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Post by SJmun on Jan 7, 2017 0:17:48 GMT -8
Niki hops forwards on one foot and hugs Katie back. It's nice to have someone around here.
"No problem... Man, it's been a while since you've been a dude... wait, they're out here? Or wherever here is? I'm still pretty confused on how this is supposed to work. Like, has all the bubblespace been overwritten, or is this just one small area? I really can't tell how big or small this place is... ->"
she looks about a little bit from her current standing point.
"um, you wouldn't happen to know where my fake leg went? I don't exactly have that good mobility without it. ->"
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Post by lunarLunatic on Jan 7, 2017 0:49:37 GMT -8
Lambda can't help but feel relieved to see her friend again.
She thought she was going to go insane from being in the dark for so long...
"I...I'm not sure of it myself...The details are a little blurry for me, but I thought they were holding their own against the enemy. There was a huge laughing squid that appeared at some point but they seemed to have been helping out, but everything else seemed like a haze...And then I ended up here...Wherever here is."
She coughs nervously.
"This place is horrible...It's as if it's trying to consume you from the inside out...But...Since we still exist, that means we haven't completely lost...right? If we can still fight back, there's always a chance we can win...!"
There seems to be a strange inverted colored man that has appeared in the baseball field...
They look...they really look like they're trying their best to hold themselves together.
"...uoy dnuof I emit tuoba s'tI .ahaH"
He doesn't really care about where he is right now, or why he's playing baseball.
The only thing that matters is that he found the object of his annoyance.
He's going to make sure he's beaten and humiliated...
And then...and then...
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Post by flightlessicarus on Jan 7, 2017 1:02:34 GMT -8
Chronos tries to ponder the meaning of his daughter's words.
move... on?
this situation is more complicated than Chronos could have ever guessed. And to think he thought he was just going to get a simple yes or no answer. Either crushing him or setting completely free.
But instead he gets this.
She does in fact at least like him, but somehow he fucked up somewhere along the way? How can he be the problem here?
A quick reminder of the pain he inflicted upon her before answers the question quite sufficiently.
Okay, so he somehow made her feel like, this apparently. Due to his actions? Or, inactions it seems?
Come to think of it, how did their interactions even line up with his timeline?
They met some time after the escape, after that wretched cipher writer scared him to wits end, and that was when...
When she created their daughter.
From his fearsome image ingrained into her mind, this girl was her line of defense against him... and still is now.
From there, he almost sworn he could feel something for the artist of the drawings, but to tell the truth, he did not have the proper capacity to understand nor express its full extent. At least not at this point.
He did however know how to express gratitude, and he did come across a rather fetching mace, which he then gave to her, seeing that she had expressed the desire to bash a man's head in with a mace.
Being able to at least understand that desire and owing her for the immense thing she had done for him, there was no question about it.
From there, things went as they were predestined to from his point of view. The mace was destroyed, he got angry after finding out some version of her was behind it, and from that day on he just couldn't bring himself to express his feelings to her. Not after what she and the sunspot did to his gift.
So he continued on his personal quest to obtain a true successor. A handful of timelines manifested themselves as he spent time in the v2 session, but by the end he had a mechanism that would allow him to merge and preserve all of his temporal copies together after death.
It became known as the Blue Hole.
Soon enough, after his death, in the alpha timeline, the ~ATH script activated, causing the Blue Hole to go into challenge mode.
In one single timeline at that point, Seth and his sibling, Brae survived and completed their duty. Attaching his essence to the two of them was the most important step.
Though, the half of him stored within Brae, that somehow wound up being rerouted elsewhere... into the shape of a mace.. It appeared in the void and was found by his past self, who then gifted it to her.
But this time... This time the events proceeded differently.
This time, she didn't destroy him.
This time she completed her task.
And this time, he had obtained a chance to become whole again.
Much wholer than he's ever been before.
