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Guy remembered dinner. They'd taken down one of those great hulking beasts they still hadn't thought up a name for, the ones with three horns and neck that was tall enough to reach the tops of trees. He remembered telling stories around the fire and listening to Grug's, which had gotten far more creative since they'd made it to Tomorrow.

Then Guy had gone with a torch to gather some nearby bracken for the fire, a bright light had flashed, and then...

Then he found himself waking up on smooth black stone, lined with yellow lines the same brightness as flowers, his body feeling strangely light.

The sky was darkening and when he looked up -

When he looked up, he almost wished he hadn't. There were strange structures around him, ones that didn't seem even remotely natural, with gaping holes filled with light, staring down at him like eyes. Strange structures, glinting brightly like the blade of his knife loomed overhead, round orbs of glowing light at their ends, casting circles of light on the ground around him.

He stopped the rising scream of horror that was threatening to erupt out of his mouth before it could get too loud, and reached to his belt for his knife, pulling it out with a shaking hand and moving away from the strange structures, the strange...dwellings, maybe? He could see people inside, dressed in strange clothing, the likes of which he'd never seen.

"Where are we? Where are we?!"

Belt let out strangled noises of confusion and fear that made it clear he was just as unsure and just as panicked.

"What is all this?!" One of the nearby long-necked creatures blinked its orb on and light suddenly spilled over them. "AAAGH!"

Guy ran forward around a corner, onto a path paved with black stone, only to find himself in a field of light cast by the horrible eyes of some roaring creature, rushing towards him. It let out a hideous, bloodthirsty screech as it suddenly slowed down, as if it was trying to avoid barreling into him, and he dove forward, rolling out of the way, crashing into some bushes.

Scrambling out of them, after checkingto make sure Belt was okay, he looked around, trying to find his family.

"Eep! Eep!" he cried out, his voice high-pitched with terror. "Grug! Ugga! Thunk! Gran?"

The strange creature started to open, and a person climbed out of it, one that rushed towards him, yelling at him, and Guy started running again, lost in a maze of stone, glowing eyes staring down at him and Belt everywhere he turned.
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One very long nap later, Bunny was well enough to make a quiet exit. He had a few errands to run - among them, dashing home to eat something not in cookie form.

He returned just as quietly as he'd left. He wasn't being eaten or on fire this time, so it was a better return than his last. Still, something - maybe several things - seemed to be bothering him as he loped off in search of a few people.
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The yetis and elves had been extremely welcoming when they arrived back at the Pole. As soon as they shook themselves out of their shock at how battered they'd looked, they'd immediately brought out the blankets, spare clothes, first aid kits, food and drinks. Cocoa was pressed into people's hands whether they wanted it or not.

"Blughbloghughblug?"

"Out of nowhere. In broad daylight, no less," Katherine said to one of the yetis, holding her half-finished cup of hot cocoa in her hands. "It goes without saying that this is very, very bad."

"Ooghughaugh. Blughooghablorgblurgh?"

"Oh, well, that may be because they're still tethered to their worlds to a degree." She looked to the others. "He said someone named Wonder Woman, a Mr. Stark, and some undead fellow that had stayed behind at the Pole disappeared while you were meeting with me. I suppose that supports my hypothesis about the trans-dimensional tethering."

It had been a little while now since they'd returned and there was still no sign of Jack and Bunny. It was obviously bothering Katherine. In between her idle chatter with the yetis, who seemed to regard with her great fondness, she was pacing back and forth through the area that had been made into a "common area" while they'd been away. It was comfortable, full of plush red couches and cushions and tables for them to sit at to eat. Board games in many varieties had been stacked around.

The yetis were on standby, ready to get anything they needed, or show those who hadn't seen the Pole yet around.

"They should be back by now. I don't know why they're not back by now. Maybe the lindworms gave them trouble. Perhaps they had to take shelter in the Warren."

She chugged down her cocoa like someone else might nervously down a shot of whisky and then went for a refill.

[ooc: This is just for a few minutes of post-fight mingling and then the return of Jack and Bunny, then it'll be free-threading after this.]
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They'd had a few days to get settled in. In that time, the Yetis and Elves had been nothing but welcoming, making sure the gang had a never-ending supply of treats, cocoa, and eggnog, as well as more wholesome food to nosh on. Even though they had work to do - and seemed to enjoy doing it - the Yetis had been helpful in getting them all settled in, into rooms specially designed to each of their specifications. If anything had a want or need of something, like new clothes, or a new pair of shoes, they'd been quick to provide.

Jack and Bunny had done their part to make the new folks feel welcome, as well, by showing them around and socializing, but they'd been in and out constantly during the last few days. Some of the times they'd come back in, they'd looked a touch on this side of ragged.

True to their word, despite the fact that they'd been busy putting out fires caused by Kuk and Its minions, they had reached out to a few contacts of theirs to see about helping the others get home.

That was why Jack was gathering them all up on the balcony in front of the globe.

