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.

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

You're not talking to it, you're writing to it!

[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]

Yeah, see, if I were just talking to it I'd only be crazy.

Instead I'm writing expecting people to write back.

And it worked.

Or maybe I'm still crazy.

[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?

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

Not unless we're all crazy!

[speeding]

Hey, not discounting that. No offense but I just got barfed up from a cocoon and told that was normal. I'll get back to you on my opinion regarding the relative sanity of people around here.

You know, when I have an opinion other than "What the hell?"

So you got a name or shall you be Mysterious Guy/Gal Number 2?

[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.

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the cocoon thing was really, really weird. I'm still trying to figure that one out. But this place is fun, so it's okay.

I'm Arrow! Oh, and I'm a guy!

[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.

[speeding]

Hey, if you figure it out let me know. Because that? That was just bizarre.

Fun huh? Like what? 'Cause where I'm sitting at everything seems to be about shoes.

Arrow! Nice to pen-pal with ya buddy.

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'll make sure to.

Well, it's not as fun as it was a while ago. There were dinosaurs! I wanted to go ride them, but then I didn't get anybody to go with me in time.

Yeah, you too! What's your name?

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[speeding]

Good. Glad I'm not the only one who found the whole hatching-from-a-cocoon-in-goop thing really freaky.

Yeah. Heard about those from Mr. Forms in Triplicate Writing up there. So seriously. Dinosaurs. Wish I coulda seen that.

The name's Dash!

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[speeding]

... Wait did you say ride the dinosaurs?

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

I think everybody finds it freaky, they just don't talk about it or something!

Nice to meet you, Dash.

YEAH!! I did! It'd be so cool to get to ride them! I bet I could make friends with them, too, if I was really careful about it.

[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.

[shiro-yasha.livejournal.com]

Hmm, if it's cheese you're after, then just go to the market.

Ladies shoes is something else though. If you go shopping with a woman too often you'll just end up blowing all of your hard earned cash on something useless, so you should just become a shut-in.

[speeding]

What? Why not? Some sort of "don't talk about it" thing they forgot to warn me about? Like, is there a penalty for being freaked out? Do we get the hose?

C'mon Arrow, buddy, fill me in.

Yeah you too.

So--you're like some freaky dinosaur wrangling cowboy?

((OOC: Dash's mental picture is of such a macho man now.))

[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?

OH GIN, YOU NEVER, EVER FAIL TO MAKE ME LOL

[speeding]

Hey there's a market? With things other than shoes? Rock on!

Okay and to the rest of that? I'm going to have to say:

... wut?



You'd be Mysterious Guy/Gal Number 3 I take it?

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

Nah, they just don't talk about it so much! I guess because everybody agrees that it's really weird. I've never heard anybody say it was normal or anything!

Haha, nothing like that! I just like riding all kinds of animals. Like the chocobos at the racetrack and stuff.

[speeding]

Okay, not going to get the hose for talking about the freakiness of this place. Good to know.

Okay. So. Animal riding. Like, dinosaurs and chocobos...?

This a hobby? Or do you like do it professionally?

[thewindslast.livejournal.com]

Yep! But it's a good kind of weird most of the time, I think.

Just a hobby! I have a job taking care of animals. Riding them is in my spare time.

[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.