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Jessica Jones ([personal profile] withwhiskey) wrote in [community profile] itinere2017-09-07 07:54 pm

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Someone want to explain what the hell is going on here?

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Jessica doesn't walk anywhere; she stalks and storms. She storms into The Houndstooth, orders a bottle of whiskey telling the bartender to just leave the bottle because "you'll have to see me less and I won't have to talk to you". She takes a swig from the bottle then turns her attention to the PDA, poking at it and scrolling angrily (can someone even scroll angrily? Jessica manages it) through the thing.

"You're fucking serious. What kind of rich asshole brought us here and if it's Tony Stark I'm going to beat him and his bodyguard's ass."

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[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-08 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Trish has been here a few days but kept a low profile since she's having a hard time accepting this fate without anything or anyone that's at all familiar (as far as she knows). Imagine her surprise when the name 'Jessica Jones' pops up on her screen in a text sent out to the masses. She's so excited that her phone fumbles out of her hands to the floor of her apartment. She has to pick it up and steady her hands to text back. ]

Jessica? It's Trish. Thank god you're here. I thought it was just me.

[ Of course Jessica will know it's Trish. If Jess's name popped up then so will Trish's. ]

[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-09 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm at the apartment building. I've seen the place. Give me ten minutes.

[ There's a pause here before Trish sends another text that shows how glad she is that Jessica is here and how worried she's been about being in this strange place alone. ]

Don't go anywhere.

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True to her word, about ten minutes later Trish enters The Houndstooth. She's wearing an off the shoulder sweater, khaki skinny slacks and some heels. Her hair is in a perfect ponytail and her makeup done just right. She looks wide-eyed around the place until she finds Jessica at the bar. She should have looked there first.

Her heels click over the floor as she makes her way over to her friend, one arm already outstretched to pull her into a hug. She's just going to hold on for a moment, okay? "Did you just get here? It's been a few days for me. I barely understand what's happening... but this isn't home."

She pulls back and looks at Jessica. "It isn't even our world, I don't think."

[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-10 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
For Trish, it's like a suit of armor. If she isn't perfect on the outside then people can see all the metaphorical scars her childhood had left her with and she just can't have that. People idolize celebrities. They also love to rub salt in their wounds when they spot them. They love to see them fall from grace. They love to see them break and crumble. Trish desperately tries not to give the public any fodder for that. Although she's taken some heat lately for defending some of the vigilantes in the area, and powered people in general. She's officially a sympathizer.

What Trish has tried to tell Jessica, and what Jessica can't seem to understand, is that Trish had wanted to help her: with Kilgrave, with the new threat of The Hand. She hates being on the sidelines when her heart so readily wants to help out. She hates feeling useless. Whatever this is, she wants to help here too.

"That sounds about right from what I've heard from other people. There are people here from everywhere, worlds that are... different." She explains moving to sit on the stool next to Jessica's where she orders a glass of rosé from the bartender standing there. "But you and I are from the same world. There might be others."

[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-14 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just like Jessica to say she wants to be away from others, and maybe or maybe not mean it. Trish knows Jessica well enough to assume that she doesn't really mean it, because while Jessica might grumble and groan about it all day long, she always comes through in the end, when it really counts. It's also just like Trish to want said idiot assholes here so that she can help them if she can. Trish can't change who she is, she has a hero's heart and soul, if not any powers to go with it.

"I'm going to bet that every place has idiot assholes, whether they're from New York or not." She says it with a bit of sadness if just for the truth of it, if just because she knows that Jessica needs and deserves a break even if she won't let herself have one.

Her glass of wine is set in front of her and Trish takes a sip of it. Her eyes half lid and she nods. "Well that's delicious. I should have come here sooner."

After setting her glass down, twisting the stem of it between her fingers back and forth, she looks back to her best friend. "Have you been to the apartment complex? I'm sure you have your own place, but you should stay with me. Strength in numbers, at least until we figure this out." She strategically makes it sound like there's an end date to make it more appealing for Jessica. She wants Jessica to stay with her forever. But she knows Jessica needs her own space too and is worried she'll turn her down.

[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-16 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Classier and better. It tastes like fruit instead of whatever it is that you're drinking." Not that Trish has an aversion to liquor. She's had her fair share of swigs from bottles with Jessica, and even ordered something very strong from the bar before. Wine is just her favorite. It's a joy to drink, not something she has to make herself swallow to get drunk faster. She's only teasing Jessica anyway. There's no judgement. They both have their demons. They both have their struggles.

