Zero Divide - Episode #1 - "Looking Glass"

[Velmont]

"No, she hasn't, and she has more souvenir then all of us together." replies Ian, with a little French accent on the word souvenir. "Mira come from outside the Estate. She thought the Estate was abandoned and she wanted to take advantage of the pool." he tells poiting in direction of the pool. "Have you met the newbe? He seemed upset. Kinda of paranoiac. I don't know which bee have sting him. It must be how he handle his amnesia."

 

[Vanifae]

"Hey Ian. Nice to meet you, Mira," Michael says, rising out of his chair and extending his hand in greeting. "Wow, this amnesia thing must be some kind of epidemic. I take it you've already met Vanessa."

“Yeah I don’t have amnesia,” Mira responds smiling at Michael, “Michael right?”

Dee looks at Ian, “So where did you meet your new friend?”

Mira continues talking to Michael, “I haven’t met Vanessa yet; I didn’t even know anyone lived out here. You know for a guy that can’t remember anything you are kind of cute,” she grabs some grapes from off the counter, popping one into her mouth.

“So you just stumbled in here not knowing who lived her, sounds like breaking and entering to me,” Dee adds with a sidelong look to Ashley.

Mira rolls her eyes at the statement, “Ian has the right idea let’s take a dip in the pool.”

The Living Room

The portrait is fairly realistic and well done, although kind of soulless and banal. Victoria is seated in a black gown, with her dogs flanking her. The backdrop is actually the garden outback you recognize the Gazebo in the picture.

Haven notices a picture on a table of a woman and child.

Haven
[sblock] “I will be home before Christmas baby, how is Sam?” your voice replies as you pull a shirt over your head.

A woman’s voice replies, you think you recall the name, “Sam is doing fine, if he would sit still for more then five minutes he might actually get some homework done. He misses you though.”

“Well I miss him too, is he there now?” you reply.

“No, he just left for baseball practice, you know his coach says he is doing really well,” Tina, that was her name, replies.

“I saw the last game you sent me, I was impressed, it looks like that practice we did over the summer paid off,” you smile genuinely putting on your uniform.

“Are you sure you will be here for Christmas,” Tina questions.

“I got the time all scheduled, I have some routine thing with some researchers to do later this week, and then I am catching the first hop back home Tina. Trust me,” you adjust your clean and pressed uniform.

“Okay, you know I trust you silly, I just don’t want Sam to be disappointed,” she answers.

“Hey I have to go, baby I love you,” you finish.

“Love you too,” Tina replies.

You turn and see the mess of your bed and sigh. Then your sigh turns into a frown, your little indiscretion from last night is still lying in bed. What a mistake that was, some pretty little thing; vapid, easy, and devoid of substance. You couldn’t wait to get home to a real woman…[/sblock]
Another look at the picture, and it is just blank.

 

[Shayuri]

"Kind of," Facade agrees.

She trails a finger along one of the end tables and inspects it for dust. After a moment she opens the deck of cards, takes one out and puts it on the couch...then puts the deck in her pocket.

"The strangest thing of all is how 'not-strange' this feels though. Big walled off house, no one around but one gal, her dogs, and a bunch of amnesiacs...each of whom has abilities the others don't. When you say it, it sounds bizarre. But living it...I guess it comes from not remembering how anything else has ever been. Who am I to judge what's normal...?"

"Want to head upstairs next, or outside?"

 

[Hammerhead]

"I'm sure as hell not named Ashley," Michael answers with a smile. "And it's probably more like trespassing, instead of breaking and entering. But we really don't mind. Do you mind if we ask you some questions? We're all very curious about what's going on outside."

She doesn't seem like a very skilled burglar or anything. Other than having a really high wall, the security here can't be that great. If the three of us wanted to leave, I'm sure we could sneak out undetected.

"Which one is the new guy, Ian? We were kind of wondering why everyone left the kitchen just as we were all coming in from our morning exercise."

