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[loisfuckinglane]

[ annnd down to business.  lois has a lot of people to contact today... ]

[ Raine Sage ]

Here I heard you were back and I hadn't even gotten to talk to you yet.  Pretty sure that's a grievous oversight on my part.  

[ Annabeth Chase ]

Your boyfriend told me to look you up.  Said you might have some questions I could help with you.  

[ Chris Kent ]

Hi sweetie.  Are you and Conner getting along now that he's all settled in?  

[ Anti-first gen / evil people filter ]

Turn my head and fifty new things are happening around here.  Did somebody end up putting an expedition plan?  I've heard buzz floating around.  You'd better not leaving me hanging, because if I miss a scoop, so help me...

[ and after a moment, she adds one more. ]

[ Clark ]

So I've been thinking lately.  As in ever since the whole Mirrorworld revelation came to light.  It's one thing to suspect what this castle's getting out of us living here, but hearing it that way... Well, let's just say I've got an oversized case of the heebie jeebies. Not for us, so much as for the fact that we're trying to raise a kid here and-- [deep breath now]   Smallville, I want to move.
 

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Lois

[supes]

[He pauses to consider that.]

Out to the city, you mean?

[He's not sure where the heck else she could mean, but, well. He's not sure why he feels reluctant for a moment when he agrees with it completely, either; does he have any particular attachment to living in the castle? Is it the castle that makes him reluctant to move out?

Maybe that's all the more reason to go.]

Get a nice house, someplace with a yard, room for Conner to have his friends over...

Clark

[loisfuckinglane]

Well, I wasn't thinking of setting up shop in the Dead Zone.

Lois

[supes]

I know, I know. The suggestion just... caught me by surprise, that's all.

Clark

[loisfuckinglane]

Me too, to be honest.

Lois

[supes]

Sometimes I wonder if we're so comfortable here in the castle because the castle makes us be. This whole soul thing is something a lot of us theorized at one point or another, people as batteries for the place, but...

I don't know. Maybe the confirmation is just the last straw.

Clark

[loisfuckinglane]

It does make it kind of hard to remember why I ever thought it was a good idea.

Lois

[supes]

[He nods.]

Well, I think it's a good idea to move out of the castle. The sooner the better, maybe. Keep the apartment here for emergencies, but otherwise find a nice house in town.

filtered;

[bornofwisdom]

( thanks for the heads up, Percy. )

I guess we should probably start with introductions.

filtered;

[loisfuckinglane]

Lois Lane-Kent, resident World Beyond expert.

Lois;

[bornofwisdom]

Nice to meet you.

I guess I should just ask the obvious. What do you know about how the castle works?

Annabeth;

[loisfuckinglane]

A little bit more, as of recently.

It feeds itself through our emotional spikes. Happy, sad, angry, confused, anything. It's one reason it probably screws with us so often.

Lois;

[bornofwisdom]

Has anyone managed to work out why it's necessary for us to be taken from our worlds to this place?

Annabeth;

[loisfuckinglane]

Our best guess is that the castle itself brings us here. Since it can't sustain itself without people, and somehow it has some kind of extradimensional reach.

Lois;

[bornofwisdom]

Are you saying the castle is alive?

Lois

[ruin_mania]

I am, and I do hope you've been well yourself. It's been something of an adjustment for me, I'm afraid, though I have had a chance to read your latest endeavor [meaning the updated world guide, of course].

In answer to your other question, Aradia Megido is planning an expedition to Lastlook and I'm certain she'd welcome more company. It's rather far out of the way, so we expect to be gone for several weeks.

Raine;

[loisfuckinglane]

Some of us had been talking about trying to take the rivers to travel since they're open in the summer. Would that be convenient for this trip or is it all hoofing it?

Lois

[ruin_mania]

Well, I can't say I know the exact route as of yet, but...should you decide to use the rivers, well, I wish you the best of luck.

[Someone doesn't do boats.]

Raine;

[loisfuckinglane]

Rin's other idea was hot air balloons.

Lois

[ruin_mania]

Now that I could use a bit more easily. [She got used to flying with the Rheiards, after all, not to mention using various flying Pokemon in Unova.] Though I don't know how much control we'd have should the wind decide to intervene.

Raine;

[loisfuckinglane]

Inclement weather would probably be a danger no matter what transportation we took.

[yeahihidmypants]

Are you heading out? Is this where I get to put in my standard "Lois goes on an expedition" disclaimer of being careful, and checking in, and being careful.

[He pauses.] I put the careful thing there twice, but I just really mean it.

[loisfuckinglane]

I have a kid to come home to now. Consider me on a new level of 'careful'.

[yeahihidmypants]

I will keep that in mind.

[There is a sigh of relief that he manages to hold in.]

Did you need anything before you left?

[loisfuckinglane]

I might settle for well wishes.

[yeahihidmypants]

I can definitely do that for you.