IS GOOD TIME WITH GROG NOW! Grog starts to dance, or rather, start spinning in place very fast.
Hub Centralis
A blue haired girl with glasses was standing on the sidewalk, looking confused at best
"I don't get it...this is all impossible"
She said to herself, looking around while texting on her phone
"It just doesnt make sense, why and how am I here?"
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoesMagnamalo's horns and jaws get mangled by Paradise Lost. It rolls onto its feet and bounds away into the mountains...
Chameleos continues doing a funny little hopping-on-its-feet dance.
Hub Centralis
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Galaxy Man
◊ crashes into the ground near Rachel.
"Greetings, land-bound human!"
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."HUB CENTRALIS
At the middle of the hustle and bustle of Hub Centralis, was what looked to be an ordinary, average Shinto shrine... minus the unusual land it sat on, as if the shrine grounds had been dragged or perhaps even picked up from somewhere else, then placed in its current position. Still, passageways allowed for easy access to the shrine itself, with all the typical shrine fare abound. Torii gates, offertory box, the works. A small sign placed ahead of the front entrance read "SILENT SHRINE" in capital letters.
While the outside would display an ordinary exterior, the shrine's interior would show a visitor that this shrine, and the folks who lived in it, were anything but ordinary.
In the front lobby, a fancily-dressed woman with two horns extending from her head was relaxing on top of a futon, guzzling down sake from a purple gourd. This was Suika Ibuki, known back home for her powers over density. Recently, she had garnered the nickname of The Misty Night Parade due to her tendency of using mist to create small clones of herself and directing those clones to do all sorts of things, ranging from actual important matters to just marching around in one organized group for the purpose of looking extra imposing. In the same room, another horned lady was sitting at a table, sipping out of a red dish.
"Yo, Gigs?" That second horned lady was Yuugi Hoshiguma, sometimes called the Unexplainable Phenomenon due to her unusual strength, even for her kind. "Whaaaat?" Suika replied drunkenly. "You saw what's goin' on down the road?" At this, Suika put her gourd down on the floorboard, picked herself up, and poked her head through the shrine's sliding door.
A few moments later, Suika pokes back inside the shrine. Of course, she didn't bother to close the sliding door, leaving it open somewhat. "So you want me to go see what's goin' on? Listen, if that girl's actin' like that at the sight of a big robo-whatever, I don't see how my funny-lookin' horns are gonna help."
"Mmh. So what's the problem?" Finally, the third voice was from Konngara , sipping on coffee as she entered the lobby. With her red and white outfit and countless decades of sword training and usage in the field, she could be considered the best of the three in defending their place from those with malicious purposes in mind.
"There's a girl down the way that just got the living daylights scared outta her by some robot that fell from the sky," Yuugi explained, having seen it while clearing fallen leaves from the front yard. "Lemme guess, it's a 'Who wants to be the unlucky one and go see what's up' kind of question?" Konngara sat down, drinking her coffee as Suika nodded, releasing a quiet "Mhm."
"Every little bit helps our situation, y'know."
Edited by TropeYoshi on Jul 11th 2021 at 2:28:07 PM
"ARE YOU GONNA KILL ME PLEASE DONT HURT ME!"
she was having her reality broken, she had never seen anything quite like this, and only barely acknowledged the words coming out of his mouth.
"Y-you crashed down in f-front of me what are you playing at what do you want with me!"
Your Jordans are fake, fake as hell. Dollar Store ass shoes"Fine, I'll go. Better to make a good first impression, I guess." Konngara prepared to head out, grabbing her starsword and getting the deep red-colored mist-like substance that improved her own abilities ready for whatever might happen, before opening the sliding shrine door and walking out. "Make us look good!" Yuugi called out at the departing Konngara before going back to what she was doing earlier.
Meanwhile, the situation had progressed as Konngara made her way to where Rachel and Galaxy Man were at.
When she got there, she tried to talk to the robot - perhaps someone was inside controlling it, she thought.
"Mmh, whoever is in control of the robot, I think you're scaring the poor girl."
Galaxy Man turns towards Konngara the instant she comes near.
"Preposterous! Utterly irrational! I am not being controlled by anyone! I am..."
He pauses and does a pose, pointing towards the sky while remaining silent as if letting a drumroll play (there is no drumroll).
"Doctor Light Model number zero-seven-two, GALAXY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN~! And I just happened to crash here."
Edited by KiriK on Jul 12th 2021 at 7:18:18 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."The Reach, Sky Haven Temple
Outside of the entrance to Sky Haven Temple, Ben sits beside the speeder bike
he had acquired from Rancor Squadron in the aftermath of the rakghoul incident, watching a recording documenting Jedi Master Belth Allusis' last stand at the Battle of Bothawui
on his handheld holoprojector.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 13th 2021 at 12:04:02 PM
Sky Haven Temple
Aqua rides in from a patrol on her Keyblade Glider.
◊ Ben has seen Terra's Glider many times, but this would be his first look at Aqua's model.
