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"What makes you think we'd have you troll?," Rayek said. The truth was he didn't look all that much like a trioll, his skin was the wrong color and he wasn't quite ugly enough but he was close enough.
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Nakis grit his teeth as he heard someone in the crowd of non-dwarfs call him a troll. Never mind that he looked nothing like a troll (though dwarves and trolls both are little more than a mass of muscle and hair physically, trolls were much bigger, varied in color from grey to brown to even light blue, and were dumber than potatoes), but the tone of the offender had that arrogant and haughty ting that could only belong to an...
"Elf!" Nakis yelled in anger as he spotted the offender, shaking his fist at Rayek and had a right mind to literally cut the insulting hippie down to size. "Of all the damn rotten luck! I get pulled from my warm bed and into Armok knows where with unholy beast aplenty, and when I though it couldn't get worse I find that I have to spend what could be the rest of my life in the same space as a tree hugging, snotty elf! And for your information, I'm a DWARF, and proud of it!"
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"Hmm, well you're not as ugly as most troll and youre not green," Rayek conceded. In fact he looked like the mad half-troll, half elf Two Edge more than anything else. "But I've never hugged a tree in my life, in fact it was a long time before I even knew what a tree was. I'm of the Sun Folk. Not a Wolf Rider. Never heard of Dwarfs. Is that some kind of Half-troll?"
edited 6th Jun '12 5:09:22 PM by tricksterson
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Marle followed the First and Nakis into the clocktower. It seemed that Nakis was getting into an argument with Rayek.
"Stop it, you two," Marle said, crossing her arms. "Now could anyone tell me what happened to the clocktower?"
Marle was not exactly in the mood to put up with arguments after seeing the clocktower like this.
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"Racism is a bad prejudice." Nana said with a nod of his head at the two bickering humanoids before really taking in the sight of the place. It was... haphazard and messy. And full to the brim with other people. "Oh, it's like a Tri Peace after party in here." The boy muttered as he leaned against the wall. The analogy wasn't really that out there considering the people he knew.
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The elf's attempt to smoothing out the situation was about effective as a sending a cloth wearing farmer to face against a magma man. Saying that Nakis was not as ugly as most trolls could barely be considered even a backhanded insult and was so much a thinly veiled insult as to be transparent. Regardless of what kind of elf Rayek was, Nakis knew it was the same story (though thinking about, the information he got made him wonder if the elf was some sort of desert dweller). "Dwarves are not any kind of troll" Nakis said, still angered but had at least lowered his fist from all the looks he was getting. "You know, live underground, master artisans, drink a lot of alcohol" While that was a over simplification of his race and that last one was a stereotype, it's what most would know about Dwarfs.
Blondie was saying something and unassumingly wanted him to no fight. The carpenter found that slightly amusing. "It's not racism, it's speciesism. Totally different things."
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"Sounds like the trolls from where I come from," Rayek said with a shrug. "Except they're green and warty."
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Reth decided to give the people below the benefit of the doubt and believe that they hadn't heard him. He climbed down, carefully stepping over or around any debris that might have been in his way, until at least he reached the ground floor.
Upon reaching the group, he focused on the guy who looked like a native and said "Hello! What brings you all to this fine clock tower?"
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Red Arrow decided to listen in and see if he can get in any clues on how to get out of this place.
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"You two! Shut up, both of you," barked First at Nakis and Rayek before turning his glare on Reth.
"Why. Is the clocktower. Broken." He asked through gritted teeth, his hands balled into fists.
The crack of light off to the side of where Aldrea was widened as something entered the room. It was impossible to make out many details in the low light, but it was a four-legged shape, at least as tall as Aldrea, with burning orange eyes currently locked on the intruding Andalite.
"Yeah," said Sedd with a smirk. "Such realism! It's like we're not in a video game at all! Pfeh..."
Sedd took another look at the painstakingly drawn diagrams, sighed, opened his mouth to say something - and then the smile vanished from his face as his eyes widened and a rapid rattling noise sounded near him. Yet there were no snakes visible, despite the distinctive noise.
"That... was not an ordinary apple," groaned Sedd, looking nauseous. As he shuddered and his eyes glazed over, a low, dark, and inexplicably purple sounding chuckle accompanied the rattle.
"Here's a little free advice for those of you lacking common sense: if while in another dimension, you should come across something edible - a fruit, for example - which is considered a symbol of chaos and dischord across several universes, don't put it in your mouth. Completely unrelated to current happenings, of course, just something you might want to know. Hehehahah-HA!"
With a loud POP! and a flash of light, Sedd vanished, the rattling leaving with him. The map and notebook fell to the ground, the map landing face down, allowing others to see what had captured Sedd's attention on the passenger registry:
CABIN 13 - STRAINAM, NICCOZMO & IHNOUM, SEDD
edited 13th Jun '12 7:47:59 PM by Sir_Screwloose
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Reth looked back at some of the wreckage before turning to face First again, entirely unconcerned. "Oh yes, that. That's the result of a certain someone upstairs being a complete idiot. She wanted the clock tower to ring and didn't want to wait for it to do so naturally, so she tried to force things along. That...didn't turn out so well." he said, sounding rather bored. He then shrugged and continued with "Well, whatever. If you want to yell at her for being an utter moron, go ahead, but don't expect her to listen. She'll be the little blind girl in green."
After he was finished explaining things, he turned to the rest of the group and said "Hey, welcome to the dimension "Closed for Renovations". As you can see, it's a little unfinished, but I'm sure you'll be scratching your head in confusion in no time. I heard a bit of your conversation, so I know that you two" here he pointed at Rayek and Nakis "are an elf and a dwarf, but what of the rest of you? Man-girl-thing, are you a vampire in disguise? Blondie, you're not hiding a scorpion tail in that pigtail, are you?"
