First Gate

[forsometimenow]

Usually my first instinct on waking up in a strange place with no memory of how I got there is to look around for any danger... and while there doesn't seem to be any here, I have to say, I'm feeling more than a little lost. I figured out pretty quickly that the journal talks back, but everything I've read and heard from it makes even less sense than the talking part.

I guess I'll start by asking if this planet has a name. And if anybody can tell me how I got here, since I'm still really confused about that part.

Comments

Dictated

[atadiscoverer]

[Okay, that voice was all too familiar...

Carson almost drops everything. Almost. He sets whatever he's doing down and heads on over to the journal.]

Dr. Keller? It's Dr. Beckett. Is that you?

Dictated

[forsometimenow]

... Carson? What's going on?

Dictated

[atadiscoverer]

[A pause]

I think it's obvious to say that you're not on Atlantis anymore. You're in a place called Cair Paradisa. It's taken you from... wherever and whenever...

What's the last thing you remember?

Dictated

[forsometimenow]

Well, I remember us landing the city on Earth after fighting off the super hive... and... that's it.

Dictated

[atadiscoverer]

Fighting the what?

[And just-- wait...]

Atlantis is on Earth now?

[What]

Dictated

[forsometimenow]

[softly]

Oh, God...

[She takes a moment to gather herself.]

You don't remember that? Any of it? ... then what DO you remember?

Dictated

[atadiscoverer]

[...Now here's the tricky bit]

Delivering the explosive tumor to a bomb disposal expert after removing it from Dr. Watson.

[A pause here.]

Paradisa can take people from other times as well as places. It's just possible that what you're telling me hasn't happened to me yet.

[And it confirms one thing; You're talking to the original Carson Beckett.]

[Dictated]

[biggestdreamer]

I don't know the name of the planet, though I think it is another world. But the name of this castle is Paradisa.

[Dictated]

[forsometimenow]

That would sound pleasant if not for the fact that I don't remember ever coming here.

Re: [Dictated]

[biggestdreamer]

No one ever does.

[Dictated]

[forsometimenow]

But how is that possible?

Re: [Dictated]

[biggestdreamer]

I don't really understand all of it, but some of the people here have told me its because the castle brings us here.

[Dictated]

[forsometimenow]

Well, that's definitely not the strangest thing I've ever heard, at least.

Thanks for the information.

Dictated forever

[mal_addict]

...Kaylee?

haha oh dear

[forsometimenow]

Pardon?

Had to happen

[mal_addict]

...That is Kaylee, right? [Suddenly getting the feelings she's got this wrong, oops]

Funnily enough I play Kaylee in another game and have to stop myself slipping into her voice XD

[forsometimenow]

I think you may have mistaken me for someone else.

rotfl

[mal_addict]

Ah...it happens more than you'd think. Sorry, you sound exactly like someone I knew once.

[forsometimenow]

It's fine. That does have to be a little strange, though...

/dictated

[ectobabble]

... Kaylee? ... S'that you?

/dictated

[forsometimenow]

You're the second person who's asked that, but... no, I'm not who you're thinking of, sorry.

[ectobabble]

Awh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude or anything. ... You really do sound just like her, though, it's uncanny.

[he'll only pout for a second, though, because new friends are a good thing, too. ahem!] Doesn't mean I can't still say hello, though! I'm Dr. Ray Stantz. Welcome to Paradisa.

[forsometimenow]

It's okay. I can understand how that would be a little strange to hear.

Thanks, Dr. Stanz. I'm Dr. Keller, though I don't mind being called Jennifer, either.

[ectobabble]

You're welcome! And you can call me Ray, everyone else here does. It's no big deal. Have people explained everything to you, yet? About the wishes, and the way everything changes, and stuff?

[forsometimenow]

Wishes? That's definitely something I haven't heard yet.