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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 3, 2016 6:54:16 GMT -8
 An ice slicked dock sticks out of a large patch of scraggly and frosty red grass. An indigo cobblestone pathway leads out from it, trailing up a slight hill, lined with leafy exotic plants of yellow and orange. The skies are as clear and starry as a snowless January night. If anyone were still breathing, the warm exhales would wisp away in gentle fading clouds of moisture. Of course though, all occupants of the boat currently being tied up, are dead. Hypnos carefully climbs out of the boat with Medi's lantern. Her tiny ember of a soul flickers about behind the glass, still safe. Raphael jumps out of the boat and almost immediately slips and falls square on his ass. "Fucking slippery dock..." Theta gazes at the bland building not too far ahead of the path. "We're almost there... let's go." |
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 3, 2016 11:06:34 GMT -8
"This place is pretty..."
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Post by powerkitten on Apr 3, 2016 17:01:49 GMT -8
Sponge gets out, casually floating above the ice. He starts flying towards the door.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 4, 2016 16:33:27 GMT -8
Raphael gets up off the ground and begins walking on the path, hands in his pockets. He shifts to wearking his powerpad cloak. Raphael stops shivering mostly.
He remembers back to when Sponge gave that cloak to him when they were both still alive. It's odd how some of the meteor crew was actually halfway nice to him at that time.
As if they thought they could dissuade him from the destiny he thought he was supposed to achieve.
As much as he hates to admit it though, his days chasing that destiny are clearly over. Looking at what happened to Thoren, it seems it was all just a fool's journey all along. Being pulled along a thread by an unseen seamstress.
He was lead on that path by Chronos, who clearly just wanted to complete the timeloop that would allow him to persist in the Alpha.
That sad excuse for a man is dead and in jail now, in that order.
With everything that ever pushed him forwards no longer in play, Raphael has to forge his own path now.
Restoring the tower's fountain seems like a good start.
After a short and somewhat uneventful walk, the party arrives at the front door. A sign nearby reads "Voidco underworld regional office."
Raphael looks up at the rather large void symbol emblazoned upon the front of the building.
"...We're here now. Everyone ready?"
"Raphael, this isn't a raid, it's a business meeting." Hypnos remarks.
"Whatever. We're still storming this bitch."
The doors await the group to open them.
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Post by powerkitten on Apr 4, 2016 16:35:19 GMT -8
"Why do Seths always have to act so dramatic. Ugh."
And with that, Sponge just casually opens the door and walks in.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 4, 2016 22:38:09 GMT -8
All three seths flip him off before entering the building.
Sponge arrives in the lobby, the others right behind him.
The room has a waiting area with a table and some chairs. A pile of magazines sit in a basket nearby.
Behind the front desk at the far end of the room is a strange abstract figure made of lines in an odd quartered formation. There are hallways to the left and right, and to both forward sides of the front desk.
The three seths immediately walk up to the front desk.
Raphael slams his hands on the desk. "Okay, who the fuck do we need to talk to so our fountain gets turned back on?"
Theta facepalms. "...please excuse the rude man. We would like to speak with someone about the status of the fountain installed in Seth Tower."
The lossmonster behind the desk turns its attention towards a computer monitor and types something for a moment. It then pauses and wordlessly points down a hallway to the right... somehow.
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 5, 2016 19:00:52 GMT -8
"We're off to see the wizard~!"
The light in the lantern jingles. Medi can't wait to find out what's causing the problem.
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Post by powerkitten on Apr 6, 2016 4:35:00 GMT -8
Sponge starts walking down the hallway, internally cringing at the loss.jpg joke.
Of all the memes in the universe, it haaaaad to be that one.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 7, 2016 15:46:49 GMT -8
The party makes their way down the disappointingly ordinary looking hallway. Some of the officefolk stop and stare. Most of them appear to be amorphous blobs of varying shapes and sizes, awkwardly wearing minimalist professional attire.
"What the fuck is with this? Who hired them here?" Raphael suspiciously glances at the various slimes carrying paperwork as they pass by.
"from what i've gathered, these guys aren't from our previous world." Theta walks along with them.
"no shit, sherlock. what was your first clue?" Sarcasm drips off of Hypnos's words.
"i mean like, from their website, i've gathered that they've probably been out here before any of our kind have died and got sent here. and that they actually live out here among the dead who rest in the bubbles."
"Did that website mention what happens when one of them die?" Raphael grins darkly.
Theta glances over at Raphael disappointingly. "...raphael, we're not killing anybody today. you do know we can get sent to jail for that kinda shit? monsters are higher up in the caste system out here."
"and you know this how?" Hypnos is honestly confused here.
"i spend a lot of time at the library. there's a lot of shit they don't tell most player souls, and a lot of it is pretty fucked up. they usually seclude us to our own devices for a reason."
