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longestnight_old2013-04-27 07:49 pm
morethanmyth) wrote in longestnight_old2013-04-27 07:49 pm
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Once Upon a Time...
They likely felt the world shift, a fragmentation of all they thought they knew. It was the way a fictional character might feel if they could feel every page turn in the book they lived in. It was the beginning of a new story and that meant an end to an old one and they would each feel that.
To some it would feel like they had just died. To others, it would feel like they had just been born. To many, it would feel like both at the same time. It all really depended on who they were and what they were leaving behind.
In any case, this world had something New appear in it. After lightning crackled in the evening sky without any storm fueling it, they would find themselves waking up in the streets of a small town called Burgess. It was a perfectly ordinary Pennsylvania town, a place where the modern mixed with the old, American suburbia at its finest, making it all the stranger that something extraordinary would happen somewhere so ordinary.
[ooc: Make a subthread for each character and those of you that would like to toss your character at someone else before Bunny and Jack show up, tag a subthread already there.]
To some it would feel like they had just died. To others, it would feel like they had just been born. To many, it would feel like both at the same time. It all really depended on who they were and what they were leaving behind.
In any case, this world had something New appear in it. After lightning crackled in the evening sky without any storm fueling it, they would find themselves waking up in the streets of a small town called Burgess. It was a perfectly ordinary Pennsylvania town, a place where the modern mixed with the old, American suburbia at its finest, making it all the stranger that something extraordinary would happen somewhere so ordinary.
[ooc: Make a subthread for each character and those of you that would like to toss your character at someone else before Bunny and Jack show up, tag a subthread already there.]
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But then he's talking important things and usually she would listen but not like she was gonna have to take a test on it, but this... Well, she doesn't know when she'll be able to find any of her friends, if they're here. She'd better listen extra close, just in case she can't.
"You guys don't have superheroes, but there are spirity people who keep everybody safe and now lots of them are gone and the kids are scared so they're finding people from other places to be spirity people so they don't have to be scared?" Molly offers, since that's her best summary. "I guess that's okay, if it's not their fault. And I'm kind of a superhero anyway, so I can help!"
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"You're a little young for that. The Man in the Moon, the spirit that chose me and my team-mates to protect kids, thinks you should be a Guardian, but Bunny and I aren't really keen on the idea. You're too young to be facing what we've been facing. But since it's been going after good myths, we still wanted to make sure you were safe - at least until we can get you all home and changed back the way you were."
If they weren't created new, but he was still at a loss as to how to break that to any of them. He knew what it was like to wake up in the world and wonder who you were.
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Protest aside, however, there are some important questions to ask here. "Is there really a man in the moon? Who's Bunny? When can I go home?" Because that's the things. She can help, sure. But she'd... kind of rather go home. So if she can do that, that's what she wants.
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He racked his brain for a villain she might find familiar.
"- Doctor Doom."
He went on, "Anyway, there really is a Man in the Moon, Bunny is the Easter Bunny, and you can go home as soon as we figure out a way to get you there. It might take some time. The really powerful myths were captured and need to be freed, and they're the ones that have the best chance of being able to send you back."
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Congratulations, Jack. You have a bonafide comic book superhero riding piggyback.
"The Easter Bunny's real?" If her belief counts, then Bunny just got a little boost in belief power. "That's freaking awesome! What about Santa? An-and the Tooth Fairy?"
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"Those are my other team-mates. Also, the Sandman and Anansi the Spider. Who's a giant pain in my frosty butt. We're all real, though - at least here. I don't know if versions of us exist where you're from. There are a lot of other myths, too. Though there aren't many of us left running free."
His expression grew a little more rueful.
"See, it's just me and Bunny left. Tooth, Sandy, Anansi, and North - that's Santa's other name, they all got captured. So did a lot of the other myths that used to help out our team sometimes."
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"Then you gotta let me help! I can help before I go home, and... and we can rescue Santa and the tooth fairy and everybody, if they're real, then they can't disappear, what if Christmas gets ruined?"
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He was lying like a rug. They were certainly going to try but they were in over their head.
"We'll figure this out when we talk with the others, though." He pointed with his staff down at the field near a pond, where a few people were already gathered.
"I'm going to need you to wait there with everyone else until we get the last few stragglers. Then we'll talk to everyone and figure out what to do from here."
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Nope, she's Princess Powerful, she's not gonna be scared.
She's not.
"I promise I won't leave unless I find out you're secretly a bad guy," she promises solemnly.
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He landed and set her down gently, giving her a wide smile.
"As far as we know, the other people here are good guys too, but if anyone seems scary, give a yell. The Wind's my friend and it'll make sure it carries it to me, okay? And I'll come right back. It shouldn't take too long to get the last few people."
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"Okay. Don't take too long, though, okay?" She's not scared, but okay maybe she doesn't want to be alone with a bunch of strangers for too long. Hey, in the lack of familiar faces, he seems safe enough to trust. If he's friends with Santa and the Easter Bunny, he must be a good guy.
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And with that, he was off.