paradisa | ❀ Episode 03 ❀ [Dictated / Action]

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❀ Episode 03 ❀ [Dictated / Action]

[Rise wakes up in what feels like familiar surroundings, but doesn't look quite right. It's like she's on a huge fluffy cushion or something. This isn't still that Wonderland place, is it?! She doesn't feel like that... fairy groundskeeper or whatever she was supposed to be there anymore.

She rolls over to get up, but feels something weird, but oddly familiar. She's quickly distracted from that when she looks down from the cushion, though. It looks like the pattern on her bed's sheets, but much bigger!

... Uh-oh. Her wings give a little flutter as she starts to consider what that means.

Wait, wings?! Oh, crap!]

Okay, very funny! You can turn me back now!

[Her voice carries over the open journal, and goes almost-silent again for a moment while she uses all the practice she got with those wings in Wonderland to fly around and explore the room. It's definitely hers, and it's huge! She can't be bigger than her cell phone back home now! Actually, it's probably bigger than her.]

... And the door is closed?! Seriously?!

[Okay, she might be starting to panic a little bit here, but she tries to stay calm. She's been in worse situations before back home, all she has to do here is contact someone who can help.]

{ooc: Filter time!}

[Friends filter]

Hello? Can anyone hear me? This is Rise.

I'm kinda... stuck in my room right now. It's not urgent or anything, but could someone please come soon?

[People met in Wonderland]

Was I the only one acting weird in that mirror place?! And is everyone else back to normal?

[That other fairy girl]

Nora-san, was it?

Did you change back to normal today? ... Or were you always a fairy? I'm sorry, I'm still getting used to this magic castle thing.

[A slightly awkward pause.]

Anyway, can we talk?

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[Haha, if you think that's confusing just wait till she tries to explain her home universe or personal history. She holds up a thumbs-up where Rise can see it, then flutters into the air and starts back toward the elevator at a leisurely flying pace.]

The outpost is a thing I rebuilt outside the castle, near the border of the Dead Zone - the line where powers stop working. There used to be more, but the old ones got blown up a little over a year ago, so I made a new one. I'm the only one who lives there right now, though. Well, me and Ruu. He's a monkey.

[About then they come to the elevator, and she touches down to push the button and wait for it.]

And making clothes... I used the alchemiter for that. It's a machine from my home universe that lets you duplicate or combine things from your sylladex. One of my friends built it when he was here.

[Ding! Elevator get. Now boarding :) ]

[Wow, this is the first she's heard about a "Dead Zone". So her Persona wouldn't work out there? ... Not that she has access to it right now, anyway, but it's something to keep in mind.]

So you don't live in the castle?

[Sounds really lonely...

And Rise only just barely follows the explanation of the "alchemiter". She got the basic idea, at least. She's still confused over one point, though.]

... "Sylladex"?

[Lalala elevator go down...]

Nope. I still hang out here a lot, of course, since it's where most of my friends are, but I've moved everything permanent over there.

Oh - a sylladex is kind of an inventory system. It is both highly versatile and needlessly complicated. [To demonstrate, she pulls a captcha card out of nowhere and holds it up to show her. On the front is a pair of sneakers, and on the back, a code that's super hard to read.]

[Well, that explains things! And Rise feels a little better knowing that Aradia at least gets to spend a lot of time around her friends in the castle.

She's clearly impressed by the captcha card, too.]

Oh, wow! That's pretty neat!

I bet that makes packing for vacations and stuff easier, huh?

It does, definitely! But it doesn't work in the Dead Zone for some reason. It doesn't eject my inventory or anything, but I can't access it. Which is too bad, it would come in really handy out there.

[Ding! The elevator lets out into the lobby, and Aradia flutters over to the base of Terrere Tower, where the room with her nameplate is. But when she opens the door, there's nothing inside the room except a transportalizer pad.]

The Dead Zone?