Trish is very happy that her tactic paid off. With that out of the way, she can just worry about keeping Jessica there with her when the time comes to worry about it. In the meantime, she knows they can live together well because they've done it before. There's no one else she trusts more.

"Did you find anything important out?" She wonders, shifting topics so as not to give Jessica too much time to think on living with her again. "I didn't think about checking the bookstore."

[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-18 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes Trish smirk and laugh. She would have to agree that bourbon is classier than what Jessica normally drinks. Trish is aware of why Jessica drinks. Trish used to self medicate for similar reasons, although to be fair, her mother was the one who started her on those drugs. Now she's become too much of a control freak over her own life to do that. She went from one extreme to the other, as many former addicts do.

"Stepping it up is easy when the liquor is free." She jokes. She'd known that things are free. It's something she's still trying to wrap her mind around.

"A star...?" It takes Trish a moment to realize that Jessica is emballishing. She draws a deep breath and rolls her eyes. Okay, Jess, you got her. She pulls her phone out of her pocket and looks it over with renewed interest. She finds the contact list and scrolls through the names, subconsciously making sure that her mother isn't here, that Will Simpson isn't here, that Kilgrave isn't here. That done, she looks through it more leisurely. "Lots of names I don't know. Oh! There you are. I should have thought to look through this before."

[personal profile] want2beahero 2017-09-21 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"I went on a few dates with a man who drank something called Glenfiddich, but only if it was a certain number of years old. A tumbler glass of it was ninety dollars and upwards. I can just never bring myself to spend that much on alcohol." Give her a middle of the road bottle of wine and she's happy. In rougher times she'll even drink the box wine if that's all that's available.

She thinks about it a moment and then rolls her eyes and shakes her head. "It's also possible he was just showing off. But it made me think less of him anyway." Trish has always been very charitable with her money. Also, because of an irrational fear of running out of money when she might need it, she doesn't overspend on things.

"My apartment here is nice. Our apartment. It already has steel reinforced doors and extra security locks... which is nice." Jessica understands how Trish feels about her own security and why. "We'll stop at the front desk and get a second key card."

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[personal profile] 4thwallbreak 2017-09-08 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
There's only one thing that catches Wade's attention, well, okay, two things. First, and most importantly, the woman mentions Tony Stark who is hubba-hubba rich. Shut up, rich can make most anyone very attractive. Number two: she's drinking whiskey straight from the bottle and that's just awesome. Respect for that. Number three, okay so there's three things, she's a looker in spite of the scowl on her face and the bite in her tone. And truth be told, Wade likes the scowl and the bite too. It makes her interesting in a place where everyone is just all too terribly and terrifyingly nice and good -- BLECH!

There's a flash of the red and black of his Deadpool attire as he zips down from the end of the bar where he'd been picking on the bartenders, really they're not having the best of luck with customers these days, and settles up on the bar, yes sitting on the bar, next to the surly woman. He crosses his arms over his chest and tilts his head.

"Sooooo, you the Stark man? Dish the dirt! Is he really dating his secretary or is that just gossip fodder for the rag mags? Does he fondle his bank account? I would. Is he a top, bottom or a switch and how much do you wanna bet he and the Captain of 'Murica have gotten it on? These are things the population needs to know!"

[personal profile] 4thwallbreak 2017-09-09 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh she's crabby as all get out. This should be fun. Wade likes poking at wild, crabby things. He especially likes it when they poke back, all puns intended. At any rate, he's used to people being angry/frustrated/all the bad emotions with him. This is no big deal, no different. So he'll just plow ahead as if she's talking all sugar and spice and everything nice.

"Ohhhh I don't know." He says, one shoulder lifting in a shrug and a hand gesturing as if in question. "You're the one who brought up Tony bank account fondling Stark. But really if you think about it, that's a lot of presumptuous blame to put on a guy you don't even know. I LIKE IT! Maybe he's responsible for the whole thing! Maybe he's responsible for the closure of the porn shop in my neighborhood back home too, now that I think of it... asshole."

He's scowling now, but quickly turns back to conversation after being angry for only a moment. There's more than one porn shop in his neighborhood, after all. "Although the wish magic seems even above his pay grade. He works in electronics, not magic... admittedly the two aren't always mutually exclusive. But still! You know I'm right. Nope, there must be another culprit. So, Nancy Drew, give me another name of someone you don't know so we can sleuth out why or why not they're responsible. It'll be fun!"

