[voice; action]

[seriouslytwisted]

[voice]

[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.]

Comments

[seriouslytwisted]

...Dude, are you made out of rock? That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[Man, Raphael wants to be made out of rock.]

[zerotoawesome]

It is? [Oh wait, that's not supposed to surprise him.] I mean, yeah! Of course it's the coolest thing you've ever seen! I'm freakin' awesome.

[No, you really don't want to be made out of rock, Raphael. It has its complications.]

[seriouslytwisted]

I bet you can punch clear through walls, can't you?

How big are you?

[zerotoawesome]

I've done it a few times, and, man, I'm bigger than Xbox!

[Raph, you're going to give him an ego, and he really doesn't need that.]

Seriously though, it changes all the time. I'm about seven feet right now, maybe?

[seriouslytwisted]

[HOLY CRAP YOU'RE HUGE]

That's awesome.

[zerotoawesome]

I know, right? I can pretty much be as big as I want to be, but it just depends on how much stone is available. [This is the best day ever.]

My name's Santo, by the way. [And you are obviously his favorite person now.]

[seriouslytwisted]

Raph- Raphael! But call me Raph, only my father calls me Raphael.

So you can like, put more rock on you and get bigger? Could you absorb a whole mountain?

[zerotoawesome]

Badass. [He smiles a little.]

You know, I've never really tried to take a whole mountain, but I don't think I could. The larger I get the more energy it takes to move, and it's hard to really see myself much bigger than I already am. The best I've done is about two stories, and that was hard.

Do you have mutants and stuff where you're from, dude? You're taking my appearance really well compared to most other people. [REALLY well.]

[voice --> video]

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, that makes sense. I can see that.

Oh-

[Raphael snaps on his video feed.]

Yeah, you could say there's mutants where I'm from.

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

Dude! You look awesome! [And he seriously means that too.]

Also, don't get weirded out by this or anything, I think I might have already met you? I mean, it was a long time ago, but... [Someone isn't familiar with there being multiple versions of people here yet.]

permavid;

[seriouslytwisted]

[Aw shucks, Santo.]

No man, I'd definitely remember meeting you. This is the first time I've been wherever here is.

[zerotoawesome]

Are you sure? [Because he's pretty sure he wouldn't make up meeting a guy like you here.] I guess it was probably my mistake then.

[He'll just casually not ask about your brothers until he figures this out.]

Did you just get here?

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, yesterday. [He kind of had to spend most of that day submerged in fresh water. Apparently he is a species of turtle that doesn't do well with salt water.]

[zerotoawesome]

You making it okay? You know, besides the whole deep questions about life and death stuff? You find your house and all that?

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeahhh, they brought me right there and everything. I can figure it out myself.

...people keep saying there's no way off this rock though. Turtle. Island, whatever.

[zerotoawesome]

I've been here a while longer, and those people are right. From what I've heard there's no reason to even want to leave this place anyway. The mainland is barren and dead.

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, that's what this one chick told me.

So this isn't even Earth?

[zerotoawesome]

I don't think so. At least not the one we know.

Doesn't mean that I buy their crap about this being some in-between life and death place, but it's definitely not home.

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Plus, there's got to be a gate or something to get us back to our homes. Portal or whatever. How else could we even get here?

[zerotoawesome]

I guess so, but I don't get why any of us would stay here otherwise? Nobody that's actually from here is sharing if it's possible or not.

Someone I know disappeared, and they said that she went home, but they never said how. It just happens.

[seriouslytwisted]

That's some conspiracy-level BS right there.

[zerotoawesome]

Tell me about it, but there's not much else we can do at the moment.

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, well.

[SULKY ANGRY SILENCE.]

...anyway. You're cool, Santo. Thanks.

[zerotoawesome]

[Aw man, he hates that kind of silence.]

Damn straight. You're pretty cool yourself, Raph. And hey, at least this place is kind of like a vacation... When you get past the zombies and stuff... Uh... Nevermind.

[seriouslytwisted]

[Yeah no he's not down with vacationing but what was that.]

What zombies?