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... ]

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[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[He's sort of lurking around near the entrance, seeming a little nervous. He's never been to a festival before. It makes him think of his friends back home, and he wishes they were here to enjoy this with him. It seems like something he should be doing with them.]

[fakespeech.insanejournal.com]

Hello.

[The voice might be similar to that being, but by appearance it looked almost nothing like Ecolo. This person looks almost completely normal.]

Who are you going with in the festival?

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[He's a little surprised by this person's sudden appearance. The voice makes him nervous, but Philip isn't one to pass judgement too quickly on someone he doesn't know, and he knows he has backup somewhere if he needs it, even if this is Ecolo.]

...Ah.. I.. I don't know. The people I'd normally go to something like this with aren't here.

[fakespeech.insanejournal.com]

[It was him yes, he decided to twist the game further by making a false confidence.]

Is that so? That's a bit of a pity, I think people wouldn't mind company though.

[He innocently tilted his head.] Are you alright, though?

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

I generally prefer not to be alone. I'm too used to someone else being around.

I'm all right. I just haven't felt well for the past day or so.

[fakespeech.insanejournal.com]

Really? I hope it's nothing serious or anything.

But why don't we go to the festival together? I heard you need to be with a partner to get in the festival, and I'm always up to make new friends. I'm Ringo by the way, nice to meet you!

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

It'll be fine. My body's rhythm is just a bit thrown off due to an.. accident. But with a little time I should be back to normal.

All right. I've never been to a festival before, so I would hate to miss out.

My name is Philip. It's nice to meet you too.

[fakespeech.insanejournal.com]

Philip, huh? That's a nice name. Well, then let's get going and see what's to do.

And don't worry, it's my first time too, so we can try a lot of stuff.

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

It wasn't my original name, but I've grown rather fond of it while it's been mine.

That sounds... fun.

[He offers his hand. He's still a little suspicious, but really, he figures this can turn out any worse than Wakana.]

[fakespeech.insanejournal.com]

[And he childishly shook it with his own hand before dragging Philip in to the festival.

He curiously look at everything, from the booths, to the decorations. It was something all new for the strange being.]

How curious~

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[It was all completely new to Philip as well, but there is one thing he knows about festivals... He's very very set on finding one particular thing.

There seem to be a multitude of cultures represented here, and he sees a lot of Japanese food stands as he passes, but he seems very very set on whatever it is he's looking for.]

[fakespeech.insanejournal.com]

[And it seems like it caught to 'Ringo's curiosity]

What're you looking for?

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[Philip is about to respond when he spots it, veering off the main path to one of the food stalls and ordering several variations of takoyaki. He looks back to Ringo with a large smile, seeming very proud of himself for finding it.]

I read about this once! My friend told me about it and I dropped what I was doing to find out more! It sounds really good. Do you want some too? We can share it.

[Any paranoid he might have had seems to have been put aside for the sake of some long forgotten research coming full circle. He wished that Akiko was here to have some too, since she was the one who had introduced him to it back when she had first arrived.]

[coluan.insanejournal.com]

[Puttering nearby would be Querla, analyzing her surroundings with a remote-shaped device with a tall antenna that twitches left and right.]

...believe this.

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

[Well now he's forgotten about the festival and is curious about the device she's carrying. He's just the right combination of friendly and socially inept to just walk over to her as if she weren't a complete stranger.]

..What is that?

[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.

[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.]

[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?

[riderpedia.insanejournal.com]

Personally I'm not fond of it either, but with what I've gathered there's definitely something outside of the realm of the science I'm used to
going on here. And given that we've got snow in Bermuda I'm willing to run with the theory for the time being, since it coincides with what little information I've been able to gain access to.

I can try. As I've said, Lady Eureka has, somehow, managed to limit my access to the Planetary Bookshelves. So my information on her and what she can do, as well as this place, is fairly limited. But I'm working as fast as I can with the help of some others.

But provided with proper Keywords, I can give whatever information I can access.