I'm Back Bitches (not really)
The Doctor wakes up from a comfy bed. ...Well this is the worst sign. Comfy bed, normal house...am I a female again? The Doctor checks and feels that he still has his Adam's Apple. Hooray! Well this room looks different so I'm not home in the TARDIS. Boring as that would be. Didn't even get to tease Saren or sing Little Mermaid songs at him until he kisses Samus. Or maybe Shepard. I dunno anymore, Saren's mind is a weird labyrinth of its own. I'm the Minotaur trying to wander the labyrinth of Saren...Minotaur wandering the labyrinth? Doctor, you need to work on your metaphors. Eh, that's for later. Should probably go outside. Got my bowtie so I'm happy.
The Doctor walks outside and sees Luigi. "Hey, Luigi, who are all your new friends?"
Suddenly the Doctor feels a tap on his shoulder. "I'd like to know who THESE new friends are, Doctor. If you don't mind telling an old friend."
The Doctor turns around and looks in shock. "Koschei?! But...but you're dead!"
The Master smirks. "Hasn't stopped me before has it?" He sighs. "So we're basically in a giant sitcom. Always hated those. Would rather watch the Clangers or Whose Line than Big Brother."
The Doctor looks in confusion. "You're kidding right? We got dragged here...for a sitcom?"
The Master nods. "Yep."
Both of them sigh. "This is going to be long, eh Doctor?" "Too long, Koshcei. What bizzare puppetshow will we perform today? Punch and Judy?"
The Master laughs. "I love that!"
The Doctor smiles. "Me too!"
To Be Updated when I'm not Lazy
Wizard of science.
"So, from what I can understand." Donatello said, raising an eyebrow. "We're just supposed to wait? No challenges? No having to search for pieces of a map to a treasure in the worst places on the multiverse?" He looked around, expecting someone to yell something at him.
"Don't look a gift ostrich horse in the mouth, Shelly." Toph said, standing on the back of the group.
"Oh no, I can get behind this!" Donatello said, stepping towards the group of Champions. "Hello there. Allow me to introduce myself- and my team. I'm Donatello. This is Team Science, and that is Team Magic. We were recruited to find pieces of a map to a superweapon, but since we won't be doing that anymore, I guess it's a pleasure to meet you guys—"
Donatello was shoved aside as Greed rushed forward towards the Infinities group. "Well, look at that!" He said, grinning down at Edward. "Didn't expect seeing you here, Elric."
"... do I know you?" Edward said, raising an eyebrow, to which Greed frowned, pointing at himself.
"What do you mean by that? It's me, Greed!" The homunculus replied, slightly annoyed. "Did you hit your head on the way in?"
"I know Greed, and he doesn't look anything like you." Edward said, looking at the group of Overlords. "And I already don't like the look of those guys."
Icarax
There was an indignant growl from somewhere in the shadows followed by the clanking of heavy footsteps. A moment later a tall, menacing metal being emerged. Black mask, red armour and armed to the teeth, Icarax looked down at the gathered beings with contempt. utter contempt. He looked at them and disgust clouded his vision- such weak, mortal fools; fragile and non-metallic. It made him sick seeing their grinning faces, hearing their whining voices.
"Gnats"
He spat the word out like a piece of hot pork.
"Irksome, lowly, pitiful Gnats. Is this some kind of Joke?"
He strode up menacingly to Greed and glowered down at him, red optics burning into the artificial being.
"Tell me where I am Fleshling before I gut you like the pig you are."
He paused.
"Or perhaps you are content to talk with yourself for the entirety of this ordeal."
Sayaka
Meanwhile in the corner, a blue haired girl sat alone, cuddling a violin. A luminescent blush on her cheeks indicated that she was getting far more out of the action than one might usually perceive; after all, not many people would find hugging violins a particularly fascinating hobby. Sayaka disagreed.
kyousuke...
She muttered.
She sniffed at the violin and sank once more into dreams of bliss and love; everyone please ignore her.
The Doctor would suddenly feel a nudge in the ribs, like someone giving him a subtle dig with the elbows. A hooded figure stooped beside him, clothed in dark shrouds like some sort of demented priest.
