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cycleofages2016-09-29 03:22 am
alandwithoutmagic) wrote in cycleofages2016-09-29 03:22 am
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001 - Arrival - ACTION/TEXT
Who: Neal Cassidy/Baelfire
What: Arrival & Freaking out
Where: Around HQ
When: 9/29 -ish and really any day after that.
Warnings: None
He wasn't expecting the sudden jump to another world. It was disorienting. He'd been in his apartment in New York and after the strange change he found himself in a bathroom stall. It'd taken him some time to puzzle out that he had just jumped from one location to another; luckily the strange old man came and explained some of it. Enough to make Neal wish he was anywhere but here.
He held the phone in his palm, feeling it's weight before pocketing it and heading out to explore. He really didn't want to just send a message to anyone and everyone but after wandering around, locating all the important parts of HQ and stopping by the hospital, he decides to send a text. With that done he slipped the phone into his pocket and continued to take a look around. This didn't feel like his New York and the longer he stayed the more he wished he wasn't here.
Neal can be found anywhere though he didn't stick out as someone who was new. He's good at hiding in plan sight.
TEXT
Anyone want to get a beer?
What: Arrival & Freaking out
Where: Around HQ
When: 9/29 -ish and really any day after that.
Warnings: None
He wasn't expecting the sudden jump to another world. It was disorienting. He'd been in his apartment in New York and after the strange change he found himself in a bathroom stall. It'd taken him some time to puzzle out that he had just jumped from one location to another; luckily the strange old man came and explained some of it. Enough to make Neal wish he was anywhere but here.
He held the phone in his palm, feeling it's weight before pocketing it and heading out to explore. He really didn't want to just send a message to anyone and everyone but after wandering around, locating all the important parts of HQ and stopping by the hospital, he decides to send a text. With that done he slipped the phone into his pocket and continued to take a look around. This didn't feel like his New York and the longer he stayed the more he wished he wasn't here.
Neal can be found anywhere though he didn't stick out as someone who was new. He's good at hiding in plan sight.
TEXT
Anyone want to get a beer?
Action
His nostrils flair when he arrives, taking in Neal's scent just to familiarize himself with it in preparation for the over-flow of scents that awaited beyond the magical barriers.]
Neal?
Action
That's me. Nice to meet you. You set to go?
Action
Lead the way. I'm curious about this New York, too.
Action
[Neal looks over at him as he leads the way out of the basement and into the streets. He glances around and as soon as be recognizes things he heads towards a familiar bar.]
Action
Yeah, you could say that.
[As soon as their on the street, he grimaces at the stench. Yeah, it was New York, alright. He pulls a smoke from his shirt pocket and lights up.]
You?
Action
You could say that. Not this New York but I had a place here. I've been all over the place.
[Much like Bigby, Neal is older than he looks.]
Here, this is the place. Don't know how it is here but they got beer.
[He nods his head and turns towards a small corner bar.]
Action
[Bigby didn't really get drunk unless he really tried, but normally, his financial situation didn't lend much to the trying. Here, he'd been given an allotment of money, but who knew how long that'd last?]
If they've got whiskey, I'll be just fine.
Action
Neal pushes open the door and holds it out for Bigby to follow. Once inside he beelines for the bar and orders two double whiskey's, dry.]
Action
No. You got a name?
Action
Did I not say that? I'm Neal. Cassidy.
[It's the name he's been using anyway.]
And you?
Action
Bigby Wolf.
Action
[Neal pauses and looks over at him.]
You're not the Big Bad Wolf are you? [He's been alive for awhile and he has no idea if this guy is just using that name or not.]
Action
Funny. You don't smell like a Fable. Not quite, anyway.
Action
I don't know the term.
Action
To regular humans, you came out of a storybook, or you're related to someone who did.
Action
[Neal exhales and then turns to look behind him as if a shadow might be looming.]
My father is in a story here. [He rolls his shoulders in a shrug.] I left that world a long time ago.
[Around 300 years ago.]
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[He glances over at Bigby curiously.]
I was looking for a place without magic. The fairies gave me a bean that brought me here. That was... [He looks down at his beer before taking a drink.] A long time ago.
I've been to a few worlds since then. Sorta by accident.
Action
Why somewhere without magic? [Was it something similar to his own Homeland? Did the Adversary's reach expand that far?]
Action
Let's just say that magic ruined my life.
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I want nothing to do with it.
[Except it'll probably be magic that gets them home and Neal at least has some magic know-how.]
Action
[Bigby sat back on his barstool and pulled a cigarette out of his pocket, lighting it and taking a long drag before speaking further.]
Usually, it really doesn't give a shit.
Action
[Neal waves at the air.]
Those things will kill you.
Action
[He shakes his head.]
It's gonna take more than these things to get rid of me.
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