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Post by flightlessicarus on Mar 20, 2016 16:29:00 GMT -8
Seth and Thoren walk down the dark hallway together. There is an immediate sense of calm and safety.
"So, how the fuck did your horn snap off?"
"Old man's welcome wagon. Probably to prove a point or some shit like that."
"Sounds like something he'd do alright..."
"What about you? How the fuck did the entire fucking Lethean Dream start falling apart?"
"Fuck if I know. One moment we were on our way to the Abyss and the next there was a fucking hole in the sky."
Meanwhile, Vincent catches up to them, gun in hand.
"Do either of you know how to empty this gun without having to shoot it?"
"...is that a serious question?" Thoren gives him a weird look.
"Hey, I've never handled a pistol, only a shotgun!" Vincent complains.
"Same here." Alpha Seth admits.
"...amateurs." Thoren huffs. "Here, let me see that gun."
Vincent hands it over carefully.
"Be really fucking careful there, that gun has hundreds of souls inside-"
And then Thoren accidentally gets sucked in.
"Thoren!" Seth calls out as the gun falls to the ground. Upon colliding with the floor, the gun discharges and shoots out one of the souls. A red orb flies out and bounces off the walls until it slows down and reforms.
It's Schrodinger.
"Man... I forgot how fast that ride was...phew." he sits on the ground, back against the wall.
Vincent facepalms while Alpha Seth picks up the gun. Thankfully his alive status protects him from being sucked in. The gun's aura is almost overwhelming in his hands. Thoren is crammed in there with the others still.
He tries to find the release mechanism on it. He finds a safety switch, an ammo swap switch, and all the other gun stuff. Eventually though he finally hits it and a tiny compartment opens, positively glowing. All the seth souls go flying out in all directions. Where the kat souls go is up to them. But even just the red ones are absolute mayhem.
"Why the fuck did you open it in such a tiny hallway?!" Schrodinger yells at Alpha.
"How was I supposed to know the entire army would blast out?!"
"Every one of them is just like you! You have to put yourself in their place to find out what they're all gonna do next! Obviously all of them wanted to get the fuck out of there!"
Eventually they finally all make their way down the hall to the backstage dressing area and settle back into their preferred forms. Alpha Seth and the gun in his hand make it there too.
"...Okay, I think we're safe now." Seth gives the gun back to Vincent.
Thoren walks out of the crowd and reunites with Seth. "Where the fuck did you even get a pistol like that Gymshorts?"
"My name isn't Gymshorts, it's Vincent."
"Whatever. It was bad enough when I got shot down by thanatos that one time."
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Post by powerkitten on Mar 20, 2016 16:31:40 GMT -8
The fake Logan just kind of stands around, not really doing much of anything.
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Post by lunarLunatic on Mar 20, 2016 18:57:23 GMT -8
The souls of the Kats seem to have stayed until everyome ended up backstage, where they all start pouring out in a slow, orderly fashion. Some of the souls seem to stay in their soul forms while the others switch back to something more solid. They don't really do much aside from stand around and be generally awkward. The others seem to be doing the same thing, Raine more withdrawn than the others and Zwei keeping a watchful eye on her.
After a few moments of silence, one of them speaks. Someone that seems to be different from the usual crowd of Kats and Raines.
"What is this place...?"
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Post by Sprityo on Mar 20, 2016 19:36:10 GMT -8
Smoke trudges in, he looks pretty tired.
