ONE /// now that we're here, brought out our fears

[ofsubservience]

[ SPLASH

What ensues is sputtering and however it sounds when a flailing arm connected to a flailing hand lashes out and sends the network device sliding off of the edge of the fountain and skidding a short way across the concrete ground ]

Damn it!

What...

Oz...!?

[ pause ]

What happened?

This doesn't feel the same.

What is this place?

[

Comments

voice;

[ofmisfortune]

Gilbert! It's about time.

1/3 voice; sob

[ofsubservience]

Vincent?

voice; 2/3

[ofsubservience]

[ the...sound??? of him looking around...or just a pause ]

voice;

[ofsubservience]

Some trick? I can't be in the same---it doesn't...

Where are you? And what do you mean 'about time'?

[ EXASPERATED...huff ]

[bluejuggernaut]

You certainly made a splash.

1/3 needs moar flailcons sob srry repeateth

[ofsubservience]

That is just what I needed to hear!

[ofsubservience]

[ mutter mutter, STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT WHERE THE VOICES ARE COMING FROM .... ]

3/3; audio

[ofsubservience]

At least be useful if you're going to comment like that.

voice

[favorsthebrave]

The place is called "the City." As though there were only the one.

It's a different world entirely from wherever you were before, if you can believe that.

voice

[ofsubservience]

...you seem serious about it. That's still ridiculous but...

[ pause ]

I do believe it, although...damn it I can't keep a conversation on like this. Where are you all talking from?

voice

[favorsthebrave]

--Ah. There should be a device somewhere near you - it's connected to the Network that everyone around here uses to communicate.

voice

[ofsubservience]

[ SHUFFLE SCUFFLE....aha....he found it, and .... a pause as he examines ]

Everyone? How many of you are there? How many of us?

How do you all speak out of the same place...this isn't anything like what I've seen before.

1/2

[knaveswitness]

What is that sound I hear, a little plish~plash- is it a duck? Or a kitty cat? Or maybe even a...

2/3 I lied

[knaveswitness]

A little black duckling!

[knaveswitness]

Who should certainly not be here, now, of all times.

1/3 pretend he's more flail 8C in the icon anyway

[ofsubservience]

[ not QUITE gnashing teeth but flail...and oops there skids the device across the ground...the sound of that anyway ]

voice;

[onlyteasing]

Haven't you seen a city before? Or a fountain, perhaps.

voice; 1/2

[ofsubservience]

[ IF L;JDSF;LSKDFSD;FLDS;KFDS; could be a sound... that's this ]

voice;

[ofsubservience]

I have!

voice;

[onlyteasing]

That answers your second question, then.