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Post by elizar on Jan 30, 2008 15:44:32 GMT -5
"I'm a human, just like you. Homo sapien, born from monkeys and such." Maxwell said calm. "I have been like this for a month. We are in another world, and who comes here seems random, even what transpired before we came here is unique to all of us. But as you can see, the world is like ours, just a different appearance." He quickly raised himself on the shocks and smelled the air, he found the smell of the newest arrival.
"We all seem to appear here for some reason, and we are currently keeping together in Crystal Bay town. You are not alone." He said reassuringly.
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Post by Tracker89 on Jan 30, 2008 16:49:05 GMT -5
Gina calmed down, if only a little bit, at Maxwell's words.
"I see...all this still sounds so strange and crazy to me. So I'm a helicopter, you're a car...did we all become vehicles of some sort?" She asked, pausing a bit before moving onto the most important question of all. "...and will we ever make it back home?"
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Post by elizar on Jan 31, 2008 6:04:35 GMT -5
"We are working on that, though some of our searches has unfortunately come short." Maxwell said. "We got a wizard on our side -"
"The term is user." Sam came up, finally feeling well enough to travel after the spell backfiring in such fasion, though it had been a minor rebound.
"Try to say that without thinking about drugs." Maxwell rolled his eyes and smiled. Maxwell wished to be slow and steady on this, since it was hard to catch up on her if she decided to bolt. But there was the other car, and she hadn't approached them, and then there was the car that was gone already. Maxwell thought about 'praising' Stoker for his timing which led them to miss the arrival.
"My name is Maxwell Eightses, what is yours?" He asked.
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Post by bc on Jan 31, 2008 7:38:26 GMT -5
Isaac instinctively shifted his engine into gear, and followed Theo. It felt so strange, the swaying of his chassis on his suspension as he moved over the terrain. Sure, Isaac was used to being on the road all the time, but this was entirely different. Although he was extremely confused by it all, he was managing to sort his thoughts out, and miraculously drive in a straight line.
"So... do you know if we'll ever get back home? Back to our original bodies?" Isaac spoke as he drove alongside Theo, casting a sideways glance downward to the sedan.
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Post by Tracker89 on Jan 31, 2008 18:05:40 GMT -5
"I'll be honest with you. We really don't know." Theo said, looking up at Isaac. "We're doing whatever we can to find some way back to our world, but we have no idea what brought us here in the first place, let alone how to get out."
He led the semi around the ridge towards where Gina and the other two cars were.
"By the way, I didn't catch your name...I'm Theo Miller."
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Gina sighed, her nose and tail drooping down.
"Other worlds, users, being turned into a helicopter...this is all a bit too much for me." She said, before looking up to answer Maxwell's question. "I'm Gina Swain...good to meet you, Maxwell. Beats being stuck here with no help."
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Post by elizar on Jan 31, 2008 19:05:13 GMT -5
"I was the first one. And the only one for two weeks." Maxwell said. "It was trying." He looked up at Gina as he made a quick 'follow me' motion towards where the third new arrival was.
"I'm Samuel Wallace, but you can call me Sam." Sam said. "Now, Maxwell, Liana and Theo, those who are already here gained an ability on top of being transported here. I don't know if your hightened senses is the ability or not since helicopters here have it also. If you are doing something you thought was impossible, don't panic and talk to me."
"Here." Maxwell pointed with his antenna at a distressed GEO. "Something's off." He said concerned and approached slowly.
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Post by bc on Feb 1, 2008 1:50:34 GMT -5
"Isaac... Isaac Ammerson," Isaac said as he gave a slight nod of his front. "I'd shake your hand, but... well... y'know..." Isaac blinked a few times as he continued driving. All in all, this wasn't that bad. It kind of felt nice to roll instead of walk, at least to him anyway. He would've been winded by now had he walked the distance that he and Theo had traveled, yet he felt as though he had barely moved. The expression on his front was a dead giveaway of his sudden realization that this wasn't such a horrible thing. He had a kind of stupid grin on his face, his eyes open wide as if he were inspecting every aspect of the world from his new perspective.
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Post by Tracker89 on Feb 1, 2008 19:02:50 GMT -5
((Lol, I saw Theo in real-life today when going out to eat dinner...))
Theo saw Isaac's expression in his rear-view, and laughed.
"Well, seems like you're enjoying yourself...I'll admit, living here is not that bad. Most of the vehicles here are no different from the people back in our world, and there are some perks to being a car..." Theo said, befor sighing. "Still wish I was home though..."
He came upon the rest of the group, giving curious glance to the large helicopter.
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"Alone for two weeks? Wow..." Gina said, visibly impressed. She then turned to Sam. "Well, I now have to either roll or fly around everywhere, I can smell, hear, and see things in ways I never thought were possible, and my body is made out of metal...so it'll be a while before I can single out anything special."
