Zero Divide - Episode #1 - "Looking Glass"

[James Heard]

He listened with disbelief as the woman across from him declared that she was the woman from yesterday once more, before marveling further at her as stared at the cereal box as if it were a precious archaeological artifact trying to rudely disengage from conversation with him.

"Hello? Earth to Wonderland?" he said, annoyed.

He looked over at the dog.

"How long have you been living in the rabbit hole? Long enough to make breakfast?" he said conversationally to the animal, " Or was that you?" he said to the others, standing up to lean over the lip of the cereal box to gather the new girl's attention.

 

[Vanifae]

Ian

Craft Electronic roll is an 18, Knowledge Technology roll is a 19.

Ian easily removes and takes apart the car radio, it seems to be a simple device typical of its type, and it seems strangely antiquated as he looks at it. He can’t place his finger on it, but the parts seem in some way crude, or maybe it is the dust and the lack of care these vehicles have received before he started his spending his time here.

By the time he has finished he can feel his stomach rumbling.

The Kitchen

Arjuna barks at the attention her tail wagging quickly, thumping legs as the mastiff sniffs each person in kind. The dog saunters over to her dog dish and sups on some food content that the people know to lavish her with attention, she fills her stomach.

Façade
[sblock]For a moment you feel a shiver up your spine… the touch of cold liquid against your skin. You shiver, and just as quickly as the wave hits you, it is gone.[/sblock]
Vanessa enters the kitchen, a glass of tea in her hand, “Good morning everyone, I was beginning to wonder if I had made breakfast for nothing.” Vanessa’s kind face surveys the room as she leans in the door way.

 

[Shayuri]

"Huh?" Facade looks up at Junkyard and blinks. What the hell was HE so mad about?

"I just got up a little while ago, so it wasn't me..."

She nods at Vanessa. "Morning. Guess that solves the mystery, eh Junkyard?"

 

[Vanifae]

She nods at Vanessa. "Morning. Guess that solves the mystery, eh Junkyard?"

Vanessa takes a sip of her tea, "How are you all feeling, anything coming back to you?"

 

[Shayuri]

"Not really," Facade says, putting the box back on the table. "Maybe it'd help if we had some contact with the outside. Field trips or...or...things to read. News and current events and so on. Every day here's the same as the one before. We need something new."

 

[Shalimar]

Haven let the stern look roll off his back, it didn't really matter, and truth be told Librarians were hotties, knowledge being power and power being sexy and all. That hadn't been actual serious flirting, and he had at least gotten a reaction so he let it alone.

"I don't know this for sure, but I have the impression that I could burn water, so it definitely wasn't me." Haven said to the other guy. "Whoever did make is soo the girl for me though." he jokes.

When Vanessa comes in and lets them know that she had made the food, Haven dropped to one knee in front of her taking the hand of the woman who was at least twice his age. "Please say you'll marry me," the blue haired man asks, not the least bit seriously, an impish glint in his eyes. "I'm not asking because of your looks which are stellar, or your personality which is killer, but because this was the best meal I have ever had...at least I think." the last part showed that he could make a joke out of anything, even the amnesia.

(Diplomacy +10 for those who like guys, +6 for those who don't)

 

[Victim]

Ashley - at least it vaguely felt like people had called her that before, so it was probably her name but everything was so hazy - drops roughly but safely from a nearby tree, spilling some of fruit she carried. "Good morning," the girl calls out to Dee and Michael while picking up the lost pieces of her breakfast. She's still sweaty from her early run. I don't belong here. No. This is a safe place; it's calm and relaxing. No; tame. If you wanted relaxing and easy, why climb for the fruit on high branches instead of plucking the low hanging ones?

"Do you remember something indicating that our abilities are in some way unusual? Perhaps everyone has an ability. Maybe we're in a safe, isolated place because our abilities are too weak," she replies to Dee, heeding an inner warning not to confess her own doubts. What bothers me most isn't having an ability, or even not remembering the past. My power seems useful. And I am full of energy; I can make myself a new life even if old memories never return. But only if new experiences actually stick, if time doesn't keep slipping away, if everything didn't blend together into a fuzzy, indeterminate now. Memory loss shouldn't be on going. Should it?

"And, umm, what was your ability again? I sort of forgot." She eyes Dee's knife uneasily, but covers herself with a smile. Thrusting upwards with a knife delivers more force than swinging it downwards. ??? Yeah, I guess peace isn't for me.

 

[Hammerhead]

"Hmmm," Michael thinks, absently biting into his apple. "Well, it can't be that we're here against our will or anything. I mean, no one would kidnap us and then put us in a place like this." The place was quite resplendent in its own way. And..."

Michael is cut off by the unexpected sight of the girl dropping from the tree, reflexively taking a step backwards. That girl seems a little bit unhinged. "I don't know. I'm not sure if Vanessa has an...ability or not. Why were you climbing the tree, by the way?"

 

[Vanifae]

"Not really," Facade says, putting the box back on the table. "Maybe it'd help if we had some contact with the outside. Field trips or...or...things to read. News and current events and so on. Every day here's the same as the one before. We need something new."

Vanessa responds, “A field trip? Well maybe, I do need to head to town eventually to get some groceries, feeding you all is something of a full time job,” she jokes.

haven rolls a 29 total roll on his Diplomacy check, changing her attitude from Friendly to Helpful for Haven.

Vanessa blushes and looks rather shocked at haven’s display, “I… uhh.. well thank you, I didn’t go to much trouble at all. It was nothing,” she pulls her hand back too quickly looking rather flustered.

Arjuna growls pacing behind Vanessa, giving Haven a glare, or as much as a dog could muster a glare.

“Relax Arjuna, these are our guests.,” she kneels down and gently pets the mastiff, “I was afraid you would all get stir crazy, maybe this evening we can head into town, I suppose it is safe enough?”

Ashley & Michael

Dee shrugs, “It just does not feel natural, but maybe I am just over reacting. Sometimes I feel like maybe if I did something extreme… maybe that would jog my memory… maybe then I wouldn’t feel so lost. Not knowing who I am, who any of us are… it eats at me.”

She turns her attention to Ashley, “Well Ash let me show you.” With that she stabs her knife into her forearm. But the sharp edge does not pierce her skin, in fact the blade begins to bend the point jammed against her tanned skin. She shows knows discomfort, and then goes back to cutting her apple, “I tried drowning myself last night… or maybe this morning, it’s hard to drown when you don’t need to breathe.”

 

[Velmont]

After having look at the radio, Ian is annoyed to not know what is wrong with it. Oh well, I'll look at it later, it's not like I had so much thing to do. he thinks as he put the radio on the workbench. He put back his tools in the toolbox, making sure he doesn't lose something and once that done, he head toward the kitchen, in hope to have something eaten quickly before his stomach auto-digest itself.