noitatnacni | 001 | Action/Accidental Video

001 | Action/Accidental Video

[So, being rained on in the woods makes it pretty clear she's not on the Watchtower anymore. There's a few possibilities: she remembers flying back with the force of Fate rejecting her spell, so maybe she hit her head. Or maybe it's some illusion caused by the rebound. A very real illusion, as she can feel her whole body ache as she sits up. But there's no way she's not hallucinating this.]

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in outer space anymore. [She mumbles the words to herself, unaware that anyone might be listening. The journal has gone beyond notice, though it's been silently broadcasting the scene since a minute or so before Zatana woke. Thankfully she's close enough to a tree that the rain falling on her is light enough to not be too much of a concern. Instead her eyes have wandered downward, taking in her change of clothing with a frown.]

Oh you've got to be kidding me. [Zatanna tugs at the collar of the dress she wears, clearly displeased by the slip.] Yeah, this has to go. Emit ot egnahc sehtolc!

[She lifts her hands over her head as she speaks the words, and seconds later a cloud of smoke flows up the same path to cover Zatanna completely. It doesn't last long, vanishing within moments to reveal the girl now wearing an outfit better suited for a magician. For some reason though, it makes the pain in her back worse, and her jacket feels far too tight. She shifts where she sits for a moment before shrugging off the outermost layer to reveal a pair of grey wings.]

What in the--?! [Zatanna gasps, eyes wide as she takes in the sight of the appendages now attached to her. Actually attached; they move when she thinks of moving them, and she feels it when she touches them.] Great. A fake world with bad taste in clothing and accessories. Just what I needed.

[She takes another look at the jacket, slowly shaking her head.] At least I've still got my magic. Dda seloh rof sgniw! [After another cloud puff, this only only around the jacket, she slides the coat back on--gingerly, since the wings still hurt.

She makes her way to her feet then, determined to find out what's going on. Hopefully exploring will give her the answers she needs to get back. If she's lucky, maybe she'd wake up and find out there could still be a chance to thwart Fate.

The only place she ends up, however, is in Luceti proper. With the advice of a few good samaritans in mind, Zatanna changes into something a little less battling-bad-guys ready using the same method as before. Not that the rain makes exploring easy, but there's not really much avoiding it. Luckily summoning an umbrella is easy enough to do, and gives her adequate cover as she wanders pretty much everywhere public, just trying to get some idea for where she is.]

{ooc: open action or voice to any; Zatanna will be looking around randomly, so feel free to catch her anywhere.}

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[Artemis doesn't see the accidental video right away. She spends the morning avoiding the journals, attempting to deal with the events of the past few days, the sudden rise of memories and the confusing chaos of her own emotions. When she does sit down to make a journal post later on, she flips through a few pages after she's finished.

That's when she catches a snippet of a familiar voice, uttering a jumbled string of disjointed words that make no sense. Not unless you've heard them before, understand what they mean. Artemis freezes, flipping back quickly to the video she'd just skimmed past. It had been recorded earlier in the morning and when she calls out to the girl over the journal, there's no answer.

But there's no mistaking that voice. Zatanna is here. Somewhere.

The last few days pushed to the back of her mind, Artemis scrambles up to get dressed and dashes out into the town, heedless of the rain, searching for the other girl in the village.]

[It isn't long after she arrives in the village that she'll have eyes on her; Billy's tried to make it a habit of watching for obvious New Feathers (or at least unfamiliar faces) when the start of the month swings around, since that seems to be the standard arrival cycle in this place. He's even cast the occasional location spell to track down those stuck in the woods.

Today, though? He's on his way to get some food during a free school period, his hood up to repel the rain a bit. And when he spots Zatanna nearby, he stops. And stares. Because whooooaaa, is that who he thinks it is?]

[Kurt had managed to get caught in the rain himself while walking through the village in his usual embarrassing clothing and loose baggy pants. He hasn't realized the only solution, only taking a precaution to pull his sleeve up to cover the image inducer. He catches the newcomer out of a corner of his eye and is ready to approach and greet her, but his eyes are diverted when he steps into a puddle. By the time he looks at her again, she now has the umbrella.

So he continues his approach with a confused smile.]

You didn't have that a second ago, right?

You... wait a minute!

[ Twilight fumbles with her journal and manages to figure out how to play the footage backwards. ]

Did you just say things backwards? [ She totally did. ]

[He's really starting to hate these shifts and the chaos they cause. Okay, sure, this one hadn't been quite so terrible, except for the mental cringing over some of the ridiculous magic he'd done just because... well, he could, but he really really hated having his head screwed with. He'd even believed everything about what had happened during the last week, taken it with absolute sincerity.

The only thing to do is kind of force himself back to what passes for normalcy in this place.

Like that's ever going to happen.

The rain isn't a problem for him. Place like England, you kind of learn to deal with it which is why, when he heads across town, the rain seems to hit an invisible barrier about a foot above him and sluices off around him. Some people aren't so lucky.

Some people have pretty neat tricks too.]

Interesting chant there. Pulling stuff out of thin air is tricky.

Whoa, nice trick!

[He kind of feels bad for staring, just a little. But it doesn't count if it's the journals, right? Yeah, he's just gonna say it doesn't.]

[Suki is completely amazed by the sight.]

How did you do that?

[Unlike certain other heroes who don't bother with the journals enough, Robin's been keeping tabs on Zatanna since her first transmission over the journals. But there's time to be patient in a place like this. He'll wait for her to get settled, to post again, to--

To promptly move right in down the hall what the hell Artemis.

The next time she's alone, in the kitchen, in the hall, wherever she might be, Robin slides out from seemingly nowhere, cape wrapped around himself to air with the whole stealth thing.]

I think it's time we met.

[You would think a girl would remember to bring an umbrella with her when the skies looked just that overcast in the morning. But no, Katara had been in too much of a rush to bother going back for it. Fortunately, rain wasn't too much of a bother for a master waterbender. She kept a hand pointed upwards in front of her, waving it back and forth slightly as she walked to send the water in either direction, creating her own personal dry space. She no longer needed to keep her hand above her head, for which she was grateful, but she still needetilld to maintain the motion in order to direct the rain.

Zatana with her umbrella still warrants a second glance, as Katara is pretty sure she knows everyone in Luceti at least by sight. But since they're still a little bit apart, she doesn't say anything yet.]

[And Here Cross was taking a walk in the rain with his hood up turned, thinking the day was going to be completely uneventful. Ha, so much for that. At least when he see's a girl being all magical and stuff and suddenly changing her clothes in public...er...magically of course.

So, what's the friendly thing to do? Compliment of course.]

Whoooooooa...nice trick there. Must make it easy picking out your clothes in the morning.

[Rain or shine, Riku makes a habit out of slipping into the woods on a fairly regular basis. It's usually quieter than the village proper, plus he's got a raft to maintain. With rain pouring down, said maintenance is especially important...

But when he spots Zatanna's magical clothing routine, he stops in his tracks and blinks slowly. There's something you don't see every day. It's definitely impressive, though. Maybe even enviable, even if his newbie days are far behind him.

Ah well, he'll give her some applause.]

Well, I guess that'll save you one trip to the clothing shop.

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