01- Video

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[The feed comes to life to show a young boy with glasses made dusty by the building he's woken up in. He doesn't particularly seem to care about the dust, though, instead glancing around as though someone might pop out from the shadows any moment.]

Hello?... Um, I'm not sure where I am, but it's really dark and scary and I don't know where my friends went... [He takes his glasses off, wipes them with his shirt and hurriedly returns them to his face.] And nobody else is around! Are we playing a game? It's not a very fun one... I don't like it.

[Tenatively:] Ran-neechan? Kogoro-ojiisan?

[And now he'll leave the Blackberry on video as he waits for someone to fill him in.]

Comments

[soiled-my-cuffs.livejournal.com]

[...there's another child here. In this setting, this cannot end well.] Unfortunately, this isn't a game. Have you got any details on your approximate location?

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Um...

[The screen shakes as Conan runs to one of the windows.]

The sign's too old to be read, but I think I'm in some kind of restaurant. [He'd found many cutlery lying around, as well as several large tables.]

[soiled-my-cuffs.livejournal.com]

once I've found my partner, we'll offer some aid if we can. I suggest arming yourself with something.

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Okay!

[Conan bends down and picks up... One rusty knife. Of course, he already had something that was technically considered a weapon, but he wasn't going to go about showing it off.]

Will this do?

[soiled-my-cuffs.livejournal.com]

It should help slow anything that attacks down. [It wasn't great, but it would do.]

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[livedinatower.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's going on, but I don't think it's a game either way.

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Conan stares just as curiously back!]

Why not? Doesn't it seem like one of those games in the arcade where you go bang bang at the monsters?

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[livedinatower.livejournal.com]

What's an arcade game?

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[... What.]

Nee-chan, what do you mean? Everybody knows what an arcade game is!

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[livedinatower.livejournal.com]

I've never been outside my home before, so I don't know alot, except what I've head in story books.

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[kansai-ahou.livejournal.com]

*Conan, you're getting this range of faces:*









*before he makes sure the video is private and responds*



Ye've got brilliant timin'. *tired sarcasm is tired*

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Hat- Heiji-niichan?!

Re: Video 2/2

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

... Are you a part of this too, Heiji-niichan? You know Ran-neechan will be worried!

[He's not taking any chances :/]

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[kansai-ahou.livejournal.com]

*he can't blame you*

It ain't my idea, if that's what yer askin'. *he moves the blackberry to show off what looked like an incredibly foggy prison courtyard*

We're all stuck here.

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Where exactly is "here"?

[He's been getting inquiries about his location, but nothing whatsoever about where he was and who had brought him here.

And of course, everyone was treating him like a child.]

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ Hey, it was a kid. But oh no --- this really wasn't the best time for a young newcomer like this to arrive. ]

Hey! [ She looks worried and --- very very scared. ] You shouldn't go around this place by yourself ...

Where are you?

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

It's not my fault! I just blinked and then I woke up here!

[Conan looked indignant, before his expression slips into a more worried one.]

Um, I'm in a restaurant, but I don't know what the name of it is...

[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

Just woke up? [ Then he was new? Blink. Blink. ] Chibi- kun sure has horrible timing.

[ She smiles and nods. ] Just sit tight. I can try to get there ... [ She always hated horror houses though. So despite that brave smile her knees were shaking. ]

What else do you see?

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[What is that nickname.] My name's not Chibi-kun! I'm Conan!

[He doesn't hesitate in rattling off what he sees from the window. Maybe a hosital, idk where exactly he is.]

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[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ She laughs. ] Sorry! Sorry! Chidori was just kidding!

But this isn't really helping ... ne, Conan? I want you to tell me if you see something, okay?

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[pallasthetennyo.livejournal.com]

[ She puts the communicator on the ground. All you can see are her feet ---- but she transformed into her Pallas form and looked up to the gloomy sky that she hated a lot. ]

Chidori wants to test if you are near or far away. Tell me if you see something pink in the sky. If you see it, then you shouldn't be too far away.

Is that alright?

[Private, Video]

[stalking_horse]

[It's ... Conan. And apparently Conan with no memory of the Manor, which could mean he's back, could mean he's from an earlier point in time, or could mean another case of the weird thing where he wasn't sure if it was an alternate version or what. Whichever it was, it was Conan who wouldn't have a clue what was going on and where he'd stand a good risk of setting off about fifty different paranoia alarms! Whatever does end up coming up - since this is hardly a good time for an extended attempt at catching him up to speed on EVERYTHING - Hakuba's ... pretty sure he doesn't want it on a visible feed.]

[And if he looks a little less impeccably kept than normal, with a few soot and blood smudges here... well ... shouldn't be hard to guess why. Or guess why he's carrying a crowbar like a weapon. Or why the usual deadpan's a bit more worn and less smug than usual.]

I see your luck continues to be horrific, Edogawa-kun.

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Conan: setting off Hakuba's paranoia alarms since the second he arrived here.]

Ah-- Saguru-nii? [At least it's someone he recognises, if he doesn't know very well.] What do you mean? You don't look so good...

[Private, Video]

[stalking_horse]

[At this point, it'd take Gin or Vermouth returning to get Hakuba's paranoia alarms going off ... he's pretty sure he could set off half of yours, though.]

It's been a very rough month, and you managed to miss the three and a half peaceful days we had this month by nineteen hours, ten minutes, and two seconds. [He's going to be. SO GLAD. When October is over.]

[And - in one of the windows behind him - was that just some kind of tall, ominous figure in what looked like a black coat?]

Has Hattori managed to get ahold of you yet?

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[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Why would I have paranoia alarms, I'm just a small little kid.]

Oh... But you're okay, right?

[asfjlk]

S-Saguru-niichan, behind you!