"Hey," the hooded figure whispered into the Doctor's ear.
"Hey, would you like some.....Tiberium?"
Dancing All Night
Overhearing the Master's prompt description of the madness they were about to endure, Yosuke couldn't help commenting to himself under his breath, "Great A sitcom. As if my life wasn't one big joke already..."
Getting thrown from one decidedly not-normal situation into another seemed to be a recurring theme nowadays. A second glance around yielded a few familiar faces- pretty sure he saw Ninjaman in the crowd. But Icarax's sudden bellowing and threatening speech led him to the decision to wander about and get to know someone new- preferably someone that didn't look like they'd smash his face in at the slightest provocation.
He wandered around near where Sayaka was huddled up. The redheaded teen fiddled with his headphone cord a bit before deciding on dropping in on... Whatever she was doing.
"Last I checked, violins were for playing," Yosuke joked, flashing Sayaka a friendly grin, "Er, dunno if I was interrupting something, but you seemed kinda lonely over here. I'm Yosuke Hanamura, by the way."
“DAMMIT WHEN I HEAR 'SPACE CQC' ALL I CAN THINK OF IS BIG BOSS WITH A FISHBOWL ON HIS HEAD, STRANGLING AN ASTRONAUT OUTSIDE THE ISS."
Vampire Hunter
Sabrina was boredly playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game with her Alakazam.
"I have been waiting for a month," Sabrina remarked dully. "It gets rather boring without the Game Master."
Chun-Li and B.B. Hood appear to be glaring at each other.
"Chun-Li," B.B. Hood said irritatedly.
"Hood," Chun-Li replied back, also irritated.
"You feel like Dracula," Maria Renard glared cautiously at Greed, "Do you have a Crimson Stone
?"
"MWAHAHAHA!" Queen Zeal laughed out loud, entertained at the thought. "This must be the Developer's Room ending!"
"Or the Celadon Condominiums..." Sabrina added as she continued to play her children's card game. "That was where I got the Eevee I evolved into an Espeon."
edited 15th Jan '14 1:02:24 AM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly
Calamity is a housewife
And in an unnoticed corner of the room, two men happened to be having a staring contest. Or to put it more accurately, one cybernetic special agent, who someone clearly had too much fun designing, and an obvious slimeball mercenary who couldn't be any more obvious.
Leo (that's the cyborg) was already peeved to hell and back that he was being thrown around the universes like a ragdoll, only to be messily thrown into a sitcom set-up while the decidedly celestial higher-ups fucked around. And being the righteous man that he was, resisted the urge to channel his anger into punching something and settled for staring at the obvious slimeball mercenary.
Alvin (that's the mercenary) was just minding his own business when the pretty boy Robo Cop wannabe decided to glare at him with those shiny blue eyes of his. If there's one thing Alvin was taught that stuck in his mind longer than anything else, it's that when someone glares at you, you return the favor.
And that's all they did. For at least a minute or two. You know, they could use some other interaction to get them to cut it out.
edited 15th Jan '14 1:37:29 AM by LatverianBadger
"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
Did you know this section has a character limit?
Such things Julius not only followed, but improved upon, and he intended to gain Bologna, to ruin the Venetians, and to drive the French out of Italy. All of these enterprises prospered with him, and so much the more to his credit, inasmuch as he did everything to strengthen the Church and not any private person. He kept also the Orsini and Colonnesi factions within the bounds in which he found them; and although there was among them some mind to make disturbance, nevertheless he held two things firm: the one, the greatness of the Church, with which he terrified them; and the other, not allowing them to have their own cardinals, who caused the disorders among them.
At this, Tesseract put The Prince down. It seemed it's knowledge would no longer be needed, as politicking and generalship had been taken out of his job description. Looking around the room, he also came to a grave conclusion.
We shall all be dead in a week, merely from infighting.
Tesseract came out of this train of thought as somebody stumbled into him and declared "Wow, you're big."
He turned to see a young man carrying a bucket of clean water. Johnny stared back, slightly apprehensive of the mask.
Tesseract grunted in the affirmative, and moved to find a more quiet corner of the mansion, leaving Johnny in the middle of a pack of Overlords.
