Team Tembo: Day one

[sparednothing]

[By now you should have already woken up to your surroundings. Your camp is in the jungle, surrounded by tents, vehicles and cages full of dinosaurs. Wander around, check out the armoury, wonder why there are a bunch of dinosaurs in cages, or get yourself a tent]

[[ooc: The camp | Pick a tent | The dinosaurs | Roland Tembo | Day One OOC post | Plot Hub]]

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[lara_the_explorer]

2013.

[chenwho]

[Okay. No. That's not right.]

2013? That's... [Five years. Five years from where he was. How can she...?]

...This is insane. [He's going to look away from Lara and scrub at his eyes.]

[lara_the_explorer]

Absolutely. Did you hit your head? Or perhaps eaten that god-awful stew?

[chenwho]

No, I... [He was starting to get a headache.

What the hell was going on?!]

I just woke up here.

[lara_the_explorer]

[Huh, well that wiped out the sass in her expression. For now, at least]

You must be one of the new comers then. I just got here less than a week ago.

[chenwho]

Newcomers where?

[Because he sure didn't remember being shot in the jungle.]

[lara_the_explorer]

[Lara sighed, but looked straight into the man's eyes. She's as honest as she could be when she says:]

You're not in the same Earth anymore. I know it's not rational. I know it's crazy. But that is what it is. I'm still wrapping my head around it. People call this world "Paradisa".

[chenwho]

And this world... can it bring people back fro the dead?

[He's not questioning anything. He just spent a few days hunting for Pandora's Box, after all.]

[lara_the_explorer]

[Lara shook her head slowly]

I don't know. Like I said, I've only been here a few days, and I spent most of it on a clinic bed in a castle.

[chenwho]

Castle?

[There's more to this crazy place?]

[lara_the_explorer]

It's a long story. The castle is magical, they say, so it changes the way it manifests itself. Like now.

[chenwho]

So...

[Let him get this sorted out in his mind]

I've been kidnapped by a magic castle that can turn itself into a forest?

[lara_the_explorer]

It sounds irrational, I know. But that is the truth.

[chenwho]

Irrational. What could be bloody irrational about all this?

[Mostly to himself... He sighs, finally lowering the knife all the way.]

Sorry.

[lara_the_explorer]

[Lara was silent for a second, trying to get a good look at this man's face]

How do you know me?

[chenwho]

I don't think I do.

[Not this you, anyway.]

[lara_the_explorer]

You called me by my surname. And you talked to me like you knew me.

[chenwho]

I know a Lara Croft. She looks a lot like you.

[He scrubs his eyes.]

But this is all wrong. The time doesn't make sense.

[lara_the_explorer]

[She just looks at him with a confused expression]

[chenwho]

It won't happen again.

[He moves to sheath the knife in his boot again.]

[lara_the_explorer]

Wait.

Who are you?

[chenwho]

[He stands, and looks back.]

Terry Sheridan. [What's the harm?]

[lara_the_explorer]

Terry Sheridan. I don't know anyone by that name, but I'll remember it.

[She slowly steps away]

[chenwho]

No doubt you will.

[He's just going to start walking out of the trees.]