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Date & Time: Evening, 10th February 3312
Location: Transport Room
Characters: Open To All
Summary: Everyone is brought into the transport room at roughly the same time, in a great succession and flow of imported individuals. Everyone is being lead around in small bundles, or left to their own devices together inside the Initiative Hold.
Warnings: None.

Widespread and crowded, everyone is being transported into this unusually bright room with an efficiency that is almost horrifying. One after the other, new people are appearing -- being led, shown around and then ultimately abandoned with one final phrase; "Good luck."

The Initiative Hold is wide, like a small town in its depth and industry. You've received your weapon; you've got your keys, your netbook, and one of those robed strangers has shoved a small pouch full of what you can only assume is money into your open palm. You've been given an apartment, but where on earth -- are we on earth? -- is it? Your best opportunity right now is to mingle; at least, that's what everyone else appears to be doing. Those strangers in the robes have left. They're tending to the people who are arriving, one by one and in a quick procession. Energy bustles all around you, as you're strapped up with your sudden gifts and looking around.

Hey, maybe you'll even see some familiar faces.

Comments

[boughtabookstore]

No major ideas yet. It could, of course, just all be a giant mindscrew. A baku, maybe?

[onthelii2p]

[Up go the eyebrows.]

What the heck ith a baku?

[boughtabookstore]

[ which to be honest she didn't expect. she'd thought, oh, another shadow world person, that's always fun. but then again, he could be from the shadow world and not know what a baku is, she guesses. it's a big place from what she knows. ]

It steals dreams, especially nightmares. But first it plants them.

[onthelii2p]

[Presume if you like, but it's totally wrong.]

Thith ith nothing like dreamth I have, though. Why would I be on earth with a bunch of humanth I don't know and don't care about? Why, and how, would one of your weird earth creatureth even target me in the firtht plathe when I wath latht on a floating rock in thpace?

[boughtabookstore]

[ it's going to be an interesting discovery, at least. she raises her eyebrows. ]

Well, naturally I was considering it as being my dream.

So I don't have any answers for you.

[onthelii2p]

[His head definitely tilts at that. Buying it? Not a bit.]

And tell me how the hell you managed to thnatch up an alien you've never met from an entirely different univerthe into your dream which thome thtupid earth thing gave you.

[boughtabookstore]

Alien, huh?

I have to say that's a new one.

[onthelii2p]

What elthe am I thuppothed to be? Different planet, different univerthe, kind of pointth to the fact I've never thet foot on earth before if you actually have a think pan in your lobe.

[boughtabookstore]

I try not to assume. Met plenty of beings who weren't human, but none of them were aliens either.

If you're not just a figment of my overactive imagination, that is a rather interesting twist to the whole thing.

[onthelii2p]

If you're that thelf-thentered to think I'm a figment of your mind then why are you even talking to me? Do you think I want to entertain thome dumb human who can't even tell who'th a real living perthon from her own thtupid deluthionth?

[boughtabookstore]

[ just shrugging. people it's actually really hard to insult? her. ]

Because of the possibility you aren't, of course. Don't be overreactive, it makes you stupid.

[onthelii2p]

[He bristles at that.]

I'm not the thtupid one here. I've could make and have made thingth with technology you could never even wrap your head around. I am a rocket powered geniuth on a level tho far above any dumb human who thinkth thith ith a dream that we can't even thee each other.

[People who are pretty easy to insult? Him. When he's in the wrong mood, anyway.]

[boughtabookstore]

[ rolling her eyes. you can't let these things get to you, Sollux. ]

I can see you.

Quite clearly, actually.

[onthelii2p]

[Oh, but he can. And that is one flat look he's giving her now.]

It'th called a metaphor.

[boughtabookstore]

[ Flattest look back. ]

I'm aware.

[onthelii2p]

Meaning that it'th not meant to be taken literally.

[boughtabookstore]

[ One raised eyebrow. ]

That is the definition of a metaphor, yes.

[onthelii2p]

Therefore.

[And there's a couple crackles of blue and red around his eyes now, from pure frustration.]

Whether or not you can actually thee me here and now ith irrelevant to the point I'm making, becauthe of the non-literal nature I jutht mentioned.

[boughtabookstore]

[ she is used to strange-looking people with interesting powers, so all that gets is another eye roll as she leans back against the wall. ]

You don't have to repeat yourself.

[onthelii2p]

[And finally, Sollux tosses his hands up in the air.]

I give up. You're the dumbetht human I've ever met. If all the otherth are ath thtupid ath you I've going to blow thomething up before the week'th even over. You've worn out all my patienthe. All of it.

I'm out.

[He turns to storm off, if she'll let him.]

[boughtabookstore]

Patience being something you clearly don't possess in abundance.

[ whoops bugging the hell out of everyone come on what do you mean this isn't a good life decision. ]

Enjoy your explosions, by all means.

[onthelii2p]

Whatever. It will be an abtholute party when it happenth, jutht you wait and thee.

[But he's still leaving, heading off into the crowd now.]