Intro the First

[doubleppk]

Well now, this whole teleporting thing isn't too bad. If only they could control it they'd make a fortune. Well, not really since "they" apparently don't believe in money. I've never heard of such a thing. So backwards. The idea that "they" could be more enlightented beyond the needs of money is just plain ludicrous. Oh well! They don't know what they're missing.

I haven't gotten to explore all of this place yet, so anyone wind up somewhere interesting from this? Come on! Share the juicy details please!

Oh, right. I'm Fujiko Mine if I haven't met you yet. New Feather extraordinaire. And if anyone happens to know of a Lupin III, don't tell him I'm here.

[And anyone catching all this via audio (she's provided both options, feel free to ask her why) they can catch a few bars this being hummed in the background.]

Comments

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

It's a prison economy.

[doubleppk]

Cigarettes and sex?

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

... Not that, in particular, but rather a situation in which actual currency is rendered invalid.

[doubleppk]

No such thing. There's still bartering.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

Which, by definition, does not use actual currency.

[doubleppk]

Which is why it's stupid. There's nothing exact, and it's all guesswork. A total pain in the ass.

[antisilent.livejournal.com]

Even without money proper, there are resources to be considered here. [There is a connection to be made here. He just hasn't said it yet]

[doubleppk]

Which could certainly explain the teleporting, though it seems a waste of such resources to do it so erratically.

[antisilent.livejournal.com]

That's not one we can control though.

[doubleppk]

We can't, but they should try to. It'd be marketable.

Pinged by the word money? NEVER.

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure the Malnosso organisation get paid like everyone else. We're just not that lucky.

[But then labrats don't get paid. Kinda sucks. 8|]

XD

[doubleppk]

Do they really now? Whatever do they do with it then? If it pays so well to abduct people, you think they could be a little better at it.

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

I imagine they spend it on whatever mad scientists spend it on when they go home for the evening. We're just part of their work day, I'm sure.

[doubleppk]

Mad scientists do tend to be shockingly rich. But they put all their money right back into their projects. Which would be this I suppose. Thereby still leaving the usual question.

[mikangirl.livejournal.com]

Mm, point, I suppose.

Either way, I kinda miss the stuff. [Money, that is. And only a lot.]

[all7seas]

It would be a more interesting place were there treasure here, and that's the honest truth of the matter.

[doubleppk]

Maybe there is, and it's just in hiding, like most treasure is.

[all7seas]

Aye, maybe so. Though I'm a master at treasure-finding myself, love, and I've scored nothing in my time here.

[doubleppk]

Sorry sugar, but you aren't the master.

[all7seas]

Am. Am the master. Who thinks I'm not the master? I've a very elegant way of finding treasure, make no mistake, lovely.

[Action]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Aside from the fact that everyone seems to be popping up and randomly attacking him lately, Raph has been mostly skipped by the current turn of events.

That is, until now.

One moment he was going at his punching bag in the dojo, the next he's completely turned around, disoriented, stumbling forward into what felt way too ominously like a tripwire.

A bell rings. Then another. Then another and another. He jumps into a crouch, only to hit another wire, this one sending weird balloon things up to the ceiling setting off even more alarms.

Then, the laser beam. This one he ducks and weaves with all the grace instilled by his ninja training, all in near complete silence.

That is, until he bends backwards to avoid the last beam and SNAP!.]

AAAAAAAARRRRRHGH! Son of a -!

[Have a sweaty, enraged fail!ninja turtle on your apartment floor, Fujiko. And why yes, that's a bear trap half-embedded into his shell.]

[Action]

[doubleppk]

What the hell?!

[Runs over, dodging through most of her own traps lithely and winces at the bear trap set off. Okay, maybe she really did overdo it, but she doesn't like being kidnapped. She ALSO doesn't like people just showing up, teleporting their fault or not and has a gun steadied at him.]

Who are you?

[Action]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[Raphael manages to sit up, but is in obvious pain.]

Get that gun outta my face.

[Action]

[doubleppk]

Damn. Hold still. [Has a soft spot for animals and that is DEFINITELY a turtle or tortoise shell so she puts the Browning back in her bra.] Seriously though, who are you? Because if I don't get a satisfactory answer, this isn't the only thing you'll wind up with on your shell. [Caaaarefuly adjusts it to take it off and get out the antiseptic and salves.] It might sting, but it'll help. Good thing this didn't go off somewhere else.

[Action]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[As she tugs at the trap, he grits through his teeth:] Raphael.

Why the - [He winces.] Hell do you gotta bear trap in here?