kicking things off with the totally expected character

[fiveiv321]

[ This... isn't quite where he'd been planning to be. The last thing he remembers, he was walking back to the house they'd been staying in, but now he finds himself on one of the main streets with the tower in front of him rather than behind.

(how did he... did he lose track of where he was going?)

(he's exhausted, certainly, but he thought he'd at least been paying some attention to where he was going)

Turning around in a slow circle one, two, three, four times, he looks about him in confusion.

Something seems off, too, though he can't quite place it. The streets seem quieter than they ought to be at this time, and the people who are around...

(something's definitely off, and Thomas can't quite place whether that's real or only his mind playing tricks on him thanks to his exhaustion) ]

what

[heartburning]

[There is a flash of bright, gaudy colors roughly ten feet in the air above one of the park's equally gaudy fountains, a downward blur, and then a loud splash and a yelp.

Evidently, people can arrive here at most any point in space. Also, the water in Heartland fountains is apparently quite cold.]