He shifts his eyes around the room, not really any beds or anything....He decides to just lay down next to the wall for a little while to recover his energy.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Mar 20, 2016 22:46:38 GMT -8
Alpha Seth walks up to a rather emptier part of the room with Thoren, who has just got done taking inventory of all the seths. "Ahem, Attention, seths and kats and any others here tonight. If you didn't already know, I'm the Alpha Seth. Welcome, to my Twisted Mind I guess. I've never actually been backstage in my dreams before, but it feels familiar all the same. Don't touch anything that can be broken, don't break my psyche... again. Also, if it looks dangerous, stay the fuck away from it. Feel free to lounge around as long as you like as long as you stick to the rules."Meanwhile, Mac and Jasper are wandering around the backstage area and they happen to find an old creaky piano in the corner. "Hey, what if it's one of those exploding ones?""If it explodes... well it won't explode. Who the fuck would make a piano explode?""Jasp, did I ever tell you about how I died?""Not really. Isn't that kinda shit sensitive information though?""I've been through too much shit with you to not trust you, Jasper. You're like the brother I never had."Jasper smiles at Mac, before returning his gaze to the old piano. "So, how did you die exactly?""Found a piano in the Skaian Magicant while looking for a pokemon... one of the keys had a bomb under it. You can easily guess the result.""Oh shit... I'm not sure if that's better or worse than mine.""How did you go?""fell off a balance beam and got impaled by a spike in a dungeon. It took way too fucking long to bleed out.""I'd say that one takes the cake. I'm just glad I made amends with my nemesis. Conquering the piano was the best thing I ever did with my afterlife. Now let's check this baby out."Mac carefully examines the old piano from every angle, checking inside and out. It appears to be explosives-free. "Looks like we have ourselves a winner.""Does it work though?""Only one way to find out." Mac smiles as he pulls up the bench and sits down in front of the piano. Mac begins playing a song he's never played before, but he can almost feel it from the stage itself. > Mac: Play the piano |
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Post by SJmun on Mar 20, 2016 23:50:30 GMT -8
Niki walks into the familiar long hallway, seemingly just in time. She can hear echoed chatter and piano playing up ahead. They must be safe. That's good. Maybe they'll stop looking so creepy though, now that everything feels a lot more stable?
She enters the backstage area with everyone else and tries to find somewhere to sit down. she eventually finds a metal fold-up chair, from a stack of them in a corner. she unfolds it and sits down somewhere out of the way.
So much has happened "today". Her best friend died, again, her home got destroyed, again, her guardian companion persona has been lost forever, the adventure she thought she was on has rapidly turned into an escape plan worthy of a website crashing sound-backed flash animation of its own, and here she is, in the one place she thought she'd never be able to return to, and she has no idea what to do now that she's actually here.
What a day, what a day...
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Post by lunarLunatic on Mar 21, 2016 0:58:57 GMT -8
The souls seem to be floating about, but following orders on not to do anything stupid, in patterns that are somewhat whimsical. Must be the music.
There's something oddly haunting about it.
The odd girl speaks.
"Your...mindspace? How is this possible...? Seth, is this from that weird scenario you told me about...? When he stole your body...?"
Raine slightly perks up. Mostly out of curiosity. What on earth happened on his side? A body-napping? A scenario somewhat similar to hers?
Zwei has that weird look, as if to say "Wait, so I wasn't the only one who had a plan like that?"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Mar 21, 2016 10:24:07 GMT -8
Seth closes his eyes and thinks for a moment. He opens them and resumes speaking, a bit less loud this time.
"It's... kind of hard to explain. This is... one of the more inner layers, where things are a bit more... sensitive. Koholint was in more of an outer layer I think, and the tower, I'm not even sure exactly where that is. I doubt that's hosted within my native mindspace though. It's hard to figure out this shit."
Just then, a small group of seths in link outfits make their way downstairs into the room... with Marin, Bow-wow, and Cojiro?
"holy... we found them."
"there's... so many of you."
"well, that's what happens when you fu-screw up too many times."
"ARF ARF!!"
Schrodinger notices them right away.
"how the fuck did you get here?"
Marin sighs.
"some owl told us to get the fuck out of dodge, something about some server going down or some shit."
"he led us down here somehow, I wasn't really paying attention how we got here, but we brought some friends."
"...server?"
"He mentioned something about the game being hosted on a server hooked up to Alpha Seth's mind, some shit out of the matrix or something."
"Either way, the island is gone, and these folks are the only ones we felt were worth saving."
Schrodinger looks over at them, completely surprised. "how the fuck are they even still around?"
"supported by memories? I don't fucking know."
"do you guys ever stop swearing? it's getting on my nerves!"
"Sorry, Marin. Force of habit."
"good luck trying to get all of us to stop swearing, it's practically an ingrained trait."
"I, need to sit down somewhere."
Marin walks off, somewhat away from the crowd. She sits down somewhere on the ground and just begins sobbing.
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Post by lunarLunatic on Mar 21, 2016 11:50:13 GMT -8
Raine notices a specific newcomer.
