one. choose your own adventure.

[macdaddy]

[ a. action inside 2239 Stevens Road ]

[Mac wakes up. Mac is wearing pajamas that he's never seen before in a room he's also never seen before.

He very carefully gets up, walks calmly to his bedroom door, and glances out into the hallway. Nope, he is definitely not in his apartment or at Foster's. He shuts the door again, digs around until he finds some clothes (that he's also never seen before, what does whoever lives here have against cargo?), gets dressed, opens his bedroom door again...

And starts to scream.]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHAHA! [Yep, he's opening doors and slamming them shut at random, running up and down the hallway like, well, a panicked kid. How appropriate!

In the midst of his screaming and opening/shutting doors, he can be heard shouting the following as well:]

Where's my mom? Where's my brother?! What's happening?? Where am I?!?

[ b. phone (open) ]

Okay. Okay. Not panicking. Ahhhhh. Why won't my number work. Why won't my mom's cell work. It's okay, Mac, pull it together...You're done panicking...

[He kind of wheezes into the phone. He has no idea who he's actually talking to.]

[ c. action on the mean clean streets (also open) ]

[Nothing to see here, just a morose and somewhat twitchy kid walking to school. His not!mom told him he had to go, and gave him a bookbag to carry with him that he hates purely on virtue of it not being his tried and true backpack, which he also couldn't find this morning. But he is basically done with panicking for now, at least.]

Comments

[macdaddy]

Oh, one of those. Mac sighs.

"Yeah, you totally caught me. I'm freaking out, happy?"

[originalnumber]

"It would make it easier to receive help if you were honest, would it not?" Ever the blunt one...

In any case. "...You're new here, correct? To 'Mayfield'."

[macdaddy]

This time when Mac sighs it's more of a groan. But he'll deal.

"Yeah, I'm new."

[originalnumber]

"Ahhhh..." He nods. "Then the reaction is understandable... Is there anyone in your home in a similar situation? Someone from outside the city?" Because...

If not, then it seems there is much to explain (also, poor you..!).

[macdaddy]

"Uh, there's Madame Foster, but she doesn't know how to get out of here..."

[originalnumber]

"No one knows how to leave Mayfield from what I have learned thus far- however, if there is someone in a similar situation in the same house you have been 'given', the situation will quite likely be far easier to work through."

[macdaddy]

"Yeah, that makes sense, I guess."

He shrugs, and then gets on to what he's been meaning to ask since Astral started talking to him!

"Hey, is your kid around anywhere?"

[originalnumber]

"...My 'kid'?" He'll just stare a moment.

"...Exactly... What are you referring to?" Because there are two possible definitions, and both of the ones coming to mind are confusing him horribly...

[macdaddy]

"You know, the kid who created you?" Mac will be patient for now, a lot of imaginary friends are like little kids so he's used to working information out of them piece by piece.

[originalnumber]

"Ah... You are mistaken. I was not created by a human child... In fact, I do not originate from the human plane."

...You originate from the imaginary one then..?

[macdaddy]

"Ooooookay then."

Watch Astral try and explain things. :|a

[originalnumber]

"mmm... Perhaps I should explain." Since you don't seem to believe him.

You have that kind of tone.

"Not everyone who has been taken to this city comes from the same location- you come from yours, and I come from mine; the laws of nature do not apply in the same way between these worlds in many cases."

watch Mac get lost in the middle :V

[macdaddy]

"So...you're trying to tell me that we all come from alternate dimensions or something."

Right on the dot. :0

[originalnumber]

"Exactly."

And out of curiosity. "...Why would I have been 'created' by a child in your world?"

hehe a lucky guess

[macdaddy]

Mac is pretty clearly dubious about how serious Astral is.

"Because it's usually kids that create imaginary friends?"

If Yuuma was in Foster's world, Astral would totally be an imaginary friend. <3

[originalnumber]

"Ah- Then, you thought I was an imaginary being of sorts."

Well.

"I suppose that makes sense, now that you've said it." After all, there's only one of him, and Yuuma's friends initially thought he WAS a figment of the boy's imagination.

[macdaddy]

"Aren't you?..."

[originalnumber]

EH?

"Of course not. As I stated- I am not even from the human plane. Ordinarily in fact, I would not be visible to all but three others." ...So far.

[macdaddy]

Mac just favors Astral with an incredibly unimpressed look. He does not think your claims are legitimate, sir!

Astral this doesn't sound like it'll work.

[originalnumber]

"mmm... Perhaps if I offered another example. ...Have you heard of 'duel monsters'?"

hehehehehe

[macdaddy]

"Uh...no. Sorry."

I think I hurt my brain. :U

[originalnumber]

"No- don't apologize. It's expected- Duel Monsters is exclusive to the 'world' I and few others are from you see," he explains. "It is a card game originating in the 'USA'- and has been around for many years. That you are unaware of its existence is further proof that we are from different realms."

[macdaddy]

"So you play it with your kid a lot?"

Yeah, Mac is still pretty sure Astral is an imaginary friend.

-finally gets to use this icon- yyyyyuuuusssssss~

[originalnumber]

Hahhhh...

"He is not 'my kid'... And in fact, while few, I do have memories of a time before I even met Yuuma. There were no humans in sight."

o/

[macdaddy]

"Sure, okay."