Because now, he had a heart of his own, and a galaxy of complex feelings opened themselves up to him.
So he decided to enjoy his new life. It took quite some time to rehabilitate his new body from the previous comatose state he had snapped it out of, but eventually he was able to be the stylish master of time and space that he always wanted to be.
But, why didn't he even think of contacting the girl who freed him from the mace?
She had went offline by the time he had gotten well enough to even use persterchum.
She was already dead.
Not entirely knowing this however, he decided he would try to complete his end of the bargain that he struck with Dylan, and destroy the horrorterror that was holding the pawns hostage.
But when he arrived at the horrorterror...
He was greeted with nothing less than instant death, at the hands of the very force that had scared him into seeking succession in the first place.
There is a long thoughtful pause before Chronos begins speaking.
"...LΘΘK. I TRIED. SHIT DIDN'T LINE UP WELL ▲ND... I GUESS FΘRTUNE W▲S ΘUT TΘ SEP▲R▲TE US. I TRIED TΘ FIGHT ▲ FUCKING HΘRRΘRTERRΘR FΘR HER S▲KE... BUT SΘME ΘTHER ▲SSHΘLE WITH BETTER L▲SERS KILLED BΘTH ΘF US ▲T ΘNCE! FRΘM THERE I W▲S TR▲PPED IN THE BL▲CK BUBBLE, W▲ITING FΘR JUST, ▲NYTHING. WHEN I FIN▲LLY S▲W HER ▲RRIVE ▲T MY C▲STLE, I CΘULD FEEL SΘMETHING STRΘNGER TH▲N WH▲T I CΘULD BEFΘRE ▲ND... I DIDN'T KNΘW WH▲T THE FUCK I W▲S DΘING. BUT WH▲T THE FUCK ▲M I SUPPΘSED TΘ DΘ NΘW? WH▲T IS THERE LEFT FΘR ME?"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Jan 7, 2017 6:50:19 GMT -8
The serpentine nightmare opens its one garnish eye, within the dark spot atop it's end. It then lurches downwards to try and strike her! Rid gets into action and goes to stab at it from the other side!
It takes a while, but the other seths begin their assault anew as well. With Raphael's guidance and Mac's encouraging music, they manage to get together and strike hard against the beast!
It screeches hard, and in retaliation, begins charging something.
Soon enough, a black laser of pure dark energy begins carving a path towards Rid and Medi!
What will you do?
Thoren seems rather content walking with Raine. It just feels so relieving to be reconnected to her.
To not be alone anymore.
To know he has a companion in this trying time.
He soon notices their group growing in numbers, Katwise. It reminds him of when he led the dead seth army across the Lethean dream. Maybe they didn't exactly retain their goal, but they did manage to stay together, and in their peril, things worked themselves out, to a degree.
He hopes the kats and raines will be able to find a new home.
He hopes there's even somewhere outside of this oppressive black hole.
Is it as big as the entire furthest ring?
Or is it merely the size of the dream dome?
He wonders where his robot body went. It's obviously not being worn by his beloved, as they had together beforehand, but he is not residing within it either.
So many questions...
"Hey, there it is! There's the beacon! Holy shit look at that crowd." Kusari points out the beacon, barely even a short walk away. It seems quite a few others have found it too.
"I never thought I'd be glad to see that beacon again..."
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Jan 7, 2017 23:32:18 GMT -8
Post by metreu on Jan 7, 2017 23:32:18 GMT -8
Clear finally lets go of Niki after a while. She takes a deep breath and visibly calms down to a point.
She wonders what she should do now? She no longer has White Wall or her Knights. All her old files are now simply memories...
Is there anything she's able to do now...? Anything she wants to do?
She doesn't know...
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Post by SJmun on Jan 8, 2017 0:16:37 GMT -8
Charlotte listens to her friend.
