Investigation 1

[afterthesky]

[Action for 2238 Stevens Road]

Sarah Jane wakes up rather confused. This wasn't where she was when she woke up. Had she been teleported?

She looks around the house, trying to work out where she is. She quickly comes across the family pictures.]

That's not Luke... is this the Trickster's doing?

[Open action]

[Later in the day, Sarah Jane is continuing her investigations. You might find her:

A. In the shopping district, trying to find a decent newspaper.

B. In the street, patiently explaining to a drone that her name is most certainly not "Mrs. Black".

C. At the library, growing distressed at how much information there isn't.]

Comments

Re: B!

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

[Notes the acknowledgement of something being off. Probably not the Trickster then.]

It seems I am.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

"The short of it is, you've been kidnapped. A lot of us have. Some have been here longer than others.

The long of it is a bit harder to explain."

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

[Sarah Jane raises an eyebrow. She had figured out that much]

I'm a bit curious about the long bit.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty bad with explaining it, though one of the other kidnapped people here wrote up something to help out."

[[Pulls a little pamphlet (http://buildstherobots.livejournal.com/12857.html#cutid1) from his pocket, handing it over to her.]]

"I can answer some questions, though I've only been here a bit over a month."

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

[Sarah Jane looks over the pamphlet with great interest. Information, sparse as it might be!]

So it's interdimensional, then.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

[[It takes him a moment.]]

"Yes. I think. It's weird."

[[She seemed to have an idea though and it might be reasonable.]]

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

This doesn't quite line up with the 1950s where I'm from, so it seems likely. Interdimensional... isn't quite impossible.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

"I guess not, I mean this place does a lot of impossible things.

The roads kinda work like a pacman game.

So... this sort of thing happens sometimes where you come from?"

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

More often than most people realize. The trick is knowing where to look.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

"I guess that makes sense."

[[Actually, it made a lot of sense to this kid. But first things first.]]

"I should probably mention the rules they didn't put in that pamphlet."

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

The rules?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

"The town has some things they make you do. You have to go home every so often, you have to go to work and you have to go to school... well you might not have to but the kids here do.

If you don't you supposedly get temporarily, or permanently, brain washed. I've never really tested that, I don't think I want to."

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

[Brain washing. It's been a long time since that had happened to her. She can't say she's missed it.]

So basically... keeping up appearances?

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, something like that.

It's tough but I've managed so far, I think it can be done.

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

And I'm guessing the employment options are... rather limited? I haven't been able to find a decent newspaper here.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

I think you might already have a job. They kind of just call you up with a warning that you missed a day or two first. I hear it's just if you keep skipping, they do the brain washing.

[after-thesky.livejournal.com]

That sounds in keeping with the way the... drones, you said? seem to think I've always been here.

[pants-yourmove.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I guess it's self policing that way.

They were all probably people like us. And now they work for the town.