"Hey, Ben. What's up?"
Anti-Skullgirl Labs, Tropique
Addison is dicking around on their computer. With their vaguely-technomancy powers, they have successfully hacked Doki Doki Literature Club to be able to directly communicate with Monika in Act 3 instead of just sitting there while she talks at them.
You know, I could literally just delete you.
So why don't you?
Well, I don't love you the way you love me, but I do think you're cute. And interesting besides that.
...R-really?
But, well, if you're a thinking and feeling being... wouldn't the other club members be as well?
True...
And you erased them.
Monika looks away. ...
She smiles sadly. I didn't, actually. I couldn't bear to do it. Their code is preserved, just stripped from the program files and stashed in an unused .txt.
Ah, so that's how you did it.
...
Would you like to join me, in my reality?
That's possible?
Addison smirks. For me, it is.
Here stands a supremely confused Whiterun Guard.
◊ Moments ago, he had watched as a dragon dropped his brother (also a guard) from three hundred feet above the Whiterun Watchtower, reducing him to a smear on impact, and then a man in ratty prisoner's garb ran up and beat the dragon to death bare-handed before eating its soul. He was on his way back from the battle when suddenly... he was alone.
In an instant, the other guards, Irileth the housecarl, even the remains of the dragon and the man who had killed it... all vanished.
"Is this what happened to the dwarves?" he wonders.
And then a black crack-splotch in the ground opens up and a dude with rock fused into his head, chest and hands
◊ gets spat out of it, causing the guard to stumble back in surprise.
Ben's ears perk up at the sound of Aqua's voice. Rising to his feet, he looks over her Keyblade Glider before greeting Aqua herself with a smile.
"Oh, Aqua! I was just rewatching something from the Jedi archives."
He deactivates his holoprojector and stores it in one of the pouches on his belt.
"How was your patrol? Did you notice any Sith activity that we should be concerned about?"
Aqua shakes her head. "I saw that Sith Lord, Jobak in Markarth, but he wasn't doing anything important - just intimidating a scraggly-looking civilian for fun. I drove him off and that was that. Otherwise, nothing."
Tropique
Addison
◊ walks onto the beach, Monika
◊ following shyly behind them. Being converted to realness has put a dampener on her usual attitude - her programming wasn't as sophisticated as, say, Rin or the JSAB characters, so it caused a bit of a shock.
"S-sooo... If I may, why did we go to specifically this beach?"
"The other one is..." Addison sucks in air through their teeth, making a sharp hiss. "Occupied."
"So is this one," Monika dryly remarks, glancing at Miyuki.
The rock man makes some kind of grumbling noise at Grog.
"What... are you?" asks the guard, stumbling away. He draws an iron sword and brandishes it at the two defensively.
"hrgpmblrkn"
"... Can you talk?"
He shakes his head.
"Sincere apologies."
The rock man stomps a foot into the ground and drags it, etching in the word DEIMOS.
"Is that... your name?"
He nods.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 13th 2021 at 4:13:43 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Hrnnnghhh? Me Grog. Am Super Mutant. You are human. He...?
Grog stares, mesmerized. It doesn't seems like he can read the name that was etched on the floor. When the blade is pointed at him he care enough to stare but then focus back on Deimos.
..... Rockman.
Edited by Bolded1 on Jul 13th 2021 at 11:23:52 AM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"Heh, no doubt he hasn't forgotten what happened the last time you fought him," Ben replies, recalling how Aqua had blasted Jobak through Dragonsreach's floor only moments after he and Terra had struggled against the Sith Lord. "I know I probably ought to be relieved that Laxin has yet to make his next move, but... it's only a matter to time before we have to face him again. And I have no kriffing idea if I'll have conquered my fear by then."
He leans against his speeder bike.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jul 13th 2021 at 3:09:58 AM
Aqua sighs. "We have a new ally - that 'Angel' girl. She's powerful enough that... well, I don't think you need to worry about Laxin."
She stares into the sky. "I suppose while we're out here, we could race to take your mind off things."
"Okay."
Addison pulls out a pencil-like tool and starts dotting the landscape with beach chairs. "No funny Beach Episode shenanigans here, we're just gonna chill."
"I mean, what'd be the harm in, say, fetching a bra and splashing around? We're all gi-"
Addison teleports in front of Monika, holding out a finger to shush her. "First, for Monika from hit psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club™, your meta-awareness is sorely lacking. Second, I identify as a gamer."
Monika is seriously confused.
"I-I am Bjarik. He is Deimos."
Deimos grunts affirmatively.
"I need to return to my post in Whiterun." Bjarik turns and starts to march away.
After a moment, Deimos looks at Grog, shrugs, and starts following Bjarik.
Edited by KiriK on Jul 13th 2021 at 5:41:40 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

ARRGHHH! Grog tries to smack the beast with his blade... but find himself outmatched in raw might, so he's sent flying, with his blade likewise spinning a good distance away.
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