001 - The Barge Just Sank From EMO.

[bythe_books]

I wake up, and I'm still here. Same flat, same year: 1973-- only now the telly won't work. No more contact with the real world, just this journal. But I'm not dead, the OD didn't do it-- they must've brought me out. The coma within the coma, gone.

But they couldn't wake me completely. Oh God, please. I just want to wake up. I want to go home

Comments

Having not met the master in person, Dr Horrible has no problem with Sam.

[my_freeze_ray]

Hey, it's all right! You're not mad!

...Or, well, maybe you are, I hadn't considered that all of this might be a manifestation of my subconscious after some kind of severe emotional break...

Well, you're not madder than anyone else on here at least. Trust me, I've met some of them, you couldn't possibly be madder.

YAY!

[bythe_books]

My flat's floating in-- in space, and I'm corresponding with a magic book-- clearly, I'm mad or the hallucination's cracking up.

[my_freeze_ray]

Well, technically I think your flat's floating outside of the space time continuum, considering the variety of time frames and places we seem to be coming from...

Anyway, the thing is, you still aren't necessarily mad, there are several possibilities that I can see, either you are mad and none of the rest of us exist, you aren't mad but you're suffering some kind of hallucination induced by an outside force, the rest of us still don't exist, this is some kind of mass shared Hallucination that we're all suffering together, the rest of us do exist, or, you've actually been picked up by some kind of (for lack of a better word) celestial force and dumped on a trans-dimensional prison ship.

...It could happen...

...maybe...

[bythe_books]

...

Right. Trans-dimensional prison ship. My mind's decided to toss me into Star Trek this time.

[my_freeze_ray]

Star Trek isn't trans-dimensional! Aside from specific episodes like Mirror mirror it all takes place within one universe, unless you count Voya-

...

Okay, I'm guessing you don't actually want to talk about classic science fiction.

[bythe_books]

...

Not especially.

[my_freeze_ray]

Right.

Anyway, I'm Dr Horrible, nice to meet you!

[bythe_books]

Dr. 'Horrible'? Sounds like a 3rd-rate supervillain What are your credentials?

DCI Sam Tyler. Nice to uh... meet you.

[my_freeze_ray]

I have a Phd in Horribleness.

Welcome to the barge Sam!

[Private]

Okay, there's no such thing as a Phd in Horribleness, it's in electrical engineering but don't tell anyone I told you that, okay? I just don't want to make you think you're any more mad than you already are..

[bythe_books]

That's what the other one said. Barge... Said something about 'wardens' and 'inmates.' How'm I to know who's what, what I am?

[Private]

That's, ah... very considerate for a hallucination. Your secret's safe with me.

[my_freeze_ray]

Inmates all come here after they die. I thought that Wardens were meant to volunteer to come here, like, I don't know, they have their own reasons for wanting to rehabilitate us or something. I don't know for certain though.

Have you done anything particularly or borderline evil?

[bythe_books]

I'm not dead. I can't be dead. I'm on life support, they wouldn't-- couldn't... This is just a bad dream.

'Evil'? No. I'm a police officer.

Dr Horrible puts on the kid gloves.

[my_freeze_ray]

Hey, it's okay! If you can't be dead, and you're not a bad person then you must be a warden! Nothing to worry about!

...So, as a police officer, did you ever, you know, frame anyone? Or maybe use unnecessary force?

Not that I still think you might be an inmate or anything.

And Sam accidentally foreshadows!

[bythe_books]

Right. Warden... That's all the information I get? No introductory packet? And what are you supposed to be?

What? No, of course not. If those are the conditions to send an officer here, then it should be the Guv, not me.

...

...the Guv's not here, is he? Gene Hunt? Big, loud, alcoholic, homophobic, sexist... ringing any bells? No, no, this is silly.

[my_freeze_ray]

I would be an inmate. That given, I don't actually know what the general entry procedure is for Wardens, I did kind of assume that you got more details than us upon entry, but apparently not.

And yeah, the conditions for being sent here seem pretty random, you have to have done something wrong, at some point but from the people I've talked to it can be anything from attempting world domination to cheating at monopoly.

Maybe you should try contacting the Admiral?

[bythe_books]

So. What did you do?

Alright. Where is he?