A Warning and a Check-in

[ninjayeehaw]

[There's a sense of mild panic flashing onto the network.]

Anyone else with giant lizard wings-- be careful out in the sun. 'less y'all wanna risk gettin' turned back into a statue.

[And then it cools off a little, sounding calmer as he continues.]

If anyone needs a hand with bein' a Stonefolk, I got a whole heap 'f info on 'em dumped in my head, an' I don't doubt other people do too, so make sure t'ask if y'all ain't sure on somethin'.

But I s'pose the better question is, who have we got kickin' 'round the Investigatin' side a' things? This is Kinji, fer all the new folks, I'm up on Thunder Mountain.

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[runawaystory]

This is Rosalie. I'm investigating. Still human.

[a pause, and then she continues]

This is for the vets out there. Yensid sounds...familiar, right? It's not just me? We've been here before.

[leftbehindagain]

I'm a hedgehog. Whose bright idea was this? [Guess who already hates everything ever about this jaunt!]

This is Naoki. I seem to have figured out that 'be yourself while you have an overlay' thing; it's more disorienting than I expected. [And this is after de-infiltrating Kanji in Greece, so he was expecting it to be pretty weird.] If anyone in the woods needs help getting settled, I can do that. Nashi, if you're asking for me out loud.

[knightceties]

I'm a squirrel...

[otomechapilot]

Sara Smith checking in, and it looks like I'm one of All The Pretty Little Horses.

[She opens up an image livestream to demonstrate, looking in a clear, reflective pool and showing off this:]


This is so cool you guys.

[claudiometer]

Claudia Donovan, still myself and very much human-shaped.

Helena's not answering. Neither is Thorne, for that matter, but... what's this about 'turned back into a statue'?

[She's less worried about Thorne, but if statues are a thing that's happening she's really worried about Helena.]

[reincarnatedprince]

This is Mamoru Chiba checking in. It's my first jaunt, so I'm glad I get to investigate.

I seem to be a fox on two legs.

[otomechapilot]

Yeah trying to fit in would be good. Jail in the Most 80's Jaunt wasn't fun and I'd appreciate anything you can tell me to keep me out of it.

...You can still pick things up. I checked.

[senpaidol]

I think it really suits you, Naoki-kun.

[Says the rabbit. The shameless, shameless rabbit.]

[itsananimalthing]

It's only a thing for Stonefolk. We basically look like big, horned, flying magic things. Dragons or gargoyles or diabolin with wings. Anybody else don't gotta worry about it.

[ninjayeehaw]

If us Stonefolk get caught out in the sun fer too long, could turn us into statues. Chronic condition.

[senpaidol]

Rise reporting. Quick check says we should all be in the same world this time, but we're pretty spread out.

Also, this isn't the most flattering set of bunny ears I've ever been in but I'm weirdly more comfortable with it.

[itsananimalthing]

And I know these mountains. Which is shit, cuz I've seen a lot of mountains, but I definitely know these and we're definitely not on unnamed planet number two-sixty-eight. So I'm gonna say yeah, we've been here before.

[razorblade_empress]

Definitely not just you.

[itsananimalthing]

Riddick here. I'm one of the Stonefolk, up in the mountains. Seconding what Rosie said, pretty sure we've done this one before. Also got a lot of info about this group, a little bit about Forest Folk, not much about the local humans.

[claudiometer]

I wasn't worried about it for me, but... good to know.

[claudiometer]

...Well I can practically guarantee where Helena ended up now.

[runawaystory]

And where I am everything looks weird, but not in a "whole new world" kind of way, more like I keep expecting it to be one way and it's not, and it's throwing me off...

[leftbehindagain]

You're not helping.

[runawaystory]

Oh, good, so I'm not losing my mind.

[itsananimalthing]

Didn't say you were. Just sayin' that unless the people you are worried about are Stonefolk, they don't gotta worry about it. And even if they are, they'd know that. It ain't exactly a secret. Don't freak out until you've found where they are.

[leftbehindagain]

I should hope so, or this lab would be giving me quite a bit of trouble.

I don't think jail's likely to be as pressing of a concern here.

[pretentiouself]

I appear to be investigating and I am absolutely hideous. I look like my father and I think I'm balding. [Yes, Leo is very freaked out by this. It would probably be less strange to be Stonefolk or Forrest folk./small>] I suppose this is what it's like to be human.

[ninjayeehaw]

I'll try keepin' an eye out fer her up here. Ain't seein' no statues right now, mind.

[claudiometer]

It's less freaking out and more 'bracing myself for a lot of British swearing six weeks from now.'

[itsananimalthing]

I think you can handle that, kid.

Besides, not much point to turning us into statues for a whole Jaunt. We'd be pretty useless. There's already some that've been brought back.