❝first yell❞ | video | just before nightfall on oct3

[hatestoswim]

[There is a video out broadcasting to the world right now. It appears that the PORTAL device is face down in a pile of .. underwear? In any case, you can hear shuffling in the background as though someone is pacing rapidly and breathing rather hard. Which Taiga totally is, because she's kind of freaking out. She'd gone to sleep in her apartment,

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[gracereturning]

The first thing you may want to do is try to calm down. Things will be much easier to explain if you're open to hearing them.

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[hatestoswim]

[There is a lot of breathing going on through the comm device, but the girl stops moving. And she's glaring now, though she's not saying anything. Calm down?! They want her to CALM DOWN?]

Y-You .. t-tell me what is going on.

[It's obvious that there is a hell of a lot of rage being pent up right now. Warning: explosion imminent.]

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[gracereturning]

My name is Anna. The first thing I want you to know is that I haven't done this to you. I'm in the same situation you are... I've just been here longer. You've been brought to this city - it's called Promenade - from your own world, for some reason or another. The locals... Like to tell us we've simply been asleep, and that our lives have been a dream, and that we've simply woken up. I think it may be the other way around... But so far, no one has found a way to leave again of their own will.

I know it's a lot to take in. [ She remains... calm and still. ]

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[hatestoswim]

[In the mean time, Taiga is freaking out on the other end, staring at the camera as though she can't believe her eyes. Because she can't! Or what she's hearing! Her life was a dream. No, that didn't make sense. Things that had happened .. with Ryuuji .. that couldn't have been a dream..]

N-No one can leave?! .. I don't .. understand..

[text]

[notglitching]

Observation constant over network.

[Actually, he's pretty sure observation was more pervasive than that, but no reason to share his suspicions with every noisy user.]

[text]

[hatestoswim]

[It takes her a moment, but she understands how to reply quickly enough!]

what is that supposed to mean?!?!?!

[text]

[notglitching]

[He's beginning to seriously doubt this user's cognitive functioning.]

Communicator. 'PORTAL'. All transmissions observed.

Encryption unreliable. [He's not bitter.]

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[hatestoswim]

[She's beginning to think this person is insane. So, right back at you!]

... it's a cell phone. but you have one? called PORTAL?
[Woooo, she got that part!]
.. and these people are stalking us through this too

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[hypercarnivore]

[...Holy fucking shit another one this is not Kaja obviously but still WHY argh]

It's communicator thingy.

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[hatestoswim]

[LOTS OF ANGRY SOUNDING NOISES are coming from the other end of the PORTAL, which just looks like a pink cellphone to her.]

D-DUH. I know that! I meant what the hell this place was supposed to be!

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[hypercarnivore]

If I told ya ya probably won't believe me.

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[hatestoswim]

TRY. ME.

[meitori]

Believe me, you're not the only one who has been kidnapped.

[:| <--- THIS FACE FOREVER AT THE YELLING.]

[hatestoswim]

[ALL THE YELLING. ALL OF IT.]

Y-Yeah?! Are you the one who did it?!

[meitori]

[NO. MAKE IT STOOOOOP.]

No! Why the hell would I kidnap myself?!

[hatestoswim]

[Never~]

You were kidnapped too?! BY WHO?