tushanshu | 001; Audio - The one where Mike tries to make sense of this.

[Mike knows the rules, and he knows them by heart: When you're in a new place, and you aren't sure of your surroundings, you stay hidden to stay safe. Someone will come and find you. So when the kedan deliver him to his suite, Michaelangelo stays there.

It's only after he's lowered all the shades, explored the suite from top to bottom, and booby-trapped the front door with common household items, that Mike turns his attention to the communication console. Mike's access and familiarity with all things computer has been limited at best, with the bulk of his exposure coming in the form of play-testing what ever new video game Donatello had been coding. So it comes as more than a little bit of a shock to him that the console is as easy for him to work as the skim-milk blue guy with a similar number of fingers on his hands said it would be.

It doesn't matter that he's not home, or that the people who found him aren't quite human, or even that anyone who saw him on this vidscreen thing could easily just assume he was some sort of special effect added in post production.]

Um...hello? I.
I'm just looking for my brothers. There was a light from some sort of machine. They started to disappear without me. I just. I just want to find them.

Leo? Donnie? Raph? Please tell me you're out there. Please?

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Lame. Did you eat leprechauns for breakfast to roll that twenty?

[Ororo sounds really fed up with this Tu Vishan lottery.]

HA! I can't think of a scenario where rolling a twenty would get anyone brought here. Well, where MY rolling a twenty would. Clearly I botched something.

[On her end, Ororo's raising an eyebrow, but there's a smile plying at her lips that starts to smooth the edge off her tone. His reaction is a huge part to that -- he sounds younger, saner, and totally sensible in the ways of culture that matters. (Okay, but she doesn't want people getting the wrong idea here. She's not a D&D nerd.)]

Way to roll a one and then twenties, because how else'd you land here and then get buddies? That's a seriously spiked luck stat.

[TOO LATE! You are now indelibly a nerd. Forever and ever a nerd. In conclusion: nerd.]

I totally have the...oh...uh...crap. Crapcrapcrap. There's an an ability in the game book that lets a new player ask the DM for a hint one time a session. It's not beginner's luck....or is it...

[Tell anyone and she'll bring the rain. Literally.]

Uh-huh. Try again.

It's not willpower, is it? No. Ugh crap, what I wouldn't give for a decent game book.

...

COMMON SENSE! It was totally common sense! Right?

[Ororo laughs under her breath.]

Common sense is pretending you don't have a clue what 'rolling a twenty' means.

Heh, so...appropriate then, huh?

Okay, fine. I give. You're not half bad.

The name's Ororo, by the way.

Dooot doo-dee-dooo!

[Is his cry of triumph. It's a shame she can't see his arms raised above his head.]

I'm Mike.

Welcome to turtle hell. I'll catch you around?

You say that like there's any other kind of hell.
And yeah, sure thing!

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