"...YOU."
She starts to practically sprint there, mace in hand, but is met with a cold hand on her shoulder pulling her back in place.
It was Zwei, and her right hand clearly shows the joints of an artificial hand.
"We really like to jump into catastrophes waiting to happen, don't we, Raine?" Zwei smiles at her.
For someone who is holding someone who she stole a body from, she seems surprisingly calm. Confident even. Though it might not even really be confidence.
She pats Raine on the head, trying to pacify her.
"That girl is small fry. Not worth the effort."
Meanwhile, the Odd Girl ponders.
"That's incredibly strange...But it's nice to see that everyone's safe...I only just recently arrived here, escaping from that awful nightmare...If Zwei hadn't pulled me out, I wouldn't have known that the Dream had fallen apart..."
She shudders, perish the thought of what might have happened...
"But I'm guessing everything is starting to shapen up a little...But what happened to Eins...?"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Mar 21, 2016 13:01:14 GMT -8
Thoren looks over at Zwei and Raine. It seems as if she's not quite as "evil" as previously thought. She clearly cares about her sisters here, even if she has done unagreeable things. He wonders what pushed her to go so far on her path, yet stay close enough to still care. It's quite puzzling.
"Eins? I remember her." Vincent steps forwards. "I met, a fragment of her, I guess. I'm, not sure what happened to the rest of her though. The fragment was erased after the Null erupted from the meteor core..."
Marin looks up from her crying to look at Raine, her glistening blue eyes saturated with tears.
"what do you want with me? I have nothing now! Nearly everyone I knew is gone! My home is gone! My father is gone! and yet, you're still jealous over something that happened a long time ago?! Shame on you!"
She seems to be trying her hardest to keep herself together, but she resumes crying right after.
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Post by frozenlake on Mar 21, 2016 13:20:33 GMT -8
Walking in, FLord glances about before yelling out: "ALRIGHT WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKERS IS IN CHARGE AROUND HERE?"
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Post by lunarLunatic on Mar 21, 2016 13:22:04 GMT -8
Raine snaps. Zwei notices her potential aggressive move and restrains her. She looks like she's having a bit of trouble, as Raine is struggling to break free.
Raine starts to yell to the point where her voice starts to grow raspy.
"IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU, I'D HAVE NEVER GONE THROUGH THIS HELL IN THE FIRST PLACE! SOMEONE ELSE HAS MY BODY, ONE OF THE ONLY FRIENDS I HAVE WHO ACTUALLY GAVE A SHIT ABOUT ME GOT KILLED, AND NOW I CAN'T EVEN GET REVENGE ON THE FUCKER WHO DID IT!! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!!"
The tears that fall from her berserk rage are almost completely inky.
"I WISH YOU WERE NEVER EVEN BORN!! I WISH THE BOTH OF US SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN-!"
Zwei puts her fake hand on Raine's mouth to keep her from saying anything else. Raine struggles some more in retaliation, but even as Zwei seems to look like she's about to lose her grip, she does manage to keep her steady. The mace in Raine's hand seem to react. The clock hands that serve as the spikes to the mace start to vibrate.
The rest of the souls seem to keep quiet as Raine spouts out muffled obscenities.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Mar 21, 2016 13:48:33 GMT -8
Alpha Seth, missing one horn, standing next to Thoren, hears Charles yelling from down the Hall, and begins walking in in that direction.
Thoren goes over towards Raine.
"That fucker would be me." He has a smug halfgrin with a hand on his hip. "If you fuck anything up in here, I will personally crush you. Got it?"
"Raine... I don't know half the fuck of what's going on, but I can say for certain it's not her fault." Thoren looks down at Marin, who's still crying on the floor. "Sometimes you have to work with the hand you're dealt. Life's a bitch, but it's still better than most other options."
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Post by frozenlake on Mar 21, 2016 13:53:11 GMT -8
"..."
FLord glances at the ground, before looking back up at his face.
"Kay. Also, whats with the Equius look?"
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Post by lunarLunatic on Mar 21, 2016 14:03:03 GMT -8
Raine tries to take a swing at him with her mace, but just about misses, as Zwei staggers backwards.
"I...I don't know if she's going to listen to reason..."
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