HAPPY NEW YEAR'S AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS

[trollingismagic.insanejournal.com]

[ Best wishes from Bermuda Isle!



A number of booths have sprung up near the shoreline, enticing you to don yourself in the colorful festive garb of a true Bermuda native! Unwind from your day and come out to see what's offered. ♥ There are all sorts of delicious foods and snacks, and plenty of souvenirs. It's time to ring in the New Year of 2012! Lanterns have been strung up, and the snow seems to have stopped. In fact, no snow is to be seen near the site of the festival itself. Oddly, the booths are all run by strange black goatlike creatures in finely tailored suits...

The catch is, unless you sneak in, you have to come with a friend or a date! So find someone to go in with you! ♥ You may even catch a glimpse of Eureka as she wanders the festival... ]

Comments

[outlaw_ice.insanejournal.com]

Just different? Not fun? Not new, not exciting?

Your memory can't be that fuzzy.

[elgallantry.insanejournal.com]

Different can... mean fun! And new.

It's simply a matter of personal circumstances. My senior co-worker has mercifully refrained on commenting about the entire ordeal.

[outlaw_ice.insanejournal.com]

So what are your thoughts on the "circumstances"?

[Did she put strange emphasis on the second syllable of that last word or was that Elgala's imagination?]

[elgallantry.insanejournal.com]

[ El is a spy- she catches Hilda's drift very clearly. ]

... Ahem. Shall we continue our discussion inside? They will allow us in twos, it seems.

[outlaw_ice.insanejournal.com]

Are you asking me out?

And here I didn't even get a phone call.

[Hilda smirks.]

[elgallantry.insanejournal.com]

[ WELL YES AHEM QUITE SO LET US, AH, GO THIS WAY. ]

You are quite a persistent young woman.

I, Elgala, suppose that makes sense for a space captain.

[outlaw_ice.insanejournal.com]

You've yet to give me a reason not to be persistent.

[404_knight.insanejournal.com]

[ROBOT.]

[be_as_one.insanejournal.com]

What sort of music is that?

I've never heard anything like it!

[mamaisguilty.insanejournal.com]

Miss will help Maria find Mama? Uu?

[coluan.insanejournal.com]

[Querla's left foot moves quickly in surprise, and Querla lifts her head from looking at whatever it is her device had been scanning over, and turns her head over her shoulder to look at whoever it is daring to interrupt her work.

Oh, a person. What is with that dopey look? Bah!

Querla frowns.]

A scanner.

[lovelyguitar.insanejournal.com]

Huh?

You haven't...?

I really should have a concert, then!

[Ellen pushes the goat aside and approaches Ieyasu]

[notchristina.insanejournal.com]

[She's not convinced.]

Not you again...

[be_as_one.insanejournal.com]

It's true, I don't think I've seen an instrument shaped quite like that either.

It's like a large shamisen, but sounds much more pleasant.

[soulpaths.insanejournal.com]

Can't imagine them having anything that interesting to say, though...

[They are goats after all, they might just have...you know, goat thoughts or manner of speech.]

[havealuckyday.insanejournal.com]

Sure. You can call me Rio, okay?

We'll go find your mother together.

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[He tilts his head to one side a bit, seeming to think this over.]

Well that's rather vague... I suppose it's a biological scanner. Unless it's a mineral scanner, though really I can't see much of a practical purpose for either other than identifying the region by the plant life or sediment.

And if it were just a case of figuring out where you are it would probably be easier to just ask.

[Oh. He's smarter than he looks. though the fact that he's got a large leather-bound book tucked under one arm might add to that.]

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

Sounds good.

[She sits down and spreads the food out on the table so they can just take whatever they want.]

[coluan.insanejournal.com]

[Querla is a little surprised--just a little--at this young man's moment of intelligence. Or perhaps he is intelligent and Querla should really heed Saturn Girl's warnings about "judging a book by its cover" and see past all this preconceived notions of "judgement"...

Nah.]

If you must know... [She closes her eyes and begins with her imperious, Brainiac tone.] ...my scanner tells me far more than someone else can. It scans right down to the molecular levels and subatomic particles. It will tell me what intent lies within this place, and give me a precise reading of what dangers I could encounter.

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[He doesn't seem all that impressed. He takes the book from under his arm and starts flipping through pages -- pages that are completely blank. Yet his eyes scan over them as if there were in fact something there to read.]

Then you already know we're being held captive by the Witch of Opportunity at latitude-longitude roughly 32° 20'N, 64° 45'W, in the center of the Bermuda Triangle, and that we're nowhere near the proper climate for all of this snow.

[coluan.insanejournal.com]

[There's a brief pause of tension in the air where Querla just stares straight with a blank expression at the man. Her scanner makes high-pitched noises that interrupt the atmosphere, and Querla looks to it, a tiny bit thankful for the device's intrusion.] Ah. It is complete. [She looks over the Interlac-coded readings and looks down the numbers.

Then her shoulders freeze.]

This is not possible...

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

There are many things that seem like they aren't possible.

[He flips a page in the book, pausing and frowning at some bold, handwritten kanji on a page int he middle of the book before turning the page again.]

But to discount the possibility of anything causes very drastic limitations and in a situation like this that can be incredibly hazardous.

[coluan.insanejournal.com]

[Querla turns sharply towards Philip, frowning.] That may be so for you and many others, but I am a creature of logic and reason. And logically, where I am standing right now, should not even exist. [She moves over her scanner, glaring at the bright numbers atop the screen.] These readings are far too disorganized in their places. The sensors are far too high from their points of origin. It is not natural.

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain I already mentioned that this place is governed by a witch. Once you start factoring in magic and the supernatural into an equation, using standard logic and rationality will only cause frustration.

Unfortunately getting information that is painfully slow since she seems to have blocked an extensive amount of my access to this world's bookshelves.

[He pauses, remembering back to when he was able to actually unlock a few entries.]

...Though with proper keywords, I seem to be able to trump her access...

If that "scanner" of yours can raise the right questions, I may be able to get answers.

[coluan.insanejournal.com]

Excuse me? [Querla scowls.] There is no such thing as magic. There is only irrational, illogical happenstance that forms in the guise of magosh, which, by the way, were mostly used to terrorize and torture ill-minded people in the ancient days.

[Her face flushes dark green. Oh how Querla hates magic. The very word irritates her. Almost as much as a cockroach!]

But.. [She looks Philip up in down.] You seem to be a man of rationality. Can you really answer my questions?