Naturally, in the midst of very important things, Reigen kept pestering them about their exorcism. Yuyuko turned back to him, and kept smiling as she talked.
"I thought you were doing that for free? We're not customers if it's just charity work. I'm afraid I didn't bring my coinpurse with me, so I'll just tell you that you did a good job. Is that enough for payment?"
"...Lady Yuyuko, we're not going to make friends by keeping secrets," Youmu said. She looked just slightly annoyed with her boss, hand on her hip and her other hand on the scabbard of her sword, like usual.
Truly, this was as it always was with her, Yuyuko thought. Always too cautious, always too truthful.
"Fine, fine. If it makes you a little more comfortable, I'll tell you a little thing I've been keeping from you." Yuyuko wiggled her finger to beckon him closer, and if he did, she'd whisper in his ear.
"The both of us are dead, okay? Me and Youmu both. I just wanted to see if you could really tell that I am a ghost in the first place. After all, I am the queen of the dead. Let's keep it a secret between us, alright?"
She took a step back, and regardless of his immediate reaction, pulled out her fan and let loose with a reserved, noble giggle. "Oh, that's right. I never got your name, Mr..."
edited 21st Jul '17 10:01:25 PM by wikkit
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Eve|Hospital|Entering The Mindscape
Eve continued to run, absentmindedly growing another pair of hands from her hair, in which she placed the stressed kitty. The hair cocooned Ser Pounce and patted him to sooth the cat, and kept him mostly protected from the impact of the footfalls. Eve randomly opened doors as she passed, looking for the meditation room.
When she found it, she also found Lewis, sans, Silenea, Rex and a blonde girl she didn't recognise, as well as Rick and Morty. Except for Silenea, they were all facing an open door on Silanea's head. Eve looked at the door, focusing on it, as her hair slowly deposited Ser Pounce onto the floor. There was an odd kind of fuzziness, and Eve felt herself drifting.
She blinked. She was in a wasted land, it seemed. A scarred landscape, lit only by a glow from below. "...what?" she muttered to herself, looking at her surroundings. Everybody who had been paralyzed in the meditation room was there, except for Silenea herself. Eve’s clothes were back to normal, and she held in her hand, a can. In front of them was... "...T.E.S.T.E.R.?"
[TOP SECRET]
I think I'm a sofa
Digger - Desert
I waved at Simon when he showed up and let everybody else do the explaining while I started counting the water canisters Tairee gave me; all two of them. In hindsight, I probably should've asked for more, but then again, I didn't know I would be traveling with ten people. "Bad news, guys," I said once the fighting settled down and everyone came back. "I don't have a lot of water to go around." I slipped my backpack onto my shoulders and turned around, facing away from the group. "If you're really thirsty, go ahead, but we might want to ration it till we get to the hospital."
edited 21st Jul '17 10:32:56 PM by ProTrash
(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?
"Let the others... have it... that isn't necessary... for me." Seeing the canister that looked to be holding what was presumably some kind of liquid and most probably water considering the type of environs they were in, Orchid simply gestured towards the much more hotblooded people in the vicinity while she padded on over to Delta upon seeing his gesture.
Bouncing up and down on her tiptoes for a moment, the girl whose name was decided after her shade of hair color then leaped up (while holding her skirt down because she was a prim and proper lady). With a bit of aerial twisting and maneuvering, the doll soon fell into place on the colossus' shoulders with a neutral face. "Thank you... for your... kind offer." All but dwarfed by the sturdy being she was now perched on, the doll lacked any sort of awkwardness as she simply waited for a consensus to be reached.
"Whatever. I just wanted to punch someone and those two deserve it" Rex told Curly.
Tester's answers were less than encouraging. Apparently the levels represented how skilled people were which is why Sans' was so high "Hey, I've been working on my powers for as long as I can remember and I can build new stuff now. Also, things don't easily get to me so I don't know where you got that impression"
Lewis was too excited about explaining how the game worked that he talked over Tester but not before wondering why Rex thought a lich was a shitty class.
"Oh you know, I just don't want to end up losing my mind and becoming a witch"
Sans showed everyone his sheet. It made sense, they had to work together but Rex still couldn't help but resent the skeleton was somehow more skilled than him. And a few things didn't make much sense either.
