Puzzle 001 - Voice

[tapshoetomove]

[Luke's very unhappy and confused right now. One moment he's traveling back to London with the Professor after their latest mystery involving an opera singer, and the next he's found himself on some random street in Discedo with no idea where he or the Professor are.

Needless to say, he's a bit scared.

Hope you liked your eardrums, guys, because the moment Luke sees the communicator he grabs it and starts yelling into it.]

Hello?!

Professor?! Emmy? Is anyone there? I don't know where I am! I found this strange device but I'm not even sure if I'm using it right...what is this awful place anyway?

...I think I can hear growling. T-there aren't wild animals around here, are there?

Comments

[baka_jyanai]

Yeah, there monsters all over. You should probably run.

[video]

[tapdancinskelly]

My, my, with all your shouting, I thought my ear would fall off. Fortunately they already did years ago. Yohohoho!

[tapshoetomove]

M-monsters? [He looks around nervously.] Are you pulling my leg? Who is this?

Re: [video]

[tapshoetomove]

[OH GOD A SKELETON.

Luke drops the communicator with a surprised noise and takes a few steps backwards, before carefully picking it up again.]

H-hello? A bit early for Halloween, isn't it?

[abstruse]

..Luke?

((OKAY WELL I figure he's an emotional fuckball because of Flora's death, so he sounds kind of half-there. A passive thought that gets aired over, really.))

[Voice]

[crowsong]

[More children. Great.]

Quiet, brat.

If you keep yelling, those wild animals will tear you limb from limb.

[tapshoetomove]

[Poor Clive.]

...Who is this?

[Voice]

[tapshoetomove]

....

[Luke does quiet down, but more out of fear that said wild animals heard him.]

Where am I? Where's the Professor?

[video]

[justicereigns]

Whoa kid, there are monsters everywhere, you want help fighting them?

[video]

[tapdancinskelly]

Oh, I'm not dressed up for Halloween, this is my face... Or what's left of it. Yohohoho!

Although it does tend to give me an advantage costume wise on Halloween. Yohohoho!

voice.

[dewebbed]

[ wait- it takes him a minute, but he knows this guy. it's just been awhile. ] Hey, Luke, right? Uh, you might want to get somewhere high up.

Voice;

[towered]

...Luke? Oh, Luke, it's so good to hear from you!

[ After everything that's happened lately, this is a big relief. ]

[baka_jyanai]

I can't be pulling your leg. I'm not there. If something's pulling your leg, it's probably a monster so you should probably run.

Voice;

[tapshoetomove]

[Luke listens carefully, but no matter how hard he tries he just can't place the voice. Sorry Flora, he won't meet you for another three years. But since she sounds like a nice lady, he'll be far more polite.]

Uhm, I'm really sorry, but I'm not sure who this is.

Voice;

[towered]

You don't...recognize my voice? [ She sounds so...upset. But, really, she knew it was possible. She'd been from the past, before, when she first arrived... ]

[tapshoetomove]

Can you at least tell me where I am? Who are you, anyway?

Voice;

[tapshoetomove]

[He can kinda tell he's making her upset and feels bad about it. He really doesn't want to upset one of the few actual people he's met in...whatever this place is supposed to be.]

Ah...I don't, I'm really, really sorry! Are you a friend of the Professor's? You wouldn't happen to know Janice by any chance, would you?

voice.

[tapshoetomove]

[That's another person who knows him but...]

Ah...hello? Who is this?

[video]

[tapshoetomove]

Like...real monsters? With big scary teeth and claws?

I just want to know where I am!

[video]

[tapshoetomove]

[So he's a real skeleton? He didn't understand this and it kinda creeps him out, but he didn't seem like an evil skeleton.]

Uhm, I'm Luke Triton. What's your name, sir?

[Voice]

[crowsong]

You're on a planet called Fortuna. City's called Discedo.

Unless your Professor's in cahoots with the scientists who run this place, you're a lab rat like the rest of us.

[video]

[tapdancinskelly]

My name is Brooke, Brooke the bard! At your service. I also have been known as Dead Bones Brooke, that damned pervert skeleton, and the artist formerly known as Soulking. Yohohoho!

[Have a little bit of a tip of the hat.]

[abstruse]

((...))

Clive... I takes this means you don't remember me?

[tapshoetomove]

I don't know any-

[He takes a deep breath and tries to calm himself down. He wasn't going to get anywhere by lashing out at every person that talked to him, and he still ought to try and be a gentleman even if this place was scary.]

...I'm sorry, sir. I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I don't think we've met before.

[video]

[justicereigns]

Yes.

Fortuna. It's a different world.