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[itssymbolic]

[Action - Peepers Street in front of his house]

[There's a guy stumbling out of 436, looking shocked and confused and soaking wet. He coughs a few times, doubled over on the sidewalk, his body rather obviously trying not to choke. How'd he get so wet? Who the hell knows.

Maybe you should go and ask him why he's making a puddle in the middle of the street if you're so curious.]

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[echidna]

[ What the...

Jade approaches, concerned but cautious! Just in case he's crazy. ]

Hey, are you okay?

[itssymbolic]

[Jade run, he's very crazy :|]

No, I should be... Where am I? Am I dead? [He sounds strangely hopeful about that question.]

[echoing_sutras]

-It certainly gets Kyouko's attention, on her way back home from school-

Are you okay, mister?

[itssymbolic]

[He does what he can to wring out his hair so he looks marginally less cray.]

No. [But you are a child and he doesn't want to get into that with you Kyouko :|]

Have you seen my wife anywhere?

[echoing_sutras]

Um... Real wife or Mayfield wife?

Did you wake up in a bathtub?

[itssymbolic]

May... Field...? This isn't Silent Hill?

[echoing_sutras]

Nope! Wherever you were before, you're not there now.

[soveryhuman]

Oh, god. [ ...so this is the neighbor. Good to know. This seems to be cause for concern, so Rory will approach and hover a hand awkwardly in case touching is a bad idea.

God, Mayfield, drowning people in their own houses, what next ]

Are you all right?

[itssymbolic]

Am I...? I shouldn't be all right. I should be-

I guess I'm fine, just kind of lost. [He definitely has the dazed-and-confused look associated with people who are more than kind of lost at least.]

[soveryhuman]

Happens to everyone here. Do you know where you are?

[itssymbolic]

Not Silent Hill for starters. There's no fog or any of those weird things... How did we get here? I don't remember leaving.

[soveryhuman]

Silent Hill? No, definitely not there. This is Mayfield, and we're... still working on how any of us got here, actually.

[webball]

[Boy. You start to lose your appetite REAL FAST if you're walking down the street with a burger and see someone shuddering and nearly-retching in the middle of the street.]

Yeahhh, I'm just gonna... cross over here, out of range, while I ask you what's wrong and hope it's not contagious.

[itssymbolic]

I hope it's not either. [Yeah, drowning being contagious would be basically the worst, and even James and his fucked up brain recognizes that.]

I didn't even know they had a burger place around here. I figured pizza was the only edible thing in this town... [Or at least the town James still thinks he's in.]

[webball]

You kiddin'? The 50's practically INVENTED the burger joint.

Wait, maybe they... they DID, actually. Doy.

You, uh... all right now?

[itssymbolic]

No I'm not alright! [He looks angry for a few seconds before going back to his more docile attitude]

I mean... I shouldn't be here. At all. I should be back there and I need to get back to Silent Hill before anything else happens.

[webball]

What's the big rush to get back? Sounds boring. Wouldn't you rather travel to lovely Noisy Hill? Or scenic Boisterois Valley, fun for the whole family?

[noluckduck]

[This probably isn't the weirdest thing Clover has seen when wandering around, but it's still pretty damn weird.]

Ya drunk, dude?

[itssymbolic]

[He coughs a few more times before looking up at her]

Drowned. At least I should have been... What's going on around here?

[noluckduck]

... Well, good news is I don't think you're in any risk of drownin' now.

[itssymbolic]

Yeah... Is that how I got here? Is this hell? [And yet, it's kinda an improvement over Silent Hill, go figure]

[jumpsinline]

[ Yoshika follows him out of the door about a minute later. ] Hey! Waiiit!

[itssymbolic]

[He coughs a few times before looking up at the crazy lady who chased him out of his house]

What?

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[jumpsinline]

[ Pointing at the trail of water droplets on the porch. ] That's nooot how you mop! Kyouko showed me so!

[itssymbolic]

[He stares at her.

And stares.

And keeps staring.]

Are you- are you serious? I wasn't trying to mop I was trying to- [...Okay maybe he shouldn't be talking suicide with his new "wife" - might get a bit awkward considering that'll probably lead to the How He Lost His Last One story] I wasn't mopping.