001 - Upon Infinity

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[And onto the Astral Plane walks a most extravagantly and well dressed male with skin and hair as white as the cravat he wears proudly. The deep black cape seems to cover all but his half outstretched arm which had only just been pushing open a mysterious door a moment prior. It lingered there for a moment before being outstretched again to his side, and pushing the left side of his cape behind his shoulder.

And upon his face was a most bemused smirk]

And so, where to would the mysterious doorway within my castle lead me but into the starry expanse of infinity. Or perhaps something deceptively resembling that of infinity. No reason to simply assume something based upon first impressions.

Yet this is not a part of my Castlevania.

I will, in this case, assume there is an explanation to be had. [Takes a few steps forward] I am sure it will be a good one, too.

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[madamemoiselle]

{What an odd looking person! Diva smiles as she approaches curiously}

Well, that kind of depends on your definition of "good", really.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[Stops walking, and turns to look at the rather pretty woman approaching him.]

In light of the situation before myself, something informative and, failing that, intriguing.

[madamemoiselle]

Ah, then I can probably do that much.

{She looks around}

This is the Astral Plane. You can come and go by just thinking about it, but time doesn't pass at home while you're here. And there are people from all kinds of worlds and realities that can come here, so there are...lots of kinds of people, I guess it would be. Time travelers, talking animals, vampires, or even just a regular human. The Twins and Meredith are kind of the owners of the Plane, but you won't see them much...

Ne, that's probably about everything that's important.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[...Well, the first thing he does is think about going back, and promptly disappears from sight.

And a few moments later, he returns with a wine glass in hand, filled with a red liquid that may be wine, and may more likely be something else]

No doubt intriguing and moderately explanatory, it shall indeed do for now. I cannot be so selfish as to expect all the answers to a mystery immediately.

[Takes a quiet sip of his drink]

[madamemoiselle]

{She purses her lips with a small smile}

Ne, is that blood?

[usagipino]

It's the Astral Plane! There are no card soldiers here, but there's a castle.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[A pause, and then a rather dark chuckle]

Then due to this Astral Plane, there is a castle within a castle. How utterly amusing this all is.

[usagipino]

Is it? It's funny?

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

Not funny, no. As I am hardly laughing. But it is amusing.

And what do you know of this Astral Plane, aside from it playing home to a castle?

[usagipino]

It's nice here! Pino has lots of friends. And everything stops while Pino is here, so Vince doesn't know I've been gone. And there's looooots of space to store things!

[lamb_of_gold]

There is an explanation, but it is hardly a good one

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

What a pity that is.

[lamb_of_gold]

More an annoyance, I find, though this place has it's merits.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

Merits, you say. Perhaps it does, in so much that time freezes when I am not within my realm. Yet there seems precious little outside of that.

[lamb_of_gold]

I quite like the company.

I would assume someone's told you the very basics of this place?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Holy shit, this guy /reeks/ of darkness. Axel feels the hairs on the back of his neck prickle a bit. A slightly feral grin crosses his face.]

Greetings.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[An interesting one at last. And my, does this one feel odd. The feral grin only further adds to his own...interest]

My thanks.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[He brushes off the fear.] Welcome to the Astral Plane, land of crazy people and occasionally free food. You can go back to wherever you were before by thinking about it.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[Twirls the wine glass in his hand idly. Crazy people and free food. We'll have to see of the latter.]

So I've seen. A most convenient method of transportation to and from this realm.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Eh heh heh.]

Yyyup. Pretty sure the amenities are free, too.

[shadow-shot.livejournal.com]

[This one seems just a tiny bit suspicious. Suspicions alone aren't grounds for picking a fight, so unlike the icon, the guns are not out - yet - but still...]

This is the Astral Plane. Apparently goin' into a shop run by a couple a' twins leads you here - don't know if that's a constant, though. You can go home or come back here by thinking about it.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[Just a tiny bit, hmm?]

A shop within my own castle no less. I should commend them, if nothing else, for being so talented as to do so.

[shadow-shot.livejournal.com]

[...Okay, MORE than a tiny bit, if only because that superior/enigmatic attitude is pressing quite a few of the wrong buttons.]

Well, they're able t' show up in multiple worlds or whatever. Guess it might not be much of a stretch for 'em to drag their shop into a castle.

[what-is-a-man.livejournal.com]

[We enjoy pressing those buttons too.]

Perhaps, were it an ordinary castle they opened up shop in. [Oh, yeah, there's a wine glass in his hand. And what is in it may be wine.]

[shadow-shot.livejournal.com]

[Mankind ill needs a button-presser such as you gee, that's good to know.]

You don't live in a normal castle, then? Is it haunted or somethin'?