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[you_dont_work_alone]

[The network comes on to show a man’s face. His brow is creased with worry and he attempts a smile, though it’s not entirely successful.]

I understand we’re all trapped here. And this is.. Wonderland? Or so I’m told. I find that notion pretty ridiculous. No doubt we’re all being fooled. We just have to look at this logically to figure out how to get back home. I’m sure the parlor tricks here are very impressive, but we can’t honestly believe we’re being held here by magic, of all things.

Anyway, my name is John Watson. I was in the British Army and I’m a doctor. If anyone needs medical attention, let me know. I’ll do what I can to help.

Comments

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

I'm pretty sure the true fool is the one who denies what is right in front of him.

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

....

I'm pretty sure you should piss off.

[Waking up here and being called a fool doesn't really put John in the best of moods.]

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

[This is his favorite kind of newcomer.] Just stating facts. Here you are, dumped into another universe and the first thing you want to do is deny that magic exists? That just doesn't seem logical, in my humble opinion.

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

So it's logical to believe you've been dropped into another universe? And not consider, oh, you've been drugged and are hallucinating. Or perhaps you've been in an accident and are in a coma.

[He really hopes it's not the latter.]

Yeah, the other-universe theory really should be the most logical.

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

Not when there are a half-dozen people contacting you over a mystical World Wide Web. I take it you haven't used the closets yet? Or read the pamphlets?

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

I have, though I'm not sure if it's real or just a string of hallucinations. Do you think people can't dream of a group? What makes you think this is real?

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

Oh, only the fact that I've been here for months now and have seen things far more ridiculous than just Wonderland itself. It helps to have an open mind to the improbable.

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

And I should believe you because...?

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

[Just staring at you for a moment from behind his shades.] ...Because why on Earth would I lie about being in Wonderland for months? This place is terrible. Do you really think anyone but Lewis Carroll's own denizens would want to be here? I daresay that if anyone could leave this place, they would.

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

I'm not fully convinced this isn't some bizarre hallucination to begin with.

[Which means the man could say he's been here for a hundred years and the response would be the same.

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

Are you prone to hallucinations, then?

Re: [video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

They say ones mental state can become unstable when a trauma happens.

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

And do people who are hallucinating usually hallucinate a whole tonne of people they don't even know?

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

Clearly, you don't know much about this topic.

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

Listen, newcomer, I basically made certain that LSD made it to Britain. I'm pretty sure I know one or two things about this topic.

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

I'm not talking about drugs, you...

Can we just stop having this conversation?

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

Oh, absolutely. John Watson, was it? ...Wait a second, John Watson?

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

Yes.

[It's not a difficult name to handle, so the reaction is eyed strangely.]

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

[It's not an entirely uncommon name, and Crowley remembers a brief trend about a hundred years ago of a lot of people naming their kids just plain old Watson, but considering this is Wonderland...]

Yes, well. John Watson, then.

[His life has become such a joke. Sob.]

[video]

[you_dont_work_alone]

Yes, well.

[Strange guy.]

[video]

[thepointisdolphins]

[He clears his throat. Then hangs up. Yeah. Smoooooth.]