[voice post]

[horrible_penny]

Okay. I can totally work this… computery… thing.

Hi? I’m Penny, and I think I lost Los Angeles. Not that it’s not nice to be here and meet you-any of you people I don’t know, sitting out there, listening to this on your computer things-but I really need to go back. There’s this ceremony, and it’s not going very well, so if… if there’s a door

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[horrible_phd]

Penny.

[ooc: This comment does not exist. This comment is Billy hastily locking all his previous entries from Penny and for good measure trying to disguise what Network address the next few messages are coming from. Future Dr. Horrible entries are probably going to be viewable to Penny but should not immediately be obvious as coming from Billy, idk how I'll be working that.]

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[horrible_phd]

You're really here this time?

Where are you? I can come find you.

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[horrible_phd]

Um, this is Billy.

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[horrible_penny]

Billy?

[ooc: We can pretend? Billy icon = Billy, Dr. Horrible icon = Dr. Horrible?]

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[horrible_penny]

Billy! You're here! Was I here before? What're you doing here? I mean, it's great to see you!

There's a fountain, and a carousel...?

[horrible_phd]

It seemed like you were here once, but I'm not sure if that was totally real...this place has a way of messing with people's heads and everything else. Long story short, it brings people from different dimensions and just keeps them around for a while. But a lot of times when one person comes, a few others from the same dimension show up in a little while. You have know idea how great

Ok, I know where that is. I can be there in a few minutes.

[ooc: Works for me. Oh, also, the anti-Penny lock is totally hackable and I know he's used her name at least a few times so...Also, action?]

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[horrible_penny]

So... this place an evil alternate dimension that traps people inside of a city forever? Okay. That makes sense, kind of. Not really. But you're here, and that's great!

Thank you. I'll just stay put.

[ooc: Okay! I don't think she'll poke around too much, but I'm sure the secret will come out sooner or later. And yes!]

Action

[horrible_penny]

[Penny is sitting on the edge of the fountain, waiting for Billy and wondering what kind of cookies Skrulls like. If Skrulls eat cookies.]

Action

[horrible_phd]

[He can't believe Penny's really here this time, and he's trying hard not to thing about the part where she'll have to find out Captain Hammer is here too and what it means to his choice to live publicly as Captain Hammer. But there she is, the nicest thing he's ever seen.]

Penny! [He waves and jogs over.] I brought a guide. Are you hungry? It's really great to see you.

[He stops to breathe, finally. When he'd imagined this moment, he'd forgotten to include the awkwardness his existence managed to bring to every situation.]

Action

[horrible_penny]

Billy, hey! [She gets up and could just about hug Billy, because he's Billy and he's familiar and this whole alternate universe thing is completely insane. As it is, though, she just smiles like a dope.]

A guide? Yeah--yes, you too! Have you been here very long? I saw you at home a few days ago, but you didn't come to the coin wash on Wednesday.

[And she's babbling, which is embarrassing, but Billy's here in this bizarre alternate universe!]

Action

[horrible_phd]

[It's probably for the best that she didn't hug Billy, even though he would like to hug her. Human contact is still an iffy proposition. Smiling, though, lots of smiling.]

Wha--I've been here months. But time passes differently so if--when--either of us go home it won't be like any time has gone by. At least that's what people who've left and come back say.

[Awkward as he feels, he still notices that Penny is clearly overwhelmed.]

It'll be okay. Things here are--but you'll be all right.

Action

[horrible_penny]

Oh... but that's good, right? That way we won't miss anything, like shelters opening, or... laundry days.

[Bless Billy's observation skills.]

Things here are what? No, you're right. ...Are you alright?

Action

[horrible_phd]

I think it's for the best. I mean, no need for awkward I-was-abducted-by-a-magical-city-that-loves-blogging explanations either.

[He perches on the fountain next to her.]

I'm getting by. Things day-to-day aren't that strange. Everyone has jobs and apartments and all. There's shopping to do and laundry to wash...though it's not the same without you. Um.

Anyway, it's got it's dangers like any city, but those can be avoided. There are curses too, though. That's the bad thing. There are beings, or maybe it's some force of the City itself, that can affect peoples minds or bodies for a day or so. It's hard to understand until you've experienced it.

[Wait, no, Billy can't go into science mode right now.]

There's more info in the guide.

Action

[horrible_penny]

That would be a little weird.

[Laundry. Laundry is good and normal.] Well... I'll need to do laundry eventually, so maybe we could go to the laundromat at the same time?

Curses? I'm still processing the alternate-dimension thing.

...What do you do? I mean, as a job here?

Action

[horrible_phd]

Yes, you will have to do laundry. First you'll also need to get some clothes and things, and figure out where you're going to live.

[Right. What is he going to tell her about his life? There's people he wants to introduce Penny to, but how can he manage that?]

I, um, work for a company.

Action

[horrible_penny]

[Penny hesitates. Thanks for the list of things to do?]

I'll... do those things. Soon. Thank you.

[Suspiciously vague answer is suspiciously vague.]

What kind of company?