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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. ]

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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

no worries pal i haven't seen any of them in ages either

[greyjane]

someone needs to control your world's teenagers, in that case :)

but on that note, most definitely d.

[It's the hookah that won her over, really.]

[franciscoramon]

i think the point of that movie was she had to learn to not be such a bad person. i'm pretty sure most teenagers wouldn't sell their little brothers to shady mystical strangers.

well, maybe my brother would've, but that's besides the point.

[ Haha. See. It's funny, just a joke, and definitely not a little bit too real. ]

oh great
in that case i'll watch out for the mushrooms

[greyjane]

i was under the impression all the stories were about teens. though that one did sound particularly bad, i agree.

you don't want to be thirty feet tall?? what's wrong with you, man?

[Honestly, it sounds like her kind of fun. ... So long as you could change back, she supposes.]

[franciscoramon]

some of them are younger. but i get your point.

i don't know, that sounds to me like one of those things that's fun in theory but in practice it would be terrifying. also i forgot to say is there are different mushrooms that make you shrink down to the size of a mouse, and no thanks to that.

[greyjane]

i think it would be quite interesting. imagine the perspective you'd gain on the rest of the world, being so much differently sized.

you could find that leaky pipe that's been dripping water on your ceiling for months, or some such other nonsense.

[franciscoramon]

guess i never thought about it that way.
well if i find any size-changing fungi, you'll be the first one i call.

wait is this a hypothetical or is there actually a leaky pipe situation in the communal housing buildings because that shit can get dangerous