(seelie&unseelie) first hunt ❂ video

[mulletrock]

[Guess who has two thumbs and is getting a handle on "fairy," technology. This guy. There's some rifling, and a brief shot of his face before he manages to get the damn thing figured out. Once he has the thing zero in on what he assumes is a reasonable view of him head on based on the image he's seeing he clears his throat.]

Yeah. This is weird.

[Coming from the guy that never had a myspace and doesn't use computers for anything but paranormal research, except for the occasional porno. Something he hasn't even mastered yet. He'd still rely on skin mags and pay-per-view if he had the option.]

Okay. Probably pointless, but new recruit here and I'm as pro-rights as the next guy but when I got the memo that I'd be waging war on behalf of fairies this isn't exactly what I anticipated.

[Dean scrubs a hand over his face, pausing to collect his thoughts. Sure, it's a bad joke, but anything to break the ice and take a little tension out of the situation.]

I've exhausted all my options on getting in touch with the people back home, and any resources on a way out are all coming up goose egg.

Anyone got any bright ideas? 'Cause so far this all seems like a really bad acid trip and getting enlisted by friggin' Tinkerbell's not my idea of a good time.

If you've got some insight that goes beyond the typical gist, feel free to speak up.

Comments

[mulletrock]

Princess Hilda, got it. What about you? You just gonna blindly go along with all this?

[unclebob]

I cannot return home. [There's a pause that would register as a shrug if he was using video.] So it does not matter.

[mulletrock]

What's stopping you? Besides the lines of crap they're feeding us. If there's a way out you're as entitled to it as anyone else.

[unclebob]

It is my own choice. To return home would put people there in danger.

[Better to live out his days in a self-imposed exile. At least here he didn't have to consider the other option of finding a way to destroy himself.]

[mulletrock]

Where I'm from danger has a way of happening whether you want it to or not.

[Maybe not what he wanted to hear, but anyone that'd willingly stay here instead of going back to reality had to have some skeletons in the closet or a few screws loose.]

[unclebob]

Then you are unfortunate. It is my existence that puts people I care about in danger. Without me, they will be safe.

[It's as simple as a mathematical equation to him. Take one world, subtract one Terminator, and it all equals out to one less chance of Skynet coming to pass.]

[mulletrock]

I can relate to that, but it doesn't mean you gotta go at it alone.

[Some people prefer that, hell, even he did most of the time but in a place like this it wouldn't get either of them anywhere.]

Since you're thinking about getting comfortable you might as well make yourself available. This place has plenty of hostages for you to play with.

[unclebob]

What purpose will taking hostages serve?

[He shakes his head. That's not his style.]

[mulletrock]

Who said anything about hostages?

[Woah. Slow down. So maybe this guy wasn't one of the friendlies, either that or he totally misinterpreted what he meant.]

The only hostages here are me, you, and the rest of the sad sacks stuck here.