Journey Through the Multiverse: Roleplay Thread

Andrew was silent as the new people appeared; nobody seemed to have any changes that were as major as his. While he did get a few looks nobody said anything focusing on him until a boy with a grey vest said "... Oh god, did I just get kidnapped by space dragons?"

The comment made him a bit nervous, it could give the others ideas and make things ugly. “Hey, I didn’t kidnap you, I just ended up like this...”

Before he could finished, Michael focused on him. "I know you! You're from that... you're from that Disney Channel show! Wow, that costume is pretty damn good. It almost looks real."

Andrew was about to respond it was real but a voice similar to Robin Williams bet him to the punch. Wait, why the heck did the voice sound like Robin Williams, did the abductors felt that humans would be calmer with him?

Other people started to talk about touching a crystal and even gotten powers from it. They seemed to be from fictional worlds too, these aliens must have a taste for pop culture.

Remembering that he was called a dragon and said he looked like he was from the Disney Channel. He looked down at his body and saw it was like a dragon from the American Dragon show, seemingly Season 2 given the shape of it. He didn’t seem to be any particular character as he didn’t remember anyone’s dragon forms having an orange underbelly with blue scales, including the fact he seemed to keep his ponytail.

Thinking about the ponytail, right now it seemed the closest thing he was wearing to clothing right now was the hair band tying his hair up. This was likely noticeable due to the fact he was surrounded by fully dressed human beings, some of them even getting new costumes which made Andrew feel a bit awkward. At least his junk wasn’t showing.

Taking a few steps, the strangeness of his new feet caused Andrew to trip over onto his belly. Makes him wish he had his old legs back. Wait, the dragons from that show were able to shapeshift human so...

“Hey Genie, is it possible for me to shift back human?”

Charles blinked repeatedly as he noticed two things: one, some of the people in the room weren't, well, people, and two, everyone was taller than him. He growled, baring fangs like knives behind his mask, and crossed his arms. "Why are you all so tall? Everyone else gets superpowers and I get to be Dwarfy the wonder bitch?" He stomped his foot, which resulted in a loud CLANG sound. He looked down to notice a small dent in the floor around his blue, hairy, clawed, bare foot. That gave him pause for a minute. Then he looked at his hands, and noticed that they, too had claws. And blue hair.

Naga bootifa... Charles head spun around like lightning to find the speaker, but then he realized he hadn't actually HEARD the voice. It was like... a thought. Great. He thought. I get badass claws but I also get a voice in my head. Just fucking wonderful.

Emba-chua.

Shut up

edited 24th Mar '14 5:34:04 PM by kagescorpionakki

It was just another uneventful day for Theon Duvrak... Or at least, it was supposed to.

The man in question had roughly woke up, covered his yawn and inspected the newly-bought alarm clock on the desk besides him. Why he needed an alarm clock in the first place is beyond him. Perhaps it has something to do with him getting up late or something? He can't be bothered to remember it. Anyways, upon closer inspection he noticed that it was 1. not ringing and 2. the time shows that it's currently 11:42 P.M. despite him feeling damn sure that it's freaking damn morning right about now. For what else could reproduce such annoying rays of bright lights just outside of his covered window?

Great. 'New product', my arse...

And he had only been using it for the past 5 days. Damn, now he had to go to buy a new pair of batteries for the clock. Assuming if the clock isn't broke. Groaning, he reluctantly got up and prepared himself for the day. It was the weekends after all and he has no schoolwork at all whatsoever so he has no need to worry about anything else. But specifically because it was the weekends and he had no important work, he doesn't know what to do.

... Damn

For you see, procrastination works in a very complicated way. When one has loads and LOADS of schoolwork not to mention having to prepare for the upcoming exams, the offer to slack off is ALWAYS tempting. Yet when all of that is over, such as no more schoolwork and the exams are still months away, it tends to leave one... uninspired and blank, unsure of what to do. Yeah, he's experiencing the latter right about now. He can't quite understand it yet but apparently, that's how his brain works and he'll just have to deal with it. Not that he's complaining much.

So now the big question remained: How will he spend the rest of the day?

He chuckled. Well, good thing I know where to begin. He approached and sat down on a chair as he turned around to face his desktop and glowing computer screen.

... Wait, what?

Why the heck was it glowing when it wasn't even turned on? Turns out that it wasn't the screen but rather, there's something stuck on the monitor. This something happens to be a tiny shard, glowing with iridescent lights. Thankfully, it doesn't seem that the monitor itself is damaged.

