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[video .001] -- Route intro post

((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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'Course I'm her friend. You don't gotta test me or... [and then it hits him]

Oh, she's probably told you about how things were with The Order, right? I guess it makes sense why you're gettin' all jumpy. I mean... usually people knowin' her name means trouble. I figured that out pretty quick.

[he rubs the back of his neck]

It sounds bad, but I dunno her favorite color. For a while it was blue, but then she was like "Douglas I hate blue now" and she switched over to red, and then it was blue again, and for ten minutes it was purple, and then orange and... I dunno if any of those even were her favorite colors or if she was tryin' to confuse me so much that I'd lose track of what color she liked and not go through with buyin' her a sweater like I wanted to. She said I didn't need to be fussin' over her. Even though I think she kinda likes being fussed over, deep down.

[and now he realizes he's gone into rant mode with quite possibly the last ranty person he has met here and he clams up]

Uh... sorry. Guess I kinda went off on a tangent there.

_{[ >8c BUT THATS JUST WHAT A CULTIST WOULD S--oh.]

[Oh.]

[As Douglas continues, the tiny angryface Henry is making melts. That...sounds very much like an old man that Heather has given a hard time. He's SEEN how she worked.]}

It's okay. _{I don't think she even knows her favorite color.} I'm sorry. It's just...yeah. The Order. And stuff. Crazy people.

_{Not that I think you look crazy because you don't.}

But we have to be careful.

[he chuckles]

Yeah, sometimes I think she knows less about herself than other people do. I guess she's too busy with other stuff, though. She's never really been much to get self-absorbed very often.

[he nods, knowingly]

You been mixed up with those guys too, huh? Yeah, you can never be too careful when it comes to them. Learned that as soon as I figured out just what that Claudia woman was up to... right after she broke my legs. They're not a good bunch.

[his expression's all srs bsns now]

Hey, it's never so bad to assume somebody's crazy. We really do... gotta be careful.

_{[Henry listens quietly. He's glad to know (or hope he knows) that Douglas is on his side.]

[However he can't stop wondering if the man was in a wheelchair and if he was, how was he going to get from town to town? The roads were rough.]}

Yeah. I was supposed to be sacrificed.

Edited 2011-11-18 09:11 (UTC)

[Douglas does a double take at that. Apparently The Order was big on sacrifices from what he'd heard, but it's still was a shock to hear about it. As jaded as life as a cop made him in his younger years, there are some things you never become desensitized to]

Sacrificed? Those sick bastards really know how to ruin lives.

[a pause]

I'm glad they didn't get ya, though. I like it when the good guys win.

_{[8''D Yeah...win. Haha. That's right. N-no, he's not living in constant fear of being yanked back into that hell-world where he was just about to face the man responsible for all the crap he had to go through.]}

Yeah.

_{[He couldn't take wondering any longer.]}

Are your legs okay?

Me legs?

[he glances down at his legs, and then remembers he mentioned Claudia breaking them. Oh right.]

Oh, yeah. They're okay now. That was a couple of months ago. It was a real pain tryin' to lug my sorry self around with casts, but it didn't last long.

Oh, good. I was wondering because you're going to have to do a lot of walking while you're here unless you've got a pokemon big enough to ride on.

[his eyes flick to his shuckle. No way would he be riding it]

So I'm guessin' this place isn't big on cars, then?

[great. Douglas isn't quite scowling about that, because that would be childish. But it's clear that he isn't quite happy, either]

Oh well, guess it could be worse. I'm just happy to have ended up in this crazy world, out of all the ones I could've gotten dropped into. It's gonna be nice to see Heather again.

It's weird, isn't it?

_{[Heather had told him about a bus they all road to one city to help during a bad storm...but he hadn't seen any that he could recall.]}

It's nice to see somebody sane that knows her.

_{I'm Henry. Henry Townshend.}

Likewise.

[an awkward smile]

You seem like a pretty standup guy. I'm glad Heather's got friends like you. From what she told me, most of the kids she hung out with in high school were pretty bad news.

[and he smiles wider, then. He feels like maybe the fact that he's introduced himself now means he's a bit more trusted than before]

Well, it's nice to meet ya, Henry. It's good to talk to somebody who knows about The Order and all this stuff, who's on the same side as me, for once.

Heather's a good friend. She and Mr. Mason both are. If it weren't for them, I'd probably be living off berries in the woods.

[a chuckle at that, at the thought of Henry in the woods eating berries]

I'm glad. Heather's pretty good at helpin' out, isn't she. If it weren't for her, I'd probably still be a depressed, sorry old man. Not that I'm not still old.

I'm pretty sure they would have tied me up and dragged me to the hotel eventually.

_{[He quietly muses to himself about that. That had been a very interesting day. AND THEN HE HAD BECOME AN HONORARY MASON. Whether he wanted to or not.]}

Is there anything else about this place you need to know?

[another chuckle]

Heather's like that. Sometimes ya don't get a say in anything.

[he pauses to think about it]

Well, I guess there are a ton of things I wanna ask about, but I dunno even where to start. I shouldn't be botherin' you will all this. I guess the most important is that this... this 'Mom' lady told me I was supposed to start a journey. But I dunno to where. Not at all.

Oh, yeah. Mom.

_{She was kind of creepy.}

We're supposed to follow the roads from town to town and collect gym badges...but I haven't really bothered. Heather has a few badges though. She's good at battling.

She really was.

[he nods]

Badges, huh? I dunno about that. I think I might just wanna find someplace I can call a home, for now. Guess I'd better get a job.

Battling? You mean with the monsters?

Jobs aren't too hard to get. You can get money by winning battles but I don't really like it. My pokemon are more like pets.

[he glances at his shuckle]

Yeah, I can understand that. Battlin' doesn't really sound like my kinda thing.

[a pause]

So what do you do around here, Henry?

I'm a photographer.

_{[LOOOOL no he just mooches off Heather and Harry. Pfff what job?]}

A photographer, huh? Sounds like it'd be interesting. I was never really the creative type, myself.

[lol Henry you freeloader]

I'm glad I can take photos with my poke'gear. They're pretty small though

Well, that's good. Better'n nothin, right?

[he smiles]

If I ever run across a camera in this place I'll get it to ya. A guy's gotta be able to do what he loves it ya ask me.

_{[ ;-; Wow this old guy is super nice! They'd only just met!]}

That would be cool.

I don't have much important to do around here. Figure the least I can do is take a look around for cameras now and then.

[a slightly sheepish smile]

I'll let ya know if I run across one. Try and get it to ya. Not that findin' your way around here's that easy.

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[video] COME ON LJ BEHAVE

[video] THAT WOULD BE LIKE IT GOING AGAINST ITS VERY NATURE