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[Liz isn't sure what's going on or how the heck she ended up in the room she's now standing in, but she is nore than a little bit alarmed. The last thing she remembered was helping Chloe escape the Edison Group's facility. The chaos of the demon summonings and people dying ..]

[She looks around the room, only vaguely taking solace that this place looks different than any of the Edison facilities she's been in so far.]

[Then she sees the journal sitting on the small desk and walks over to it. She's not thinking at first and simply reaches for it, expecting her hand to pass right through it .. when it thumps right into it.]

What??

[Cue Liz just kind of staring at the book for several moments before lifting it to read.]

[She spends the next several minutes figuring out how to post something.]

Umm .. Hi, am I doing this right? Wow .. okay, this is really crazy. And I mean really crazy, and please believe me when I say I know crazy.

Ahh .. [She trails off, watching as the words appear in the journal as she says them.]

Okay .. that's cool .. not even going to lie about how cool that is. Does it work like this for everyone? Umm .. is there an everyone? I mean, this is way too advanced for the Edison Group .. So, there's other people here too, right?

Umm .. okay, so .. introductions, I guess? My name's Liz .. annnnd .. I guess this Deior guys is a pretty powerful wizard or something right? 'Cause .. I'm supposed to be dead ..

[Unfortunately Liz hasn't tried to open the door yet, or she'd find that she's quite possibly still very much her former ghostly self. Someone is will likely suffer a pretty big disappointment when she realizes things aren't quite as they seem..]

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[She's nodding here, Sollux, but then she has a moment of pause as that sinks in.]

Have you died before? Here?

Yeah. Here people just come back *usually?* without their memories. They get them back in a few days.

*Also he once died in his universe, but Sollux isn't looking forward to attempting to explain that to her.*

[Liz takes a moment to let that sink in, lips pursing.]

Soo .. like, coming back from the dead is normal here? Just with a some kinda temporary amnesia ..?

[Yes, trying to explain that whole hot mess might prove a bit confusing to someone new to the concept of coming so easily back from the dead; let alone the whole troll thing ..]

It seems that way, at least.

Huh .. I guess being dead ain't that big a deal anymore .. Is there anyone else here that was, like, brought back from the dead or anything?

Who was dead before they got here? I don't think so.

*Though she'll find out he's wrong with these other replies, he must have missed that, oops.*

[Liz frowns slightly at his reply, having heard otherwise from Riah just a few minutes ago.]

Huh .. wonder what makes me so special .. not that I'm, like, complaining, mind you. I really never thought I'd get this chance .. it was made pretty clear on my world that dead is dead is dead.

Although .. I guess there are different degrees of dead .. 'Cause I was a ghost and there were zombies and stuff ..

[Her brows knit together slightly in thought before she sighs, smile returning to her tone.]

So, strange book voice .. you gotta name?

Yeah, I guess.

*Fuck if he knows how it works. He was pretty sure before AA came back, but now--especailly with this place--who knows?*

Sollux. Please tell me you understand I'm not in the fucking book.

[Although her brows arch at the language, she cannot help the mock gasp that slips past her lips. She brings the journal in close and whispers at it, her tone shocked.]

What?! I totally thought you were, like, my book spirit guide or something!! Like way better than a genie in a bottle, for sure!

[Have a snort of amusement, Sollux.]

Yeah, Sollux, I know you're not an enchanted book or something lame like that. Any idea how many of us have been rescued?

[And she's using that there term loosely.]

*He snickers.*

Because people have thought that before and it gets old.

*It could be funny, though, he guesses.*

I don't know, I don't pay that much attention, a good number. They cull people sometimes though.

[Oh good, her magical book friend is amused. That, in Liz's opinion, is a very good sign.]

I guess not everyone comes from a place where this kinda stuff is, like, normal, huh? It's weird to think about alternate worlds and places and stuff .. I mean, this stuff is, like, totally right up my alley but I guess it might not be that way for everyone .. I mean, not everyone knew about the Edison Group, so not everyone would know about werewolves and witches and stuff ..

[Annnnnnnd, now you have a very concerned Liz .. a concerned Liz that sounds VERY nervous all of a sudden.]

