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[these_guys]

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Sigrun Eide // Stand Still. Stay Silent.

[captainobnoxious]

[There is no place cold enough for Sigrun, but you know what, this is fine. Not really. The Ice Path between two towns she can't bother to remember is really cool, yes, and fun to skate on, but you know what it's also nice for?

Cooling off.

Sigrun has found herself on her back in the middle of one of the skatey areas, just... staring at the ceiling, a Shinx curled up sleeping peacefully on her chest. At least a cat's familiar, you know? A lot of the other things were too, but man was it hard not to just stick the pocket knife she'd bought into some of these things.]

Sure, you've got nooo problems with this, do you Aleksia? Oh no, you're just sooo comfortable, just sleeping away while I'm on my back like this.

[The smallest snore is her answer. Sigrun sighs, petting the cat creature.]

Well, it's not too bad. It is pretty cool in here, compared to whatever's happening out there.

[... Warming up, Sigrun. It's warming up. It's not as warm as it was in the more southern areas, mind, but it is not Norway.]

Akari Oozora // Aikatsu!

[creatinglight]

[Okay, so Akari had woken up in a strange bed, and her Aikatsu Phone Look had been replaced by what she's figured out is a Pokegear. She'd woken up to a cute thing looking worried.

All that, she can handle, but the fact that she cannot get in touch with anyone at Starlight Academy? That is a problem.

She's going to be walking around looking for a phone, or at least a computer. Someone want to break it to her that she's stuck?]

[yanginthere]

[ You know who's NOT enjoying any of this cold? The blonde girl in the fire red jacket, currently sliding face-first across the ice, that's who. When she is in range of a large frozen rock jutting out of the smooth surface, she latches on and halts her momentum with a grunt.

Two seconds later, a positively huge dog pokemon with an equally impressive mane slides up against her side, crushing her between itself and the rock. ] Ack! Rowdy, why!?

[ The "why" was Yang learning a lesson about why one should not ride a 'mon indoors. Especially one with poor traction control. ]

[captainobnoxious]

[Oh, that's a funny sight. Sigrun snorts loudly, kicking her feet against the ice and managing some traction to slide back against an ice rock herself, holding the blue cat tightly so she doesn't fall.]

Never been on ice before?

[yanginthere]

[ She pushed the Arcanine off of her with surprising ease, staring upside-down from under its belly at the stranger. Yang faced the unfortunate reality that someone just saw her make a total idiot of herself.

Oh well. At least it wasn't something broadcast live before hundreds of thousands of people. ]

For the record, I have. [ Another groan, and finally Rowdy was steady enough to pull away and leave Yang to roll over onto her front and try to push herself onto her feet. ] Didn't like it then, either!

Lavernius Tucker | rvb

[dosomethingslacker]

[Okay so he's got ..... no armor. No guns. No alien key-sword. No team, no radio frequencies, nothing.

Literally nothing.

So all in all, Tucker's day is starting off nice.

He's at least found his way to a pokemart and is busying himself looking at items and pulling one thing off a shelf, looking it over, then putting it back when he can't make heads or tails of what it's supposed to be.]

Dunno what the fuck that is. [Next.] Or that. [Neeeext.] Fucking christ, make sense sometime soon.

[callbacks]

[Things that are not important: acknowledging the continuity of time and space.

Things that are also not important: making sense. If it were important, then the answer to Tucker's prayer would surely not be Dave Let Me Tell You About Homestuck Strider.

He peers around Tucker to see what he's just picked up, then helpfully comments:]

That's water.

[What else can he help you with today?]

[dosomethingslacker]

[Well. That's unexpected, someone actually helping. He's not used to that one. He looks at the bottle again and grins.]

Okay, how about a price?

[Can you answer him that one, mr know it all

Also what's money. He hasn't seen that in years.]

[callbacks]

Like two dollars, I think? It's 200 P, whatever P stands for, though also I guess I don't know that wherever you're from uses dollars. Are you familiar with the United States of America, bro? Planet Earth?

[dosomethingslacker]

Been a couple decades, but yeah, I remember Earth.

[So he can at least work out the money exchange then. He starts looking a little more closely at some other products on the shelf.]

So it's not just me randomly waking up here, good to know.

[callbacks]

Naw, dude, there's like...a hundred of us or something? People who came in here from other worlds and junk. Oh man, are you new?

[dosomethingslacker]

A day or two ago, yeah.

[He's watchin u now tho, Dave.]

