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Post by SJmun on Apr 1, 2017 9:41:53 GMT -8
Niki looks about at the others still in the area.
"Uh... shouldn't somebody follow him? ->"
"He kinda took off to the sky over there."
"Hey, you guys can still fly too, right? Besides, the tower is just straight that way. ->" she points in a direction.
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lunarLunatic
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 1, 2017 12:03:05 GMT -8
A sense of urgency causes Raine to chow down on her pizza in record time before standing up.
"I'M COMING, HONEY!!"
She rushes out towards the tower in speeds not expected from someone of her stature.
It seems that the tear in space does lead to her ship.
Kat quickly finishes her snack and hops into the gap in urgency.
After all, it felt like she may have been out for too long.
"Just a ghost whose music disk got blown away by the wind. Those things tend to roll around where it's hard to find. Anyway, how have ya been? I almost thought you didn't make it when that Big Splat happened. You tend to be...Kinda spacey, for a time player."
Sherbet notices the shiny object in the foliage and investigates.
It could be what they're looking for. Or it could just be something else. You never really know.
"...A whole planet, huh...That's pretty cool..."
The hat girl seems a bit distracted, until she notices the uncanny similarity of this guy and someone she came across during this adventure.
"Wait, I think I might have seen one of the people on that planet! No wonder you kinda looked familiar!"
Something clicks, though.
"...But what do you mean by that? Considering the one I met was a player, the planet might have been blasted to bits by now..."
Speaking of the girl she met...Lambda, finally tired from dancing, walks on over and sits down.
Ophelia wastes no time and sits down.
"You know, I...I never expected to even see any of you again..."
She glances around, a little wistful.
"...Much less anyone actually wondering what happened...It...it's reassuring to see that someone remembers me."
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 1, 2017 13:50:57 GMT -8
The shiny thing in the bushes.... is the soundtrack to the first Shrek movie.
"...that's not my CD."
Schrodinger and Rudolph take off after Raine, using her momentum to follow. they try to keep a reasonable distance away from her.
Seth follows behind and the rift closes behind them.
"THE G▲ME IS BUT THE PRICE TH▲T MUST BE P▲YED FΘR THE BURDEN ΘF ▲ CIVILIZ▲TIΘN. BUT, WITH THE END ΘF ΘNE ER▲, THE BEGINNING ΘF ▲NΘTHER IS CERT▲IN."
Chronos notices Lambda sitting down nearby, quite clearly tired from dancing.
"PL▲YERS LIKE HER WILL BE IMPΘRT▲NT TΘ MY PL▲NS..."
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Post by creeperpuncher on Apr 2, 2017 12:58:54 GMT -8
"3Э Toooo be hoonest, I doon't remember that much... There was a time in the Great Black Sea, then soome guy that's apparently 'time-allergic' rescued me, then I ended up oon a ship... 3Э" Kalmaro looks at the shiny thing. Yup, that's probably a music CD. "3Э Then soome stuff aboout "The end! OOf reality! ITSELF!"... 3Э" Wait, did he just imitate Davros?
"3Э Then fighting happened, and ghoosts, and a bloowhoole that has clearly never played "Whale Bad's Cooool Game foor Fresh Squids"... and then we ended up here. That's aboout it, really. ...OOh, alsoo soomeoone mentiooned getting this place oout oof here and back too reality. 3Э"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 4, 2017 6:45:39 GMT -8
Rudolph and Schrodinger, having followed Raine, soon arrive at the mess at the foot of the tower, as well as the Eros Machina, with the dream dome sitting on top of it.
"I'll get you fixed up... one day we will explore the cosmos together..." Thoren is hugging the overturned Big Rig.
"hey metalhead, there's more important shit than that bus going on here." Rudolph calls out.
Thoren comes to his senses and turns around wiping the excess... cleaning fluid from his eyes. Yeah, he totally wasn't just crying over a vehicle. No way someone as strong as him could break down that easily. Nope!
Upon noticing his audience, Thoren's temperature rises slightly in embarrassment.
"...I, can explain everything."
"hahaha, you're cheating on her with a mobile home, aren't you?" Schrodinger banters.
"it's-ITS NOT LIKE THAT YOU SICK FUCKS! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A GIFT FOR THE BOTH OF US! OUR RIDE OUT OF THIS HELLHOLE! THE THING WERE GONNA TIE THOSE POPCANS TO THE BACK OF AFTER OUR UNION IS MADE OFFICIAL!"