[personal profile] 4thwallbreak 2017-09-10 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, we'll skip the blaming of more strangers for all our woes and move right along to questions that start with 'what the fuck'. As far as segues go it's not great, but it'll do in a pinch." He says, swinging his legs back and forth over the edge of the bar for a moment to the beat of the music playing overhead - some classic rock song that's actually pretty catchy.

He gestures a hand in her direction. "You must be right off the boat cause the wish magic is the best thing about this place! I've only been here a few days and even I know about it." He says that with a certain amount of pride. There was the whole stuffed unicorn thing and he was thrilled that he'd tested it out and it was true. It happened.

"Let's say you need a little excitement in your life and you decide your old vibrator just isn't cutting it. So you wish you had a new vibrator. A bigger one with better vibration. We're talking a V8 engine kind of vibration. Somehow, mysteriously, shortly after you've wished it, there you have it - the Ducati of all vibrators. So you use it that moment and you get more than a little excitement, you get the orgasm to end all orgasms. Voila! Wish magic."

He laughs a bit. "Now, if you had a guy in a red suit, like me, you wouldn't need the Ducati of all vibrators. Just sayin'... putting it out there, only not literally... yet. Do you want me to put it out there so you can hop right on?" He whispers to the side to some unseen someone. "Get it? 'It' is my penis."

[personal profile] 4thwallbreak 2017-09-14 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ooooo I got a total newb on my hands. Even newbier than me! This is fun." Wade claps his hands together and rubs them as if he were coming up with some diabolical plan. He's not. He just likes looking like he's coming up with diabolical plans. It keeps people on their toes, keeps them guessing, and second guessing, and third... you get the point. In any case, he could tell her that the sky will be purple tomorrow and she wouldn't know if he was telling the truth or not. Lucky for the both of them, this place is crazy in its actual reality.

Bored about vibrators? What a sad sad life she must lead. Wade thinks vibrators are something to be excited about. So the fact that she looks bored makes him feel... pity for her. He doesn't much care for feeling pity. That's an emotion he's ill-equipped for, something he left behind when he let himself be experimented on to save his own life. Only he feels it now. Ew.

He does feel accomplished at making her snort, so there's that. It's a minor accomplishment for him since he's kind of stilted in any interaction.

"Oh I'm sure you can. Mental image...." He pauses, looks up at the ceiling for a moment, then nods. "Yep. That's a good one to keep in the reservoir banks of the brain for later." Then he offers her a gloved hand. "Welcome to Itinere! Call me Deadpool... or Mr. Sexy McSexmaster of the land of Sexonia - your choice."

[personal profile] 4thwallbreak 2017-09-16 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Deadpool is usually having the most fun of anyone in the general vicinity of him. Of course, he's usually only really concerned with the fun and entertainment of himself. He thinks he's the funniest and wittiest guy in the room and therefore he is that thing. Nevermind that no one but that weird megasonic chick and Weasel ever seem to be even remotely entertained by him. He's his own audience for the most part. Well, him and those people reading and watching that he knows are there.

Everyone has much bigger problems back home. He just chooses to amuse himself in spite of them - which is probably part of his own insanity, to be fair. Behind all the skeeviness and the jokes and the 4th wall breaking hides a guy who is hiding some srs bsns pain deep down. He's just become an expert at hiding it and ignoring it for the most part, even before the experiments that sent him into madness happened.

He chuckles at her 'ewww' and seems overall delighted by their entire interaction thus far. "Great! I love that name! My friend Weasel helped me come up with it when I decided to try on the whole alternate identity thing. Every masked identity needs a bad ass sidekick, am I right? Mine's Weasel. He gets my witty banter, feeds me alcohol, has questionable motives and wouldn't back me up in a fight - really lives up to his name. Everyone needs a Weasel."

[personal profile] 4thwallbreak 2017-09-20 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Small talk is something Deadpool only uses in an ironic fashion, or only if he actually starts to care about someone beyond the 'friend' and 'must keep safe' aspect of how he views his friends. Lucky for Jessica, Deadpool isn't there yet with her, and may never be. Time will tell. People don't often befriend him in his real life, they don't befriend the real him, anyway. He doesn't expect this place to be any different.

