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Candy Quackenbush can walk on water. (toitshour) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2008-04-19 16:22:00

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candy quackenbush, denny crane, henry townshend

... someone? I know this sounds crazy - and maybe I am, for all I know - but what year is it, and where am I?

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	denny_crane 2008-04-20 12:36 am UTC (link)
	2008. This is a planet called Earth. I'm in my apartment in London, but I can't speak for you, unfortunately. Denny Crane. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 12:46 am UTC (link)
	London? That would explain the accents, I suppose. I don't... how did I get from the Twenty-Fifth all the way back to the Hereafter? I'm sorry, nevermind that. Candy Quackenbush. Though a bunch of people around me keep calling me Princess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	denny_crane 2008-04-20 01:53 am UTC (link)
	Candy. That's a lovely name. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 01:54 am UTC (link)
	You don't own a yellow suit, do you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	denny_crane 2008-04-20 02:05 am UTC (link)
	Yellow? No. No. Yellow tie. Do you like yellow suits? I could get a yellow suit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Oh, no, yellow suits remind me of someone I don't like at all. ... you do realize I'm sixteen, Mr. Crane? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	denny_crane 2008-04-20 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Goddamnit. It's this place. You're all men or minors or.. God knows what else. I'm going back to America. Denny Crane. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 02:25 am UTC (link)
	I just got here, I barely know what this place is! It's hardly my fault you hit on minors or men. It sounds like a personal issue, Denny Crane. (Reply to this) (Parent)

guyin302
2008-04-20 03:04 am UTC (link)

Looks like you got some of your answers, but not all of them. In a nutshell, you got picked up by a dimensional vortex and dropped off here. If you saw something that looked kinda like a tornado? That was the vortex. When you get here, you replace someone. All their IDs change to show your name, your picture, everything. You should check those, they'll help you figure out who you replaced and any related stuff.

There's a website that explains it all. [website] Just to warn you, it's pretty sparkly.

I'm Henry.

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	toitshour 2008-04-20 03:12 am UTC (link)
	Augh, my eyes. Candy. It's nice to meet you, Henry. And a vortex? That's weird. The last time I got taken to another world, it was by sea-skipper. Far preferable, in my opinion - this ID says that I'm the princess of belgium. what. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction, too. It was helpful though, so at least that's something. All my visits to other worlds came through random holes that showed up in my apartment. They weren't nice worlds like this one, though. Princess? Seriously? That's pretty cool. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Yes, this is pretty interesting. I'm still reading it, but ... this means we can't go back, right? Your apartment? That must be a story. I miss the other world. I'm homesick for it already. Well, it would make John Mischief laugh. He was always calling me "Lady", and now I have loads of people calling me that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

guyin302
2008-04-20 03:39 am UTC (link)

Judging from the website and the people I've talked to, we can't go back.

You're right about that. It's a pretty long story, in fact. The short version: Crazy cultist created a bunch of little worlds full of monsters to commit ritual murders so that he could wake up his mother. It just so happens that he thought his mother was my apartment. He was abandoned there as a baby, and the cult that got him when he went to an orphanage sort of brainwashed him into thinking that. I don't think he really intended the monsters to be there, I think they just sort of sprung up from his huge psychological issues.

John Mischief? Can't say as I recognize that name.

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	toitshour 2008-04-20 03:43 am UTC (link)
	I... oh. That's ... really. Wow, I'm sorry. For him and you, if you got sucked up into his nightmares. That's sort of mad and terrible. Oh, you wouldn't know John Mischief and his brothers unless you were from the Abarat or had been there like me. It's the other world where I came from. I want to go back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

guyin302
2008-04-20 03:55 am UTC (link)

Sorry. I don't like being the bearer of bad news, but unless there's some way that hasn't found its way onto the website yet, I don't think there's a way back.

Yeah. It was pretty rough. I'm trying to move on, but every time I hear someone laughing behind me I always tense up for a second. He used to do that. I think it amused him, or something.

The best case scenario would be that they would show up here. Apparently that happens sometimes.

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toitshour
2008-04-20 04:00 am UTC (link)

It's okay, it's not your fault. Don't worry, I'm not mad at you.

