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[hexappeal]

Hello there, young padawans. [Her voice is flat, almost to the point of disinterest.] I've been skulking about for a few days and I'll cut straight to the point: I'm pretty sure that I'm ready to leave now. [More emotion starts to present itself; frustration with the slightest trace of anger.] I get the whole "stuck" thing, but that's always such crap. Someone's usually behind that and they'll usually fold if approached the right way -- which in my case may very well be with a fist.

[She lets a little huff of air out, almost a laugh.] But I'm getting ahead of myself. So, how about this! I'll even be a good sport about it (if you could see me, I am smiling and not going to press any sort of interdimensional charges on you, I promise). I'm a busy woman with a cat to feed and a teenage cousin to roll my eyes at back home. Send me to my San Francisco and I'll forget this ever happened.

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[hung_garian]

[In an hugely unconvincing fake Austrian accent:]

Ah, but how do we know you are telling the truth? We do not have the time for an interdimensional legal battle, as you say. Besides, you aren't dressed for the trip - if you're going to San Francisco, you have to wear some flowers in your hair.

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[hexappeal]

That I'm lying about living alone with a cat? Wouldn't you think I'd come up with something a little more tantalizing if I was going to lie?

I live in SF. I keep the flowers in pots or in my garden.

[She hopes he looks like Rich Uncle Pennybags, with a mustache as bushy as his accent is fake...]

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[hung_garian]

Perhaps. Or perhaps not, if the truth were the more, as you say, tantalizing tale. Perhaps you would want to sound less tantalizing, ja?

[He considers that for a moment, and grimaces - not that she can see it. The 'ja' was probably a little too far. He drops the accent, to the relief of anyone who knows what an Austrian accent's supposed to sound like.]

Or maybe not. Either way, you'd have to take it up with someone else, I'm not in charge here. Not even remotely.

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[hexappeal]

A voice and physical appearance are two very different things. You might want to be careful, I could be an ogre that takes your thinly-veiled flirtation as a marriage proposal and I might conk you over the head and drag you under a bridge -- no, that's a troll... I always get the two mixed up. But the point still stands!

[It's quite a relief that the grating sounds cease.]

I am completely shocked at this revelation, Not-Particularly-Helpful Lad.

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[hung_garian]

Eh, that's okay. Divorce has been legal for centuries now, and the honeymoon'd be fun.

[Even if she is a troll or an ogre. He's not fussy, and he's had worse.]

You can call me Loki, B-T-dubs. And, uh, good luck with the getting out, but judging by us folks who've been stuck here nigh on two months now, you might not wanna hold your breath.

[burnburnburn]

[Dilandau mutters lowly]

They have't responded to me yet, but if they prefer a woman's appeal don't keep it to yourself.

[hexappeal]

It would be very wrong of me to keep the secret of escape to myself -- at least in this situation.

[burnburnburn]

Good.

What land were you taken from? And what world?

[hexappeal]

San Francisco, California. It's in the United States. The planet I'm from is Earth, Earth-0 to be specific.

[burnburnburn]

Earth again? [He makes an incredibly frustrated noise] Have you heard of a world called Gaia?

[pursuitofcappiness]

Miss, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it's not really going to be easy to send you back to San Francisco, or I'd be in New York.

[hexappeal]

I'll take the difficult route, then. I'm not picky.

[pursuitofcappiness]

We... might've tried that one, too.

[hexappeal]

Ah, but maybe I'm the lovely missing piece of that puzzle. You never know. [Though she isn't necessarily in a rush. Curiouser and curiouser...]

[pursuitofcappiness]

Why do you say that?

[blackmagus]

[Ah, hello, fellow newcomer. There's a smile in her voice.]

Are you in a habit of pressing inter-dimensional charges? Are there legal degrees for that where you come from?

[hexappeal]

[Boy oh boy, they're both super-lucky!]

You know, I'm pretty sure there are a few, but I tend to skirt the law where and when possible. Magic has its own laws and I happen to be one of the ones that help enforce it.

But I might press those charges, assuming I could come and go at my leisure. [A thoughtful pause. You can practically hear her brows furrowing.] It's... not often that I'm blocked like this. So I'm curious as to the reasoning behind it and what kind of being is able to.

[blackmagus]

[Just the luckiest ever!]

Ah, well, as a disclaimer, I had nothing to do with it. And the second you find out who did it, I'll assist you in... enforcing. At present, I'm hoping that it's for something more than just for experimentation, but with the residents in the state they are...

[hexappeal]

So I suspect that you're just as trapped as I am, if that's the case.

[This is the most she's heard about the native people from this place so far, this tiny little drop of info.] Is there anything else you can tell me about the people from this place? Or maybe about these cameras I've been noticing about?

[blackmagus]

I'm afraid that I can't tell you much about natives. Unless they're lying, which is a possibility, everyone I've talked to here has been kidnapped. But I'd wager that almost everyone is from different worlds and times.

But, for what it's worth, everything looks sort of... lived-in, here. I can't imagine that the natives have been gone for very long.

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[happytobleed]

If any of us could leave, I'm sure you would have wound up alone here.

[ Castiel understands why people want to leave, even if he is less than eager to return to where he came from, but he's moderately sure that he's in the minority. ]

Have you been afflicted by the change they've forced on many of us?

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[hexappeal]

I can't agree or disagree since I don't really know anyone here all that well.

[She's not in much of a hurry, to be completely honest. All that's waiting for her back home is that cat, that teenage cousin, and maybe a show or twenty. She'll take exploration over that.]

You'll have to be more specific. Is that it? A lack of specificity affliction?

[happytobleed]

Well, it seems they've turned me into a Incubus. I was something quite different a week ago. So if you find yourself to be a vampire or a cat-person, you may have been affected.

[ There's an awkward pause. ]

Unless you were already a cat-person. I don't want to make any unfair assumptions about your natural state of being.

[hexappeal]

How is that working out for you? [She's not going to flirt because this is audio. He could be The Simpson's Comic Book Guy after all.]

I'm a cat-person... er. As in, a person that likes cat. But not a person with the features of a cat? And there's nothing wrong with being a vampire, either. Although I'm not.

[happytobleed]

Not well. I think many of the others would have appreciated this more than I do, though I think that's why it was me.

[ Not well is an understatement. He's a weakened and generally upset mess. ]

I think I'm a cat person, too. I have a cat here, actually.