Day 1

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The first sign is maybe different for all of you – the hard ground underneath you, the lack of a body next to you, or no blanket to pull over your shoulders when you reach for it. Either way, when you open your eyes you know for certain you aren’t in the castle.

It’s a little too quiet here, except for the sounds of people around you moving about. There is a strange, unreal quality about everything, as if were viewed through the grimy patina of an old piece of film or photograph and half-realized blurs of images and words seems to hang suspended in the air like solid smoke – there but not quite there.

The group seems to be at the edge of a dead forest, the trees dark and twisted and the ground swirling with mist. A path seems to lead into the depths, but the sky that way is cast with dark umber and hanging shadows that don’t seem terribly inviting.

Not far off, however, is a long stone bridge stretching over a chasm of nothingness and leading to what looks like a city. Far beyond the rooftops, there is the briefest glimmer of dazzling light, gone almost as soon as you see it.

((OOC: WAIT FOR SECTIONS PLEASE! Aaaaaand GO!))

WAKING UP | THE CITY

Comments

[hellshaped]

[Oh -- he'd recognize that vampire skin anywhere!

Hellboy's just dressed in shorts. No coat, not even a belt. How weird.]

I think we're in another dimension.

[gevurah]

[ Oh no, his pouches!! ]

I have a bad feeling you're right.

[hellshaped]

[How will he carry his collection of random objects now?]

There's usually weird stuff in these. So at least I didn't get turned into something else this time. [Because even without weapons, he's not exactly useless in a fight, if it comes down to it.]

[gevurah]

If you usually have powers, can you still use them?

[hellshaped]

[He thinks about that for a second, rubbing his chin.]

Well. The ones I've been in have been filled with ghosts and other supernatural things -- so, probably, if it's anything like the pocket dimensions in the real world. But it could operate differently.

[gevurah]

I wonder if this is where the kids ended up last spring.

[hellshaped]

It could be. I've only been Underground once, back on Earth. But this seems like it might be similar. [He gestures toward the creepy dead forest shrouded in fog over there.]

[gevurah]

Underground? [ She's curious; what's he seen there that might be here? ]

[hellshaped]

Sure. Where the fairies go when they die, or just when they don't want to live on the surface anymore.

It's sort of like that. Foggy and depressing. And with a lot of dead things.

[gevurah]

I hope it's just the trees and other plants here, and not something else. [ Like a body. That would set everyone off and surprisingly, people are calm. ]

[hellshaped]

[He refrains from saying "like us" because wow, depressing much. But it's true. Sometimes fairies take dead souls Underground, too.]

I guess there's only one way to find out.

[gevurah]

Think the people back at the castle have noticed by now?

[hellshaped]

Maybe. A lot of times, they seem to be caught up in their own drama.

[gevurah]

There's about thirty of us here. A group that large vanishing? They're going to notice eventually. [ She points in Arya's general direction. ] She was with her mother.

[hellshaped]

[He looks over at Arya.] Oh. Jeez.

Well, if we're in an alternate dimension, I don't really know how much they can do from their side.

[gevurah]

[ Pessimism is not good for this situation. She ignores it. ]

They'll have to do whatever they can. Same for us.

[hellshaped]

[It's not pessimism, it is a fact!!!!!!]

I just mean sometimes you're on your own. Right? [He looks around.] Well, on your own with thirty other people.

[gevurah]

We'll put our heads together. Yuan was the leader of the Peace Patrol, you're also sharp and strong, Allen is the same. I'm sure the others are capable of something.

[hellshaped]

At least nobody's had a panic attack yet.

I guess being in the castle kind of takes the shock factor away to waking up someplace weird.

[gevurah]

If one person starts, the others will get agitated.

We should start moving. I don't like this place already.

[hellshaped]

Took the words right out of my mouth, Kate.