Now just what the hell is that thing? Some sort of crystal? And how'd it get here? Not that it matters, of course. He just needs to flick it out an-

Since he was assuming a sitting position, one can guess what happens next.

He unceremoniously fell to the ground as the chair was now nonexistent. It hurts, obviously, but he's more confused and dazed rather than pained.

"Ow! Now what... just... happened..." As he slowly opens his eyes, he realizes that he's no longer within the confinement of his room. In fact, he doesn't even know just where the hell he was. He blinks a few times, trying to comprehend at what he's seeing. The entire damn surrounding seems like it came from a sci-fi movie, except that he was in it. And there's even people aboard said spaceship. While most of them seemed normal(or at least, as normal as he can tell), there was... quite a variety among the group. Not to mention that there's an A.I. in the ship who introduces itself as GENIE for god knows what reason that demands these people just how did they get here on the ship in the middle of space.

To summarize his answers and reactions to the entire ordeal:

"... What?"

"Hoo boy. So many questions!" GENIE said, the screen retracting back in its previous position, as the large pad in the middle of the room activated itself, a hologram appearing in the middle. "Here are your answers. First one: what is this thing I stabbed myself with?" A hologram of a shard appeared on the pad. "These things are called shards. The dictionary says they're a crystallized fraction of a person's power. But that's just fancy talk for 'you guys stabbed a little mineral containing someone's power, and now you have those powers!'... oh, you may also have their conciousness on your head. It all depends on the shard, really."

"SECOND question! Where are we?" A hologram of Earth appeared. "Well, if my calculations are correct, then we're right about... here." The hologram zoomed into North America, then the United States, before stopping at some random point in the desert. "Oh, brother! Seems like we're buried. Some feet into the dirt. How did I get here?... let me see my databanks..."

The hologram turned into a hourglass, before GENIE's face appeared again. "Oooh. OOOH! I feel like Freud after discovering the thing with the mothers! Now it all makes sense. See, you're not intruders. You're the reason why I'm here!... oh, where's the speech, where's the speech. Por favor mantagnase allejado de las puertas? No, wrong speech. Oh, yeah, here it goes. Ahem. GREETINGS, EARTHLINGS! I AM A COMPUTER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM OUTER SPACEEEEE! YES, THERE IS LIFE OUT THERE IN SPACE, AND GUESS WHAT, EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT WAS FICTIONAL... IS REAL!" The holographic GENIE head blew up. "Woah. What a revelation, huh? And now you guys have their powers? Ain't that cool! I think it's cool. It's pretty darn cool."

edited 24th Mar '14 8:04:45 PM by Stratofarius

I was dumbstruck.

"Superpowers. That's....whoa."

This was. My mind was. I don't even. What.

"Okay. Well. Well then. Well."

.....

".......That's actually pretty damn sweet, if I do say so myself. Er, quick question, can I get like, a rundown on how the shard thingy works? I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole 'superpowers' thing, and details on something tend to help me visualize stuff. I'm guessing the shards are highly complex quantum computers that contain both data relevant to the powers, and atomic sized devices that duplicate the processes needed to acquire those powers, while adjusting them for different universes physics? Look, just....print off some papers or something, please. "

edited 24th Mar '14 8:42:48 PM by caliburnplm

Again.

"... What?"

... Yep, that's it. He must still be dreaming and dozing off somewhere in his room. Except that this all felt too real. To the point where he can't tell what's real and what's fake anymore.

"...,"

He's unsure of what his reaction was supposed to be. Was he supposed to be excited because he got the superpowers of a fictional character, screamed because this entire thing is impossible and too illogical to be real or just plain angry due to the fact that he was brought here against his own will? Instead, he just stood there, dumbfounded.

... He slapped himself once. And then twice. And once more for good measure.

And yet, his 'dream' is still there.

Since he can't be certain of anything anymore, there's only one way to validate the G.E.N.I.E's words: to test if he really does have the powers of a fictional character.

'Pfft. Yeah, right. How was I supposed to know wha-'

Suddenly, an image was formed in his mind's eye. The image itself consists of some sort of circuits which appears unlit an- HOLD ON JUST A SECOND!

He knew what this was. Oh god, he knew what this was. Only one character comes to mind when he sees this.

Servant Archer a.k.a. EMIYA. Or Emiya Shirou

How in the nine hells did he has those powers, even he cannot say. Which means that...

He closed his eyes and focus. If this is the real deal, then he... well, he's unsure of what he's going to do.

