accidental video ; day

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[ The PORTAL feed clicks on at an... odd angle, to say the least. It's obvious that the device is on the floor, and there's a young man, mid-twenties at the most, in the periphery of its shot. He's on his hands and knees, trying to feel out along the floor. Whatever pieces of his face are visible, a furrowed brow is most noticeable. ]

Come on, Abe

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audio;

[shifts]

[ Um... ]

Turn the bloody thing off if you're not going to use it.

video;

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[ Hi Eames have an Arthur lookalike. Not that the camera has the greatest angle right now... ]

... Well, it would have helped if I'd known it was on in the first place.

audio;

[shifts]

[ HE IS MUY INTRIGUEOED. Is his voice similar too? ]

S'all right. Most people seem to have this problem on their first day here.

video;

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[ Oh, yes. He speaks a bit lighter, but it's definitely the same voice. ]

Here being... Promenade?

[ He is slowly compiling all the infos. ]

video;

[shifts]

Silly name, I'm more than aware. You'd have to take it up with whomever's running the place, though.

[ Let's just get right on to it. ] What's your name, then?

video;

[eternityunseen]

And that would be...?

Zachary. [ Bonus irony points, however: his middle name is also something from Arthurian legend. ] You?

audio; woops keep forgetting to switch things

[shifts]

The King and Queen, apparently. Suppose you could go about that in the usual attempt to fling yourself toward royalty fashion. No promises, however.

Zachary. [ Arthur's never used a false name unless it was needed for a con. Not does he... act like this, at all, so Eames decides that Zachary will just have to do. ] Eames. You can call me Eames.

video; ikr? it's hard!

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Yeah, think I'll look for another way to talk to them.

[ Well, this is surreal. What's with the emphasis on his name? ] Then I guess that's what I'll do, Eames.

audio; SO HARD. if you want to leave these blanks we can just assume eames = audio, zach = video?

[shifts]

That would be smart.

[ There's a pause while he purses his mouth a bit. ] Better than being called something else. The lot here fill you in on masks, et cetera?

yes, permanents! let's do it.

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I have always prided myself on not being an idiot.

They're trying, anyway. Hell if I know if they've missed anything, though.

brills 8)

[shifts]

Tell me what they told you, then. Would make it faster than me going over everything I've learned thus far, save us the redundancy.

♥

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City of dreams, something about dreaming things up? Masks out in the day, uh... voicelessness at night. [ He really does not sound pleased with that one. ] People are stuck here, and some pretty crazy stuff has gone down before.

♥!

[shifts]

Right. If you're in need of something, don't need the coin here- think it up, and it'll appear. Goes from food to a new pair of shoes, an all encompassing sort of process. They mention the mixture of empathy and telepathy, too?

I'd use the term "stuck" loosely. People can leave just as easily as they arrive, just no one's figured the mechanism for it yet.

[eternityunseen]

What, just like that?

... so if you keep trying, it's bound to pay off?

[shifts]

Just like that. Ever have a lucid dream?

That's my thought on it. I hear if you die in a dream, you automatically wake up.

oh... did I mention they're in the same house?

[eternityunseen]

Once or twice.

Guess I'm out of luck, then.