CoLC crossover RP, main thread

Sans didn't even bother giving Lewis a response and just shook his head slightly. He had given advice, so if he was going to follow it or not was up to him, if he got killed because he didn't want to cooperate, that was on him. He wasn't about to start another argument there.

Then Rex had the great idea of flying down by himself and likely get himself killed or just overall making things harder than they should be. He had been doing so well until now but if there was nobody else to cause grief to them then he had to fill that quota. Luckily Rick was able to make a portal, so they would be able to group up with Rex again quickly. Still, there was no need to rush that much and considering who was down there, he would probably end up luring a bunch of the guilts.

"ok, let's go down before he makes everything worse," said Sans, then glancing at Trust and Friendship and waving at them, "thanks for the help, guys."

He then walked into the portal as he was instructed.

Ben glanced over at Fastanook, who seemed to have calmed down from what he was talking about. Ben wasn't going to bring it up again to the gremlin. Instead he nodded at him.

"Yeah, I can help," Ben told Fastanook. "I'm kinda surprised though. I thought the Militia didn't like superheroes?" Ben questioned. It didn't really matter at this point, but the thought had crossed his mind. "Also, I kinda scanned Veela earlier today and I can turn into a gremlin now. What can you guys do?" he asked.

Library

Honestly, if Caboose really was thinking straight he would've just gone with Astolfo to start with instead of staying with the girl who dropped in randomly. But he had never thought straight in his life. And the hospital was where he was last night, which made it like blue base but not blue base because it was a hospital.

Running much faster than his brain could ever hope to move, Caboose was heading towards the pink haired trap. "I... Uh, yeah, I changed my mind. I like hospitals even if the doctors can be very scary. Also, Freckles seemed to really like it," he said. The last part was referring to Freckles being misheard earlier when he said hostile. Clearly it was just a good place to take him for a walk.

Rex had honestly forgotten Tester would follow him everywhere so being alone wasn't exactly something he could do in the mindscape. Regardless, at least telling someone his viewpoint would help blow off some steam.

"You heard Cole, everything we do here is for Silanea so I just thought getting back on track was a good idea. I'm tired of beating my head against the wall"

The weather below was less than welcoming and while it was good to be in a place without constant rain, the smoke and burning huts weren't a change for the better. This was hardly going to make Rex forget about Silanea's memories.

"Curly, I don't know if you can hear me but if you can, tell the others this place is really really hot. I feel like I'm on a sauna. Just with a lot more smoke"

All sans gave was a small shake of the head.

I stared at him for a moment, expecting some further response. What kind I didn't know, but when it didn't come I turned away, just waiting for when someone gave the order to finally move.

Except not really, because Cole came over apparently wanting a hug, adorable baby style, while also...giving me a pep talk? Why? It was so out of left field I didn't know how to respond.

"Um, what. Is this about...? I don't get it."

I'd begun glancing around for some input, awkwardly patting Cole's head, in time for Rex to leeroy jenkins his way down, to no one's amusement and everyone's cue to follow him down via portal gun. About time.

"We should be moving."

I got up and glided toward the swirly green glowy portal, absently grabbing Cole on the way just to keep him from falling behind.

Friendship looked very relieved when Rick made the portal so everyone could go after Rex. Then the little Curly lookalike waved back at Sans.

Tester simply waited there, his screens flashing quickly again as another copy appeared down near the other end of the portal, and another appeared to follow Eve.

"Splitting up from the party is not a good idea. You are not strong enough to face the final battle alone" Tester replied to Rex, simply clarifying his previous statement. Off somewhere to Rex's side, past a few of the huts, the green glow of Rick's portal appeared.

Somewhere above, since she was flying it was a bit harder for Eve to notice, but there was a clatter as a twenty sided die appeared in her roll can. "Perception check" the Tester who was floating with her told her.

