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thehobbsgirl ([personal profile] thehobbsgirl) wrote in [community profile] entranceway2014-05-05 02:25 pm

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[ Abigail tries to do the smart thing and figure out the situation on her own. She does her best: reads the weird pamphlet three times, glances through the first few videos she finds on the smart-phone-like device, wanders around the grounds trying to look for a way out. Obviously, she does not find one. None of it makes any sense. She sits in the gardens for a few hours waiting to wake up, but if there is one thing her nightmares never are, it's tedious. So with boredom comes fear; if this isn't a dream, it means her life had changed radically yet again without warning. It means that just as she was beginning to have hope for some kind of stability, she was thrown into another mess. ]

[ The video shows her visibly upset, though clearly trying to master it. Her voice is small, and shaky with suppressed emotion, but she gets out what she means to say: ]


I'm not gonna bother asking a bunch of questions when it's obvious there's no one here who can help me.

[ Not to mention the fact that she wouldn't trust any answers she got, anyway. Any stranger might be complicit, as far as she's concerned. Abigail has difficulty trusting on the best of days. ]

I just want to know if... if anyone who sees this recognizes me. Is there anyone from my- [ It sounds so silly saying it, but she does ] -from my world here?
radiopalkiller: (not the strangest thing I've seen)

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[personal profile] radiopalkiller 2014-05-05 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
What, you're implying you, um, you didn't think the brochure was helpful and completely reassuring?

[ Which is probably good. Because she shouldn't. Really no marginally sane person should. It's rubbish. Why do they even still have that thing? ]

radiopalkiller: (an odd light surrounding it)

[personal profile] radiopalkiller 2014-05-05 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Philip huffs a small laugh. No, that looks about right. ]

You could settle for a "could be worse". Apparently the food is decent, and the rooms aren't half bad.

[ And ominous magical forces are only trying to kill or traumatise you every other week. What more could anyone possibly want? Well. Other than actual good news. ]

...But, erm, if you think the people from your world might help, how about some names? The actual world might help too. Um, country names. What year you're from. Average amount of vampires or werewolves you run into per week. That sort of thing.

[ It's tough, figuring out how universes differ, once you realise how arbitrary your definition of "normal" is. But after a few years Philip is starting to get the general idea. ]
radiopalkiller: (anything to make you smile)

[personal profile] radiopalkiller 2014-05-16 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And another thing that happens after a few years is the tendency to forget that any deadpan resignation about the weirdness of this world might not come across as entirely sincere, or worse, as just about as crazy as Wonderland can make you feel sometimes. ]

None used to sound about right. But erm, that was London, England. 2001. [ Least he can do is level the field, right? That and, erm, probably not go into the exception about zombies and aliens. ] Here I'd probably... watch my back for higher numbers.

[ Which, again, isn't reassuring welcome talk, Philip. Yeah, he might work on that a bit. For example: ]

Well. The good news is that we've got a few people from that general time and area, last I checked, so you might actually find who you're looking for. And since you're on the network they'll probably catch you soon enough, if they're around.
radiopalkiller: (an odd light surrounding it)

[personal profile] radiopalkiller 2014-05-20 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Not a fan of the whole misery loves company thing, huh?

[ He goes just a tad quiet when he asks, because he's buying her concern, and he'd be lying if he said it didn't make him... well, jealous, probably, in the oddest way. Hoping for your friends to stay away, rather than to come back, he never really got the hang of that sentiment. ]

Fair enough, I guess.

[ And wait- wait, wait. How's he even doing on the generic introduction front? Christ, of course he skipped that part again. ]

...Erm, I'm Philip, by the way, sorry, probably should've started with that. Do you- do you need anything else? Need to- know anything else, I mean? I've been... here for a while, I can probably give you the extended version of that pamphlet. ]
radiopalkiller: (not the strangest thing I've seen)

[personal profile] radiopalkiller 2014-05-21 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
No, that's- that's probably the right reaction.

[ To. This. All of this. The cheerful route? Always sort of creeped Philip out, honestly, even with all the good reasons there might be for wanting to stay in magical weirdness loop land.

...Which probably means he's about done here. He can play encyclopaedia all right, but the comfort factor isn't his strength, and "after a few years you probably get used to it" remains as useless a remedy as ever.
]

Er, right. I'll- I'll leave you to it then. Good luck, erm... not meeting anybody familiar, I guess.