touchscreens | 1st Adventure [Video/Action] June 11, late morning

[Pippin has a chair he's pushed over in front of one of the terminals in the lobby of Building 2 to stand on, and he's spent the past half an hour fiddling around with the terminal itself. Now he's finally got it right, and he's peering through the camera, onto the network.

He looks like he hasn't been sleeping well at all, but he's got a smile anyway, because that's what Pippin does.]

Ah. Um. Hello? Hello! I'm... I'm Pippin. I'm from the Shire, in Middle Earth. I've never seen anywhere like this before, I've got to say. Not even Citagazze was quite like this!

[The smile turns a bit sheepish when he gets around to why he's done this.]

I was wondering... is anyone interested in swapping rooms? I just really... don't much like being so high up. It's really kind of hard to get comfortable, when you're used to living in a hobbit hole, really. If anyone has a ground floor room, I'd be happy to trade mine. It's a very nice room, I'm sure, but it's just not so good for a hobbit.

I'll be down here in the lobby, building two, if you want to trade keys.

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First floor, I'm afraid. My building doesn't seem to have any rooms on the ground floor, but I'm hoping someone else has found some and won't mind trading.

[Otherwise, well... Hobbit gonna hafta adjust somehow or another.]

Oh, and I'm Peregrine Took. You can call me Pippin, for shorter, everybody does. Pleased to meet you! If you can call it meeting over these screen things, exactly. It seems a bit odd not to see you in person.

Sounds like we're in the same building. Sorry about that. [ She shrugs. Hey, she tried. ]

I'm Stephanie Brown, but you can call me Steph. Where I'm from meeting through a screen isn't really that uncommon.

We don't even have anything like these screens where I'm from.

[Pippin looks a bit embarrassed by that. Middle Earth sure does seem backward compared to here! Not that he minds living without touchscreens. And hot showers. And really tall buildings.]

But, well, hello Steph. It's all right. I just figured asking couldn't hurt anything.

Hey, don't worry about it. I figure there's some time travel to go with these alternate universes. May as well throw all the sci-fi themes in there.

Well, world-jumping, at least, yes! I was somewhere else before, too, so this isn't my first time someplace unexpected. I don't think my world is much like anyone else's, though. No one else has ever heard of a hobbit.

Hobbit, huh? Can't say I have. Unless you're just saying hermit really strangely. [ Worth asking, right? Anyway she figured they were all from different universes. That seems to be this place's theme. ]

I'm sorry, did you say you did some world-hopping before you came here?

Oh, not much, really. Just one. It was a place called Citagazze and there were little holes, windows they called them, between worlds you could take. I never really got the chance, though. I went through mine into theirs, and then a few weeks later they sent me back. I guess with the regime change, they didn't need us around anymore really.

[ She blinks at him in disbelief. ]

Seriously? You just... popped around, just like that?

Not exactly! It was only the one time, and the one window. Then they sent us back after the place got attacked. Like I said, I didn't really get the chance to go anywhere else.

Well, except here, but I don't think that's really the same thing.

Huh.

[ She considers that for a long moment. Then she seems to remember that she's on a video feed. ]

Well that's weird! But probably not the same deal, no.

No, not really, since that one happened mostly because I wanted it to. I could have not gone through that window, after all.

[He grins.]

But that wouldn't have been any fun.

[ That earns a grin in response. She can appreciate the sense of adventure, even if she would really prefer that she hadn't been kidnapped. ]

Maybe we'll find a window home, here.

Oh, that would be nice. I'd only just gotten back, you see, and now my family is going to worry all over again now that I've gone and vanished. Or, I suppose, they'll just say "of course he did, it's Pippin!" and then not worry at all.

[Each was equally as likely, and both were likely to happen, just with different people.]

[ She snorts. Sounds about right. ]

Yeah, I know how you mean. I hope nobody is too worried about us, back home.

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