"It's not really about whether you're a super hero. It's about that most other people don't even come up to our knees today" Fastanook pointed out to Ben, eyebrows lowered slightly. "If someone our size comes in here wanting to squish Rex for that stuff a few days ago or whatever, these guys would be pretty hard pressed to stop them" the gremlin elaborated, pointing down at the shrunken militia members.

At Ben's other question, Fastanook's ears went back slightly and his eyes widened slightly in a bit of fear at the reminder of Veela. "You scanned her? Uh..." Fastanook shook his head for a moment to regain his composure. "Um, well, we like taking things apart and putting stuff together. You know, like mechanical things. Not like we're automatically any good at it though; we just like doing it. Uh, what else... We can do a uh, this like really fast lunge a couple meters or so, for dodges or attacks; can't do it too fast in a row though, or we'd tire out our legs real fast" the gremlin explained, looking uncertain of anything else to mention.

"Their smell and hearing's better than ours" Larry suggested from down below.

"Huh? Oh yeah, I guess you humans don't have good noses or ears like us" Fastanook said with a bit of a shrug. "For me we're just 'normal' so it's hard to remember what you'd think is special" the gremlin added.

This was considerably worse than Cole had suspected it was. Just about everyone seemed...sullen, for lack of a better description, or at least severely unmotivated, and it almost felt as though there was something more to this group than just the stress of battle within the mind of someone as damaged as Silanea was.

This was a mess, and here he was without his powers, unable to look into anyone to try and get a better idea how to fix it. How did people just do things like this without losing their minds from the uncertainty?

And then Rex took off on his own.

Cole didn't even really feel a need to respond, the others' evident frustration was clear enough. Hopefully they could catch up before anything went terribly wrong. Eve was fast to go after him, and Rick opened up...some sort of tiny breach to allow them to follow after.

Cole made a slight sound when Lewis took hold of his hand to bring him along, but he was quick to grab for the ghost's hand in both of his, all but clutching at him as much as he could and pressing as close to Lewis's side as he could without impeding his walking. He took in a long, somewhat shaky breath, doing his level best to keep up with the others.

I stopped just in front of the portal, doubting if I should, looking back at the tiny Friendship and Trust we were leaving behind.

"Um, you two. I was thinking...since we'll never see you again, I just...I wanted to say that..."

Eve|Mindscape|Roll The Dice

Eve looked upon the wrecked landscape and surpressed a shudder. It was such devastation, utter desolation. When Tester appeared next to her she started in surprise, jolting up about a metre. She settled back and nodded to Tester, rolling the die that appeared in the can, and hoping for the best.

Outside Library to City Streets

Makoto patiently waited until Reigen had settled himself, more focused on making sure Anat didn't do anything unpredictable in response to how close he was. It hadn't acted out around anyone she considered an ally before, but there was a difference between her friends back at home who all knew about each other's problems and fears on a deeper than usual level and someone she had met minutes ago. And considering its behavior around the Riddler and Garret, she did not want to push her luck. The fact that he had chosen to sit backwards was a little concerning for his safety, but it did relax her more.

"I think this entire city has shattered my threshold for weird already. This is pretty tame compared to the candy sand and chocolate buildings yesterday," she said. "I mean, there's nothing wrong with sharing a motorcycle." Nothing romantic at all. Not that she wanted to take a ride with any person in particular. "Sorry, I just... I'll stop talking about it now..." Before she could stick her foot in her mouth any further and embarrass herself, Makoto willed the bike to move.

Instead of gunning the engine like she usually did, she started at a lower speed to not toss her passenger off. Anat was a fairly wide vehicle, so at least he had something to brace himself on. Since there wasn't any way to predict where any building would be, she chose a random direction to set off in, maneuvering around giant open books and the few regular sized people on the streets. The buffet should still look roughly the same way it did yesterday, so she kept an eye out for the right place in the shifting streets.

