greenghost | first prank ≈ video.

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first prank ≈ video.

[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'.

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...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.

...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?

[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.

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.]

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?

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.

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?

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

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...

[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!!

[The kid must be a complete movie nerd if he's screeching in shocking fan delight over this. ~~Not that Lupin was any better.~~ Lupin decides to leave out the fact that a recent Shift left him with memories of assisting the Rebel Alliance and has ushered Luke into high Bro Status with him.

Yeah. Don't tell a fanboy that you're bros with a Jedi. Especially if you're fanboying yourself.]

It can be because of the people here, but everything else is Mostly Suck.

You sound like you're going to have a fun time with this, John. I'm Lupin.

Hey, when you play video games that destroy the earth you learn to enjoy the people involved and not the game itself.

...wait. Like, as in Lupin the Third? Crazy skinny thief guy?

Guilty on all charges. Any reason?

Oh man, this place is officially not as Suck as you think it is. Jedis, and Lupin III.

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

Uh, John. I appreciate you being fond of my work, but it doesn't change the fact that I've been here for six months and I still haven't found a way out.

Geez, wow. And we're back to lameness.

See what I mean? This place may as well change its name to Lame-o McSucky Town.

I like that. Lameo McSuckyTown. We should make a sign.

Do it. You might get a few laughs.

Hell yes. First order of business, however...

Shoes.

And pants and all of your other clothes, right? Head into town--there's some shops that'll have em in stock. Just go in and grab them. There's no money here.