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DarkbloodCarnagefang They/Them from New Jersey Since: May, 2012
They/Them
#301: Feb 2nd 2013 at 7:43:39 PM

Smoking Room

Markus decided not to pursue what Thomas mentioned and merely nodded, "Interesting, quite a difference between you two. What made you guys pursue each, if I may ask?"

Note to self: Pick less edgy username next time.
Blackfire667 Attitude is prohibited from The Virtual World Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Attitude is prohibited
#302: Feb 2nd 2013 at 7:54:09 PM

[Study]

"Okay!" Said Tammy, a little smile on her youthful face for the first time in what had felt like a long time. She was still concerned about how she would get home, and she definitely didn't want to see that monster again, but for now she was comfortable enough to do some exploring. "I'm glad you're feeling better." Said Claire, warmly. She stood up, and Tammy stood with her. "Come on, let's go look around." She said. Accompanied by Samira, the two of them walked into the library. Who is still in the library? Still Gabrielle and Oracle?

Just before they crossed into the room, however, Tammy stopped and looked around. "Something up?" Asked Claire. The young girl paused for a moment, then shook her head. "No, it's nothing, I just... It's nothing." And she walked into the library with Claire and Samira.

Not entirely dead.
KillerClowns Since: Jan, 2001
#303: Feb 2nd 2013 at 8:03:04 PM

[Study —> Library]

Samira entered with Claire and Tamara, taking a look around at the library. She glanced at Oracle, but assumed it was one of the mansion's drones. Upon seeing Gabrielle, however, Samira said, "oh, hello!" She then noticed Gabrielle's choice of fashion. Interesting, but it would be rude to ask about it right away. "Samira Hosseini," she said by way of introduction, "and these two are Claire and Tamara." She pointed to each as she offered their names. "Looking for something in particular, or just as tired of the hectic bustle of the entry hall and occasional eldritch entity as the rest of us?"

@Blackfire: yeah, that's accurate.

edited 2nd Feb '13 8:03:21 PM by KillerClowns

Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#304: Feb 2nd 2013 at 8:07:43 PM

[Smoking Room]

Thomas decided to go first.

"Ever since I was seven, I always wanted to change the world," he said, "I wanted to find new ideas to make it a better place. For my children." He gave a light chuckle, "I guess you can say I'm a huge idealist."

John went next, although he wasn't sure if his story was as good as his brother's as usual. He clenched his pant leg.

"...Our father," he said, "was a gun store owner, and I was...I dunno. I guess I was just always interested in those things. I wanted to be just like him." He forced a small laugh. "I-I know my story is nowhere near as good or interesting as my brother's, but there's my story."

Seeing the unused glass of wine, he immediately started to drink it.

[Entry Hall-Second Floor]

"Huh." Abeiyuwa said, "In our timeline, we have no magic. We have advanced technology-like flying boots and watches that scan walls for information." She watched in amazement as Jonathan showed the small ball of flame, before he asked for a coin. She reached into her purse and handed him a penny. "Will this do?"

Yomegami Since: Jan, 2011
#305: Feb 2nd 2013 at 8:16:54 PM

Bathroom

Anne frowned. "Which means I'll have to leave the bathroom, and therefore have to run around wearing this towel and run the risk of having it drop."

Unfortunately, it didn't seem like there was an easy way out of this situation. She could either do what she just said or stay in here and wind up tying the room up for however long it took for the dress to dry. Of course, there was also the option of wearing a wet dress, but that didn't sound comfortable.

On second thought, the latter option sounded best. If there was a fireplace around here, then she could just sit in front of that until her dress dried. There was also a good chance that the simple action of moving around would help speed up the drying process in and of itself. Yes, she would be uncomfortable for a while and could possibly spread water around the rest of the building, but it was either that or risking her dignity.

"You might want to turn away now," she said to Anita before she grabbed her dress, stepped back into the shower, and pulled the curtain over again. She then shook her dress around a bit to limit the amount of dripping before she removed the towel and put her dress back on. Once that was done, she stepped out of the shower.

"Okay, I'm clothed again. Let's see if there's a fireplace somewhere."

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DarkbloodCarnagefang They/Them from New Jersey Since: May, 2012
They/Them
#306: Feb 2nd 2013 at 8:20:51 PM

Smoking Room

Markus nodded, addressing Thomas first, "Nothing wrong with being idealist. It's hard to change the world, but there's no reason to try not to try."

