First Run - Hi, what the hell?

[speeding]

Okay. So.

• Magical journal? Check.
• Shower has been had? Check.
• Actually not-goopy clothing that still doesn't really fit? Check.
• Waking up in the most insane excuse for a social study without any memories or, you know, clothes, and being told the low-down by some poor girl who looked like she was going to faint? Double check.
• Getting practically manhandled around to god knows where without anyone telling me what the hell this is about and ending up writing this next to an endless rack of lady's high heels? GO TIME.

But seriously, magical journal, what the heck is going on?

Uh, and if these things work the way I'm told they are supposed to-- Hello there my fellow lab rats. I guess welcome me to the maze? And, you know, direct me to the cheese and not the sparks.

The name's Dash, by the way. As in dashingly handsome, or dashing to the rescue. You know, I’m good with either.

god I feel like a dork talking to a journal.

Comments

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

See if I ever have a bout of "Want-ness" again then, dude.

[speeding]

Yeah, it's like IMs only the Harry Potter way. Weird.

Huh. Well, good to know. 'Cause if this were a Stepford experiment I think I would be in so much trouble.

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my friends are opting for option B, there new guy. Tough luck.

[speeding]

Dub?

[About five seconds later]

Oh. Duh.

Nah man, the moment's gone. Guess you're lucky like that.

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. Don't get all in a twist.

Occasionally a bout of Want-ness is just what the world needs. But then if I encourage you, then I wouldn't be impossible.

And we all know just how much you love that.

[speeding]

So how long do I have to be new guy before it wears off? Just an estimate.

They just don't want to believe in the alien conspiracy. You and me buddy, we know what's up.

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

Is it really an in crowd if it's made up of everyone who isn't me? That's a pretty big in.

Before. Waaaay before. Dinosaurs were, like, earlier this week.

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

We could throw down? Like, old school-style in aisle four surrounded by kiddie galoshes? Or we could be arch-enemies?

I've always wanted one of those.

[speeding]

Majority rules? Can't beat 'em join 'em?

Not sure if I'm disappointed I missed dinosaurs or not. But I'm definitely going to ask about the fire ants.

... So who's an old timer?




How long have you been here?

[nobodysheroine.livejournal.com]

You know for some of us, dinosaurs are still happening.

[speeding]

Old school throw down in the kiddy galoshes aisle sounds totally cool with me, Throne.

Than again arch-enemies could also be cool. Every move you make I will be there, waiting to thwart you.

I have no idea if I've always wanted one, but hey, I'm a nice guy, how could I deny a life-long wish of yours, T-man?

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

Oh, so I guess what they say is true about clouds and silver linings then?

Just don't be pulling a takeback later on, dude, and think the offer still stands. Besides, it wouldn't go over well with this crowd, most of the ninjas around here would have no clue what you were going on about.

[speeding]

Yeah I heard from Arr---

Are you the lady with the dino pet? Because if you are, you are totally my hero.

If you aren't, no hard feelings?

[speeding]

Yeah, maybe for you Number 5.

Nah I get it, that was my chance, I missed it. I'll think of other ways, don't worry. Ninjas? What? I'm already getting confused by what I have to explain and what I don't. What's safe to say?

[nobodysheroine.livejournal.com]

Girl.

I'm the girl with the dinosaur. And it's not so much a pet as it is a companion? Pet sounds so demeaning. She's smarter than that.

Though, who am I to turn down hero-status? Does this mean epic poetry shall be written in my honor? If so, you'd better get cracking.

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

Keep calling me Number 5 and you will be the 'New Guy' indefinitely, dude.

Oh, well, then that's reassuring. Listen, you've got it easy. You have no idea just how many people I had to explain the concepts of 'dude', 'city' and 'British' to when I first arrived. It was like I was speaking a completely different language.

[speeding]

Girl. Gotacha. Ran, right?

How about just general admiration and slight jealousy over the fact that you get a dinosaur?

Not sure I'm exactly the epic poetry kind of guy, sorry.

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

Only if after wards we get to ask somebody to announce over the loudspeaker, 'Clean up on aisle four, clean up on aisle four.' You know, for effect.

We must also plan on revealing our cunning plans to one another at completely</> inopportune times to maximize thwartage. Sound good?

Who cares if you don't know if you've always wanted one before -- doesn't the prospect of possibly having one now fill you with neverending waves of delight? ...Or is that just me?


And possibly Want.

[speeding]

But "Number 5" has such a ring to it.

Yep. I'm all about reassuring. Wow. I feel your pain buddy. Seriously. Dude? City? British? What else?!

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

These are both crappy principles to live by.

Old timers, huh? Lemme see.

[circles appear around one of Throne's comment -- with the label "OLD" -- and one of Drake's -- with the label "ANCIENT"]

Either of them would work.

I've been here... three months? Give or take a few days? Wow. It feels a lot longer.

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

Pfff, give it a week. Maybe a couple days, if Throne manages to come up with a new nickname pretty quickly. We've already got a "D."

Skeptics, the lot of them. I bet they'll feel dumb when the truth is finally revealed.

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

I could write a witty rejoinder here or a bashful admission that maybe I do.

But unfortunately I am too busy being not like Want.

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

You're impossible.

But you already knew that.

[speeding]

Yeah, yeah I'm totally down for that, because it's not the same if it's not on loud speaker, right?

Alright, this sounds like a deal. I'll reveal my nefarious plots if you reveal your cunning schemes and their only weaknesses; we can totally be all Arch-nemesis. Especially if I get a lair. I vote on a lair being in there somewhere. It's got to be part of the deal.

Maybe not waves but I'm already working on practicing my evil cackle, if that helps?

[speeding]

I can deal with that time frame I think. Personally I hope my nickname kicks ass.

Yeah they totally will, but we'll get to gloat. You know, being more awesome and cunning than everyone else.