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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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[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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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?

[zerotoawesome]

[Santo will just take it upon himself to help Raph vacation then... Or beat people up. That'd work too.]

Nobody told you? Dude, this place when total B-List horror film for a week. It was pretty messed up, but kind of a nice change of pace, if you're into that kind of thing. [Spoiler: Santo is afraid of zombies.]

[seriouslytwisted]

[HE MISSED THAT?!]

...this place is seriously messed up.

[zerotoawesome]

No more or less than back home, really. This place has its perks.

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, if you say so. Still rather get out of here and back ASAP.

[zerotoawesome]

You don't have people trying to kill you and stuff for being a mutant back home?

[seriouslytwisted]

Well, yeah- kind of, but my family's there. What've I got to keep me here?

[zerotoawesome]

Okay, that's... A good point. Your brothers might show up though.

[seriouslytwisted]

Yeah, but-

[...WAIT A SECOND]

I never told you I had brothers.

[zerotoawesome]

[...

...]

Uh... Yeah, you did?

[Flawless deflection.]

[seriouslytwisted]

No, I didn't. I didn't even say it anywhere on here, to anybody else.

[Dammit, DAMMIT. And he'd really liked this guy too- Now he just feels like an idiot.]

What were you talking about when you said you'd met me before? And you better tell me the truth pal or I'll figure out a way to beat the rocks out of you.