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Irina- Unknown Beach "Irina." She says pointedly, "Penn-sil-vania? Oh I know this, yes." She paces for a moment, "YA znayu, chto eto odno." She mutters under her breath as she tries to remember her history class. "It is with the one that likes the sex." She thinks for a moment, "Ben Franklin. Yes, yes. Now it is indian land, after the Second French and Indian war. It was abandoned hundreds of years ago." She said very satisfied with her answer.
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Jeff - Probably Not Ipanema "Yeah, see, she gets it. I-" Jeff pauses, and gives Naomi the side-eye. He holds up a finger and hesitates. "...you sound a lot more confident in it. You got a clue to throw us?" That wry smile creeps back up. "Because we could really use one. Or at least I could."
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Irina- Unknown Beach "Different Worlds? Then how did we travel to this one?" She points up at the moon in the daytime sky, "No one has even been to Luna! How could my plane fly to another world!" She said thoroughly confused. The science fiction of Russia was a premier of its day and even that speculated only what could exist on their nearest body, much less a whole new world. She considered something, and then asked. "Are they all from the Vulcan?"
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Naomi Aoshima – The Beach at the End of the World "Not different worlds like that, just different Earths," Naomi said with wry detachment. "Earths where history took different turns, like the Japanese Empire not conquering your asses. I know because this is not my first trip through to the unexpected. If you're looking for proof, I can't offer you much more than a fistful of Wyatt Petrobucks, but if you think nothing at all strange is happening here, I'm set to disabuse you of that notion powerfully fast."
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Courtney D'Arvent - Unknown Beach "Birdie, I already told ya I buy it," Courtney answers Naomi. "I think a flipping hurricane or Banestorm or whatever that con called it picking me up and putting me down here with you lot is more convincing than any funny money ya have on ya." He takes another moment to look around. "For cryin' out loud, if that pill were here now he'd probably be able to sing a whole symphony on this. I know he knew a lot more than he was letting on about this kind of thing in the Q&A..." PER-14, is anybody around?
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Hector the Weasel - Unknown Beach Hector passes an hand through his hair. Different worlds, different Earths, an empire that wasn't the Roman one... this is all very confusing, and that is without taking into consideration the lady who might be a ghost or a powerful wizard. "Uhm, well. Since we are introducing ourselves... I'm Hector. Just Hector, I don't have a surname, although people sometimes call me the Weasel." He laughs a nervous laugh. "Well, it's clear that this situation is as weird for you folks as much as it is for me. Which is kind of a shame, it would have been nice to see someone who knows about..." He makes a vague gesture that is meant to embrace the island, the coast and the debris. "... all of this."
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Miles - LOST He chuckles at Irina. "Free me from a King? My lady, my birthplace and accent may be English, but I serve no King but the Emperor Henry VI of the Holy Roman Empire." It's what she says earlier that makes him think. "Flying since 1964..?" He says the words slowly, processing them in his mind. He turns his back from the group and looks out to the ocean. Different times... Had the New Men come to the Empire the same way he had come to be here? He stays lost in thought until the lady he pulled from the water is able to answer a few questions at least. "Different Earths?" He turns back to the others. "That... Does explain it somewhat. We are clearly from times and lands very different to each other." He gives Naomi and look of slow understanding. Most of her words make no sense, but he is starting to make some sense of this. "This 'Banestorm' is the reason we are here, we were all caught in it? It's magic pulled us from our lands where our histories and times differ and deposited us here..." He breathes deep and lets out a long sigh. "If that is indeed the case, then it is a lot to think on..." The knight looks about the beach and nods his head as he makes a decision. "I intend to do something productive whilst I make sense of all this. Perhaps search inland for a local who may be able to say where we are..." The wreckage along the beach is truly odd indeed, perhaps it would be worth searching through it first. "Can any of you make sense of this strange debris?" Per - 13 to look for anything of interest in the wreckage.
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Azure An Island in Need of a Tiki Bar Azure takes the cigarette from Jeff with a polite nod that flows into a long drag, then leaving it to smoulder in her fingers. They'd said she needed to cut back, she'd told herself that she'd reserve the vice for only the most stressful situations. This counts. ~~We were flying back from Sydney,~~ Azure explains, ~~And had begun our descent into New York. The storm came on all of a sudden...~~ Azure's mind flashes back to the confusion. A faint sigh. Courtney's question elicits a snap of Azure's head, a furrowed brow right at him. ~~Privately~~ she responds, her mental voice taking on a flat, uncompromising tenor. Azure lets the others discuss and theorize, keeping an ear out for it as she meanders down the beach, through the pieces of wreckage. A pause and she crouches down, picking up a glass that somehow miraculously survived. A tumbler with gently curved sides. Azure brushes sand off it, immediately bringing visions of it in her hand, in Guenivere's hand.... ...perhaps? Azure walks further from the others, just out of earshot to avoid distraction. Her eyes flutter closed as her mind opens and she tries to listen for anybody else alive. Going to try the Omniscan - 6 technique to try to locate other people on the island. Probably won't work, I know, but worth a shot.
