Expedition Log 1

[lara_the_explorer]

Who: Lara Croft and YOU
What: Lara's arrival to Paradisa
When: June 12.
Where: Woods near the Castle Grounds/Infirmary
Rating: PG-R for language


In the middle of the woods, one could hear rustling bushes and some branches snapping as a female figure in the dark is running with a torch in hand.

"Sam! Reyes! Jonah!" the woman called out. "Shit... What is this place? I could have sworn we got out of that island..."

She looks battered, bruised, and armed with two mismatched handguns on her thigh holsters. She looks like she's been through hell and back, with dried blood, torn clothes and a thousand-yard stare. She doesn't even care about possible wolves, with what she's been through, wolves don't scare her anymore. She just wants to find her friends.

And after a minute of walking, she could see already the exterior of the castle from a distance. Not sure about what's in there, so she grabbed her gun and headed towards the castle grounds...

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[last_rat_standing]

His voice remained level as he shrugged, "Paradisa. Not that you're likely to have heard of it."

[lara_the_explorer]

"Paradisa? You're right, I haven't heard of it. I'm not even sure if I'm even close to Japan or Taiwan right now"

[last_rat_standing]

"Not remotely." He sighed, raising an eyebrow at her, "and there's really no need for all that so if you wouldn't mind?" He gave the gun in her hands a pointed look.

[lara_the_explorer]

Lara's instincts fired up again. Something tells her that she could trust this man for now. She couldn't help but hear her late friend Roth's voice in her head, telling her that she was just like her father, someone who had great instincts... She's hoping her gut is right about this man.

She lowered her gun, slowly. This Mr. Bond looks like a pro, just from his physique and stoic expression.

"What do you mean by 'not remotely'?"

[last_rat_standing]

His situation was improving by the second. He smiled slightly as he regarded the woman. He had no intention of harming her unless she made the first move so his intentions were genuine this time. She was wounded and had just arrived at this nuthouse, so that afforded her more courtesy than he generally extended to people who pointed guns at him. He had only arrived a few months before so he remembered his own confusion and mistrust of those around him and how absurd all of this sounded.

"It's called Paradisa and isn't to be found on any map of Earth. We've all been abducted from our respective worlds and times and brought here for some unknown purpose." He sighed softly, well aware of how ridiculous he sounded, "I've been searching for a way home since I arrived and found nothing."

[lara_the_explorer]

"Is that so? Oh God, as if the island wasn't insane enough" She puts her palm on her face and shook her head. "So we are abducted by what, exactly?"

[last_rat_standing]

He shrugs slightly, sighing. "most here would tell you it was by the castle. I'm still searching for a more reasonable explanation.

[lara_the_explorer]

"With what I've seen before this, I don't know what to believe in anymore..." Lara rubbed her neck.

[last_rat_standing]

Oh really? He watches her curiously, "What had you seen before this? If you don't mind my asking."

[lara_the_explorer]

"Unexplainable things. Some would even call it magic"

[last_rat_standing]

One eyebrow lifts, curiously, "Some would say there was magic here. I've seen rather unexplainable things, myself."

[lara_the_explorer]

And Lara's eyebrow lifts as well upon hearing that.

"Like what, exactly?"

[last_rat_standing]

"Like a man who can create fire out of nowhere and control it completely."