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[The voice feed cuts in, but for a moment there's nothing to hear. Just the sound of rustling leaves and branches, and the whip of wind, and someone cursing softly and indistinctly under their breath as they attempt to grapple with the not-Dreamberry thing.

[Then a voice. Young, male, a little panicked.]


Uh, hello? Can anybody hear me?

I'm, um... This is gonna sound stupid but I'm up on top of a tree and I'm a bit... well... I've got stuck! [Giggling. Slightly hysterical, that giggling]. I don't think I'm gonna fall but it's kinda a bit whoops--

[Static for a moment, then the voice cuts back in.]

--ddamn Dreamberry!

Does anyone have a ladder?

[On the plus side, the view is great.]
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*wakes up long enough to post this then crashes again*

Date: 2010-04-19 07:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redabyssinian.livejournal.com
Ken? Where are you?
Edited Date: 2010-04-19 07:50 am (UTC)
Depth: 2

Date: 2010-04-19 07:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
[When Ken gets back to that, he still sounds breathless.]

I have no idea there's just this tree, well, there's lots of trees and there's this volcano and... whoa--

[silence for a moment, then:]

Sorry, nearly dropped the phone again. Anyway I can kinda see a long way but I got no idea where any of this stuff is! Are you getting a jungle too?
Depth: 3

/threadjacks :3

Date: 2010-04-19 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slantedcross.livejournal.com
...what in the hell.

[Somebody just woke up and what the hell is this and. Youji does not like the sound of some of those animals. Up a tree might actually be safer...]

So I'm not the only one who woke up in Jurassic Park?
Depth: 4

/threadjack-jacks

Date: 2010-04-19 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com
[Voice is definitively nervous.]

I don't think so...
Depth: 5

Date: 2010-04-19 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redabyssinian.livejournal.com
Ken. Stay put for now and we'll find you.

It'll be best if we come together as a group.
Depth: 6

Date: 2010-04-19 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Well, I sure wasn't planning on trying to get down from here by myself!

[... which is probably a sign that they've got problems. After all, Ken may be reckless, but he's not completely suicidal. And trying to get down from his perch without backup? Sure looks like suicide from up here.]

Are you guys okay down there?
Depth: 7

Date: 2010-04-19 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redabyssinian.livejournal.com
We're alright for now.

Are you armed?
Depth: 8

Date: 2010-04-20 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Me? No. I--

[Wait. This is a walkie-talkie, which means an open transmission.

[Which means that now is probably not the time to try and explain that he'd showed up without his bugnuks and hadn't been able to get hold of a replacement.]


I was asleep.
Depth: 9

Date: 2010-04-20 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redabyssinian.livejournal.com
Alright.

[That's good enough for him.]

We're coming for you as quickly as we can.
Depth: 10

Date: 2010-04-22 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Yeah, uh... I appreciate that, Aya. Thanks.
Depth: 11

Date: 2010-04-22 01:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redabyssinian.livejournal.com
You're welcome, Ken.
Depth: 1

Date: 2010-04-19 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xwargoddess.livejournal.com
Join the club.

[She sounds kind of giddy, too.]

Hey, you into any kind of sports or gymnastics? Can you climb down? Or jump branches to the next tree?
Depth: 2

Date: 2010-04-19 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Soccer! I did soccer! Bunch of other stuff, too, but mainly that...

[He giggles again. This is... well, pretty freaky, but he can't deny it's also a bit of a buzz.]

Could try and jump, I guess... don't see any way down from this one. Pretty awesome view, hey?
Depth: 3

Date: 2010-04-19 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xwargoddess.livejournal.com
Yeah, it's really beautiful.

Hey, climb to the very top of your tree, maybe I can find you?

[The heat would make for some great thermals for my eagle morph...]
Depth: 4

Date: 2010-04-19 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Right, I'm gonna go do that... pretty close already and I wanna get a better idea where we fetched up anyway... I'll radio back when I get up there!

[The transmission cuts off abruptly. Reckless though Ken can get even he's not gonna try climbing and talking. He's not that eager to break his neck.

[Silence for a few minutes, then wind. Then:]


Okay, you still there?
Depth: 5

voice --> action

Date: 2010-04-19 10:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xwargoddess.livejournal.com
Yeah, but I'm going to turn this thing off so I can climb up higher and look around. Wave your arms a bit, so I can see you?

[The walkie-talkie cuts off at this point, as Rachel turns it off and sets it carefully between two forking branches. She strips off her pajamas to just the leotard underneath, and begins to morph... which morph? Some sort of bird. Tropical bird... parrot? Why not--because you can't remember what kind of senses it had, stupid. Okay. Stick to the bald eagle, you know that morph inside and out.