[This is the first Rise's ever even heard about the Dead Zone. She's never even thought about leaving the castle before today...

She also starts to wonder what's going on when they reach Aradia's room in the castle. Didn't she say she lived at some outpost just a few minutes ago?]

I thought we were leaving the castle?

[But then the room is empty... what? Aradia, you have a very confused fairy passenger right now!]

[Aradia tilts her head up a little, as if that would magically make her able to see her confuzzled passenger.]

We are! Hold on tight.

[And with that, she steps on the pad. (Please keep your hands and arms inside the hair pile!) There'll be a slight feeling of spacial displacement, and then the surroundings change completely, leaving them standing in a smaller, unpainted concrete room.]

Aaand now we have!

{ooc: Lol, derp. Rise apparently heard about the Dead Zone a little earlier in this thread. Oh well! Still plenty of reason for confusion! *soldiers on!*}

[Fortunately, Rise is pretty firmly anchored in place, and Aradia was gentle with her head-tilting.

She's still a bit confused at all of this, but she holds on tight and - wow, that's a weird feeling, but apparently they're in a different place now!]

Are we there already?

[This is actually one of the less surprising things she's been through today. She'd expect this kind of thing at Paradisa. Even if she didn't expect it to be in Aradia's room of all places.]

Yep! Welcome to the West Outpost. I should probably come up with a cooler name for it sometime.

[Opens the door, which leads into a much larger room - two stories high, with several of the twelve-paned windows characteristic of troll architecture, letting in the sunlight. The room is pretty sparsely furnished, with only an old-looking sofa, table, and TV set. A small pink monkey is curled up on the sofa, but wakes up to chitter curiously at their arrival.]

[Rise chuckles at a couple of name ideas that pop up in her head.]

How about Megido Manor? Or Chez Aradia?

[As they go further in, though, the monkey is the first thing to really catch Rise's attention. Not just because it's pink, even though that's kind of weird.

But when you're less than ten centimeters tall, a lot of animals suddenly become imposing. Aradia might feel a tug on her hair as Rise unconsciously covers herself, just barely peeking out over it.]

You have a monkey?!

[Despite her actions, her voice isn't panicked. Just... kind of shocked. Where did she get a monkey in Paradisa? And why is it pink?!]

[She laughs.] "Megido Manor"? Haha, that's got a ring to it.

[As for Ruu, he climbs up on the back of the couch to investigate. Aradia opts not to offer her shoulder to him as she sometimes does.]

I told you he lived here. [~~although that tag was like a month ago so whatever~~] Rise, meet Ruu. Ruu, Rise. It's all right, he's friendly.

[Oh, right, she did, didn't she? Still, Rise wasn't prepared for him to be that big! ... Comparatively speaking.]

Uh, hi Ruu.

[Her voice squeaks out a bit, but she tentatively flies over towards him and waves. Keeping a safe distance just in case, of course.]

[Ruu stands up briefly to examine her, then waves back and returns to the fascinating task of scratching his butt. This is not the first time he's encountered a tiny lil fairy girl, so the novelty is limited.]

Haha. So, would you like the grand tour, or straight to the wardrobe?

[When Ruu just waves back at her, Rise quietly laughs. All that buildup and she really did have nothing to worry about. She really should have known, if Aradia had been a fairy herself before!

Flying up in front of Aradia again, she winks.]

Clothes always come first!

[She would kind of like to look around later, though...]

[Mais bien sûr! Aradia grins and nods.]

That sounds like a plan. This way!

[Motioning for Rise to follow, she executes a Lass Scamper to the upward stairs. Whee~]

Okay!

[And Rise puts them wings to work! She can't keep up with someone Aradia's size forever, but she can definitely dash upstairs alongside her! Bright pink glow and all.

She miiight be a little pooped once they get all the way up there, though...]

[Well that's okay, there will be plenty of places to sit down in her room. It's not too far, anyway. In short order, Aradia is opening the door and ushering her tiny friend inside.

