oo1 ˪holo || @sanctuary˥

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

Caroline set the flat iron down on her sink, shaping one of her blonde curls with her finger. She was frazzled from the night before and the fact that Matt still hadn't answered her messages (it was official - he -was- avoiding her), but that didn't mean she was going to go out looking like a wreck. When she was satisfied with her hair, she turned off her flat iron and unplugged it from the wall. What she had expected was to walk through the door leading into her hallway and to be, well, in her hallway.

That was not how things actually went. Instead, she found herself in an unfamiliar room (if it could be called that at all) on some sort of platform... thingy. Were she less out of her comfort zone, she would have tried to describe it with something less general, but right now 'thingy' would have to do. It described most of what she saw -- especially the weird device above her.

There was something unfamiliar on her arm and looking down revealed it to be a silver bracelet. "Ew, what's this? It's incredibly tacky." Removing it was apparently a no-go, because the bracelet didn't budge. "Is this -stuck- on me? Okay, I don't know what's going on here, but," she fiddled with the bracelet, disgusted that apparently seemed -fused- onto her, "this is definitely not cool." Caroline was aware that she had inevitably bigger problems, but this one seemed manageable and like a good place to start. "How do I get this thing off?"

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[ voice ]

[adeadringer.livejournal.com]

Caroline?

[ have your best friend's voice coming through the tablet, sounding a bizarre mixture of happy, worried, and panicked. she's really hoping that she gets to reply to caroline first. after hearing what she did to her, she doesn't want katherine to get anywhere near her friend. ]

Caroline, it's Elena. Are you all right?

˪holo˥

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

Elena's voice, while good to hear, only added to the confusion as Caroline glanced around trying to figure out exactly where it came from. The pedestal? No, the thing on the pedestal.

"Elena? I'm fine." She sounded doubtful of that. "What's going on?"

˪voice˥

[adeadringer.livejournal.com]

It's...you've been abducted. [ her tone indicates that yes, she knows exactly how ridiculous that sounds. ] By aliens. And yes, I'm serious.

[ some shuffling, and then the sound of elena's footsteps as she takes off running. ]

I'm heading out to meet you - do you see the tablet? Pick it up and you can get out of the room.

[ voice ]

[whoneedsrules.livejournal.com]

Caroline.

[ just that one word, stretched lazily into a kind of singsongish greeting of sorts. the smirk is evident in her tone even without visual confirmation. ]

˪holo˥

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

That voice. Caroline recognized it, too, but it was by no means as friendly or as welcome as hearing Elena's had been. Still, hopefully maybe she was wrong and it wasn't who she thought it was.

She tried to keep her composure, but a bit of fear managed to creep into her voice. "Who's this?"

˪ voice ˥

[whoneedsrules.livejournal.com]

Now, don't tell me you don't recognize me? [ katherine tsks astonishingly. ] After all the fun we had together? Shame on you, Caroline.

[ visual ]

[virtued.livejournal.com]

After the abnormal visitations of the previous weekend, a familiar face should probably come across as less surprising to Stefan, but he can't help but feel a bit stunned to see her display across the networks. The room she was in appeared to be the arrival room within the Sanctuary, whereas those who had filtered in and out of Taxon before had showed up all over the city. He took that to mean this was the standard kidnapping that they had all experienced and not whatever had happened the week before.

"Caroline. I wouldn't mess with that," he said of the bracelet, nodding to it. "It doesn't come off, unfortunately."

[ holo ]

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

There was another voice Caroline was relieved to hear, and even more, an image she was relieved to see. The video feature on the tablet was by far the most normal thing she'd come across so far.

"Stefan?" She peered down at it. "Can you see me? I wasn't done getting ready." Thank God she'd finished curling her hair. What she was lacking however was a pair of shoes -- she hadn't yet put them on for school when she'd wound up... wherever this was.

[ holo ]

[virtued.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I can see you just fine." There's a grin accompanying that, Stefan already finding a comforting, fond sort of amusement in Caroline's reaction.

In a way, she was already handling being brought here far better than the rest of them. He'd started demanding for Damon to let him out and to quit playing around, having assumed that having inexplicably found himself within that room had been his elder brother's doing. Damon had also convinced him the tablet was a bomb and not to touch it, but that was another story and a trick he hoped his brother wouldn't try and pull on Caroline.

