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[frankensteinian]

[Hello, Genessia. Are you ready for this?

The video turns on to reveal a bearded man in a white t-shirt under red-and-black plaid, and with signs of anger and pain apparent around the eyes. It's the anger that adds an edge to his already-crisp tone. He has major problems with being kidnapped, for one thing.]

I'll get right to the important part. How close is anyone to finding a way home?

[He's not one to mince words, especially when he's got things to do that are more important than sitting around here waiting for who-knows-what to happen.]

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[thefirething]

[ In a strange way, the look around his eyes reminds her of the look her father always wore after The Shop murdered her mother and kidnapped her. That look of being so worn down and so angry and so over every stupid thing that's come his way. Charlie won't tease this one or poke fun at him as she's done a time or two.

No. It's time for a different approach. ]

What's at home for you? Just out of curiosity.

[frankensteinian]

[That's a hard question for him to answer. Not because he doesn't know the answer, but because he doesn't want to say it. To admit it.

The answer, when it comes, is as clipped as the rest of the words he's spoken so far.]

Nothing.

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[blueberryprincess]

Well, one would hope if people were close to finding a way home, either our kidnappers would be flailing about it or there'd be rumors.

Sadly, I've not heard a one.

[ The blue haired girl says this kindly and patiently, device set up on a coffee table as she sorts through fabric swatches and jots down notes. She looks up at the device and gives the man her best and most genuine grin. ]

Evie Mills. [ Yes, Regina. That's what she said. ]

Sorry you're stuck here like the rest of us.

[thefirething]

An important 'nothing', I'm guessing.

[ She understands the need to keep things secret, so she won't pry for more information there. ]

What's your name?

[video];

[livingfully]

[Jessica is the type of woman who can appreciate honesty, even though she sucked at it. ]

No.

[ Blunt. to the point. ]

Sorry.

[She does actually mean that ]

[Video]

[justabitunlikely]

Actually going home? None that I know of, but I know you can go to the dream docks under the right circumstances and get memories.

[frankensteinian]

And the people who took it from me.

[Which really is the important thing here. Yes, true, those men are dead, but somewhere back there is the one who snitched to the police in the first place.]

Magneto.

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[borntolove]

Hope the random algorithm works in your favor.

[thefirething]

...that's a familiar-sounding 'nothing.'

[ Even the look on her face, one that matches the look he wore, says as much. She shakes that off with a sigh, and then a muttered 'oh, for fucks sake' as she notices an issue. Okay so...guess who didn't remember to put that on private? This girl. Shit.

Give her a second. She's going to futz with her device and switch the rest of this to private. ]

A very familiar one, actually.

[ The name gets a faint blink and a tilt of her head, like she wants to ask if that's what his parents actually put on his birth certificate, but she's just gonna roll with it for now. ]

Charlie.

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[fashionably_strong]

[Here, Erik. Have another blue haired girl. Bulla looks thoughtful when she replies. Many have inquired about this - anyone who isn't dead or didn't come from a terrible place generally wants to go home, after all.]

Some people have been here for years. The people who leave this place seem to just...vanish, so I think if they're consciously doing it instead of being sent away at random by the spirits, they're not able to get back to tell anyone what they found.

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[blind_devil]

[Matt's head is slightly tilted as he listens.]

People are trying...

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[frankensteinian]

Kidnapped. That was the word. [She used it herself, even.]

People can't usually kidnap me without me being able to do something about it. [Except that one time, in Dallas, and that was less a kidnapping a more a government setup.]

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[sleepingbagsensei]

Not even close.

[Flat out answers honestly.]

Best logical solution in the meantime, get yourself a home and job until this place gets tired of you.

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[frankensteinian]

[He appreciates honesty too, even if no one else agrees with what he sees as the honest answer. Which doesn't mean he likes hearing it, however.]

It sounds like there's something someone's trying to hide.

[crapton_of_luck]

Noooooope.

[This coming from a young man with a robot lion cub peeking into the screen and a coupl eof Pokemon, a Tynamo and a Fennekin to be precise, peeking over the arm of the couch.]

I've been here almost a year, and haven't figured out a way home yet.

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[frankensteinian]

[Memories? That might be somewhere to start.]

Tell me more about that.

[He really can be polite, when he wants to be. Right now he's not in the mood.]

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[livingfully]

Maybe. Don't know. Haven't really been here long enough. what if there was?

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[frankensteinian]

What?

[He knows what you said. This is just the first he's heard of an algorithm.]

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[justabitunlikely]

Pretty much you just go to the dream docks and use them. I hear you come out with quite the headache afterwards though. You'd have to ask others that have experienced honestly seeing as I've never been. Sorry.

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[borntolove]

People have gone back but it appears random. But even randomness isn't random. Thar's a formula behind it.

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[frankensteinian]

Years? I don't have time to be here for years.

[That was definitely not the answer he wanted to hear.]

[Video]

[frankensteinian]

So I've heard. [One of the few things he did hear; he'd stopped listening at some point.] How hard are they trying?

voice.

[frankensteinian]

[Well. Honesty's something, at least. He just doesn't like the honest answer.]

And if I don't?

[frankensteinian]

Someone brought us here, right? So they must know how to undo whatever they did?

[frankensteinian]

[Good, because he doesn't know how to do that yet. Though he's not at the point of wanting to discuss private things yet anyway; he doesn't care who knows he's looking for a way home.]

It's more familiar than it should be.