At some point, they reach a door with text written on it in an unknown language unlike any most of the group has ever seen.
It looks important enough though.
"this should be it, i think." Theta looks at the door in front of them.
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Post by powerkitten on Apr 7, 2016 15:50:24 GMT -8
"*Soul, what does this mean?"
"You assume I have a fucking clue, you god damn idiot. I've never this fucking shit language before. Stupid asshole."
"You don't have to be so mean about it..."
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 7, 2016 19:58:35 GMT -8
"Knock, knock; Get the door, it's visitors!"
Medi starts to hum again.
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 7, 2016 22:10:23 GMT -8
a figure opens the door from the other side. It is...
a tall lamp covered with a white bedsheet? It looks at the band of trick-or-treaters ghosts in front of it for a moment.
"...I know exactly why you're here. Come inside."
The covered lamp hops back into the room, keeping the door open for the party to enter.
They enter an office with a spectacular view of the exotic dreamscape outside. Theta and Hypnos sit down in two of the three chairs, while Raphael stays standing behind them. Hypnos holds Medi's lantern in his lap.
The lamp stands behind its desk and faces the group.
Raphael is the first to speak up. "So, why the fuck did our fountain get turned off? and everyone else's for that matter?"
"There is a reason, and it's much more serious than any of you can even imagine. The void itself is being torn apart at the seams."
"...torn apart?" Hypnos seems worried.
"This entire realm is currently at the brink of catastrophe. It started with the eradication of the horrorterrors, and from there got much much worse. Many dreambubbles have been ruptured by a mysterious power. It all came from a place we have begun calling The Source." A diagram showing a map of the current sector in the furthest ring shows the known extent of the damage. There is a circled spot with a picture of a meteor and a planet in close vicinity to eachother.
Raphael recognizes it as the meteor home to the Lost Pawns. "...Oh shit."
"from there, it's only been getting worse. A field of stars has been rapidly expanding into the furthest ring, the barrier between here and the mirror world has been broken, and now... the very fabric of reality is beginning to break." it points to a picture of technicolor cracks against the darkness.
"you're kidding about all this, right? ...right?" Theta doesn't want any of this to be true.
This can't be the True End of Everything... can it?
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Post by lunarLunatic on Apr 8, 2016 1:49:32 GMT -8
The soul in the lantern flickers erratically.
"I'M ScaRe D. Don'T LEa vE mE...I dOn't waNT TO D I e...I dOn't waNt to dIE...Do n 'T Go awA Y...LeT mE h E A R Y o ur VoICE aGAiN..."
Medi's voice becomes weaker, more desperate. She's terrified.
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Post by powerkitten on Apr 8, 2016 5:43:11 GMT -8
"B-but they killed Omega? Shouldn't that have fixed what he did? How do you even fix The Furthest Ring?!?"
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Post by flightlessicarus on Apr 8, 2016 6:52:41 GMT -8
Hypnos holds her lantern close, "Medi, I'm still here. We're all still here. You need to calm down, being afraid won't do anything against it."
"...who?" The lamp seems confused.
"Here, let me check." Theta pulls out his tome and flips to the latest page. Sure enough Omega Michael's entry is there, with a note about his post-mortem incarceration. "...yep, wasted and busted alright. Found guilty of countless crimes against countless ghosts and monsters. left quite a mess behind however." Theta shows the entry to the lamp across the desk.
"Wait, didn't that guy on the boat mention something earlier? Maybe he knows more?" Hypnos offers a suggestion.
The lamp looks over at the ghosts across the desk. "I'm afraid a mess like this can't simply revert itself once the culprit is killed and thrown into jail. We all have to deal with these results whether we like it or not. No revenge will fix what has been broken."
Theta looks down, at the verge of tears. "this can't be happening... for once in my existence i finally found something worth doing with my time... something im actually good at... and now everything is gonna go crashing down around me?"
"Hey, we all had our run here, Theta. It's just like you used to tell us before: we're dead and we should just accept it." Hypnos attempts to comfort Theta.
"Hypnos, you do know that was just me being a depressed little shit who didn't know what he was talking about? There's supposed to be a lot more to the afterlife than just moping around. You don't know what it's like to find your calling and then have the rug pulled out from under you."
"I do though, and I'm not letting this shit fly." Raphael speaks up.
"I don't fucking care what happens to me, but there has to be something we can do. We're going to The Source."
"Are you fucking crazy Raph?! You heard the lamp, you're gonna get yourself erased or some shit!" Hypnos yells at him.
"Well, we all are if we don't fucking do something about it!" Raphael yells louder.
For a moment, the room is silent. The sound of the air ducts gently circulating warm air into the room can be heard.
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