4 . VIDEO . fourth-wall weekend

[onset]

Sorry - what's going on, exactly?

[ooc: FOURTH WALL COME AT ME BROS]

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[flurried]

[ ... oh ]

I was hoping, uh, you'd be able to tell me, actually.

[onset]

That's - [uhm. welp.] I'm afraid I can't be very helpful there.

I take it you're new?

[flurried]

That's all right, it's a bit silly of me to go and assume.

[ It takes him a moment to even understand what he's talking about. ]

Yes? I suppose I must be, [ looking around himself uncertainly ] since I've definitely never been here before, which would mean I am, indeed, new here...

[ er ]

I'm Freddie.

[onset]

Freddie. [all right.] My name is Peter.

You're - er. Do you remember how you got here?

[seriousheat]

Monsters in the Underground, apparently. Beyond that, hell if I know.

[onset]

What - this isn't another invasion, is it?

[seriousheat]

Guy made it sound like they're always there. [ A beat. ] You get invasions?

woops

[onset]

Yes, apparently we do. There were walking corpses, once.

[seriousheat]

Are you high?

[ Walking corpses do not exist, all right. At least not outside of cheesy zombie movies and blockbusters. ]

[prettyimpulsive]

[Pink-haired princess to the rescue.] Hello. Do you mean the sudden influx of people into the City?

[onset]

Apparently I do! And... so does everyone else.

[prettyimpulsive]

[She smiles at him.] It's a curse. A very regular one actually. We won't be here very long. ["We" since she's part of the influx these days.] Maybe two days. It's not always exactly the same.

[onset]

Two days. [Only two days?] You've been here before, then?

[prettyimpulsive]

[A nod. It sounds short to her too.]

Yes, I used to live here. Under a different journal name. For years actually. It seems they like to bring me back during this curse. I'm pleased they do though. I get to see my friends and meet new ones.

[pimphandoftheking]

At last, a voice of the people.

[onset]

Of the rather confused people.

[pimphandoftheking]

They are not one and the same?

[onset]

Well. I can't assume everyone's confused. Some seem to have the answers.

[chrometophilia]

Alien abduction. Joint dream. Inception. Maybe.

[distinctions]

For the last time, Parker. Inception's just a movie. It's not real.

[chrometophilia]

So was the Thomas Crown Affair, but it was based on a doable heist.

[distinctions]

You think someone's running a con on us.

[onset]

You know, I wouldn't find any of that too hard to believe.

[chrometophilia]

You're the one living here, right?

[onset]

I am right now, yes. Not really by choice.