"How can you dodge so much?"
Oh and the party had gained a new member since Eve was there now. Wonderful. At least Sans, Lewis, and Curly didn't outright hate Rex. Rick was a different story but he was apathetic for the most part, and Morty... they didn't talk much. Eve, on the other hand, blamed Rex for what had happened with Ghostfreak and a lot of other stuff—not to mention her general attitude clashing with his own. So that was gonna be fun.
"Come on, it's a private room. Why do you guys keep entering in here?"
Gon, finishing up
Gon killed any scorpions he could get his feet on by stomping on with his boots. When he was done, he dusted himself from any debris that was on his arms.
He approached Digger when he heard the news that the group needs to carefully ration the water until they can reach the hospital.
"Pardon me..." Gon spoke to Digger. "But do you have any idea on how far the hospital is?"
Subject Delta - Desert
With one of the pseudo-Little Sisters on his shoulder, it would be far simpler to protect her. The badger-thing was another story. It was little. It sounded like a girl of some sort. But was it a little girl? Or was it an animal? Truly, these were the sorts of philosophical questions Delta lived for.
The dinosaur was asking about a cyclops but - hey, he was the cyclops diver. He supposed there was only one porthole, and you couldn't easily see through it, so reluctantly he was going to have to get used to it. He was also going to have to get used to people not knowing him. Rapture was the sort of place where everyone knew his name. Champ, Herr Delta, Delta, Subject Delta, Tin Man, Daddy, Johnny, Parasite, Monster. He had heard them all six different ways, might as well get some new titles under his belt.
At the moment, with the girl safe, the fighting subsiding, and the pair from earlier still not making to attack him, things seemed to be taking a turn for the better. One of the other people from earlier was approaching them though, causing him to be on alarm as it asked about hospitals. Standing up, he placed himself between Digger and Gon in case he tried to pull something.
"Mmmmmmmhhhhhhrrrrrr" he let out a low, warning groan at Gon. With his left hand, he held out an open palm to Digger.
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
Oh. We got manuals. Well, figures. I shut up with my rambling and skimmed for any noteworthy mechanical differences from what I was familiar with...hmm, right...well, most of the critical stuff was the same at least. Curly was giving me this look while commenting that hey, good thing I was familiar with this medium, to which I gave something that might have been construed as a grin to someone who could read eyes.
This until Tester decided to point out that I hadn't been dead that long. I flinched backward, reaching one arm toward the locket and wrapping the other around myself, letting out a defensive "Hey." Why it bothered me, though, I didn't know; how long I'd been dead for was fairly low on the list of things I cared to keep private.
Of course, then Rex had to make a Madoka joke. I rolled my eyes, trying not to look amused. "It's not that kind of lich and you know it."
I happened to notice at this time sans looking at Rex, and then me, and then looking obviously confused. Before I could ask him what that was about, he apparently decided to pretend that didn't happen, and started showing everyone his sheet.
I crouched down to look at it (Jesus, this height difference), noticing two things in particular. One, he was stupidly frail, what the fuck, he was going to die instantly. Two, "...You can drag souls."
No, no, fuck, I was past this. No more of this shit. It was gone, it was gone we needed divine intervention to get rid of it how pathetic huh?
I was dragged out of that train of thought by Rex complaining that yet another straggler had wandered in, and looked up to see it was Eve, looking up at Tester with...familiarity? I blinked. "Eve?"
i guess you can watch me shitpost i guess
Spyro-Des(s)ert
With the defeat of all the Cherry Bombers, the rest of the banditos and burrowing burritos fled the scene. Spyro watched them turn tail with a derisive snort. "What a bunch of Candy-butt wusses," he said out loud, before regrouping with everyone else.
Digger was offering people what little water she had. Used to the harsh terrain of the Peace Keepers, Spyro was perfectly at home in the sun and sand, so he said a simple "Eh, I'm good."
It was that the guy who showed up for the last part of the battle walked over and asked how far away the hospital was. "...Doesn't the city shift around, dude?" Spyro pointed out. "How's anyone supposed to know exactly where the hospital is if it's moving around? We're pretty much just walking around until we run into it ourselves."