First off, just like in the series, there are steps which he must follow to create a stable projection, lest they'll shatter the instant that they appear. Which is unfortunate because it's been a long time since he'd completed the series. With that thought in mind, he breathe deeply, held out both of his hands right in front of him and focus. Surprisingly, he managed to remember the exact steps one by one as soon as he concentrated on projecting one weapon in particular: Archer's twin swords Kanshou and Byakuya.

Judging the concept of creation
Hypothesizing the basic structure
Duplicating the composition material
Imitating the skill of its making
Sympathizing with the experience of its growth
Reproducing the accumulated years
Excelling every manufacturing process

"Trace on..."

Following that one simple incantation, both of his hands flashed bright with light before dissipating in the span of less than an instant, revealing two ornately-crafted swords with the same design but very distinctive color schemes, as though representing the concept of Yin Yang.◊

Needless to say, Theon was very surprised. "WOAH!!" It was completely unbelievable! Here he was, just another ordinary kid from nowhere. The next, he can now utilizes the power of Servant Archer. What was thought impossible is now possible with his own two hands. Sadly, the projection shattered as soon as he thought it was impossible for said weapon to take form into his hands. But that didn't stop him from being surprised all the same.

Up until now Ukko had been more or less in a dream-like state, even though he chose to believe that this was not a dream. Now as he listened to the (silly) speech of the GENIE, the significance of all of this really started to sink in.

"So, we have been teleported against our will on a someone's frickin spaceship or sand base, which is impossible. Given powers of fictional people which is even more impossible, and then ordered by the silly damn genie from Aladdin." Ukko said.

edited 25th Mar '14 6:18:12 AM by mrzalli

Sometimes, an explanation was not an explanation. This was one of those times. However, Jasmine managed to grasp three relatively coherent points. Number one, she was in a room with an assorted collection of spastics, freaks, and more spastics, very few of which seemed to possess the basic life skill of shutting up. Number two, one of the quieter ones was an orange dragon-man and another was a stalker with a notepad. Number three, there was a giant Genie head floating above them. That Genie. She hated that Genie.

Also, they were on a spaceship and they all had superpowers now. Happy times. She wasn't in any hurry to find out what she had turned into.

Jasmine gave a pointed glance to the bespectacled guy who had tried for a comeback. He looked frantic. Not so cool now, was he?

"Oh, don't worry. I doubt you'd have the equipment, anyway."

With that, she turned away and glared up at the GENIE thing. Bright, blue, shiny. Corny. Really noisy. In short, the anti-Jasmine, if she had, say, a mustache. There was a reason she'd never liked him.

"So, we've all been abducted to some random point in the desert where no-one will ever find us, we're under several feet of sand, our entire lives were a lie, aliens exist, every time we killed someone in a video game or laughed at some dead baby comedy we were cheering on the deaths of real people, and we're supposed to console ourselves with pwetty shiny powers like toddlers on speed. Great. You know, I'm actually perfectly fine with this. I have absolutely no desire to see my parents or anyone I know ever again. Not sure about the rest of these people, though. You might want to check."

It was hard to tell if she was being serious about the parents bit. Really hard. Underneath her snark was a point, and then some seriousness, and then another point, and then a whole slathering of sarcasm to finish the sandwich. Still, she looked deadpan enough.

She looked at Andrew.

"Some of them might find it hard. Just a bit."

edited 25th Mar '14 3:46:17 PM by troydenite

The genie didn't answer his question. Though, I guess annoyance isn't the only thing one would feel when they find they're buried in the sand a continent away from home. This AI did not seem like it was designed to deliver bad news.

And it seems as though that everything fictional was real according to him. Well, maybe some fictional things are real, since if there's a multiverse out there than there's bound to be something similar to a story someone wrote. Though, the quality of some stories made it doubtful ALL fiction could be real. Wait, if the fiction is real, that would make it non-fiction. And would that mean some characters look exactly like their actors? No, no, that's just silly.

Jasmine noticed that Andrew was having some trouble walking. "You know sarcasm is good and all but it would be good if you also helped me up."

It didn't look like Andrew would need to help though as he eventually got back on his two feet, the new body's flexibility helping him do so.

If only this genie would be more helpful Andrew thought, which was answered with Oh don't worry, I got your back.

"Who said that?" Andrew replied looking around at figure out where the unfamiliar voice before it replied. I'm the voice from the crystal, the Amdrag specifically.