The Bell 430 then looked in the direction Maxwell was pointing, at the Geo in the distance.
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Post by darkelf3769 on Feb 1, 2008 19:54:06 GMT -5
Okay guys..... here goes nothing... Burn, baby burn, Strung out on a wire Heart in a cage, You're so full of desire Brrrrrrr. Brrrrrrrr. How the vibration overrode the pounding of her bass was lost on Morgan, but it still made her curse. "Where is that frickin' phone?" Showing stupidity beyond her years, the woman took her eyes off the curving road to rummage in her purse. "Got--" at that moment she looked up, just as a slender cloven hoof hit the pavement. "--CHAAAAHHHHH!!" she screamed as the deer registered in her mind. Without thinking, she jerked the wheel. Her top-heavy Land Rover's tires gave a scream as the vehicle swerved on the narrow road. The simple laws of physics proved too much for the tall SUV, and the road had no guardrail. As the Disco's right pair of tires left the pavement, Morgan looked into the steep hollow on her left. Her scream attained a higher pitch as her view of the ground through her driver's-side window rushed closer. "Aah!" The pale Disco jerked from sleep suddenly, twitching on her side on a bed of soft sand. Grey eyes snapped open, surveyed a scene that was, oddly, sideways. "What the...?" Morgan tried to rise, found that she was suddenly very stiff, and heavy. The view she saw was of the hood of her Rover, and if she tried, a small, squarish mirror at her temple showed her a view of her car's flank, and the terrain behind her. Realization hit her like a cup of icewater thrown in her face. "I'm dead. And I'm in Heaven as a Land Rover. Oh hell." ((According to my Media Player, that song is "Bullet-Proof Skin", by Institute, from the movie Stealth. Just so no one thinks I made it up.))
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Post by Reiji Neko Mitsukai on Feb 2, 2008 0:43:20 GMT -5
Faintly, Destiny could hear voices- nothing specific enough to make out words, but enough that she could tell people were nearby. It was quiet here... wherever "here" was.
Slowly, she turned towards what sounded like an engine coming closer. Only rather than feeling her legs move to turn her body, she felt four limbs moving... and not in a way she was expecting. This startled her, and she jumped back a few inches. If her eyes had been open, they would have been wide.
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Post by bc on Feb 2, 2008 2:20:57 GMT -5
"Huh?" Isaac snapped out of it, "I suppose so. See, I wasn't in the best of shape before I came here, and traveling the distance we have would've damn near dropped me. I'm amazed that I can just keep on going, and I don't feel tired."
Isaac slowed down, and came to a stop behind Theo when he saw the others, and the helicopter. Another large vehicle. The semi gave the helicopter a nod of his front, a wordless greeting of sorts. He met eyes with the rest of the group, and did the same in a discrete manner.
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Post by elizar on Feb 2, 2008 15:45:20 GMT -5
Maxwell eyed the Fedex trailer Isaac had. "We need to go through that pretty soon to see if it is 'human' or this world goods." He said, then approached the Geo slowly. He found out what was wrong. She was blind.
"Hey hey. You're okay. I can understand if you are afraid." He said softly. Gaining her trust and get her to calm down was important. He looked quickly to another direction as another scent reached him.
Sam saw Maxwell trying to look somewhere in another direction. "I will take care of that one." He said and drove towards where Maxwell looked. It didn't take him long until he saw another Land Rover, though of a slightly older model. "Hey there, I just want to talk."
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Post by Reiji Neko Mitsukai on Feb 2, 2008 16:38:26 GMT -5
Refocusing on the voice, she listened to what he had to say before speaking her piece. "Wh-where am I? What happened to me?"
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Post by Tracker89 on Feb 2, 2008 17:15:10 GMT -5
Theo approached the the Geo, and like Maxwell he could tell that she was blind or at the very least had some kind of sight problem. He gave her a concerned look.
"You've..." He hesitated, wondering if blindness would make the truth harder to believe. "You've just been transported to another world, and your body has been changed to fit in with its natives. Don't worry, don't panic, we're all going through the same thing you are, and we can help you."
He then turned to Maxwell. "I don't know if she'll be able to make it back to town on her own...I can tow her with my ability."
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Gina saw the semi, and with her fear and confusion fading, she smiled and nodded back.
"Strange day...I just made it to this weird place." She said.
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Post by bc on Feb 2, 2008 18:48:40 GMT -5
Isaac looked to Maxwell. "The load I was haulin' before I ended up here was just pallets of copy paper. Unless they don't have copy paper here, I don't think there's much to worry about."
He paused for a moment when Gina talked to him. "We're in the same boat. I just got here a few moments ago... was real confused, but things are slowly beginnin' to make sense."
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