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[villainously]

( the video opens with a pair of bright blue eyes, far more fur than any one creature could need, and a practically thunderous purr. it's not surprising, seeing as Hook has tried about 5 times to set the thing up to record and the damn cat keeps knocking it over. his company is painfully exposed as he scoops up the purring beast and puts it on the floor.

no he's not going to mention or talk about the cat. that's not important, all right? thanks to that bloke with cat fantasies practically all of Wonderland has a cat. that's not what he's trying to talk about.

the pirate looks tired, but anyone that knows him knows that's a 24-7 thing for him. he's been tired since he arrived, months ago. that doesn't seem to be stalling anytime soon. not sleeping doesn't help, but his busywork does, at least a little. busywork for a pirate means making maps, which means... )

Is there a proper map of this place? I haven't spotted one yet. If there's not, I've been considering starting on a draft. It won't do us any good once the place is tits up on these events, but it's not a horrible thing to have on hand.

( he rubs at his forehead, as Dave jumps back up onto his desk and paws at the many pens scattered there. )

I'd ask for a star chart while I was at it, but speaking of things going tits up, the stars here are absolutely mad. I don't remember them being like this when I arrived, does anyone know what happened to them?

( the stars running wild bothers him more than he cares to admit. stars shouldn't move nightly... it's utterly ridiculous. Dave seems to have decided that the first eight times he was put on the floor for messing with the camera were just a cute joke, and tries to nuzzle it with more of those dementedly loud purrs. the pirate sighs and plucks it back off the table to the floor. )

If anyone has experience with cartography, I suppose I'd take the help. Making a map from scratch is difficult.

Comments

[krmvgivv]

[I mean Dipper is a child. But it's also a twin thing. They need each other.

But the magic thing makes him frown a little. It's a nice thought, but...]

No one's found any spell strong enough to get around Wonderland's powers. Nothing that direct is going to have much effect.

[villainously]

Right, and nobody ever gets out, and everything is hopeless. I've heard this spiel before.

( clearly he doesn't believe it, though. )

[krmvgivv]

People get out all the time, just not intentionally. And I didn't say it was hopeless. [Though after being stuck in Wonderland a year and making zero progress, he's starting to feel like it is.] Just that if the solution was as obvious as someone doing a spell, someone would've done it already.

[villainously]

I'm no expert on magic, far from it, actually. But in my world, there's never a spell and it's all impossible, until suddenly there is and it isn't.

The answer is out there. Wonderland doesn't want us to find it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

( and maybe it isn't a spell. but Hook is pretty used to magic being the troublemaker in his life so that's what he assumes. )

[krmvgivv]

That... sounds pretty contrived. [In Dipper's world magic tends to create problems and quick wits and creative thinking solve them.] Which makes sense for a world that's literally fairy tales, I guess. I'm still pretty willing to bet we won't suddenly come across the Deus Ex Machina spell. If there are answers, they'll come from thoughtful deductions and being smart enough to find the patterns in all the random weirdness.

[villainously]

( dude he only understood like 45% of that. ........ maybe 50%. still, he agrees to the point. Finding a way out requires them to be clever. He simply also believes it'll require magic. )

If anyone knows the way out of here, it's whoever is responsible for us being here. Figuring that out seems the first step.

[krmvgivv]

If it's a who. There are theories that it's the dimension itself.

[villainously]

So I've heard. That's based on what, exactly?

( he's never heard of a malevolent land. and he's been in Neverland. for centuries. if there was ever a land that had it out for you...it was Neverland. )

[krmvgivv]

The complete lack of rhyme or reason to who's taken, mostly. I mean, it's not like there's no pattern, since a lot of times people who know each other show up, but there sure isn't a predictable pattern. Maybe there was someone running the show once, but I think they left it on autopilot.

[villainously]

Seems to me if memories is all they're after, there's no need for rhyme nor reason. Everyone has memories.

[krmvgivv]

No need, sure, but people tend to be a lot more predictable than this. Even non-human people.

[villainously]

If it were a person wielding an unpredictable force ( aka magic again ) then the results will never be clean.