Schrodinger blinks and steps back slightly, a little intimidated by Thoren's outburst.
Thoren focuses his gaze upon Raine.
"I, didn't exactly want you to see it in this condition, but I guess... here it is." Thoren gestures to the over-the-road racing machine behind him.
"This is the Eros Machina. Once a semi truck of dubious quality, given second life with its greatest qualities kept intact. I had outfitted it with everything needed to travel in comfort and style. Unfortunately, in the course of the events that had transpired, it has toppled over, and with it weighing multiple tons, not to mention the dome atop it..."
Thoren looks towards Raine, hoping for an answer to his problem.
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lunarLunatic
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 4, 2017 13:50:13 GMT -8
Sherbet tosses the cd nonchalantly. It didn't seem fresh enough for her tastes, and nobody else was claiming it.
She starts to look to other places as the continues to converse with her friend.
"I gotta ask ya, Marooooo, Water ya gonna go after the party? I'll be honest with you, I'm as stunned as a sunfish to what I wanna do...I haven't seen much of the others aside from the ghost of your sis..."
Lambda notices the girl with the hat conversing with Chronos and heads up towards her, looking fairly nervous.
"Willow, y-you're...You're speaking with..."
The girl known as Willow waves at her nonchalantly.
"Don't worry about me, friend! We're having a chill conversation. Just found out about why he looks kinda like ya! Your ear-things look cuter though..."
"O-oh..."
Lambda covers her ear notches out of nervous habit.
Willow turns back to the other guy.
"I hope you're not gonna work them too hard, are ya? From what I've learned, they've gone through a whole lot..."
Lambda panics a little, but ultimately sighs.
She really hopes Willow didn't make things worse.
Raine heads to the toppled truck without a word, grabbing hold of one side in order to push it back upright.
She does her hardest not to crush the thing in her attempt, but is having a bit of a hard time.
Then a light turns on in her head.
She takes out a card, and proceeds to smash it.
It shatters in blue light as something bursts out from the ground.
Dozens of inky black hands emerge, holding on to the truck at several points, in assistance.
In a few minutes, Raine and the hands manage to put the truck back into an upright position, but not without a few more dents and scratches.
The hands fade as Raine plops back onto the floor.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 4, 2017 15:05:37 GMT -8
Thoren watches his fiancee work to untip the truck. The dome's precarious position on top, as well as the sheer strain placed upon her worries him. He almost offers to help, but something tells him to trust her strength.
Sure enough, something from her emerges to lend a hand... or 47.
Thoren is in awe at her great feat. Though it appeared to have taken everything she had on hand to pull it off... just the thought that she would go to such lengths...
As the deed is done, Thoren immediately goes to catch her. He could tell quite easily that her heart is working hard to keep up with her. He holds his dearest in his arms tenderly.
Meanwhile, the dream dome, having been launched by Raine's miraculous feat of strength, flies up 50 feet in the air, and hurtles down and embeds itself into the ground mere paces away. Despite the doors landing face down, a crack in the dome appears to be large enough to walk through.
"Hey Casanova, there's some elves in the dream dome that wanna see you." Schrodinger finally mentions.
Thoren's grip almost falters.
It seems he can't escape from his past, can he?
"...Let's get you somewhere decent to rest." Thoren sends a signal to the Eros Machina and the doors open, also deploying a small set of stairs at the front passenger door. He walks up the stairs with Raine in tow, towards the closest couch.
From what it seems, the furniture isn't as flawless as it appeared to be earlier. It looks like the unoccupied vehicle had been in a car crash. Thankfully though, the basic furniture remains usable, despite showing signs of damage.
Thoren sets Raine down onto the couch. The couch padding is a basic thick foam padding with a synthetic wool fabric covering it. Black, of course. It's ripped in places but has held up surprisingly well.
"Please try to get some rest, my love. I will return when my duties are done." Thoren kisses her on the forehead.
"Hurry up, your victims don't got all eternity to wait." Rudolph reminds him. Schrodinger wonders how shook up they are right about now...
