[Morning - 1762 Beaver Street]

[The morning was already off to a bad start when Doofenshmirtz realized that his grind guard was missing. Again. Just like that time he got taken to...

Wait. Mayfield. He remembered, now. He'd spent a few months in a horrible 50s town, hadn't he? With zombies and cannibals and zombie cannibals and B-movie monsters and horrifying vampire ladies and milk. Was he there again? Opening one eye and peering out at the world confirmed it. Yup. Not his bedroom. Not his tower. Not his bed, and not...]

Gah!!!

[Not a real person in the bed with him! Now suddenly very awake, he flings himself out of bed and out of the bedroom and down the hall and down the stairs...]

...okay. Okay, yes, plenty of distance, that's quite enough... ooof.

[Well. Here he was. Somewhere horrible, in someone else's pajamas, and hungry. That last part, he was sure he could fix. Best to start small and let the rest come together after that. First he'd make some breakfast, then he'd get all of the other fiddly details like location sorted out.

Housemates, feel free to catch him in the kitchen making pancakes and bacon, or at any point before that.]

[Phone]

So. I, Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, have been brought back to this terrible place! Apparently they weren't done with me? Ha! I am not done with them! They were kind enough to let me keep some of my things! Kind enough and foolish enough! There will be no delaying or being lazy this time, no no... this town will be feeling my wrath immediately! Ahahahahah!

...oh. Barton? Toni? Gohan? That platypus at my old house? Are any of you still around?

[A - Action]
[Harry awoke in a bed. In a room. What happened to his cupboard? This wasn't even Dudley's room, or his second bedroom. What was going on? So he wandered out, also noting the new pyjamas, and realised he was not in Privet Drive.]

H-Hello? Is anyone there? [He called from the landing before he dared to venture downstairs.]

[B - Phone]
[As Harry ventured downstairs, the phone rang. Seeing no one else around, he answered it.]

Hello?

 [Action: 5721 Cunningham Lane]

[Lili woke up a little dazed but realized she's not in that plane headed for Psychonauts HQ. This place looks familiar and not in a good way. She looks out her bedroom window and the color drains from her face.]

Not this again...

[Just to be safe, she focuses her mind on the nearby alarm clock. It glows blue before floating via telekinesis. Well, at least she got some of her powers back. She drops the clock on the bed and makes her way downstairs.]

Hello? Anyone here?

[She even goes outside to the yard and looks around.]

This isn't Stevens Road...then where am I?

[Phone]

Hey, has anyone seen Raz or Natalie? This is Lili. Somehow, I'm back and in a totally different house now. I guess whoever brought us here got bored and dragged me back here.

[Action - 1247 Williams. Open to housemates]

When Zidane ‘woke up’, something looked a little wrong in the house. First, his bedroom was actually tidy and his desk seemed to have pile of completed homework on top of it!

Hi, housemates! Zidane is undroned and you will now find him in his room, staring at the calendar, completely mystified.

August....13th? Isn’t it supposed to be August 5th? [Looks at his own writing underneath 13th]

Hang on, who the heck is Tracy Jones? And why does it say I have a date with her? [Man, he did not want to think how Dagger might react to that if she were not a drone]

Phone [After Action]

Um....hey, it’s Zidane here. It looks like I’ve been, uh....’gone’ for a bit. Sorry about that. I’m back to normal now.

So, did anything happen when I was gone that I should know about? Apart from my apparent date that Tracy chick. That wasn’t real, okay?

[ PHONE ]

Oh no. Oh no no no no no. Don't think you can pull this different-country-multiple-worlds thing on me again. And just when I had convinced myself that it had all been some weird daydream! Wake up, Anya, we're not doing this again.

...Yes, there's no way home, I know, they told me last time. That doesn't mean I believe it, nor does it mean I'm going to be any less mad about it.

And just how long has it been, exactly? Because it looked like springtime, but it certainly doesn't look like that now.

[There's a pause, and her voice is quieter when she speaks again.]

...There was a boy. Here. He claimed his father was Emperor of Russia. Is... is he still here?

[ ACTION | 435 Peepers Street ]

[There is an awful lot of door-slamming as Anya proceeds to investigate the contents of every room and cabinet of the house. She pauses in the living room to pick up one of the framed photos off an endtable, frowning. Overly happy children. Her and an unfamiliar brown-haired man.]

Well. They changed the photos. That's something.

[Action A: Outside 1333 Benny. Open to all.]

[Sonic is busy training himself, using his hammock as a makeshift resistance machine. Shadow's droning has only made him much more focused on bettering himself to help people get out when the time to escape this place has come. He's hoping that he'll be able to get his speed back to full power by doing this exercise.]

Ok...ok. A few more reps to go. Then spin dash training.

[Action B: Around town. Also open to all.]

[Sonic is speeding through town, feeling competitive today; a result of his training. He's doing all kinds of tricks to show off as much as possible. If you have a speedster that wants to challenge him, or if you just want to bug him, flag him down!]

