-You know, I'd kind of forgotten some of the crap the castle's been dragging out lately. It's been, like... sometime over a year, I don't remember. [Lies, he totally does.] Everything seems to take superlong sometimes, anyway.

[A few contemplative doodles, a tiny Tim and Kon. A half-done sketch of a Jenny face that gets mostly erased out for fail memory.

Pen-tapping.



-fffffff] Whatever. That's just the way crap goes.

So, here's a question to take your minds off whatever boring, unimportant shit the castle is pulling.

Have there ever been any residents who are 'dead', so to speak, but still existing, who have died here and come back within two weeks, reverting to their previous 'dead' state? The only good example I can give would be if that Zelman guy died here.

Now....

Ryou.

Why the fuck did you throw it away? Maybe I should have goaded the black swordsman into killing you for getting rid of it. But God knows if even that would've gotten the message through to you:

You do not throw it out so any piece of godforsaken trash can find it. As my goddamned reincarnation and host to my spirit you should know better! Now go find it, or else. Am I making myself clear?

( [Room Filter] )

[This is York.

This is York in Caritas.

This is York in Caritas getting completely smashed, because today has just been too much for his poor brain to handle.]

[Filtered away from Reno Browne, Whip Wilson, Ian Malcolm, John Hammond, Mayor Tortimer, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and anyone who might tell any of the above what is under this filter]

Fuck. She was about to tell me! She knew something, and the goddamn people she's with didn't want her to!

[pause] For anyone keeping track, that's Reno Browne with Ian Malcolm and at least one each of unidentified male and female voices, and supposedly some "kids", too.

Guys, I need you to come sing karaoke with me or...or I'm going to start shooting things. Or something.

[Totally open, threadjack at will!]

[written]

Been some time since I was able to look at this journal.

A belated Merry Christmas to you all, and meaningless as it may be, a happy new year, too.

-- Reno Browne

Hey, I'm kind of cool with all the weird stuff showing up here. I mean, I don't get it, but I figure it's just a castle thing... but how many more... dead things are gonna end up here? I mean, I'm not saying I want something like a real live T-Rex running around trying to eat us, but it kind of stinks when stuff like that is left lying around after awhile, you know?

THANK YOU KIND ANON!

asdlkf ♥♥♥

( batman )

( the lady from montana )

Everything is so ominous... doom... we need bomb shelters.

[ a faint scuttling sound can be heard through the journal and then a chair moving quickly ]

Woof! Enemy alert!

No that's Vanilla... he's not an enemy...

[Filtered to: Doctors - Companions - Tech & Time Travel Friendly Castle Residents]

For Christmas, I got a dimension cannon. Specifically, my dimension cannon. It's supposed to push things through the dimensional walls between universes.

I was wary of it, mean it's from the castle. Just - it's a safe way to go out further, and not get trapped there with no way back.

I'd like to try and see what happens. It might be time, just to try it.

Anyone interested?

[some shuffling and rustling and then a pause.]

Damn. Has it been a year already?

( Esther, Ion )

( Jyuushiro )

( Christine Papin )

Ah, the castle's become terribly foreboding, hasn't it? If anything should happen, I want you all to know you can take refuge in the church. I'll do my best to protect you. We can hide under the table together and ward off evil with silver candelabras! Please don't hesitate to come if you're worried. I wouldn't mind the company. At all! In fact, I insist. I'm not above bribing people with home made chocolates and an assortment of delicious teas.

[Wybie's wandering the caves, he's kept his journal with him because he promised Raine he would. He's grabbed a few rock samples for her and has done some exploring. The kind a kid does just because something is there, rather than to find something specific. Unfortunately for Wybie, something specific has found him]

Hey, there's something moving down here... Uh...are there supposed to be animals in the caves?

[Rumbling sound]

Or dinosaurs?

[Oh and that rumbling sound is louder now. It may even be familiar to some. It is NOT, however, familiar to Wybie]

ARRRGGG! GIANT ROCK SNAKE! GIANT ROCK SNAKE!!

[[ooc: Backdated to yesterday, Wybie's found Jun's Onix, mod and Ashley approved]]

[written hesitantly]

It is starting to get a little scary... The castle keeps putting things away, and showing us very old things that happened a long time ago. No one knows what is going on?

[she idles for a while, wings fluttering nervously. She has a bad feeling about this...]

If anything bad does happen, please be safe, everyone.

Is ... the castle sick, or something?

( Private )

( Question )

Sooo... The T-Rex. Anyone see any more out there? I could go for some dinosaur hunting.

( Private )

[At first, just the noise of Rin drumming her fingers absently against the page as she formulates her thoughts. This goes on for a minute or two before she speaks.]

So... I don't think I understand enough about the way the time stream works here.

I mean, while we're here - it doesn't matter how long we're here, right? That's generally accepted as an established fact. When you leave you go home, back to the moment you left, and you forget everything and it's like no time has passed at all. We don't even grow while we're here.

So if we're really... here forever, then what does that mean? Does that change? Is there some paradox that explains this that I'm escaping? Does time stop at home forever, or do we disappear there, or does the castle replace that empty space with a clone, or have we actually been copies of our "real" selves from the beginning and we don't know it, we just get updated occasionally?

Or is the castle just - fucking with us again?

Does somebody understand this better than I do? I could use the help.