Mystery Sign Theater 3000, Saturday

[chosehumanity]

In a stunning display of his own ability to avoid Fandom insanity without even knowing it, Mitchell hadn't been around for the past week. Sure, Nina and George's behavior had become increasingly more erratic, and he was worried - worried enough to stick around for longer than intended.

Still, he was getting back to work. He helped the staff set up the sign in the morning--

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Herbert

-- and went inside, poking and prodding through his files so he could come up with a few non-box-officey features for next week.

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Concessions/Lobby

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For your food needs.

NOW SHOWING: Herbert

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Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Manager's Office

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Where Mitchell is trying to phone George, to no success.

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[vanillajello]

Kate was just getting all of this over with now, the whole thing with informing people there was to be no Japan. And Mitchell was up, now.

And her call was probably even going through. Yay.

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[chosehumanity]

"George?" Mitchell answered, as he picked the phone up embarrassingly quickly.

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[vanillajello]

"Uh, no," Kate said. "Try someone a little less flaily who looks better in a skirt."

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[chosehumanity]

"Bo?" Mitchell asked, though by now he was kidding.

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[vanillajello]

Kate rolled her eyes. "Less likely to wear boobtastic leather."

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[chosehumanity]

"Kate," Mitchell said, after a beat. "How are you?"

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[vanillajello]

"Tired," she replied. "Airport benches are not meant for sleeping on. I didn't make it to Japan."

Much more like ripping off a bandaid, this time.

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[chosehumanity]

Mitchell blinked. "Why?" he asked. Because that was the logical next question, yes.

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[vanillajello]

"Because there was an earthquake in Osaka, and they switched me to Niigata insteda, and apparently that's a bad place to end up, somehow," Kate replied, shrugging. "And I had a panic attack during boarding."

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[chosehumanity]

Short paused. "But I thought you really wanted this," said Mitchell, who'd never met a terrible decision he hadn't seen through to the very end.

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[vanillajello]

"Yeah, well, not at the cost of ending up used as mattress filling for Mongolian prostitutes."

Which, incidentally, was about the only thing she remembered clearly from the boarding corridor.

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack swung by around the middle of the afternoon, looking a bit discouraged. He'd just been by the wall of disappearances in front of the school, and its overnight growth was disheartening.

"Glad to see you're here," he said. "... and I suppose this solves the Carl mystery."

Reality was being eaten. Why hadn't they guessed that?

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[chosehumanity]

Mitchell leaned back in his seat and frowned at him. "It does?" he asked. Beat. "Hey, Jack!"

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[bitten_notshy]

"Unless there's more than one reason why people are vanishing, which I'd rather there wasn't," Jack said, upon reflection. He was going to frown hard at that possibility.

"And hello! I got into town a few days back."

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[chosehumanity]

"I... got back a few hours ago," Mitchell admitted. "Wait-- people are vanishing? This is a thing now?"

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[bitten_notshy]

"It's the latest fun thing," Jack said, heavy on the sarcasm. "I didn't know either, but then Sebastien -- went and I got caught up quickly."

He shrugged. "People and things are vanishing, yes. Sorry, it's all I've been thinking about this week."

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Mitchell looked at Jack, taking a moment to let the fact that he was serious sink in. Then he looked to his phone. Then back to Jack. "Sebastien's gone?" he asked.

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[bitten_notshy]

"More gone than he has been," Jack clarified, running his hand over his hair. He'd been halfway trying to slide it in, in hopes he wouldn't have to talk about it to anyone who actually knew Sebastien. That made the repression so much easier.

"We had about a week together, then I went out for a class and when I got back, he wasn't there. According to everything, he'd never been there. Dinah explained that it was going around, so I came here before things got any worse."

Not that they could get much worse, really, but Jack was aware that particular opinion was on the melodramatic side.

"No one really knows much about what's causing it. Yet."

[OOC: Edited after I looked at actual wording of the broadcast.]

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[chosehumanity]

"Jesus."

A sudden surge of concern struck Mitchell across the chest, and he snagged his phone off the counter and pressed redial.

"Just like that?"

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[bitten_notshy]

"Just like that," Jack agreed, watching what Mitchell was doing. "Someone told me it had happened for him in a matter of minutes. It's horrifying, whatever it is."

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[chosehumanity]

"So he didn't just... go somewhere or wipe everyone's memory or something like that?" Mitchell asked, though his attention was mostly on his phone.

No connection. He pressed redial again.

[[ and i hit the sack! Night! Will pick this up come morn. ]]

OOC

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Ow.