Wait .. what? Cull .. they cull people here? Like .. kill them?? Cause I've, like, already been through that once and I, like, totally don't want to go through it again. How can they even do that?! Save someone from the utter destruction of their world or whatever and then, like, kill them??? SERIOUSLY?!

[It's a good thing that the journal is just on audio, cause a few things in her room are beginning to lift from their places of rest in reaction to her increasing dismay.]

A lot of people don't expect the weird shit that happens here.

Or something like that. We don't see anybody get killed, but they just disappear and they don't come back. It can't be anything else.
Well, sometimes they come back, but its a different version of them, from a different timeline or world with no memories of this place.

I've come to rather expect weird stuff, to be honest ..

[Still, you've got her just a tiny bit uptight, Sollux. Okay, a lot uptight but that was neither here nor there. She felt sick to her stomach as he explains what he means, finding the explanation all too familiar.]

That .. sounds way too close for comfort .. Chloe said I just disappeared, but I, like, totally didn't remember even leaving .. not until way later. Wow .. oh wow ..

[She holds a hand over her stomach, feeling terribly queasy.]

Man I do not want to die again.

I don't know if there's a way to guess who its going to happen to or not, it just happens sometimes. I don't even know if they really die or if they just...cease to be like what supposively happened to our universes.

[Liz absently fiddles with the hem of her shirt, chewing on her lower lip for a moment.]

I'd kinda like to avoid either of those options, you know? Is there .. any way to avoid it altogether? I'd rather not be living out a day in blissful unawareness only to cease existing in the next breath..

[Cause seriously .. that'd suck SO much. D:]

I don't know. If we break the rules we get put on trial, and if we don't write in the journals often enough the letters start to spread all over us, but I don't know what causes people to get culled. Its not just breaking rules, there are people who've done pretty bad things and are still here and people who're gone who never did anything.
I figure we can't spend too much time worry about it, there's nothing we can do to stop it or cause it as far as we know.

[Liz listens to this all with rather intense interest, as it kinda sorta involves her directly (let alone her friends whom she's only just found again).]

What kinda rules can we break? And what sort of trial? You mean we get punished for, like, rule breaking, right?

[She was surprised that things happened when one didn't write in the journal, but one of the opening things from the Deior guy had included that one must keep records, so that wasn't too surprising.]

God, they like need a rule book for all of this .. it's like some board game gone bad.

[Then he says the last, however, and she sighs softly, nodding.]

I guess you're right .. I mean, there's not any point in freaking out if we can't do anything about it in the first place, right?

[Until, of course, they found out a way to do something about it.]

The rules we know about are don't hurt anybody and don't break anything, but they didn't bother to tell us before they got broken.
And I guess its not so much of a trial as it is a punishment since they just say what the person did then skip to the show.

Yeah.

[Liz's eyes are widening now .. yep .. just a bit.]

Okay .. so I get the getting in trouble for fighting and breaking stuff, cause even school was like that, but, like .. they punished people before the rules were even stated? Cause, that's, like .. just setting us up for punishment .. I mean, yeah, we'll use common sense and not do anything we think is bad, but if we don't know, then it could be an awfully shitty surprise ..

Yep, pretty much.

*He thinks they did it that way on purpose, though.*

[Liz exhales sharply, displeased by this bit of news, but at least happy that she was told.]

Thanks for the warning .. God, is there, like, anything else I should know about .. man-eating cheese or killer cacti or anything like that?

[Her tone says that she's only kind of kidding ..]

The forest is dangerous and don't go underground if you can help it.

[Liz's brows arch at that reply, having been uncertain if she'd get any such warning at all.]

Duely noted .. leave the shrubbery alone and avoid dark, earthy places .. Does that last one just include inside the castle or outside the castle? Like .. dungeons .. or like, caves?

[Cause if the clarification could save her life, she wanted to be absolutely sure.]

Like underground period.

[Liz exhales and purses her lips at this, finally nodding.]

Alright so .. no fighting or wrecking the place and I should make a point to avoid the man-eating plants in the forest and anything resembling underground, whether indoor or out. Dare I, like, ask why I should avoid the underground? I'm not doubting you, Sollux .. just call it morbid curiosity ..

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That icon .. so cute! ^3^

it really is :3

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