⚘ [ fringe event #1] || arrival

[entangles]

Astrid, I need you to check for all reports of unexplained, mass disappearances within the last 24 hours. Not just livestock-- any sort of unexplained disappearance. Start with stations in Boston, then expand out toward Maine and Pennsylvania. I'm heading over to the farm right now.

Astrid? Astrid? Can you hear me--

[ The line suddenly cuts off. ]

[ A moment is all it takes for the world to change. The cacophony of the busy mid-day City has replaced the quiet privacy of Olivia's room, as she's pushed and shoved through a busy crowd. A man slams against her shoulder, nearly knocking the laptop underneath her arm to the floor. A woman runs into her heels. Her first instinct, amidst all this confusion, is to place her hand on the grip of her gun. A reassurance that wherever this is, she'll be ready for any sort of attack--

Olivia sidesteps the crowd, turning a full circle as she looks for those foreign, yet familiar markers: the twin towers, the floating Zeppelin - except what she expects isn't there. This isn't the alternate world, this is another world. Instead, she finds her eyes trailing across the gilded poles of that polychromatic carnival, that bubbling liar's fountain that decorates the square. It's like she's stepped into an amusement park. ]

Where the hell am I?

[ooc: Both action or network responses are welcomed. ♥ I will try to stagger the action threads so that they make sense chronologically. ]

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[inmyothertights]

Welcome to the City?

[entangles]

[ She catches on the device thing quick enough. ]

Tell me who you are.

[inmyothertights]

I'm...Billy Kaplan.

It's nice to meet you?

[entangles]

Are you used to greeting strangers like this?

[inmyothertights]

My mother taught me to use my full name, so...yes?

[most_qualified]

You're in a place called the City. A type of dimension.

[entangles]

That doesn't phase you at all? Introducing this place as an alternate dimension-- to a stranger?

First off, who are you?

[most_qualified]

Well it is a lot to take in at first but you adjust to it with time.

Amanda Perry. And you are?

[entangles]

"You adjust to it with time?"

Emily. Emily Francis.

[captainfuckingmagic]

[Talking about farms, big cities, and with a gun? All things he can relate to.]

It's a city. Well, they call it the City. I guess there's just the one here. Pretty crappy name for a place, you ask me. Have you met anybody who looks like you yet?

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[entangles]

Obviously, it's a city. I got that. And the name? Doesn't really matter to me. What I'm interested in is how all of you got here.

[ Someone that looks like her? Such horrible triggering words. ]

No.

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[captainfuckingmagic]

Maybe that's just my special thing then. You'll probably run into him. I haven't been here that long though; just since Christmas or so. People come in and out all the time. Dunno why.

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[entangles]

Reminds you of yourself?

So people just come and go randomly, without ever intending to leave or enter? Are there any natives?

[orangetoughguy]

It kind of depends on who you're asking. Last I heard? Bullshitville.

[entangles]

I take it you don't like the place.

[orangetoughguy]

It's alright. I wouldn't call it Fuck Town or anything.

audio

[entangles]

Still, Bullshitville doesn't sound like a compliment.

[ Because different perceptions matter... ]

What can you tell me about this place?

action!

[am_i_being_rude]

[He's walking back to the flat when he runs into someone much harder than he would have thought possible - he's not walking that fast. But he turns around to see if she's okay and instead is afforded the rare treat of watching someone who clearly doesn't know where they are ascertain their surroundings. And well. He hasn't seen anyone just arrive in person before.]

Hi! Hey there! Probably not where you thought you were, but you worked that out already - you're quick. It's The City. Pocket dimension, yeah? Not a parallel like you thought? Maybe? Sorry, this is a horrible welcome, isn't it? There ought to be classes. Are you... okay? Feel a bit queasy or anything like that?


[ooc: I don't think you had one going, and it seemed like she ought to have one. If you do then we can video it, whatever's easy.]

action!

[entangles]

[ Now that she's actually talked to people, she's realized that this place isn't that universe - the one where she's basically a fugitive. So when the Doctor suddenly addresses her, Olivia is hardly surprised, turning around to face him with one hand still on her gun. ]

I'm fine.

[ Now onto more important questions. ]

Pocket and parallel universes? I'm not too familiar with the distinction.

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[am_i_being_rude]

Be surprised if you were. Most people are just familiar with the singular, much less the derivatives. Basically speaking a parallel universe runs in tandem with another one. Yeah, they're different and no, normally they don't interact that much with one another, but the basic historical timelines are similar. Except where they're drastically different, but the point is that they look like you'd expect parallel-but-different things to look when you line them up. Pocket-verse, whole different banana. Nothing has to happen in a pocket universe. It just sits there, in a pocket, anybody's pocket, doing whatever the person owning the pocket designed it to do. Personally I'd rather be in a parallel, but. [Shrug.]

action

[entangles]

So what you're saying is that somebody made this world? Who? Those deities? More importantly, how?

action.

[godofabs]

[She would come across Thor coming down the mountain, complete with a puppy in his helm and hammer on his hip.]

You are in the same prison as the rest of us.

action.

[entangles]

[ The sight is unexpected: first, the size of this man juxtaposed with the the tiny kitten on his helm. Even at a time like this, she can't help but smile at the discordance.]

That's kind of being a defeatist, isn't it?

action.

[godofabs]

[Something that Thor soon learned in his visit to Earth, not many people are built like an Asgardian nor need to consume as much of them.]

Such is what I have been told. Whether or not a battle is the cause of it, I have yet to determine.

action.

[entangles]

[ At 5'8, Olivia isn't exactly an average height herself. ]

A battle? What do you mean?