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[ladybirdbook]

(April 21st-24th)

Wow, happy reunion. You lost some, you gained others. Two of them are meatheads. Awesome. Give them shit to carry since you don't have any horses. Once you've all made acquaintance and had tearful reunions and UST encounters, it's a good chance to sleep in for the night. It's a very deserted city so you can sleep peacefully.

When the sun rises then, time to tie your shoes and set off to adventure! Hurrah! Tumbataure's season three premiere!

[Mission: No more lazy! Decide what to do and pack your bags, you're back with the fellowship. LOTR walk montage. I bet you missed that.]

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[theanimalside]

Congratulations.

[welcome to your post-retirement vacation i guess? not really watching her as they talk, though it's hard to tell exactly what he is looking at. constant vigilance ADD.]

[overthewall]

If you knew where I ended up, you'd retract that statement.

[ another laugh at something that clearly isn't funny. ]

Where are we going?

[theanimalside]

[shrugs. never got that much in the way of choice, not sure he regrets the ones he did get to make. even if they did lead in a way to aforementioned pterodactyl planet.]

Castle Rigel, downtown Arunafeltz.

[overthewall]

The way out wouldn't happen to be there, would it?

[ not that this place is much different from her place. aside from the weird puppets. ]

[theanimalside]

How I hear it, there was one but they broke it.

[this planet is way nicer than the one he just left. so far. looking sidelong at sinclair now but it's not so easy to tell.]

Apparently they've got a map leads them to another way, though.

[overthewall]

[ :| oh that's nice. kind of rolls her eyes. ]

So working with the group is the only way out. Great.

[theanimalside]

[shrugs. he's not even a little chalant today. so far beyond nonchalant he's like antichalant.]

Might not be the only way out, but might be the surest bet. You get the short version in your head when you showed up?

[overthewall]

When I showed up, I thought I was some spiteful bitch named Peggy. Anything that may have come with that I may not have paid much attention to.

[ kind of just shoved those thoughts aside real quick when she remembered who the hell she was again. ]

[theanimalside]

Huh.

[hard to tell because of the goggles, but he's giving sinclair a really weird look.]

Well that's weird.

[overthewall]

It was weird. Promise it's not a normal thing for me to have an identity crisis, but I don't think I was the only one with the problem. Think it's this place.

[theanimalside]

Strangely I find that less comforting.

[if he wakes up named "peggy" tomorrow, shoot him.]

[overthewall]

Could have been a lot worse, I guess.

[ no, she'd definitely choose peggy over a lot of things. even if that was awkward. ??? jealous ex-girlfriend she would never. ]

[theanimalside]

Guess there's always not waking up as a basis for comparison.

[also future space prisons suck pretty hardcore. looks up as they approach the city wall. place still sort of gives him the creeps. definitely not an urban explorer, at least not anymore.]

[overthewall]

[ seriously cannot possibly be creeped out. it just doesn't happen. blinks a few times at the new surroundings to take them in but otherwise not thinking much about them. ]

How many of them are there?

[theanimalside]

About ten.

[though there used to be more, that much he's pretty sure of. squares his shoulders a little more as they walk through the gate. more places to hide but more dust.]

Now.

[overthewall]

Now?

[ uh. glances at him. if there's not really a way out, she's pretty much assuming the worst. ]

Is there something here that we should be watching for?

[theanimalside]

Probably. Definitely were more of them when they arrived. Think some of them made it home.

[doesn't sound concerned, not about that at any rate. he does a lot of quality eavesdropping.]

[overthewall]

[ ten is a reasonable group number, though. except it is slow. she's not too fond of slow paces, really. ]

So they've been finding ways out but the entire gang can't escape? Lovely. Think they're on some sort of ranking system-- you've been here the longest, you can go next sort of deal?

[ she's not being serious. really, she's not. ]

[theanimalside]

No idea. Have to ask them that yourself. My impression, though, is their escape route just didn't work.

[well that sounded like a serious question to him so he's gonna answer is seriously, even if he has no real clue.]

[overthewall]

And what makes you so sure their map is going to lead us to an escape route that works again?

[theanimalside]

You got a better plan?

[stops and turns to face her. seriously, do you?]

[overthewall]

I was hoping you did.

[ so no. ]

[theanimalside]

Not yet. Still getting my bearings.

[expansive shrug. keeps walking.]

Truthfully, this place isn't so bad. I'm not in a rush to get back home.

[overthewall]

[ YOU SHRUG A LOT RIDDICK ]

I'm pretty adaptable but my life was just getting good.

[theanimalside]

[are you kidding have you seen his shoulders do you have any idea how much work goes into those]

Might want to go with the first good bet, then.