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

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

Boy did you pick a bad day to show up.

There's some kind of big storm brewing so unless you want your stay in the sphere to be very very short, I should hope you got shoved down to the Wilderness.

[speeding]

Oh wow, hey, they do work!

Yeah. Um. Wilderness? Looks like the biggest shore warehouse ever from where I am sitting.

I mean, I guess they say shopping can be like a jungle, but this isn't quite what I expected.

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, they do.

The Wilderness changes from time to time, depending on the sort of mood it was in. A few days ago it was all dinosaurs and the like.

You get used to it.

[speeding]

Okay. Dinosaurs to shoe stores? Either you've been smoking something funny didn't they warn you not to take the mushrooms the caterpillar offered? or this place is weirder than previous speculations led me to believe.

Which would be like, whoa weird.

Got a name or should I call you Mysterious Guy/Gal Number 1?

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

Option B. So far I've seen a city, a giant boat on an ocean, the dinosaurs, a shoe store...and there have been more but I tend to not go downstairs very often.

Guy. My name is Drake.

[speeding]

Okay. So we're guinea pigs in a really, really messed up experiment instead of just your run-of-the-mill messed up one?

Gotcha.

Drake huh? Nice to... Uh... Pen-pal at you I guess.

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

What we are remains to be seen -- other than amnesiacs living in a tree, that is. The dinosaurs were very interesting. Also not altogether fun to outrun.

Likewise, Dash.

[speeding]

Yeah. So, we're amnesiacs living in a tree. That screams either scientific experiment or reality TV show to me. And I don't--ha--remember signing any contracts for a show.

... Dude. You outrun dinosaurs?

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

...okay, what the hell is 'reality TV'?

I did, yes. It was not an experience I would choose to repeat any time soon.

[speeding]

Do you live under a rock or something? What do you mean "what is reality TV"??

That sounds totally sweet. Aside from the impending Dino Death of Doom and all.

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

You heard me. There are a lot of different worlds and cultures and I'm repeatedly told that wherever I'm from is completely baffling. So what is 'reality TV'?

About half a dozen Things With Teeth. We made it into the elevator just in time.

[speeding]

So we're talking like, multidimensional science experiment here? This just got weirder. How does this keep getting weirder? It should not be possible for this to get weirder.

Okay, so, reality TV is like when a bunch of "normal" people sign up to do a show of some theme or other and then they keep getting weeded out for one final surviving winner. Who gets a prize of some type that's supposed to make up for having sold their soul to the corporate powers. It's all pretty messed up, but funny as hell.

Frankly I don't want to know what happens if you get voted off the island here. They feed you to the dinos or what?

Sounds like a blast to me. I mean, you made it right? What's the problem? Probably makes a great story at parties.

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

You have no idea.

That sounds like quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. People deliberately sign themselves on to be humiliated or something?

I prefer to not have to race for my life, given the choice. It puts a damper on any ability to have a conversation.

[speeding]

Dude, with the way things started... And you are telling me I have no idea? What the hell am I in for here, man?

Yeah, it totally is, but it's funny. And it's something to watch when you're bored or have on in the background, y'know? They sign up because you get to be on TV so it's sort of like being famous, only with like, more humiliation and ridicule. Plus the chance to win! All at the cost of your soul and dignity but, I mean, who uses those?

Hah, well, the story telling is for after the death-defying right?

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID WHEN I GOT HERE.

HELLO MY NEW BEST FRIEND. er. kidding of course. but nice to see a like mind around this place.

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

No. You said we had been abducted.

By aliens.




dork

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

And then I said something about psychology experiments and reality television. Don't make me direct quote at you, Mr. "I Lost My First Journal Whoops."

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

Oi. So totally not my fault! All I seem to recall is that I was pretty certain for the first five minutes that you were certifiable.

[distant-dragon.livejournal.com]

...only the first five minutes?

[child-proteus.livejournal.com]

Well, then I stopped being just pretty certain and started just straight out knowing this was the case.

[speeding]

HEY THAT'S COOL, I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THEN.

HEY THERE, BFF? ah well. At least I know I'm not insane? Or alone in my insanity?

[unlostsoul.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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.

[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.