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Ulysses Zane ([personal profile] amitragic) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2021-09-10 04:41 pm

The Perk, Friday Afternoon

So yeah Ulysses was back in Fandom after like, what? Five, six years? And he had no fucking clue how he'd ended up here, and none of the increasingly frantic and yell-y texts he was trying to send to Los Angeles were delivering at all.

(Yes, the only reason he was even out of the apartment was because he'd been trying to chase a signal that never showed up.)

And now he was at the Perk, having a giant cup of coffee and something far too sugary - because caffeine and sugar were clearly what he needed on top of all that excessice vaping he'd been doing all morning - and drumming his fingers anxiously against the edge of the table while he scrolled through his phone.

Or tried to, anyway.

Because, you see, none of his feeds were updating at all. And somehow that felt liek the freakiest thing of all.

[ooc: So open!]
existencemisspent: (mosaic)

[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, even that face and cough were adorable.

"You're entirely welcome," Eliot said. "So . . . what's your name?"

Did no one on this island know how to introduce themselves properly?
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Lucky for Ulysses, Eliot had a thing for hot messes.

(He hoped Quentin was doing okay. He should try to text him again soon.)

"Hi."
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Correct," Eliot said, with an amused smile. "So. Ulysses." He was clearly savoring that name, yes. "When were you hoping it was?"
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ouch," Eliot said, leaning back in his own seat. "Your world runs faster than this one, huh? . . . By kind of a lot."
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh. The timeline can get a bit finicky then. Good to know. . . ."

That would hopefully explain his texts not making it to Quentin. Unless they were getting shredded wherever Margo's attempts to send bunnies went.

"Well. I've only been here a week, and it's, ohhh, 2017 back home. So I can understand you getting thrown."
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ahhh, no. I stepped into a portal in the ground created by a god and opened by a fairy, in search of my missing best friend and High Queen. But your thing sounds stressful, too."
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unfortunately . . . no. Actual god, actual fairy, actual High Queen. And I'm a High King. Which both is and isn't a metaphor, I suppose."
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"As decreed by a god and everything," Eliot said with a sigh. "Turns out it was because he thought it'd be fun to watch me fuck it up, though, so . . . if anyone ever offers you a crown, just turn that shit down, okay?"
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)

"Mmm, lucky you."

Eliot had rather thought that before Fillory, too. You know, other than an ironic one or a paper one at a fast food place or something.

"Anyway. That's depressing. And you look like you've had enough depressing or brainbreaking already today. You've been around here before, and look like you might know a thing or two about having fun. What's there to do in this little seaside whimsey fest?"

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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)

Eliot considered that.

"Points . . . docked for the bike." There were definitely more dignified modes of travel out there, Uly. "But I do appreciate a man who enjoys getting into trouble."

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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’m sure it’ll be very impressed with how you’ve grown.”
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, in between bouts of world saving and attempting to teach a bunch of magical rubes how fertilizer works . . . mostly I just get drunk or high."

Wow. That was actually depressing.

"Though I used to throw the most amazing parties. . . ."
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[personal profile] existencemisspent 2021-09-10 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, the last one was thoroughly disappointing," Eliot said. ". . . And also the trap for a god, so. But . . . maybe. If Bambi and I can find the right venue."

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