At the current situation, Andrew said "Okay, so the crystal means I now have a person in my head. There goes my privacy."

edited 25th Mar '14 5:17:21 AM by JustaUsername

Travis, who was simply hanging in the back of the group after nobody seemed to have notice him, was peeking over any shoulders he could see behind. He was understandably confused by everything that was happening. He remained silent, though, as they all listened to "GENIE". Powers..? Well, wasn't completely a long-shot, he thought. There was this odd feeling right in the back of his mind. Almost urging him to try them out...if they were there at all.

He held his hands palm-up and stared down at them in quiet concentration. Another sensation of coldness shot through him, and the tips of his fingers began to develop frost. "G-Gah!" He yelped out in shock, flinching at some unseen force, and a second later, a large sized icicle embed itself into the metallic ceiling with a loud thunk.

"Okay. Okay. Things are starting to make sense. Well, as much sense as you can have from this." Kaito said, looking down at the big glowing circle on his chest. "So I guess that means I took Tony Stark's shard?..." He tapped his head, and when someone asked about how the shards worked, he raised a finger. "If I could wager a guess, I'd say that the shard is like a container, with a person willingly imparting part of its knowledge and abilities into the shard. In some ways, it's kinda like transferring your conscience, and along with it comes all the powers—"

Kaito stumbled back, blinking. "What the... what did I just say?" He scratched his head, looking down as his eyes slowly widened. "Holy...I know things. I don't know how, but I know things. I know almost fifty thousand digits of the number Pi. I-I didn't even know what it was before this!" A smile came to Kaito's face. "I'm super-intelligent! This... this is awesome!"

TAP. TAP. TAP. TAP.

"This has got to be the fourth weirdest dream I've ever had, right?"

The sudden new voice was accompanied by the loud, steady tapping noise ringing against the floor of a ship. The boy who'd spoken up was grinning at the whole situation and the tapping was coming from an odd looking walking cane that he held with a sort of easygoing impatience, while leaning against a wall of the ship like he woke up every day expecting to find himself in a spaceship buried in a desert on the opposite side of the planet from where he had previously been with strange new powers gifted to him via stabbing.

He was really trying to get some people's attention for his next move by tapping his cane like that, even if it was also a habit of his.

"But if fiction's reality, then I'm sure we'll all need to go through the 'stages of getting new powers' thing where we do power stuff we're not very good at yet and say 'wow', or freak out for getting thrown into this new world of things we can't understand and probably hate, or try and live like normal people and fail, since that happens in most things with powers anyways. But before I play along, I think that first we should all maybe try and consider something important."

The boy with the cane held up his empty hand and flashed four fingers at GENIE "What I mean is the fourth question nobody's thought of asking yet. Why did we get these powers? Sure, you could say there's nothing to it, and maybe they weren't meant for us in particular. But if that's true, then no one would bother programming you to explain all of these things to whoever found the shards. So, what's really going on here?"

edited 25th Mar '14 8:04:42 AM by Dblade26

To quote a character from an old tv show he heard of:Fascinating. Roland was amazed at the new information, ready for cataloguing and archiving. He began to scribble some more with rapt attention. Observational Note #3: It appears that most of us are somewhat familiar with our new powers. For the first time, I relish the prospect of mastering my own abilities, as well as develop strategies for proper usage during combat. If what the AI speaks of is true... I need more data for a proper theory, mere speculation will lead me nowhere. Furthermore, it appears that not everyone is pleased about being brought here against our will. There must be a reason for our current predicament. We cannot achieve our objective if we do not work together. Hm, by the looks of things, this ship did not land here of its own accord. A conflict of sorts? This is a possibility. Asking G.E.N.I.E. may prove beneficial.

Stowing the notebook, Roland walked towards the AI with caution before asking, "Surely you must know why this," he gestured to the whole ship and continued," landed on Earth of all places. Do you recall the last thing that had happened prior to your arrival?"

Naoki calmed down significantly upon hearing GENIE's explanation. His somewhat upbeat attitude was both somewhat relaxing and annoying, but at least he didn't look like he had any malicious intent. He never had expected to meet the genies from Alladin in person one day, but now that he was past the initial shock, it was rather cool.

Then the shards were mentioned and what they did to all of them in that place. Everyone there now had superpowers now? He could recognize the dragon man from a show he watched a long time now that he had calmed down, but the others remained a mystery to him for the most part.

"So, do I really a power as well...?" he thought

"Correct" said a voice on his head

Naoki's eyes widened at the sudden voice in his head, he got completely stunned and wasn't paying attention to anything else at that time.