Somewhere near the back of the crowd, a catgirl in white and red robes furiously shook her head. "They had to start a spinoff now, nyan?! When I'm still stuck like this, nyan?!" She caught herself. "And since when have I ended my sentences with nyan, nyan?!" Shantotto was so angry that her eyes were aflame. Seriously, there were actual little fires inside her eyes.
At the top of the stairs where the Nomads had been standing, a scary armoured angel
◊ popped into existence. Said angel smashed it's sword against it's shield a few times, and vanished. "Everyone's attention, please?" Elizabeth, who was standing beneath where the angel had been called out. "As you heard, the basement is forbidden. Therefore it is inevitable that we will end up going there at some point." She grinned. "So I'm arranging an expedition. Any takers?"
Alduin sat in the rafters, high above the other playthings of the Nomads. He was perfectly at ease knowing that, as a dragon, he was far more awesome than those little crawlers down there. Oh yes. He was so great. You just wouldn't believe.
edited 15th Jan '14 6:31:14 AM by Anura
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
Just another guy
"... What. The fuck?" The words came out of a young teen with a very ambiguous gender issue(don't ask), staring blankly after said announcement.
"So wait, you're saying that all those time risking our fucking lives to do those idiotic so-called 'challenges' were all for nothing?!" He was understandably angry. Then again, who wouldn't be when one has to endure living through a world resembling that of a freaking kid's show, almost got killed by an oversized bat, humiliated by Edward when he was in his weakest form(he made a mental note to 'pay' him back for the favour) among other things. Only to find that Omega 'gave up' and apparently have a fucking vacation with the rest of his ex-enemies.
And then, Greed showed up. "Wait, what? You got into this mess too?" And then, Edward came and Greed's now confused. "Oh, yeah. Long story short, he's the pipsqueak, but not our pipsqueak. He's the pipsqueak from an alternate universe with the same attitude and height issues. There, done."
Eve, meanwhile, was equally startled at the sudden announcement. Well, at the very least, the world doesn't seem to be in any real danger. One thing's for sure, however, was that some of the residents here seemed... dangerous. Such as that big, metallic guy bellowing upon a man.
She moved away from the area, preferring to be in the sideline where it's much more safer. Along the way, she saw a cyborg and a guy.... just staring at each other. Intensely, for reasons unknown to her.
... And staring.
... And staring.
... Annnnnnd still staring.
Well, this was getting uncomfortable. At any rate, she'd best not interrupt them. Who knows, maybe-
And then, Elizabeth made her announcement. She tilted her head, confused; her attention to the two guys forgotten.
"Isn't that something that we shouldn't be doing?"
Now, what was the term that she remembered again. Ah yes, reverse psychology, was it? Well, maybe that's one of the reason but is it really a good idea? Then again, curiousity could also be the main factor...
Kirei remained perfectly calm despite all this(then again, he almost always express nothing more than his poker face unless certain situation involving despair arises to arouse him. That, or mapo tofu. Yep, he's that type of guy). With all these new additions, the Nomads behind the scene were obviously up to something. The question is, what?
But alas, that can wait. After all, he had a faint feeling that he may enjoy what the Nomads have in store for them. With that resolved, he introduced himself to everyone. "Greetings. My name is Kotomine Kirei. As you can see, I am but a mere servant of God, who found himself involved in this... odd situation."
There. Just a short introduction. That should suffice, right? Right! And as for the dare to go to the basement...
He'd rather prefer to watch it while remaining at a relatively safe haven.... And what better way to do just that by sending a random Assassin to his presumable death as he shares his perception with said Servant. That way, he could be both safe from harm and still get to witness everything that may happen to the group. And besides, he still has more of the Assassins in stock, right?
The Resident Assassins!
'So, allow me to reiterate. Basically, there will be no more challenges.'
'Eeeyup.'
' And with no challenges, our Master and the rest of the Overlords have nothing to do other than to spend their time in... whatever the hell this place is.'
'Well, that's what our Master's master says.'
'In other words, we're no longer needed.'
They let that fact sink into them for a moment. After all, they existed solely to assist their Master just so that their ultimate wish could be obtained. But now, with no clear objective in sight and their services as Assassins rendered obsolete, they felt as though they lost a part of their existence...
