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[wilder]

[Dictated]

Hi everyone! Since the journals all got a clean out, I think it's time we make a good guide for all the newcomers to help clear things up! And since I'm a charitable guy with a lot of time on my hands, I went ahead and did it!

THE NEWGUY'S NEWCOMER'S GUIDE TO PARADISA!
by the great Professor Zelos Wilder!

1. Welcome to Paradisa! It's a magic castle in a magic world away from yours! You got kidnapped here and you're stuck until the castle takes you home or we find a way out ourselves!

2. Yes magic and sentient castles exist, for you skeptics out there. You get used to it!

3. Everyone is supposed to get a loss! It can be a memory, item or ability! Though I haven't found my loss yet so it's possible that some of us are just too amazing to get one heh heh heh.

4. The castle can give you most things you wish for! Though that doesn't include weapons or giant things or people. We're still working on if it's has biases in stuff like the best bread ever!

5. That room you probably woke up in? Is your room during your stay! If you didn't wake up in a room, look on the doors for a nameplate!

6. The kitchen is on the first floor! Though you can ask the ghost servants for food so I'm still not sure why you'd go all the way down there to get food, but there you go! The clinic's on the second floor! And there's a library...somewhere!

7. Sometimes the castle does crazy stuff! If a person is acting really weird, it's called a loss! I couldn't tell you why it's called that and I think it's really confusing, but when you're in Paradisa you do as Paradisans do! If we go to a different place, that's a world change!

8. No one really knows what we're doing here or why we were picked or why people show up when they do, but I'm sure there's theories abound. I think personally the castle has good tastes- there are a lot of pretty looking people here!

9. Death only lasts two weeks here, but I haven't seen it for myself yet. Kiiinda hoping it doesn't happen that often that I'd have to put it to the test.

10. When you get sent home, your memories get wiped! So don't be surprised if you show up here and there's some beautiful hunny demanding where you've been. Just count yourself lucky that some darling lady has missed you so! Unless of course, her way of missing you is to be violent when you show up again. Also, time works kinda funny here so don't be surprised if your buddy is from the future or the past. It happens!

Well...that's all I can think of so far and ten is a nice number to leave off! But if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask~!

[OOC: I'm...so sorry okay. SO SORRY]

Comments

dictated;

[wilder]

No way! I'm much too attached to Ice Princess! ♥

Sure! What's your room?

dictated;

[waterbends]

1707. It's the Ortus Tower.

dictated;

[wilder]

Should've known. [Beautiful princess in a tower, but he'll save that cheese to himself] I'll be there soon.

[And a few minutes later, there's going to be a knock on your door]

[waterbends]

[Probably best that you did. She might have stepped on your foot for that one, Zelos.]

Come on in!

[The door's unlocked and leads to a room that is.. surprisingly spartan. A bed, dresser and mirror with what looks like a little shrine next to it. There's a kitchenette in the corner, and that's where she's making her tea, but the room otherwise seems devoid of personal affects.]

[wilder]

[He walks in, looking around. Wow Katara, pretty poor looking and even his room looks more personal than this and he only changed the color scheme]

Yo~

[waterbends]

[Katara won't allow herself to fall into the trap of thinking of Paradisa as home. She can't afford to - it'd be too depressing.]

Hey! The tea's almost done -- there are a couple of chairs at the table here.

[wilder]

Great!

[He heads over to the chairs, slumping down into one]

So one person who could stop a war, and asking about them gets me invited for tea. That important, huh?

[waterbends]

There are benders in my world. You've seen my waterbending. But there are the water tribes, the fire nation, the earth kingdom -- and there used to be the air nomads. One person in the whole world, the Avatar, is able to master all four elements.

Follow so far?

[She smiles at him, sliding him a cup of tea.]

[wilder]

[He takes the cup, his expression pretty calm]

Yeah, I'm following.

[waterbends]

[Katara slides into a seat across from him.]

But a hundred years ago, the Avatar disappeared. And the Fire Nation attacked. They wiped out the Air Nomads and started a war. About seven months before coming to Paradisa, my brother and I found the Avatar, frozen in ice -- he was just twelve. He still had a lot of learning to do.