"...I guess, but it's just... I'm not sure if this place is better or worse than the first trip out here. Like, I'm glad there's a ground and the voices are... actually understandable, but, they have some undemoniclike accuracy to them... and it's hard to find anything else out here."
Though just as she finishes saying that, it appears there is a cloud of some strange dark mist not too far away.
"...Lambda... do you know what that there's supposed to be? It ain't looking so good..."
"!llabyalp"
The black mage throws the ball while nobody's paying attention.
Dylan gets hit by the ball and topples over in pain!
"STRIKE ONE!"
a helpfully nonmirrored voice from the shadow umpire. They don't seem to be helpful enough to pick Dylan back up however. They're just holding the places of players not there. Then again, it seems there is one that has replaced a shadow player that was here before.
Eniar.
It begs to question how his baseball skills are.
Regardless, Dylan pulls himself up and prepares once again to hit his target. He can't let such a simple cheap shot take him out so easily.
"You're a coward, you know that? If you were strong enough to beat me, you wouldn't have to hide behind such unsportsmanlike tactics!"
"!pmiw gnildnof doofaes uoy ,ezis rof no siht yrT ?snoitpo ruoy timil yhw ,niw ot yalp ot gniog er'uoy fI"
And with that, the black mage throws the second ball.
And this time, with enough warning, Dylan manages to hit it! And it goes flying!
...into an out of bounds direction.
"Foul ball!" The umpire calls out.
The ball keeps going and going, until it finally manages to fall, striking the leader of the found queens, Nimajneb, straight on from above!
The leader cries in pain and the other members seem to be distracted by their leader's demands!
Kcirtap! Now's your chance!
What will you do?
Siren decides to actually try and talk to Clear. She instictually continues to keep the beacon up.
"Are you doing alright? You were pretty exhausted a minute ago."
She looks out to the crowd for a second and then tries to ask her something else.
"It um, looks like a ton of folks are showing up here. I kinda, have no idea what to tell them... I'm just the one holding up the light you know. Do you have any ideas on what I should probably tell them? We're still pretty stranded looking out here. Or in here, I don't know anymore..."
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Post by lunarLunatic on Jan 8, 2017 1:09:18 GMT -8
"Well...You still have me, father...At least for a while...Medicine is at least willing to stay friends with you. Though I guess you'd have to worry about your...son? I mean he waaaas pretty angry with how you treated her too, you know."
She smooshes her cheeks onto his face before giggling.
"I'm sure she'll figure something out~ Right, Duskyyyyyy?"
She looks to Hypnos.
He's still a little wary...
"Do you really think he would keep his word? He's already done too much."
"If he says he's earned his heart, then he'll have all of eternity to learn how it works! It'll be hard, considering who he is, but that's all the more fun, isn't it~?"
She snaps her fingers and the thorns of light shatter and disperse.
"Well, if you're so certain that he's worth the effort, then I can't really stop you, can I?"
Medi runs, trying her best to avoid the laser...
Unfortunately, she's already straining to keep herself together.
But she has to keep going...
She can't let him die again.
"Don't give up...can't give up...! I can't...I can't-!"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Jan 8, 2017 8:54:41 GMT -8
Chronos falls to the ground upon being released from his bindings.
Despite their hold being undone, he can still feel the lingering effects.
But... there's something else.
What is this feeling?
The feeling he got when his daughter accepted his (actually true for once) story...
Is it, relief? That can't be all of it... there's something more than just that.
Is it... gratitude? Getting closer but not yet there...
...there's a bond forming. Similar to the one he had with his heir but...
Somehow it's more... sincere? Is that the right way to describe it?
Chronos continues sobbing. He isn't usually like this.
Then again, he usually doesn't get bombarded by the feelings of those he's hurt prior.
Do they all hurt this much?
How many of his enemies actually deserved something like this?
...probably most of them.
"...HE'S MY GR▲NDSΘN. HE ΘNLY CL▲IMED ME ▲S HIS F▲THER... BEC▲USE HE CΘULD NΘT FIND ΘNE..."
despite his weariness, Chronos pulls out two pictures and tosses them onto the ground nearby.
