cake 1. [text]

[overbiterestart]

I seem to have gotten myself into quite a pickle.
Not only am I soaking wet, which is nearly ten times as worse when you have a long gown on, I am also freezing.
Can anyone tell me where in good heavens name I have ended up?
Direct me to some warmer clothing?

[Yeah, Jane looks like a drowned rat. This is not how she imagined she would be spending this day.]

(I seem to have gotten myself into quite a pickle.
Not only am I soaking wet, which is nearly ten times as worse when you have a long gown on, I am also freezing.
Can anyone tell me where in good heavens name I have ended up?
Direct me to some warmer clothing?)

ooc: Jane will be arriving a few hours after this post !

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[toheirishuman]

[Holy shit brigh-- wait. Hold on. That's Nannasprite's color. But...Nanna is a harlequin who is also kind of a ghost but mostly a sprite. How can she feel cold? Or have wet clothes for that matter?]

nanna?
or...wait. wait.
jane?

[If Jane = alt. future Nanna, then maybe they type in the same color?]

[overbiterestart]

[Uh. Why does this fellow know her name? Well. Hm.]

How do you know who I am? Why did you just call me Nanna?

[toheirishuman]

[He considers pulling a prank here but, well, it's a little too late for that given what he's already said. Plus, honestly the truth is so bizarre that it may as well BE a prank.]

because i am your alt-universe grandson who is technically actually your son while simultaneously also being your grandfather.
and your button-pushing lab dad, i guess.

[overbiterestart]

[Wow what kind of malarkey is this strange boy spitting out. She can't even begin to decipher that. She doesn't know if she really wants to.]

I have no earthly idea what you are trying to say here. That was something between gibberish, and something akin to straight bulldozed nonsense.

Could you perhaps try to be clearer?

SOMETIME AFTER ALL THAT.

[overbiterestart]

So, you're John? Since you already somehow know my name, I thought I ought to know yours.

[oceanbreasts]

[ After Dave's arrival, signaling that it was the time for new people to be showing up again, Roxy quickly made her way out to the coral to watch, just like she did every month since she and Dirk arrived, for her other two best friends. And if today isn't the day she'll come back tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that, and next month, until they do.

But today? Today is that day. For at least one of them. ]

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY------!!

[ And it's the only warning Jane gets before Roxy slams herself into her and... promptly sends the both of them to the ground. ]

[overbiterestart]

[Jane hadn't even put away that strange communicator for more than a moment before she was getting barreled into. Holy gracious, who in the wor--oh. It was Roxy.

Oh dear, she was getting Roxy just as soaked as she was. The guilt in her face later when she cared to think of this. Right now she's heading towards the ground again and wrapping her arms tight around Roxy.]

We were just standing right next to each other! Are you quite alright?

[But Roxy isn't wearing her suave Derse pajamas. Which signals there is definitely something going on.]

[oceanbreasts]

[ it's janey it's janey it's janey it's janey it's--oh she's saying stuff hold on focus ]

What, no. This place has some weird ass time shenananigans going on. Dirk 'n I have been here for like four months and it's just been us and I've missed you so much.

[ Hold on she'll get up in a minute just... give her a little bit to get her appropriate amount of BFF cuddle time in. ]

[overbiterestart]

[There is so much stuff she could tell Roxy. But she supposes it's something her and Dirk need to hear- so she won't even begin mentioning it.

Time shenanigans again, gracious she can't ever escape them.]

Four months? Golly, that is a long time. I'm here now. But really perplexed as to why I'm here?

[She won't protest, but Roxy, she is freezing.]

[TEXT] I have no issue with the font color myself, Karkat's just being a butt

[bethehugejerk]

DID YOU INTENTIONALLY GO FOR THE MOST EYE-SEARING SHADE OF BLUE YOU COULD DREAM UP, OR IS IT PLAIN SERENDIPITY THAT MY SIGHT ORGANS NOW HATE ME FOR SUBJECTING THEM TO THIS.
IT'S LIKE BEING SMACKED IN THE FACE WITH MATERIALIZED SKY, AND THE SKY IS A LOST DOOFUS WHO CAN'T ASS HERSELF TO ASK ANYONE FOR A TOWEL
LET ALONE LOOK AROUND FOR THE PAMPHLETS THAT SHOULD BE ON SUPPLY FROM THE WELCOMING COMMITTEE.
I MEAN THAT WOULD JUST BE TOO OBVIOUS TO TRY.

[TEXT] karkat you whimp. sdkjfsdf.

[overbiterestart]

I believe someone woke up on the wrong side of their bed this morning. Are assuming that I'm going to just be completely fine and dandy with my situation upon the moment of arrival? That is where you're going to be completely wrong good sir.

If my text bothers you, there is a polite way of asking me to not use it.

[TEXT]

[bethehugejerk]

DID YOU SERIOUSLY JUST CALL ME "GOOD SIR"?
WHAT KIND OF WEIRDO CALLS SOMEONE ACTIVELY DELIVERING INSULTS "GOOD SIR"?
ALSO, I DON'T SLEEP, AND EVEN IF I HAD I'D STILL CALL YOU OUT.
YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO'S SHOWN UP LOST AND SOAKING WITHOUT A CLUE WHAT'S GOING ON?
HINT: YOU AREN'T, BY A LONGSHOT, THUS THE AFOREMENTIONED WELCOMING COMMITTEE WHICH COULD ACTUALLY ATTEMPT TO GIVE YOU A CLUE WHAT'S GOING ON.
EVEN WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO MAKE THIS EASY, NEW ARRIVALS CONSISTENTLY SHOW THEMSELVES TO BE USELESS MORONS WHO PROBABLY COULDN'T FIND THEIR OWN ASSES WITH A MAP AND MORAL SUPPORT TO GUIDE THEM.
I'LL ASK THE POLITE WAY WHEN YOU'VE EARNED IT.

