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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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He looked sideways down at Sam again.
"But I can leave if you want and take all the answers with me." At least until Bunny talked to him, because Jack would never leave a spirit lost and alone and unseen like he'd been. "Or you can drop the defensive thing and listen."
He stopped walking and leaned on the staff.
"Because I am here to help."
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"But you have a point. I will, at least, listen to what you have to say." Keep the kid--thing talking. Give himself more time to sort out what it was.
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"This might be reversible and it might be possible to send you back home, turned back into your normal form, and also there are people here willing to help you out. I'm one of them. That's the good news."
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Bunny leaned against the house, arms crossed, eyeing Sam for a threat level. He didn't appear to be horrific, and wasn't openly carrying an obviously magical weapon, but the conversation was still young.
"The world's in danger, and we're not enough to save it. That's why the Man in the Moon called you here."
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It hurt. It hurt just as much as normal and the rabbit was still there.
"Right. Okay, Harvey." It took a moment, then he twigged something else. "It's not just me, is it? There was a kid I met earlier who was having the same issues I am, with the whole 'people walking through you' thing. He was just as confused."
If nothing else, Sam was good at putting clues together. "That's definitely pretty bad news, I've got to admit."
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"It's not like Man in the Moon was the one that pulled you, though," Jack clarified. "The world's so broken that people's belief is changing it more than it should. The kids here are afraid, they're looking for heroes - that's why you got pulled in and changed. The belief is making you into what they need. They don't mean to do it but it is what it is. We're just trying to clean up the mess - make sure you're all safe until we figure out how to undo it and send you all home. Man in the Moon thinks you should all become Guardians like us, and we could use the help, sure, but the more important thing is getting everyone where they'd rather be."
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Then the kid was talking and Sam focused on him. And that...sort of made more sense. If he could accept that this was real--and the rabbit not knowing what he was talking about was a big hint--then he knew he could accept it.
Sam took a breath, letting it out slowly. "Okay. So, basically, you need help and the belief of children is pulling people from...I'm going to assume our own worlds?" If he hadn't gone through time and had the past rewritten around him before, it probably would have been harder to accept all of this. But his world was full of the weird. This he could probably accept. At least for the moment. "What does this whole Guardian thing entail?"
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Who is, yes, real.
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He shrugged, dropping his hands to his pockets. "So, you know. If you want help? I'm willing to put myself out there."
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"We're having everyone meet over near a pond across town. We need to make sure there aren't any stragglers that Man in the Moon didn't show us but then we'll come and talk to everyone and figure out where to go from here."
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He nodded. "Just point me in the right direction," he said, then paused. "Oh. Ah, you might want to keep an eye out for an African-American kid. Real skinny, clothes are way too big for him. We met earlier but we split up. He's got the same 'walking through things' thing I've got going on, so he's probably another one that got pulled in."