track 7 | video;

[bassriff]

[The ID attached is Marceline Abadeer, which isn't that unusual for Marceline these days. It's the rest of it that is. Her hair's a ragged mess, vaguely tamed by two loose pigtails on each side, instead of her recent choice of a bob. More glaring is the absence of the puncture scars on her neck. She's looking... confused, and more than a little agitated, dressed basically in rags.

Judging from a disassembled chair and some finished products beside her, she's been carving wooden stakes. The work keeps her steady. She's had enough time to take an appraisal of her apartment, and realize she had vampire weaknesses now on top of their powers. Which was...worrying, but didn't mean anything, probably. She'd never been bitten!! She wasn't one of them. So she decided to sort that mess out later.

Whatever, there's a dog here who already loves her and he's adorable and that's helping. Marceline scritches behind Ozzy's ears while she talks.]

Yeah, whoever's pulling this? Real nice, hilarious. I've got things to do, man, the humans-- [Deep breath.] I mean, this is fake, right? Come on, the world's gone. And it was never like this! God, how stupid do you think I am?

[She mutters the next part.]

Might be Empress? But - no, I staked her already... just the big guy now.

[She doesn't remember much of anything; there's no benefit of post-imPort explanations for this girl. Marceline shakes her head, ending the video almost as an afterthought. She doesn't even know who she's expecting to reach with this thing, it's a shout into the wind.]

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[totty]

[Did this girl just show up? Todomatsu could swear he's seen her somewhere around before, but, he isn't sure.

...Also he isn't one to be on the welcome wagon, but not even he is too dry a monster to ignore a girl in rags asking for help. (Which isn't what she's doing, but fuck him, apparently.)]

Well... Nothing about this is fake. Did you just get ported in, baby?

[That last 'baby' sounds a little strange, almost like it's said with an accent. In English. Deliberately.]

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[bassriff]

[What.] I don't know what you're talking about, okay? One second I'm on a ship, next - pow - I'm in this apartment. [She's... not going to dwell on the clear markers that she's apparently been living here for a while, somehow. Nothing about this makes any sense.]

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[totty]

Oh.

[Well, that's not how that usually works.]

Nobody gave you a folder? You just-- showed up there?

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[bassriff]

Like I said - ship by the coast, apartment in some messed-up city. Nothing in-between.

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[monge]

[A strange, angry girl in ragged clothing talking about who knows what.

She must know what she's talking about.]

MOOOONGEEEE!! T-The world is gone, zura?! The whole world, zura?!

[Then...where is he right now? Are they in space? Why is space just like his house?! Why did NASA lie to him?]

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[bassriff]

Ohmygod, it's - [OH GOD SHE HAS UPSET THIS STRANGE ADORABLE PUPPY CREATURE HASN'T SHE WHAT DOES SHE DO]

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[monge]

[Who even knows what to do with him anymore.]

Q-Quick, we need to start saving all the air before it's too late, zura!

[And although the feed is shaky from all his sudden running around, Komasan can be seen grabbing an empty shoe box that's just lying about in the room, and starts...miming like he's throwing stuff in there.

But as far as Komasan's concerned, that's not miming.

He's throwing the air in.]

[Video]

[bassriff]

Hey, heyheyhey, easy, little guy!

[KOMASAN THIS IS ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE]

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[glitterateur]

[Hooo boy. Why did everyone else get to go backwards, huh.]

You're in another dimension! That's why everything's, uhhh.... really different?

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[bassriff]

[Without even a trace of recognition:] What, like the Nightosphere? [guess who has no concept whatsoever of the multiverse.]

[glitterateur]

...kinda! [The heck is a Nightosphere.] It's a little hard to explain but mostly you just need to know that this isn't your home and it's not supposed to be! Nobody's trying to trick you I promise.

[bassriff]

... All right.

[Still eyeing the screen a little warily, but... who knows, maybe she can trust this kid. She's got a feeling.]

So what is going on?

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[unwiseheart]

Not gone, only a different one. As confusing as that is...

[ The reply comes from a faintly grizzled man, hair and beard beginning to go gray. He's wearing a big green scarf, some light material, and the rest is some tan uniform-like get-up, if lacking any real distinguishing marks.

Anyway, it was mostly the stakes that drew his attention, but there's no reason not to address the rest. ]

Planning on putting down stakes somewhere? You're making an awful lot of them.

[ Like... in a bunch of undead, maybe? ]

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[bassriff]

[Hm. Before she gets a chance to respond to the first part, he goes on.]

Maybe. You know a good place? [Sssssure she'll go along with the badly coded conversation, why not.]

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[unwiseheart]

Here? No. Not really. As far as I can tell, places like that just may not exist here.

[ Poorly coded because he honestly doesn't care that much anymore. If someone else picks up on it, eh... ]

Without someone from elsewhere making them, anyhow. I think I remember something like that, but it may not be true.

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[bassriff]

Hah! Must be nice. [she couldn't possibly care less, she's just avoiding coming out and saying it]

You think we should find out?

[hardcorduroy]

... whoa. (wendy is actually quite impressed with her attire. that's some straight up apocalypse clothing right there.) Dude, I might need to step up my game in apocalypse clothing, yours are pretty cool, Marcy.

[bassriff]

[WHOA NO WAIT BACK UP]

Uh. Do I know you, dude?

[hardcorduroy]

Kinda? We met like a month ago when I first got here. Dipper and Mabel idolize us for some reason? Ax bros? (she waves one of her own.)

[bassriff]

[Well, she's got her ax, but--]

I've been here maybe a few hours. What are you talking about? [She's seen the evidence that she's been living here for a while, but nothing about it makes any sense to her, so she's choosing to ignore it.]

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[booyahh]

You really nee to hit a mall stat. I mean I know number one priority is figuring out the weird new dimension you're in, but that should be priority 2.

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[bassriff]

First time for everything... [sigh.]

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[valuemeal]

[ It's the stakes that draw Hyunsoo's attention more than anything else, honestly.. but it's enough for him to reply to the video. ]

Hey, why are you going around acting like this is all so weird when you're the one keeping those stakes with you like some weird kind of vampire hunter?

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[bassriff]

Who says I'm not?

[valuemeal]

... so you are?

[ Hyunsoo sucks at hiding his emotions, so even now - it's easy to see the idea surprises him. Almost closer to downright startling him, in fact. ]