1st Adventure

[forever_cheery]

[Action1 : 921 Bilko Blvd. Waking up is awfully strange, especially when you don't sleep. Aurora Belle sits up in the bed for a few moments, blinking in confusion. Everything around her was solid, as well. Was this some new fancy house in the Afterlife? They certainly never had pajamas before there. Or sleeping people.

Speaking of. Poke poke, sleeping man. There's a lovely new wife for you to wake up to.]

Hello! Hi. Um. I have a lot of questions for you, if you don't mind.

[After that, it's off to explore the house. She'll be gawking at the photos, poking the appliances, and generally touching anything and everything like it is all shiny, new and novel. This will lead to a phone call to everyone! There's a clattering sound as the receiver hits the ground.]

Oh no! Did I break it? What... How do these things work again? [Insert the sound of the receiver being fiddled with.]


[Later, Action 2: Aurora has taken to the streets to explore her surroundings. Despite any warnings she may have been given, she looks like she's having a grand old time. She looks positively giddy as she comes upon the park. She'll be stopping whoever passes by to share her joy with.]

Isn't. This. AMAZING? I had no idea that the sun felt like this! Or that the air smelled like this! [She breathes in and lets out a deep breath.] And that breathing is so easy! You don't even have to think about it or anything! Or blinking, either! Or a lot of things! Hey, do you think I can climb that tree?

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[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

[H-HEY!] What's being a girl have to do with it?! [She scrambles up after him less than gracefully since she's wearing a dress and not the best shoes for this. She makes it up and sits on the branch beside him.]

Ha! I'll have you know that until today, I was even corporeal and yet I managed to do this!

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

[Scout takes the word CORPOREAL to mean CORPORAL and beams.]

Wait, so, yer tellin' me you used to be a cop? Really? Wouldn't'a guessed it!

Tell me a cool cop story.

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

[whut]

Huh? A cop? [She ponders this, then giggles.] Haha, that's a weird question. I was a ghost before I got here!

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

[If Scout didn't have good reflexes he probably would have fell off of the branch when hearing the word 'ghost'. This girl had to have been foolin'! Shit like that only happens in comics and movies.]

So wait. Y'weren't a cop but y'were a ghost?

[Laughs]

Stop foolin'. Ghosts are only in comics and shit. I used ta read a lot of 'em. Guessin' you did too, since y'seem ta have a crazy imagination.

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

You live in this town but think ghosts can't be real? Are you serious? I was talking to a flying magical horse yesterday! All kinds of people live here. Yep, I was a ghost. I had died and existed in the Afterlife with a lot of other ghosts.

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just got here! And I only met humans so far.

Never heard of a flyin' horse. Yer sure ya weren't just imaginin' it or something?

I think y'can't claim you were a ghost unless y'can prove it.

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

No way! There's all kinds of different people from all over the universe here. Geez, I just got here too but I live with a guy who claims to be the nation of Norway, and I've met a talking horse and a magic user and Death! But she likes to be called Didi.

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

The only people at my house are drones, 'cept me 'acourse. It's actually pretty freakin' boring there -- dat's why I'm almost never in that place.

I haven't met many people outside'a my house yet, and if I met someone claimin' to be a nation I'd just laugh in their face.

[A bird swoops down really close to Scout's head and he angrily swats it away.]

So y'were really a ghost? Tell me, what was it like?

[He's actually curious. He's still apprehensive about believing her, but he had technically died plenty of times back home and is wondering what would have happened if he weren't a part of RED and weren't re-spawned all of the time.]

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's too bad. There's only one in my house. Weird how they call me "mom" all the time. It feels really wrong.

You mean compare it to being alive? Well, I've only been alive for a few days now... It's good though! There's lots of people in the Afterlife, and you can visit Earth if you want, but I usually stay back and hang out with my friends there, and help the new people who come in.

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

[Please excuse Scout as he gets uncomfortably close to you now.]

Didja haunt anyone?

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

[She laughs, then stage-whispers back to him.]

I did! But they never knew I was even there. I just did it to try it out!

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

Whaddya mean they didn't know y'were there? Didn't ya break shit?

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

No way. I could never do that to someone! That's be a pretty mean thing to do, though I do know ghosts who do that.

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

But what if ya broke shit dat belonged t'someone who was real mean t'ya before ya died? How would it be mean then?

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Oh, well... If I remembered anyone from when I was alive, then maybe? But since I don't, I have no way of knowing who was mean or nice to me.

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

Dat really sucks.

Man, I hope I don't ever turn inta a ghost. At first I thought it was cool but now it sounds kinda lame. Forgettin' crap and all.

Heh, least when I die at work I come right back!

[Starts laughing]

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

You what? How does that happen?

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

Uh, I dunno the details. But at my work when I die I re-spawn. So I don't really die. I come right back!

It's pretty freakin' sweet for me, but I hate how the guys I kill come back too.

Anyway, it's not t'say I die a lot there, cause I don't. It's real rare. Like a blue moon.

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Wow, I don't think I've ever heard that before.

Wait, you kill people too?

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

Only BLUs!

[He swings his legs as he says this. He's been still for too long and he feels like he needs to get down from the tree soon and run. Or do something active.]

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

Blue whats?

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

Uh, guys workin' for BLU. I don't feel like explainin' all'a that right now.

[Starts to climb down the tree and stops halfway for a brief moment to say something else.]

I'm gonna go home and get somethin' t'eat.

[Scout finishes getting down from the tree and as soon as his feet hit the ground, he begins to run in place.]

Can't sit still for long! Hah! Uh, guess I'll talk to ya later --- [Pause] What's yer name again?

[forever-cheery.livejournal.com]

[She wrinkles her nose at him, unsatisfied with him dodging the question.]

I'm Aurora.

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

'M Scout. I'll catch ya sometime later!

[He says that and then runs back toward his house.]