"So it's true... What can I do? What can YOU do?"

"You're certainly a curious individual. Very well, just close your eyes and take a deep breath, I'll take over from here."

Naoki was confused at first, was he actually going to take over his body or something? That was a bit unnerving to think about, but he had seen that some of the others seemed fine, so he thought maybe it wouldn't be so bad to do as the voice said. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, soon he became enveloped in light and his form began to change; where Naoki was standing now was a knight in a mostly silver armor and wearing a red cape, the armor concealed his entire body save for his golden eyes; he also became quite a bit taller, being a bit over the height of an average adult.

He glanced around for a moment, but didn't say anything to any of the others that were there, prefering to only talk if it was needed. What was noticeably is that there was no voice in his head anymore, or rather, it seemed more that Naoki's mind had been completely taken over by the knight's influence.

"Hmm, this wasn't what I had expected..."

He folded his arms, being completely distracted by his thoughts about the matter at hand.

Thanasius grabbed the bridge of his nose. Or, rather, tried to. He found this simple gesture impossible to perform with a large helmet welded to his face. So he settled for sighing.
Niether Theron Projecting Kanshō and Bakuya nor Travis shooting icicles from his hands elicited any response from him; Kaito's exclamation elicited a small snort of disdain, but Jasmin's speech caused him to turn to GENIE and address the AI directly.
“Y'know, I never asked for this” — he waved his hand, indicating the ship and its current occupants — “and most certainly not for this” — he tapped his chest — “and I have important things to do back home. So if you can, get this suit off me and get me back to my house, and if you can't, just get me back home. If you can't do that...” Thanasius trailed off, unsure of what to say, then decided that he didn't care and continued, “I think I'll use this high-powered rifle I appear to have to blast my way outta here.”

"I'd be okay with that, this gun strapped to my arm looks like it might be able to help in that endeavor." Said Don, replying to Thanasius. Donovan wasn't too fond of being stuck in a small and enclosed space with a group of complete strangers with fancy powers and weapons and this soldier guy seemed like one of the more sane people here. The guy with the notepad was kinda creeping him out and the Dragon, well, it was a giant firebreathing lizard. "Plus I've got these claws popping out of these gauntlets that might be of some use." continued Donovan, hoping that he'd be able to convince some more people to help him escape.

"Those are masterworked Lightning Claws, they can cut through just about anything with relative ease" said a voice in Don's mind. "Shit, now I'm hearing voices. This day keeps getting better and better." Donovan mused to himself before attempting a conversation with the voice in his head "So I'm guessing you're the guy who shard I grabbed?" thought Don hoping that his new voice would confirm his suspicions. "That seems to be the case, my name is Lukas Alexander, Governor Militant of the Planet Kronus on behalf of the Imperium of Man." replied the voice. "Well then, it looks like we're going to be getting to know each other then Lukas. I'm Donovan Dempsey, unemployed on Planet Earth. Mind explaining how this shit works?" asked Donovan, now less worried about going insane and more worried that his body might be taken over by the guy he was now sharing a body with.

edited 26th Mar '14 12:32:49 PM by Eachiunn

"Yeah, blasting away shit while we're on a spaceship is perfectly fine." Pat sarcastically quipped while in his new 'angel' form.

"Don't you dare." Pat said in an absolute tone.

Zed moved towards a wall and listened as the others talked and panicked. As he went to lean on the wall, the lance disappeared. Although he was surprised, the mask covered any signs of it.

Lucky. I had to lug that around.

...And, there's a voice in my head. The great Takanuva, toa of light, then?

Yes, that's me. I think the mask is evidence enough.

So...Spherus Magna nice this time of year?

A light chuckle resonated through the mind.

I would recomend that you learn of your allies, young warrior. The Toa Mata were good allies to me and a team would benefit you.

I glanced at the dissatisfied pair.

"Really? You both get super cool technology, and- You know what, never mind. I don't even want to begin trying to follow your thought processes."

I gave a long laugh, and raised my arms.

"Look around you. You are in a GODDAMN SPCE SHIP! YOU HAVE TECHNOLOGY AT LEAST DECADES, IF NOT CENTURIES, AHEAD OF ANYTHING ON EARTH! People would kill to be where you are now, and your concerned with LEAVING? This place is a friggen technological GOLDMINE!"

I then glanced at the guy who mentioned super-intelligence.