Rachel allows the changes to begin: the shrinking, the patterns of feathers, the hollowing out of the bones, the protrusion of the face into a beak--]

She flaps up into the air, grasping the walkie-talkie in her talons, before spotting Ken. Raptor vision--you gotta love it. She lands in a nearby tree, behind him and inside the foliage, and demorphs quickly, before climbing back up over the canopy. She calls over and waves.]


Hey! Is that you?

Depth: 6

Action

Date: 2010-04-19 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Sure, whatever it takes!

[Ken clambers a little higher up onto the forest canopy - wow but it's a long way to fall from up here. Spectacular though the view is the unbroken mass of trees, trees and more damn trees as far as the eye can see, with only the ominously smoking peak of a volcano for flavor, it isn't exactly one of the world's most reassuring sights. Where'd the city go?

[Scanning the treetops for any sign of a teenage girl and seeing nothing that looks even vaguely human, Ken waves. He feels a little stupid for it but it's not like he's got any better ideas...

[He's got to admit it, he relieved when he hears the sound of Rachel's voice.]


Yeah, I'm the guy stuck in the tree!

[He waves a little more vigorously, breaking into a smile. Well, at least he's not alone up here. That makes him feel rather better.]
Depth: 7

Action

Date: 2010-04-20 06:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xwargoddess.livejournal.com
Hey, stay there!

[Rachel waves, then points downwards and mimes climbing across. Without giving Ken a chance to answer, she ducks back down, climbing below to where the branches will support her weight better. She considers morphing chimpanzee or Hork-Bajir, both arboreal, but decides not to risk it. Morphing is exhausting, and she doesn't want to risk not having the ability to run the heck away. Adrenaline only helps so much.

Not that swinging from tree to tree in human form is any more intelligent. But she takes her time finding one that might work as a shorter parallel bar, and goes for it, her walkie-talkie tucked into the bust of her leotard.

Even without morphing, she's starting to feel the exertion as she makes it up to the top, where Ken is, but is still pretty giddy with the adrenaline, too.]


Hi. Made it.
Depth: 8

Action

Date: 2010-04-20 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Hey, are you sure--!

[Too late. she's already vanished back beneath the canopy.

[For a long moment Ken simply sits and waits, listening to the cries of the birds and the rustling of the leaves in the treetops, ears peeled for the sound of anything that could suggest someone moving through the treetops below him. He's sure he trusts this girl to know what she's doing - if he had to explain quite why, well, she just seems the type - but at the same time he's worried. He knows what he's doing, and he's still horribly conscious that it's a long way to fall--]

[Again he's relieved when he catches sight of Rachel clambering through the canopy, this time almost close enough to touch, and he gives her a smile. If he thinks anything of her ability to get over here in the first place, Ken guesses she must have just had an easier time of it finding her way through the jungle canopy than he would have done and puts no more consideration than that into the matter.]


Well hi, you know this kinda isn't how I expected actually meeting you to go?
Depth: 9

Action

Date: 2010-04-22 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xwargoddess.livejournal.com
Yeah, me neither. Never expected anything like this was possible.

[Or so she lied. Rachel had, indeed, been transported back to the time of dinosaurs due to a freak nuclear explosion. But she's not going to talk about that now.]

I don't think anyone expects to meet like this, really. You want meetings to be exciting, but not really so insane.

[Not that Rachel was opposed to be a bit of insanity, but, well. She pulls the walkie-talkie out of her leotard--which is all she's wearing, by the way--and frowns at it.]

I guess this was the gizmo, huh?
Depth: 10

Action

Date: 2010-04-23 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Yeah, I've seen a whole bunch of weird stuff but this just... it's kinda something else!

[At least nobody's grown tentacles yet not mentioning that here.

[Ken's also kinda dead set on not mentioning the fact that he's sitting in a tree with a pretty girl in a leotard. And, apparently, nothing else. Not that he's doing a whole lot better, of course: it's been way too hot lately for pajamas, so he'd taken to sleeping in shorts and a tee-shirt. That, though, is fairly standard for a heatwave - leotards more kind of aren't. It's one Hell of a thing to fall asleep in, but... well, Ken guesses there's some kind of an explanation for it.]


Yeah, I was... well, I was kind of expecting coffee to be involved. Not dinosaurs. I don't think anyone expects dinosaurs. Or waking up in a tree.

[He very deliberately tries not to look as Rachel pulls the walkie-talkie out of her leotard, instead choosing to fidget with his own. Quick, think of something non-committal to say--]

Guess so. Yours turned into one of these too?
Depth: 11

Action

Date: 2010-04-28 07:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xwargoddess.livejournal.com
It did. I mean, I'm assuming that it did, and that someone didn't sneak in and switch them in the dead of night.

[That thought is creepy, though, so Rachel doesn't dwell on it.]

