021: Welcome back

[ra_ra_razputin]

[Oh jeez, who let Raz's drone near the phone?]

Hi, everybody! Gee, it sure is a swell day here in Mayfield! Now that the weather's nice, I can play baseball again! I can't wait to try out for the team this yea-

[He cuts off. If you're at 339 Brady Lane, you can see the dopey drone smile disappear from his face as he stares blankly at the wall, blinking in confusion.]

...Huh? This isn't the cafeteria. How'd I get home...?

[He looks down and realizes he's holding the phone receiver.]

Uh. Sorry, I forgot what I was gonna say.

[Hangs up. Awkwaaaard. Call him back, y/n?]

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[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[This has definitely gotten not!dad's attention.]

...Raz?

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

[Blinks some more, then turns to face Quinn.]

Oh, hi. I guess I'm ditching school today?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[He grins, glad to see Raz back to normal.] Yeah man, that's cool. How ya feel?

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Like I'm missing something. Namely, what I did between being at school and then being here all of a sudden.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Ya been droned for awhile, kid. Lucky for you, at lest, ya missed a whole lotta unpleasantness durin' that time.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

[OH NO, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.]

What? Seriously? How long? I didn't act all dumb, did I? And what'd they do this time?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Ya acted, well, like a drone. I had no idea ya were so into baseball. [He winks.]

Oh man, a lot and nothin' at the same time. A whole bunch of weird stuff happened, then it all turned out to be an April Fool's prank.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Baseball. [eyeroll.] I hate drone me.

So they pulled an April Fool's prank? They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. It was a two-week long set-up too. Gotta admire Lucy's ability to commit.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

What'd she do that took two whole weeks? Pretend to send us all home or something?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

I don't think one hundred percent of it was her, but I think she just kinda went along with it. Geez, what didn't happen... well first, a road opened up, a nice wide highway. There was a diner and gas station out there. Still there, actually, but all the people working there are gone now.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Lemme guess, the diner was full of poison food or some other stupid trap. Where'd the highway lead?

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

Just really bad food far as I could tell. But the woods surrounding the highway was apparently fulla killer bears.

There's road signs tellin' ya about nearby towns, but it doesn't go anywhere, of course. There was this old west town that appeared for a bit, but I didn't find much there. Place was totally abandoned.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Bears? Pfft, can't be worse than the bears at Whispering Rock.

Other towns? I wonder if there's any other places like Mayfield out there.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

If Westport's any indication, I bet there is.

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

Raz? Is that you?

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. What's up?

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

You've been droned for a while! I thought you'd gone home.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Nope! Still here. Unfortunately. Hey! Since I've been gone so long, I probably need an update on what the KND's been up to, right? Any news?

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

Oh... um...

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

...What happened.

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

He's not here anymore.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

What? No. That's just- no.

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

...I know. I'm sorry. But I'm going to keep the KND going.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's what he would want. I'm not giving up on it, either.

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going to have a meeting pretty soon. I can count on you to be there, right?

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

Great! I'll see you there, then.

((OOC: There's a post up in the logs community if you want to hop over and tag that next.))

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

[from the living room]

DRONE! Where's my fucking soda?

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

[what.]

Excuse me?

[notsaul.livejournal.com]

... Oh, you're back.

Sorry for using your drone as a slave. [she's not sorry]

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

[This is about as unimpressed as Raz can possible look.]

Well it's nice to see you, too.