video: un: twitchy

[twitchcraft]

[ It's probably a few hours after Tabatha's abrupt arrival. That really didn't feel like enough time to settle in, but there wasn't really any point in waiting for that, now was there? So there's a red-haired teenager with dark eyes and long, red hair, sitting outside a cozy looking house despite the lawn looking like nothing more than dirt and sand.

She looks unnerved, but she's doing her best to smile and be friendly. Reach out to others in her situation. See if they have answers. Because she has tried several time to translocate, back to home, but she just ends up going nowhere. At first, she thought it was a loss of powers. A grounding, one of the worst things that could happen to a witch. But she took advantage of being home alone and translocated from room to room, just to test that theory.

And when it turned out she did in fact have all her powers, that was when she decided to reach out and at the very least introduce herself. So, despite the day she's had, she offers the network a smile. ]

Hello! I'm Tabatha. Jerry already told me about this place, and I found my home.

[ She lifts the FluxPhone to show the exterior of her house and then the view returns to her face. ]

Literally, my home. Lacking my mothers decorations and my fathers advertising projects on the walls, this is my house from my universe. Has anyone else had something like this happen? Your home appearing in this place?

Thank you for anything anyone can tell me that Jerry might not have. I'll appreciate all the advice and information I can get.

Comments

[idontgetpaid]

Oh yeah, that happened when I first got here too. Just a bunch of my stuff from home in a box, already in the room of the place I was staying at. It was pretty weird.

It's also pretty weird when we change locations, because sometimes we get more stuff from home.

[twitchcraft]

The box had your name on it, right? Mine did.

We change locations? How often does that happen?

[idontgetpaid]

Yup. Had my name and was already waiting for me in my room. It feels a little pre-planned, but I appreciate that my stuff was taken care of through inter-dimensional travel.

Every once in a while. The longest we've stayed in one place so far has been about...four, five months?

[twitchcraft]

It does, yeah.

[ Tabatha frowns a bit, considering what she found. She's not concerned about how it all fit. She's seen magical bags that could hold more than they appeared. It was just some of the stuff was oddly specific. Like her riding broom. But she's not going to be bringing that up at this juncture. ]

I will say that finding a photo album that I know I last saw on the coffee table back home was oddly comforting while somehow being a bit unnerving at the same time.

[idontgetpaid]

Yeah. It's like someone knew what might help us be a bit more comfortable? Which is nice, but definitely has some weird vibes to it too.

[twitchcraft]

I can't even decide if it's an even split. It's sae to say it fluctuates between the two.

[idontgetpaid]

I can get that. I think a lot of us have just gotten used to the weirdness, so we don't really question it.

[twitchcraft]

Okay, so...give a new girl a heads up. What kind of weird things can I expect?

[idontgetpaid]

Well, uh...how's your tolerance for monsters?

[twitchcraft]

Why? How often do monsters make an appearance here?

[idontgetpaid]

So there are actually monsters just on the edges of town. They don't ever come past the town walls, but I don't recommend going too far out.

[ He'll forward over the picture of the group of large ant-like creatures that Gwen had sent him when they first arrived. ]

These are just one of the kinds of things out there, and trust me, they're pretty nasty.

[twitchcraft]

Oh, look at thoses.

[ She's examining the photograph with concern, nose wrinkled just a bit. ]

Those look unpleasant, so I'll take your word for it.

[idontgetpaid]

They're definitely of the "attack first" variety, so if you ever see them, be sure to keep a distance.

I haven't seen any of the other kinds of things out there, but the locals say they have a similar disposition, so I haven't been looking to hard for them.

[twitchcraft]

I wouldn't be, either.

[ But she is absolutely going to do a fly-over on her broom, just to see what she can find out. ]

They can stay there. I'll stay far, far away.

[idontgetpaid]

Yeah. Hopefully we won't have to deal with them for too much longer.

[twitchcraft]

Because this place changes?

[idontgetpaid]

Yeah. Someone warned you about that already, huh?

[twitchcraft]

Yep. Which I'm glad for. I can imagine that kind of thing is very jarring.

[idontgetpaid]

It's definitely pretty weird when it happens, especially since we never know where we're going to end up. I thought the last few places were pretty bad until we came somewhere new. Now I kinda miss 'em.

[twitchcraft]

Would you mind telling me about the other places? Just so I understand.

[idontgetpaid]

Well, the first place we ended up in was a beach town called Beachville. That was pretty much the nicest place, because not only was it by a beach, but nothing too weird happened there.

Then we were in this big city called Wechester. Nothing really strange happened there either, and the city kinda reminded me of home, but I still kinda liked the beach better. It wasn't too bad, though.

After that was a place called Driftcrest, and that's where the weird things started happening. When we got there, it was winter pretty much all the time, and there was a city-wide curfew - people were told not to be outside after dark. The reason for that were these monsters called the Unseen, that had a way of manipulating people's negative emotions and making everything super cold and freezing people. But once they were beaten, all the snow melted and the place was actually kind of nice.

Then we ended up here.

[twitchcraft]

And how has it been here?

[ She's never heard of the Unseen, but she's certainly going to do what she can to research things. ]

Other than exceptionally hot.

[idontgetpaid]

Not so great. Besides the monsters outside of the town, the locals aren't exactly thrilled with us being here.