001. not in kansas, toto [action/voice]

[monoculi]

[Xander has woken up in some pretty weird places in his time. It's an occupational hazard of fighting the forces of evil and usually getting knocked unconscious as a result. However, this - Luceti, that is - has certainly raised the bar of weirdness.

Cold, hard, earth underneath his bare (and oddly uncomfortable) back, greenery and trees all around, and some frankly bizarre white pants on his lower half. Blinking, groaning and fumbling to feel for his eyepatch (on his face, mercifully) he sits up.]

What the...? [he mutters, looking around incredulously - at that moment noticing his clothes piled neatly beside him, along with the rather incongruous looking journal. He stares, then sighs, reaching for his clothes - this is all probably Andrew's moronic doing, his idea of a hilarious prank - after all, if it was a demon thing, he'd probably be dead or eaten by now. Or possibly disembowelled.

He moves to pull his sweater over his head, but encounters difficulty at his shoulder blades - an odd obstruction, something there where there should be nothing. After a couple of frustrated tugs, he reaches back to find out what the problem is, and oh - feathers. Attached to... wings. Well, that's a game-changer.

Now fully miffed (and feeling a lot less relaxed about this whole experience) he abandons the sweater and reaches for the book instead, stifling the urge to panic. There were bound to be clues in here, right? He arrives at the first page and eyes it with suspicion - some kind of communication device? After a moment of ginger examination, he hesitantly selects the 'voice' function, muttering to himself:]

Yay, a mysterious book. Because that always ends so spectacularly well.

[and now raising his voice substantially:]

Okay, listen up, Andrew - whatever kind of hilarious joke you're playing, it's very much not hilarious. And if you don't get out here within the next two seconds and undo whatever funky mojo you did to my back, I will personally locate and destroy your vintage 1989 Sega Mega Drive console. Mint condition and boxed, third drawer from the left, don't think I won't do it!

Comments

[monoculi]

I can relate to that. [he agrees, regarding the wings. he backs up a little, now that Twilight is back on her feet. He's still gawping incredulously, though he's trying to rein it in as much as possible.]

Twilight... Sparkle. [this just keeps getting weirder.] I'm Xander. And if it helps? You don't look like any pony I've seen before either.

"rein" it in, huh? We at unintentional pony puns already? ;)

[fourthgenerationprincess]

Well, that makes sense. I'm not like most ponies! I've only ever known three other alicorns. But you must know Princess Celestia!

[ Her voice dies in her throat as she speaks. Surely she hasn't found herself so far from Equestria that nopony knows who Celestia is? ]

oh, that was aaaallll intentional, haha ;)

[monoculi]

Uh, can't say that I do. But then, I'm not really familiar with the whole... equine monarchy... system, so. [This is one of the weirder experiences he's ever had, for the record.]

Did you just wake up here too?

[fourthgenerationprincess]

Yeah, just a few trees away from here. I was just going to see where in Equestria we are.

[monoculi]

I'm... not 100% certain we're in Equestria. Or Scotland, which is where I'm supposed to be.

[fourthgenerationprincess]

I'm not either. And I definitely don't know Scotland.

[ She looks around. ] I guess we might as well try that direction. [ She points a hoof randomly and starts walking. ]

[monoculi]

Sure, that direction looks as good as all the other directions. [he shrugs, happy to simply be moving regardless of the direction, considering the chill in the air. Never having chit-chatted with a talking unicorn before, he's slightly at a loss for conversation, however.]

So, what's Equestria like? That's where you're from, right?

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight vaguely hopes she's going in the approximate direction of the town she saw from the air. She's straining her eyes to see forward. ]

A little like here, so far. You're the only part that's different.

[monoculi]

[Xander is also keeping an eye out for anything that looks remotely helpful, like a path - of course, it doesn't help that his eyesight sucks.]

...so you've never seen a human being before? At all? Ever?

[fourthgenerationprincess]

You mean there are more of you? { Is that answer enough? ]

[monoculi]

...ooookay. [Poor Twilight Sparkle - she's probably in for a shock.]

Yeah, several billion actually - well, not here, probably, but. Yes, we're numerous.

[fourthgenerationprincess]

Billion? Can there be that many? Scotland must be really far from Equestria.