Intro Caper

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

[Cambot focuses in on one rather tall man in a long black trench coat, who would likely seem very intimidating if he weren't currently trying to back as far away from the camera as possible]

-Look, all I'm saying is that getting close to me is a really bad idea. Sudden abductions have a way of making me nervous, and when I get nervous stuff like you experiences a radically shortened life expectancy. I'm trying out this new thing where I don't just jump to sudden conclusions and blow everything up first and ask questions later, but you're not making it easy here.

I just need enough time to figure out how to reverse whatever spell this is-

[Sharp eyes suddenly focus on a spot somewhere above the camera lens]

Hell's bells, are you recording?

Comments

[wavesinherheart.livejournal.com]

[...did someone mention magic?]

It's not like any spell I'm familiar with.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

[Okay, a woman's voice from the camera is a bit off putting, but there's a flicker of hope there]

Hello? Are you another wizard? Damn, could the Red Court be behind this?

[wavesinherheart.livejournal.com]

It's not what I'd call myself, but... it works, I guess? I do use magic.

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

The goofy lookin' robots are harmless. Just annoying.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

I'm more worried about it than me. Care to enlighten me about where this is exactly?

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

Buddy, I'm not even sure what system we're in. Some kid told me we're supposed to make fun of bad stories while we're here or something.

Load of bullshit if y'ask me.

[punsofiron.livejournal.com]

It's ok, that's just Cambot. He doesn't bite.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

I'm not really worried about him hurting me. I don't happen to have my card at the moment, but it says wizard, and that spells bad things for anything modern, and this guy looks pretty modern to me.

[punsofiron.livejournal.com]

Well you won't have to worry about that too much here. Magic is pretty null and void.

[verygassy.livejournal.com]

Nope, no spell. Just slightly evil scientists!

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

Huh, you know, I've never actually run into those before, unless you count one really creepy vampire with a secret lab.

[razthepsynaut.livejournal.com]

A-yep. He's recording.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Never really planned on making any home movies.

[keeperonenya.livejournal.com]

If you are an Istar, than I am a hobbit. Seeing as how I am not a hobbit, people must use the word "wizard" quite loosely where you come from.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

You don't sound hungry enough to be a hobbit, and it's past second breakfast.

And I happened to get my White Council membership card and decoder ring through altering the fabric of reality through force of will like all the other wizards, thanks.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Don't blow up Cambot! He's not gonna do anything to you!

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to! I can't help it if he keeps getting closer to me!

[colorbymemory.livejournal.com]

Cambots are always recording, but they go away if you ask them.

[pauses] There's a lot of them, though, so even if you ask one to leave, another might find you.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

Huh, I actually didn't think of that.

[Sigh, face, meet palm] Of course.

[halfdarkened.livejournal.com]

We'd all appreciate not blowing everything up.



...Wait, you think you could get us back home?

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

A lot of people would appreciate that. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen.

If I can figure out the spell that brought us here, yeah, maybe. Doing the impossible is sort of a wizard's gig.

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

You must be another new...passenger? [He looks thoughtful, he's not sure that word is the one he is looking for but he just goes with it for now] Maybe the wrong word, but the point is welcome aboard I guess. I was under the impression it was more technology than magic myself, but Aqua was always the better spell caster than me.

[shrugs] So, I guess I could be wrong but the impression I got from everyone else was that it was tech.

By the way, they do more than just record...but they tend to take the special features into their own...lenses. I've been meaning to examine them myself, but I wasn't sure it'd be wise to take them apart yet.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

Great. Tech. Magic I can understand and reverse engineer, but robots and computers? You're better off getting a five year old to do quantum mechanic's and ancient Egyptian Algebra.

[the-wallman.livejournal.com]

Spell? [ That is all the skepticism Wally has, rolled into one little word. ] Please. Haven't you ever heard of intra-dimensional travel? Or inter-dimensional travel? That's all this is.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I've heard lots about them. Mostly from comic books.