paradisa | ☠ - First skull

Dearest adventure journal,

Its a pleasure to make your acquaintance and im sure itll be no time before this tooled volume is filled to the brim with accounts of all sorts of marvelous adventures accrued in this mysterious castle! Though i guess you could say i feel like a real heel for blowing out of the game with my friends like that. I never even had the chance to make amends with jane! Damn it if i had you i would have jotted down that code LICKETY-SPLIT! Then i could have sent it off without a hitch instead of looking like an even bigger buffoon to my dear friend. Whatever it was i bet she would have been thrilled by my selfless gesture of friendship.

Oh well. I guess theres no sense crying over spilled milk now. Those guys will do just fine without me. I have nothing but complete faith in them! And who knows? Maybe this is the way the time travel my friend mentioned comes to pass! Yes im sure of it. By the time i get back jane and dirk ought to have cooled down and itll be just like old times!

Whops. Sitting around moping sure isnt getting any exploring or daring do accomplished is it? Well then my esteemed compendium lets get on with it and see what kind of hazards we can unearth!

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[...No.

NO.

Really, Paradisa? REALLY?

At least she's in a ridiculous mirror world with painted roses and tea parties with the weirdest guests and not immediately subjected to FREAKING JAKE.]

Jake.
Jake, the journal is not an adventure journal.

Edited 2013-01-15 02:51 (UTC)

Jane what the dickens are you doing in my journal??

Not that im not absolutely tickled pink to see you found my chumhandle on this thing or that youre even getting my messages at all!

But i had the idea this damnblasted thing was a little bit more private in nature.

Oh for goodness sake. I bet you didn't even flip through the thing yourself, did you?
It's got entries from all sorts of people in it.
I'm assuming you don't remember coming here before? Not that it would actually be your fault if you don't.

Well not yet. I just got it so you could say i was all rip roaring ready to break the old gal in! Ill be sure to check out the other pages after weve had our fill of chitter chatter!

Um. Not really. Shit jane you know my memory is atrocious but this seems like something even *I* would remember.

Whence was i here prior?

Of course.
Well, I honestly have nothing better to do. I will fill you in.
This journal is a communication device. You can use it to talk to everyone else who has one here.
And "here" is Paradisa. It is a magic castle that pulls people into it and makes them miserable to feed off of their emotions. Welcome!!!
I'm sure in time you'll stumble upon Dirk and Roxy - they are here, too.

It's fine. For once this is something your memory isn't to blame for.
Sometimes people leave here and come back, and they don't remember ever being here.

You were here in July. You didn't stay long.

[ Oh.

She would know that font and particular way of speech anywhere.

On one hand FUCK YEAH JAKE.

On the other hand...

She told Jane she was going to punch him. Not that she actually meant to punch him, just...]

ell oh ell

jake u doofus thats not how it works
ur sposed to talk to other ppl
like this ;)
c its super easy

u can also do private stuff so only i can see like this
c how private this is
jus make sure you put MY name in
like: ROXY
got it

July? Jane now i do believe you are pulling my leg. One of those famous CROCKER PRANKS is it? Well slap my hind quarters and call me a pig you really had be going there for a while jane!

But thats downright impossible. We didnt even start the game until november.

Roxy!! Jane said you were here too and here you are! How did you and jane get here before i did when i was just talking to you? Who knows! It must be timey wimey business and its better not to ask.

Though i guess that means mr strider is somewhere around here too...

Edited 2013-01-15 04:08 (UTC)

o yea ther is all kindsa timey wimey shenans up in here
just when u think u got it all figured out
it throws u for another timey wimey loop
jane is ahead of me and i have this distinct feelin u r now too
it would figure im all here left in the dark
ud be rite bout dirk tho he is here too
but thats not what i wanted 2 talk to u bout
jane gave me the dl
well maybe not all of the deets but thats not whats important
shes rly upset but its good 2 c that u want to make it up to her tho idk if thats such a good thing rn

Ok, I remem8er you. Vaguely.
Though I never really knew what your deal was.
Do you even have a deal to 8egin with?
Is that a thing I should 8e expecting at this point?

[Here Jake, have an enthusiastic voice piping out of the journal at you.]

Wow! Are you another friend of Jane's? She's got all sorts of friends from home now, I'm kinda jealous!

hello child
this is your adventure journal
yes
i am sentient
yes
i want to be friends
listen carefully adventurer i have a mission for you
there is somebody in desperate need of help
are you up for the test or are you too weak to try
y/n

Jake, do the words I am writing convey any sort of japery?
I am telling you the truth and trying awfully hard not to get mad again! I am tired of being angry, especially when it's not...
I don't even know why I'm bothering to...
Well, whatever!

Time is funny here. The castle can pull you in whenever it likes, but it runs on its own clock.
When I say July, I meant when it was July here. It's January here, now.

So... you arent mad right now?

[Yes, now Jake has the ability to listen. For that one split-second.]

January? Sheesh. Well if you say its so then i guess ive got no choice but to go along with it! But jane is the local time piece going forwards or backwards when it helps itself to unsuspecting bystanders?

Edited 2013-01-16 02:12 (UTC)

At last i can recall it was the day before janes birthday.

I sort of screwed the pooch that one. It slipped my mind until recently. :(

Is she still really that upset about it?? Criminy. If i dont do something to made amends shell think im some kind of low down curr.

No.
I'm irritated and sort of upset, but I am not angry.

You mean back home? Time doesn't move at all.
If and when we return home, everything picks up from where it left off, and you don't remember ever being here at all. I should know.

[Blue senses tingling...]

Well im sorry to say my memories of ever being here before are something to be desired! Which is to say i dont remember a fucking thing about this place.

So i guess i could introduce myself again and we could take it from there?

The names english jake english. Adventurer duelist and a dapper gentleman if i may say so myself. And you would be??

Jimminy! These things have audio too?? This has to be the most state of the art ledger ive ever seen!

Anyway to answer your question indeedy! Shes been a trusted and dear friend of mine for ages! Though theres not one cotton pickin thing wrong with new friends too! I assume youre an associate of miss crocker?

Oh goody i knew this was an adventure journal! All the bells and whistles couldnt fool me mr journal. Or pardon me is it miss?

Anyway you should know as well as anyone id never turn my back on an earnest plea for abetment! I eagerly accept your mission! What is it??

So you went back home since youve been here but you couldnt tell any of us about it?? And i did the same thing for that matter?

That sucks. This place looks like it has more than a few mysterious adventures to pursue but id hate to forget them after theyre done.

[Oh my God, he has an ounce of sense. This moment won't last.]

That is exactly right.
And I'm sure you will have your fill of adventures if you manage to stay here for a little while longer!
Adventures as far as the eye can see for you, Jake. A literal googleplex of adventures!!!!

...If I could ask one thing of you, though?

Jane you know you can ask anything from me! What can i do??

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