thisismylife | Down the Rabbit Hole...

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Down the Rabbit Hole...

Action: Open to anyone who might be in the Battle Dome

[Artemis comes awake with a groan, aching everywhere, laying sprawled on something cold and hard. Metal? She couldn't tell, but it was certainly not where she'd last been. It was dark, the blackness so thick that she could make out nothing around her. She searches her memory, trying to remember what had happened, but her memories were steady and clear through the last battle and up to the team departing for the flight home again. This was not the bio-ship, at least she was pretty sure it wasn't. Who had turned out the lights? Had something gone wrong?]

Miss Martian? Aqualad?

[There was no answer to her mental probe, making her think that wherever she was, M'gann didn't have the team linked up. Maybe they'd crashed? She tried out loud instead.]

Robin? Superboy? Anyone? Hello?

[There's still no answer, so she moves, pushing herself up on her hands and knees, wincing at the way her body protests the movement. The lights come on with a suddenness and a brightness that has her slamming her eyes closed against the piercing glare even as her ears register the sound of movement. And then she's rolling because something's shooting at her and her hand drops to her holster, only to come up empty.

Her bow's gone. Hell, her entire holster is gone, and she is definitely not dressed in her uniform and what the hell happened on the flight back to Happy Harbor??]

Oh you have got to be kidding me.

Video Feed (a short while later)

[Hello, Luceti, have a skeptical blond teenager peering at you.]

So, uh, I'm still not entirely certain that this isn't some epic attempt at a very bad joke but someone told me these things are how people communicate here? Although at the moment, I'm just feeling really ridiculous sitting here talking to a book...

Action: Open to anyone around town

[Artemis has mostly recovered from her harried awakening earlier in the day and after getting a grasp of the basics of the place, she heads into the main part of the village to seek out some real clothes (first stop priority because whoever picked the outfits for this place was not planning for the weather) and steps back out looking a little more like herself. The items shop and weapons shop follow, because she feels a little naked without her bow and she's hoping that might turn up here as well. That accomplished, she'll start hunting for a place to find some food before figuring out what she should do next.]

((OOC: Feel free to bump into her anywhere in town, if you prefer an action thread instead of a video feed. Also feel free to break time in the Battle Dome thread, I don't mind doing more than one thread of people ~~shooting at~~ finding her!))

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[Wow, gunshots already? This simulation kinda started off more exciting than he was expecting it to. But that's okay! Surprises make things interesting. Jason makes his way through the random cityscape to find the source of the noise, which turns out to be exactly what he expects it to be: just some typical thugs. Something about this scenario strikes him as odd, but he doesn't worry about it too much. Whatever it is, he can work with it!

So Jason, a small kid in a somewhat familiar-looking outfit, drops down and makes quick work of the few thugs in the flashiest way possible. He doesn't know Artemis is there, but. Well. It's fun, okay?

He trips up the last one and the guy hits the pavement hard. The gunshots stop, at least for now, though that may not last long.]

Didn't even break a sweat!

[He hadn't quite gotten all the thugs. Mostly because a group of them had found Artemis first, splitting off from the others to corner her in an alley.

...Alright so maybe she'd lured them into the alley, but she had no idea where she was, where her weapons were, or what she was wearing, but at least she could fix one of those problems with these goons closing in. It doesn't take her long to take them down and she doesn't even notice the gunfire has died down elsewhere until the last one in front of her gets off a shot a second before her blow has him crumbling to the pavement. The sound echoes off the bricks as the bullet ricochets and she winces at how it echoes, seeming even louder as a lone shot than it had in a group of them.

Crap, that was going to bring more, wasn't it? This is why she likes arrows.

Still, her choices were limited at the moment, so she bends down to scoop up the pistol one of the thugs had dropped, because it was still better than nothing. She steps out of the alley and pauses, looking around for any landmark that might tell her where she was.

Which is when she spots a matching pile of unconscious thugs in the street outside - the reinforcements? - and a costumed figure standing over them.]

Hey. What's the deal?

[The look of triumph disappears from his face when he notices Artemis and her particularly New Feather-y attire. Normally, he'd have just assumed she was a part of the simulation or something but if she was, why would she be dressed like that?

That's definitely a little weird.]

What do ya mean, "what's the deal?" Who're you?

[Artemis crosses her arms over her chest defensively at the strange look he gives her. Which is entirely unwarranted in her opinion since he's the one running around dressed in that.]

I'm Artemis. Who're you? And where are we? And are you really sure you should be running around like that?

[Man, she seems kinda indignant. He guesses he can't really blame her if she's actually new, though. It's hard enough waking up in Luceti normally, let alone like this.

...he's not sure what she means by that last question, though. He frowns a little.]

I'm Robin, we're in the Battle Dome, and I'm pretty sure I can run around however I want. What, is there something on my cape?

What's a Battle Dome? [Which is the first obvious question, because it sounds like something out of one of Wally's bad movies. As for the rest of it...]

