— video.

[webshoots]

name: peter parker (ANONYMOUS)
date: 07/05
format: video

[ at first, there's a shot of sky; then, there's a shot of a wall, and then there's peter sat on the wall — or more accurately, there's a shot of someone sat on the wall in what, in some universe, could be mistaken for a red and blue wrestling suit.

(it's not though, it's just your friendly neighborhood not-as-spidery spider-man.)

that is to say: the explanations (quote-unquote) they've received to date are somewhat lacking, and he's still kind of hoping there's an absolutely anyone he can point a finger at and go 'I KNEW IT' rather than have this remain an apparently fluke accident of the multiversal variety.

there's a quirk of his lips and he holds his hands up, palms facing outwards in vague gesture of: and so. ]

Skipping past the Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore and going straight to the yellow brick road and wizard combo was— ... not exactly life affirming, but it did make me wonder about my sartorial choices.

[ he lets that comment hang for a moment before continuing, attention shifting up to the sky for a count of three and then back in the direction of the watch. ]

I mean, I get it: dimensional travel is [ pause. ] Complex. Temperamental. Annoying. [ that's not entirely the word he means, but it's the word he's using (there could be kids listening). nevertheless: ] I've been there, done this, passed on the t-shirt because it belonged to a guy with a color scheme that makes me look ill and come out the other side. Right side? Home side. There's got to be a better way of putting that—. Wasn't really interested in a repeat. Do you know how many voicemails I'm going to go back to? Accusations of being Bigfoot?

[ he holds his hands up — exasperation, folks — and it's followed by another pause, and another a quirk of his features beneath his mask. it's punctuated by a shrug, and he almost manages to look sheepish. ]

—You know, that felt good to get off my chest. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I’d love to say this is the weirdest thing I’ve done in my life but it’s not, which basically brings me to this question:

Anyone got directions to the lost and found? I think I dropped something exit-right of Earth.

Comments

video; 'katsuragi'

[topslug]

[ Talk about a fast way to making her feel uncultured ... Yako understood every word that came out of his mouth, just not ... much else. So she'll latch on to the last bit instead. ]

What did you lose?

perma-video.

[webshoots]

[ cultured: a word not often used to describe peter. ]

My dignity. [ his spider-sense. there's a pause, then: ] —And a pair of glasses that are possibly looking a bit dated.

[topslug]

I haven’t seen either, but I’ll keep an eye out. You might have to describe your dignity a little more specifically, though.

video (eren jaeger)

[usurpers]

[










what is this all suppposed to even mean, says a young lad from year 853, to himself. ]

Your— Clothes?

[webshoots]

[ IT MEANS





this sucks, eren. ]

—That's a valid guess, but no. Whilst the red-and-blue doesn't leave a huge amount to the imagination, it is still clothing.

[usurpers]

Looks . . . Hard to move in.

[ . . . no offense! he’s perplexed. it’s colorful! too colorful, like you’re painting a target on yourself. and skin tightness looks suffocating! ]

Like you can’t breathe.

voice: (bakugo)

[bombingking]

...What's with the get up?

[It's like something a hero would wear. He's been stalking the network for information but this is something that grabs his attention.]

[webshoots]

You say that like you've never seen a grown man in spandex before.

[bombingking]

Joke's on you, I see at least two every fucking day.

voice: paris mercout

[oceanschild]

[What-- how did-- why is he small and inside of the pocketwatch?? is this the thing that powers this device?? he looks like some weird spirit sort of thing...

While no one really explained the device to Paris, they did at least show him how to talk to people. It takes a little bit of fumbling even after he gets the voice function on, and when he finally speaks he sounds a little bit alarmed.]

Are you ok? Are you... stuck? [None of the words he'd said made any sense, after all, but he definitely sounded upset about something.]

[webshoots]

[ peter doesn't miss the note of alarm and he hesitates for a moment: 'are you okay?' is a loaded question, one he's going to skip right past. ] I'm peachy. [ the second question though— ] I want to say 'yes', but I'm not convinced I'm actually answering the question you're asking, so: stuck where?

text

[veilfires]

[There is a lot of new information here to process. First is the ordeal of actually getting the ‘Video’ (extraordinary!) to play. When this is achieved, he’s left only bemused by the actual content.

