001 ϟ the genius is far from home

[futureinventor]

Characters: Cornelius Robinson (futureinventor) & YOU
Location: The Plaza
Time: Mid- afternoon
Style: First sounds nice
Status: OPEN

--Aw man! Great! Now I’m all wet. That wasn’t supposed to happen. [People of Vatheon, have a spikey blonde headed kid in the plaza brushing himself off, not quite realizing he’s not home anymore

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[vampirize]

[Here, have a Nikola Tesla, inventor extraordinare who is also a vampire but who even knows that just walking through the plaza when he notices Lewis and pauses.]

...New here?

[futureinventor]

[A fellow inventor! Lewis turns at the voice, tilting his head.]

...New here? Uh, I..guess so? I'm not exactly sure where here is, though. [This was no place he had ever seen before.]

[vampirize]

Vatheon. It's a city underneath the ocean. Kind of like Atlantis but not really.

Oh, and you're also stuck here forever. There's no way out.

1/2

[futureinventor]

[His eyes widen, at first with amazement.]

Like...Atlantis? Seriously!? [Okay, now that was pretty cool, but then--]

Wait, I can't leave?

[futureinventor]

But...I've gotta get home! Bud and Lucille--!

[Okay, he's kind of freaking out now.]

There has to be a way home, right? I got here somehow, didn't I? [Still not really sure how, but still.]

[vampirize]

Nope, no way home. We're all stuck here. Trapped. No way out, like I said.

And no one knows how we got here. It's a mystery, frankly.

[futureinventor]

But there's got to be. [He's pretty stubborn, so excuse him while he insists this. He really wants to get home. He finally got a family and everything!]

No one? No one at all?

[vampirize]

[A shake of the head. Life is hard, kid, what can he say?]

No one. The best man to ask would be Doctor Alpha, but first, he never shows his face and second, he would rather insult you than give you answers.

[futureinventor]

[Sob. See his disappointed face?]

It can't hurt to try, right?

[vampirize]

Believe me, people have tried. And they got nothing in return.

[Nikola Tesla: Destroying your hopes since who knows when.]

[futureinventor]

But... [Man, he doesn't want to just give up! But everyone kept telling him it was impossible. Then again, hadn't he seen the impossible happen before? Gah, he didn't know what to do now.]

[vampirize]

You're stuck here like us, and that's that. Not to worry, everything is free here, even the housing.

It's a pretty comfortable prison if you ask me.

[futureinventor]

Well, free is great, but..

[His final words make him wince.] I guess prison would be an appropriate term for this situation. [And it possibly made it suck worse.]