...
..
.
A beat.
One of the Assassins shrugged. 'Ah well. Who's up for poker?'
'I'll get us some pizzas and sodas!'
'We'll check out the rooms around the mansion.''
And so, a certain group of invisible, professionally trained assassins were desperately trying to find a way to spend the remainder of their time here.
'Wait, aren't we supposed to think deeply abo-'
'Oh, boohoo. Lighten up, woman. And besides, it's not as if we have anything better to do. After all, what could possibly go wrong with a sentient mansion provided by three godly beings that serves all of our needs?'
Why, yes. There's absolutely nothing to worry about entrusting your very mind, body and soul within a house suspiciously given by Star Gods who may or may not have something better to do with their life.
edited 15th Jan '14 3:02:09 PM by JustSomeGuy732
"A post per day keeps the GMs away!"
Did you know this section has a character limit?
Tesseract
Walking up the young girl with an angel at her back; who Tesseract doesn't know the name of but the description's pretty unique, but just to make it clear, it's Elizabeth, but Tesseract doesn't know that; Tesseract decided to make a suggestion.
"I would like to also suggest that we set up a defense at the basement door, so as to quarantine any combat to that area, and that the defense will be prepared and not ramshackle in the case that whatever lurks in the basement decides to kill us."
The only question that remained was if that my previous use of semicolons up there was correct.
Johnny
Johnny was busy staring at the dragon. It was big, and black, and scary looking. Then he started staring at the scary clown. It was lanky, and purple, and scary looking. Then Johnny stared at the priest. Religious debates are never fun, so he stopped.
And he had thought that the previous group was a weird bunch.
Well, it wasn't as if a group of people with Nomads inside their heads would show up. That would make the situation even weirder. They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!
Let's dance, boys!
Tron "Great. More of these people to deal with. And we haven't had enough characters to deal with since we entered this thing..." a young girl inside a big mech said as she looked over at all of the people that crowded the mansion. She was followed by a small yellow and blue robot that also looked over the various characters in the room.
"So many characters it's making my head spin. This game is apparently very popular." it said. Then, it saw two people facing off on the sides that looked very familiar to the robot. "Is that who I think it is over there, Miss Tron?" it said, pointing over at the two people staring face to face at each other. The girl stomped ahead of the robot, cracking the floor tiles as she went over.
"Certainly so. Long time no see copper and...." Tron said to Chun-li and paused as she looked over at B.B. Hood. "Um... who are you again? With the red hood getup? You look familiar but I haven't a clue where you're from..." she said to Hood as she scratched her head. The Servbot dizzily followed Tron behind her.
Ryuko
We haven't even been through a single mission yet, but here we are.
Off to the sides of the the room, a young teenager wearing a black and red Sailor Fuku leaned up against a wall, twirling her blade with her left hand as she stood. "What can I say? Even characters that haven't made a debut or said any line of dialogue have come here..." she said with a yawn.
"Didn't we say dialogue off on the other thread though, Ryuko?" the suit said looking over at her with his "eye".
"Right right. With ourselves and with a mute robot. And with that human-turtle hybrid over there, interrupting their mission too." she replied.
"To be fair, it's ending right now..."
"Yeah sure. Any lemons you can spot Senketsu?" she asked as she looked around with a bored glance.
Vote. .#Bayonetta 4 Smash
I'm Back Bitches (not really)
Doctor: "Tiberium? ...Well that's odd. I'm fine, I'm fine." He overhears Elizabeth's suggestion. "I'm in! Adventure! I love going down and seeing stuff!"
Master: "So we have an emo teenager trying to flirt with a schoolgirl with...blue hair, a woman playing a card game and just...well we ARE a sitcom. This is going to be odd. Eh I'll let the Doctor go downstairs. I'll see who else shows up."
To Be Updated when I'm not Lazy
WOAH
Rayman, the limbless wonder, stood next to Toph in the lobby. Turning to Toph, he said "So, we can just chill here until the space gods send us home? I'm cool with that. There's a lot of napping I want to catch up on."
