01 | Missing Strings | Dictated

[omgbear]

[Several hours since his arrival, and he's gone nowhere in a hurry. Mostly just around in circles in the biggest building he's ever set foot in. While the journal has accompanied him, he hasn't really paid it much mind in the midst of the quiet panic threatening to bubble to the surface. He thought he was done with all the weird stuff, but apparently that wasn't the case at all. Eventually circling back to where he started, in a huge room with his name on the door, Hijiri finally settled down to study the journal more closely.]

[Unsettled emotions quickly give way to curiosity. There were different voices having conversations on different pages. It was weird, but after everything else he's recently seen, not too terribly out of the way in terms of things that can exist. He decides to give it a shot, himself. Voices have to belong to all the people he saw.]

Ah, hello? Can anyone tell me where I am? [He paused, waiting.] It's definitely not where I was an hour ago.

[Another pause, and a soft laugh.] This is weird, talking to a book.

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[fearbringer]

Then why are you doing it?

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[omgbear]

[Was he trying to be a jerk?]

Because it's weird!

[dictated]

[fearbringer]

And you like doing weird things?

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[omgbear]

It got you to answer, didn't it?

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[fearbringer]

Sure, but you're the one who said it's weird.

[i_rule_me]

Well, you're not wherever it is that ya call home, though I s'pose that much's obvious. This place's called Paradisa, it's...sorta like a snow globe, in that it's sort of a world separate from all others. If that sounds weird t'you, you're perfectly sane. None of the folks here can make heads or tails of it either.

Trust me, talkin' to the journal's probably the most normal thing you're likely ta do while you're here.

[omgbear]

A snow globe? [Well it could be worse.]

I guess that means there's no easy way to get back home, either.

[i_rule_me]

Aye. People smarter'n me've been tryin' ta find a way out for a while, an' have yet ta find anything, beyond the Castle sendin' us home when it's had enough.

[omgbear]

The castle has a mind of its own? That's creepy.

[i_rule_me]

Aye, it is a bit. Wish I could say it's the weirdest thing I've encountered, but a sentinent building's pretty normal for where I come from.

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[preformthisneigh]

Oh! I know the answer to this one, me me!

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[omgbear]

[Excitable?]

Okay, well don't keep me waiting!

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[preformthisneigh]

[Like a puppy on prozac.]

So this place is called Paradisa! It takes pon- all kinds of creatures from other worlds and keeps them here for-

...Some reason, haven't figured that part out yet. But it's all pretty cool.

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[omgbear]

What's cool about it? Isn't being kidnapped a bad thing?

[preformthisneigh]

It's a whole new place to explore, that's what. Who wouldn't want that?

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[freeslider]

You get used to it. Just pretend it's a phone...um...if you have those where you come from, I mean.

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[omgbear]

[There's people who don't know what a telephone is?]

I think that'll be much easier. Thanks for the advice.

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[freeslider]

[It's something she's discovered about this place, yep.]

No problem! I'm Wade and you must be new.

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[omgbear]

Yes, that's right. I'm Minase Hijiri! I just got here today.

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[freeslider]

You're taking this pretty well, if you don't mind me saying.

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[keelahs]

Welcome to Paradisa. [ There's a hint of sarcasm there. ] I felt the same way at first, I still don't think I've gotten used to it myself.

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[omgbear]

[Huh. This person sounds funny.]

Someone else said it's just like a telephone. It's just book-shaped.

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[keelahs]

[ ... she gets that a lot. ]

I suppose that is one way of looking at it. Still, doesn't make it any less strange.

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[omgbear]

Well it's magic, I think. That's going to be weird anyway.

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[keelahs]

You can say that again. "Magic" hardly exists where I'm from.