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Victor Mancha ([personal profile] ultron_junior) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2012-05-04 04:04 pm

Newbie Shuttle, Portalocity Terminal, BWI (Saturday Morning Fandom Time)

After everyone was done shouting at and/or hugging him to say goodbye – and there had been a lot of both –Victor Mancha had two choices in getting from Los Angeles to BWI. The first was taking a commercial flight, which would have been reassuringly normal.

The problem was that, even if he somehow got past the metal detectors, he suspected his circuitry might count as the kind of portable electronic device that wasn’t very takeoff-and-landing-friendly. He didn’t exactly have an easy off switch, and crashing a plane by mistake seemed like a big step towards super-villainhood.

Which meant he got to the Baltimore airport via portal. He’d never been through one before so he didn’t have much to go by, but it seemed like a nice portal: If nothing else, it smelled far better than Cloak’s ... cloak had. Victor was grateful to know that hadn’t been the state-of-the-art in teleporting.

And now he was on the East Coast other than New York for the first time. Once he’d exhausted the little potential for exploration the terminal had, he sat in a semi-comfortable airport chair, suitcase at his feet, and tried to break the Tetris high score on his phone while keeping watch for any other kids.

[OOC: Operation newbies: Go! I will be slow for a few hours after 5:30 EST, but otherwise around all night.]
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Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[personal profile] notconflicted 2012-05-04 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Marasiah," she said, still working up to feeling comfortable enough to throw her last name around. "Are unexpected places a habit for you?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[identity profile] godscrankshaft.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Within the last few days, at least," Thomasina explained. "I am... rather suddenly finding myself coming to Fandom, due to a change in circumstances."

That seemed the easiest way to describe what happened without getting into details like, "I jumped out of my bedroom window in 1812 because my room caught fire, and landed on the ground in 2012." It seemed unfathomable to Thomasina, and it had happened to her.

"It is not a habit I'd particularly developed prior, though, no."
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Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[personal profile] notconflicted 2012-05-05 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Changes in circumstances aren't always bad things," Sia decided. "Which I'm sure you'll be finding out one way or another soon enough."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[identity profile] godscrankshaft.livejournal.com 2012-05-05 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Thomasina nodded enthusiastically. "This one certainly has offered me many opportunities for learning," she explained, in a tone that indicated that this was the best possible outcome.

Nerd.