1st Adventure

[selfmadehero]

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[ The (17 year old) blonde on screen is obviously very recently clean and fed, but looks exhausted. A deep rooted sort of exhausted that comes from not getting enough sleep for around about a month or so. ]Okay, city. Which one of you fine folks wants to buy me coffee? It's been four months since I've had a decent cup and I am totally

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[isitablurred]

A lot of guys around here fit that description. There's a good chance you might go off coffee.

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[selfmadehero]

Me? Go off coffee? I'll take that dare.

Watcha got for me, good-lookin?

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[isitablurred]

Easy there, tiger. I'm already in enough trouble with Lois as it is.

[Excuse him as he acts all flustered, adjusting his glasses to hide the fact that he isn't actually blushing at all. It's his act.]

[Cough.] As I see it you don't need any help from me. It sounds like if these boys are as smart as you want them, they'll be falling over each other. Five minutes, tops.

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[selfmadehero]

Is that a no to a totally platonic and friendly coffee for a girl in need?

[ Poooouuuuut. ]

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[isitablurred]

[If he wasn't suspicious before, he is now. All the right people talking. He'll pretend it's that and not the pout from the blonde that softens him up. He misses Chloe.]

Why don't we start with names and then think about coffee. I'm Clark.

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[selfmadehero]

Steph. So Clark, you seem like a nice guy. Am I right in thinking that zapping into the middle of a baseball field is kinda a normal thing around here?

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[isitablurred]

It's how we all get here, but I guess for some people it's more normal than others. This...getting sucked into alternate realities and multiple worlds stuff.

Is it your first time in Canada?

[He's funny, huh? Real funny.]

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[selfmadehero]

No doubt. Is this Canada? Like, regular Earth Canada? Because I was just in Asia a few hours ago and I can't honestly tell you if it was regular Earth Asia.

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[isitablurred]

Well it's nowhere in Canada any of us have ever heard of, but the money's muticoloured, and the holidays fall on all the wrong days. I couldn't swear to it either, other than the fact that if someone made it up, it's a really lousy punchline.

"Yes, we've kidnapped you. Welcome to Canada."

[Of course he'd almost (or possibly) died the last time he visited Canada, no matter how light he makes of it.]

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[selfmadehero]

Watch as I shudder in horror.

[ She fakes a shudder, just for good measure. ]

So what should I call this place? Happy Fun Land? Monopoly? Trouble?

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[isitablurred]

Siren's Port.

And just in case you didn't get the memo, there's monsters that come out at night, and they're real enough.

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[selfmadehero]

Only at night? Oh man, talk about a vacation! There aren't any umbrella monsters, are there? I'm cool with those guys.

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[isitablurred]

Well the drooling, half shadow, fire breathing, tentacled types, yeah. The other kinds of monsters - the human ones - for some reason they're not phased by the sunlight. Can't imagine why--might be because Bats are nocturnal.

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[selfmadehero]

I can handle drool, fire, and tentacles. Although I'll miss those umbrellas things.

Bats as in plural?

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[isitablurred]

Do a lot of monster fighting, do you?

[A teasing note in his voice. Not wise to answer that one seriously, Steph.]

I've only ever seen one, and he seemed like the 'I work alone' type. Unfortunately the guy won't stand still long enough to be interviewed.

Going to seem like an out of the blue question but--you don't happen to have heard of a place called Gotham?

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[selfmadehero]

I spent the last four months on an island full of monsters. I do a lot of getting away from monsters. I could probably get my bachelor's degree in running away from monsters. There was this one time, there were these worm things? And they went after everything yellow.

[ BELABOURED SIGH. ]

I've heard of it, yeah. Why?