THE SLORG!
"You will also have me as a guide. Though I will not be allowed to help you directly" Tester mentioned as Curly said that it was good they had someone familiar with this kind of system.
Then, Eve appeared. "Ah, the young, trapped organic. It is a pleasant surprise to see you here, and free of your mental imprisonment" Tester said with a slightly positive tone to his synthetic voice. "It seems you will be joining me for a game after all; though not a typical, normal game" the AI added.
"I am content to wait until you are ready to proceed, and you may ask me any questions, though I cannot guarantee an answer to all questions. But do remember, that until you have finished here, you are all comatose in the physical realm" Tester explained to them, then floated there silently, his screens flashing occasionally.
Louie had looked to his own walkie talkie when he heard Rachel's voice mention trouble at the hospital, and he grabbed it and fiddled with the knob. "Uh, what's the militia's channel again?" Louie asked.
"Five, isn't it?" Veela said, and stepped a bit closer to Louie as he changed the walkie talkie's channel. "Fastanook was at the hospital, wasn't he? You think he's okay?" she muttered, worried.
"I'm sure he's fine" Louie said, as he tried to make sense of the chatter coming through the militia's channel right now. He then heard Spyro mention the issue with the hospital shifting around, and got an idea. "Hey, I know! I'll take Swishee up high and see if I can spot it from above! Just make sure to keep an eye on me so we don't get shifted apart" the trainer suggested, and brought out Swishee again.
"Swishee, take us up; we're looking for the hospital!" Louie told the pokemon. Swishee shifted her feet a moment, then honked. "Come on Swishee, people are in danger there!" the trainer insisted, at which the pokemon dutifully opened her bill and allowed him to climb inside before flapping to take off.
"I'll call back on our channel once I see it!" Louie called down to Ben as he switched his walkie talkie back to channel 10.
Veela meanwhile glanced at the others, particularly Delta, with a slightly concerned look. "He's not gonna be a problem, is he?" Veela asked nobody in particular.
edited 22nd Jul '17 1:32:08 AM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
I just want to help!
"I don't know if I even want to know-!"
Anders came to a halt when Eve beat them inside the room, and she seemed to...go into some sort of trance, or something, slowly lowering Pounce back to the floor. There were others in the room, and there was a woman who looked...rather demonic, and from her head there was...
"Stop, don't look!" Anders said, spinning around and pulling Arcade with him before either of them could fixate on the strange...open door? "All right, I'm not sure what sort of anything this is, but if you have any reason that I shouldn't just start blasting everything in this room with magic, I'd like to hear it."
At the same time, Pounce mewed softly, looking up at Eve, one paw half-waving in the air a moment as though trying to get her attention, before he seemed to decide to just sit down by her, watching her, almost expectantly, tail slowly waving back and forth as he did so.
Arcade blinked in surprise when he recognized the people in the meditation room. Most of them, anyway. Eve had made it into the room and was staring at the door on Silanea's head.
"Eve? Eve!" He cried when she started to go slack. Before he could check, Anders took the initiative to not fall for the door as well. It gave Arcade a chance to try and piece together what the hell was going on.
"It... Oh! It must be the challenge to help Silanea," he said. He glanced at Anders and added, "the snake woman in the middle. Someone asked the person who brought us here to help her with something, and this is just what they have to do in return. I'm assuming."
edited 22nd Jul '17 7:56:30 AM by Skooter910
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
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Eve|Silenea's Mindscape|To Be Fair, Eve Doesn't Blame Rex For The Ghostfreak Thing. I Do.
Eve opened the can and read over her stats, having trouble understanding them, though she had them memorised. She looked at Rex, and shrugged. "...there was...a...door. I looked at...it....Now...I'm..here..." she said, almost as if she was going over what happened for herself, more than Rex.
When Lewis said her name, she turned to look at him. "...we...met. While..." Eve trailed off, and shook her head to clear it, turning from Lewis to look at the scarred ground underneath her. "...it...doesn't matter." Tester speaking directly to her got her attention, however, and she looked up at him. A slight smile came to her face, and she nodded. "...I...suppose......thank you...for that..."