[TEXT]

[overbiterestart]

I was just trying to be polite. Are you not a sir? Are you in fact a lady? I don't think your insults are all that entertaining, it is kind of like you are picking random insulting words and combining them all into a sentence.

[Except the calling her out thing. That kind of hurt her feelings. Jane's feelings have always been kind of fragile.]

Well then certainly they are the ones at fault and not me. My apologies for mistaking your sleeping schedule or lack thereof for a good one.

[Action] Sometime when Roxy's bringing Jane to the house?

[shippingmath]

[Dave's not in the house any more. He'd left after an awkward span of time. Everything about it was generally awkward. It's probably a good thing Roxy left, because eventually she probably would have punched the both of them out of frustration.

He's gone now, but Dirk hasn't left the living room. He's just taken a seat on the couch. There's a bunch of projects he has upstairs that he could probably be working on, but he doesn't have the mental capacity to focus on those right now. He hasn't zoned out this much since he had two bodies to take care of at once.

But he glances up quickly enough at the sound of the door opening. That should be Roxy coming back, only...]

Jane?

[action]

[overbiterestart]

[She and Roxy had been out shopping for quite some time. Finally when Jane was suitably covered and prepared for the chilly weather- rather than wearing a weighed down gown she decided to let Roxy take her home.

Well. that they would be calling home until the underwater bubble willed them away. She's kind of nervous to walk in. But after reassurance she opens the door handle, and steps into the house. It's a wonderful looking house. Nice couch, nice living room, nice Dirk in the living room.

Oh...

She looks relieved for some reason. More relieved than she's ever looked in her life. She just pulls a little grin.]

Hey. Nice house we have here. [Yeah, best greeting.]

[action]

[shippingmath]

[It is a nice enough house if she ignores the slight mess of shuriken and smuppets and old alcohol bottles. Also if she ignores the pretty much utter lack of decor in the living room.

Okay, it's not that great of a house. But it's a house and it's theirs and they live in it together, and honestly that's been pretty great.

There won't be much time for Jane to examine the state of the house, because Dirk is pushing himself up from the couch to amble over to the door.]

It's swank as fuck is what it is.

[And now, because it's suitably ironic, Jane will be getting a one-armed Strider hug.]

Nice to see you, Crocker.

[action]

[overbiterestart]

[Well, she doesn't really want to address this mess right now. So she won't. Just know she will be in here cleaning later. Honestly she's terrified at the amount of liquor bottles.

The house is theirs, and they call it their own. It's wonderful.]

Very homey, I like it.

[Dirk is getting a gentle two-armed Jane hug. Considering she just witnessed Jake holding Dirk's severed head, she's kind of glad he's standing right here. Not to say he wasn't there in his derse pajamas with them.

It's just that she clearly didn't have enough time to process all of that.]

It's nice to see you too, Strider.

[unconchonable]

you knoww this wwhole needless exchange of OH GOD WWHERE AM I could utterly be avvoided if the lot of your newwcomers actually used wwhats provvided to you
youre in vvatheon you are trapped here deal ww it

[overbiterestart]

I am very well aware of my situation now. But I was greeted almost instantly after that text with a lap full of Roxy Lalonde. I don't think getting to a pamphlet at that very moment was a feasible thing to do.

You are a little late to the party, a grey texted civilian also told me how outrageous it was for me not to use my resources. My apologies.

[unconchonable]

the grey texted one is my matesprit and hes fuckin sensible like myself and unlike most inhabitants of this bubble neww and old

but youre a friend of roxys huh
hmmm wwell if she likes you i guess you cant be THAT bad despite you not doin the obvvious and figuring shit out before askin wwhat evvery goddamn neww arrivval asks
honestly its like evveryone wwants all the answwers handed to them wwithout doin a modicum a wwork themselvves
im eridan ampora wwho are you

[overbiterestart]

Oh then doubly forgive me.

[Nope, don't know what a matesprit is but it sounds important so she won't interfere.]

Yes, Roxy and I are rather good friends. I kind of ended up with her in my lap before I realized there was a brochure with a nicely laid out way of saying going home is in their power not mine. So everything has been straightened out. I didn't mean to cause a fuss, really.
Jane Crocker, it's nice to meet you Eridan.

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < ooh thats a new shade of blue :OO
:33 < hii!
:33 < has anyone got you a towel or warmer clothes yet?

[overbiterestart]

I assume you're referring to John's blue? This is a new shade of green for me, because it certainly doesn't look like Jake's green.

Oh, yes! No worries. Roxy took care of me.

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < to johns and to equius too!
:33 < it is a very pretty blue though :33
:33 < i dont think i know a jake!!
:33 < is he a friend of yours?

:33 < thats good :33
:33 < arriving all wet and cold isnt a lot of fun!

[overbiterestart]

I don't believe I've had a chance to meet Equius yet. So forgive me for not knowing who that is. Jake is another friend of mine yes, we're all kind of hoping he shows up too.


Not at all. But I'm warm and in a home now so everything is quite alright. Thank you so much for asking.