 

[Victim]

"Satisfied?" Ashley returns the magazine to her lap. Was that me? The picture seemed older. Maybe a relative? Time was the name of the magazine, presumeably. 2164 was the year it covered, but that doesn't mean anything without more memories to tell the meaningful difference between 2164 and 1864 or 2464. Ikus? A place? A movement/group? Was it part of larger war(s)? Which side was this person (me?) on and who was winning? If that's me... I don't know if I like this. Being the tool of some organization, a symbol to celebrate a victory. Or was it to rally spirits by focusing on the successes of an individual instead of overall setbacks? Either way, it's propaganda to play up one side, it feels like I - this person - was being used somehow. But then... why the best of mankind? Does that mean that the other side was not mankind? I want to study this more, maybe later. Maybe it's not even real. She looks down, trying to study the uniform on the soldier.

She curls up the magazine as Ian? and some other girl walk in. I don't think I know this person. Should I? "Hello, Mira." Some people apparently talk too much. "I'm not sure if I met this upset person or not. By the way, did someone drop a book in here earlier?"

"If you didn't think people would be here, then why would you think the pool would be in good condition?" she asks, trying not to pry too much. This could be incredibly useful. If it's legit - why come here? How'd she get past the wall? "You don't mind our questions, do you? It seems reasonable that we'd be rather curious."

 

[Shalimar]

"Uh...Yea." Haven says, sounding shaken for a second, and then he souunds like his normal self agan, if anything could possibly be called normal without actually knowing about more than just 1 emotion. "A pretty lady offering to take me upstairs? Of course we go up." the frat boy says with a grin, though the grin isn't at 100%.

What was that, he wonders. If he had a kid...and the kid was old enough to be playing baseball, then how old was he? As far as he could tell Haven was only in his late teens, so the memory couldn't really be right, not exactly, it didn't make sense so he had to just keep it to himself. Plus that guy was a total dick, it was fine to flirt and have fun but you don't mess around on your family, even he knew better than that.

 

[James Heard]

Alan continues to the study, book in his left hand and the other silently stroking the dog.

"Krishna and Arjuna, huh? So where's the big guy," he says conversationally to the animal. He looks over the other books in the study, to see if they're of a similar vein.

What happens when you step through a doorway and only your shadow follows?

He shook his head. Too many cobwebs still.

"Doorway, doorway, where is the door?"

 

[Velmont]

Ian answers Micheal question "Well, the one who didn't choose his name yet, he seems really upset and Vanessa have followed him. If he is like I think, Vanessa is surely still talking with him and trying to calm him down. Facade decide to give him Junkyard as a name, nothing to calm him down. I don't know what so funny about these name. They should have chosen something more usual. Anyway, that's there choice."

He then correct Dee. "Trespassing could be more appropirate. Anyway, I'm the one who open the door. She was wandeing outside with her headphone with volume at maximum. She didn't even heard Arjuna growling or me coming. I even scared her."

As people starts to ask her questions he turns to Mira. "I told you. You'll be the new attraction of the day."

 

[Victim]

"That's right; people will be looking for you to fill in some of the pieces they're missing. Perhaps it's best that what's-his-name isn't here then, if he's easily upset." And he can be keeping Vanessa busy a bit longer. Otherwise I think Mira might be evicted before we can find out much. Hmm.

 

[Vanifae]

"That's right; people will be looking for you to fill in some of the pieces they're missing. Perhaps it's best that what's-his-name isn't here then, if he's easily upset." And he can be keeping Vanessa busy a bit longer. Otherwise I think Mira might be evicted before we can find out much. Hmm.

“Wow you guys are all way too serious,” she turns to Ashley, “and you’re right I didn’t think the pool would be clean but it was the first thing I could think of, I didn’t think anyone lived here. I was going to look around and probably sun bathe by the pool. So yeah maybe I was trespassing but it wasn’t like I was going to steal anything.”

“Okay, I am game, what do you guys want to know about the outside world,” Mira grins.

Alan

Krishna shrugs, or at least maybe the dog shrugs, it could have just been adjusting and just follows him. The books are on various topics, and if anything the book in your hand seems out of place; as most of the books are medical journals, science reference materials, and a healthy amount of cookbooks.

Krishna lies down by the reading chair.