001 - text; forward dated to late Monday afternoon

[therightchoice]

[ It has taken Jesse a while to actually get around to post things on this phone . . thing. Not sure what it is, Jesse isn't exactly up to date with all the latest cool stuff. (His parents told him that his brain will cook like a Thanksgiving turkey if he watched too much TV.) It took him nearly all day to figure out how it all worked out. He's seen the past few posts but they barely make any sense to Jesse. Or maybe he's not that smart enough. Maybe being a half-demon makes you dumber or something.

Either way, it has taken Jesse a while to figure out if he should go for a video post or a text post. In the end, he opted for a text post. After what just happened back home, he's still feeling the gut-chilling suspicions, so he goes for text in case demons try to come after him. ]

hi i'm jesse

I'm 11 and i don't know where this place is. I seen the last few posts and i don't khow it all works but i think i can make a few guessess i guess.

i thought austrailiia (sp?) is supposed to be warm all the time and have a lot of beaches and kangaroos but I don't think this is austrailiia

Comments

[hulkbusted]

Okay good. Red hair? Do you feel safe with her?

[therightchoice]

[ Safe. Ha. ]

she has red hair.

i'm fine.

[ No, really, chances are Jesse's powers wouldn't let anyone near him if they tried to hurt him. ]

[hulkbusted]

Good. It's weird here, and it's going to get weirder while you get used to the place, so if you need anything, give me a call. A lot of people on the network will know Dr. Banner too.

[therightchoice]

[ Banner. Bruce Banner.


... well, there are other cool names to be born with. Maybe Dr. Banner's parents were comic book fans or maybe it was a weird . . . thing. Coincidence? Something. ]

charlie said there are curses. are curses really real?


[hulkbusted]

Around here they are, but they aren't usually the kind like fairy tales that turn you into a frog or make people sleep for a hundred years.

[therightchoice]

then what kind of curses are they?

[hulkbusted]

Lots of different things. Sometimes they show people's memories or make them act differently. They usually only last for a day.

[therightchoice]

and these gods put these curses on us? why?

[hulkbusted]

No one really knows for sure. I'm studying the curses to try to understand and maybe find a way for people to get out of here.

[therightchoice]

how can you study curses anyway

[hulkbusted]

A few different ways. Science is kind of my thing. Complicated to explain in texts.

[therightchoice]

but aren't curses magic

[hulkbusted]

I'm a physicist. If I were a magician, maybe I'd be looking at it like magic. [Text messages also don't lend themselves to explaining Clarke's third law, but Bruce comes close to trying anyway.]

[therightchoice]

[ Bruce you are going to make Jesse's head hurt. ]

so magic is psychic?

[hulkbusted]

[Uhh... kids're hard, man.] No, physics and psychics are different.

[therightchoice]

[ oops someone made a spelling error ]

what are you talking about of course they are



[hulkbusted]

I don't know if magic is psychic. I just know weird things happen here.

[therightchoice]

do they happen alot?