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[driven]

[ when the feed comes up, it catches what sounds like a laugh already in progress, and the bottom half of a face. as it comes into view, someone seems to be righting the camera, before allison eventually turns her attention away from whatever she'd be grinning to off-screen and looks towards the camera. she opens her mouth to talk, but before she can get the words out another voice comes from off the screen. ]

Dude, have you ever seen Monty Python? Killer bunnies with big nasty fangs [ what you can’t see is stiles attempting to make bunny fangs with his teeth, but you can definitely hear his “arrghhrarrgh” in what is clearly a killer bunny noise. ]

[ allison's eyes follow the voice, laughing again. ] You're kidding me, right? You want to put the Easter bunny in this? [ another shake of her head and then she more pointedly looks back to the screen. ] Sorry, someone is-

--Very prepared and always right. [ he at least sounds a little cheeky. it’s a joke. really. sort of. ] And it’s not the Easter bunny!

Yeah okay. Anyway, for those of you we don't know, I'm Allison. Stiles here- [ eyes motioning off the screen and then they're back. ] and I are trying to put together a book. A beastiary, if you know what those are, of as many creatures - supernatural or not - that could potentially show up here.

And that totally includes the people of Wonderland who go bump in the night, I’m just sayin. What’s kosher for my creature of the night may not be kosher for yours.

[ she continues like she didn't hear him. ] If you don't already know, Wonderland likes to throw events at us from the worlds of people here. Sometimes they're fine, sometimes they're not, and-

-And sometimes they end in blood and gore! We haven’t had one of those in a while, I wonder--

Stiles, you can talk later! Let me finish! [ she laughing, though, so it's pretty obvious that stiles' interruptions aren't really bothering her. ] Sometimes they can be really dangerous, and in order to help everyone protect themselves, we figured collecting the information would help. Just to get it out there for people to know if they want to know, and if they don't, that's fine too.

Help a brother out, basically. [ a beat, and stiles pokes into the screen from an awkward angle, all button nose and spotted cheeks before he grins and jerks his head in allison’s direction. ] Or a sister. [ and then disappears from the feed again. ]

[ allison takes her hand back - having shoved stiles out of the frame in the first place - and resets the camera. ] We’ve done this before, so we have a good list started from a few worlds, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned is that even if the lore is in different worlds, a lot of the time the details aren’t the same. For example, take-

--Aaaany form of the supernatural! At all. Anywhere. Oookay, that’s the end of that, no more of that feed. [ #smooth ] Bye!

What? No, Stiles- [ the device is then forcefully plucked from allison’s hands, muffled sounds of a struggle, and then it shuts off. ]


[ ooc both stiles and allison are open for replies! ]

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[driven]

we're adding to it.
just trying to keep it updated, with how people keep coming and going

[ adam, the fact your first thought is something really bad is probably not healthy. you should look at that. ]

[halfwinchester]

_{[Yeah, it's called looking in the mirror every day. Sorry, Allison. He zeroes in on those sorts of word choices like a heat-seeking missile.]}

I can get why it wasn't finished. That kind of thing would be like the Neverending Story.

Is it going to be a public thing?

_{[Because that might be a resource he'll want to tap into if it pans out. Even better if it doubles as a neighborhood watch list.]}

[driven]

I doubt it'll ever be /finished/, honestly
but that's the idea
once we get a database or something set up we want to have it available
so whenever events or anything come up, and something shows up, people would have had the chance to at least read over it?
and just sort of know
I don't know. at this point I'm almost just doing it so /I/ know

[halfwinchester]

It's a good idea when so many supernatural things here look human. People should know what to watch out for. Like a hunter's guide.

I dunno how many times I wished there was something like that when I've walked smack into them.

<sub>[Someone has no idea hunter journals exist. But he does see why they're a good idea.

It's not just what might happen or what might show up for Adam, it's what's already here. Everybody should get a goddamn welcome brochure on how to deal with angels, if you ask him.]</sub>

But how are you going to protect it? Even if a bit of info is true, they won't like that people are taking stock of them.

[driven]

it can also be sued for if monsters from home show up here
like during events
you were here during the hellhound event, right?
this would work because it'd show everyone how to take care of them

[ casually not going to mention the whole 'running into supernatural creatures here in wonderland' thing. remember how half her friends are werewolves? ]

I'm hoping we can find a way to get it on the network
like the pamphlet or something
so it'll always be up there for everyone to use

[halfwinchester]

I missed the Hell dogs, but I'm not crying over that one.

_{[Hahahaha... He'll pass on anything to do with Hell or anything that comes crawling up out of it.]}

I get the idea. Like a directory to look up the easiest way to off a monster.

An online database could work. Or a doc that could get reposted every once in a while. But that thing is going to be so huge it's going to make that brochure look like chump change.