Astolfo I Library I Yet Another Offering a Ride

"Sure thing! I mean, the more the merrier, right~?" the young paladin nodded in agreement with Louie at Vambre and Yuna wanting to follow them. And then, Caboose also expressed his desire to follow them and approached him.

"What's that? You want to follow us too? Sure thing!" As if on cue, Astolfo suddenly brought his hippogriff near the ground and landed near where the blue soldier was. From there, the majestic beast awaited patiently for its new occupants.

"Climb on up! Don't worry, he won't bite~" With that, he happily pointed at a free spot behind him.

edited 25th Aug '17 3:10:05 AM by JustSomeGuy732

The kind of progress Arcade was hoping for was not made. Instead of the group moving forwards as a team, Rex decided to do the stupidest thing he could've done outside of trying to kill everyone else.

"He can't be that stupid," he said in disbelief. Of course, then Eve just had to follow Rex to try and mitigate some of the damage. All Arcade could do was quietly facepalm for a few seconds.

It probably said way too much that the only helpful one of the group was the drunk man rambling about pistachios. Whatever those were. Arcade let the others head in first since they probably had better defense than he did.

Library

There are things that could make Caboose happy, like spending time with friends or reviving friends from the dead or feeding a cute baby with your blood. But something that most people would agree with Caboose on is that it riding on a mythical creature would make them happy. Even if it wasn't a talking horse, he still rated it as pretty high on the awesome scale.

Caboose climbed onto the hippogriff's back without much trouble. "Wow!" he said with a sense of wonder in his voice. "Hippogriffs are so much better than Grif from red team... though I think he might be a bit heavier."

Suburban House

Hmm...this was certainly a puzzle and one that the Riddler looked forward to solving. He found himself smiling. The shifting city, the potentially endless amounts of people who wanted to detain him, his own goals that were being compounded by these facts - it all made for a glorious riddle that he could hardly contain his excitement for. He had a few options laid out before him.

The chief obstacle was probably this big galoot stomping in the house. The Riddler was unsure if the man knew where he was but if he did and he had brought some kind of knockout gas or a trained rat or something, the Riddler might be in trouble. He could risk going back out side but it was likely that the militia had set up some kind of perimeter outside the mouse hole. What to do...

Wait! He felt his pocket and realized that he still some pieces of paper and a pen from passing out the flyers. Kneeling on the floor, he wrote two notes and slid one outside the exterior entrance of the mouse hole and one on the entrance to the hole inside the house.

Both notes said the same thing: THIS CAN BE DIFFICULT OR EASY. SEND ONE AND ONLY ONE ENVOY IN THE MOUSE HOLE. I WANT TO TALK.

Reigen kept his balance pretty well. The fact that Makoto couldn't drive in a straight line probably helped, along with her less-than-fast speed. Reigen didn't have much of a view of where they were going - only able to see the giant books as they passed them, already seen by the driver - but he still tried to help.

"So is this buffet giant too?" He asked over his shoulder. "Is it inside or out? Are we supposed to be looking for huge table legs or, what?"

City Streets

"Since every other place hasn't changed size, I'm guessing it's huge too." Makoto had to raise her voice more than usual to be heard over the engine. "Everything was inside though. I think it was shaped like a big dome, so it shouldn't be too hard to spot." A minute later, a familiar dome shaped building came into view, considerably larger than when she had first seen it. Makoto almost skidded to a stop on habit, but deliberately let go of the throttle and allowed her speed to drop more gradually until she hit the brakes.

"...Well that answers your question. Are you going to be able to get in okay?" she asked, looking up at the huge doors.

Library

Garrett climbed onto Swishee's head, with a bit of reluctance. Even flying on a dragon's back nearly two weeks ago wasn't as unnerving, because that dragon wasn't that big as that bird was compared to him right now.

Friendship tilted her head after Lewis' statement. "Um..?" Friendship muttered, looking uncertain.

