[video .001] -- Route intro post

[thinkimsuperman]

((OOC: oh my god, you guys, what am I even doing? Late intro is so late because of NaNoWriMo and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING, besides. Enjoy :'D Sorry if I derp this up like the derp I am. Also, feel free to add your own character tags. Tag add new/delete and add/remove to entry is set to any user because I am too trusting))

[the feed shows Douglas Cartland blinking in the middle of a random field in the sunlight, shielding his eyes from the sun. He's got his 'gear in one hand and his Shuckle in the other and he's staring hard into the screen]

How the heck do I... how am I supposed to work this thing? Is it like a phone? One of those new video phone things or...

[pause]

Oh, it's recordin'. Okay. Well uh... not sure if anybody can hear this but I'd really like to know where I am. Some woman gave me lunch and shoved me outside when I woke up this morning, but that's not really important. What I really wanna know is where I woke up.

Hello? Anybody listenin'?

[he frowns]

There's no way this is Maine.

[he resists the urge to say "I have a feeling I'm not in Kansas anymore", because this isn't the time at all]

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[video]

[exeggutorhead]

Yeah, welcome to Johto, where nothing makes sense. You're probably going to be here a while.

[Envy mainly replied to this because he has never seen a Shuckle before and what is that even.]

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

Well.. no. Here's the thing; when somebody comes to me tellin' me their kid's gotten kidnapped, I don't really have any reason to be suspicious. She had details and it seemed... it seemed credible enough.

It wasn't until we were already in Silent Hill that I figured out that Alessa Gillespie'd been dead for 17 years, and at that point, there was nothin' I could do. I was already set on helpin' Heather kill Claudia anyway at that point, so I just... kept doin' what I could.

[video]

[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[he blinks]

Am I?

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

Johto? [he blinks some more]

Where's that? Someplace in the South, or...

[video]

[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[Douglas just stares at the photographer for a moment, and then it really hits him]

Planet? So you're tellin' me... you're tellin' me this isn't even Earth?

[set phasers to "panic"]

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

Well uh... I guess that's good to know.

Would ya happen to know anything about how I got here?

[video]

[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

Johto? Huh. That doesn't sound familiar.

[he frowns]

Here for a while? Why uh... why am I here, do ya know?

[video]

[no-ufo-ending.livejournal.com]

<sub>[Are you ready for this, Douglas? Are you?]

[Here it comes.]

[THOUSAND-YARD STARE IS GO. Henry spaces out right there in the video chat and doesn't speak for a long, awkward moment.]</sub>

I don't think so. Dogs don't breath fire on earth.

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Some place called "Jhoto". It is not on Earth, or any planet I have ever been to.

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[Douglas is rather disturbed by that blank stare and he wonders for a moment if Henry is dead. But when he speaks, that worry dissipates and a whole new worry surfaces]

Wait a minute... dogs breathin' fire?

Is this... am I in hell?

[as silly as it sounds, it seems like a legitimate question to Douglas at the time]

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

Nobody's figured it out, people just wake up here and get sent on their way.

[Shrug.] Never heard of Maine, and I'm guessing you've never heard of Amestris.

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[harryusedworry.livejournal.com]

No reason?

[Just....anger creeping into his voice now.]

You were talking to Claudia. She's not even related to Cheryl. Do you just take everyone at their word?

[Video]

[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[blink blink blink. Oh god, what is this madness?]

So... so we're not even on Earth anymore?

What's goin' on?

[video]

[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

So this happens a lot, then?

[a sigh]

Nope, doesn't sound familiar. So I'm guessin' that means I'm pretty far from home.

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[no-ufo-ending.livejournal.com]

_{[The photographer shakes his head.]}

Nah. You don't get to have friends in hell. It's weird here, but it could be a lot worse.

Nobody I know knows why we're here though. Sorry.

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[newhero.livejournal.com]

Your guess is as good as mine, sir. [for the record, Sora's guess is magic.]

Oh, but don't worry! You get used to Johto after a while-- and I'm pretty sure Maine didn't go anywhere, either.

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

I've always sorta just... taken people at their word. It used to be okay to do that, when I was young.

[Douglas' mouth tightens and he feels bad]

I used to like to think we lived in a world where you could trust people, ya know? Where when somebody said "my daughter's been kidnapped" they meant "my daughter's been kidnapped" and not "I wanna take somebody else's daughter away from them and make her life miserable". But I don't think I'm so naive anymore.

[he sighs]

I know it probably doesn't mean much, but I'm really sorry about what happened to you. And to Heather. I never would've told Claudia where to find her if I'd known...

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[he sighs, long and slow]

Well, that's okay. At least we're not in hell. Thanks for givin' me what info you had, at least.

[a small smile]

I'm Douglas Cartland. What about you?

[Video]

[show_my_cannons]

Not any Earth I have seen.

[He shrugs.]

Not a clue. We get sent here, get partnered up with these creatures... And that is all I know.

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[a small smile at that. At least the kid is trying]

Well, I guess you can get used to anything after a while, huh?

Even if it's under weird circumstances, it's nice to meet ya. My name is Douglas Cartland.

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

Creatures...

[he glances at the Shuckle in his hand]

Ya mean like this little thing?

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[newhero.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you, Douglas! My name's Sora--

[... wait a minute. wait a minute. a Douglas. from Maine. the place with, to quote Heather more than a year ago, the weirdos and the seafood.]

[............ Sora must investigate further. it's what a good detective would do!]

Sir, would you by any chance know a Heather Mason?

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[no-ufo-ending.livejournal.com]

_{[Henry falls silent again. Heather's been encouraging him to speak up more. He's getting better at it! Sort of! He tries to think of anything else this guy needs to know.]}

It's weird. There's a video game about this place back on Earth.

_{[That...probably wasn't one of those things, Henry. Also, don't you have a name?]}

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[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

[a pause, and a blink]

Yeah. Heather's a friend of mine from back home. How'd ya know that? Do you know her?

[video] your icon... oh my god XD

[thinkimsuperman.livejournal.com]

A... a video game? So we're someplace out of a video game?

[oh Douglas, if only you knew]

That doesn't... that doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean, I believe ya, but how's this possible?