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[usedstringshot]

Ha! Made it to Cherrygrove! Now to figure out what to d-

[Peter'stomach growls]

...ohgod, all I've had to eat for three days is a bento box and some trail mix. Food first, then figure out what to do next.

Heracross!

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[foolishwren]

There's good stuff at the little shopping mart.

It's expensive, though.

[usedstringshot]

Glad to see you didn't accidentally poison yourself.

And I'm pretty sure it's not expensive, it's just that this world's currency is roughly equivalent to yen.

[foolishwren]

Poison myself? You have so little faith.

And I'll correct myself-- the good food is expensive. [Not that Heather's opposed to living off of junkfood while on the road, but she's run into some others that took issue with it.]

[usedstringshot]

I lost all faith in obviously bad ideas working out well when Doc Connors turned into a giant lizard man after injecting himself with lizard DNA to regrow his arm.

[foolishwren]

... Whoa. Okay. I think I can say with confidence that my ideas don't generally reach that level of crazy. What was the reasoning behind that one?

[usedstringshot]

Well, some lizards can regrow tails right? He was trying to use their DNA to regrow human body parts to help amputees.

[foolishwren]

.... Noble and all, but flat-out injecting yourself with lizard DNA to regrow limbs seems like the scientific equivalent of those people who think that eating brains will make them smarter.

Kinda makes sense, but totally doesn't work.

[usedstringshot]

Well, lizard DNA is kind of an oversimplification. Besides, it did actually work, just with horrific side-effects. Unfortunately, he ended up losing the arm again after Spider-Man force fed him the cure.

[1/2]

[foolishwren]

Well, still. I'd say that's a pretty epically bad idea.

[2/2]

[foolishwren]

.... Wait a minute. Spider-Man?

...... Dude, are you Peter Parker?

[Heather's not a comic book buff, but as an American teen, she knows her who's who of fictional fictional superheroes.]

Re: [2/2]

[usedstringshot]

Uh...maybe?

[foolishwren]

Dude!

[Normally? Heather probably would have called him a loony (or just a loser) and ended the conversation right there, but ... she kind of already ran into one of the American Girl dolls. If one childhood icon had shown up in this crazy world, she had no reason to believe others wouldn't.]

I was totally you for Halloween once! ...... Uh. I mean. [Yeah okay in hindsight it might be a bad idea to be like LOL YOU'RE A CARTOON AND ONE YEAR I GOT YELLED AT FOR DRESSING UP AS SPIDER-MAN AND TOILET-PAPERING PEOPLES' HOUSES WITH MY TEEN DELINQUENT FRIENDS.] Dude. This is kinda surreal.

[usedstringshot]

...Well, now I know how The Doctor felt.

[foolishwren]

[The Doctor?]

Aheheh, sorry, this must be really awkward. [... Oh wow she totally called Spider-Man a 'dorkwad' to his face. ... To be fair he kind of was but now she feels kind of bad about that.] It's just weird to see people like you here.

Not that, you know, everyone's world wasn't totally turned upside-down by being brought here anyway, but yeah.

[usedstringshot]

Awkward does not even begin to cover it. And I'd really appreciate you not spreading the whole secret identity thing around? It might have a ton of holes in it thanks to this, but I'd rather keep it as quiet as possible.

[foolishwren]

Riiiight. Sorry. And I really do mean that.

My lips are zipped. Just as a warning, though, if I know, I'm pretty sure a lot of other people might, too. [She knows there's at least ONE person out there from the same world she's from, where Spidey's a household name.]

So, uh, my name's Heather. I don't have a secret alter-ego to share to make things fair, sorry.

[That's a lie. She does have a secret identity. But she wants to forget it as much as she wants everyone else to, SO...]