[visual]

[littlestcastle.livejournal.com]

The girl who appeared on the tablet looked to be about her age, maybe a little older, and Alexis waited until she'd realized something had happened to activate her tablet. "You can't," she answered apologetically, raising her own hand to the camera to display her own silver bracelet. "We all have them, and I don't think anyone's figured how to take them off."

[ visual ]

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

Having figured out the visual feature now, Caroline had absolutely no idea what she had been showing up as before. This seemed to work for now, so Caroline attention turned to the stranger on her screen. Still, the idea of introducing herself had yet to cross her mind.

"We all have them?" Well, that was tacky. "Wait, who is 'we all'?"

[ visual ]

[littlestcastle.livejournal.com]

Alexis frowned, obviously considering the best, most concise way of answering the question. "Everyone in the city," she finally went with. "Everyone who shows up in the room, and not the Extras walking around. They don't have the bracelet, that's how you know they're not really here." She paused again, admitting. "It's kind of weird."

[voice]

[slayersidekick]

[ someone might be avoiding the whole video thing still, but she'll at least pick up where tara left off and greet the new person. ]

Uh, you can't. Get the bracelet off, I mean. A lot of us have tried. They're just... stuck there.

[ if she sounds mentally and emotionally exhausted... it's because she is. ]

[voice]

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

[ Caroline is happy to have figured out the audio feature now, too! Well, sort of happy. She's still been abducted by aliens which is kind of a killjoy. ]

Ugh. I've heard. This is so tacky.

[voice]

[slayersidekick]

Yeah. I know. You kind of get used to it after a while.

Uh, I'm Willow, by the way.

[ the aliens are killjoys. always and forever. willow hates them. ]

[Voice]

[icanhaslogic.livejournal.com]

[Spock is very well aware of how shocking his appearance can be to anyone unprepared for it (and let's face it, a lot of people are unprepared for it), and it's probably better that he just stick to voice for now.]

Unfortunately, the answer is that the bracelet is impossible to remove.

[Voice]

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

[ Wow. How many more strange voices is she going to hear? ]

This is the worst bracelet ever.

[Voice] Sorry phonetagging

[icanhaslogic.livejournal.com]

That does appear to be the general consensus.

[holo]

[taintedrose]

Rose recognises Caroline as one of Elena's friends and while she hasn't spoken to her much, she needed to make her feel as comfortable as possible.

"I'm afraid you can't take the bracelet off. It's fused to your skin."

[ooc: I don't know if Rose and Caroline actually met off-screen, but feel free to have her know Rose or not. I'm cool with either :3]

[holo]

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

While Rose looked slightly familiar, Caroline couldn't place who she was right now. The confusion was definitely getting to her and she was starting to sound exasperated.

"Fused to my skin...?" Well, at least she didn't have to worry about it being cheap metal and staining her arm (what was she thinking? in this situation, she would have preferred that).


[ ooc|| We can say they're sort of seen each other but never officially met? :3 I think Caroline was preoccupied with Tyler/helping him most of the time Rose was around. ]

[holo]

[taintedrose]

"Yeah. No matter how hard you try to take it off, it won't. Sorry."

She might as well be blunt and honest with her. It's what Rose would have liked anyway.

"Has anyone explained where you are and how you got here yet?"

[ooc: That's fine with me, yep. I can completely work with that :3]

[ voice ] oh god i'm so very late, sob

[allthefunever.livejournal.com]

Careful, you might set off the trigger.

[ damon, shut up. the 'it's a bomb' thing is still not funny. ]

[ voice ] it's okay! *^ * i backtag forever so idc

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

Trigger? [ That voice... ] Damon.

[ If there were people (and their voices) that were easily forgettable, Damon isn't one of them. After spending part of the latter half of her human days as his little puppet, Caroline feels as though she would have recognized it anywhere. ]

[visual]

[gunsnotvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"Have you tried chopping off your hand?"

Such a helper, that Loki.

[visual]

[nobodylshome.livejournal.com]

Confusion registered on Caroline's face for a moment before she answered, "No. That's gross." What kind of sick person would suggest that?

Giving it a second though, Caroline realized she probably knew a few. Whoever this guy was, she was adding him to her 'creeper' list. "You look funny. Go away."