8 - April Fool's Day Event

[perfectsymmetry]

...what is with these bloody phones today?


[Answers with a quiet voice] .....hello?

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[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

[Pause.] Eh? Did I get the wrong frequency somewhere?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Oh. Um. Possibly? Who is this, may I ask?

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Oz. Um, Oz Vessalius.

...

Say, you don't have a frequency at all! Is that why I can't set it to--

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Oh, no this is a telephone I'm on, not a radio. Wow, um, does it even work like that?

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

You have a telephone? Not a communicator? I don't think it's supposed to work like that either.

...wait, who are you?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, definitely a telephone. Oh, my name's Calleo Crowe. A-are you calling from Mayfield....?

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Ehh? Definitely not. I don't think I've ever called anyone outside the city before.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Outside of what city? Aren't you in Mayfield?

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Nope. [Sounding absolutely confused.] Should I be?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah, well normally we can't get calls in or out of town, so I'd say yes, but... today seems to be an exception to the rule, it seems. May I ask where you're calling from? I-if there's a way to talk to people outside of town, I was wondering if... [He trails off. He wasn't quite sure what he was wondering. That he could get help? Getting a message out to his family?]

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty... huh, we're kind of in a similar situation, I guess. Except, I'm not sure how I'm getting a call out of Discedo. [Sorry, I just haven't the least idea when/where he'd get his hands on a telephone, so pulled him from game canon instead. XD;]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

_{[Works for me! April Fool's Day is just crazy like that ;D]}


Discedo? [He thinks that's an odd name for a town.] Well, I suppose we should count ourselves lucky then, eh? Wait - you're not trapped there by chance, are you?!

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

[:Db]

...

Yes, actually. We're definitely trapped here. You too?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Y-yes. We were all kidnapped. I think. I'm not sure, it's all so confusing. I haven't been here very long, though, just a few weeks. I wonder if the two towns are related... what's it like there?

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Ehh?! That's kind of how it's like for us! But... I've been here for almost seven months now.

The city here's all destroyed... like there was a war, and now nothing can grow back.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Goodness. I'm really starting to wonder if these ARE related. Then it makes me wonder how many of these are out there...?

Mayfield is... it SOUNDS innocuous but it's really not. It looks like a 1950s American suburb, but people get brainwashed, or have cruel tricks happen to them. I-I haven't been here very long, so I haven't seen much for myself, but I've heard a lot of terrible stories. It... almost seems like we're some sort of psychological experiment.

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Huh, maybe it's just these two, but I guess there's really no way to tell.

But jeez, the way you say it, that's... [Pause, searching for appropriate adjective.] actually kinda cool!

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

...what?! How is that cool? [Crowe's terrible at reading people, and he can't tell if Oz is joking or not.]

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

[Now the Mayfield brainwashing hits him. ;D]

I dunno. But it definitely sounds better than Discedo. [Sigh.] It'd be nice to visit...

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

..... t-that can't be true at all. Maybe it's not as bad, I don't know, but I seriously doubt that's true. You definitely don't want to come here!

orz html fail

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Staying in a little town would be kind of nice, though.

...Hey, are there any cute girls?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He feels just lost now.] No, really, it's not nice at all. It may LOOK nice but it's a prison all the same. So no matter how they dress it up, it all boils down to that.

[acreepybrat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm sure it's not as bad as all that.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I wasn't exaggerating... w-why did you change your mind all of a sudden? Didn't you say you were in a similar situation? Then you know how bad it is.