first dream ☼ video + action. { another op'nin, another show }

[gleamed]

Who: Rapunzel and YOU!
Broadcast: Everybody! Everybody!
Action: SS Marsiva
When: Wednesday evening

[ video broadcast/action option ]

[ rapunzel wakes up slowly, like rising from a pleasant mid-afternoon nap that caught her by surprise. but as always, her thoughts quickly catch up with her, and all too quickly it becomes clear that something is very, very wrong. she isn't napping in her bed in her tower - she had left to go see the lanterns! if anything, she should be lying in soft grass - oh, grass, she loved the feeling of grass and this certainly wasn't it. that hadn't all been a dream hadn't? no, no, it couldn't be. it was too wonderful to be a dream!

then her eyes snap open, and a sinking sense of dread chills her to the bone. oh no, this wasn't right. this wasn't right at all.

rapunzel bolts up right, positively leaping off of the cot she's found herself in. her long, golden hair trails behind her as she breaks into a run, away from the cots and through multiple rooms. where was she? what had happened? where were eugene and pascal? maximus? where was she? ]

Eugene! EUGENE! Hello? Anybody? Oh no, oh no, please...

[ then she ends up in the large view bay, in front of a massive window that reveals her location. or at least, what surrounds her location.

she was in the stars. ]

That's - this isn't possible! I'm just dreaming! This isn't -

[ she looks out the window again, eyes wide and unblinking, stepping closer to the glass - only to trip over her own hair. startled, she yelps and folds to the ground, gathering her hair around herself like a protective cocoon. she just keeps staring out the window, her features a mix of fear, confusion, and wonderment. ]

[ yet later video ]

[ after learning a few things about this place - including that it was not, in fact, a dream - rapunzel rallies herself to address the screen that would apparently help her find out if any of her friends were here. she'd never seen anything like this in her life before, but somehow, she knows how to use it. she was glad for that.

however, that doesn't help her know what to say once the broadcast begins. so she clears her throat. once, twice. then coughs, threading her hands through a strand of hair. no, that wouldn't do! you can do this, she tells herself. she straightens her shoulders and faces the screen head-on. ]

HELLO! [ oh dear, that was kind of loud. ] Ahem - sorry. Um...hi. I'm wondering - you see, I was on my way to see these lanterns, and I think there might have been some kind of mistake. I should be at at the castle town right about now, but instead, I'm in the stars...wow, I can't believe I'm in the stars! UM - I'm looking for someone named Eug - Flynn. Flynn Rider. Please, if you've seen him...

[ then, her hand flutters to her mouth. ] Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry! What was I thinking? My name is Rapunzel. It's a pleasure to meet you. Please let me know if you've seen him. Oooor if anyone's even hearing this. Okay. Um...thank you. Bye.

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[gleamed]

[ rapunzel breathes a tiny sigh of relief and smiles back. she's glad to have the forgiveness of alex and all the other rapunzels out there! ]

It's nice to meet you, Alex. I mean, you know...what ever this is that we're meeting through? On? With?

[delincuente]

It's just a communicator. Kind of like a cell phone, which probably means nothing to you.

[gleamed]

I caaaan't say that it does! [ nope! ] What's a cell phone?

[delincuente]

It's how people talk to each other, in my world.

[gleamed]

And it's...kind of like how we're talking right now?

[ she's picking up on this. slowly. ]

[delincuente]

Exactly. You're catching on.

[gleamed]

[ GOOD, GOOD, EXCELLENT. ]

But...don't people ever see each other face to face in your world?

[ ...or maybe not. ]

[delincuente]

[She finds this a lot funnier than she probably should.]

Sometimes. If their phones ever die.

[gleamed]

[ she gasps the tiniest of gasps. ]

They can - can die? [ oh goodness. she hadn't thought this communicator had any feelings or life! but it must if it could die... ]

[delincuente]

Yeah, they can get viruses if a sick person sends them a message.

[She sighs gravely.]

It's so sad, when they go.

[gleamed]

[ oh no, this is heartbreaking! ]

I...I'm so sorry. Have you lost a phone very close to you?

[delincuente]

Yeah. Its name was... Nokia. What a gentle soul. So sleek and versatile.

[gleamed]

Poor Nokia... [ what a pretty name, too! sturdy, and exotic. ] Did you get a new phone? After it...it passed?

[delincuente]

Yeah. It was called Apple. Like Gwyneth Paltrow's kid.

[gleamed]

[ she has no idea who that is, but with such a pretty name, she must be a noble or a princess! ]

Her daughter was a phone?

[delincuente]

No. Her daughter was a normal kid. [She doesn't want to take it that far.] But the phone has the same name.