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"Scorpion tail? That's silly." Marle looked at him, confused and crossing her arms. "I'm Marle! I'm human."
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Twilight listened and watched as their guide was suddenly whisked away. "Well, the plot thickens. I knew there was something odd about that apple, he should have listened to me. So what do we do now that our guide is gone? I say we should regroup and find others, see what they have learned."
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"And who," Rayek asked the First, in his most haughty voice, "are you?"
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"What's a vampire?" Nana asked with a completely gormless face, turning his head to one side. "Is it some type of incendiary bomb?" Extreme amnesia is indeed sometimes a problem it would seem. "And I'm a guy, not man-girl thing."
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The fact that there was something enormous and breathing in the same room as Aldrea sudddenly became less of a concern when compared to the presence of something else; something with burning orange eyes and what sounded like a maw full of sharp teeth. Or it could just be her imagination, which if the past day was anything to go by had been alarmingly overactive. Morph? Maybe- no creature in the forest, or on any other world, could resist the full fury of a jubba-jubba beast. But there was no room to morph, leaving Aldrea with her tail; a natural weapon that was quite formidable. Nerves singing a srhill song of fear, Aldrea struck into the darkness, hoping that she would hit something- or at least alert the creature to her presence.
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Reth gave a Marle a brief look of mock surprise before saying "A human? Really? Well, I suppose you never can tell with some people. Don't worry, my friend. I won't hold it against you."
He then turned to Nana and said "A vampire, my naive young fellow, is a special brand of monster that feeds on the blood of those who are not undead. Contrary to popular belief, they feed not only on humans, but also certain types of demons too, and even werewolves if they're feeling especially cheeky. They're a nasty lot with a plethora of powers, and a wide range of rather laughable weaknesses. For example, all but the very oldest are deathly allergic to garlic, of all things, and they can't even pass over running water by themselves."
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"He's the First, the leader of that town over there," Marle said to Rayek. "And you broke his town's clock... tower?"
Marle had just noticed that the clock on the tower was nowhere near the typical 12 hour clock... It instead had fourteen symbols on the face of clock. After all, as a time traveller, she was used to having to get the date and time off of people.
"That's a weird clocktower," Marle noted, more to herself than anything. Of course, then Reth decided to mock her. She frowned at him and crossed her arms.
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"I did not. I just got here."
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Red Arrow just stared at Reth, wondering if he's trying to get into more trouble.
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Reth gave a small laugh at the look Marle was giving him before saying "Oh, come now. No need to take my little jab so personally." He paused for a moment before continuing with "Though I will admit that I'm rather surprised at just how many humans there are here. With a group as...makeshift as ours, one would expect a rather more diverse selection of species." He then turned to look at the clock tower and said "It is rather strange, isn't it? From what I understand, it's less a traditional clock tower and more of an alarm clock tower."
He then gave a small wave, saying "Well, if we're passing along names, I might as well introduce myself. I'm Reth Kalar, Star Mage, at your service. It's truly a pleasure to meet you all."
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"Oh, I know exactly what you mean, I've noticed the same thing myself," said a newly-arrived voice from somewhere up in the workings of the clocktower. "Humans are bizarrely common amogst the multiverse - the bits of it I've visited, at least. I blame a lack of creativity."
Strainam looked up in surprise, trying to find the source of the voice. First just got even more tense, for two reasons. One, because Ihdisith's version of small talk always carried ulterior motives, and two, the wind wasn't blowing - meaning that the snakey bastard was in the tower with them.
"What are you doing here."
"Fixing the clockwork, of course! Might be easier if I were mechanically inclined, though. This sort of thing was never in my job description, but I did agree to keep it running. Lucky for the terrakinetic little princess, too, or else she'd have to answer to Him."
The pile of sand and glass on the ground started streaming up into the air, reforming the shattered hourglass which was returned to its proper place my some unseen force.
The beast in the darkness managed not to get hit by the blade of the Andalite's tail, and started a low growl which escalated into a series of cacophonous barks loud enough to wake the dead - or something more.
"Tributis, be silent."
The orange-eyed beast (Tributis?) fell silent as its unseen master awoke from its slumber. A dozen glowing white eyes pierce the darkness and descended around Aldrea, their unconnected movement making it seem like they each belonged to a different being. They stared inscrutably at her for a moment before the same voice - deep, dark and dry, like an underground tomb - wearily spoke again.
"What are you doing here."
edited 21st Jun '12 10:45:36 AM by Sir_Screwloose
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"Wait, where's that voice coming from?" Marle asked looking around the inside of the clocktower, her crossbow at the ready and looking for the origin of the voice.
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Nakis grew tense when the ethereal and disembodied voice appeared. He place his hand on his axe, but he knew that whatever the voice belong to was most likely not fully there. That didn't stop him from worrying about what this thing was doing and what it could do. Whatever it was it was fixing the broken clock tower, for someone else. Broken pieces moving from their place on the floor and directed as if by magic to what the carpenter assumed was their original place
"I'd put it down, lass" he told Marle "I doubt it can be hurt anyway"
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"I'm Nakis. Nakis Mc Dum. Glad to met you, Marle" The carpenter introduced himself, giving a slight bow to the lady. the other two didn't seem talkative, but he didn't mind.
Following after First into the clock tower do to a unfortunate sense of a curiosity, Nakis examined the odd collection of people First was yelling at with an absurdness look. It seemed that they were far more alien even than the native occupants of this dreary world. Some weren't even in the classification of "humanoid", looking more beast than person. But they seemed to be friendly, if not particularly bright (and that meant all of them, not just the weird looking ones).
"I would like to say that I'm not affiliated with these guys" the dwarf said, holding a finger up as if to single himself out. He didn't quite know if Marle and blondie were part of the gang.
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