Astrophobia

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[Jonathan Crane, PhD, scans the Plane with bespectacled eyes in his very nice suit. To all appearances, the Plane has just won itself a new university professor]

Acrophobia would hardly be an irrational fear at present. Indeed, it would be very [takes a step] very [another step] practical. This is possibly one of the very few instances in a normal individual’s life where siderophobia might be considered rational as well. And so they would cease to be phobias.

Incongruous but coherent structure... far too lucid to be any breed of hallucination or dream. The idea of it being true space is out of the question, of course.

[picks up a discarded hat, examining it] The two most likely options are thus illusion or reality. I wonder which it is. [sets the hat down again and carries on his way]

Comments

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

[Oh god big words.]Uhm. This is the Astral Plane.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

[slight smile]

A very appropriate name. Does it have anything more than that?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Does it have more than a name?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

There's lots of stuff here if that's what you mean.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Spotted the Coliseum. It seemed very out of place.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. People bring stuff here all the time. There's a kitchen over that way that never runs out of food, and over there is a tavern.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

How do they bring things here? [a beat] Never runs out of food?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to think yourself home, grab something and think yourself back. You can't bring other people though.

Nope. I think it restocks itself.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Someone did explain to me about the travelling. Do you have to be holding the thing? And if a Coliseum is here, is there a limit to the size?

That's very impressive. And it could do quite a lot of good. [never going to eat anything they serve him at Arkham again]

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

I think so. I don't bring a lot of stuff - just my gear, usually. I don't think there's a limit, but I've never tried to push one, so.

It's pretty handy.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

I think it would be. Thank you. What other rules are there?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

About this place? WEll if you know how to get here and back, then you should know that time doesn't pass at home while you're here.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

The young woman who helped me did mention that, yes.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I guess that's all you really need to know. It's pretty simple, once you're used to it.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Thank you, then. I don't think I caught your name?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Isaac! It's nice to meet you!

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Crane. It's a pleasure.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Where are you from?

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

Gotham City, New Jersey, the United States.

[Georgia, USA, actually, but he hasn't been there in years and no one would be able to tell his place of birth from his accent]

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

[:Oa] I've never heard of that place. Then again, I haven't heard of most of the places people here are from.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

It's a very dark city. Figuratively. It's a city that welcomes the night.

Where are you from?

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

Vale.

[handfulofstraw.livejournal.com]

We are at a mutual disadvantage; I have never heard of Vale.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

That's okay. Not many people have.