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[seriouslytwisted]

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[Exploring and ninja-ing around is turning up a whole lot of dead ends and questions with no answers, so now Raphael is going to try his last resort.

Conversing with strangers.

Making sure he has his voice only function on (pretending that little SNAFU with it in his earlier conversation didn't happen) he reluctantly addresses his fellow...strand-ees.]


Okay, seriously. How many of you people actually buy that "you are in the in-between" story?

[the mystic new-age voice for the quote helps set the atmosphere, yes it is necessary]

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[action]

[Before this post, Raphael will be swimming around in the Water Sector, trying to keep as hidden as possible but needing to surface to breathe and also sneak back up onto the docks occasionally when he can't cross sections in water. He's a stealthy little bugger, so the average Joe might miss him, but anybody with serious training or extra-sharp senses might find him.

...or you might catch him when he's losing his temper and angrily kicking over a barrel after talking to yet another tree-hugging native yokel, whatever.]

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[backwordscompatible]

[Another cheerful one. Who, judging by that tone, is probably more than a little skeptical to the mystic arts. Oh, this should be fun.]

I'm pleading the fifth on that one.

Though, just out of curiosity: where do you think we are?

permavoice;

[seriouslytwisted]

[oh yeah it's always fun when the belligerent ones show up isn't it]

Uh, I think we're kidnapped and on an island for some science experiment or something. That's what I think. Lot easier to buy than me being in Wonderland.

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[zerotoawesome]

It's not the weirdest story I've ever heard before, and being in the "in-between" [Yes, he used air-quotes.] is a lot nicer than being on the other side.

permavoice;

[seriouslytwisted]

[WHOA.]

Yeah, I bet it isn't.

[wait no, that's not- no he meant to say something sassy.]

I mean, not much of a consolation prize, 'congrats, you're not all the way dead yet.'

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[cynisme]

[That. Is a turtle. On a turtle. How much as he had to drink?]

They say in-between, I say we've all died and passed to purgatory.

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[seriouslytwisted]

[wow this piece of shit computer seems DETERMINED to just. never let him hide is identity, so you know what? WHATEVER. WHATEVER. if anybody's got a problem with a turtle kid then they can go to hell! that's right!]

Yeah well, hate to burst your bubble but this guy? [he points to himself] Not dead.

[virginprice]

I am dead and this is not the afterlife I should be living. I think 'in-between' is as good an explanation as any I am likely to have.

[seriouslytwisted]

[sssssure how about you take another toke of whatever you're smoking, lady]

Okay, well I'm not dead and I don't know what afterlife I'd get, but I can bet it wouldn't be this one. Because this is stupid.

[notamachine]

[Step one: alert the locals to his presence while simultaneously pissing them off (maybe). Done. Step two: explore his surroundings, because he can't accomplish a damn thing if he doesn't first understand his environment. Working on that now.

Step three: try not to stare too openly at the almost human-sized turtle kicking a barrel.]

Right. Now I've seen everything.

[No way to tell how much of a threat said turtle is, but it's not killing anything other than the contents of the barrel so he's just gonna hang back over here and observe it for a while.

Freak.]

[seriouslytwisted]

[Raph is in full temper-tantrum mode right now; he stomps around and kicks the barrel off the docks and into the water. He turns and spots Dean looking at him, and you know fucking what? He is so done with these stupid hippies and whoever the hell this guy is staring at him. HE'S DONE WITH YOU TOO.]

You got a problem that needs solving?

[video]

[poeticverses]

Although I have only been here a week, I have come to the conclusion that there is no other explanation for this city. It is the only way some of us here could be here.

[seriouslytwisted]

Maybe all the people who say they're dead are actually zombies.

[inthishouse]

I don't know if I do or not.

[seriouslytwisted]

Well, that's better than everyone else I guess.

You the impressionable type or something?

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[district7]

Do you have a better explanation for being on the back of a giant turtle?

[seriouslytwisted]

We were kidnapped and put onto the back of a giant turtle.

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[depicted]

[What did that barrel ever do to you?]

[Also, turtle?? Did the giant big turtle have angry baby turtles? What is this.]

Uh, are you all right?

