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Robert 'Rusty' Ryan (the_pro) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-06-27 20:37:00

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arrival, complete, day 5, katara, rusty ryan

Day 5
Who: Rusty Ryan and Katara.
What: Rusty Arrives!
Where: The Game Room inside the Resort.
When: Day 5; Evening, Past 8 o'clock.
Rating: PG-13, Subject to Change.
Status: Complete

For just an hour.. it certainly felt like entire day waiting on that airplane. You would find a nicely dressed blonde sitting anxiously in his first class seat..Creamed colored suit with a white button up dress shirt underneath.. He looked as if he was just leaving a business trip. And he sort of did. Rusty Ryan just left the Las Vegas Airport and was heading back home to Los Angeles. Bronze tinted sunglasses partially concealed his natural blue eyes. The fingers of his right hand would fondle with a an empty champaigne class.. It would have been nice if the so called flight attendant made an appearance this century but what can you do with Flight Service now a days? His face was calm.. but those eyes bugged out.. it was obvious that he was getting impatient.. He then set his glass down.. and reached for his miniature bag of peanuts.. slowly pulling apart the bag.. then knocking the entire contents right into his mouth.. munching away on the nuts..

Suddenly.. he felt the plane start to shake.. a bit of a turbulance wasn't really anything to be paranoid about.. But when he started to notice.. the passenger in front of him vanishing before his eyes.. he looked back at the bag of peanuts to question what was really in those nuts. A worried look with a sudden bad taste in his mouth.. he quickly went to grab a bottle of water to wash away whatever possibly drugged him! BUT when he went to grab his water, that too was gone. And more passengers started to disappear quicker and faster! Until.. the plane itself disappeared.. and he was left in the air.. with his carry-on.

"Oh. My. God."

His eyes shifted towards his carry on bag.. quickly he snatched it from the air and held it close to him before he allowed himself to free fall! His carry-on contained about third of a million dollars in cash. He was not about to let that thing disappear with the rest! Just when Rusty thought his life was at it's end.. he felt himself stop in thin air.. not only that.. but he found himself in a completely different place. Noise of chaos started to echoe in his ears.. Slot machines going off.. and other sorts of noises a Game room would contain.. Did he just hear bowling pins fall? Rusty stood still frozen by what just had happend.. He brought that strap of his carry on over his shoulder.. a hand went over the same shoulder.. and he pinched the very flesh of his bicep to wake himself up if he was in some sort of dream.. Or what if he died? He truly didn't know.. The environment was very surprisingly suiting for the man.. that's what spooked him the most.

He started to walk among the game room.. noticing a few people playing their games on the slot machines and arcade games.. his eyebrows were raising up as high as it could go.. and that shocking expression seized to stay on him.. Rusty was just so tripped out by the whole situation he was too caught up in his mind to even think about speaking to the gamers.. raising those sunglasses that managed to stay over his eyes and resting them over his head.. And as calmly as any shocked person could be,

"What in God's name were in those peanuts."

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k_waterbender
2008-06-29 05:50 pm UTC (link)

Katara’s sapphire eyes widened slightly as he admitted he had been here before, but, before she could ask how he had left in the first place, he told her that this place wasn’t the Mirage. It must mean that he had been in another such place called Mirage. That strong hope that had surged through her when he spoke had been pulverized just as swiftly. “Vegas?” She asked, keeping the sadness out of her voice completely. “I’ve never heard of Vegas before. I don’t think this is it, though.” If he knew of a place called Vegas it probably wasn’t here. Everything he knew had been left behind, just like what had happened to her.

The waterbender felt a pang of pity for this new arrival, as he asked if he was going to have an extended vacation. Katara inhaled a quick breath of air and kept her gaze away from his, her brows creasing together. “You could call it that.”

When they made it to the tablet, she awaited anxiously for him to read it. She thought she had been prepared to comfort a man who would be very downtrodden to learn that he could never return to his home. The young woman was unprepared to face his laughter. She took a step closer, lifting her hand as if to touch his arm again, but she dropped it again as he looked around the area.

“A joke? I don’t know anyone by the names of Danny or Linus. I don’t think this is a joke. We’re not the only ones stuck here. So far I’ve met some others, but I know there are more. None of us are from the same place as far as I know. Some are from the same world, though. Most seem to be from a place called Earth, but I’ve never heard of it.” Katara moved closer to Rusty, and this time she did place her arm on his shoulder. “I’m so sorry.”

Stepping away from him, her eyes moved around the lobby. “We should find your key. It’s probably in the lobby.” Leaving the courtyard, expecting him to follow, she entered through double doors. Sure enough, once her gaze swept over the room, a blinking light caught her eye. Beneath the light was a shiny new key. Because no other keys were in sight, Katara figured that this had to be his. The waterbender lifted it from it’s position and handed it to Rusty after glimpsing the number engraved in it- F110. “Your building is near mine. Before I show you your room you need to know something else. It may be a bit of a shock- I know it was for me- but the rooms transform into whatever you want them to look like. Mine looks like one of the tents from the village where I grew up.”

Turning to leave the main building, she offered to lead him once more to his lodgings.

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the_pro
2008-06-29 11:21 pm UTC (link)

He stared at her with a complete look of shock.. She never heard of Las Vegas? Now this was something else... Rusty was throwing possible explanations.. for him being here.. and dodged the one he feared most.. What if he actually did disappear? What if he actually teleported to a completely different place? Not only that but a place far from Home.. earth even. He continued to listen to her speak.. as he did he started to pace back in forth, inside he was screaming and just cursing up a storm; but on the outside he was more calm then your average person.. Rusty hated to make a scene.. especially when it's unintentional.

"So. You're saying we're not on Earth." Oh that sounded incredibly ridiculous.. and he refused to give in an believe it.. "And what planet are you from, Katara?" He then decided to play along.. after all there was nothing else he could do.

He followed her to go grab his key to his room.. "Wow. It almost seems like I was expected to be here." Rusty kindly took the key..

"Transforming rooms.. Now that right there is something takes seeing to believe. If my room looks like Terry Benedict's Penthouse Suite at the Bellagio then I'll start believeing you, Kat."

He pulled out his cellphone as they were walking towards his room.. As he flipped it open and the lit up screen said "Out of Range." Now that has never happend to him before. The twilight zone's theme music started to echo inside his mind.. and he gave a light swallow yet still making a sound of a gulp that expressed a sign of nervousness.. He's stuck. And he knows he can't get out of this one, and he knows that there is no amount of American Dollars that will pay his way out either.

"You said.. this happend to you too?"

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