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[stagethreeclinger]

[ So, Roy hasn't been around that long, but he's gotten to know Keeliai, the natives, heard about the Emperor and definitely picked up on the tension between foreigners and the Kedan, but just out right asking about What The Hell Is Wrong With This Place seems a little too obvious. And lame.

And this way is much more fun. ]

Okay so is there a part of living on the back of a giant magic turtle that isn't supposed to be completely awesome? Because a lot of you seem to be really bummed about it, and I'm starting to think it's more than just a strong case of Stick Up The Ass going around.

[ And frankly, Roy likes looking like the idiot. He raises up a hand holding some kind of Kedanian smoothie in the cafe he's seated in, and gives an 'okay, humor me' kind of gesture. ]

Let's pretend for two seconds that you're all actually the most boring people ever and the part where we're on a monster turtle isn't enough for you - you're getting what's practically a free vacation. A beautiful city on a tropical island that's really more like a cruise, and even a space you can go sit near Yurtle's massive head and zen your neurotic brains out. The closest we have to that at home is legalizing pot.

I know I'm inviting a sea of sarcastic quips to kill my buzz about the whole badass Suessical adventure, so let's try to be organized and civil about this - there's only so much scathing sardonicism I can handle at once. Please fill out the attached form and get back to me:

Your Name: Self explanatory.
Your Age: It'd probably explain some things, I'm jussayin.
Level of Suck of Your Homeworld: On a scale of Fantasia to Bambi. Just trying to keep some perspective.
Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure: Let it all out, brothers and sisters. Testify.
Notes: Whatever. How's my hair?

Thank you for your participation! Here is a wavier for your free snow cone! Not really. Sorry.

[ Oh wait, just this last piece here: ] Also, if you know anyone who likes to run around in tights and a mask, maybe a cape, let me know? Thanks! [ A little salute, and he signs out. ]

[[ ooc; If you could, please fill out his permissions post ova hurr, and here's the html for his little questionnaire thing :>

<font face=courier><b>Your Name:</b></font> <font face=courier><b>Your Age:</b></font> <font face=courier><b>Level of Suck of Your Homeworld:</b></font> <font face=courier><b>Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure:</b></font> <font face=courier><b>Notes:</b></font> ]]

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[spacehipster]

Your Name: the Doctor.
Your Age: 1100-ish.
Level of Suck of Your Homeworld: Don't have one.
Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure: Needs more jammy dodgers and adventures. The locals are a bit rubbish when it comes to public relations, as well.
Notes: This form is a great idea!

video because omigod

[stagethreeclinger]

[ There is a moment he's blinking at this because the fanboy glee overcomes him. ]

Holy hell on a cracker, is this for real? Which one? 10? 11? 9?

video precious

[spacehipster]

[ that earns him a slight eyebrow raise. ] Haven't the faintest. I've never been skilled with numbers.

attached text is in french & is also full of dirty jokes in french. that just dont translate nicely

[cynisme]

Your Name: Saül de Trouduque
Your Age: 14 years old
Level of Suck of Your Homeworld: As much as a whore sucks when you pay well.
Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure: Not enough onions for the amount of people who need them.
Notes: LHOOQ.

dsfafdsjak video because wtf french 8|

[stagethreeclinger]

So, I got nothing of that because I don't speak French - except for the last part, which makes up for it. Thank you very much. Four for you, Glen Coco. You go, Glen Coco.

[cynisme]

Alors, at least my efforts weren't entirely wasted. what the hell is a glen coco?

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[chiot]

I don't read English! S'just letters, really, what you sent.

Whatcha want? Just tell 'em here, huh?

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[stagethreeclinger]

[ You are a tiny little thing. ]

My bad, kiddo. I'm asking name, age, how much your world sucks, what's your issues with this one, and how my hair's looking today. The important stuff, you know.

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[chiot]

Oh. [ He's checking the lists of things on his fingers, now. This is important: ]

Name's Gavroche, an' my age is old enough to be on my own. My world don't suck it's the Government, an' this turtle's alright if y'ask me. [ Beat. ]

Your hair isn't really important, Monsieur. I don't think it is, I know mine ain't nuffin'. You got magic hair, huh?

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[cowled]

[He's spent some time scanning the responses so far. Enough to establish that Roy Harper - this Roy Harper - is from a world dissimilar to his own.

But he knows Jason, and there's a part of him that fixates on that.

Tracking Roy down isn't difficult, given the level of familiarity Bruce has gained with the city. From there, he watches the cafe from a building across the street and when Roy leaves, he follows.

Once Roy reaches his suite, he gives him fifteen minutes to get settled (and for Bruce to scope out the surrounding area) before he grapples to a window ledge and eases the window open. From there it's a matter of dropping down silently into Roy's living room.]

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[stagethreeclinger]

[ After meeting up with Connor, and the talk with Kyle, and Tim, and all the people he knows that don't know him anymore and all the people that know him that he's never met, Roy's in kind of a daze as he shuffles back to his suite. Even on a good day, though, he'd never be good enough to pick up on Batman stalking him. He's no where near that good.

A slow exhale leaves him as Roy shoves a shoulder against his suite door in the metal sector and makes his way in, dropping bow, quivers, keys and whatever else to the side, and his hat and mask get tossed somewhere towards a bedroom. Maybe if it was a good day, he might have heard the window open, but again - Batman.

