1st Call Out ~ [Action/Accidental Dictation]

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

[Category A Call. Unresponsive four year-old. That is why Stuart is running. He was expecting to run into the bungalow of an old man, but, instead, runs into the lobby of Cair Paradisa.

And he stops...

...And stares.]

I always knew Pensioners got loads of money, the theiving bastards.

[And then he notices the journal, open, at his feet, reaching down and picking it up, not looking at it yet, but turning around behind him]

Hey! Ash! Get your arse in here, we've got a kid to save.

[Silence...]

Ash? [There's the sound of the lobby door opening. And more silence.]

Okay, what the fuck?

((OOC: Open in person or over the journals.))

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[songsandstories]

[She nearly runs into him as she entered the lobby. Taking a step back, Alayne steadies herself.]

Are you alright, ser?

action;

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

[Aaand whirling around.]

There's no ambulance outside.

[Obviously.]

action;

[songsandstories]

No, there isn't, but then I do not know what that is. Are you new? [She stands tall.]

action;

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

What d'you mean you don't know what one is?

[Looking outside, and back into the lobby.]

Where the fuck am I?

[It's quite simple to put two and two together and come up in another dimension...]

action;

[songsandstories]

They do not have such things in Westeros where I am from.

[A slow nod. He is new.]

You, like all of us here, find yourself in Paradisa. The Castle takes us all from our homes and brings us here.

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[fuckinghateadrenaline]

[Excuse him while he processes all of this.]

You mean to say I've been abducted and sent to another dimension? That's total bollocks. This isn't Galaxy Walk.

[Like Star Trek, but due to magic castle stuff namechanged.]

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Oh my, it seems new people arrive here almost every day.

{Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

[And Stuart looks down at the book in his hand, flipping it open.]

Did this thing just speak? [Mostly to himself, but...]

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Luckily the journals aren't sentient. I'm another resident of the castle, as it were.

{Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

Okay, mate, you're going to have to start explaining yourself.

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Explaining myself? My, that's rather brusque. I'm not the one that brought you here, after all.

{Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

That you may not, but you're still a voice coming from a fucking book, and I'd like to know if I can still make it to that four year-old who's in trouble or not.

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

I'm afraid the child will have to wait. From my understanding, however, time freezes in the world you're away from. It's a wonderful and rather fiction-esque play on time travel and the like.

{Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

I take it you're only fluent in nonsense, then?

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

Well, since the Castle runs on it, I'd say I'm in a good place.

Re: {Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

Okay. Lets keep this simple, shall we?

Question #1: Where am I?
Question #2: How did I get here?

[kungfuwitch]

[Unfortunately for Phoebe she'd been about to open the doors to return back to the castle when they were abruptly opened. She yelps in surprise, staring at the man standing in front of her.]

Who needs coffee when you've got regular morning heart attacks? Hi.

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

I'm not sure where you're getting confused at.

[Whoops, that's not a shit-eating grin is it?

Oh, it is.]

First question, You're at Cair Paradisa.
Second, It decided to bring you here.

Re: {Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

I didn't say I was getting confused. I just wanted some simple questions answered.

Glad we got there, at last.

{Dictated}

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

It only takes asking the right questions.

action;

[songsandstories]

[She literally has no idea what he said.]

It is the truth. You may ask any here.

/action

[mispronunciates]

[and at the prospect of Children In Danger, Megamind comes BARRELING down the stairs]

Where's the child? Where?! Let me help!

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

[And Stuart takes a step back...

...Before entering smart-arse mode.]

You know it's statistically improbable to have a heart-attack from a scare unless you have a history of cardiac issues, right?

[Now that's out of the way...]

You wouldn't have seen a big fuck-off ambulance parked right there, would you? [He points to the front of the castle]

{Dictated}

[fuckinghateadrenaline]

No, it takes not being an arsehole.

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[fuckinghateadrenaline]

But if this was all a hallucination, brought on by, say, a colleague slipping acid into my coffee, that's exactly what you'd want me to think.