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[seriouslytwisted]

[WHO ASKED THAT- oh just some dude. He doesn't look like he'd be any of the natives either.]

Do I look all right?! God! [Raph puts his foot through the barrel and- it gets stuck and he falls over. UGH NOW HE'S SO FUCKING MAD HE LOOKED STUPID IN FRONT OF THIS STRANGER]

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[fatedchaos]

[There's a small frown on her face. She doesn't want to but...] I buy into it.

permavid

[seriouslytwisted]

Oh yeah? Why's that.

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[hackingyoursensors]

[Dick is just minding his own business, chilling out in Water when...

Wait, what was that? He saw something out of the corner of his eye. A fast, stealthy, big something.

A fast, stealthy, big, green something coming up from the water for air.

No one else would have noticed (indeed, no one did), but Dick waved at the big green stealthy... turtle...? A small wave, so that nobody else noticed. Don't want to give away the big guy's location.]

perma-action

[seriouslytwisted]

[Yeah Raph can swim quite a while without needing to come up for air, but he's got lungs and they need oxygen every so often. He doesn't know how it works, don't ask him, ask Donnie.

...if he were here AWWW he made himself sad.

Anyway, nobody seems to be freaking out at the sight of a turtle swimming around in the water, so when he comes up for air he doesn't do it beneath a dock, like he usually would. Instead, he just bobs there in the water, taking deep breaths -down for too long, better not cut it so close next time- when he spots some kid waving at him.

...some human kid. Some non-kedan, human kid.

He glances around to make sure it's him, gives the kid a quizzical look and points to himself. You're waving to him?]

[tangentdarko]

[Donnie's laughing so hard right now.]

Are you really a turtle?

[More laughing.]

Oh man.

[seriouslytwisted]

Hey!

[FIGHT MODE: ENGAGE]

You think that's funny, punk? Wanna see how funny it is with my fist in your mouth?!

[duelkatana]

[So, Raph]

[There's a couple turtles of the ninja variety already here. And they're not a big fan of this whole...thing. Of their giant, cozy suites or of the attempts being made to drag them into the economy. They're perfectly content to just scavenge and forage like they always have in NYC, thank you very much.]

[Know what that means? Fishing! And fishing is really boring. Which means it's been more or less relegated to Leo, who is the master of being good at boring things.]

[Today Leo is on a mission to catch a few, and is sticking to the relatively quiet canals near the Wood Sector's borders to do it. He's got a net cast out in the water (don't ask where he got it) and it's not all that big, but the canal bottlenecks here to squeeze through a ravine, so it's still taking up quite a bit of swimming room. Hey, it's not like he expects anyone to be around here 8|]

[At the canal's edge is Leo, sitting beside the net completely zenned out. No seriously, this is why he gets stuck with this shit.]

[tl;dr INCOMING FISHING NET, RAPHAEL. DO YOU EVADE?]

TIMELINING THIS FOR AFTER WHATEVER ELSE HAPPENS IN THIS POST

[seriouslytwisted]

[Raphael's been out looking for Leo (he's thinking it's his Leo) ever since Santo mentioned it, without a single sign of his brother anywhere. He's made it all the way to the edge of the Water sector, crawled through every single alley and leaped over every rooftop he could find, and now he's swimming through the canals trying to find his brother.

It'll get dark soon. While it'll help him hide, it won't help him find his brother, because Leonardo will be doing the same thing and he's better at stealth than Raphael is (much as he hates to admit it).

Leo- dammit Leo where are you?

The only comfort Raphael has is that Leo wasn't left to fight Snakeweed and that Foot Clan chick by himself. At least he's okay. Now if Raph could find out if Mikey was okay-

Okay focus, or you're going to run inTO A FISHING NET WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS DOING HERE?!

Raphael fights and struggles against it and are you serious all the air just left his lungs with that surprised scream and he's actually going to drown. He's a turtle and he's going to drown on the back of another turtle this is the WORST FUCKING DEATH EVER]

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[trainwrecked]

As with most things, some more than others. But it's certainly not where I'm supposed to be.

permavoice;

[seriouslytwisted]

Then how do you know they're not just lying to everybody about that crap?