[wilder]

So you all hope that a twelve year old who can bend all four elements can stop a century long war.

[He tries to imagine him or Colette that young being sent on the Journey...that makes an already insane journey even more so.]

[waterbends]

... it was a lot to put on him. But he had people to help him on the way. Me, and my brother, our friend Toph -- she was an earthbending master. And Zuko, too, eventually..

[A breath.]

Zuko chased us for a long time.. he's the prince of the Fire Nation, but he was exiled by his dad, the Fire Lord. He wanted to capture Aang to restore his honor. He got past that, eventually.. and he became a valuable ally. A friend.

-- he hasn't gotten there yet in Paradisa.

[wilder]

"A lot to put on him" is a serious understatement, Katara!

[Ugh ugh, he knew he shouldn't have asked. Of course it'd be something that would piss him off]

That's great that you were there to help out- but where were the adults? Were they really dumping all the responsibility of the world on a special twelve year old and his friends?

[waterbends]

[Katara tenses a little at his vehemence, wrapping her hands around her mug.]

The adults of the water tribe were all at war for years. The Fire Nation killed mine and Sokka's mother when we were young, and our father took the men of the village to fight. Defend. Aang was an air nomad -- all of his people had been wiped out.

It was a war. We put ourselves into it. Most of the world assumed Aang was dead.. but we had no choice. Aang was the Avatar, Zelos.

[wilder]

[NOPE NOT GOOD ENOUGH WHERE WAS YOUR HOTHEADED SHONEN. But he's already reeling back his emotions from that outburst, with a bit of an annoyed noise]

Even if you had no choice, it doesn't mean I have to like it.

[waterbends]

[Tonight, the role of hotheaded shounen will be played by Katara.]

What else were we supposed to do, Zelos? Sit by and let the Fire Nation burn the world up?

[wilder]

No, I'm not saying that. I'm sure you guys were doing the best you could.

[He glares down at his tea]

Stuff like that just pisses me off.

[waterbends]

We fixed it. I mean - not just us. The armies helped some, too. But Aang stopped the Firelord. Zuko was going to take over the Fire Nation, and Aang was going to help him lead into an era of peace.

[He's not the only one staring at his tea -- though Katara is markedly more wistful.]

For the first time in a hundred years. And then I was brought here.

[wilder]

[He pushes himself back in the chair, defenses going back up. Aang was still alive, but was he going to be kept being used every time people couldn't get along? With an exhale, calming himself down]

That sounds great, Ice Princess. Glad you guys could do it.

[waterbends]

.. I'm sorry, Zelos. I was just trying to tell you about home - I didn't think I'd upset you.

[She shuts her eyes.]

Aang is.. really special. Not just because he can control all of the elements -- but being the Avatar means that he's connected to the power and minds of his past lives, too.

[Katara shakes her head quickly.]

How's your tea?

[wilder]

[he offers a smile]

It's fine, really. I was just overreacting to it, is all. No one likes hearing about kids fighting wars, you know how it is.

[...He's gonna make no comment to the second part since it really doesn't make him feel any better. ]

The tea? [...he forgot to drink it, so he'll take a sip] Very fine, but I expected as much~

[waterbends]

Zelos.. I really don't mean to sound negative. I honestly, really don't. But it's been a long time since I've felt like a kid, and I bet my brother and the rest of our friends would say the same.

[She clears her throat a little.]

Wow.. this was supposed to be happy and nostalgic, ha.

[wilder]

Yeah, I could see feeling that way.

[What with FIGHTING A WAR AND EVERYTHING. He shifts a bit awkwardly. Maybe a tiny bit of him felt guilt, but how the hell else was he going to react? She's lucky he didn't flip the table]

...Sorry.

[waterbends]

[Katara bends his tea into a little whirlpool.]

No, it's not your fault. I should have thought about it before I dumped all of this on you.

[wilder]

[Maybe she hadn't meant it that way, but that makes his stomach twist a little and the next comment comes a bit on the biting side]

Yeah, maybe.