first prank ≈ video.

[greenghost]

[For a long time, there is muttering and shuffling, and no real discernible speech. Just a view from the ground of tree tops, green and bright in the summer weather, from where a New Feather's journal lays open.]

[If one listens closely, they may here complaints about Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan and fallen angels.]

[A moment later, a curious face swims into view of a boy with pale skin, blue eyes behind thick-rimmed rectangular glasses, and a shock of wildly messy black hair. His expression shifts quickly from curious to annoyed.]

Oh, that explains a lot.

[A disgruntled sigh.]

The script is blank!! Am I writing my own City of Angels, wherein Nicolas Cage has tiny useless blue wings??

[He sits back and falls mostly out of the journal's view.]

This movie is going to suck. Just sayin'.

[[ooc; Please check John's permissions post and let me know what you're okay with! Thank you. :>]]

Comments

[video]

[grapecape]

So this kind of technology is widespread in other worlds...fascinating. I should make an effort to view one of these "movies" while I'm here.

[glassesgleeea-oh wait he's leaving someone on the line right]

Thank you for the explanation. Has anyone helped you get oriented here yet?

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

...it was a metaphor, kid. Anything that comes out of Hollywood has a clearly defined protagonist, antagonist, and plot arc. Here? Well...take Casablanca, and then take out Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Then, take it out of Morocco and take away the Letters of Transit.

That's our situation. Sorry, kid. A Nic Cage film would be so much simpler.

[video]

[greenghost]

I'll see about finding you something good sometime. Can't be shown movies if you're not gonna be shown something good.

[Blinks.]

Well I'm still sort of sitting in the middle of a forest with no shoes and no shirt, but I think I'm kind of getting an idea that that's normal.

[voice]

[greenghost]

...Man you take all those elements away and it's not even a movie anymore, it's just... Suck. Personified.

[He scrunches his face.]

Can I skip the class where I learn how to be Suck Personified?

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

[Lupin sighs. He hates breaking it to New Feathers.]

Nope. Sorry, kid. You're kind of stuck in Suck Personified Land with the rest of us here.

[voice]

[greenghost]

Well that's kind of really lame. I vote we change this crap up and make it suck less. Is that an option? Or is this like, Suck Personified Land that Sucks So Bad it can never do anything but Suck?

[No worries, Lupin, John'll just roll with it.]

[video]

[grapecape]

I appreciate the offer.

[Heh, nice kid.]

The most evident landmarks in the woods would be the rivers. Can you hear running water? Or can you see mountains over the trees in any direction?

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

Yeah...that would be the last one you mentioned. Sorry. At least the wings are vaguely cool?

Also, as a consolation prize for the, you know, Hotel California situation we're in, you have the option of learning magic from some native magical-whatsits. Spirits. Whatever. So, maybe you could make a script about a boy stuck in a wierd Neverland scenario and he learns magic and...becomes magical?

[video]

[greenghost]

Uhhh, those might be mountains--

[He turns the journal away from himself to show what he means, providing a dizzying view as he does so.]

But I haven't really been listening for running water?

[voice]

[greenghost]

Wow, that's ...really balls. And I dunno, the wings kinda hurt and they're sort of useless. Seems like all they're really gonna do is make me molt and not be able to sleep.

[Blinks.]

...Okay that part's pretty cool, yeah. I mean magic's definitely not real, but I was also talking to Draco Malfoy up there.

[arcinvent]

Right. "This", so to speak, is Luceti. Some place on another planet, possibly different galaxy. I only showed up here a couple days ago and that's what I was told.

[greenghost]

...that makes a really unsettling amount of sense, actually.

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

Magic's plenty real here with those itty bitty annoying wings. And, you think that your Draco Malfoy is cool? [Never mind that he didn't know of any movies featuring a Draco Malfoy himself...] We have three Jedi in this little place. How cool is that?

[voice]

[greenghost]

--Whoa, like Star Wars Jedi?? Like "help me, Obi-wan Kenobi", Jedi??

[voice]

[redjacketthief]

Like Obi-Wan Kenobi himself. And his two pupils, Luke and Anakin. Though, Luke is older than you'd expect from the movies, and Obi-Wan is younger...

[dangerouswind]

... Not quite. [What the hell kind of pronunciation is that? She's not too surprised he can put her together with Konoha; there's enough ninja in the village from there and, despite the symbols being different, she's definitely identifiable as coming from the same world.] I'm Suna, but I know Konoha.

[video]

[hisdarkmark]

What a surprise, I've no idea who the hell that is.

[voice]

[greenghost]

[There's a rather alarming screeching sort of sound and John kind of rolls around a little in place.]

Oh man this has just gone from Suck to Potentially Awesome.

By the way I'm John!!

[Video]

[moezama]

A blank script...? Are you talking about the journal?

[lostpunk]

What kind of idiot gets a blank book and thinks it's for writing a script in?

[greenghost]

[He stares pretty blankly at the journal for a while.]

...that's... Actually pretty cool. So you're a ninja?

[video]

[greenghost]

She wrote a book. Basically about you and Harry Potter. So I know a lot of probably uncomfortable details about you, mister Malfoy.

[Oh man he is going to have so much fucking fun with this.]

[Video]

[greenghost]

Is that what it is? Man my dad tried to get me to keep a diary once, it really didn't go well.

[greenghost]

Wow, rude much? Obviously, a movie buff. Especially under such weirdly retarded circumstances.

[Also hello Rufio I love you.]

[video]

[so_shik]

[She has to bite back a smile at that line. Of course they're not John, you just keep telling yourself that...but then again? He's got a point. Mr. H had the huge wings, didn't he?]

Still. Nothing says you can't rewrite it to give him bigger wings than yours.