canon is the mummy (1999)

[egyptology]

Pardon me, but um, I do believe you have enough on your plate at the moment without adding me to the mix. I'm hardly ungrateful, it's just that your plans tend to edge away from scholarly pursuits and more towards dangerous adventures--

What do you mean, "enabling"? Who's enabling? I don't believe I want to go to one of these bizarre places, thank you very much. I'm still a bit worn out from putting a three thousand year old mummy to death, so if you'll excuse me--

... Oh, I can't really leave at the moment, can I? Well. I'm sure I'll find some way, just you wait.

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[gunfighter]

Evelyn?

[Well this timing seems coincidental.]

[egyptology]

Rick-- [ She can still call him Rick, yes? She rather assumes so, considering... er, the end of their little adventure, but all the same. ]

I believe this writer is a bit mad. She keeps saying something about vampires. [ Which of course do not exist because they haven't been proved to exist. Mummies are one thing, vampires are completely different. ]

[gunfighter]

Vampires?

[He's a bit thrown off here, to be honest. He's shown up in a weird place he can't escape and there's no one he can threaten to push into a ceiling fan to figure it out.]

Guess it's not any crazier than everything else.

[egyptology]

Don't be ridiculous. They don't exist.

[ Yes, well, she's certain his writer is rather thankful that he can't reach her. ]

But she does seem to be going back and forth on sending me to one of these... places.

[gunfighter]

You didn't think mummies were real, either.

[He gives her a dumbfounded look.]

Places?

[egyptology]

I knew mummies were real. I just didn't believe in curses that would make them walk about after death and attempt to kill people.

Places. [ There's a gesture at the area around them. ] My observations have led me to believe that this is simply a... a meeting area of sorts. At times the writers will send us off to something they call a 'game', the setting of which changes depending on which 'game' and contains dozens of other people like ourselves. It would be rather exciting if it were up to us, but some of the premises and events are just terrible.

[gunfighter]

You knew what I meant.

[Rick isn't entirely sure he understands all of what Evy's saying, but he gets Evy getting sent somewhere terrible she doesn't want to go. Which is something of a trigger for him.]

Where are you?

[egyptology]

You should say what you mean.

[ Well, at least he got that part. ]

Where am I? Well, I suppose I'm not really anywhere at the moment...

[gunfighter]

You have to be somewhere, Evy.

[Somewhere he can get to. With guns.]

[egyptology]

[ You and your guns, Rick. ]

I'm just... here.

[gunfighter]

[GUNS SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM.]

Now that you mention it, where the hell am I?

[egyptology]

[ No. No they do not. ]

The same place I am, I expect.

[gunfighter]

I'm going to find you.

[egyptology]

Not to sound rude, but if you could do it sooner rather than later, I would appreciate it.

[gunfighter]

As soon as I figure out where I am. You're safe, though? For now?

[egyptology]

Yes, yes, there are no walking corpses or fires or men with hooks for hands attempting to attack me. Though I do wonder where Jonathan has gotten off to...

[gunfighter]

If this place has a bar, he's probably found it already.

[egyptology]

Hopefully it doesn't have a prison, as well. I'm not sure what sort of currency they might accept around here...

[gunfighter]

You saved my neck once before, I'm sure you could save his.

You see any landmarks around?

[egyptology]

If he's gotten himself locked in prison for some stupid reason, I'm not sure I ought to. [ But she will. He's her brother. ]

Not really. It's all very plain.

[gunfighter]

Same here.

[Just pick a direction, O'Connell. This one seems as likely as the rest.]

[egyptology]

Do try not to get yourself lost...

[gunfighter]

I don't get lost.

[Just... turned around.]

[egyptology]

Well, if you could also try not to get arrested, it would be appreciated.

[ She's a bit worried. ]

[gunfighter]

I don't think that's something I regularly try for.

[egyptology]

If you could just hurry, please.

[gunfighter]

I'm coming, Evy.

[masr]

Not so easy.

[egyptology]

Oh? Have you tried, then? I'm afraid I've only just gotten here...

[libraritology]

I can't say that I blame you, but not all of these places are bad. They may not have as much sand as we're used to, though.

[And as long as there's a decent library, well, count her in.]

[egyptology]

After the past few days, a bit of time away from sand might be nice. [ She doesn't mean that, though, not really. ] Still, I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the places or what she might decide to get me involved with in them.

Then again, I suppose if one can't trust one's self, then they can't quite trust anyone.

[libraritology]

...you have a point.

[Evelyn's seen more than her fair share of things in the game her own mun placed her in, but the good tends to outweigh the bad.]

But I can certainly vouch for some of these places. Is your Mun looking anywhere in particular?

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[egyptology]

She keeps giggling about vampires, of all things.

Ah, yes -- I believe at the moment someone is attempting to get her to bring me to poly_chromatic. [ From the sound of things, their library is very disorganized. ]

[libraritology]

Oh, Heavens, not those.

[A few bad experiences there.]

I'm sure she thinks your sanity is a small price to pay for a reenactment of Murnau's Nosferatu.

[But that's besides the point.]

Is she going to throw you in willy-nilly without knowing anyone, or do you have the added benefit of a friendly face? I'm afraid I was subject to the former rather than the latter, it made for a rather interesting experience.

[egyptology]

Oh. They do exist, then? I'd rather hoped, but, well...

[ Of course they do. ]

There's no one there at the moment, no. She does know several people who may make that change, but one of those friendly faces has the possibility of being Beni, and I'd really rather not.

[ Which of course means it's a very real possibility. ]