The Center of a Volcano? Apparently? [Saturday, January 4, 2020]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was blaming both the spelled seat on the bus that forced him into what he was convinced was top ten of the the galaxy's stupidest outfits and the giant beak on the front of the copiously decorated shuttle that affected his reflexes just enough to tip the bus rather than stopping it when a creepy horned guy with a really great robe, at least, stepped directly in front of the bus like an idiotic new teacher who'd never seen transportation before.

Anakin'd barely had enough time to yell to the passengers to grab onto something before they'd flipped...and now that he'd woken back up, they were definitely not on the causeway any more. Or the clinic. "Great," he grumbled, moving carefully to check for injuries.

He was still in the stupid chicken suit and also kidnapped, apparently. "Is everyone all right?"

[OOC: Team Kidnapped, come on out!]

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[ohvalleyofpenis]

"You know, I'd hoped that the ratio of kidnapped by horned creatures looking for bloody vengeance on humanity would have gone down post-Geralt," Jaskier commented to no one in particular.

He was simply prone to these bits of exposition.

Also, a man in a chicken costume, surrounded by children seemed safe enough to approach. Unless they punched him.

In which case he would be very upset.

[whitewolfofhmm]

As the laws of comedy dictated, Jaskier's comments drifted Geralt's way only moments after his waking.

He turned his head, squinted more, and-- yes. Definitely Jaskier. "Hm," he growled pensively. "Fuck."

[sith_happened]

But he couldn't be that surprised by the punching, right?

"Did you recognize that thing?" Anakin asked, rolling his neck to pop it.

[imastudent]

"So." Heather sat up slowly. "That sucked."

[sith_happened]

"I'm normally a much better driver," Anakin said defensively.

[burnitlikeshipping]

Wait! Were those the dulcet tones of Sea Hawk's beloved that he could hear?

"Mermista?" Maybe this grumpy looking girl had seen her.

[fragilenotsofragile]

"What was that?"

Fragile had always been quick to wake. Now was no different. For a moment, disorientation told her she was on a Beach-- then that quickly faded.

No. No beach.

So: what was it?

[sith_happened]

"A dumbass in the middle of the road," Anakin muttered, rubbing away a headache, "who probably had something to do with why we're here."

Wherever here was.

[whitewolfofhmm]

It had been at least a fortnight since the last time Geralt had found himself knocked unconscious by a beast. He'd been happy to prolong that period for a considerably longer period of time.

But no.

He sat up gingerly, yellow eyes squinting against the darkness.

"Fuck," he said, succinctly.

[sith_happened]

"Pretty much," Anakin agreed.

[lovethatjourney]

Hi. Alexis was wandering over just because he was hot.

"Crazy how we're in this volcano, right?"

Alexis.

[rockmuncher]

Because the whole loading into a bus that she was pretty sure had been designed by Shane thing wasn't enough, there was all...this. And, at first, Abigail had been loving the nonsense of it, and then there was this whole, exciting thrill of adventure to everything, but, considering what was going on around her and everyone else's reactions? Now she wasn't so sure.

"Wait," she had to ask, blinking around the bus a little, "was that supposed to happen?"

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"The part where a devilish creature kidnapped us all or the part where there's a man in a chicken costume?" Jaskier asked, tuning his lute.

A perfectly reasonable thing to do while in danger.

[lovethatjourney]

Okay, honestly, this was the most normal part of Alexis' day so far. She was dressed in sparkles because she was trying to make a good impression, and then there'd been a bus.

The current situation also got the reaction of "Ugh, not again," so take that as you will.

[imastudent]

Heather gave her an up and down look. Hello there, fellow hot girl.

"Oh hey. You seem fun."

Was that sarcasm? Honestly on Heather it was impossible to tell.

[sith_happened]

"You get in bus accidents a lot?" Anakin wondered.

[yourcorp_is_bs]

Cass had spent the whole trip so far eyeing Anakin suspiciously, wondering if in between that and the bus, uh, decor, it was supposed to be some kind of not-so-clever marketing scheme.

And then the bus was flipping in the air, and where was Oya to do some cool time-manipulation thing to slow it down, or Anton to do something involving being disturbingly stretchy and pull the bus back down to the ground, or -- right, probably back at Blue Dolphin Base with the original Cass and the rest of the Callisto 6.

Being a timeline-wonky duplicate was confusing, not that she blamed Oya for it or anything. Being 100 -- no, 101 now? -- years in the past, and on the opposite coast, was even more confusing.

And they hadn't even gotten to Fandom yet.

"Kylan didn't mention this was going to happen. What the fuck?"

[sith_happened]

"It's not normally part of the process," Anakin said, trying to look intimidating while also still stuck in a chocobo costume.

[rips_reps_revelations]

Glen had let out at least four succinct, short, truly scandalized little sounds just then: once when he woke up, another for when he looked out the window, a third when he looked about the bus, and then one last one as he looked out the window again, before his hands flew in a rapid-fire flurry of a Sign of the Cross.

"Sweet Lord Gawd Baby Jesus Ca-rist!" he exclaimed desperately. He let out a little offended gasp, hand to his chest, and rolled his eyes heavenward. "You took me to soon, Gawd, and very clearly to the wrong place!"

But then he remembered and got an eyeful of Mr. Big, Brooding and Handsome over there with the white hair. "Mmmm," he amended, "or maybe not!"

[ohvalleyofpenis]

UM. EXCUSE YOU. JASKIER HAD DIBS.

"Oh, this will be amazing." Mostly because Geralt was the opposite of nice. Unless you were a crazy Sorceress.

[second_sakura]

The bus--and the bus driver--had been strange but amusing, and MOMO had kind of loved it a lot.

This... she did not love.

"Where... where are we?" she asked, straightening her hat with one hand as she looked around. "Is everyone okay?"

[sith_happened]

"Everyone seems to be all right," Anakin said, "but this isn't the welcome picnic."

No kidding.

[burnitlikeshipping]

Sea Hawk scrambled to his feet, placing one on a convenient rock. The effect would have been quite impressive if he hadn't been a gangly, lanky twink teen (albeit one with a surprisingly luxurious moustache).

"Well, looks like we had a clucky escape!" Look, you try coming up with a good chicken pun after being knocked unconscious.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Haaa." Jaskier, don't be a dick to the precious little twink.

[thisismymagicpotato]

Opal was most certainly not all right. But, honestly? That was more because of the blathering in her ear than whatever mess they were currently in.

I knew it! I knew it! I knew we never should have trusted a manual vehicle! Sibyl hissed. I didn't like it when Nik was doing it and this is why! We could have been killed!

Opal just sighed, pushing herself up to try to look around. "Please, I'm wearing my poncho and we weren't going that fast."

I mostly meant you anyway, her AI sniffed. I'm backed up in the cloud. Assuming this place even has a cloud.

"Well, we gotta figure out where that--"

Not just here! Sibyl shrilled. This whole place! Not a single AR since we stepped through the DFZ's portal!

"Huh," Opal said, starting to pat herself down. "Yeah, okay, that is weird. Are the contacts still in place?"

Obviously. I'm still here. But I can't find a even a hint of 12G anywhere.

"Then we're both screwed, aren't we?" Opal muttered. "No cloud access for you."