Nice try. I don't know what game you think you're playing, but you could get hurt running around like that. Actual bad guys could show up.

[Wow, okay, he is totally offended. It's because he's short, isn't it?]

I can handle myself just fine against "actual" bad guys, thanks. I don't get to wear this outfit for nothin'. [It was given to him, after all. He'd earned it! Before he can really explain the Battle Dome thing, though...] How did you get here, lady?

[He said that like it was suppose to mean something, but the actual outfit was all wrong so she wasn't sure what point he was trying to make. Besides, if he was going to dress up and run around playing superhero, he was likely to learn better the hard way.]

Fine, but you'd better hope the "actual" Robin doesn't find out. I don't think he'd agree with you.

[At his question, she pointed her thumb over her shoulder at the alley behind her.] Nooo idea. I woke up back there. There's more of your friends in there by the way, but they won't be getting up again anytime soon.

But I know Robin. I mean, he's not Robin anymore, but we even get to work together sometimes. [He assumes she must know Dick, since... well, he doesn't recognize her.] I'm kinda like his successor. The real one.

[He can't help being a little indignant. He's never the "actual" Robin, sigh. Jason leans over a bit to see where she means.]

Some wake-up call, huh? But don't worry, none of this is real anyway. It's a simulation.

What do you mean he's not Robin anymore? [There's a hint of sharpness in her tone, alarm, because what the hell, who was this guy and what had happened while she was out and how long had that been exactly?

She glances around at his explanation, still looking confused. None of this made sense.]

Simulation? Are we in the Cave?

Oh, there's nothing wrong with him. I guess he sorta just outgrew it. He's still superhero-ing, I promise.

[Jason's been here so long that he's used to this place's weirdness and... kind of forgets that not everyone else is! Especially when she actually seems to know what he's talking about. Kinda. He shakes his head.]

No, it's called Luceti. It's complicated, but we're not in Gotham anymore.

Outgrew... Robin?

[She lifts her hand to rub at her temple, because this was not getting any clearer. Complicated was an understatement.]

Maybe you should start at the beginning.

[Man, if only starting at the beginning made it any less weird. There's not really any other way to go about it, though, so...!]

Like I said, it's called Luceti. I know this is gonna sound weird, but it's another world. Something brought us here and now we're trapped.

Something? [For some reason, that was more worrying that someone.] Does anyone know why?

I don't think so. We don't know how, either, it just happens. But apparently, we're better off trapped in this village than outside it. It's supposed to be real dangerous on the outside.

[She looked skeptical at that.] Why? What's on the outside? And who's 'we'?"

There's some kinda war going on outside. And "we" is everyone. There's an entire village full of people who got dragged here from other places, just like we did.

Is that why we were dragged here? [She's still trying to sort this information in some hopes that something will make it make sense.] Other places? You mean like the other cities?

Well, it explains why we're in this village. It still doesn't explain why we're in this world. [He looks around for a moment. It'd probably be a good idea to just end this simulation. He could get back to training later or something.] It's much bigger than that. We're not just talkin' other cities, we're talkin' entirely different worlds. I mean, even our earths might not be the same.

You're talking alternate dimensions. [That's supposed to be science fiction. Then again, he'd just told her Robin had outgrown being... well, Robin. She was pretty sure they weren't from the same place. Or at least not the same time.

...This place was going to make her head hurt, wasn't it?]

Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It'd explain why none of us even knew about this place 'til we got here, ya know?

[Now, it was true that Bruce had a habit of not telling Jason everything, and that annoyed the heck out of him. Still, something like this? A weird, interdimensional prison? He's pretty sure he'd have told him about that.

...well. Maybe.]

Time works pretty funny here, too, in case you haven't noticed.

Yeah, I guess so. [She huffed out a frustrated sigh.] So we're in some alternate dimension. And so are other people. And we're definitely not from the same place. Am I getting this right so far?

Funny how? [She hadn't noticed, actually, but she'd been a little busy fighting when she first woke up, so maybe she missed something...]

Sounds about right. [He nods. He knew this stuff could be weird, but she seems like a pretty smart girl, so that helps.] Anyway, like I said, your Robin's not Robin anymore where I'm from. I don't recognize you, either, so maybe you're before my time or something. That happens a lot here.

They also say that time doesn't seem to pass while we're stuck here. That means we won't miss anything while we're gone.

Wait, how do people know that? The no time passing thing? [It seemed like an odd piece of knowledge. Unless someone had found a way back and forth? But then... why were people still here?]

Maybe I am. As weird as that is to think about. But there's only ever been one Robin where I come from. And I really doubt he's going to be hanging up his cape anytime soon.

Maybe he just hasn't found his reason yet.

[It doesn't really sound like he thinks that's a bad thing, either. As much as Jason loved being Robin, he knew from the start that he couldn't be Robin forever.]

Sometimes, people get sent home and end up coming back with all their memories. It doesn't happen a lot, but it's happened before. When they went back, they just saw that nothing changed.

Down the Rabbit Hole...

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