Have you heard or run into anyone calling themselves a Freelancer? Or 'Reds and Blues'?

[callbacks]

[Oh, hey.]

You mean like Carolina?

[dosomethingslacker]

Thank fuck. [That's one.]

Okay, what about anyone else? Or-- Actually if you know a way to use this damn thing [he pulls out the pokegear, still not even turned on] I can find out if the rest of my team's here.

[Better that than asking if this poor dude's had to suffer Church screaming or Caboose.... Caboosing.]

[callbacks]

Yeah, here, hold on.

[He takes the PokéGear with the annoying ease of a teenager used to this cutesy backwards technology, turns it on, opens Tucker's contacts, then pulls his 'Gear out, too, to scroll through.]

Here, let me give you Agent C's information. You know her boyfriends, too?

[dosomethingslacker]

[Tucker watches him, makes mental notes of what he does. Give him some future UNSC tech, he's good. Give him what looks like a fucking preschool toy, he's clueless until he sees someone else use it.]

...Boyfriends, what now.

[callbacks]

[He's distracted typing.]

North and uhh, what's his name. York? I've talked to North, he's cool. They're all shacked up together, it's kind of disgustingly domestic.

[dosomethingslacker]

Never heard of 'em.

[He's twisting the top off that water and taking a sip.

He'll pay for it on the way out if he remembers.]

May not be the same Carolina then. [Tucker how many people do you know that use 'Agent' as a first name.]

[in4apounding]

[So why is Penny back in New Bark Town after so long? Because shut up is why.]

[Regardless, Akari was showing almost all the signs of "I'm New, Please Help."]

Salutations, miss!

[Trotting over with a cheerful wave, her Galvantula scuttling close behind her.]

You're new, right? Are you okay?

Soos Ramirez | Gravity Falls

[questionmarksthespot]

A)
Ha, dude, check this out.

[Since arriving, Soos has managed to find his way to the outskirts of New Bark. What's so funny about the 'Welcome to New Bark Town' sign isn't immediately obvious, at least not to the Porygon watching passively from a few feet away.]

Watch this.

[Soos raises a beefy forearm to cover part of the signs text, laughing to himself.]

"Newb Town". Heh.

B)
[Somewhere in the middle of Azalea Town, Soos is sitting on the ground literally covered in a small herd of Slowpoke.]

I think they think I'm one of them, dude. Like their Slowpoke King. Or Slowking.

[He flops back, the Pokémon covering him like a blanket.]

I have found my people.

[callbacks]

[Tucker, please do not get arrested by the Kangaskhan police for forgetting to pony up P200 for your Fresh Water. Dave glances at Tucker over the 'Gears.]

Buff redhead, thinks she's super fly, could probably benchpress six of us at once?

[She's listed as tiger mom in Dave's 'Gear.]

[dosomethingslacker]

[Fuck.]

Yeah, that sounds like her. Didn't know she was a redhead.

[callbacks]

Oh, yeah, 'cause you guys are all space soldiers, right? Guess you gotta have helmets and shit.

[He hands Tucker's 'Gear back to him and points to Carolina's entry.]

Here, you can use that to contact her directly or you can post to the PokéConnect network if you want. Kind of like putting up a public memo. It's an easy way to rake in free loot, people are mad nice here.

[creatinglight]

Hello!

[Akari starts to wave back, but stops after a second.]

I'm fine, but - and please don't panic - there's a big spider behind you!

John Egbert | Homestuck

[harlequinhater]

[It's pretty hard to pull off the whole "mad at the multiverse" vibe when there's a little bird cloud nesting on your head, but John is doing his damndest.

Last thing he can remember, he'd been running mysterious and nonsensical errands for some troll girl. Then he woke up here, in a weird bed, with a backpack and a bird. Now, he's strolling around town, his hands shoved into his pockets as he does his best to ignore that faint background music that seems to persist wherever he goes. Seriously, whose idea was that?

John stops stomping around once he gets to the town limits, at which point he realizes he is totally and irreconcilably lost. Which means it's time to have a temper tantrum at the sky.]

This is stupid! This doesn't make any sense! This place doesn't even look like Sburb, and I definitely don't remember any of these guys from the game. [A gesture to his fluffy hat.] Terezi, was this your idea? Can you see me right now? Well, haha, very funny! I'm totally cowed by your trolling prowess. Now send me back!

[And now he's making some not-so-kind gestures up in Terezi's perceived direction, causing his new bird friend to flutter nervously. It's been a long day, alright?]