[Video/Action]

[charming_jerk]

[VIDEO:] [A face comes across the screen that is startlingly white, with large blue eyes that lack pupils. He looks over the device, scowling slightly, before looking into the camera and speaking.]

So, what am I supposed to say here? This whole damn situation is unreal. I can barely fuckin' believe it. "Transport"? More like "canon fodder" I'm sure. This is like some bad dream. Like I fell asleep while watching a bad action movie or somethin'.

I don't got time for this shit. I bet most of you don't, either. I got somewhere to be and someone to find.

...

Is there a red-headed guy with horns here? Big scar on his mouth? Tell him Johnny's lookin' for him.

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[ACTION for roomies:] [A tall young man enters the apartment, looking angry and a little overwhelmed. He's wearing an old hoodie and jeans that have seen better days, and there's a guitar case strapped around his back. After a few awkward moments of silence, he'll speak up.]

I'm the new guy. Which room's mine?

Comments

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[square_cubelaw]

Glad to see someone else isn't just buying it all.

Also, I think you're camera is broken.

[charming_jerk]

Why would I? This is... I don't even fucking know what. Shit like this just doesn't happen out of nowhere.

What? What's wrong with it? [He'll look over the device now, wondering if there's some settings for it.]

[square_cubelaw]

You're right. It doesn't happen out of no where. It happens in dimensions where people get so much technology and over think the answers to easy problems.

Oh, and it's got to be the focus and the color.

[charming_jerk]

I don't see anything wrong on this end, but shit, I dunno, I just got this thing.

So they think they can just kidnap people from all over who-knows-the-fuck-where and make them fight for them. Great.

...

[Looks at screen again, tilts head slightly.]

Is that a mask, or am I seriously talking to a robot here?

video

[fivetimesover]

Hmm, I don't think anyone like that is here, sorry.

[charming_jerk]

Ya sure? Any way to check? He's hard to miss. Six and a half feet tall, loud, has horns 'n' a tail.

[fivetimesover]

Well I haven't seen anyone like that. Are you sure he's here?

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[tequilaselai]

[Here's a buckethead alien peering into the camera, sup.]

If it's any comfort, time is apparently frozen back home while we're all stuck here. No one will know you're gone. [She shrugs.] Might as well make yourself comfortable.

And I haven't seen anyone with that description, no. Sorry.

[charming_jerk]

[Hmm. Another robot maybe?]

I don't even know WHAT to think about that. Are we sure about that? What if it ain't? I don't really trust people who pretty much kidnapped unwilling people to fight for 'em.

Damn. He's hard to miss. Stupid-tall and excitable, and he's got horns and a tail. Horn. One's broken I guess.

[tequilaselai]

[Nope, it's just a fashion statement.]

We can't be positive, not without actually going back home, but there's enough reason to believe it for now. [She laughs.] And don't worry, you're far from the only one. I don't know anyone here that trusts the Initiative.

Yeah, he sounds like he'd be easy to find. Friend of yours?

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[caligulas_aquarium]

Ain't no red-headed horned guys around here.

Pretty sure someone woulda noticed.

[charming_jerk]

He ain't the kinda to go unnoticed, that's for sure. Any way to be sure. Is there like, a contacts list or a phone book or somethin'?

[caligulas_aquarium]

Some guy had one, but that was a few months ago an' he's long gone at that.

So you're on your own.

[whatsupcroc]

I've seen some big red guys, and some red haired guys, but no one like that. Are those contacts?

[charming_jerk]

Damn. Is there any way to be sure?

...No, they ain't. [Said like someone who gets asked that a lot.]

[whatsupcroc]

I suggest putting fliers up with your room number on them. "If seen, please report to Some Guy at Some Address. Reward to be discussed upon delivery of information."

Woah, the no pupil... thing is real?

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[bratworth]

What's wrong with your eyes.

[ All the weird stuff is wearing down on him. ]

haha let me assume he's dressed as garishly as in his icons? :V

[charming_jerk]

[GRRR.] NOTHIN'. What's wrong with your clothes? Did Prince have a garage sale?

of course he is! (8

[bratworth]

I don't know who this 'Prince' fellow is [ but assuming he's not actual royalty considering the tone of this man with the strange eyes ], but I'll have you know that these are the fine clothes of someone who helps bring about justice in a court of law!

[vestigiaflammae]

Sorry. I haven't seen anybody like that.

... They send people home sometimes, though. So maybe you'll get back before [he waves an arm aimlessly] -- all of this is done!

[charming_jerk]

They do? How do ya get to be one of those lucky ones?

[vestigiaflammae]

Beats me. I'd have gotten home by now if I figured it out!

You could always ask, though. I mean, somebody in the Initiative has to know what the point is, right?

[bittertears]

Dream or reality, our stay here appears to be quite extended.

[charming_jerk]

How extended? Till we die in this fight? How long ya been here?

[bittertears]

There hasn't been much fighting at all, though I myself am a fairly recent arrival.

My time here amounts to only several weeks.