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Irina- Unknown Beach "Other Earths." Irina said looking blank at everyone else, "But but Yapan has been a Russian state for a hundred years!" She rubs her forehead and mutters, "I need some drink." Flexing her fingers she gets up and looks at everyone solidly, before decidedly. "Oh so, you are from New England Colonies too." She says at Azure the telepath, "Going to St. Louis Isle?" Irina seemed very confused, the idea of multiple worlds themselves was pretty mind-blowing. "It is 2007 here- Where I am from." She said the idea of relative time really making her brow furrow. "And most of this is a planes and maybe a boat." She wasn't sure on some of it, but she could tell her lovely plane had been there. "My Vorobey" A tear in her eye as she picked up a dial from it on the sands. "I bought her from a racer from the aeroraces. Modified her to become the best at what we did." She said looking down and then set the dial down. "We can't do nothing here, other earth or not. I don't have any food provisions... does anyone else? I expected to be in the forests of the Colonies full of deer and game."
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Miles - Not In Gaum "Planes and boats." He repeats after Irina, surveying the wreckage on the beach. "And these planes fly you through the sky. Some sort of magic keeping them aloft?" He shakes his head slightly at her mention of food. "What provisions I can share, that are not destroyed by the sea water, will not last us more than a day. We would be wise to find food and water, perhaps even set a camp."
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Irina- Sunburn Isle "The same that let the birds stay up. Science is the new truth in the world, no god, no emperor. It took years to perfect, but we are getting better. One day everyone will fly instead of use automobiles!" She said excitedly, always the proponent for planes. "We should make camp, my bag I had was only to survive should I have to escape the plane." She said looking at the wilderness. "We might be able to use a wing for a shelter, the sun will be very hard."
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Jeff "I dunno what a Petrobuck is," Jeff says to Naomi with a shrug, "but I think I catch what you're sayin'. I guess it makes sense for why things would be different, as far as any of this actually does, which isn't much." He drags the last out of his cigarette, and resists lighting another for all of ten seconds. "gently caress, I was not ready for this kind of thing. I was hoping to be back in the studio in a week..." He nods at Hector. "Oh, good, you come with your own nickname. Saves me some time. Welcome aboard the Magical Mystery Tour. Although I don't see Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr or Lynne anywhere." Jeff grins, then looks at Courtney. "Maybe your little runaway got dropped somewhere else down here, who knows?" "Anywho." He looks over at Irina and Miles, nodding. "I was gonna be out in the woods a couple days, but I didn't bring much. Enough for me, not enough for the Magnificent Seven." He starts off to where he dropped his gear, and is then soon picking at his pack, making sure that nothing got too waterlogged, which he's pleased to discover is in fact the case. "Which means we gotta all mount up and start looking around pretty soon." With a look down the beach at Azure, he adds, not so much at her as simply acknowledging, "Best we probably don't wander off all on our own otherwise." She was probably doing some funky Professor X stuff, anyway. Satisfied with the backpack, he nervously opens up the gig bag. "poo poo. I knew the waterproof bag was worth the extra cash," he says, mostly to himself, smiling, running his thumb over the strings of his Takamine acoustic. Still in tune. He closes it up, and pulls out a harmonica from one of the side pockets, inspects it, plays a few notes. Then, he launches into a familiar riff for a moment before he puts it away. "Man, opening for Billy and then coming back out with his band for the back half of the set, that was good times," Jeff eventually says, wistful. "Guess that don't matter much now." "What's next?"
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Miles He gives Jeff a warm smile, the first he feels he has given in some time. He always did enjoy a good tune. "A musician? Those are strange instruments you carry, but their sound is soothing. Perhaps you might play us a tune later and help us forget our predicament, if only for a short time." Irina gets a nod. "I agree. Perhaps we look amongst this wreckage for anything useful and then we find water. I think it best we stay together, also. The Lord only knows what unexpected dangers could lurk nearby."
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Courtney D'Arvent - Unknown Beach "La, la la, de-de da-ahh, la-la, de-de dah, dah-dum," Courtney unconsciously hums along with the guitar as they search for something sticking out further inland. "Sing us a song, you're the piano man/sing us a song--" They suddenly clap one hand over their mouth. "Uh, Jeff, what were you playing just now?"