"My friend, I say, we put that intelligence to work! See if we can reverse engineer the technology for manufacturing shards, jailbreak em'! Twill be BEYOND AWESOME!"

Okay, I was no longer terrified. I was exited. Very very exited. I could SMELL the possibilities.

"But, yeah, GENIE? May I please have some docs pertaining to how the shards function? Also anything relevant to keeping the ship running and upkeep."

While listening to Jasmine Ukko thought "She seems to be pretty scary. Though she has the point, I would like very much to return back to home soon. I wonder how long it will take before my parent's find out I'm gone? Maybe a week when I won't be answering their calls."

After that Ukko noticed somewhere in his consciousness that he had low mana because he blinked few times without a pause to let his mana to restore.

"How do I even know all what I can do, he wondered." he thought and noticed something small and hard in his hoodie's pocket. "Wait, this is a bone charm◊. Let's see... this one gives me mana when I drink water, how convenient."

Then he put down his backpack and took his water flask he packed on the morning and drank until his mana was refreshed.

"Now, I should get to know all the powers I have." he thought and started reflecting on this new part in his mind "Blink, devouring swarm, possession and shadow kill. What, no dark vision, bend time or air blast, shame."

He saw other people testing their abilities and he almost tried devouring swarm but soon realized how a swarm of man eating and possibly disease carrying rats would be a big mess. "Yeah let's not do that."

"Hmm this possession works only on animals and sadly there are none present. What if..." he thought while tried casting possession on Andrew, who was speaking to himself, but there happened nothing. "No of course it wouldn't work, he is still human."

Noticing the small situation with Pat and Thanasius as this bearded guy, Jacob, shouted with a melodramatic tone at them, he said "If these guys can teleport us and give us these powers I doubt we can break their ship."

edited 25th Mar '14 1:27:50 PM by mrzalli

Seeing as how he was the only one surprised at how he was able to shoot an entire icicle out of his hands at such a fast speed that it pierced metal, Travis let his arms fall limply to his side. Perhaps he missed something? The various weird looking people was quite the indication that he seemed late to the party. "Uhm, h-hello..?" He called out shyly, rubbing his forearm. "Tr-Travis Murray. C-Could somebody t-t-tell me wh-what's going on?"

"Then what kind of blue monster am I suppose- wait." The words 'blue monster' seemed familiar, somehow. Charles had to pause in recollection, but then he remembered. That movie he'd seen as a kid, with the alien... thing. The alien thing that was made to destroy, but then had to learn about love and family and turned into a real bore. He frantically searched his memory for a name for that blue abomination. Alright, he was made by Doctor Jumba, he was experiment 626, he was a four-armed genetic monstrosity and the Hawaiian bitch named him... There was the sound of fabric tearing.

"Stitch." Said character's voice spoke in unison with the person whose head it inhabited.

Charles grinned, examining his two new arms. At least the voice was coherent this time. "Huh. This is kinda cool. Not sure how the hell to control it, but cool. Well, now that THAT'S out of the way..." He looked up at G.E.N.I.E., and cocked his head to the side. "I don't really care about my relatives, so I'm game. Do we get to kill pormakweestas with these powers?"

edited 25th Mar '14 1:43:14 PM by kagescorpionakki

"We're apparently chosen for something. What that something is, I have no clue." Pat explained.

(Do I have any other powers?) He thought to himself.

He then calmed his mind and started to focus.

Lightning began to form in his right palm while the left began to form a small fire ball.

"This is awesome!" He exclaimed.

The room was getting abuzz, Sijo noticed. The people were starting to interact with each other, some in a rather hostile fashion. But at least some others were asking the right kind of questions -such as WHY was this all happening- which saved him the trouble of having to ask them himself. For now, anyway. He continued to watch silently and wait for the 'Genie' to explain things further.

Naoki, or rather, the knight, having paid attention to what was going on around him, turned to around to face Jacob, looking rather unimpressed.

"It's quite ambitious of you to try to discover how the shards and ship work, considering you haven't even been here enough to be trusted with that sort of information."

That said, GENIE didn't look very bright himself, so it wasn't hard to imagine that he would give out all the info anyway, but still, that would be rather irresponsible considering what one could do with that sort of knowledge about the shards, did GENIE even know it in the first place? That seemed like a valid question. He then turned to Thanasius.

"As much as I can understand your sentiment, if you try to break out of this place on your own all you're going to achieve is being buried alive in sand since we're apparently right under a desert, it's... Hardly an intelligent course of action."