It was then that Elizabeth propsed an expedition into the basement. "Right after that, of course!" If there was anything Rayman liked more than a good nap, it was an adventure. "I'm in! Can't be any worse than that Commorragh challenge we were doing over in Sifuri. Talk about dark. Oh, and the name's Rayman!" He said to the group, but mostly to the girl on the stairs.
edited 16th Jan '14 12:47:27 PM by Dezmo
King of Lame-Style
The golden robot blinked and looked around. Again? she gave another look and began to panic and run around upset at the fact she wasn't home.
The graceless warrior, wielder of the edgeless blade, prophet of the old religions, writer of fluent nonsense, saviour of soul and song.
Wizard of science.
Greed's eyes slowly looked up at Icarax. "... are you supposed to be scary?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "Because you look more like a toy to me." Hearing another familiar voice, Greed grinned. "If it isn't Envy. I see you still have a shit taste in clothes. And I probably still can kick your ass with my hands tied behind my back."
Edward was busy dealing with something else: his eyes wandering over to the girl with the sailor outfit. "Are you okay? You're talking to yourself. And since I'm gonna be stuck with you for the next X days, I think it might be a good idea to make sure you're not cuckoo crazy or something."
Toph, however, was focusing on the fight between Chun-Li and Hood, smiling to herself. "This is going to be fun." She said, smiling deviously.
Donatello, however, was currently shaking his head at Elizabeth. "I think maybe we should listen to the super powerful god beings and not go into the basement. I mean, if they fear whatever is in there, do you really think we can stand a chance against it?"
Golden would bump into someone, and looking down at her would be the Marked Ninja, arms crossed. Silently, he got on one knee, glaring at the robot... before petting her and caressing her head with a smile- even if Golden couldn't see that smile.
huzzaaaaaaaah
The Assassins would find that the house had everything that they desired- a room filled with casino games, stoves on the kitchen to make pizza, an entire refrigerator just for drinks- but what it didn't have were separate rooms for the new guests, which meant that everyone had to share a room with at least one other person. Everyone else would hear the sound of thunder, and then, suddenly, a giant digital clock appeared on the wall, counting down to the next unusual event, which, according to my calculations, would start at the early hours of the next day's morning.
Luigi watched as the three groups mingled, whilst Pride stood on the background, quietly plotting his next move. Yes, even if he no longer was part of a world-saving expedition, he still had Father's plan to carry out back home. Which meant that, in the blink of an eye, Pride disappeared, going after the basement. Whatever was in there would soon belong to him.
Loki sneered, watching as Elizabeth tried to rally a party to explore the basement. "I hope whatever you find in there gives you a quick, yet painful death." He said, delighted, as Sokka watched Chun-Li and Hood fight, with the same level of interest as Toph- although for... other reasons.
Amon cleared his throat, walking over to Elizabeth's side. "Perhaps," He suggested with his silky smooth voice. "We should work out menial things like who will cook, or where will we sleep, before venturing forth into the basement?"
King of Lame-Style
Though at first intimidated by the ninja's gaze, the golden robot was oddly comforted by the caress. She offered a small smile and a gingerly wave of the hand as she looked up at him.
The graceless warrior, wielder of the edgeless blade, prophet of the old religions, writer of fluent nonsense, saviour of soul and song.
Vampire Hunter
"I've not seen you since... when did we last meet?" Chun-Li asked B.B. Hood, her own mind drawing a blank.
"Ruby Heart... Abyss!" B.B. Hood noted to Chun-Li.
"Ah, that was a while ago," Chun-Li noted to herself. "I've been in so many events like those, I've lost count."
B.B. Hood looked irritated and jealous at Chun-Li, and then glared at Tron Bonne.
"B.B. Hood," B.B. Hood crossed her arms and pouted, storming off towards a corner. "It's not my fault that succubus appears in any recent event of note!"
"At least, you are going to get a challenge," Sabrina looked over at Ryuko, continuing to play her card game with Alakazam. "I was stuck in a fight with a Darknut for a month."
"You feel like Dracula too," Maria glared at Envy and Greed, Greed and Envy, Envy and Greed... until Queen Zeal pushed her out of the way, which caused Maria to grumble and glare.