I'm going to assume you don't remember how you got up here, right? Do you know how to get down?
Depth: 1

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-19 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
[Luffy loves jungles! This really reminds him of Little Garden, except he hasn't seen any giants yet. Either they're around here somewhere, or they're not! Who cares? There's even more bugs, all kinds of cool-looking animals that look delicious, and lots of trees to swing from! Speaking of trees, he happens to be jumping around on the upper branches for fun at this time.

Seeing Ken nearby and hearing the last part of that announcement, he waves and decides to say hi.]


Oi!! Why the heck do you need a ladder?
Depth: 2

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-19 09:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
[Okay, looks like he's not the only one who found himself up a tree this morning.

[Unlike Ken, however, this guy - and he looks familiar, doesn't he? - looks to be up there because he wants to be, not because someone ran off with his bed and replaced it with... well, whatever this tree is but it looks like something would be more at home in a rainforest than his bedroom. Either way he doesn't look at all unhappy to be up there. At the sight of him, Ken lets go of the tree with one hand and returns the wave.]


I just woke up here and I'm stuck!
Depth: 3

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-19 09:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
[He casually sits down on a branch and lets his feet dangle while he talks.]

How'd you do that? Were you sleep-tree-climbing??
Depth: 4

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-19 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
You know I'm not even sure? I went to bed like normal, then the next thing I know I'm waking up here. Got no idea how I got up here...

Or where the city went.
Depth: 5

[Action!] 1/3

Date: 2010-04-24 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
That's weird.

...

...

.........
Depth: 5

[Action!] 2/3

Date: 2010-04-24 08:08 pm (UTC)
Depth: 5

[Action!] 3/3

Date: 2010-04-24 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
AAAAAH!! THE CITY IS GONE!!!
Depth: 6

[Action!] [1/2]

Date: 2010-04-24 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Yeah, and I got no idea where it thinks it dumped us this time. Except I don't like the look of that volcano--
Depth: 6

[Action!] [2/2]

Date: 2010-04-24 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
-- wait, you didn't notice the city vanished?
Depth: 7

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-24 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
[Hi, he's staring at the volcano now.]

A volcano! Cool!!
Depth: 8

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-24 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Huh? Oh... yeah, I guess it is kinda cool as long as it ain't actually erupting. I, uh... really hope we get outta here before that happens.
Depth: 9

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-24 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
How are you gonna get outta here if you're stuck in a tree?
Depth: 10

[Action!] [1/2]

Date: 2010-04-24 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Uh... well...
Depth: 10

[Action!] [2/2]

Date: 2010-04-24 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Well I'll figure something out, um, maybe I can slide down the trunk... or something, or... I dunno, there's some vines somewhere?

[Yeah, he has NO CLUE.]
Depth: 11

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-24 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
Swinging on the vines is fun!

...It only helps you get from one tree to another, though.
Depth: 12

[Action!]

Date: 2010-04-25 06:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Well, it'd be a change of scenery I guess?

[If... not entirely productive, mind.]
Depth: 13

[Action!]

Date: 2010-05-03 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] noodlearrms.livejournal.com
There's lots of other stuff to see here. Staying in one tree for too long is boring!
Depth: 1

Date: 2010-04-19 11:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unfearful.livejournal.com
Are you all right?
Depth: 2

Date: 2010-04-19 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Yeah... Yeah, I'm fine. Well, as long as I don't try to move much. I'm just... a bit stuck.

How about you? You're not anywhere dangerous, right?
Depth: 3

Date: 2010-04-19 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unfearful.livejournal.com
I guess so, though I'm not sure if anywhere is safe anymore.
Depth: 4

Date: 2010-04-19 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Well, that's something. As long as you're okay.

Is it really that bad down there? Maybe I should just stay put.
Depth: 5

Date: 2010-04-19 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unfearful.livejournal.com
Well, it's difficult to tell the exact situation, but you'd probably be better off staying up there.
Depth: 6

Date: 2010-04-19 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
[Oh boy. That does not sound at all good. A note of worry creeps into Ken's voice as he speaks.]

Oh... are you gonna be all right down there? You can defend yourself okay, right?
Depth: 7

Date: 2010-04-19 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unfearful.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'll be fine. It's others I'm worried about.

[Namely, one Anemone.]
Depth: 8

Date: 2010-04-19 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
Well, I hope you can find them.

[Ken hesitates for a moment, one hand still on the trigger of the walkie-talkie. For a moment nothing much can be heard save the wind in the trees.]

Have you tried calling them? Or... that's not very private right now so what about texting? I think we can still text on these things.
Depth: 1

Date: 2010-04-19 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearsropes.livejournal.com
...You're on top of a tree...? But how?
Depth: 2

Date: 2010-04-19 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insorrow.livejournal.com
I... really wish I knew! I went to bed like normal and when I woke up I was here!