Fourth Wall Open Mingle Log Of Doom

[these_balls]

Who: ANYONE
Where: ANYWHERE
When: November 24th - November 26th
Summary: A MASS MINGLING POST
Rating: What are ratings
Log:


[Anywhere in Johto and Kanto, there are people interacting. Some of these strangers interacting with other strangers. Some of these folks are your old friends. The insanity has happened yet again, and boy will it be insane.

In short, this is The Ultimate Mingling post version 2, where everyone can run into each other again and again. Damage will only sometimes be repaired, but it doesn't matter--have fun with it! It's primarily for those in the fourth wall who run into another oddball from some other mythical land who's going "What's this place?" just like them, but for everyone who wants to just continue going nuts. Seriously guys, why did you guys let Sunny even bother writing a description. JUST DO FUN THINGS.

But try not to blow up the world, okay?

And as usual, any format is welcome.]

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[likewatson]

To be honest with you, Coop, I'm not sure much else can surprise me at this point.

[No, really.

Harry draws a breath and sighs it out, shoulders rising and falling.]

Two days ago, just around this time. Started off in some other town to the south of this place, picked up Waldo here on the way, and I've been in—what's this place called? Goldenrod?—for a few hours.

[tapestodiane]

_{[Coop looks back at him at that with a flash of a grin. One of those full ones, like he was just told a secret.]}

Wanna bet?

<sub>[Don't do it, Harry.]

[But the information is important - and so is the following question.]</sub>

New Bark Town? Mom's house?

[likewatson]

[No, Harry does not want to bet. He's not much of a gambling man in the first place, and he already knows this is one he'd lose.

He frowns.]

No, Azalea Town. Then there was a forest—I forget the name—and then route... 34, I think it was. That's where I met Waldo.

And now I'm here.

[tapestodiane]

Well, here is a good place to start.

<sub>["Here" being a park in the city that's not too populated, and that's where Coop's been leading them during the short walk - there are several of them but this is one of the smaller ones, tucked away between a few buildings and is one of his more favourite spots. It'll likely be decent enough for a proper walkthrough of what's going on. .. as proper as it can be, anyway.]

[Sheriff sits down by his feet as Cooper puts his hands into his coat pockets and stops walking once beneath the first tree, in favour of just looking at Harry.]</sub>

I take it the natives weren't all that helpful to you?

[likewatson]

[Leave it to Cooper to steer Harry away from the hustle and bustle and into an idyllic little patch of calm. It's enough to make Harry draw a deep breath and hold it, then exhale with a sigh that almost makes him smile.]

Not exactly. That a common thing?

[tapestodiane]

Yes. If they know any more than we do, they either can't or won't tell.

_{[He figures most of the locals don't know much of anything; it's a big mystery to everyone.]}

The bad news is that I can't tell you anything you really want to know, which is how we got here and how we can go back.

[likewatson]

[Harry frowns, looking pensive. He's sure Cooper's already done everything in his power to find some answers, so when Coop says there aren't any, Harry believes him.

And that's unfortunate.

It's then that a question pops into his mind, and he's suddenly regarding Cooper with much more curiosity than before. His gaze sweeps across the agent's face, flickering this way and that, searching.

Something's different. Why didn't he see it before?]

How long have you been here, Coop?

[tapestodiane]

_{[Ah - there we go. Harry's perceptive in his own way, always was; a people person in a different way than Cooper, with a quieter understanding for nuances that often goes understated. And the smile Coop gives Harry in response has a trace of that recognition, a "well spotted" that goes unsaid.]}

Two years.

_{[There's an interesting expression to go along with that admission, because there's been a lot of joy and a lot of hurt in those years, and memories from his old life slowly fading; whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, well ... maybe you could settle with calling it bittersweet.]}

[likewatson]

[Harry's eyes widen. His first thought is no, that's not possible, I just saw him— but that passes quickly enough, given the impossibility of the entire situation. If they're here in the first place, he supposes it's entirely possible that Coop's been here for two years.

That won't stop a headache from threatening to blossom to life just behind his eyes, though. What he wouldn't do to find himself in a situation that might, on some planet, pass for normal...]

Wow. That's—

That's a long time, Cooper. What've you been doing?

[tapestodiane]

_{[Cooper doesn't quite shrug, but there's the same kind of spirit in his smile as it softens a little more. There's something a little resigned about it too; he hasn't exactly had much choice in what to do, has he?]}

What anyone would do, Harry. The best of the situation.

_{[As if on cue, his Houndour settles in more by his feet and leans on his leg - the very image of comfort. But Coop keeps his eyes by Harry's all the same.]}

[likewatson]

[Anyone? No. Cooper? Yes. Harry tries putting himself in Coop's shoes—at least as far as getting sucked into an alternate universe goes—and finds that headache brewing more intensely within seconds.

The weight of the bird on his shoulder does nothing to anchor him, nor does the presence of Cooper's dog.

But then, it's been two years. That's plenty of time. Harry can't imagine in ten seconds what Coop's been up to for two years.]

Sorry, this is— [A pause.] I mean, it's kinda hard to believe. I just saw you back in Twin Peaks. You haven't seen me for two years?