x - 0007 [Firewalker]

[call_me_spooky]

[Police Filter]

Well, as verifiable proof that no matter what dimension you're in, Mondays inherently suck... There's been an explosion in Building Five. A lot of property damage, but the fire looks to be under control, and most of the injuries seem minor. As far as I can tell there haven't been any deaths.

I've brought in a suspect for questioning, who was at the scene and covered in blood. As to what actually happened, I have no idea.

[ooc: aaand here's Mulder, helping out with plotty stuff, hope this works for ya? :D]

Comments

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Good then.

Well, I'd suspect those are pretty few. Probably still in denial over what's happened, or something. A friend of mine had a pretty interesting theory, about how things that are real in one dimension can become fiction in another. It may be rubbish, but it works for me. I think we need to find ways to make sense of things here, even if our ways don't mesh with each other, if we're going to manage living here without going mad.

[call_me_spooky]

Yeah, Lieutenant Commander Data of the Starship Enterprise-- he's one of my roommates-- had a similar theory. It's a fascinating subject, but damned if it doesn't give me a headache after a while. Still, stranger things have happened.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

...Are you serious?

Well, I'm sort of into physics and time theory and things like that, so I find it pretty interesting. I really do need to get back to work on a project I started a while ago, for a device that at least can predict openings in the dimensional fabric, and maybe even can create them. It'd be pretty handy.

[call_me_spooky]

Yup. Me, Data, and Spock.

If nothing else you could probably make some money selling trips home, if it worked.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

[brief pause for a squeak of glee]

I've other ways of making money! I want it so it can be used to send people home who want to go, or maybe even fetch people here from other places. I've no doubt the deities will have something to say about it, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying.

[call_me_spooky]

I can imagine they'd object if we could come and go as we pleased, yeah. I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it, though.

To be honest? I'm kinda having a good time here, for the most part.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Well mostly it's the people I concern myself with, yeah. I think the deities take care of themselves pretty well.

I love it here! I've my own business, all sorts of friends, the opportunity to learn the most amazing things -- I got to ride on a broomstick, of all things! Plus, seeing as how I'm dead back home, living in the City has some distinct advantages.

[call_me_spooky]

I'm told I'll lose my enthusiasm once I get hit with one of the worse curses, but so far... It's amazing.

Sorry to hear about that... I guess the City's automatically a better option for a lot of people.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Some of them are...yeah. Pretty awful. But honestly, no more awful than anything that can happen to you at home. And at least with the curses, you know they'll be over. They take a little getting used to, but there are worse things.

Thanks, but I'm honestly all right about it. I accomplished what I wanted, what I needed, and...this is pretty good as an afterlife goes.

[call_me_spooky]

Shortly before showing up here I was almost digested alive by a massive underground carnivorous fungal organism. True story. So yeah, I can see what you mean.

Could be a lot worse, yeah.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Wow. All I can come up with is Welsh cannibals, and a near-miss with a space whale. Well, there was this...trap, here in the city, but that's...

Anyway. Right. Being digested, that pretty much beats it all, I think.

[call_me_spooky]

It was actually a remarkable experience. The organism releases a hallucinogenic spore to pacify its victims, and secretes a digestive acid which basically dissolves flesh. We weren't conscious of it... The whole time we lived in a sort of fantasy world, a mockery of reality woven of our memories and thoughts, our expectations.

Hurt like a bitch, afterward. So. Space whale?

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds intriguing. I bet Owen would have loved to study the spore's properties. You never know when something like that could be useful.

I can imagine it did! The um, space whale thing was...well there was this outfit who were passing off alien flesh as beef, and we discovered it was actually this enormous whale-like alien who'd got lost and come through the Rift. Poor thing was in so much pain, and it went a bit mad. We had to put it down, or it would have killed the whole team.

[call_me_spooky]

That sounds pretty unsanitary. People'll do anything to make a buck, right?

...And here I'd always assumed aliens would taste like chicken.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Well, don't know about making a buck, but anything that makes saving the world a little easier, I'm pretty much in support of.

Maybe different species taste like different things? This one definitely tasted of hamburger.

[call_me_spooky]

I've never had the opportunity to bite one, so I'll take your word for it.

Of course now I can't shake the idea of a McSpaceWhale with cheese.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Well... Right, that would be weird. To go about biting aliens.

You tease, but there's a very good chance I've had that! They were selling to Cardiff's meat suppliers, so there's no knowing where it wound up before we caught it.

[call_me_spooky]

Usually the other way around, right?

...that's. Wow. And no widespread adverse side effects?

No, scratch that, if it was in fast food who could tell?

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems to be more par for the course. Except when they're possessing people as sex gas or something. That was odd.

Far as we could tell, no one noticed the difference. Does make you wonder about the state of the meat packing industry, doesn't it?

[call_me_spooky]

I think your aliens are more fun than mine. Where I'm from they're prone to trying to destroy the human race en masse, or in more specific cases tearing their way out of host bodies. Mostly.

The meat-packing industry has always been one of the best arguments for vegetarianism. I'd recommend having the chicken instead, but the last chicken plant I visited was run by a cannibal cult, so maybe not.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Oh we've got lots of those too. It's the whole reason my team even exists in our world. But there are so many types of aliens, we can't help but encounter ones now and then that have a more personal agenda. Or that are just...lost.

Ugh, cannibals. I'll take xenocidal aliens over those any day.