"Okay, guys, we have some good news. We managed to get in touch with an ally of ours. We think she can give us more information about what exactly you are. Like...how much you were changed to be like us, how the mechanics of the world have changed to pull you in. It might give us some headway in figuring out how to get you back home. She wants to meet you."

[ooc: Bendytimed to after they negotiate Tony being allowed to stay at the Pole.]
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The ride through the tunnels to the North Pole went much faster than any of them had to have anticipated. They slid along at an astonishing pace, as if the rabbit running ahead of them were somehow pulling them along in his wake, and the journey from Pennsylvania to the North Pole took literally seconds.

Bunny emerged from the tunnel first, leaping onto the carpeted floor of the Globe Room overlooking the workshop, calling for assistance as he emerged.

Multiple hairy arms reached into the tunnel to pull the others out, and huge, hairy creatures with large, expressive eyes set in their shaggy faces crowded around as they helped the newcomers onto the thickly carpeted floor of a vast reception room, overlooking a workshop that was cathedral-like in its grandeur.

Before them, a huge globe, covered with small specks of light, spun slowly. Behind them, a roaring fire burned in a thirty-foot stone fireplace, underneath a portrait of a mountain of a man, an impressive figure in red, alternately fighting savage looking monsters and befriending the same peaceable, hairy creatures that had helped them from the tunnel, and were now looking at them curiously, babbling in a garbled inhuman language.

Bunny was addressing a large figure, a grey furry beast and some others gathered around him. "- so these are the new recruits. New recruits, Phil the Yeti. And . . . the other yetis."

There were far too many to name, but they all looked at the newcomers with wide eyes in their shaggy faces.

A number of things that looked like living hats scuttled around their feet, their little bells jangling. On closer inspection, the little hats were actually garments adorning tiny gremlinlike creatures, with largely blank expressions tinged with varying degrees of wonder and mischief. They gaped with childlike surprise at the newcomers for a moment before some authoritative garbles from the yetis sent them scurrying - and returning with refreshments. Plates of Christmas cookies. Goblets of eggnog. A whole fruitcake.

And all around the vast space, with tall windows showing sweeping arctic landscapes outside, were toys - toys, in various states of production. Yetis constructed and painted them on the tiers lining the workshop. Elves played with them wherever there was space. Many of them flew, circling the globe, wonderous works of art and play unlike any the new Guardians had ever seen - except those who had taken the time, as children, to imagine the wonders that must have come to life in Santa's workshop.

"Welcome to the North Pole, everyone," said Bunny, gesturing at the workshop with a hint of regret. "I'm not the right person to give you the tour, or even the welcome, but ah, maybe we'll get lucky and steal the old blowhard back soon."

"Old blowhard," he called North, but the insult was tinged with affection.

"This place really isn't the same without him."

[ooc: time to explore Santa's workshop! Make subthreads for your characters and tag away freely.]

Fustercluck

May. 9th, 2013 10:45 pm
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As far as Jack and Bunny could tell, they'd gathered up all the people they would find tonight. They'd have to sweep by in the coming days just to catch any possible stragglers.

Jack looked somewhat awkward as he stood in front of the group. A leader he was not, and public speaking wasn't something he was used to since being seen by the public was a whole new thing for him.

Still, he gave it his best shot.

"Okay, so most of you have gotten an explanation of who we are and why we think you're here, right? If you have any more questions about that, you can ask 'em. Then we need to talk about where you guys wanna stay. We have a few places in mind that are safe - and trust me, with Kuk's minions running around kidnapping any myths It thinks is a threat, you'll need somewhere safe - but you should have some say in where you live, so we want to see what works best for everyone."

[ooc: Clusterfuck thread! Always tag the most recent comment near the bottom.]
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As the summer evening gave way to a cooler summer night, they would all found their way to the little clearing by the pond either by picking their way through town or being led right there by the two Guardians that had found them. One of them even managed to get there in style via piggy-back ride, but then Jack flew off again.

It meant they - and group of strangers - would all meet unsupervised in a strange place, on a strange world, in the midst of a very strange situation.
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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.]
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A tunnel appeared in the wall of North's workshop and two very weary spirits tumbled out of it. Jack didn't even bother to try landing on his feet or flying out gracefully, he just let himself flop across the floor an undignified sprawl of limbs, until he slid to a stop at the feet of Phil the Yeti.

"Arghughblorgblugh?" asked Phil.

"Oh, we won," Jack said lightly. "The kids are safe, no worries there. We just nearly got eaten in the process. Twice."

He looked to the elves, reaching out his staff and poking at one of them.

"Can you guys get Action Grandpa his hot water bottle? And maybe some Bengay. Ugh."

Nowadays, some days he actually felt old. Physically and mentally weary, muscles aching and exhausted. Every time they had a chance to recover from being chew toys, they usually had to be on the move again.

The elves scurried off and Jack flopped over on his back now, gingerly, looking down ruefully at his burned, ruined hoodie. (Third one this month.)

"Bunny, I think I'm going to take an early retirement from this Guardian thing. Do I get a pension?"

[ooc: locked to Bunny for setup.]
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