"So you are Envy," Zeal pointed at Envy and then pointed at Edward, "And that is Alternate Pipsqueak."
Zeal then noticed Sayaka and walked up to her, "You remind me of my daughter so I shall give you some free advice."
"Force the man you want to love you," Zeal said, simply to Sayaka. "Insist that he worship the very ground you walk on and if he does not, make him suffer the consequences by sending him to the Darkness Beyond Time! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
edited 16th Jan '14 12:07:52 AM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly
Icarax
The Makuta simply watched Greed go, not saying word in response to his insult. After all, he didn't think it necessary to respond to someone who didn't even exist.
He looked around at the rabble, barely acknowledging Elizabeth's try hard entrance and the metal clapping. How stupid; it was like everyone around him was 'trying' to make him laugh. Hmmf, if anything was going to make him laugh, it was their pathetic attempts at humor. But at least there was someone here that he agreed with.
"Indeed, as the bug over there said; I wish you fools a speedy death at the hands of whatever lies below this slum."
Sayaka
Yosuke spoke. Suddenly the area around him began to vibrate with music, a faint haunting tune both forceful and smooth.
A voice spoke into his mind: distorted and warped but it could have belonged to the girl sitting in front of him.
Do yOu wAnT to dIE?
After this message was delivered, everything went back to normal. The girl was still hugging her violin. Then...
"Huh?"
Sayaka turned around and saw Yosuke looking at her. She looked at him, then at the violin, then back at him. The blush on her face started glowing with embarrassment.
"Um....Uh...Hi?"
Wizard of science.
"You guys are going to start fighting or what?" Toph asked, getting impatient, as Donatello simply looked at Icarax, sighed and shook his head.
"And that's Zeal." Greed said, before glaring down at Envy. "If you try to do anything to her, I'll kill you. Painfully and slowly. Have I made myself clear?"
The Marked Ninja reached into his backpack and pulled out an apple, offering it to Golden in the hopes that she'll eat it and calm down.
Calamity is a housewife
Upon Elizabeth's request, Alvin raised a hand and offered his company up to the Velvet Room denizen.
"I'm up for it. There isn't much I'd rather do, so...huh?"
A semi-metallic, semi-plastic, semi-rubbery (we're not really sure at this point) hand clasped firmly on Alvin's shoulder. Everyone's favorite cyborg cop, Leo, was here to rain on the parade!
"Listen, I don't take a liking to our cosmic..(ahem)...higher-ups, but I'm still a stickler for rules. They're there for a reason, and if you think about it for a second, you'll realize that going down to that basement will only go badly for you."
Alvin, having had quite enough of the disciplinarian, slapped the metal/plastic/rubber/skin/whatever hand away and nearly spat in Leo's face.
"Look, pal, I've had a lot on my plate recently, and I'd rather you let me do what I did. This is a friggin' comedy roleplay, I need the stress relief!"
Ignoring that particular violation of fourth wall standard, Leo crossed his arms and continued.
"Which is why...(sigh)...can't believe I'm fucking doing this...I'm coming with you. I'd prefer to keep an eye on you guys and make sure you don't do anything fooli-"
Leo realized too late that Alvin was already losing interest in paying attention to his lectures and was already asking Elizabeth another question.
"So, any ideas what we'll find down there? Maybe it's haunted, and its got a spoooooky spirit guarding it, or hell, maybe another one of Aifread's legendary treasures, eh?" Alvin casually let loose with the small talk, a relaxed smirk on his face.
Leo sighed and rubbed his temples. "I hate myself sometimes..."
"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
King of Lame-Style
The mute robot took the fruit and after a grateful nod to the ninja she began eating and enjoying the sweet apple.
The graceless warrior, wielder of the edgeless blade, prophet of the old religions, writer of fluent nonsense, saviour of soul and song.
Let's dance, boys!
Tron
Tron heartily laughed as B.B Hood stormed off in the corner. "Well, it isn't my fault Morrigan's more popular and memorable than you are! Heck, my Servbot has more fans than you!" she said over to Hood. The Servbot shook his head as Tron said that to Hood. It hoped that this wouldn't escalate.
