broken_time (broken_time) wrote in exiles,
@ 2013-02-18 22:39:00

Entry tags:

meggan puceanu, nate summers, olivia barnes, x-23

In the desert between time
As with so many others before them, the new entrants to this non-time and non-place find themselves falling, starting some twenty feet off the ground, and heading quickly towards the sand below, regardless where they were or what they were doing before the shift.

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-19 04:28 am UTC (link)
	Meggan is confused. She'd been watching the telly in the caravan after one of her little patrols, and now... she had no idea where she was. But rather than fall on the sand, she swoops. (Reply to this)(Thread)

girlverine_
2013-02-19 11:03 am UTC (link)

Laura had been out with Logan. They were going camping for the weekend, and she had been excited to go, as she hadn't gotten to spend a lot of time with him lately. They'd been pitching the tent and making sure everything was ready when Laura found herself falling, before landing in the sand.

Her claws popped out instinctively as she stood up. Laura sniffed the air around her, trying to get a better idea of where she was. She could picked up the scent of other people and...were those coffee and muffins? Her stomach rumbled at the thought of food. Her and Logan were supposed to go fishing once they'd set up camp.

Claws still out, just in case, Laura set off down the desert, following the scent of people. She was a little irritated at somehow being torn away and taken to someplace else, but maybe she could get some answers.

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	force_of_will 2013-02-19 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	Nate had been at a bar in Anchorage after finishing up a supplies run for work when suddenly he found himself falling. "What the hell," Nate says as he stops his fall with telekinesis and starts to take in his surrounds. He didn't know what was going on but this place definitely wasn't Alaska. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

winter_daughter
2013-02-19 04:59 pm UTC (link)

Olivia was in the training room of Avenger's Mansion. She had only been with the team for a few months and felt like she had a lot to prove, so she spent almost every waking moment in the training room working out. Sometimes she had company, but today she was alone.

There was a flash of bright light and the next moment she was falling through a cloudless sky toward what looked to be sand. She braced herself and hit the sand.

It would be a few moments before she moved.

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-19 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	Meggan... didn't have any shadows to flit back and forth from. No cover. No nothing. Very annoying. She saw people in the distance, and approached as best she could without any ambiance, claws at the ready. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	broken_time 2013-02-20 12:53 am UTC (link)
	There is, indeed, a vague smell of muffins cooking, and fresh coffee - but for the moment, off in the distance, past several more sand dunes from where anyone fell. Still, anything that isn't sand or bright light - without any obvious sun to cause it - stands out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	girlverine_ 2013-02-20 01:04 am UTC (link)
	Laura kept moving in the direction of people, claws still out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-20 01:09 am UTC (link)
	Olivia picked herself up and started walking. There had to be something around here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-20 03:25 am UTC (link)
	Nate threw up a quick TK shield just to be safe before flying over towards the other people here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	screamofthemoth 2013-02-20 03:44 am UTC (link)
	"What the devil's going on?" Meggan swoops to ask the first person she gets near headed towards the food smells. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	girlverine_ 2013-02-20 12:42 pm UTC (link)
	Laura was startled by the woman swooping in front of her. She nearly sprung at her, claws out. Laura took a deep breath. This woman had just asked her a question. That didn't mean she might be a threat. Still, she didn't retract her claws. Just in case. "I don't know," she said. "Who are you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-20 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	"That's what I'd like to know," Liv said. She crossed her arms over her chest. She didn't feel the need to put either the knife or pistol just yet. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	screamofthemoth 2013-02-20 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	Meggan stayed a bit on the ready herself, regarding the Vaguely Animalistic Girl. Wait -- if she was the Vaguely Animalistic Girl, then what was Meggan? She'd have to sort that out sometime soon. "Meggan. Meggan Puceanu." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-21 12:31 am UTC (link)
	"I'm more concerned with what the hell is going on here. Or where here is for that matter," Nate says as he lands nearby. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-21 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	"Olivia Barnes," Liv said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	girlverine_ 2013-02-21 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Laura Kinney. I smell food, and someone else," she said. "We should head in that direction. Hopefully, someone can tell us where we are." She retracted her claws. For now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	screamofthemoth 2013-02-21 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Seams the thing to do." And Meggan will keep going. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-22 01:57 am UTC (link)
	"Nate Summers," He says as he follows after them in that direction. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-22 02:26 am UTC (link)

There is a definite oddity - a small combination kitchenette/classroom in the middle of the desert. There's no walls, but there's still a stove and counter, and a coffee maker. No sign of anywhere to get power, but there's clearly fresh muffins.

There's only one resident. A middling height, middle aged balding man, handling the muffin tins.

To those with animalistic senses he smells odd. Not precisely like any person they've ever met, but also not unlike a person. To Nate's low level telepathy, or even attempts to scan, there's a sense of a mind there, but completely and totally unreadable - its like trying to get a television program, and getting nothing but static - but something conscious is definitely there.

He smiles at the group of them. "Come, come. Have some coffee, or a muffin. It may be some time before you eat this well again."

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-22 02:31 am UTC (link)
	"That could sound like a threat," Meggan says, but, well, food. Da always said never pass up a chance at food. She grabs a muffin. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	winter_daughter 2013-02-22 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	Olivia didn't trust easily, it was the way she was raised, and she sure in hell didn't trust this guy. She didn't touch any of the food or coffee. Even if she felt like she needed a caffeine fix. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	force_of_will 2013-02-23 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	Nate did not like this. Not being able to pick up anything from that guy's mind was true weird. He didn't like that at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	girlverine_ 2013-02-23 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	Laura didn't like that she couldn't get a solid scent on this guy. Nothing smelled wrong with the coffee and the muffins, though, so she took one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

broken_time
2013-02-23 11:12 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, you're all in terrible danger. your entire worlds are. But not from me." the man assures, while working at cleaning up the counter some.

"I'm not even a person, really, in the same way this isn't a place. Both are manifestations of your collective unconscious, putting things into a form your minds will follow. When you have your food and coffee, please have a seat and we'll get started on explaining all of this."

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	screamofthemoth 2013-02-24 06:49 am UTC (link)
	"...collective unconscious? What, you're some kind of arch-a-type?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)