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[untilitkillsyou]

[Sure he's been there for a few days at most. He'll seem new because in essence he is. He'd tried calling Shraeger and Beaumont. Even tried Delahoy and Banks. When he felt desperate enough to try Alvarez he broke down and used his device here. The video feed crackles on.]

Alright I've tried to figure out what's going on here. Either I got really drunk and lost, or this is one hell of an elaborate prank. Anyone have some answers?

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[thenormalsquint]

Neither. You've been pretty much kidnapped and left to your own devices to survive in a giant city called the City. I hate to break it to you like this, but I feel honesty is the best policy with these things.

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[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

Welcome to Hell, also known as the City. You're essentially stuck here until whoever runs this place decides you can go home. You go back to the last second you remember being home as if no time has passed at all. And sometimes you get cursed.

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[hexappeal]

Why not both?

[debrief]

[ Imagine his surprise at seeing the video and Clint's face. But there's subtle differences, and his reply is very carefully neutral. ]

None of the above. Nor are you in your world anymore, I'm afraid. [ A beat. ] What's your name?

[archivy]

You're in the City. It is often referred to as a pocket dimension and most assume that the deities are responsible for their presence here.

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[bettercallit]

No one can get that drunk. [ He's thinking he should try, but that's not the point. ] So this's not weird or anything.

[skintoskin]

Um, neither. Sorry, man, but you've slipped dimensions or some shit like that. Welcome to the Abducted Zone.

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[untilitkillsyou]

Wait. Kidnapped? This is so not good.

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[untilitkillsyou]

Cursed? Shit do I even want to know?

voice;

[untilitkillsyou]

Huh, well I can honestly say wouldn't be the first time.

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[untilitkillsyou]

Right. Not weird at all.

[He's rethinking the drunk thing however.]

Ok if I'm not drunk I feel like I should be right now.

[untilitkillsyou]

My world? Why do I feel like I fell into an episode of The Twilight Zone?

[Glances up when asked his name.]

Jason Walsh. And you?

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[hexappeal]

You sound like my kinda guy.

Anyway, it's possibly those things but in reality just some alternate universe that you got sucked into. Which might sound a little crazy, so I hope you're from the sort of place where it's a bit more common and believable.

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[thenormalsquint]

Sweetheart, it only gets worse. Buckle up.

[untilitkillsyou]

And I thought my life was already messed up.

[untilitkillsyou]

Pocket dimension. Right. Okay.

[He's not dismissing you Ivy, just trying to process.]

[archivy]

I am aware it seems difficult to believe at first.

[debrief]

Not a bad comparison.

[ There's the slightest softening to his shoulders, some tension leaving. Not Clint from another universe, then. ]

Agent Coulson. Welcome to the City.

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[bettercallit]

A creature that steals faces and reads minds.

[ In his world, it could be possible. But it's more likely the alternative dimension thing. ]

Okay, it's kinda weird.

[skintoskin]

It might be, but this just adds colour to the usual shit.

[untilitkillsyou]

I'll pretty much believe anything. Once you seen a big hairy guy running naked down a down and get shot while doing it? World opens up to things you never thought you'd see.

[untilitkillsyou]

I have a feeling it's a good thing I'm sitting down for this.

[untilitkillsyou]

Just a little.

[thenormalsquint]

Sitting down won't even help. I tried.

[untilitkillsyou]

Drunk maybe?

[untilitkillsyou]

Well, that's one way to look at it. A pretty good way I might add.

[untilitkillsyou]

Watched a lot of it as a kid.


And thanks. A fellow law enforcement type.

[untilitkillsyou]

Just a little but I'm sure it'll settle in soon enough.

[thenormalsquint]

I wish I was. [Only at bedtime.] This place will drive you to it, though. After all the curses and the other bullshit, the bars and liquor stores clean up.

[hexappeal]

Oh, you mean like a sasquatch? It's unfortunate that it was shot, if that's the case.

[skintoskin]

Thanks. I just made it up. Feel free to use it, any time.

[debrief]

In a manner of speaking. [ SHIELD isn't strictly law enforcement; close enough. ] Are you an agent or a cop?

[untilitkillsyou]

I'm sure it'll drive me to it.

[untilitkillsyou]

Oh I'm just a cop. Detective.

[untilitkillsyou]

I might just do that For my own amusement.

[untilitkillsyou]

No just a naturalist. Literally big fat hairy guy running naked pass the car me and my partner were in. Then there was shooting and he was killed.

Literally went out as naked as the day he was born.

[debrief]

Nice to meet you.

[bettercallit]

It could be worse.

Do you have a name?

[skintoskin]

As long as you credit me.

[He points to himself.]

Neil McCormick. You?