#002 - Cosmic Adventures

[kryptonian]

[Kara Zor-El is in Insolitus.

She's not quite lost -- no, she's not about to admit that yet -- but she's starting to think maybe she's become too reliant on her abilities. Here, in a maze that doesn't let her see through walls, it's a little tricky to stay "unlost", so to speak. But wasn't that adventure with Kal all those months ago supposed to teach her to not be too reliant on her abilities?

But hey, she's not lost yet.

She's just a little bit turned around in a maze of tunnels and ladders and all those things.

Hmm, what to do? She's sitting mid-way up a ladder with her journal to collect her thoughts.]


You know, what kind of castle keeps a giant evil jungle gym in its underbelly?

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Dictated

[whistles_the_blues]

Got it.

[It doesn't take him long to get from the third floor to the sixth. He slowly peeks his head in through the door and glances curiously at the three tunnels.]

This doesn't look ominous at all. Well here goes nothing.

[He closes the journal and crouches down low to get into the middle tunnel.]

dictated;

[kryptonian]

Now the trick will be finding me.

[whistles_the_blues]

[How hard could that possibly be?

He crawls along through the tunnel until he finds himself face to face with a rather large number of options he could take. He's not even going to bother trying to figure out just how many ways he could go through this place. He's gonna shout out.]

Do I at least get a hint!?

[kryptonian]

I'm pretty sure I went left at the first tunnel, climb up the ladder at the end, turn right, up the spiral stairs, tunnel to the right, down the fourth slide from the left... uh, I think from there it was between all those creepy silver pillars, tunnel to the right, then up another set of ladders to a platform... I think.

Normally I remember I lot better.

[whistles_the_blues]

Don't sweat it. I'm sure I can figure it out from there.

[He hangs a left like she had suggested and continues on. He can't help but grin at how cool this room is at the same time it looks like it would be a crappy place to end up losing power.

He manages to get about half way through the directions she had given him, to the tunnel after the silver pillars when he stops for a moment. He stomps his foot against the ground a few times to make a few loud thuds.]

If you can hear that let me know. Just checking to make sure I'm going the right way.

[kryptonian]

[She pauses to listen.] Actually, I can hear where you are... I just can't think of how to get there from here. I'm not a dolphin.

[whistles_the_blues]

I just wanted to see if I was getting closer. Figured if you could hear me that was a good sign.

[No idea about the whole super hearing thing yet.

So heads up the ladder toward the platform she had mentioned to take and as he gets to the top he starts to look around to see if she's there.]

[kryptonian]

Yup.

[She knows she forgot to mention something.]

I'm sitting on a ladder, if that helps. It's super dark in here.

[whistles_the_blues]

You don't say.

[He glances around the platform and see's a ramp up toward another ladder. Maybe that's the one she's on? He couldn't tell from where he was, so with a quick dash he made his way up the ramp and started up the latter. Keeping a closer eye out for her now.]

[kryptonian]

[Whoa, vision kicking in better.]

Hey! Right here.

[whistles_the_blues]

Well, That was certainly more challenging than I was expecting.

Still pretty fun though.

[It doesn't take too long for him to join up with her now that he can see her.]

[kryptonian]

I'm just glad you made it.

And hey, while you were getting here, my aunt told me that there's an old resident's room somewhere deep in here. Wanna find it?

[whistles_the_blues]

[Okay this had him curious, what kind of person would actually choose to live in a maze like this.]

Sounds like fun, makes things a bit more interesting than getting lost for the sake of getting lost.

[He offers a hand to help her get up.]

Shall we?

[kryptonian]

[She takes it and lets him pull her up.]

Let's go.

[whistles_the_blues]

[He nods in agreement before taking a moment to look around. He spots a bridge nearby and moves along to cross it.]

I hope you brought something to eat with you. If this place is half the maze it looks we could stuck in here for awhile, whether we find the room or not.

[kryptonian]

Don't worry about me, I'll be fine.

[And she will be, with her biology. It's mostly the lack of sunlight that will get to her if they remain lost.]

[whistles_the_blues]

Alright, I just wanted to be sure.

[He's in a similar boat, a faulty solar core can't even do a poor job at recharging without at least a little sunlight.]

I feel sorry for who ever had to travel through this to get back to their room every night.

[kryptonian]

No kidding... but I wonder why they put their room in here to begin with. You'd have to be one heck of a hermit.

[whistles_the_blues]

Sometimes people will go out of their way to get away from something.

I can't say I've been too different.

[kryptonian]

So you'd set up your room in the middle of nowhere?

[whistles_the_blues]

No, mainly because I didn't have a room at the time.

I do remember wandering off into the middle of nowhere though.

[kryptonian]

I don't mean just wandering away, I mean deciding "people suck, I want to stay away from them and have no one find me."

[whistles_the_blues]

You've got me there. When I left it wasn't exactly a long term plan; Go to Lanfront, pass away.

Maybe something similar happened to this person?

[kryptonian]

Maybe, but it seems like a lot of work just to... die.

[whistles_the_blues]

I could be completely wrong as well.

I think I'm comparing this person to myself too much.