Why won't it open? [Complete]

[spacetime_witch]

Who: Yuko, whoever is exploring the stairs
Where: The Staircase
When: After Phoenix and Maya leave the teahouse
What: Yuko decides to do the obvious, and leave the city by walking up the staircase.  Or exiting a door, or something.  It's not going well.

Yuko risked a glance over the edge.  She couldn't even see the point where she had started anymore,

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[spacetime_witch]

Yuko blinked several times in confusion, then let the rubble fall from her limp grip. If he wasn't going to notice that she was about to lob half a steel pipe overhand at his head, she wasn't going to bring it up.

"Uh, looks like I'm locked out,"

"That makes two of us, young man. I'm guessing you were somewhere completely different just a moment ago?" Yuko stood up and went over to the door. The knob was gone. "Hm. The knob is gone too, now. I've been trying to get this door open for the last few minutes. If only you hadn't closed it behind you..."

She looked him over. He looked like he would come from somewhere western in her home world. In that case, the best thing would probably be to shake hands. She extended hers towards him. "My name's Yuko, and I'm afraid you are going to be here for a very long time."

[never_drunker]

He made a face at her. Ugh, "young man"!

"Reno. Name's Reno," he said, holding out his hand.

He motioned over his shoulder to the door. "Oh, this bullshit? Yeah, I was in a bar, yo. Just mindin' my own fucking business, on the way to some meeting that I didn't want to....SHIT. THE MEETING! Awww, man, the boss is gonna kill me!"

He let his hand fall and began patting his pockets, looking for a cigarette or his phone - whichever he found first would be more than fine.

He paused long enough to ask, "Stuck? Whaddya mean, yo?"

[[OOC: OH SNAP. I didn't know it was my tag! I get them in my email if you reply to my actual comment. ^^;;;]]

[spacetime_witch]

Yuko shook his offered hand.

"Reno. That's an interesting name..." She watched him pat madly at his pockets. Whatever he was looking for, it couldn't do them any good right now. "You were at a bar? It's a pity you didn't bring anything with you. I could really use something to drink about now."

She moved over to the edge of the staircase and looked over. "And by stuck, I mean exactly what I said. You, Reno, have stepped into a different world, in which, at present, there seems to be no exit. Quite a strange thing for those of us who specialize in moving between worlds. I was trying to find a way out when you came in that door." She looked at the door. "I wonder, the door you came through, its knob disappeared when you came in. Maybe they are all one-way doors. One door for each person who enters. It's something to think about, although I didn't come in through a door like that. I just woke up here."

[[OOC: Yeah, I find that if everybody hits reply to comment all the time, the comments shift so far to the right that

[never_drunker]

"Well, I wasn't planning on getting trapped in Alternate Universe Land, or I totally fucking would have, yo," he said, a touch of annoyance in his voice.

He looked back at the door, and then at her again, confusion plain on his face.

He finally located his cigarettes and pulled them out. His lighter was much easier to locate, and hit lit the cigarette and inhaled deeply, as if it was the source of all life.

"That's better," he said, before finally managing to focus his attention on her again.

[[OOC: Yeaaaah, I know. I always end up starting new threads. XP
Um, I dunno if there's anything you can't find on Wiki. But my Reno has a thing for Rufus, his boss. Not common knowledge - only, like, Rude knows about it. That might work! >D]]

[spacetime_witch]

Irritable one, isn't he? Yuko thought to herself. Still, I suppose its reasonable. He wasn't planning on ending up someplace like this. Oh! He needed a cigarette? Well, he best get over that habit soon. Still...that doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

"I don't think whomever is in charge here really cares about what your plans were today. If they did, they could have asked me first before dropping me here. I'm missing business, and I'm sure the shop is in a wreck by now with just Watanuki there..." she sighed. "Hey, do you have another?" she gestured towards his box of cigarettes.

Pausing for a moment, she asked, seemingly out of the blue, "When's your birthday, anyway?"

[never_drunker]

He hadn't put the box away yet. He flipped the lid back open and offered it to her. "Sure, go 'head. I got a couple more packs on me, thank god."