... okay, that's creepy. If it's any consolation, I'll forever be upset by men in yellow suits. One held me hostage and threatened to beat me. I had to listen to him beat his slave. It was terrible. Thank God I freed him. ... the slave, not Wolfswinkel.

Oh! Well, do you have any family or friends? Maybe they'll show up too!

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guyin302
2008-04-20 04:13 am UTC (link)

If it makes you feel any better, you did a lot of good by freeing the slave. Maybe, if you see a guy in a yellow suit, you should try to concentrate on the good that came out of it? I don't know, I'm not a psychologist, but maybe it'll help.

I have Eileen. She was my neighbor during the cultist issue, and was supposed to be one of his victims. It didn't quite take and she survived, and then we worked together to stop the guy. We moved in together after that. Not sure whether she'll show up here or not. Part of me hopes she does, but another part of me kinda hopes she doesn't. After everything that happened, she deserves a normal life.

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	toitshour 2008-04-20 04:18 am UTC (link)
	The slave - his name was Malingo - was amazing. So brave and sweet. I might jump a bit whenever I see a yellow suit, but I feel a lot better knowing Malingo's back at home in the Abarat, not with him. She could have a normal life here? I'm sure she misses you too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 04:32 am UTC (link)
	That's a pretty good attitude to have about it. I don't know. I mean, we're friends, but it's sort of...complicated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 04:34 am UTC (link)
	He and I had some more adventures after that. He helped me get out of the Twenty-Fifth Hour without going completely mad. I guess he sort of saved me too. Aren't all relationships complicated? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Eileen and I saved each other a lot during the whole fiasco. If it wasn't so terrifying it would've been funny. Well, yeah, I guess they are. Maybe I should've said really complicated instead. Mostly my fault, really. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 04:47 am UTC (link)
	It's good to have a friend like that. I think that's how John Mischief and his brothers were for me, then Malingo after I lost John. Well, you're a better man than my father, I'm sure, and if he managed to keep my mother, I'm sure you can make a way with Eileen. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 04:52 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I'm pretty sure I'd have gone insane without her. She was the first one that survived and that I was able to help. All the others... Well, I think I've witnessed enough death for one lifetime, let's just say that. Might help if I could work up the nerve to tell her I have feelings for her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Well, maybe while you're missing her, you can figure out what you want to say and write it down? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 05:09 am UTC (link)
	That's a really good idea. Thanks! I think I'll do that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 05:10 am UTC (link)
	Contrary to what my teachers thought, I'm pretty smart. You're welcome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 05:22 am UTC (link)
	I don't think teachers get conventional wisdom. They get textbook wisdom, which pretty much means they don't get real wisdom too much. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I haven't met any yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 05:25 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, well, Mrs. Schwartz used to call me stupid to my face. Some teachers are worse than others, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 05:33 am UTC (link)
	And this lady didn't get fired? Wow. She must be pretty good at groveling for her job. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 05:41 am UTC (link)
	They probably questioned her a bit after I walked out of her class and never went back. Granted, I was in another world, but still. It probably didn't look very good for her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 02:25 pm UTC (link)
	Serves her right, really. Well, I'm glad you were able to get out of there. A teacher like that is definitely not conducive to learning. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	She'd choke on her tongue if she found out I was a Belgian princess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Haha, it would almost be worth her showing up for that, wouldn't it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Absolutely! Then I'd show her how I can do magic, and I think she'd have a heart attack. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	The ritual sort, or the D&D "here giant monster, have a big exploding ball of fire in your face" kind? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	I learned it in the Abarat. All I can do so far is summon a glyph, but it means I won't ever be stuck in one place ever again. I don't even know if it'll work here, but it should, because people in the Hereafter imported Abaratian books all the time. I wish I could study more. Maybe a copy of the Lumeric's Six will show up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	guyin302 2008-04-20 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not sure if magic from other worlds will really work here, but you could always give it a shot to find out. There are portkey things all over that make travel pretty easy, so you may not really need too much help with that. Maybe there are other magic users here that can help? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2008-04-20 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe! I figure if we're all from different worlds, we're sort of like a grab bag of cultures and such as it is. So it's worth a try. (Reply to this) (Parent)