He turned toward John, "Nothing wrong with looking up to your parents for a profession either. As long as you know what differentiates between the two of you, then you should be fine."

Markus chuckled, "Here I am, limping in pain through a mire one minute and having a conversation with complete strangers the very next," He sighed, "Strange multiverse."

Note to self: Pick less edgy username next time.
Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#307: Feb 2nd 2013 at 8:24:21 PM

[Bathroom]

Anita turned away as Anne stepped back into the shower. Trying to distract herself, she got her hoodie off the counter and tied the arms around her waist. In the time it took her to do all that, Anne came back out.

"Erm, I can't remember if there was one in the library." She bit her lip in thought while twiddling her fingers. "Maybe the dining room would have one. I can't exactly remember what all rooms are in this place."

She cast a curious glance at Yuki. "Do you remember what all rooms are here?"

Tehpillowstar Giant alien spiders are no joke. from the remains of the Galactic Federation fleet Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Giant alien spiders are no joke.
#308: Feb 2nd 2013 at 8:25:46 PM

[Entry Hall, Second Floor]

Jonathan examined the penny. "It's a little small, but I guess it'll do. Now flip the coin. I'll land as tails ten times in a row. If it doesn't, then I'll be darned."

[Library]

Gabrielle gave a polite smile at Samira. "I'm Gabrielle Davidson," she then crouched down and smiled at Tammy. "Hi, I'm Gabby, Are you having fun?"

edited 2nd Feb '13 9:14:45 PM by Tehpillowstar

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." - R. W. Raymond
Blackfire667 Attitude is prohibited from The Virtual World Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Attitude is prohibited
#309: Feb 2nd 2013 at 9:49:37 PM

[Library]

Claire politely nodded to Gabrielle. "Pleased to meet you." She said, absently. She seemed slightly more interested in Oracle, eyeing the robot from across the room.

"Fun?" Said Tammy, seeming a little perplexed by the question. She glanced at her drink, looked around the room, then looked back at Gabrielle. "Not really. I'm lost, this place is weird and I kinda wanna go home..." She paused, and looked down at her drink again. "But at least the robot-y things make good hot cocoa... How about you? Do you like it here?"

Not entirely dead.
DiurnalBrocolli Something... from Somewhere... Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Something...
#310: Feb 3rd 2013 at 3:57:14 AM

-Bathroom-

"I wish I knew..." Yuki said.

Just floating around...
m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#311: Feb 3rd 2013 at 4:52:38 AM

[Library -> Home -> Entry Hall]

When Oracle where done photographing the books she pulled out the ATLAS INFINITA. It fell to the floor with a heavy thud and fell open. She took a look at the two pages it opened on and oddly enough they had the information she where look for, a list of places and adresses including the one on her invitation and some other she recognised. Places and adresses she could use as reference points. This had to be tested.

Oracle disappeared and reappeared hanging from the balcony. For someone seeing this it would look like she merely teleported a few meters but she had infact traveled home and back through two wormholes.

edited 3rd Feb '13 4:58:44 AM by m8e

Yomegami Since: Jan, 2011
#312: Feb 3rd 2013 at 10:25:52 AM

Bathroom -> Stairs

"I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be on the second floor," Anne said, "At least, people where I come from never built fireplaces on the second floor. Then again, most people back home don't even have second floors to begin with...."

She shrugged. "The first floor sounds like a good place to start."

She then made her way towards the stairs, keeping an eye out for the demon-woman.

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Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#313: Feb 3rd 2013 at 10:35:05 AM

[Bathroom-Stairs]

Anita gently took Yuki by the wrist and followed Anne toward the stairs.

"Anne," she asked quietly, "where are you from, exactly?"

Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#314: Feb 3rd 2013 at 10:56:23 AM

[Smoking Room]

Thomas smiled. "Thank you, Markus." He looked over his bandages. "You haven't gone to a hospital yet? Those wounds look really serious."

[Entry Hall-Second Floor]

Abeiyuwa tossed the coin, and let it hit her wrist. After giving it a quick look, she noticed that it landed on tails. She flipped it again, and got the same result. After a third time, she still got the same thing.

"Wow..." she said.