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"Yeah Wang," Hoji felt the need to join in in an amused tone, talking out loud for everyone to hear. "He's got you there. I thought you were smarter than that."
"Shut up." Wang gave his standard response to the demon's mockery, earning a cackle. He glanced towards the Anna's with a smart-ass smirk. "Oh? Well what about zombies, then? Or even robots. They sure as shit aren't see-through."
Then he turned back towards the armoured figure, noticing that his voice was... unique. In other words he sounded retarded. "Yeah, yeah, that's good an all buddy. Then what are you doing just sitting, huh? There's nothing out here."
A sudden crashing sound, and Anna-Rose, brought the hitman's attention towards the source of the noise. He whistled lightly as a building collapsed. Definitely some kind of fight. Putting a hand on the hilt of the Nobitsura Kage, he started to move towards the buildings, and source of the sound, at a jog. He grinned at the Annas as he passed them. "No clue. But again, there's one way to find out. Let's go."
edited 22nd Jul '17 6:16:38 AM by Alleydodger
I just want to help!
Hospital Meditation Room
Anders just fixed Arcade with a long, bewildered expression, glancing over his shoulder quickly before looking away again. "Right okay...snake people. That's a new one. And...the flaming undead. ...and possibly the smallest undead I've ever seen."
He glanced at Eve again, seeing Pounce was watching her, then grimaced a bit. "Well...whatever's happening, I think Eve is involved now. So...I think it's going to be up to us to keep watch over this until...something happens? Whatever that might be. You have your...gun thing, I have my magic...I guess we just...guard the door? Kill anyone that shouldn't be here?"
"At least your world has something similar to most of this," Arcade responded, "the dead remain that way in mine." He looked at Eve, wishing he could help her, but Anders had a point.
"I'd hate for Eve to end up hurt because we let any random passersby follow her in," he agreed, "though, I think killing them immediately might be a bit much. Perhaps we could just tell them not to interfere?"
Despite his words, Arcade did pull out his gun. With one last concerned glance to Eve, he began to pace back and forth, slightly agitated.
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
Stop Killing My Titles
Onward, Desert Party; Desert
"Ah, good to know heroes also smart." Shenhua hummed approvingly at Louie's suggestion as she glanced idly at the giant in a diving suit. At first it seemed like it would go away, but then it insisted on becoming a guardian for Orchid and Digger both. "Well, will you be problem, diving man?" She smiled at Delta when Veela's question popped up.
"Now, here hoping they won't take long. Here we think it is easy trip to save romance, but now it seems there's fighting to fight." She hummed again, idly checking one of her marshmallow kukris. "These been itching all day to prove themselves."
grah
2 Spooky 4 U
At Shenhua's smile, Simon simply blushed from the implied meaning. Was that really aimed at him? No one had called him adorable before......Adding onto his thoughts was the thanks given by a young girl. He didn't do anything really. Kamina was the one that did all the fighting really. But still, he should give her a answer. Exiting his blush induced thoughts, Simon realized that the fight was over. Looking around for said girl, he looked up and saw her sitting on the person that him and his bro was fighting before all of this. He told her shyly, "You're welcome but my bro Kamina is the one you should really thank...."
With all the bandits and graboids retreating, Gurren placed the glasses sword back in place and turned to Cybersaur. Kamina replied to him with a confidant "I handled bastards 10 times bigger than these bozos Ben! The mighty Kamina is more than fine!" and then he would presumably walk with Ben to the main group, explaining to him that, "Me and Simon were walking around looking for one of you guys and we saw One Eye wandering. The moment he saw us in Gurren and Lagann he started to attack us so I decided that we would show him what two bro's could do! Midway through the fight all of those bozo's crashed the party though. A bit after is when we got some backup!"
By time that Kamina had explained all of that, the two would be with the group. Kamina looked at Delta, green light with Orchid on his shoulder. Kamina told Ben and him "But it looks like he's not so bad after all! Damn nice job out there big guy!" and then asked Simon, "Simon, could you do the you know what for me?"