"...ITS TIME TH▲T HE LE▲RNS HIS TRUE ΘRIGINS... WHILE I C▲NNΘT FΘRCE THE RΘLE ΘF THE MΘTHER ΘN YΘU... YΘU'RE MΘRE QU▲LIFIED TΘ ▲CTU▲LLY C▲RE ▲BΘUT HIM... ▲ND... YΘU'RE EVERYTHING I EVER W▲NTED IN ▲ D▲UGHTER..."
Chronos lies there, practically crumpled, in a pool of his own murky tears. He speaks again.
"I'M NΘT SURE... IF I C▲N F▲CE HIM... NΘT LIKE THIS... HE'D SURELY DESTRΘY ME... WHY THE FUCK ▲M I SΘ WE▲K..."
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Jan 8, 2017 10:13:36 GMT -8
Post by metreu on Jan 8, 2017 10:13:36 GMT -8
Clear looks to siren and nods slowly. "I think I should be fine for now..."She continues to listen and looks out over the people present. "...While it might be an inherently religious act, I was taught by the Director to pray for the well-being of others and ourselves. You don't need to believe in a deity of any sort in order to pray. Sometimes those prayers make it to the people you wish without divine intervention. My programming dictates that if there is nothing I appear to be able to do in order to help others, I can pray for them. This is one such moment. As my powers are far too weak to open up a gateway to the other universe to escape, we will be here till someone discovers a way out."Clear rests down on her knees and holds her hands together across her chest. She lowers her head and begins to pray a simple prayer of safety ... |
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Post by lunarLunatic on Jan 8, 2017 13:01:04 GMT -8
Lambda looks on to the bizarre phenomena going on near them.
"I'm afraid I'm not sure what it is, either...But considering what this bubble may be capable of...There could be somebody in this mess."
Eniar looks to the game of baseball, observing.
Obviously, Ikin is playing dirty.
Typical, but unacceptable.
Usually he doesn't really care about the individual needs of others, but he'll have to help. After all, he doesn't want that annoying little whelp to succeed.
But how do you beat someone who plays dirty?
Simple.
Play dirtier.
But in what way...
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Post by SJmun on Jan 8, 2017 15:13:54 GMT -8
Siren seems slightly disappointed, but somehow, maybe not as much as expected.
She's never really been the type to believe in things she's never seen, but somehow, she's willing to believe in the possibility of a miracle. With how many things are possible already, there's got to be something or someone that can help them, right?
But, can praying really be picked up by anyone?
...it worked in Earthbound. It might just be able to work here.
Siren puts her hands together and kneels down. She takes off her glasses, closes her eyes, and begins to try and pray.
Somebody... anybody... we need help here... we can't last in this dark place forever... I don't want us to be trapped here... please hear our call and rescue us from this darkness... whoever is listening, please know that your help is needed... thank you...
"!noos gnimoc si dne ruoy esuaceb ,yarp retteb uoy"
The black mage throws another ball!
Dylan manages to hit it, and it doesn't go too far.
He tries to run to the next base.
The shadow players begin trying to retrieve the ball.
Dylan manages to get to 2nd base safely before they could try to get him out.
The ball is returned to the black mage as he prepares to throw at the next up to bat.
And that is...?
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Jan 9, 2017 12:04:37 GMT -8
Post by raz on Jan 9, 2017 12:04:37 GMT -8
"What makes me think I can bring you back to the light...? Simple. I've seen you in it."
Immaterial things and glitches in reality bounce past him, earning no more than minor cuts for their trouble as he pushes his exertion to the peak in keeping the gap open, reaching a little farther down before eventually pushing his body past that boundary. And now he's holding himself up by the edge of that breach as gravity or some other force drags him down, but rather than brace it open he extends his hand once more, toward that cluster.
