broken_time (broken_time) wrote in exiles,
@ 2011-01-24 14:57:00

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More travelers, lost in time
Suddenly, everything changes.

Complex worlds - space-scapes, WWII as a backdrop, friends, allies, enemies - all disappear to be replaced with... sand.

Miles and miles of sand. Rolling hills, dunes, not an oasis in sight.

Well, except that, from somewhere just beyond the hills, there's a smell of fresh coffee.

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	a_pal 2011-01-24 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Gwenny blinked. "Davy? Davy? Bucky? Toro?" This was definitely not camp. "Goodness gracious. What's going on?" (Reply to this)(Thread)

notallhunkydory
2011-01-24 10:11 pm UTC (link)

Dorrek stumbles in the unexpected sand, switching immediately into high-alert mode. That had not felt like one of Billy's teleports, and if it's an illusion, it's a very effective one -- the only sign that all is not what it seems is that coffee smell.

He spots the girl at about the same moment he hears her voice. Teenage human female, Asian, looks like she stumbled out of some historical reenactment project. She sounds confused and her accent definitely isn't New York. All of that can be faked of course, but it's probably in his best interest to at least pretend to accept her at face-value for the moment.

"I have no idea," he answers her rhetorical question, slipping the ring box into a pocket so that he can have both hands free. "Who are you?"

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a_pal
2011-01-24 10:20 pm UTC (link)

Gwenny looks. Blonde. Blue-eyed. Carries himself like he's ready for a fight. Unfortunately, that still didn't tell her whether it was one of Our Boys or a Nazi. The accent helped, though. Still, with one thing and another, best to handle this formally.

Gwenny raised her hands in an 'unarmed' kind of way. "Sabuki, Gwendolyne Lou, of Sandy Flat Internment Center, California. American Auxiliary, No rank. Unarmed."

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notallhunkydory
2011-01-24 10:41 pm UTC (link)

Now Dorrek's even more confused. She definitely doesn't want to be seen as a threat, but what she's just told him doesn't seem to make sense. He forces himself to go loose and looks around to make sure that she's not confusing him to focus his attention on her while someone sneaks up.

"Dorian Valentine," he says, using his 'just a normal human' identity. "New York. I'm not armed either." Aside from his two literal arms, which are usually more than enough. "...I take it you don't know any more about this situation than I do."

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	a_pal 2011-01-24 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	"No, Mr. Valentine. I was on my way back to Sandy Flat with my team. This is Sandy, but not Flat. I and betcha you haven't seen my team, huh?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notallhunkydory 2011-01-24 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Can't say I have, since I was in New York City a minute ago," Dorrek answers. "Who's on your team?" That might give him at least some of the information he needs to make sense of this mess. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	a_pal 2011-01-24 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	"Bucky, Toro, and the Human Top." Pause. "Do you think the Axis could be experimenting with teleportation equipment?" Pause. "Gosh, I could sure use some of that coffee." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notallhunkydory
2011-01-24 11:07 pm UTC (link)

Surprisingly, that does give him some information. Some really weird information. Dorrek frowns and looks the girl over again. "This may seem like an odd question, but what year is it?"

He glances around again, discreetly shifting his nasal passages and sniffing the air. "I don't know if I'd trust it enough to drink it, but I think the smell is coming from that direction."

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	a_pal 2011-01-24 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	"It's 1944." A pause. "Should we check it out?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

notallhunkydory
2011-01-24 11:22 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, that's what he thought. Dorrek rolls his shoulders and stretches the kinks out of his neck. Somewhere in this mess is a psycho who thinks that purple thigh-highs and a green poncho are a good combination. Dorrek just doesn't know why Kang's dumped him here and why this Gwendolyn girl's gotten the same treatment.

"I guess we should," he says. "It's either someone who can tell us what's going on or it's a trap, which is basically the same thing." He gestures her forward. "We'll go together."

Just because it doesn't seem like she's involved in this doesn't mean that he wants her where he can't see her.

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	a_pal 2011-01-24 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	Gwenny nods and takes point. She's the superheroine here, after all. She walks carefully and attentively, her hands out, palms front (Reply to this)(Parent)

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