It appears to be an expression of the man’s personal grievances and confusion at being inexplicably trapped in a new world. Much of it he decides he can cleanly discard as cultural references to his own world – idioms or stories. The… physical body, however. Is that some manner of tight, perfectly cut fabric, covering his entire body? Is that also a cultural marker? This is far less easily explicable.

There’s one interesting question predominating, and so he wages a valiant struggle against his watch to Reply.]

Hello. I have received your ‘Video’. I apologise if you did not wish me to see it.
My name is Solas. I have likewise found it distressing and inconvenient to be stranded in this world.
Which is in part why I must ask: are you truly experienced in dimensional travel?

[webshoots]

I'm tempted to say 'experience of' and 'experienced in' are two different things.
But to answer: yes, I've ended up in the occasional alternate universe, alternate timeline, et cetera in my time.
(And I think I can speak for the majority when I say that the theory is often more enjoyable than the practice.)

But hey, Solas. Spider-Man here.

Video; HarryDresden - Denial is a video in... wherever this is.

[iminthebook]

[ Harry stares.

And stares.

And thinks of every joke he can, and then very deliberately reaches out and turns the video back off. Nope. Not yet ready for this conversation.

Nope. ]

[webshoots]

[ soz harry.

(except really not at all. the biggest take-away peter is getting from this — and possibly the most important one — is that it's looking as if he's the only person from (his version of) earth.)

so—there's a flicker of a pause before peter responds to the ever so brief video, and the slightest of shrugs before: ] —I'm going to take that as a no.

voice; Iramaat

[wylderrant]

[ She honestly didn't get much of that, but she's not going to let that stop her. ]

What have wizards got to do with yellow bricks? Are they alchemists? Is this some sort of lead to gold thing?

[ Look, she has questions. ]

[webshoots]

[ it's okay, peter's used to that. ]

Think of it more as a— you know, I actually don't remember that much of the movie, —find what you had deep inside of you all along? As for the yellow, let's go with: he liked the colour, along with emerald. Basically, I've gathered that wizards, sorcerers and everything in between including magic-using gods like to be flashy.

video; un: srogers

[strengths]

❰ steve knows — that suit, mostly. ish. the voice is different, he thinks, maybe older. the suit might be different too, it's hard to tell. but who else would be wandering around, sitting on walls and quipping about things in the middle of a disaster? ❱

Queens?

❰ he never got your name, spiderling. ❱

[webshoots]

[ on the flip side, the only place peter can place that voice and that face from is here, but the username is enough to make him pause, really pause. steve doesn’t look like the cap peter’s ever known, but that doesn’t mean he’s not a cap. ]

That obvious, huh? [ he knows it’s that obvious, thanks, leo. his lips quirk beneath the mask. ] Brooklyn, right? [ not that he waits for the response to that before adding: ]

—Has anyone ever told you you’ve got one of those names?

video: Toby

[horkbajir]

I've read that book too. I don't suppose you've read the rest of the series?

[There's a closeup of a red eye set in green, scaly flesh, then Toby starts figuring out range and pulls back a ways. Snout, beak, heavy reptillian brows, upswept bladelike horns, deep guttural voice.]

A friend brought me The Wizard of Oz and told me about the sequels, but he said they weren't as popular and were much harder to find.

[webshoots]

[ the only sign of peter's expression altering at all at the sight of toby is the eyes on his mask briefly widening. he lifts a shoulder at the question. ]

Uh— no, sorry, I only caught the movie on TV as a kid.

voice; Archer

[boneofsword]

You're not the only one.

[tone as dry as the desert.]

My best guess is the other side of the mirror.

— voice

[webshoots]

You too, huh? I was beginning to think I was the only one. [ but yes: he's figured, although he's not, truthfully, that interested in the where, more the how. ] Shame we haven't got much more than guesses, though.

video;

[upinthesky]

Well, I can confirm this is nothing like Kansas.

[Har har? Look, he's trying.]

You're from Earth too? That's actually a relief.

video;

[webshoots]

[ that was—

well, peter could already guess this wasn't anything like kansas, but points for playing along. ] I don't know, from what I've heard about Kansas— [ s h r u g g i n g. ] You might be right, I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be more cows. But at least it's not Jersey, right? [ haha, now who's the funny one? beat; but okay— ] We're at the point where I should specify I'm from an Earth.