"I'm not here as your judge. I'm not here to see your sins or punishment through. What I know more surely than anything else is I enjoyed standing side-to-side with you... I don't need to believe in anything I haven't seen to believe in the good in you. So for all the rest, we'll figure it out! But not here! Not here, in the dark, but in the light! If you regret, then act! If your sins drag you down then lift yourself with virtues! And know that through it all you won't be alone! Because the others will walk that path with you every step of the way toward a happier fate!"
The breach above slowly shrinks, threatening to encroach and close over the hand holding onto it for dead life. His blade, embeded outside the breach, trails that purple ribbon, a standout in the dark. But his eyes never leave his goal down below, his words picking up in resonating tenor as he belts them out.
"AND I WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU!"
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"Whatever they're like I wanna hear 'em all. Plus, they might be nicer than you think!"
Flashing her a grin and a wink he laughs,. Just how long has it been, and it feels like it may as well have been yesterday he last saw her Like slipping into an old pair of shoes... And sure, a tinge of melancholy.
But. He's glad, still, so much more than sad. And the awkward fidget he senses gives him a bit of pause as he waits on her words, but when they're a wish to stay with him for longer he almost bursts out laughing, wiping his face with his forearm and tightening his fist with a nod.
"Is that all? Of course! As long as I'm here I'll be with you. Although..."
Cradling his chin he looks her up and down, tilting his head with a light chuckle before pulling a simple skateboard out and bracing it to the ground with a foot. And casually as nothing he hooks his arms under her to lift her in a bridal carry, tensing on his backfoot.
"You looked like you were having a spot of trouble before... I dunno if ghosts get tired, but. Rest now. I got this."
Giving her one more reassuring smile he nods and kicks off, bursting off in the same direction as before. No more running away. He's here for a reason... For her, and, to help the others? Just seeing her like this was a small miracle in of itself, so he'll have to work all the harder to earn it. And as long as she's here like this, he'll be just fine, he's sure.
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Jan 9, 2017 23:24:10 GMT -8
Post by flightlessicarus on Jan 9, 2017 23:24:10 GMT -8
The laser cuts across the floor, leaving a dark burning trail behind!
if Rid had actually bothered to get the mirror shield, It would be really helpful right about now.
Unfortunately, he's been limited to just the basics at this point.
He doesn't have time to lament the lack of inventory however, Medi is in danger!
Rid grabs her hand and tries to lead them away from the laser!
Meanwhile, Medi's chainsaw seems to be reacting to her peril! It begins shooting tiny spikes out from the chainblade, aimed towards the nightmare's eye!
It doesn't do much, but it manages to stun the serpent, cancelling the dark laser! It soon stops with the spikey thing and resumes its normal chainsaw functions.
With the nightmare stunned from the lack of eyesight, the other seths move back in to attack, some of them climbing up, some of them using rocketscythes, some of them still shooting from above the room. They keep hitting and hitting it, keeping the nightmare distracted.
"Medi, are you alright?"
It appears the laser may have just barely hit in places. Not doing much overall, considering the low hit amount, but wherever it did hit, there would be a certain numbness.
"What the fuck are you doing stopping to lick you wounds down there?! That bitch won't stand still forever!" Raphael yells to Rid and Medi down below.
"HEY, LET ME HANDLE MY SHIT AND YOU HANDLE YOURS, ASSHOLE!" Rid yells up at him
"FUCK YOU TOO!" Raph flips Rid off below.
Alpha seth stays close to Kat as they continue walking towards the beacon.
"Kat... I was wondering... after this is over and we get out of here... do you think... do you think we could... go on... a date... together?"
Seth takes a deep breath. He shouldn't be so nervous about this, should he?
"Like, all this time we've been close... we've never really went out anywhere, just the two of us. Sure we've spent time at eachother's homes, but..."
Why is he choosing of all times to ask this? Shouldn't he be asking about other things? Is she even going to accept his offer?