The Tester moving alongside Eve had one of his screens light up:

"Luckily, it is not for an ambush" Tester said simply after that.

There was no direct reply, and nobody entered the mouse hole from either end. The large footsteps entered and moved around the living room a bit. "... Sstrange. Thought I heard ssomething" a voice said, seemingly feminine but raspy and with an odd rustling to it; certainly not a human, at any rate. There was also a slight burnt, gassy smell in the air, like someone holding an active lighter, only much more potent.

"Pft, please." Reigen combat rolled off the motorcycle which turns out is actually really hard to do, and so fell as a jumbled mess of limbs onto the pavement below, knocking the breath out of him. He stood and brushed himself off, turning back to Makoto as if his head didn't get clonked the second time today. "Thanks for the worry, and the ride, but I can get through a door no problem. Oh, one more thing."

He dug around his suit jacket for a moment before presenting Makoto with a small slip of paper with his usual flourish. It was his business card!

A phone number was printed on the other side. "Call me in case you need any spiritual help. I'm a master psychic, after all!"

edited 25th Aug '17 4:52:05 PM by TruthHurts22

For a few moments Yuna pondered her options in silence. But her decision was made much easier for her when Gyuki, as if summoned by Vambre's words, manifested itself once more... and proceeded to head straight for the pancakes.

"Heheh... you're still hungry, huh?" she asked the overgrown cow, before she turned her attention back towards Vambre. "I think I'm gonna go with you, either way. Gyuki... goes wherever he wants to go... besides, that looks like a very exciting way to travel!"

With her decision made, she carefully climbed onto the floating swordboard, dismissed Gyuki with her phone once he was finished eating, and gave the warrior for hire a quick nod.

"Okay, ready!"

"Um, I," didn't know why saying words was so hard. It felt like there was too much to say for the amount of time I had to say it, even though sense insisted that saying something, even if it wasn't everything, was better than saying nothing, especially when I'd already started speaking. On the other hand, sense also complained that the last time I opened my mouth (so to speak) I made things worse for no reason, which was equally uninspiring.

"I...didn't mean it like that. I just, wanted her to know that...I get it. That's why I came. Well...that and the obvious 'genocide is bad' thing. I just...I don't know what..."

I sighed.

"Never mind. I probably sound like I'm full of shit."

I pushed Cole ahead, ("Come on, he said one at a time.") about to follow.

Cole grimaced a little at Lewis's awkwardness, but didn't protest being pushed ahead towards Rick's portal. He just let out a soft sigh, letting go of Lewis's hand to step forward and through the portal on his own, as was seemingly expected of him. "All right...let's go..."

Tester doubted in Rex's abilities and told him he wasn't strong enough to face the final battle by himself. If only he knew that just motivated him even more.

"That sounds like a challenge. How much do you wanna bet?" he said, rolling his perception check.

Buffet

"A master psychic, huh?" Makoto took the card and examined it. It wouldn't surprise her if there actually were ghosts and vengeful spirits here, so she decided to take his services at face value. "I'll keep it in mind if I run into anything," she said, tucking the card into a pocket. "If cellphones actually work here, that is. I'll see you around, maybe." She had been thinking of eating here, but Reigen seemed like he wasn't expecting her to stick around, and she didn't want to push herself on him. There was probably somewhere else to find food anyway...

Now that she didn't have to worry about anyone else's safety, Makoto pulled the motorbike around in a quick circle and sped off in a different direction.

"Hokay, into the... into... into the... you know, the whatever," slurred Rick as he staggered into the portal....

... and emerged out the other side, stopping immediately lean against a convenient rocky outcrop and retch into a nearby patch of shadowy rock. "Hookay... oh.. oh god..." Rick blinked and tried to figure out where he was in the darkness, seeing what might be Rex somewhere nearby.

"Hello? *urp* Are we fighting a monster?" he shouted plaintitively into the stygian darkness. "Is it... is it a... a... pistachio monster?"