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[truepsychictale]

[A line of text appears as it seems someone is testing out their blackberry.] Testing. 1. 2. 3. |

Hello. I am Agent Sasha Nein. I am assuming I have been kidnapped, and that you know what is going on. |

[At least this ‘Sasha’ isn’t flipping out or cursing over all of this. He also knows that other people have information, and is perhaps, hoping someone will offer him some.]

I have already explored the building to the best of my abilities, but considering how vast it is, I know I did not see any of the occupants here, even though there is proof such as the names on the door that there are others here. My fellow Kidnapped, then? |

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[100deaths-a-day.livejournal.com]

You were kidnapped by a chick called the author. This is where she keeps us, unless she decides to dump us somewhere else for a week or two.

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[truepsychictale]

The Author? Explain please. |

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[100deaths-a-day.livejournal.com]

She's the one who brings us here. We're just her characters in a story - or so she thinks.

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[truepsychictale]

I see. And how does she control the story?

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[100deaths-a-day.livejournal.com]

How the hell should I know?!

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[stalking_horse]

[You have it about right. I wish I could give clear answers, but even those of us who've been trapped here for some time only know so much.

You're no longer in your own world; the grounds outside only go so far - if you were to explore them as well, you'd either end up transported back there, or running into the barrier at the boundary of this realm. As far as anyone can tell, it's a dimensional bubble under the control of a girl we only know as the Author.

[Well, it's a start...Now to see how crazy he gets called.]

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[truepsychictale]

That is not the oddest thing I have hear.

[Psychonauts well prep you for this.]

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[stalking_horse]

Well, in some ways, you're one of the lucky ones.

From some evidence of some of the past "plots"? She can't directly interact with this realm, and in fact, believes it - and all of us - to be fictional. My best guess is that she's got some kind of power she's unaware of. She doesn't seem malicious, but that unawareness makes her dangerous anyway.

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[truepsychictale]

[Like some Psychic Teen who thinks controlling animals doesn't hurt them.]


I see. Now, what can we do to survive this until we can possibly get out. Because I doubt everyone has been sitting around doing nothing.

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[stalking_horse]

It varies. As near as I can tell, she's a fangirl.

If you've never had to deal with them, you're probably lucky, even though she's far from the most terrifying specimen I've seen; there's some of them I'd LOATHE to see with powers like this.

If she were just prone to fluff and "comedy" - where the worst that happens is destruction of dignity - it'd be relatively easy, but she also has a love of dramatics and occasionally binges on less friendly genres.

Her "plots" usually run on weekly cycles, although some of them last for more than one week; it being October, I'd advise caution - this week there's hauntings that seem relatively benign for most, compared to what they could be, but last week everyone was struck by some manifestation of something they were afraid of, and god knows what she'll do as Halloween draws closer.

There's a group of volunteers that've been trying to the best of our abilities to do damage control when the more dangerous plots come up, but organization past a point is an exercise in futility - not only are people periodically sent home and always arriving, but people are from all different sorts of worlds and times, so attempting to establish one set of inviolate laws invariably ends up running into problems with everyone having different standards of "Normal and 'legal'/acceptable", or setting something up that ends up persecuting someone just for having a DIFFERENT standard of such whether they're a real danger to others or not.

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[sun_from_the_ashes]

I'd say kidnapped is definitely the word for it - I haven't seen anyone here yet that didn't look like they were another one of the people taken here, and some of them don't seem like they're easy to keep in a box.

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[truepsychictale]

From what information I have skimmed, we're in a situation where we're being forced to play around.

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[sun_from_the_ashes]

That's what it's looked like to me. I thought I had a few guesses, but I've already been here long enough that anything I'm familiar with -

Wouldn't be capable of this.

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[truepsychictale]

Ditto on that in most cases, especially from where I was at when I arrived here.

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[sun_from_the_ashes]

There's also a good number of powerful people here who haven't been able to get out - including one of the people who'd be one of the first ones I'd think of being capable of doing something like this, even temporarily ...and he seems just as trapped as the rest of us.

I'm really hoping the door with just "God" on the nameplate is kidding, but I'm not sure I want to gamble on it.

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[cuteuketwin.livejournal.com]

I guess in a way we were brought here against our will, but unlike actual people who've been kidnapped the Author really let's us wonder this place freely.

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[truepsychictale]

Kidnapping is kidnapping whether you get to wander around or not.

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[cuteuketwin.livejournal.com]

True, although usually they tie you up. Here we don't, so there are differences.

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[truepsychictale]

Tied up or not, I don't like the situation.

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[cuteuketwin.livejournal.com]

No one does, everyone wants to go home, but they can't.

[inordertobelieve]

This isn't a usual kind of kidnapping, but I suppose you could word it like that.
We've been brought into this world by a person called the Author. Our group consists of people from many different dimensions.

[truepsychictale]

Oh? Could you please tell me more?

[inordertobelieve]

There is no clue as of how the Author got her power and she does usually not talk to us directly, instead she contacts us through a speaking bunny. I am aware of how insane that sounds.

We assume her to be a teenage girl, judging by her tastes and the mentioning of 'learning for tests' in a message.
She can influence this world completely as well as our bodies and sometimes mind. We've already been body-switched and altered, forced to fall in love for a while or just transferred to other worlds, such as an island full of dinosaurs or a spaceship.

As for the residents, most seem to be from slightly varying alternates of planet earth, even though some come from other planets or dimensions that lack much similarity to earth.

[truepsychictale]

Ach. Well, this helps greatly actually. If we notice a trend with her psychology we can eventually predict events.

[inordertobelieve]

That's the goal we're trying to achieve. For example it's rare that we get send to a calm place without something horrible following. Either by the middle of the week or in the second week, she usually lets varying monsters appear.
Events revolving around monsters have become an almost every-day experience lately anyway.