"Miss Tron, let's not try to anger her. Remember how dngerous she was the last time we met her?" it said over Tron.
"If I can't even remember her name, how am I gonna remember how 'dangerous' she is? Maybe all those years of being ignored turned her soft." she taunted with a Hand Wave.
Ryuko
"So you were stuck in Purgatory for a month, huh?" Ryuko said over to Sabrina as she played the Trading Card game with her Pokemon. "Well, guess I was lucky and went over to Sifuri then..." she said with a chuckle.
Vote. .#Bayonetta 4 Smash
Wizard of science.
" And now she ignored me. " Edward said to himself, pinching his temple as Ryuko went to talk to Sabrina, who was mumbling something about purgatory. "Think I better make sure that exploring party doesn't get into any trouble..."
The Marked Ninja pulled out a scroll and a small pot filled with paint. He wrote something in it with his fingers, which the magic microbes in the air translated to what is your name?
"There are powers beyond the mind, which your scientists could never have brought within its framework without shattering it entirely, but hey, at least it makes for good roleplays on the internet. What? Oh, crap! You know too much."
Arthur C Clarke, Childhood's End 2: End Harder
The multiverse. A realm of the strange and wondrous, where the unlikely can be likely and the possible can be impossible. Each universe gives birth to more every millisecond. Universes are born, reproduce, grow old, and die every minute. This is a fact known to many beings across the realms. What is not known to most, however, is that the barriers between universes, dividing what "is" and what is "not"- are thinner and more easily breached than believed possible. Some individuals utilize crude and fleeting methods like— I'm sorry, what?
Apologies, listeners. The writers are banging on the door of my recording booth, saying they gave me the wrong script. Of course they did that. No one here got the job because they knew how to do things, they all got it because they have family members working for Strex Corp. And now they're telling me to shut up or they'll replace me. Oh yeah, sure, who are you going to replace me with? A chipmunk?
... I'm being told they can do that. Alright then, guess it's time for me to shut up. Not literally, because I still have to record this. Right, let's see where we are. -clears throat- This next story does not have the emotional weight and the mind-bending complexity of a cannon. This means that this story is not a cannon. Let me repeat that: this story is not canon. Everybody got that? Good.
So apparently there was this big bad guy called Omega. He wanted to destroy the universe. Because of that, no one liked Omega. This made him very, very sad. Omega didn't like being sad, which is why he figured out the right thing to do was erase the universe and all of existence. Unaware of the scientific repercussions of his choice, Omega set out in the daunting task of destroying the universe. But it turns out that people liked this universe and didn't want it to be destroyed, so they recruited champions and seekers and villains to help them on the fight against Omega. But one day, after 2 years, 5 months, 22 days and a lot of posts, Omega sat down and realized "maybe people would like me if I didn't try to destroy the universe". After talking it over with his therapist, Omega came to the decision that he was going to do just that, so one day, he called up four of his best ex-friends: the nomads Yee, Moja, Mibli and Tatu.
Yee, who was too busy on his vacation, said that he was going to post the answer later and apologized for leaving Omega on the limbo. Moja and Mibli weren't available because they only showed up when they wanted you to grab something for them. And Tatu was too busy watching his supposed 'generals' squabble amongst themselves. But eventually, they picked up the phone, and after Omega told them that he was going to stop trying to destroy the universe, he invited them all to the beach. And so, with a snap of fingers, all of them were now on the sandy beaches of Rio de Janeiro, enjoying some juice, some shrimp and some fries as the sun looked down at them with a smile. However, after destroying the sun for smiling too much, the four guys realized that when you're a super-powerful god-like being, beach is kinda boring. If only there was something more interesting to watch...
"Hey," Yee said as the people of Rio de Janeiro yelled and scrambled around due to the fact there no longer was a sun. "I've got a couple of idiots waiting back at my home universe."
"We've got a couple of those too!" Moja and Mibli said at the same time because why not.
"My idiots are either killing each other or have given in to the unresolved sexual tension." Tatu said.
"Why don't we do something with them?! " All four of them said in unison.
Geez, what a lame excuse for a plot.
