video | un: vdova

[usedtohavenothing]

( ever since Natasha stepped off the train she's kept her head down and eyes open. hoping to better assess her new situation. to determine who and what might be a threat around her.

some might call that being paranoid. and they'd be right. but it's kept her alive this far and she has no reason not to trust it'll do the same here. better safe than dead.

which is why her broadcast comes several days after her arrival.

opening the device they'd given her, Natasha flicks the feed on, looking directly into the camera. when it connects the redhead can be seen seated inside the apartment she'd been assigned to on her arrival. expression neutral. )

I don't know about the rest of you, but it looks like I get to check off being kidnapped to an alternate dimension from my bucket list.

( dry. oh, so very dry. )

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video: un: gwennnnn

[hibana_incursa]

Your bucket list must be fascinating.

[Dry, meet dry and a touch sassy. ]

[usedtohavenothing]

( well shit. apparently who's ever behind her kidnapping isn't above taking kids.

one corner of her mouth ticks up into a half smile at the sass. )

It's also very short.

( not that she actually has a bucket list... she might make one now, though. )

Are you from here, ( she makes a show of glancing back up to the screen where the username is displayed, as though she hadn't noted it already. ) Gwen?

video un: tmercer (☑)

[havenomercy]

[Redhead meet redhead.]

Does it count if the alternate dimension people come to you and kidnap you there?

[usedtohavenothing]

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that does. Yeah.

( she offers a small smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes. )

Mind if I ask how long you've been here?

[havenomercy]

Then sign me up.

A few weeks. I came in on the train.

[usedtohavenothing]

Were you on a train before you woke up here? I know I wasn't.

( she'd been sitting outside a cafe, waiting on a contact when suddenly she wasn't.

try as she might, she can't remember anything between then and waking up on the train here. )

video: un: littlealbatross

[soulmakingsound]

[She tilts her head to the side owlishly, first one way, then the other. Parsing through the different parts of the sentence.]

Oddly specific. Implications of having been kidnapped before.

Still unsure if this is an alternate dimension. More research needs to be done to make a conclusive answer. But it is on the list of possibilities.

[usedtohavenothing]

Depends on the standpoint.

( and from Natasha's this is a first, overall. every other time had been because she allowed herself to be taken. either for intel or to carry out the rest of a mission.

except there was the time with Ultron.

okay so not a first. )

Care to share with the class the other possibilities you have?

[soulmakingsound]

Could be a standard kidnapping by someone with space travel capabilities. But some people come from different times, so time travel would have to be on the table as well. Perhaps here, now, technology has reached that point.

The question then becomes: why us?

[usedtohavenothing]

Different times.

( time travel. well that's new. and so, so far out of her area of expertise. oh, what she wouldn't give to have Tony and Bruce here. )

If we can find everyone they've brought here, ask a few important questions, then maybe we can find some common ground as to why us.

( providing everyone tells the truth. which she knows isn't all that likely. case in point: herself. )

video; un: dagger

[crazy_white_girl]

[ Tandy understands being paranoid. She feels like it's a constant state for her these days. ]

It's certainly a part of my bucket list I had wanted to avoid, now it kind of keeps happening over and over.

I guess welcome to Haven?

[ There is a small hint of sarcasm tied to the 'welcome' since she doubts anyone feels like it's a good thing. Unless they had something they wanted to get away from... ]

I'm Tandy. Nice to meet you.

[usedtohavenothing]

Don't take this the wrong way but, you look a little young to have a bucket list.

( says a graduate of the Red Room. )

I'd say thanks, but well.

( a shrug. )

It's nice to meet you though, Tandy. I'm Natasha.

( she smiles, friendlier, warmer. under the surface is a different story. but her face masks all of it. )

[crazy_white_girl]

Maybe but I don't think that really matters a lot, does it?

[ She's had to deal with a lot despite her age and sometimes because of it. But she doesn't want to think about a lot of that. ]

Yeah.

[ She pauses, eyeing the video before her, almost like she is looking for more but then she continues on. ]

Are you settling in okay? I know it's a bit strange....okay, I was going to say at first but it's always kind of strange here.

video; un: thefunone

[morethanatrickster]

Oh my, good afternoon, Agent Romanoff.

[She may notice, if she cares to look, that while Loki's eyes still sparkle with amusement as much as they ever did when they spoke, they're missing a lot of malice.]

I suppose that makes two of us.

[usedtohavenothing]

( it's not often Natasha's caught off guard. but when she is? oh, she really, really doesn't like it. )

Loki.

( she keeps her voice even, arms coming to rest across her chest defensively. she's not feeling particularly friendly suddenly.

her threat ― promise if he had anything to do with this dies on her tongue. instead she arches a brow at him. )

You're telling me you had no hand in this? ( not that she'll believe him if he does. )

[morethanatrickster]

Oh I can assure you I wish I had, but no.

[The amusement glitters in his eyes. He can't deny there's a part of him that delights in how unsettled she is at his presence, regardless of whether or not he's trying to turn over a new leaf.]

Something occurs to me, though. How long ago did we meet?

video; un: number 2

[bargain_batman]

[ Diego didn’t socialize much but between being bored and the face on the other end being attractive, he decided to bite on this particular message. ]

Afraid to ask where and when you’re from if going to an alternate dimension’s on your bucket list.

[ It wasn’t the friendliest greeting, or really not a greeting at all. His response was said in the same dry manner she’d spoken. She could add him to the club of being paranoid although Diego would argue he was being proactive. ]

[usedtohavenothing]

Then we'll just leave it at I've seen enough weird things not to have ruled it out.

( lucky her, right?

all in all it's not the worst greeting she's had. so she'll take it. )

But now I'm curious, where are you from that it's not on yours?

[bargain_batman]

Seeing weird things and having them on your bucket list aren’t one in the same.

[ He interjected before answering her question because growing up with a droid as a mom and parented by a talking chimp wasn’t exactly of the norm. ]

Twenty-nineteen. Earth. You?

Video | un: milesmorales

[idontgetpaid]

I don't know if getting kidnapped is really a thing that should be on anyone's bucket list.

[usedtohavenothing]

Yolo.

( that's what the kids say, right?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

I was kidding. It's not on my bucket list.

[idontgetpaid]

[ He has to bite down a laugh, because no one really says that anymore. ]

Good to know. You might be stuck here for a while, though, so it might be a good time to update it.

text | un: realbrucewayne (☑)

[menarebrave]

Most of us have had that checked off our list for months. There's an increase of new people every now and then. It seems like Haven has more.

[usedtohavenothing]

Anything else you all have checked off your bucket lists that I should be aware of? So I can play catch up.

Sounds like you've been here for a while.

[menarebrave]

Fighting creatures in other dimensions? Getting to see what an alternate version of you lives like? Meeting superheroes?

Nine months.

Welcome to Haven. Bruce Wayne, board member of Wechester Enterprises.