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Post by creeperpuncher on Apr 4, 2017 16:19:09 GMT -8
"3Э After the party? Uh... 3Э" Kalmaro attempts to remember where he was before. "3Э OOh yeah, the Victoorian. It's a ship soomewhere in the universe these guys want too get too. I think I was asleep oon it? And, uh, proobably still am? 3Э" He wonders if he's able to wake up now... but doesn't think about it too hard, he doesn't want to wake up just yet.
"3Э After that, whoo knoows. Proobably just stick with the oothers, since I goot noothing else too doo... OOh wait. 3Э" Finally he remembers. "3Э Soome guy's brainscan-cloone NetNavi toold me a while agoo that oour planet 'beat the oodds' soomehoow, and there's still life oon it. I want too see if I can find it and return hoome... 3Э"
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Post by frozenlake on Apr 4, 2017 16:39:17 GMT -8
After an unnoteced metaphysical load time, the Smith finally answers.
"...Right, see, erm, my session kinda got screwed over by our time player going crazy when he made this ring in order to stop our sessions Noir, who had gone crazy. While I've been dead, I did a /lot/ of asking around, and the general consensus was that my session couldn't go better, because that was the alpha, and that I couldn't change things. Of course, since I'm dead, I didn't exactly stop at one person..."
She turns her head the the ground, before saying the next part.
"...I eventually ran into this floating eyeball thing, and it stated that there was a way to pull it off, but that involved this stage... I ended up making some dreamed up magical armor that would let me traverse through the void, outside of the bubbles, and went here after I found that out. Didn't really expect to meet the people that visited my planet before the game, but that's the basics of it."
She finally turns her head back up, staring into Dylan's eyes, before finishing off.
"...I'll do anything to make sure things turn out better, even if its just for another version of me, so name your price."
Sam sighs for a bit, lifting up a rock off the ground. He slaps his blank mask on, checking the forums, before he hears something off in the distance.
"SON OF A FUCK!"
"...is that the one not accounted for, or... screw it better help them out."
He runs over to the noise, before coming face to face with FLord, who was glaring at Sam, through the glass of a pod that he was stuck in. Sam reaches for the side of the tube, before flipping open a release clamp, causing the tube to open up. FLord looks at Sam for a moment, but doesn't recognize him, due to the mask. He rolls his eyes, before walking off, without even saying thanks.
"...okay then."
He focuses back on the open browser page, before making a post.
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Post by SJmun on Apr 4, 2017 21:37:44 GMT -8
Dylan listens to the smith's story. He's barely phased by her piercing glare. Seems like a standard failed session story, as far as "standard" gets when it comes to sessions. To make things worse, she's dead. Technically the stage could create another alpha branch of their session's timeline, but would it really be worth it? Should such a mind altering tool be used once more? It was originally contracted for usage as a tool of spite, after all. To humiliate the Common Enemy of the horrorterrors. Come to think of it, why wasn't it used on the guy that destroyed so many a relatively short time ago?
Focus, Dylan, focus! What is there possibly to gain from a session's altered fate?
"...Look, I know you really want your team to win, even at the expense of seeing another one of you leave you in the dugout. But, do you know what The Stage's operation entails? Literally altering the minds of the targets without consent! Also, what would you even gain from it in your state? Why do you even want your group to have a winning session, or even just a session with surviving members? You do know that sometimes sessions are engineered to fail simply for the creatures of the void to feast upon later?"
Jessica, the seer of space sitting next to Dylan, turns to face him.
"✧ ugh, what are you squares even talking about? Can't anything be simple around here? And Dil, I thought you said you were gonna lay off the void business for a while, right? ✧"
"But flash, she wants my help here. And besides, shouldn't a member of the dead get their wish granted?"
Jessica rolls her eyes at the old nickname.
"✧ look, I know what you sound like when you don't want to do something. You don't have to do this. ✧"
"But then who will? I don't trust anyone else with something as dangerous as The Stage, and I was planning on destroying the console so nobody would misuse it! Even under benign hands it causes disaster! Why do you think all that mess from earlier even happened? The Scourge did come from an intermediate stageborne split after all."
"✧ ...who was that again? ✧"
Dylan facepalms. Is he gonna have to explain all that crud again?
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 4, 2017 22:08:42 GMT -8
Chronos chuckles. He's glad that somebody still fears and respects him at least.
