050; time travel

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

You know. I don't like time travel.


Or I think I don't like it. I haven't really experianced real time travel, but I was in my future once, and it wasn't fun. I expect time travel to be something like that.

And it's absurd thinking time is linear. Flowing only one way and all the moments that already happened totally obliterated. Absolutely absurd.

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[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Nothing you want to meet. Ever.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

So, pretty much in the same category as the Black Shadows back home. Obviously, they're part of one of the two things to avoid in life.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Never met a Black Shadow, but yeah. More or less.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

Black Shadows are things from back home. Shadows are normally harmless, yeah? But then turn them into a sort of solid, almost sentient entity.

Being touched by one is instant death. No hope of survival. They turn you into a very brittle type of stone, and you just collapse under your own weight. Lost me juggler and me fiddler to them, too.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

So a bit like the Nestene Consciousness then? That was living plastic, though less of the 'instant death' and more 'attacks with shop-window dummies.'

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

No idea about that Nestene Consciousness bit, but similar?

... Shop window dummies. Somehow, I'm not even remotely frightened. "Oh no, we must run slightly faster to escape the movements of a mannequin not designed for such, oh, the horror!"

Sort of like running from mummies. I never understood that. They're mummies. The only people in danger from mummies are really old people. Otherwise, all you have to do is walk faster.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Well, not unarmed shop window dummies. That'd just be silly.

Nevermind the fact that most mummies don't come back to life in the first place.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

Hm. Okay, yeah, then I think I might start running for me life. Unarmed and armed are completely different territories.

Agreed. Utter piffle is what it is. There's a few books on mummies going after people back home, fiction and all, but it's rediculous!

Then again, we did have zombies a month or so ago.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

My point exactly. It wasn't all shop dummies. It was everything plastic. Those just happened to be especially violent.

So I've heard. I missed it by only a few days. A bit disappointed about it, really.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

No, no, be glad you weren't there. They chanted non-stop in some other language. [sound of many flipped pages] Something like 'et toy a matar'. Doesn't matter. They drove me half mad. Had nightmares, and I don't dream!

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Huh. Doesn't sound familiar, which is weird. But I guess with all the various universes being compiled here there's bound to be a language I don't speak.

You don't dream?

[ooc: If only he knew it was mangled Spanish. xD]

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

Nope. Only started having any since I came here. One was just... darkness and a feeling of dread, and the other was... voices or something. Of course, the first one could be me just staring at me eyelids, and the other could be me having left me journal open and people blathering away in it.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

...think I might've had that second one, actually. But the words were all jumbled.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

... Same here. Did the voice sound almost familiar to you, too?

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

It did. Almost like-- [non-sensical string of gibberish] er, I could've sworn that wasn't what I meant to write.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn [wild set of gibberish, shapes, dots, and just wild pen scrapes].

Hey! [another set of gibberish] and [again]

...

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

Hopping in!

That's odd, so have I.

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Not a good sign.

Something's up.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

[drawn arrow to Valentine and Nine's gibberish]

Oh, definitely. I don't like this a bit.

Two people, yeah, coincidence, but three? That's just... no.

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

For certain. That is odd.

Though I was hearing something more like... [lots of gibberish! and some squigglies as well]

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

No, no, it's [gibberish, gibberish, something that looks like a camel]

...

[frustrated sigh] This isn't working.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

How can you even tell if it's [gibberish and a Q wearing a party hat] or if it isn't [same exact gibberish, but lacking the party hat wearing Q]?

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Very no. And every time I try to-- [giant blotch and funny shapes] Well, that happens. I don't think it wants us to talk about it.

[maskemotion.livejournal.com]

You know what you're trying to write, yeah? Maybe it's writing...

[dicated]

"Its [it's almost as if he's speaking another language. It's jumbled sounds and things that sound nothing like words]!

GAH!"

[fantasticninth.livejournal.com]

Yes! Which aren't words!