Request heard, Gurren went away. Kamina had little bruises scattered across his body and his right eyebrow area had a big one but otherwise he was fine. "So, we going to the hospital soon? Sounds like another fight is brewing there and the mighty Kamina doesn't want to miss that!" and then he noticed the water pack on Digger's back. Taking a look at Simon, he then wrapped his arm around Simon and moved him to the pack. Simon gave Kamina a look of "really?" and Kamina nodded and added a "You deserve it bro" and for Simon, that was enough to slowly reach into the backpack, open a canister, and take two big gulps before closing it and putting it back in. He needed that.
edited 22nd Jul '17 3:31:29 PM by LightToAll
"Oh boy... oh jeez... oh-oh man," stammered Morty as he took stock of everything around him. "I-I-I feel like we-"
"-You, Morty,"
"-really stepped in it this time, huh?" Morty pondered over the situation for another moment before a flicker of hope passed over his face.
"But- you know what?" He announced to the group. "Uh, Rick and me once mindscaped around... um, my math teacher's head... yeah..."
"Are you an *uuurp* idiot, Morty?" snapped Rick. That was a dreamscape! Dreamscape thinking will get you killed in a-a-an active mindscape!" Rick belched again for emphasis. "We're plunging into an active psychological realm of weaponized metaphors and deep-seated *urp* insecurities made manifest! One wrong move and you could-you could permanently lobotomize an innocent mind! ''Are you prepared to face that, Morty?!"
"Oh... jeez.. maybe I should..." Morty looked at Rick, who was staring ashen-faced at the data before him.
"Oh no... it's worse than I imagined..."
"What?!"
"This whole thing is - the whole mind landscape is just a nerd game for big nerds, Morty."
"Oh jeez."
edited 22nd Jul '17 3:42:14 PM by Locoman
Stop Killing My Titles
Don't Be Shy, Simon; Desert
"Aiya, should I?" Shenhua smiled at Simon as she leaned down a little closer. "But as I and others could see, you both pilot robot, yes? And you come over here to check on us, that sweet too."
"No need to deny feats, boy. Man should have some pride, yes?" The assassin straightened up and looked over at Kamina. Barely a man, and with some ridiculous glasses to boot, but he carried himself with confidence that only the fools and the fearless possessed. She could appreciate that, if nothing else as the source of amusement.
grah
THE SLORG!
"I see no need for thanks. I simply informed you of true information relevant to your situation" Tester said, and then continued floating there in silence for a few moments longer. "... For instance, if any of you notice dice appearing in your roll containers without provocation, you should roll them quickly. It could be a spot check against a surprise attack" the AI then added. Currently their containers were empty, aside from their character sheets.
"You will not find accidental lobotomization to be possible here" Tester then commented after Morty's outburst and Rick's commentary. "And in some universes, popular celebrities play games like this" the AI went on.
"I don't think robots are dead" Anna-Rose commented.
"Yeah, but are they alive?" Anna-Maria pointed out. The two girls then looked mildly alarmed as Wang charged off towards the buildings. "H-hey! We can't split up or the city will shift us apart! You're just gonna drag us towards danger?!" she complained, running to keep up with Wang along with Anna-Rose towards the group of buildings where the hospital was...
"I think I see it!" Louie's voice came over the City Knights' channel, though was a bit unnecessary as the city shifting placing the group of buildings nearby also made the rest of the group hear the chaos currently going down over there.
Without a word, Veela looked over towards the group of buildings with a concerned expression, then ran off towards them, still holding her thwack hammer.
As anyone got closer to the buildings, something more obvious to some would become apparent. Anders inside the meditation room for one would most certainly notice, as a large field of magic nullification suddenly spread through the whole building group, completely cutting off everything magical or psionic in nature.
Up above, Thomas had been coming towards the scene on his new broom, only to let out a startled yell as he hit the field and thus plummeted down onto a rooftop.
Down in the dusty streets, the now-helpless Bergree continued his fleeing with Calvin and Melanie following suit, as a figure over two stories tall plowed through another building and reduced it to rubble. With clanking footsteps, the six armed, snake-headed being
◊ whose body seemed to be made of chocolate and its blades made of hardened peanut butter, stepped into the street and let out a roar. In its two lower arms, it was holding large, glowing spheres. Then it swung one of its large blades into a building nearby, wiping out a significant portion of an entire floor.
edited 22nd Jul '17 3:45:34 PM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
I just want to help!