DarkbloodCarnagefang They/Them from New Jersey Since: May, 2012
They/Them
#315: Feb 3rd 2013 at 11:06:11 AM

Smoking Room

"No hospitals besides any medical kits that can be found and a single doctor where I'm located," Markus replied, "The town expected to get back up from the government to help deal with the zombie situation, but no one has come to help yet. Kind of demoralizing, but the people there have managed to survive, but they don't know how much longer if will last."

Markus sighed, "Either way, my wounds seem to hurt less now then they did before, so I guess I'm alright."

Note to self: Pick less edgy username next time.
KillerClowns Since: Jan, 2001
#316: Feb 3rd 2013 at 11:20:43 AM

[Library]

Glancing down at Tamara, Samira said, "she's had her fair share of shocks today, but I'm happy to say she's recovered quite nicely." Her tone was sincere as she said, "she really is quite brave." She took a seat, and decided to watch for a bit to see if Gabrielle managed to get anything interesting out of Claire or Tamara, or vice versa.

Yomegami Since: Jan, 2011
#317: Feb 3rd 2013 at 1:51:03 PM

Stairs -> Entry Hall

"I'm from a place called Theodiscus. I suppose it's not a bad place to live, though I do worry for its current state," Anne replied. "I really can't say exactly what it's like since I've been living out in the woods with a bunch of dwarfs for a while now, but I'm pretty sure that the current ruler is...not quite the defining example of a pleasant person."

She took a look around the entry hall upon reaching the bottom of the stairs. It was once again mostly empty apart from two people who were currently standing a good distance away from the stairs. Anne decided to ignore them for the time being. Instead, she nodded at Anita and Yuki.

"Shall we?" she asked before walking down the hall, gazing through each door she passed by.

edited 3rd Feb '13 1:51:47 PM by Yomegami

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DiurnalBrocolli Something... from Somewhere... Since: Apr, 2012 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Something...
#318: Feb 3rd 2013 at 2:48:39 PM

Last Post

"WAIT!!!" Yuki yelled out as she was dragged around.

Just floating around...
Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#319: Feb 3rd 2013 at 3:28:39 PM

[Stairs-Entry Hall]

"What?!" Anita jumped a bit as Yuki yelled. "What's wrong?!"

cexadono Afro Master from Fort Collins, CO Since: Sep, 2012
Afro Master
#320: Feb 3rd 2013 at 3:37:07 PM

[Master Bedroom]

"I admit, this is my fault, and I apologize. I would greatly appreciate it if you could explain it for us-"
-Wait Leo, don't say anything else. I'm going to contact the doctors.-
"But this is my fault! We have to solve this."
-We made an error, and now it's out of our hands. If we reject the anti-magic that caused the singularity, it might just cause another one, and if the singularity is proportional to the rejected magic, then the next one might be far more dangerous.-
"Oh... anti-magic is a bit of a game breaker isn't it? If it can conquer almost any reality-altering phenomena, it may be far too powerful."
-Hold on, the Doctors have answered. Doctors?-


...


-Something's wrong...-
"Oh, hello Halcyon, Leo. How are you?"
Shock appeared on Leo's face. A jovial voice they didn't recognize had answered.
"Who the hell are you?! Where are the doctors?"
"Oh, nobody important. I'm just the Magus that created that particular spell and helped the Docs embed it into your arm. You may think it failed, but it was actually a great success. Thank you for advancing my plan. Have fun!"
"Wait a second-"
-The connection's been cut. We've been used...-
Leo looked away from Kokabiel.
"You're right, I am an idiot. Please, I'm begging you, explain this to us."

edited 3rd Feb '13 3:43:41 PM by cexadono

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KillerClowns Since: Jan, 2001
#321: Feb 3rd 2013 at 3:53:16 PM

[Bedroom]

Kokabiel smirked and said, "oh, you mean the rip in reality?" She scoffed in disgust. "As I quite distinctly said, I wasn't talking about it. I have theories, but I was only referring to the curious failure of you device's supposed restorative effects to alter any biological neural networks in the area." She paused, mockingly grinning. "Or in other words, you can't really say the universe was set to the way it was before if somebody remembers the spell being cast. If memories aren't affected, you need to find out way before somebody exploits this flaw."