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Jan 9, 2017 23:48:50 GMT -8
Post by SJmun on Jan 9, 2017 23:48:50 GMT -8
Charlotte again looks at the dark looking... thing in front of them. Anything could be in there, even somebody else hopelessly lost and scared?
Or maybe a way out of here?
No, it can't be. it feels too terrible to be an exit.
Charlotte checks what she has with her. She appears to be wearing her rather fashionable (It's not actually that fashionable. She actually looks pretty ridiculous with it on, and she knows it.) outfit from before the game, pants buckles and all. Her only available item is a simple rubber mallet. All of her badges and other powerups are nowhere to be found. Her timethief powers seem useless here.
It seems, whatever she's getting herself into, she'll be going in with barely anything...
And of course with Lambda, but who knows how far they'll be able to make it?
Then again, they've made it this far.
"...Lambchop, do you think we'll be able to do anything worthwhile?"
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Jan 12, 2017 5:33:25 GMT -8
Post by lunarLunatic on Jan 12, 2017 5:33:25 GMT -8
[Haha...You always did take to the lady's values, didn't you...]
Artifacts flicker on and off, raising up towards the dark heavens before vanishing. As if by miracle alone, the abominable mass shrinks slowly, slowly.
[If you really think someone like me can change...Despite my lack of feeling...Despite the fact that I may never feel positive emotion again...]
[...]
[Despite my own mistakes...]
[Then perhaps I shall take your word for it. After all, you were always so tenacious...It would be a shame if all that hard work you've done turned out for naught.]
Something hard to discern makes contact with Wayland's open hand. It's still pretty hard to make out visually...But she's definitely there. She has to be.
[...To think that someone else has wormed their way into my cold, dead heart...It's strange. I always thought that ever since I lost her...I would have nothing left. Or perhaps...I was only thinking of it in that way.]
It certainly was Zwei.
"...Maybe I was blind in my grief that I had not seen the people who would have been there for me...Blind enough to make a mistake like that..."
As more and more of that garbled code vanishes, the girl's form becomes more and more visible.
It wasn't a perfect form, but it was one she felt was right.
"But while darkness is my true element in death...It would be wrong to dwell in it forever...Especially in a darkness that I had not made my own."
Medi shudders.
The laser may have grazed her a little. But it's not enough to take her down...While she was tired, she can't give up quite yet.
"It doesn't matter...As long as you're safe...L...Let's go...While it's still vulnerable...!"
She starts to rev up the chainsaw again, looking to Rid with a fatigued yet determined expression.
This isn't over. Not yet.
Ophelia is a little surprised to see that she's being carried. But she seems to have the most joyful smile she's had for a long while.
...While it does remind her of memories she would rather forget...She doesn't really mind. He's someone she really trusted after all. Someone she should have trusted a long time ago...But that's in the past.
This is the now, and right now she feels like she can conquer anything.
She feels light, almost like a feather.
"A d-d-date...?"
Kat is a little shocked by the unexpected question.
My oh my...This seems like the most inappropriate time to ask such a thing, isn't it?
...But there's probably even more inappropriate times for things, aren't there? This isn't like a giant piece of ham crashing into an airplane, after all.
"W-well, you are right...We have been pretty close...!"
She chuckles nervously. Gosh...This is really quite a thing...
Come on, just say yes already!! It's not that hard!
You've technically had a bit of practice from that small pasta place in the spaceport already, right? Even though that one was by an impostor...
But that's not the point! It's pretty obvious that he has feelings for you...and you for him?
Isn't it time to go towards the next step?
Of course it is!
"Well, sure...I wouldn't mind going on a date with you! I mean if you want to...Which you do...? Er...Umm..."
If it wasn't already obvious, she's practically beet red by now. She quickly tries to change the subject in an attempt to not die of embarrassment.
"L-let's worry about the date when we're done!"
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