"Funny story. Many an evil super villain has asked me that question, the worst of all of them, a villain named Francis." He laughs, a good belly laugh that even has him grabbing at his stomach. "Can you believe it? An evil dude whose name is FRANCIS??? Yeah, he eventually had to strap me down and gag me to shut me up. He was really into BDSM, now that I think about it. And even then, I just talked around the gag so the jokes on him!"

He pauses and shrugs. "Or it would be if I hadn't killed him. Dead guys don't find jokes very funny. But to answer your question, nope, not at all tired of talking. I could go all night! And in the daytime. I'm told I talk in my sleep too so... or maybe it's more like a mumble."

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-08 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems to be a multi-dimensional hub. People get pulled in here from all kinds of different worlds. Sometimes they can leave and sometimes they can't. Guess you drew a golden ticket like the rest of us - a metaphorical golden ticket, not a real one.

Hi. I'm Dawn.

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-09 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice to meet you, Jessica. Sorry you got pulled into here with the rest of us. It isn't so bad so far, mostly. There was a week where we were haunted by ghosts and the ghosts turned into monsters, but we nipped that right in the bud. From what I'm told, strange things randomly happen here. Most of the day to days are pretty normal though.

I'm working on figuring out the why of us being brought here. There's always a why, in my experience.

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-10 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, those kinds of strange things. I'm guessing at least. I've only been here long enough to see that one strange thing. I mean, if you don't count the wishing thing or the rooms in the apartments that change to your whims as strange, which I realize some people would. Also, money isn't a thing here, which is cool.

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-14 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They won't charge you a dime. Pretty cool, right? All the all night keggers you want. Personally, I prefer the fruitier drinks but, you know, you do you.

Also, I'm here with my older sister and my boyfriend. So people you know might show up eventually, if they aren't already here. I'd look around a bit or check your phone. Names appear or disappear in your phone as people come and go.

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-18 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
They know a lot about us, apparently. They brought my whole house from home here, a house that was destroyed several years ago. Everything is just like I remember it too. Kind of creepy how they did that.

I've only been here a few weeks, but I've heard people talk about others who used to be here. So I'm guessing it's pretty regularly. Then again there seem to be others who have been here a super long time. Basically, I'm gonna check on my people once every hour and try not to tie them up in the basement to keep them here with me, you know? Not that I would actually do that. The basement is occupied anyway.

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-21 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. That part, I'm still trying to figure out. I've heard there are people in charge - beings of some kind. I haven't run into them yet though. And I've heard their sightings are pretty rare.

Do you have people here? People from your home world?

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-27 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm keeping an eye out for anyone out of place. If I spot one of them, I'm going to be like latex on Madonna with them until I get some questions answered.

My older sister is here. So is my boyfriend. It's good not to be alone. But mostly I'm glad they're here cause I'm pretty self sufficient in a lot of ways, but I also tend to be a trouble magnet and they have to save me. I'd just be in constant trouble if they weren't here.

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[personal profile] the_dawnster 2017-09-30 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
If I find out anything I'll be sure to let you know so you can look out for your BFF.

It's entirely possible. I mean, it's basically my M.O. So maybe an apology ahead of time is an order and also an I'll try not to do it again... although let's be real, trouble is a thing.
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[personal profile] ticktocksolo 2017-09-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say Seal shenanigans but I think only Hu would understand what I was talking about.

So...magic? Inter-dimensional travel? Take your pick, it's all pretty applicable, but at least here, sometimes you can go back home, from what I hear.

You're totes entitled to be mad about it, though. I was the first couple of times it happened to me. Most people are. I think.
In my experience, anyway, they are.

Also, hi, I'm Izzy.
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[personal profile] ticktocksolo 2017-09-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sorry, never mind. Just...another way of saying "unexplained" I guess. The way things pretty much existed perpetually at home.

Anyway.

How will never make sense to me, either. Why...that's always a good question with nary an answer in my experience. Or if there is an answer, it doesn't tend to be one that people like very much. This place is pretty chill though, for whatever that's worth, so I don't think whatever it is is like nefarious or anything.
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[personal profile] ticktocksolo 2017-09-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, now the Solo side of her is about push the Djo out of the way to take over. ]

Okay, look lady. You can be mad all you want but I'd know if there was something nefarious going on because I would feel a disturbance in the Force and I don't, so you can be snippy with me but that isn't going to magically make things malicious. They're not. So...yeah.

Good luck and have a great day or whatever. I'll leave you to it.