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Jeff He stares at Courtney. "...that's ain't possible, Billy Joel didn't even write that until..." Jeff stops and thinks, doing math. "You said 150...I said 210...until about 45 years after you said it was." He pulls the harmonica out from his gig bag and plays the sequence a second time, slower, the reed inside buzzing warmly, bringing a little life to the beach. "You're telling me you know this one. I mean, I know we're dealing with different Earths and all here, but that's..." He rubs at his temple, shakes his head. "Man, I just don't know what to make of that."
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Courtney D'Arvent - Unknown Beach "I believe ya," Courtney nods, "and damned if I can't tell you what I was singin' right now, but the moment you started playing I could hear the rest of it in my head." As Jeff breaks out the harmonica they instinctively fall into the rhythm and sing along. "'Sing us a song, you're the piano man/sing us a song tonight/Well, we're all in the mood for a melody/and you've got us feeling alright!'" The moment the bridge is over they exhale heavily. "Not exactly Tin Pan Alley, but it sounds good! I'm going to blame the magic hurricane--it got me into this mess, it could probably stick that little ditty in my head somewhere."
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Irina- Sunburn Isle While both were out in the water getting the container, Irina was starting to pack up her things and use her leather jacket as kind of a sling for her other equipment. After getting ready, she walked over to the shore with Jeff and looked at Naomi and Azure. "I didn't see anything useful on the shore that could help us, but after we get this we should head into the jungle and start marking a trail." She said in a no nonsense way. She never seemed content to not be working on something, or planning how to work.
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Courtney D'Arvent - Unknown Beach "Looks like some beastie has the same idea as you, Irina," Courtney nods as they point out the game trail. "I dunno, I'm a city fella. Hey, Jeff, what's the word over there?" They head on down to the shore, getting their shoes wet again. Why oh why couldn't they have dressed for rain this morning?
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Miles He looks over the wreckage but finds he cannot make head or tails or it. Strange debris from a time and place he cannot comprehend. Before they make their way inland, it seems one last piece of interest has been found back in the ocean. He takes place beside Jeff, his feet just short of the incoming water as he takes this chance to enjoy the peacefulness of the waves despite the circumstances. "And what might they have there?" Hector gets a clap on the shoulder. "Good man. Your skills will be a boon to us, I am sure. Let us see what the ladies have found and then we will make a move."
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Irina- Sunburn Isle "Thank you Courtney, good eye. We should be able to follow it." She said with a satisfactory praise, and a smile even lights up on her face, adding to her rather rosy complexion in the harsh sun. "Hector that is a great idea. You will be our master plant citizen, and I think very valuable in that role!" Once again the coming together of skills in almost a natural democratic method seemed to be like everything was going well, even one with such flawed concept such as god was able to see how natural and indeed necessary it was. Irina's disposition increased tenfold and she looked at the others. "We both can try to find our way in the jungle, I have some training, but Hector the Plant Master, seems to know much better than I. Citizen Miles, do you think that he should lead? He has the most experience."
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Miles Strange as it is to see the icy Irina smile, he returns it all the same with a small one of his own. "Hector can indeed take the lead, should he wish." As the ladies take their time bringing whatever they have found out of the ocean, he turns back to regard the area inland. "But dangers could be lurking further in. Wild animals or worse..." The lady Irina may be a captain of her world, but the others do not outwardly appear to be fighters. "Are you all capable of defending yourselves if needed?"
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Miles He glances down as Jeff reveals a small firearm sheathed between his upper clothing. "I see. These 'Boy Scouts' have trained you to use firearms. It may surprise you to know that I am no stranger these weapons either. Although, perhaps that story is best saved for later when our survival is a little more assured." The firearm he himself had captured months back from the New Men still rests within his bag, possibly worse for wear after his unfortunate swim... He smirks at the mention of bears. "I hope something like that is the worst this place might have waiting for us. For all we know there could be monsters within that tear down trees and are as illusive as smoke..."
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Courtney D'Arvent - Unknown Beach "Showing off our gats now, eh?" Courtney observes as they reach for their own piece. Then they stop and look a little funny. "Wait, why would you be carrying a revolver on a camping trip? Expecting to get struck by white lightning?" They shrug it off with a mutter of "not like I could hold ya anyway" and turn their attention to the contents of the box. "Uh...what are these and why would they be packed like this?" Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Aug 22, 2016 |
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Irina- Beach "Boy's always comparing your pistols." She says with a smirk at them. Finally pulling her AK-64 from her bag and cocking the assault rifle, loading a round into chamber as she slung it under her shoulder. Looking at the others with a blank expression she said simply, "You know, for bears." The box was like a future treasure chest, and when it opened she picked up a foil package, "Nuts. We should ration them out until we have a secure source of food." She said blandly, it had to be said, though. There was only one solution, to either stretch the supplies or find a new source of food. "We should divide it evenly, so that none are neglected, and all have strength."
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