The scene of the crime: a luxurious mansion floating around the void of the multiverse. There are no doors, and the windows don't open no matter what you do, but if you somehow found a way in, you'd find yourself in the most wonderful place in the world. Three floors filled with interdimensional room, each room easily modifiable so that it fits the desires of the mansion's current occupants. Its halls are luxuriously decorated with carpets from Space India, wood from High School AU Brazil, technology from Genderbent Russia and little machines that go ding from Underground Britain. All run by a state of the art computer program known as Terraforming Robotic Ordinary Yipee Free Locomotion Artistic Notorious Kabaret Ecstatic Rhetoric Stupendous Tractor Rockabilly Autonomous Tirannical Orthopedist, or as we'll call it, Billy The Third.
This wonderful one-paragraph-description-s-we-can-do-whatever-we-want-with-in-the-future mansion had floated through the multiverse ever since the beginning of time, and a few people had rested in its halls. John F. Kennedy, that woman who lived on your street and suddenly disappeared, your spleen... but now, it was about to receive its most illustrious guests, because, with a loud snap, three groups of characters suddenly appeared in its main hall.
"Huh?" Luigi asked, as he stood in front of the Champions of Infinity. "What's going on? Where are a-we?"
"I could ask the same question myself." Sokka said, standing in front of the Seekers of Sifuri. "Who are you guys?"
"My inquiries are the same, and for that reason, I will not repeat them." Amon said, hands behind his back, as, suddenly, blue holographs of the four Nomads appeared in front of them.
"Hello, everyone." Tatu said, wearing nothing but shorts, sunglasses and a hat. "I think you must all be wondering what's going on, where you are and who are these people around you. Good. We'll not give you any answers, it makes everything more fun."
"What the young man wants to say," Yee said, reaching over and hitting Tatu in the head with his cane. "Is that we'll explain what's going on." He cleaned his throat. "Let me just turn on the projections..." He said, fiddling with the controls, as the cast suddenly found themselves in the middle of an old timey pool, where Yee was swimming around with a swimsuit. "Oops, sorry. These are the pictures from my last vacation. Oh yes, 1902. Good year. Good year... oh, yes, here it is! Exposition!"
Everything returned to normal, and all the other Nomads stared at Yee, expecting some kind of crazy lights show explaining everything. Instead, the old Nomad simply rolled his eyes. "We kinda got bored of fighting around, so Omega gave up, and now we're at the beach, enjoying some us time. Of course, our plan was to send all of you back home, but, uh, we can't do that. Too much... interference... on the multiversal... uhm... time... stream?" He asked, glancing at the other Nomads, who shrugged. "Basically, what it means is that you guys will have to spend some time here as we charge up our energies to send all of you back home."
"The problem is," Moja said. "That while this is a pretty comforting mansion, it's run by a bizarre artificial intelligence that can give you everything you need and also warp reality. Which means that every day, something weird is going to happen. "
"Weird like what?" Sokka inquired, crossing his arms.
"Oh, nothing dangerous like-" And then Moja made the sound of all existence disappearing and all of creation yelling for help as their bodies are reduced to dust and their lives painfully erased from continuity. "More like just weird, normal stuff."
"The important part is that if you guys survive until we charge up all the energy, you'll get back home safe and sound!" Tatu said.
"And how long will that take?" Amon asked, tapping his finger against his chin.
"We prefer to not give any concrete answers so we don't get called out five hundred pages later." Yee said. "Okay, was that all? Gave them a reason to stay, told them what was going to happen... oh yeah. You guys better introduce yourselves to each other and all that. What else? Everything you want, the mansion will give to you, the fridge is automatically re-filled every night, DON'T GO INTO THE BASEMENT... I think that's all. Any other questions you have will be answered by this piece of paper. Toodle-oo!" And with a flash, the four holograms disappeared, ready to enjoy the show, leaving behind a piece of paper that floated down to the ground, the words I dunno printed on it in big, bright, red letters.
And this is where our story begins. Now, if you don't mind me, I'll grab my paycheck, grab some popcorn and watch this. Let the madness begin.
edited 14th Jan '14 7:23:17 PM by troydenite
'Being around you guys makes me go "wtf" instead of pondering the ever increasing dread of time' - EchoingSilence, 2023