"It must be something to live in a world where things like this don't happen on a semi-regular basis. Honestly the castle I'm living in right now has a basement that leads straight into a crypt filled with undead. Big ones. Big, bitey ones. ...it actually used to belong to my friend Nathaniel. So, pretty good chance those skeletons we re-killed were his relatives. It was all very awkward."
He watched as Arcade drew his weapon and started pacing about, and after a moment just braced his staff against the ground and leaned on it, watching. Clearly he was worked up, and someone who was that worked up might react...unnecessarily, if there were a real threat. Well, that needed to be fixed.
"So, no magic where you're from, I'm guessing you never saw anything like this?" He tapped a finger on the staff again, the beginning hints of a mischievous smile starting to form. "Would you like to see how my staff works?"
Even as he was saying this, though, with obvious intent on trying to distract the other man with innuendos, he let out a sudden gasp, abruptly dropping the staff to grab at his temples, just for a moment, not seeming in pain but just suddenly overwhelmed for a moment, then raised his head, blinking a little dumbly at Arcade.
"All right...not to alarm you, but that spell I just put on you prooooobably isn't going to be any help anymore...something's happened..."
edited 22nd Jul '17 3:48:59 PM by ColeMinor
For the Horde!
Cybersaur nodded. "Good to hear," he exclaimed, before he heard Rachel's voice coming in through the walkie talkie in his head. There was a situation going on in the hospital. His eyes widened. "I'll be right there!" he told them, then looked at the others.
"C'mon, let's go!" Cybersaur shouted, charging into the desert without waiting for the others. He had to make it there. He just didn't know where or when he would get there.
After a while, he stopped to catch his breath to see... something in the distance nearby a building he assumed was the hospital. However, the Omnitrix started to beep, and with a red flash of light Ben returned to his normal state.
"Aww, man! You guys take care of Mr. Ugly over there, I've gotta get in the hospital and check out what's going on in here," Ben told them, ducking into the doors.
edited 22nd Jul '17 4:06:02 PM by AllHailThrall
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
"There's still more than enough things trying to kill everyone, don't worry," Arcade deadpanned. His pacing slowed a bit as he spoke, becoming less agitated and more impatient. It stopped altogether when Anders began to talk about his staff.
"Well, I've he-" his flirting was interrupted by Anders doubling over. Arcade rushed to his side, concerned, but was at a loss for what exactly he needed to do. He gently placed an arm on his shoulder.
The worry on his face quickly turned to surprise, then resigned annoyance. "Please don't tell me I'm going to be the only one protecting about eight people," he snarked, "I've barely kept myself alive for the past few years."
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
So the levels were determined by just how competent they were. Sans was 52, which assuming a cap of 99 like it happened in a lot of games, put him at slightly average. Although Curly was only level 15, which didn't really seem to match even though Sans hadn't gotten to see much of her in action.
"funny, back home i'm the weakest monster," Sans offhandedly mentioned as he looked at his sheet again.
His ability to look at souls was translated into the ability of being able to look at everyone's alignment. He himself was neutral good with some chaotic behavior thrown in, not too surprising overall. He decided to test out that ability on Rex first, seeing that the kid was the reverse of his own alignment, which was nothing short of expected. Then Sans went to look at Lewis only to be met with someone who was strictly chaotic neutral.
He didn't do a very good job at hiding his confusion, Lewis would be able to easily notice an odd look Sans was giving him. All things considered the skeleton was expecting the hothead to be on the neutral good side, but instead he got something wildly different. At the same time, he didn't know much about Lewis as a person, only that he tried to help him even when he could've used the wish for himself. It did make him curious, for sure, but he would have to ask Lewis about it later.
"so..." Sans began saying as an attempt to get himself distracted from his current line of thought, "we should probably share our information, right? we need to be able to work together to do this, so here's mine." He showed his sheet to all those present. "it's pretty pathetic really, i'm not much of a fighter."