It's probably clear now what happened to all the furniture from her castle room - she just moved it here! Below one window there's a recuperacoon full of green slime (instead of a bed), and the room is liberally decorated with maps, archaeological diagrams, trinkets, pottery shards, and so on, sitting on handmade shelves around the walls. There's also a wooden display case in the middle to hold more of them. Kind of crammed in the corner is a colorful playground-looking thing, slowly being overtaken by pillows. She's also got beanbag chairs, an assortment of books lying around in various places, even a bag of dice - in short, the works. The walls are still unpainted, but she'll fix that someday.]

And welcome to my respiteblock! Sorry it's kind of a mess, but make yourself at home.

[Oh, wow! This place is definitely not an ordinary bedroom... at least not for Rise. She kind of assumes the not-bed thing is whatever Aradia's people use for sleep, and there's a lot of interesting looking things all over!

It's not really as much of a mess as Aradia says it is, though.]

Well, it's not perfect, but I've seen worse!

[Darting around from one place to another, Rise eventually settles on the edge of one of the shelves with less dangerous looking objects. Considering a lot of things look dangerous at her size.]

Is all this stuff from here? This world, I mean...?

[Aradia nods as she opens her wardrobe and pulls out a shoebox.] Yeah, pretty much. That shelf you're on is stuff from the Lastlook beach, for instance. [It's mostly seashells and colorful stones.] I'm an aspiring archaeologist, so I try to collect artifacts wherever I go. That play structure, for instance - [she points to the playground] - it was underground initially, we had to take it apart and stuff it in the TARDIS to get it out...

[yeeeeeeah she could probably talk about this for days if you let her. 0u0]

Wow... that's really cool!

[What she understands is, at least. She's not going to ask for an explanation on everything this time, though. She's got the basic idea, and it is really neat that Aradia has so many things with so many stories. And that she's pursuing her dream even while trapped in this place.]

It's great that you can still do what you love here, Aradia-chan! I hope I can do that too, once I'm back to normal again...

[oh yeah conversations have two sides don't they]

What do you like doing, Rise?

[Since Aradia mentioned a potential career, the first thing that pops into Rise's head is her job.]

I get to do all kinds of things as an idol back home! I do live concerts, modeling for magazines, acting in dramas... and there's parties and meeting the fans, too!

[Her perkiness fades just a bit as she gets to the downside.]

... I don't really get to do that here, though. I'm glad I get to take a break and meet lots of new people, but I might try and find a way to be an idol in Paradisa while I'm here.

[She leaves the "once I'm taller than a cell phone again" unspoken this time.]

Oh! That could be really neat, actually. You wouldn't think so, but there's never really been lot in the way of live entertainment here. Apart from being entertained at other people's lives, anyway.

So I guess it's about time someone tries!

[The little fairy on Aradia's shelf suddenly looks very determined.]

I've been pretty lucky since I got here, meeting really nice people like you...

[This is related, really! Her determination seems to gradually give way to nostalgia.]

... But there might be some really shy people that don't have such an easy time making friends. That's why I wanna try and encourage them. So no one has to be stuck here feeling alone.

[Aradia smiles.] That's a great goal. It can suck enough just being here, but being here with no friends must suck even more.

[.......... belatedly she remembers the shoebox in her hands.] Oh, right, I was going to give you these. [She sets it on a nearby table and takes the lid off. Inside, as promised, are several outfits just the right size for a 4-inch-tall person! Most are just copies of the Aries t-shirt and long skirt, but there's a couple others, too.]

❀ Episode 03 ❀ [Dictated / Action]

ooc: sounds good to me!

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oh god how did i lose this thread sorry

aw, it's okay! been a crazy week. ^_^;

or two weeks lmao :p

at least we can brag about keeping the thread going longer!

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NECRO ALL THE THREADS

IT LIIIIIVES~!

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