[driven]

that's what I'm worried about
no one is going to want to go through all of that
I don't even want to go through it all and I'm writing it down

if I could work these device things any better I'd try and put it all on there
and everyone could just search
like a wiki or something
but I don't know anything about technology, or not enough to work that

[halfwinchester]

Wouldn't life be great if we got a choice.

<sub>[But when it comes to life inflicting crap on them, they don't. Being humans seems to be synonymous with being God's punching bag.

In the case of Wonderland, that means being at the mercy of its tempter tantrums.]</sub>

Any tech geniuses hit you up yet?

_{[Anything's got to be better than that stupid pamphlet.]}

[driven]

that would be too easy

[ and life is never easy, especially not in wonderland. but allison's getting used to it, at this point. just have to keep pushing through. ]

not yet
do you know anyone?

[halfwinchester]

_{[Push through, and educate yourself on monsters. That's about all a person can do.]}

I thought Iron Man was hanging around for a while. The superhero crowd must be good at info blasting people.

Or I guess there's always magic. Somebody made sure we could get in touch with the network somehow.

_{[Otherwise, he's got nothing. He hasn't made a habit of befriending too many people who'd have the know-how, at least not that he knows of.]}

[driven]

[ and for some, it's a lot to ask. but if they can get more than just six experts going in wonderland, that should be enough, right? ]

I'll have to ask him

[ she has such a good track record with those, too. ]

I don't know how I feel about using magic to work with magic
doesn't that cross some kind of line?

[halfwinchester]

Like fighting fire with fire.

How much do you want to bet half the people who answer this aren't even human? If you ask me it's not any different than getting advice on how to deal with the supernatural from other supernatural things.

_{[The lines are already blurred to hell and back. Anybody living in the mansion already uses some kind of magic just to get through the day, whether it be using the closets, or getting food out of the dining room, changing the wallpaper in their bedroom.]}

[driven]

yeah, and in the end everything burns

I don't really know if I care if they're human or not
they'd be the best kind of people to ask about weaknesses and things
working magic against magic is using a tool against a tool
neither of which I know enough about to be comfortable using

unless you wanna help out?
do you know a lot about magic?

[halfwinchester]

_{[Everything burning down is a risk they're running no matter what they do, that's just a fact of this messed up life.]}

They have their own reasons for doing things, it's not out of the goodness of their hearts. Trusting one of them to give you good info isn't that different than going in blind.

I hope you're good at fact checking.

<sub>[Adam knows it's a huge generalization, that not all non-humans pose as big of a threat as mucking around with powers a person doesn't understand like real, live magic, but some of them are.

He can't imagine a lot of monsters would help out unconditionally with this monster encyclopedia project without throwing in a few lies or loopholes, for that matter. Adam finds that if given the choice, he'd rather cut out the middleman. Find a way to protect himself without taking cues from other creepy crawlies.

That said, he knows exactly nothing about magic.]</sub>

Sorry, I never got my letter to Hogwarts. If you need to change a tire or set a sprained ankle, I can do that, but no pulling rabbits out of hats.

[driven]

see, I don't think I agree with you on that
because if you take someone who, where they're from, everyone has abilities or powers or whatever
then they're basically human, or how we see humans
they'd be the best to talk to
plus if they're worried about losing control themselves they wouldn't want to hurt people

you read harry potter
do you seriously want to tell me you think remus lupin wouldn't try to help us out with werewolves?

[ you're talking to the wrong hunter about generalizations, adam. there might be some monsters (peter) who would intentionally lie about this kind of thing, but she doesn't think all of them would.

where he'd rather take the safe route that they're all bad, she'd rather take the route that says all good. or most, in both cases. ]

I'll keep that in mind when I get my first car
or if I can't change the tire myself :p

[ because she totally can. ]

[halfwinchester]

That's kind of deep. You've thought about that before, haven't you?

_{[So has he, of course, it'd be a little hard not to when Wonderland blows your understanding of the universe out of the water just by existing. But contemplating his existence means little more than how he's going to get through the next day, the next week, the next month, and opening his bruised and bloody soul up to the power of open-mindedness doesn't factor in.]}

Being human isn't having special powers, that's how I see it. No offense to Professor Furry, but not wanting to hurt people and ripping them to shreds because you can't control yourself are totally different. I'd rather him whip up a way to make your how-to guide work than mess around with the non-human part.

Don't get me wrong, I get why all hands on deck is supposed to be a good thing and that other worlds are cool, but it was survival of the fittest back home. Planning how to survive puts me to sleep faster than hoping some alien with superpowers doesn't throw me under the bus.

<sub>[And that's why it just seems better to take information from people who've actually hunted the things. An angel wouldn't just tell how to de-possess a person from another angel--the ones who thrive by walking all over humans would lose their business if they were that honest.

In the end, it's all about whether a person can prove whether the tips and tricks work. If Allison and her friends want to interview Lupin, and Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, they can knock themselves out.]</sub>