"I can only theorize what your toy did to reality. It didn't release anything from the Void — the fact that you have not been sundered to your constituent quarks should prove that. However, there is one thing I can do. Watch and learn."

The power of the primordial void reach out to the singularity, twisting and corrupting the very laws that empowered it. Any being that might have previously controlled it would be unable to maintain their grip for long — the magic submitted to the Void, and the spell began to become Kokabiel's toy.

Kokabiel's corruption ability is its most powerful, capable of overwhelming even Physical Gods who don't know how to handle it. (It did just that in a previous CDT, in fact, to horrifying results against its target, an entity that had previously created a universe. Although to be fair, this mostly worked because the troper controlling said god liked Kokabiel's style.)

edited 3rd Feb '13 3:55:10 PM by KillerClowns

cexadono Afro Master from Fort Collins, CO Since: Sep, 2012
Afro Master
#322: Feb 3rd 2013 at 4:07:19 PM

[Master Bedroom]

After this slight verbal barrage, Leo regained his (mostly imaginary) composure.
"I never said anyone would forget. The unconscious is separate from the physical. Rather, I think two timelines have been created, one where the magic has been cast, and one where it hasn't. Our memories from line 1 have been pushed into line 2. Actually, you know what, I don't care anymore. My mission has failed, the magus is a douche, and I ripped open reality, so I'm gonna go sulk in the corner."
-Leo! Ah, forget it.-
Halcyon addressed Kokabiel.
-It doesn't really matter if the caster remembers the spell being cast, as long as the actual effect is negated. But seeing as this magic seems to have another purpose we weren't informed of, none of that matters. In fact, I can see why this technology wasn't implemented into project Oracle ten years from now...-
Leo's eyes suddenly opened wide.
"If the anti-magic isn't implemented ten years from now because of this exact situation, doesn't that mean this has happened before?! We might be in a recursive time loop since Oracle is already here!"

School Uniform is the new Black My comic:http://melancholygoround.thecomicseries.com/ dA: http://curatorexatrum.deviantart.com
KillerClowns Since: Jan, 2001
#323: Feb 3rd 2013 at 4:30:04 PM

[Bedroom]

"It doesn't matter?" Kokabiel said, annoyed. Cartesian Dualists... hmph. I'm not going to turn this into a philosophical debate. Let's pretend they're right. "Memories are an effect, you..." she bit her lip. "If you think memories are going to be the only things preserved across timelines, I envy your naivety."

Then she sighed, as she continued to overpower the singularity, devouring its energy instead of controlling it for now. "You two do whatever you need to do with Oracle. Leave this mess to me. And try not to break anything more than you already have."

Superbowl party and social demands are calling. Last post for a while.

edited 3rd Feb '13 5:00:35 PM by KillerClowns

Yomegami Since: Jan, 2011
#324: Feb 3rd 2013 at 7:48:40 PM

Entry Hall

It didn't take very long for Anne to notice that Anita and Yuki hadn't followed her out into the entry hall. Eyebrow raised, she walked back towards the stairs. By the looks of things, Yuki looked much like she had forgotten something, or at the very least was being dragged around against her will.

Anne was half-tempted to just let the two of them settle their differences and continue searching for the fireplace alone. After all, Anita was the first person in a while to make Anne really uncomfortable about how she looked, and it might very well make her feel better if Anne just walked away. On the other hand, it would be awfully rude to just abandon the two of them like that. Anne was reminded of her behavior towards that woman from earlier; about how she just took off without waiting for a response. She made a mental note to apologize to that woman before she left here.

She stood there for a few seconds, weighing her options. In the end, she settled on a compromise: tell the other two girls where she was going, but keep looking on her own if they weren't interested in coming along or had better things to be looking for.

"Hey," she said, "I'm going to keep looking for that fireplace. You two want to come along, or do you have more important matters to deal with?"

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Tidal_Wave_17 Since: Sep, 2009
#325: Feb 3rd 2013 at 8:07:11 PM

[Entry Hall]

Anne asked if they had something else to do. Well, aside from the whole "get back home no matter what" thing, Anita didn't have much else to do. Wait… Just minutes ago, hadn't she made a promise to be done with all this and get to work?

"Ummm, I think Yuki has something she needs to tell me," Anita gestured, biting her lip. "You go on and we'll probably run into you later."

It wasn't a total lie. Who knows if they ran into Anne or not.


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