, projected Demetreia into your psychic mass, which appears to have had the desired... er... soccer ball? Y-yes, I'll tell him. We don't want him to know before we get back. * Katherine looks at Anders with her eyes narrowing, then chuckles slightly and nods with Vera. "That's right. He might run away." And, er, yes. Months. Three months, so far. Sure as hell didn't seem like three months. I agree with Vera there. Is the dimension stuff screwing with time too? * Katherine closes her eyes and shakes her head. "Three months. Jesus." Er...it did for me? How long has it been for everyone here? * Ian nods. "I don't think it's been anything like that..." A little over a half-week. ...oh, my. * Katherine rubs her forehead and sighs. "If that. Okay. Right." She licks her lips and takes a deep breath. * Anders blinks, confused, and looks upwards. * Anders holds out his hand in a 'one second' kind of way. (Ian quietly loads the "TAUNT" cartridge.) * Anders looks really nervous. "Er... Vernon's talking about... pachinko?" * Katherine says in an annoyed and sarcastic tone, "Vernon's smashed off his ass." Pa-what? * Vera shrugs. "Some kind of Mexican food?" Kat's right. That sounds about right. Well... I think he's trying to say that in order to, erm, enter a universe, you have to hit it at just the right angle. Until this happens, while you're between universes, time still passes for you, but you don't realise time is passing. Maybe, er, because you have no frame... no, that can't be right. Okay, that sort of makes sense, I guess. Yeah, in psychoville. * Anders glances back up. "Er, and Vernon's lost it again." He sighs. I think I understand, but it doesn't explain the time differential. * Katherine looks at Anders funny, then says, slowly, "We... must be spending time in a place we can't experience it. Between universes, or some shit. It'd make... well, some sort of sci-fi." Ah, that would be it, I guess. * Anders nods at Leo. "Er, yes it does? When you're between universes, you spend a great amount of time in transit. But you can't know it, because tha...er, sorry." It's... uncommon that you hit a universe just so. You've been bouncing off a lot. So when we get back we're going to be really hungry. * Katherine shakes her head and mutters, "Just like pachinko. Not like that makes Vernon any less drunk." * Anders frowns when Leo asks that. "Er, not really." So is time passing for everyone *but* us? Sure hope so. Else we'll wind up in bodies that died of hunger. ...that would be bad. * Katherine looks over at Vera and says in annoyance, "Has anyone ever heard of an IV before here? It's been three fucking months, we're not going to die of fucking hunger." Er. No. Your bodies have, uhm... feeding tubes. * Anders nods at Kat. "She's right." * Katherine puts her hands on her hips and looks down at Anders, continuing in the annoyance trend, "And you! When are you going to tell us something useful, like how long until we get back, or if we're going to bounce off our own dimension, or what magical event will get us out of here, or who we are?" Er... I don't know? So you do have our bodies. * Leopoldo rubs his head. "So it's our minds that are going dimension hopping. Okay, now it's making more sense." Fitzroy will be able to tell you who you are once he's done with his computer. Also, he should find out what you do, as well. * Katherine takes some deep breaths while she continues looking down at Anders and still seems mostly pissed off. (*eyes the convo in here* Man, we've got radioactive fish and Marxism. YOu guys suck.) (Heh.) (9_9) Now, why should we do it? What's the point of moving on? Why don't we just wait until Vern figures out the proper trajectory or whatever to get our minds back? * Rochelle stalks on into the room. She gives Anders a long, blank look. * Threnody walks in! He has a paper bundle with water marks on it in his hands. Also, he believes a free market will bear out benefits to all people. * Ian waves. "Welcome back." * Katherine looks over at Thren and Roch, and says snarkily, "Hey, Thren and Roch! We're apparently in a giant fucking cosmic pachinko machine!" Yeah. Isn't it great? * Threnody looks confused, but doesn't say anything. He gives Anders a wave and then heads at the kitchen. * Anders frowns at Vera. "Er. You can't move at all until you leave this universe, which, uhm, means doing whatever you're here to do." (Hopefully, that task is 'eat salmon'.) (ha, ha, ha, ha.) Yeah, so we wait until you guys know what you're doing first. * Rochelle follows Thren into the kitchen. Yay food! * Threnody looks at the kitchen, then frowns, shrugs, and produces some tilapia and salmon from the package. He puts the filets on a plate and fiddles with the UNIVERSIFOODITRON until it reaches the 'Fish' setting. Beep! <> * Ian peers into the kitchen, and grins. "Good choice." * Katherine continues looking pissed, then shakes her head and walks over to the door and opens it. "I need some goddamn air," she snaps, and then leaves. ( FISH YUM HUNGRY. ) And... er, I'll get back to you if something develops. * Anders hurries off through a wall. * Demetreia blinks more at the Amazing Anders. Yeah, you do that. * Ian mutters, uncharacteristically. * Threnody puts some salmon on a saucer for Roch, cuts a small piece for himself, and chews thoughtfully. <> * Leopoldo raises an eyebrow. * Rochelle sniffs at the salmon, then starts eating it up. I hope Roy gets done soon. * Threnody has another bite. (I hate to do this, guys, but I'm not feeling very well. Can I get last poses?) (Yay fish!) * Ian sighs, and starts sorting through his cartridges again. "I guess we're waiting on Roy." * Demetreia ambles over to inspect this..."fish"...business. * Threnody moves to allow Deme access to the fish! Perhaps if everyone has some we'll slide! * Vera takes a seat on the couch. * Leopoldo sits down and looks annoyed. Nothing good on the tube. <>