Issue # 001 - SUDDENLY! A Wild Thing Appears! [Action]

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Falling dreams are normal. You lock up with a start in your bed whenever you hit the ground, blink up at the ceiling before rolling over and going back to bed. Or you wake up mid fall, hit the carpet, groan, then climb back in to fall asleep again. Or try to. They're universal. If you can fall or fly or know of the concept- you can have a falling dream.

Ben Grimm has flying dreams, most often. Not the ones where you sail along in the middle of nowhere in nothing but your pajamas- flight dreams of controls and cockpits and the thrill of the test. Pushing a carefully crafted machine to the limit and then some. Twisting mid air and hitting the highest peak before plummeting down with all the weight of gravity wrapping around his gut and giving it a solid yank. That's his kind of falling dream.

Normally when he has them, he wakes up when he hits the ground.

Waking up mid fall is odd.

Waking up literally mid-air?

A revolt'n development.

He can't see or hear past the rush of wind, can't really get a good look at the ground beyond an impression of trees, houses, water way out over to the side. No sign of Reed, Sue, or Johnny. Nowhere soft to land either.

"Aw $%#@%!"

The landing's rough. He's had rougher, but he thinks he skips a few times. Barrels through a few trees. Clips a building, glances off a roof somewhere. Lands in...he has no idea. But the wall shears open like tissue paper and he finally rumbles to a stop, swearing in a low, gravely voice.

"...hate when that happens."


[ooc: Break time if you like, Ben can land anywhere and everywhere- in your home, in front of your place of business, in the fountain. Find him wherever you want! Break time!]

Comments

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Good, I'm a taken man as it is. Glad I don't have ta let ya down gentle.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

For a minute I think about Susan and the situation waiting for me back home.

And the grin fades.

"In seriousness, there's a few things you need to know. First off, you're not in your own reality right now, you're in sort of a pocket reality. Most of us came from different versions of Earth. Second off... you may run into people you recognize. As in, from movies. Luke Skywalker, among others."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

...getouttahere. No way.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Way. Believe me, it freaked me the hell out too."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Look Slim, Reed an'I have been hopping from dimension to dimension f'years. Never found a Luke Skywalker. Not for lacka try'n.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Hey, man, you don't have to believe me. Just remember when you see him around, I did warn you. He has R2-D2 with him."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

...man. What Reed or Franklin would give t'meet R2. They'd both freak, inna good way.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Long as Reed didn't attack me when he showed up? I'd be fine with it."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Stretch's the last guy that'd wake up swing'n, slim. That's my job.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"You were nicer about it than Sue. She decided I was the one who captured her."

I chuckled.

"She didn't even have the excuse of crashing through the roof first."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Suzie can get like that, yeah. She's been through a lot lately-

[Wait.]

How long has she been here?

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"... about... three months, now?"

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Th'#$%!? I saw her last night. No way she's been here that long.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Time works kinda screwy here. People show up from different points in time, people show up from the same moment in time but months apart... hell, I arrived a week before my apprentice from a point in time just a day earlier. Whenever you arrive, and whenever you leave, you always land at the same moment you came from with no memory of being here, so it's like you never left."

Re: [Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

...timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly bull$#*%.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

That rang a bell. I think Molly had said something about it.

A more modern reference, I guess.

"... Pretty much."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Keep'n that stuff straight is Reed's job. I can't think about it without gett'n a headache.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Hell, where I come from there's a Law against screwing with or searching too hard through time with magic."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Ain't magic that Reed works with, Slim. It's science. Same science made me Blackbeard f'awhile.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Oh, I know. I'm a fan, I told you. I just meant that it's as much of a headache for me as it is for you, really."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Y'want an autograph or somth'n? [He pats himself down for a pen, finds none, then shrugs.] It's never somth'n easy t'keep straight.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

... Actually, Ben Grimm's autograph could have some pretty potent applications for a potion ingredient.

But, no. I have my dignity.

Sort of.

"Yeah, well, it's something you kinda get used to, here. Honestly, the timeline weirdness isn't half as bad as the damn reality shifts."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Feel free t'start explain'n that whenever you like. Cuz that? That sounds sorta important. And worry'n.

[Action]

[quicktoanger]

"Oh, jeez, I didn't tell you about that? Yeah, remember how I said this planet randomly screws with reality? Well, our gracious hosts, a happy bunch of asshole mad scientists called the Malnosso, have figured out a way to control it. So they do experiments.

They built this whole enclosure, actually. Grabbed us on the way in."

[Action]

[revoltndevelopment]

Lemme guess. Try'n t'find either one, a way home, two, the cure t'some disease, or three, immortality. S'always one of those three.