( Intro... )

[ A ; 459 Stone Street ; Early Morning ]

[ Seiko looks pensive as she sits at the kitchen table. How long has she been sitting there? Who knows. She hasn't even changed out of her pajamas.

Seiko stays quiet for the most part, with her shoulders hunched over the kitchen table. She appears rather dazed and confused. Her eyes are wide and her arms are crossed over one another. She makes make no attempt to move from her spot at the table, and the only thing she appears to be doing is watching the woman -- the person who claims to be her mom -- making breakfast.

Her eyes show the slightest hint of suspicion every time the woman speaks to her. Seiko never gives her a response, and the woman never pushes for one. ]

[ B; Around Town; Morning ]

[ Seiko is still a daze. There's no school -- apparently they have school here as well -- so she has nothing else to do. Besides, she needs to get out of the house. She needs to go somewhere... anywhere.

Maybe you'll see her along the way? Even though Seiko will smile and greet anyone and everyone, she will seem very unenthused. Shellshock can do that to a girl. Plus there are just too many things on her mind. Especially her arrival here, her best friend Naomi and the burning sensation across her neck that she just can't shrug off.

She will more than likely zone out at some point, with a hand pressed to her neck. Perhaps she will bump into you if she isn't paying close enough attention. ]

[ C; Downtown Mayfield; Afternoon ]

[ Seiko is popular.

Seiko spends the afternoon in Downtown Mayfield, walking from shop to shop. A bunch of teenager drones follow her around like little ducklings, chattering and giggling as you'd expect.

And Seiko... doesn't seem to mind? She actually looks much more cheerful now than she was in the morning. She smiles and chats with the drones, just like she would anyone else. She doesn't make any attempt to break away from them either. In fact, she even stops to wait whenever one drone falls behind her.

Eventually afternoon turns to evening, and the drones take their leave. Seiko waves them off. Once she stops though, her expression changes immediately. The smile dissolves into a pout. Her eyes droop. She shakes her head.

And she'll stand there, staring off into the distance. ]

[ D; Phone ]

So this is how everyone keeps in contact? Is this how phones normally work in America? [ She lets out a rogue giggle. ] Doncha think plenty of people would screw up their calls? I bet someone, at some point, must have let slip something really embarrassing for the whole town to hear! I wonder, I wonder...~

[ There's a pause. Seiko tries to stop herself from snickering. The possibilities... ]

But that's not my point of calling though. I actually wanted to introduce myself to everyone! I'm Seiko Shinohara - err, Stanfield! Just call me Seiko though~ it's nice to meet all of you!

Now I know I'm stuck here, same as you, but there's no point in being miserable! Might as well stay hopeful and make the best of this, am I right? And what better way to do that than make some new friends?

(Summary of the past few weeks: Things have been going gradually downhill for Cade since the carnival and his trip to the other Mayfield. Some of his closest friends here have been droned (and there's no way to even try to avenge them), Cade's high hopes of finally finding a way out have been dashed, and he put it all on the line with Jenny only to be accused of being an unfaithful womanizer.

These past few weeks, Cade has done his best to maintain his cocky facade, still strutting about with his big dumb grin and swagger... but to the observant, it seems a bit more forced than before. (And to any telepaths or empaths in town, Cade's current feelings of loneliness and helplessness seem right-out debilitating. Cade hasn't really hit on any women in town at all, and is always looking for some chance to help someone out with something, anything, so that he can feel useful.)

[A.305 Miller Street]
Cade is up before Jenny this morning, making sure there is coffee ready the way she likes it before pouring himself some cereal. He crunches away at the stuff so loudly that he almost doesn't hear the knock at the front door. When he goes to inspect it, he finds multiple boxes on their porch. Two are labeled, "for Cade Masters": a long slender box and a tiny square box.

He calls upstairs to Jenny, "Hey, we got some more deliveries from the post office!"

[B.Phone - unfiltered]
"Hey everyone, it's my birthday on the 22nd, but most of the people I know have been well... droned. But I'm always up for a little celebrating anyways, so I figured I'd have a little cook-out at my place, free food, free beer, all are welcome! Let me know if you're interested.

ALSO, just curious, does anyone here ever get anything they didn't own back home from the postmaster? I thought we only gained things back we have before, but I got something today I don't remember ever having back home..."

[C.305 Miller Street]
Later in the afternoon, Cade is making a huge racket in the basement. If anyone comes down to investigate after a loud *CRASH*, they will find Cade half buried in a pile of clockwork machinery.

[D.Phone - filtered to Winry Rockbell]
"Hey, Winry, if you can hear this, mind if I bring the stuff for our little project over today? I got all the clockwork and stuff packed up and ready to drive over to whatever house you're living in."

[E. Around Town]
Cade is looking around town for ways to be useful. Carrying too many groceries? Cat stuck in a tree? Car broken down? Cade will be there to help, whether you want it or not!

[F. Your House]
Later in the day, Cade will even be dropping by the houses of friends and neighbors, just to check in.

"Hello? Anyone home?"