Scoop Number One! [voice; Japanese *now with english text translation!]

[hittheroadjack]

Wow! This thing really doesn't have holograms! That's not cool. Oh! Right, the light is on. I need to get used to this. I wonder if it translates. I haven't brushed up on my English.

Hello, out there! I was wondering if anyone could help me! Is this the afterlife? oh I hope not, that would be really lame.Also! I was wondering if uhm, there were

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[ruinqueen]

The afterlife?

[voice: Japanese]

[hittheroadjack]

Yeah. I was kinda...uh...
[she hesitates a second, she gulps, audibly. She sure does recognize that voice]
Yeah, I was falling out a very large building. Most people don't really survive. I mean, I don't remember going splat on the ground but I think most people lose consciousness before they hit the ground.

[permavoice: Japanese]

[ruinqueen]

... hmph. Well you're nothing of the kind. You were dragged to a place called the City by a machine called the porter, which seems to randomly choose candidates from across the universes wherever it feels like.

If you didn't have any extra powers before you do now; it's another of the things that the machine does. We, you see, are supposed to replace the missing police force.

[yeah, same]

[hittheroadjack]

Wait, Powers? But I don't feel that much different...I do want to kind of vomit, but I don't think I have acid puke. Gross.

Why can't they just recruit their own cops? We're cops? I don't want to be a cop. Why do I have to be a cop?!?! I just want to go back to taking pictures and uh, chasing scoops.

[ruinqueen]

People don't always find out what they can do right away, but they can always do something.

And that's a question I've been asking for a long time. They had no business dragging people away from their homes like they have, whoever organized things here.

[hittheroadjack]

Well, uh, that's really lame. So we can't go back. That's kind of lame.

Well, uh. What about where to live? Or a job? Or food? Or Money?