First EP

[strongest_faith]

The door opens, and a young man (not yet out of his teens but close) strides in looking like a man with a purpose.

As soon as the door closes behind him, he stops short, head lifting sharply, and he glances quickly around the unfamiliar space. A moment later, he has pulled a long, slender item from his pants pocket. It looks sort of like a rod of some sort of crystal with a metal handle attached, eight inches long or so. His gaze still darting around the room, he quickly draws a few symbols on his arm with the device, leaving thick, black lines as it goes.

"By the Angel," he mutters. "What has Hodge been up to now?"



[ooc: Quick note, while I'm using the lovely Matthew Daddario as a PB, Alec comes from the books, not the TV show.]

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[imthepilot]

He happens to have stepped into the path of two cats playing chasing. The larger black cat goes around him but the much smaller ginger and white cat is on a collision course for Alec's ankle.

A scruffy looking man with long hair and yellow goggles drops his tools and abandons the weird upside down spider-droid thing he's working on to make a grab for the kitten. "Kyber! I'm so sorry!"

[strongest_faith]

Alec spins, faster than a human should, to face whoever spoke, and in one smooth motion, he has slid his stele back into his pocket and unsheathed a knife at his belt. He holds it defensively, facing the man (who looks...remarkably human for this to be any sort of Downworlder trick). (Also, there are cats at his feet, so...probably not a demon dimension?)

"I'm only going to ask this once," he says, his voice calm and firm. "Who are you, where am I, and how did I get here?"

Clearly some sort of portal, but there are no portals in the Institute.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi's apologetic expression shifts to something darker. He scoops the cat up and shoves him safely away from the armed man.

"Put the knife away. There's no violence allowed here." Bodhi's voice is just as firm and a bit wary. "You're in Milliways, the bar at the end of the universe. It's a bubble universe. And you come in through the door behind you. Unless you're dead."

[strongest_faith]

Alec neither lowers the knife nor advances. "The door behind me has led to the armory every other time I've gone through, so I'm gonna need a better answer. How did I get here?"

[imthepilot]

"You're not going to get a better answer." Bodhi responses, a little snappishly. "Because that's the truth. The door turns up in strange places. Sometimes the same place, some times different. I don't know how it works. I only come through my own door once."

[strongest_faith]

Now he glances back, over his shoulder, to the door he came through. "Have you been trapped here since?"

Finally, he lowers the knife. Some. This guy is clearly a mundane, and therefore zero threat.

[imthepilot]

"I'm dead." Bodhi answers flatly. "Some people comes here as an afterlife. We can't go back."

He relaxes a little seeing the knife go away. "But most people just visit. From all over the multiverse. But there are a lot of people from a planet called Earth."

[strongest_faith]

And the knife comes right back up! "You're a ghost?"

He looks vaguely confused. There aren't ghosts, right? If there were ghosts, somebody would have told him, right?

He looks from the (ghost?) to the knife and back again and realizes that...knives probably don't work against ghosts, and he slides it back into its sheath.

"Who here is from Earth?" he asks, glancing around the room like he thinks he'll be able to pick them out.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi scowls and steps back as the knife comes back up. "Put that away. I'm not a ghost. I'm alive here. That's what an afterlife is for."

He doesn't relax much as the knife goes away. He's tired of this rubbish. "Ask around. It's a pretty popular planet here."

[strongest_faith]

"I thought the afterlife was for being dead," Alec says with a slight frown. It doesn't occur to him that he's being rude until he looks back to Bodhi again and sees his expression.

Even then he has to sort of shuffle back through their encounter in his mind to figure out why.

"Sorry," he says. "About the knife? I didn't mean to offend you."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi calms down a bit. "Milliways has rules against violence. Just so you know next time."

He shrugs. "I guess it's more of a life after life. I'm definitely breathe and bleed." there's a little catch in his voice on the word bleed. "But I know I died. And so did my lover. But he's here now too. And we finally get to have a life together. Without worrying about the war."

[strongest_faith]

That surprises him a little. He wouldn't consider that violence. There wasn't even any blood.

His attention catches on the pronoun used, but he shrugs past it pretty easily. "You live in a bar?"

[imthepilot]

More the suggestion of imitate violence. Something Bodhi is not at all comfortable with. But he's willing to let it go now the knife is away and staying away.

He lightens a bit at that, almost smiling. "We have an apartment upstairs. Nicer than either of us could have afforded before. I even have a garden."

[strongest_faith]

Alec takes another look around the space. He pulls out his stele and drags the crystal tip over the inside of his forearm, drawing a quick rune of accuity as he focuses on the details he'd missed before.

"How big is this place?" He'd said bubble universe, and Alec had envisioned something a little smaller, though he supposed he shouldn't have.

It...it just looks like a bar. No stranger than the Hunter's Moon. Now that he's looking closely, he starts to wonder if it isn't some sort of glamour, but he can't see through it if it is. Not faerie style, but...he wouldn't put it past the Seelie Queen.

[imthepilot]

The gesture shocks Bodhi and his eyes widen but he bites back his reaction.

"Much bigger than it seems. The garage downstairs is massive, the library too. And the rooms upstairs take up more space than it looks from the outside."

[strongest_faith]

Alec nods. If it weren't for the rune he just drew, he wouldn't have noticed Bodhi's reaction. As it is, he just frowns in confusion and holds up the stele lightly as though showing it isn't a threat.

"It's a strong glamour," he says. He's used to spaces being bigger than they seem, but he can usually see that they are.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi sees it and nods, relaxing a touch. But says nothing more about it.

"I wouldn't know. There isn't really magic where I was from. Unless you count the Force and what the Jedi could do. But even then, I don't really think that was magic. Just and extra sense."

[strongest_faith]

Alec shrugs this off. "Most mundanes don't believe in magic." And this guy is clearly a mundane.

"You said there's a garage? Are there roads?" His face is a little more animated.

[imthepilot]

"For ground craft?" Bodhi asks, echoing Alec's dismissive tone. "There's a lot of cars down there. I guess you could drive them on some of the paths around the mountains."

[strongest_faith]

"What else is in the garage?"

Please let it be motorcycles. Please let it be motorcycles.

[imthepilot]

"Someone me told me there's every vehicle ever made. And I think I believe it. It's massive. There's a man who runs a workshop just near the door. He has tracking devices to stop you getting lost. He has a lot of two wheeled ground speeders."

[strongest_faith]

Two wheeled ground speeders sound like motorcycles to Alec.

"And, what, people just...rent them?" he asks, super casual. Seriously, if he can rent a motorcycle for an hour, he might not even care if this place is actually a demon dimension.

OOC

[wayward_sun]

(Is it too weird with the Devil at this point? Because I totally get if it is.)

Re: OOC

[strongest_faith]

[I really want to say go for it, but I think it might be a bit much for Alec on his first trip in.]

Re: OOC

[wayward_sun]

(ooc: cool. I'll keep an eye out for him).