(backdated) Day 116

[psychoh]

-- even tell time. They've just got little...

[oh hey, that's a lovely picture of an eyeball right there. Luckily, the eyeball moves back a bit and you're treated to the head attached to it. Norman is staring at the communicator, eyes furrowed and lips in a narrow line, trying to figure out how it works.]

What are you doing? [Another head pokes in from the side of the screen. Carrie just seems incredibly nervous.] Be careful, you might break it...

I think it'd probably end up breaking me, first...

(joint intro post! :D tags will come from norman and carrie. yay.)

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[servingmichael]

It is.

[ His tone is almost bored. ]

No, I'm not. Another captive in this town.

[psychoh]

You make it sound like there's a lot of, ah, us.

[servingmichael]

Around forty. I haven't bothered with a head count today.

[ It's dry - he's either being sarcastic or joking. With Raphael, it's difficult to say. ]

[psychoh]

Forty... I think that's more people than I've ever met in my entire life.

What brought us here, then? It can't be anything, well, normal.

[servingmichael]

Small town?

[ Strange, didn't most humans have met that number? ]

The Scientists. We don't know much about them.

[psychoh]

More like a small house. Oh, and the motel, but we don't get many customers. [Which is good, since Mother likes killing all the customers...]

Oh. So, we're trapped. [he doesn't sound entirely put out by the idea]

[servingmichael]

Didn't you attend school?

[ Besides... ]

Motels generally do more business over a year than forty people.

So it seems.

[ He doesn't and that's strange. ]

[psychoh]

Oh, no, Mother didn't allow it. And we're sort of, you know, a bit out of the way. The middle of nowhere. I'm not even sure there's any schools nearby in the first place.

[servingmichael]

What year are you from?

[ He sounds American, so this sounds odd. ]

[psychoh]

... 1960.

What year are you from?

[servingmichael]

Two thousand ten.

[psychoh]

[he considers this]

... No, you're not.

[servingmichael]

Are you arguing with me?

[ have a headtilt, an birdlike gesture, to do with with that. ]

[psychoh]

Well, um-- [NO NORMAN IT'S TIME TO BE A MAN] Yes.

[servingmichael]

That isn't a good idea.

[psychoh]

Uh. Alright. [gj norman] Why?

[servingmichael]

Because you are wrong and you will lose.

[psychoh]

Well, that's a little rude, don't you think?

[servingmichael]

You accused a stranger of lying.

[psychoh]

That's not rude. That's just common sense.

[servingmichael]

No, it's not. Have you ever seen cameras as small as the ones here? Or communicators?

[psychoh]

... Well, no, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. And if anyone had them, it'd be scientists.

[servingmichael]

Or I'm not lying and the scientists are more powerful than you can understand.

[psychoh]

Well, excuse me for not thinking up time travel as the best explanation.

[servingmichael]

This place is more powerful than you can imagine. Time travel is comparatively easy.