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[franciscoramon]

informal poll for you guys. if you had to choose, is this place more like:

a) fantasia, from the neverending story
b) oz, from the wizard of oz
c) wherever the hell it was with the muppets and stuff, from labyrinth
d) wonderland, from alice in wonderland

[ The question might seem like a frivolous one, but the answers should actually be pretty informative, and it's way more fun than just asking people to describe what this place is really like. ]

Comments

[franciscoramon]

wait for real?
2015
i guess that explains how you haven't heard of the neverending story.

[ He's talking to someone from the past! Okay maybe it's not the super distant past and really old people can remember the 1940s but! Still! Exciting! ]

o7

[signifies]

You'd be right.

It's about a group of characters who travel between parallel universes through a wormhole.

[ He hadn't stuck with it. Clark was into shows about aliens. ]

text; @cdr.ebbisaryn

[greyjane]

i'll be joining the sad, sorry lot of folks who haven't the foggiest, i'm afraid. quick summary for the woefully uneducated? :)

[supersweet]

Old movies for old people then. Gotcha.

[spellslots]

You could've just asked the question you really wanna ask.

[He has a high wisdom and intelligence modifier, good for those insight checks.]

Someone introduced me to two of those movies, he's from Earth. Wasn't that much of a stab in the dark to guess that's where you're from, too.

[A little bit of a white lie; Clark was on Earth, technically, but he's not exactly "from" it.]

text; @whiterose

[finethanks]

If I had to take a guess based just on what I've seen with the ongoing festival, I would have to say d. It's something of a wonderland, with magic that no one can explain. I already want to start a mad tea party for everyone to attend, fufu. ♪

@v.nikiforov

[genice]

Do we get to vote for other places we've been? I'm afraid I'm too new to this moon to have a firm opinion.

( he doesn't know all the movies in question, but since there's been a whole chiming in from people, well. not really necessary to add in, is it? )

[dust_of_life]

Well, I always tend to assume the worst of kidnappers

[seditionist]

I had more important things to do.

Holos are projected visual stories. You know. Holograms. They have them here.

text; @redhood

[batbullets]

I mean, the festivals are definitely Mad Hatter level - classic storybook Mad Hatter, not the Mad Hatter I know, thank god - but I think there's some shading of option C as well. I never actually watched option A because the neverending bit kind of terrified me.

Haven't come across any Oz parts yet, but I'll let you know when I get sparkly red shoes and yellow bricks to skip on.

txt. @bennotwill

[snarkbark]

100% labyrinthe my guy.
on that note, have you seen a bowie looking guy looking to steal some babies and marry a teenager?

text; @sans.

[bone_idle]

i'm a little disappointed in the lack of sci fi representation.

[ He was right there with y'all on the pop culture references and making light of circumstances that are stranger than fiction, up until he had a glance over someone's theory that this might be an elaborate, uh, breeding program. Yikes.

Joke's on somebody; in some cases, a resounding lack of interest isn't the only hurdle, but sheer incompatibility. Feeling rather let off the hook, he's glad to consider this Not His Problem and get back to the real point of reading this:

Besides, uh, scoping out how many of these guys might actually be humans from his own world, and who are from somewhere a bit far outside the planetary post code.

That's more exciting than anything else. ]

i dunno about you, pal,
but some of these responses seem to be tellin' me one thing:

movie night.

[ What, no helpful speculation about their circumstances?

Nah, other folks got that covered. ]

Video - @chandra

[firelogic]

*Chandra is doing better at this whole camera thing, more of her face is in view as she answers in video because text seems so informal.*

I have no idea what those places are, have you really been to all of them?

*Chandra doesn't really get fiction, that involves reading and she doesn't do a lot of that.*

This place is like any other big city, less magic, more technology. But it has all the stuff you find.

@j.wick

[adiuvio]

Oz. There's a man behind the curtain.

[mannerism]

For real, indeed, Mr. De la Mancha.

[ Prim and terribly proper and only a bit mischievous. ]


I am assuming it is a novel?

text; @falconwings

[wingedman]

Put me down for Labyrinth, although I really think you oughta aim for more sci-fi than fantasy.

[starspangled]

i'm a member of the guard myself. trust me, it does.

what kind of tech?

@sans.

[bone_idle]

@sans. liked this.

[franciscoramon]

dude that sounds awesome, why don't we have that where i'm from...

what sorts of worlds do they generally end up traveling to?

ANY INACCURACIES ARE ME HAVING A BAD MEMORY not cisco, oops

[franciscoramon]

can do

[ The summary might make the implications of what he was asking a bit clearer, at least ]

a) bullied boy goes into a storybook to a magical land full of benevolent creatures and makes friends with a dragon, saves the day by believing in himself and all that good stuff

b) bored farm girl gets knocked out during a tornado and dreams of a colorful magical land where there's fantastical versions of her friends and family. she goes on a mission to get home, gets some sweet magic shoes, kills an evil witch, saves the day

c) teenage girl accidentally lowkey sells her infant brother to a creepy goblin dude and has to go through a weird terrifying maze full of bizarre kinda terrifying creatures, to find him and get him back, saves the day by learning not to be so selfish

d) schoolgirl in victorian times follows a rabbit down a hole to a weird dimension where everything is terrifying and batshit insane and eating mushrooms makes you 30 feet tall, and giant caterpillars smoke hookahs, and there's an evil queen who keeps trying to behead her, and everything is creepy forever

[franciscoramon]

alright, how old are you, kid?

[ Cisco's guessing under 13 - young enough not to think the cool thing to do is pretend to be older and more sophisticated than he actually is. ]

[supersweet]

I'm ten. Why?

[franciscoramon]

where's the fun in that?

i wasn't using movie metaphors to be sneaky, dude. that's just how i roll.

i guess that makes sense. which two?

[franciscoramon]

i feel like mad tea parties are a lot better in theory than in practice.

what kind of magic? i'm new, fill me in.

[franciscoramon]

...sure, knock yourself out.