"I'LL WΘRK THEM ▲S H▲RD ▲S THEY'RE WILLING TΘ WΘRK FΘR THEIR HΘME. BESIDES, THEY H▲VE ▲LL THE TIME IN THE WΘRLD. SΘ IF THEY KNΘW WH▲T THEY'RE DΘING, THEY SHΘULDN'T DRΘP SΘ QUICKLY."
He takes a moment to address Lambda.
"BUT DΘN'T GΘ THINKING IT'S GΘNN▲ BE ▲LL E▲SY."
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 4, 2017 23:44:28 GMT -8
"Wait, our home turf survived somehow??? Like, with actual living survivors???"
Sherbet is definitely stunned by this revelation.
"Well I know where I'm goin' once this party's over!"
She feels like she's forgotten something.
"Wait, shoot! Let's find this ghost's beats before I get too distracted from excitement!"
Raine is a little bothered with having to rest in a truck that seems to have gone through the apocalypse (though that's not too far from the truth)...
But she's just too dang tired to actually care at this point.
But that talk about Thoren meeting up with some elves...While she feels as if she's missing the whole story here, she can guess that there's some...really bad history with them. Considering his past track record, it's pretty obvious that the elves are ghosts that want some sort of closure.
It's a little worrying.
But if he needs some moral support, she can always send some his way. After all, this is definitely something that's not easy to deal with.
"...You..can go through this...I believe in you."
After all, he's managed to grow from these past events. Even if it may end up going bad, it wouldn't be as bad as it would be if he never grew.
Lambda fumbles with her words as she's being put on the spot.
"O-of course not, s-sir...It's a monumental task we will be dealing with...W-while it may be difficult...I...I know we'll be able to succeed...B...but..."
The seer fidgets, wondering whether or not to say anything else.
Willow goes on over and gives her a reassuring pat on the back. This gives her a bit more courage to continue.
"...I must ask...Are you certain that every one of us is up to this task...? I...I am a little...sc...Err...skeptical...While I know a few who will most certainly help us bring our home back to what it once was..."
A long pause. It seems as if she doesn't want to point any fingers...
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Post by SJmun on Apr 5, 2017 5:47:59 GMT -8
"It's Travis."
Charlotte walks up, having heard at least part of the conversation.
"we're worried about Travis. He ruined our session tryin' to follow in your footsteps. He blew up planets and fought some of us players just to prove himself!" she glances over at Lambda. "I've kept quiet about his shit for too long. After all that's happened, I feel like... it would be a disservice not to tell."
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 5, 2017 6:55:49 GMT -8
Chronos listens to the warnings of his dear subjects. The thought of having an active successor does seem quite satisfying, but if he's as much trouble as they say...
"TR▲VIS IS HIS N▲ME? I'D LIKE TΘ H▲VE ▲ T▲LK WITH HIM SΘME TIME. IF HE'S SΘ E▲GER TΘ PLE▲SE ME, HE SHΘULD LISTEN WELL TΘ MY DEM▲NDS. TELL HIM TΘ STEP INTΘ MY ΘFFICE NEXT TIME YΘU SEE HIM."
Some light searching later, the right CD is found.
"There it is." Mac smiles.
Having Raine's support, it gives Thoren the strength to continue. "Thank you..."
He steps out of the rv, making sure to shoo the other two seths out the door.
Thoren uneasily glances at the Dream Dome, clearly nervous. While Raine is doing what she can to help, this is all on him. He has to draw from his own inner strength to face the reality of his past actions. The pressure is quite binding, but he can't back out now.
A long pause, and then a step forward.
"...here goes nothing."
Thoren slowly walks into the Dream Dome.
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Post by creeperpuncher on Apr 6, 2017 11:30:20 GMT -8
"3Э Yeah... Accoording too what's-his-filename, it was the Spawn Pooints that tipped the oodds in oour planet's favoor. They stayed oon loong enoough foor a decent chunk oof the poopulatioon too evacuate too the deep parts oof OOctoo Valley, where the meteoors coouldn't reach... I think he said civilizatioon was already in the proocess oof rebuilding? 3Э" He can't quite remember all the details, since the conversation was so long ago...
"3Э But yeah, it's oout there soomewhere in... what doo these guys keep calling the woorld ooutside universes? Paradoox space? I dunnoo. Actually, foor all we knoow, it might even be in the same universe these guys are gooing too. 3Э"
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