holy guacamole it's foggy nelson!

[avakaido]

 "Excuse me." Bumped past someone. What? He's preoccupied with trying to find out where he is exactly. The seats at the forum seem like a good place to crash. This is what he gets for venturing out to a fancy schmancy coffee shop that Marci picked out. The door should have lead to the bathroom. 

Should have.

"You ever feel like you're just really, really lost?"

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...it's because they're NOT YOs.... *ba dum dum tish!*

[avakaido]

"Newly arrived? I was like born here. Just... more that way." He gestures in a vague direction. "Just New York."

Though really the more he looks around at the people passing the more things add up differently.

Wah wah wahh~

[onemorebounty]

*She glances in the direction he indicated. It looks like she might be the one to drop this bombshell.*

New York? You're not in New York anymore.

*She occasionally applies her demolitions expertise to conversations.*

I'll be here all night!!

[avakaido]

"What do you mean?" Foggy squints and sizes her up again, top to bottom. This was not at all considered as an option, not even a vague inkling.

Don't tip your waitress, her balance is already chancy on those heels. Try the veal.

[onemorebounty]

You left the city, planet, and universe you know. You're somewhere between all possibilities.

*She gives a slight shrug.*

It happens.

It's VEALly good

[avakaido]

"I didn't though. I'm still here. Maybe you're from another planet." He decides to not use a kind of pick up line because he's interested in the information zinging around here.

[onemorebounty]

*She lifts a hand to point up, toward one of the places where the Nexus landscape folds back on itself and there's some upside-down city hanging in the sky overhead.*

[avakaido]

"That---"

Foggy pauses and blinks before squinting. He then tilts his head one way and then the other.

"Okay. Am I being punked?"

[onemorebounty]

*She gives a slight shake of her head.*

At some point, in your Facet, on your planet, you encountered a spatial instability--a door, a path, a wrong turn--that brought you to this place, outside your or any other universe. Objectively speaking, it happens all the time.

[avakaido]

"Isn't that kidnapping? I mean, I didn't want to come here. No offense." She looks tactical as well as super uh svelte.

[onemorebounty]

*She lifts a brow, unimpressed by Foggy's logic.*

Kidnapping? You walked here under your own power. Whose fault would it be that you took a wrong turn?

[avakaido]

"There's a guy in my neck of the woods that supposedly does mind control or--...it could be a trap. I'm important."

He is not that important.

[onemorebounty]

Mind control?

*Alright, well, that's disturbing, and she gives a wary glance around, just in case.*

Alright, so it's hypothetically possible that someone mind-controlled you into taking a wrong turn. If they did, they probably didn't have your best interests in mind, but they also probably weren't aware of whatever brought you to the Nexus, since this place would make it harder for them to exert their influence. If that's the case, then this is the best place you could possibly be.

[avakaido]

I know right? Horrible. Immoral. Illegal.

[All those things and more.]

It is an unconfirmed rumor. But there's enough to go around to make anybody jumpy.

[To the task at hand though...]

So...I am lost. But lost in a good place?

[onemorebounty]

You have laws against mind control?

*She's impressed; most 21st-century Earths aren't so progressive.*

You're in a place where no one can physically harm you without your conscious permission, unless you try to harm someone else first, where you can consult with people from very different backgrounds to get different perspectives on your problems, and shop for things that are one or more types of fictional in your Facet of origin. All things considered, that's pretty good.

lol what is format. sorry!

[avakaido]

"Well. No. But consent is big. You cannot and should not do anything to anyone against their will on principle. It's a violation of basic human rights."

Sorry to burst that bubble there, Samus.

"Okay. That's... comforting. I mean, is there proof that it's true? Like is that in writing or just a thing like blue sky and green grass?"

It's okay. I got your meaning, which was the important part.

[onemorebounty]

Ah, that's a point. Solid consent-laws would cover mind control, although you'd need some way to recognize the potential controlee as such, and isolate them from the suspected controller to determine whether any breach of consent had taken place.

*She isn't thrilled that Foggy phrases them as "human" rights, but he's from a young Earth, that as far as she knows hasn't had any significant social contact with non-humans, and so hasn't had to broaden the concept of personhood yet.*

It's been empirically tested. Here.

*Reaching up to brush back her hair with one hand, she somehow retrieves a palm-sized cylinder topped with a golf-ball-sized, silver-studded orb. With a flick of her wrist and a quiet click, the cylinder extends into a baton. She strikes quickly and with full force at his knee, solar plexus, and temple, each contact accompanied by a crackle of electricity and a smell of ozone--this baton tazes when it strikes. She is confident, though, that mind-mannered Foggy won't have tried to assault someone here, and will be perfectly safe.*

<3!

[avakaido]

"Yeah, that's where it gets slippery. You need proof." That's where all of the incidences in Hell's Kitchen were difficult to prove. Is there any proof at all? That reminds Foggy to look it up some time.

His world is just on the cusp of being rocked by multiple non-human lives in a non-invasive way. I mean, the first time it was by force when some Loki--isn't it always SOME Loki?--decided to try and take over the world. Rights are rights. And a standard of good will and civility is all that's required to allow a being to get by peacefully...that's the idea if Foggy thought so far.

"Here--? Wait!" He's not terrifically athletic and so his reflexes are not tested by more than the light turning red mid-intersection. He flails and flinches but...feels nothing. Foggy's satchel is used as a makeshift shield belatedly as he stands there. Stunned by the demonstration.

[onemorebounty]

See? No harm. I've seen literal gods held off by the field, so as long as you never swing first, you don't need to worry on that count.

*She looks him over, then gives a somewhat apologetic half-shrug as she collapses the baton again and tucks it back wherever she'd been keeping it.*

Sorry for the scare, but people tend to process the idea faster when they've seen it firsthand.

[avakaido]

Foggy slowly lowers his satchel shield and gives his pretty, militant companion a wary eye. "I see what you mean now." He swallows and is satisfied that the demonstration is over with. Going so far as to loosen his tie a little bit he nods.

"Really uh puts things into perspective. There's no way anything like that could happen. back where I'm from. The system would probably glitch from going into overdrive. I'm from New York."

[onemorebounty]

Oh?

*He's caught her curiosity.*

I've been to a few New Yorks. Hunted vampires in one--fun night. What's yours like?

[avakaido]

"You...have?"

He raises an eyebrow because she's so... space age looking.

"Vampires? Uh. No. No vampires in mine. I'd say it's normal but we have um Avengers. No ninja turtles. Maybe ninjas though?"

[onemorebounty]

"I have," which? Been to New York, or hunted vampires? In either case, the answer is yes.

*She is absolutely space age looking, because she is from space in a space age. Foggy's perceptions serve him well.*

I've known people from some Facets with Avengers. You have my sympathy.

[avakaido]

"I meant just New York but... that's also a trip." And then some! Foggy shakes his head and is smiling. Why is he smiling this is crazy!

"Are they bad Avengers? I mean, they helped a lot. Smashed stuff too.... It's all a matter of perspective."

[onemorebounty]

*Because his subconscious has already figured out that the best way to handle the insanity of the Nexus is to roll with it?*

They're not bad, per se, but it's my understanding that superheroics come with a great deal of collateral property damage.

[avakaido]

Imagine! What will happen next? Accepting strange realities? Associating with attractive ladies space age and otherwise? Foggy Nelson is a man of adventure!

"And then some! My city might not have vampires but anybody, anybody that works in real-estate or property management is making a killing off of The Incident. That's uh what they're calling the New York getting smashed up between the Avengers and some aliens."