He took another drag and raised an eyebrow at her. "Uh, will you believe me if I tell you I got no idea?"

[spacetime_witch]

"Thanks," she smiled at Reno. Yuko leaned over a plucked a cigarette from the box, then put it between her lips. She tapped the end of the small white cylinder twice with her index finger, and when she drew the finger away, the end was lit. She took a deep inhale, then blow out a smoke ring. Because she good. It wasn't as good as her pipe back home, but it was something. Maybe she could blow smoke signals up to the top of this staircase where someone might find them and rescue everyone trapped here. Nah

[never_drunker]

Reno stared at her. His mouth almost fell open, but he caught himself - dropping the cigarette would not be a good thing to do. Mostly because it would be clumsy.
ows, right?" He grinned, but it faltered.
"Uh, I grew up on the street, yo. No parents, no family, no birthday. My ID says I'm a Leo, but who kn

"What the hell are you, some kind of walking people encyclopedia!? What do you mean I have a good reason to give it my all!? 'Course I do! The pay's good, yo."

He stared at her, warily. How could she know all that shit!? It was....kind of unsettling.

[spacetime_witch]

"A fortune telling. Payment for the cigarette. I dislike being in anyone's debt, or anyone being in my debt. I'd be able to do better with more information...no matter. I couldn't tell you much more without having to charge you." she smiled at him. Clearly she had disturbed this Reno. Perhaps there were no witches or magic-users where he came from?

"Oh," she continued. "And I wasn't talking about your paycheck. With regards to your job, I mean..." Yuko blocked the giggle that escaped her lips with her free hand.

"It will be good for you if you can defend yourself here. I don't think it's very safe, and there are a lot of people here who aren't very adapt at fighting. Should you turn out being more of a Leo than an Aries."

[never_drunker]

He stared at her. What the fuck was she talking about!? If it wasn't about the paycheck, then.....? There was no way she knew about the boss. Was there?

He coughed, mostly as an excuse to not look at her.

"I can defend myself, yo, don't worry. What's so dangerous about it, anyway?"

[spacetime_witch]

"Dangerous? Some type of minister that can talk in your head. A psychopath holing up in the garden. Creepy hooded people that look suspiciously to me like they have no souls walking around preying on people. And Nick tells me that apparently we are almost out of food."

Yuko dropped the cigarette butt to the ground and rubbed it into the stone with her foot. She needed to get her act together, but this place was too weird. Her powers were acting strangely. And nothing should be able to affect her powers

[never_drunker]

He zoned out halfway through her speech, but it never showed on his face. He was used to halfway checking out when people talked too damn much - lots of practice with the boss, with Tseng, and with those godawful boring fucking meetings, like the one he was now missing.

"Uh, okay, so I'm gonna feel crazy for the next indeterminate amount of time?" he asked. Sounded like what it all added up to. He was definitely gonna have to locate more cigarettes.

[spacetime_witch]

He listened pretty well, for a kid. "Pretty much. Who knows when we will be able to find a way out?"

She glanced at his coat pockets. "You work in an office. Does that mean you have some sort of cell phone, pager, PDA or something on you? I doubt it will do much good here, but you could try to call for help."

[never_drunker]

"I'd kill myself if I didn't have my phone," he said, around the cigarette, and looked through his pockets again. Oh, there it was, in his pants pocket. Of course.

"Oh, hey, here it is." He opened it and messed with some buttons.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN, NO SIGNAL!? Awww, man...."

[spacetime_witch]

"Because of course, that would be too simple. Well, maybe you should turn it off to save the battery. You might need it later." Yuko sighed. She was beginning to think she was having more luck throwing rocks at the door. Maybe she should find another and see if someone else falls through, then jump in while they still have the door open? Not likely to happen...

"Hm. Well, do you have any ideas to what we should do?"

[never_drunker]

Reno made a face and shoved his phone back in his pocket. He blew smoke into the air and shrugged.

"I dunno, yo. Go get drunk?"