So you can imagine how much of a shock it is when he shuffles into the living room to flop on his not-his couch and try to nap out the weirdness of this place and the tinges of depression, and there is already a very dark, very familiar figure looming around in there.

Uuuuuum. He blinks for about half a minute. ]

Are you like allergic to knocking on the front door, Batdad? Have you ever actually given someone a heart attack with this kinda thing?

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[cowled]

[... 'Batdad'. If he weren't wearing the cowl, his expression could probably be quantifiable as 'staring'.]

Don't call me that. Ever.

[That is said with a serious batgrowl, and he leans in close to Roy for a particular emphasis.]

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[queenoftheseas]

[Hi Roy. You probably don't know this face. People rarely do, unless it's "hey that's Aquaman's wife!". But still]

Given the supply rationing, the general violent attitude the kedan have adopted towards us and the polluted water in the canals I think being unhappy to be here is more than a little fair. But that's just my personal opinion.

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[stagethreeclinger]

[ 8|a mmmmmnope. But she looks nice? ]

I'd heard about rationing and violent attitude - but not polluted water. What's up with that?

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[queenoftheseas]

[Don't even think about it, Roy]

We're not sure. People are working on it but still not much of an answer. [It's a bit frustrating to go from being mostly in control of every situation, like she was in Atlantis, to not being able to do anything] Most are saying that it has to do with Tu Vishan's health. That he has a cold. But my husband seems to think it's more complicated than that and since he's the one capable of communicating with the turtle, I'm inclined to believe him.

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[storm_warning]

Your Name: Ororo Munroe
Your Age: Yeah, right. [Ladies don't tell their age, thanks.]
Level of Suck of Your Homeworld: An 11 when Sentinels show up. Five the rest of the time.
Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure: Turns out the kedan are more racist than humans. Go figure.
Notes: The turtle's not all that and a bottle of rum, chum. This place is way tame compared to life back home.

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[stagethreeclinger]

[ He gives a... short laugh looking at the screen at that. ]

Until they're doing something worse than the Long Walk and reservations, I don't think they're more racist than anyone. But agreed on tame, at least as far as I've heard. Short on food and some pissed off locals isn't that bad. I mean, have you ever gone to the non-tourist zones of Hawaii?

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[storm_warning]

They'd be happier than a pig in mud to see us segregated out they way it's sliding. And I stayed off the radar in Hawaii -- nowhere big, nowhere bad.

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[brbparadise]

[Mavis has never answered a survey before! This is the best thing that's happened today and she pops up onscreen with a smile, reading the text out loud as she answers it.]

This isn't going to be hard, is it?

[She knuckles down to answer it.]

'Your name' -- oh, that's easy! My name is Mavis Dracula. [A beat.] Yeah, it's that Dracula, but don't freak out. I'm totally cool!

'Your age?' Holy rabies, this is a total breeze. I'm a hundred-and-eighteen.

[She squints at the next one.]

'Level of suck?' I don't know what Fantasia or Bambi are, but it's pretty cool back home if humans aren't chasing you down or biting your toes. [SHRUG.]

Okay next is... 'Your complaints about our magical turtle adventure...?' [She thinks about this one for a bit, crossing her arms.] This place has been super cool! I guess the only thing that sucks is that the kedan have been totally sour pumpkins lately.

And... Oh my gore, a free sno cone? [She brightens up.] Do you know Jack Frost?

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[stagethreeclinger]

[ Omigod she is so happy and this speech is sort of hilarious and sort of awesome. ]

So I take it vampire is a thing for you, huh? 118, though, damn. Have you gotten bored yet? Or senile? You look great for your age, by the way.

...Is that meaning the snow man Jack Frost?

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[brbparadise]

Thanks! [Mavis is going to take that as a compliment, because she does look great for her age. Most monsters mistake her for being in her nineties.]

And, yeah, a vampire. But totally not the kind that sucks your blood, don't worry. [She's trying to be charming here, but talking with new humans always makes her a bit nervous.]

Snow man? [She almost giggles.] That sounds like him. He's got white hair and a lot of crazy puns?

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[bondsprofoundly]

[ah information gathering. like a census! a good idea, for a population as diverse as this.]

Your Name: Castiel.
Your Age: Over 400 million years.
Level of Suck of Your Homeworld: I don't understand your references.
Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure: I dislike being kept purposefully uninformed by the Emperor.
Notes: There don't seem to be any problems with your hair but I can't be sure without closer inspection.

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[stagethreeclinger]

Holy balls, dude, you are intensely old.

The question you didn't get is basically 'how unfun is your homeworld'. And you're welcome to pick through my hair to inspect anytime you're nearby if you want to be sure.

late to the party, let's say Bean was suuuper wary about Roy

[justlittle]

Your Name: Bean
Your Age: 8
Level of Suck of Your Homeworld: What is the point of this question? You set no scale for comparison.
Your Complaints About Our Magical Turtle Adventure: The lack of information from our captors about why we're here, the difficulty of learning the kedan language, the hostility of the kedan towards "foreigners."
Notes: N/A

No worries at all! :3 Sorry for the wait /)_(\

[stagethreeclinger]

Disney films aren't enough to scale against? And wow I couldn't even spell foreigners when I was eight.