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6TH ☄ s h o o t i n g s t a r ☄ w r i t t e n

[Hello, Luceti. Have you been enjoying the strange little time shifts that have been coming and going these past couple of months? Because Kari hasn't. In fact, she's in the middle of one right now, and it's extremely unpleasant. Why is that, you ask?]

[Because she was just inside the elevator when they suddenly decided to not exist anymore. Unfortunately, they only decided to stop existing on the floor she was on at the time, so there's nowhere for her to go. At least it didn't turn into a bottomless elevator shaft to drop her to her doom. But they did turn into some kind of hellish stairway-purgatory with no doors, no windows, and nothing but two sets of stairs going up and down that simply lead to walls.]

[Thankfully, she has her journal with her to live-blog the incident.]

It's been 20 minutes now.
I'm stuck in a building somewhere. Like, literally. The elevator disappeared and now I'm apparently stuck in the wall.
The possibility of escape seems low.
Updates to follow.

The first hour.
There's no windows in here. Not sure how much air I have. Probably a lot.
It's cold. And hot. I'm so hungry.
And I think I left some instant noodles in the microwave.

Hour 2 of Elevator Purgatory.
I'm starting to hear voices.
No, seriously, these walls are way too thin. Maybe if I knock loud enough the people on this floor will start to think the place is haunted?
I'm like this close to trying to break the wall down.

Hour 2 and 10 minutes.
Don't try to punch walls with your bare hands.
Especially using the arm you broke few weeks ago.
It will hurt and you will feel like a dumbass.

Hour 3.
All hope is lost.
I've resigned myself to Elevator Purgatory forever.
Tell my mom I love her.

[Okay she's clearly being a little overly dramatic. But she's bored, and this doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon, so have at it! Feel free to specify what time your character is responding to, otherwise I'll just assume Hour 3. EDIT: And for people who might try teleporting in to save her, there's also a 100% power-cap shift going on inside the room, so anyone who goes in will be stuck with her until the time shift ends!]

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... And water?

...what, you don't drink water either? Doesn't that just dry you out?

As much as I'd love to give you a detailed explanation of my biology, I think I would much prefer doing it when said biology is working properly again. [ Partially because that's a line of questioning that should be leading to him teasing her, not him feeling annoyed and frustrated at her. ] No, I don't need to drink water, either.

Touchy. [But okay, maybe grilling Joshua about how his body does things isn't the best way to spend however long they're going to have to spend being in here.]

[After a few awkward moments of silence, she sighs and then puts the cup of udon back on the ground, pushing it out towards Joshua before sitting back upright.]

...go ahead and eat it. It's my fault you're stuck in here. So the least I can do is not let you go hungry, right?

I'm not hungry yet.

[ And he pauses to let her redact her offer before he slowly moves to take it anyway.

"Yet" it may be but he doesn't know how long that will hold. ]

You started counting when this began, correct? So it's been around three and a half hours now?

[Yeah, he can keep those noodles. She's hungry, but she can't eat in good conscience knowing someone else would be going hungry, even if it was Joshua.]

Around there, yeah. I've been stuck in the elevator like this before a few times. But I think the longest time before this was just two hours.

[ Then don't mind him settling down and slowly going at them. Joshua's selflessness has run out for at least the short term. ]

I've seen one of these sorts of Shifts that lasted around four hours, but it was only the one. [ He gives a small huff under his breath. ] And it was much less frustrating than this one.

Yeah, you're telling me.

[But okay, maybe if they think of it like there's only 30 minutes left of this to deal with, it won't be so bad?]

[Except a lot can happen in 30 minutes and Kari probably trusts Joshua about as much as he's apparently trusting her right now, given the way they're both pretty much resigned to their own respective corners.]

[...uncomfortably long silence begins now.]

[ Uncomfortably long silence aside from slurping noodles. At least until the udon runs out.

And a few minutes after it does, Joshua will go for his cell phone. He doesn't have reception--he never does, except when he's generating it himself, and that's not exactly a skill he keeps while human--but he can still play around on it to stave off the discomfort that comes with the situation. ]

[Yeah, Kari's pretty much gonna do the same. Except her cell phone is a good 50 years ahead tech-wise compared to Joshua's, and when she finally decides to sneak a glance over to see what he's up to, that's the topic she's gonna go ahead an reopen with.]

...is that a flip-phone?

No. It's a painted rock.

[ He glances up. ]

What else would it... What is that?

Uh, it's a smart phone? They're all anyone uses these days. The only people who still use flip-phones are, like, grandmas.

How is that a phone? You don't have anything to dial.

Of course I do!

[And now she's just gonna hit the phone button and the hold it up for Josh to see the number pad that appeared. The screen even shifts so the smooth touch surface bulges out a bit to form the keys.]

See? Of course, it's good for a lot more than just being a phone.

...

What year did you say you were from?

2050.

[Totally nbd.]

...

I suppose when considering that, it's more surprising that you still have phones at all.

Well, they're still pretty useful? I mean, I know some people are really into the whole integrating whatever they just have on their face into a phone, but that stuff's creepy. Plus, they don't have as much space as this baby does.

Which is?

[ /bracing for big number here ]

This one's pretty much the most standard model you can get, but it's still got about 500 on it? There's no way I'd ever fill that up, after all.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you're not talking about megabytes.

Of course not! I mean gigabytes. They sell that much in terabytes too, but at that point you might as well just buy a computer.

[ You could fit a lot of bike-dropping programs on that. ]

How small have computers gotten?

Pretty small? I've seen some small enough to put in your pocket, with their expandable screens and laser keyboards. The holographic screens never really caught on, but with those they can get even tinier. But I prefer a traditional laptop myself. [Which are super light and thin in her time, but since that's the norm, she doesn't consider them thinner than usual.]

... I'm not exactly seeing the difference between a phone and a laptop, then.

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