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

[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.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

Magic is-

[He pauses and closes his eyes, as if searching for something inside. Suddenly he shudders, and opens his eyes, looking like a man who just learned he lost his leg]

Okay, someone had better do some explaining right damn quick.

[punsofiron.livejournal.com]

Some sort of suppression field. It's affected all of us.

This is the Satellite of Love. We're orbiting the earth and we're stuck up here until they decide to take us down. In the meantime, we're pretty much occupying ourselves and mocking bad literature.

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

[He clenches his fist for a second, closing his eyes like he's in pain, then seemingly deflates]

Were I back to normal, something electronic would have broken just now.

So basically my magic's being suppressed, I'm in space where no wizard should be, and I'm being forced to read bad literature.

I always wondered what hell was like.

[punsofiron.livejournal.com]

It's not really so bad up here once you get used to it.

[Says the MST3K fan, lol]

[buildingproblem.livejournal.com]

...The food had better be decent, otherwise I'm going to have to disbelieve you there.