1st Chestnut: Arrival [Action/Voice]

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Action/Voice

[People who happen to be making use of the Hot Springs might take note that there's a stranger in their midst. A short, bald man with six little dots on his forehead is laying down and sleeping on one of the deck-chairs near the edge of the tub. He's dressed, at least, but that doesn't change the fact that he's just there, dozing away with a journal for a pillow. Occasionally he lets out a little sigh of contentment, mumbling to himself in his sleep and seemingly oblivious to the world around him.

After a while, he does wake up though, and looks around, completely lost. In his flailing he notices the journal he's been laying on and grabs it up.]

Huh? What...? Well how the heck did I end up in a hot spring? And...what's with this thing? Oh man I hope that blinking light doesn't mean it's gonna explode or something. That'd be just my luck...

[There's the sound of random buttons being pressed and the picture flickers a few times before Krillin realizes that the blinking light means that it is, in fact, recording. He sounds immediately apologetic, and just starts speaking normally, if somewhat formally.]

Uh...sorry about that. My name's Krillin and ah-hehehe I don't know who's Capsulepad this is, but I found it and I wanna return it. The book model is really cool, I didn't even know they made them, but I'm not a thief. If you can hear this, then let me know where you are and I'll return it right away. Only, I guess it'd be great if you could give me some directions too.


[Later, after he's finally departed and begun to poke around his new surroundings, Krillin makes a beeline for town, whizzing along through the chilly air and cursing his luck. It's cold, and his clothes are freaking gone, and he of course missed the teleporter. Once he finds and swipes some clothes, he'll start poking his head around trying to find out where he can get some food and more information. So, expect him to turn up in the Item Shop, Bakery, and Welcome Center.]


[OOC: Please feel free to break time on the action portions of the thread! It's more fun that way.]

Comments

Lights! Camera! ACTION! (1/??)

[enchantressofore]

[What.

She thought she had been in here alone. So the sound of groaning and putting up a message gets to her. She looks, and... Stops.

That... Is not a woman.

That is not a woman at all.]

2/??

[enchantressofore]

[Nope. Not even a trace of breasts, and thankfully he's covered below the waist but...]

3/4 I think

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4/4 DONE

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WHAT IN BLAZES ARE YOU DOING IN HERE!? GET OUT!

[In an instant Adela grabs the towel at the side of the bath, throwing it at Krillin's face as she uses her other arm to try and cover her chest. Granted, the steam from the water is sort of helping cover up, but not even close to enough for her comfort. How did he even get there!?]

1/?

[comicallyheroic]

[Okay, so...he looks up from the little book, and blinks in surprise. He got that he was at a hot spring, sure...]

2/4 I think

[comicallyheroic]

[And then it hits him. He's not alone. And then he's mentally facepalming because there's a teenage girl swimming in the bath.

Hopefully she hasn't noticed him...and he can maybe sneak out...?]

3/4

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[And then there's a towel flying at his face and she's yelling. Because it finally dawns on him that he's in the other side of the bath!

Oh great, oh great, that's not good!

He grabs the towel and shoves it over his head, eyes wide with shock but thankfully covered.]

4/4

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[And he jumps straight up, looking away and floating there in the air, trying to find an escape without peeking at the water. Because that's a teenager, man. And he's getting a little too old for this, even if Master Roshi says otherwise.]

Oh man, oh man, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, I just...I just woke up here. I didn't see anything, I promise, but where's the door?

[Because he doesn't just wanna fly through a wall or something, he just hovers there waiting on her to yell at him more...]

[enchantressofore]

[Huh? He can fly?

... FOCUS! She's naked and - and - Immediately she darts under the water, covering up to her shoulders in the water as she just looks up at him.]

I-It is over there! [She points quickly, shivering before shaking her head.] Just leave, quickly!

[comicallyheroic]

[He whizzes over to the door and then stops as something occurs to him. Something that could go very, very, very badly for him, and it's a trap he's not falling into this time!]

Is this the...girl's changing room?

[enchantressofore]

Just what in the world did you expect it to be!? Look, I care not how you came to be here, but you need to leave now!

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And I'm telling you, I'm not going in there and getting yelled at if there are other people in there. This is embarrassing enough, since I don't even know how I got here...and I don't wanna get beat up or scare anyone if I don't have to.

[Still looking at the ground with a towel over his head, too.]

Look. I'm sorry, but I really don't know what's going on here and I'd appreciate it if you'd go look and see if I can leave. I'm really not a peeping tom.

[Diplomacy! ...and hopefully the New Feather pants will help plead his case.]

[enchantressofore]

I-I will not!

[Throwing her towel was not smart, now she has no way to cover up and she's not about to get out of the water and... Well... WHAT HE'S SEEN IS ALREADY ENOUGH AND SHE'S NOT ABOUT TO SHOW MORE!]

Y-You can fly, can you not!? Perhaps you should just fly out the window!!

[comicallyheroic]

Actually...

[An idea comes to him and he just floats over the partition, since that's apparently retractable. A moment later her towel comes flying back over the wall.]

Okay, there. Now...maybe you can help me out and tell me where the heck I am?

[It's oddly modulated by the steam and the echo, but...]

[enchantressofore]

[... It's better now, sort of. She takes a breath, sighing before shifting to try and grab at the towel.]

Do you mean the hot spring or this world in general?

[comicallyheroic]

World? Did I wake up on another planet?

[He thought that maybe he'd get to stay on earth for a while...]

[enchantressofore]

Another what?

[comicallyheroic]

Planet. Y'know, like Earth, Mars, Venus...?

[enchantressofore]

[Big sigh, she's confused. There's far too much she doesn't understand about the world, and as much as she doesn't like it she's coming to accept it more and more.]

... No, I do not.

[comicallyheroic]

Okay...so, I'm just gonna assume this world's mine then, and I haven't ended up somewhere else. Let's start smaller then. Where's the hot spring? What city?

[enchantressofore]

It is the mountains, and this is no world of your own.

[A sigh, and she begins unprompted to tell him of Luceti - how it is isolated from all other worlds, and how they are trapped within a small part of it. How the Malnosso are free to do as they wish with them, whether it is experimentation or enlistment. How, otherwise, all of their needs are met with no other price.

And how there is no way home, on top of it. Not that she could tell.]

... I am sorry that you became trapped here, as the rest of us are.

[comicallyheroic]

[Krillin's no dummy, and when someone is giving him information like this, he listens. And he remembers things, too. It's a lot of information to accept, but the way she's telling it kicks off his instincts that maybe, just maybe, she's telling the truth.]

Man, seriously. A prison in another world, huh? Of all the rotten things to have happen. And I thought I was due a break, but I guess the universe just doesn't work like that.

Are you serious though, about that barrier being unbreakable? I mean, what've you thrown at it?

[enchantressofore]

I have not been strong enough to reach the barrier on foot, not in this cold. But... I have taken the word of a god. If not her, then who could break it?

[comicallyheroic]

Well gee, when you put it like that...

[He sounds pretty concerned, like just how bad this all is is really sinking in.]

Maybe Goku could, if he was here, but I guess that may be about it.

[enchantressofore]

Goku?

[Yes, that is her voice perking up a bit. Krillin can probably only imagine the look on her face then.]

You know of Goku, stranger?