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Level 1: The next time we meet in this world [RH12]

[[The image appearing in your orb right now is that of the inside of the Two Faced Forest. There's the sound of birds, chitter of small woodland animals, but no sign of any sort of person or anything that might have turned the orb on. Strange.

That is until there's the sound of something shifting just out of sight and a low groan.]]

What....?

[[The image shifts at the voice, turning to focus on Bakura in his white mage robes, pushing himself up from where he seems to have collapsed on the forest floor. There's a small pond that seems impossibly clean and sparkling, and he looks a touch wet around the sleeves.

And very befuddled looking. He blinks a few times, looking around him as he sits up.]]

Where....?

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[[that actually gets a sheepish smile from him.]]

Aaaa... I think I got a little turned around! [[rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. ]] Not sure where I wound up...

Well. _{[He lets a pause hang in the air.]} Looks like the woods behind my house. Get outta there. Shit in there makes weird noises at night.

_{[;-; Just like in Hawksaw. James was so homesick.]}

[[blink blink, blink blink. The woods were that distinctive? (What did he know about trees and grass, he was a Tokyo kid.)]] Aaa... [[looks up. No, no it's pretty clearly daylight. Mid day ish even? It was hard to tell with the trees blocking the sun]]

Sorry, didn't mean to intrude! [[bows very sightly before trying to figure out how the heck to get back to something that looked more like civilization...]]

_{[At the apology, JW pulls a sort of face. Nobody ever apologized to him.]}

Aint my woods. Just dangerous is all.

_{[Shut up he's not looking out for the kid's well-being.]}

Oh... [[and then he looks so embarrassed]] Sorry, I just assumed...!

[[and then he pauses, blinking as he spots JW's discolored eye and sort of... freezes a moment. Was that--

No. Just the right color for it. False alarm! Aaa, he was just far too on edge, losing time again like this....]]

_{[JW just stares at him MORE.]}

Your're actin' awful weird, Bakarurah.

_{[Close enough. It had a B and a K in it.]}

[[.... and here he was hoping it was someone who didn't already know who he was.

...even if his name was very mangled there.]]

Aaaa... Sorry! [[rubs the back of his neck, not looking directly at the orb]] Just a little disoriented being lost, that's all!

[[so very very lost...]]

Climb a tree and get a look around. The kingdom aint hard to miss.

_{[UP NEXT ON JW: SURVIVOR MAN!]}

[[...Kingdom? He pauses, looking at his robes again, wondering if somehow, he wound up back in Monster World before shaking it off and looking for a tree to attempt to climb.

There, that one might work.. now to try and climb one hande--

Another pause as he looks over at his left shoulder. Huh. It didn't...

Very slowly he reached up with it, eyes widening slightly. The injury was still there, but it wasn't at all like it should have been. Had something healed him...? Something (else) to check later!

Right. Climbing! He could do this! (he hoped)]]

_{[So JW waited. It wasn't like he had anything better to do. He was waiting on a pot of herbs he'd found at the edge of the wood to boil.]}

[[There are a number of awkward pauses in this procedure as Bakura kept finding things that just... weren't what he expected. He nearly tumbled out of the tree on the first step by propelling himself far too much, finding his legs far stronger than he had expected them to be. When he didn't think about it much, he found he could climb far more easily than he had thought he would. Even his normally useless left arm and hand were of some help!

The orb dutifully followed his progress up until Bakura came too as high as he felt he could safely manage.

And was struck dumb by the view, his eyes going wide.]]

Aaaaa, that's so cool! There really is a castle! [[totally not realizing that he could be heard]]

_{[....Was this kid for real?]}

Kid, we've been here for weeks. You hit your head or somethin'?

_{[Maybe Bakura got into some kind of weird plant out there...if so, JW was going to have to investigate :I ]}

[[Turns to where the orb is hovering]] Weeks?!

[[he'd lost hours, half of a day, most of a night... but never weeks...! It's enough that he's utterly forgotten that he was trying hard not to let on that he had no idea what was going on]]

_{[He rubs the side of his head. Yeeeah injured or stoned. JW watched TV. He knew how these things worked.]}

Welcome to the Kingdom of Everything Sucks. I'm JW the Great and Terrible.

[[Terrible maybe.]]

[[Bakura blinks a few times before making a bit of face, part at JW and part at himself for utterly dropping the ball.]]

I can't imagine it's that bad...

[[Going to... carefully... climb back down now.

Who's the expert here, you or me? I say it's terrible.

What's so terrible about it...? [[Should he be worried?]]

You mean besides the fact that we were all ripped away from our homes and loved ones to be here with a dumb-ass king who has no idea how to run a country?

_{[Fume fume fume.]}

You must'v hit your head pretty damn hard.

Aaa... I guess that sort of thing would make it pretty horrible... [[To, you know, people who had loved ones to be torn from.]]

The guy's an idiot. I've spoken to him one on one. He could care less about us.

Now get out of the woods.

Right, sorry! [[looks up at the tree a moment to remember and orient what he saw to where he needs to go before starting in a direction]]

_{[JW just stews in his frustration quietly, having forgotten...or simply not bothered to close the orb connection.]}

You know what this place needs? A good old fashioned rebellion.

[[blink blink]] A rebellion...?

Yeah! They don't care about us. They dragged us all here to fix some stupid problem they probably started themselves!

Show 'em they can't push us around!

Sounds like a little much for something like that...

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