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]

[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 forever

[mal_addict]

...Kaylee?

Dictated

[forsometimenow]

... Carson? What's going on?

[Dictated]

[forsometimenow]

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

haha oh dear

[forsometimenow]

Pardon?

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?

Had to happen

[mal_addict]

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

Dictated

[forsometimenow]

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

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.

Re: [Dictated]

[biggestdreamer]

No one ever does.

[forsometimenow]

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

[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.

[mal_addict]

Once you live here long enough, you get used to it surprisingly quickly.

[forsometimenow]

I know how strange things can get, believe me.

I'm Jennifer, by the way.

[Dictated]

[forsometimenow]

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

Thanks for the information.

[mal_addict]

Maladict. It's a pleasure, and welcome to Paradisa.

Re: [Dictated]

[biggestdreamer]

No problem! I like helping.

...And a lot of the time it seems like there isn't much I can do here.

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

[forsometimenow]

[There's a very long pause as she takes a moment to digest that.]

... I think we need to talk. In person. I'm not sure how I feel about this magic journal thing yet.

Dictated

[atadiscoverer]

Aye. I'm in room 606 if you want to meet here, or there's some nice wee cafés in town if you prefer somewhere away from the castle.