Seiga directed Yoshika the only way she knew how: with hand signals. It was a rapid series of points this time, only about a couple seconds total: point to Rick, to Morty, to Yoshika, to her hand, which grasped her wrist, and upwards. If it wasn't for Seiga having made a very strict lexicon of what these kinds of things meant well in advance of coming here, space communications would be quite the challenge, wouldn't they?
Yoshika took a little time to process the information, but she understood it well enough. She tried to lightly take their traveling buddies by the wrists, and in the off-chance they didn't resist, Seiga made her float up and back down to demonstrate how they didn't need a ship. Magic is the best propulsion system!
THE SLORG!
When the airlock cycled and the three figures stepped in, Melanie tilted her head as she regarded Wander waiting there. "Oh aren't you cute! You look like a cartoon character brought to life!" Melanie said with a big smile.
"Maybe he is" Silvester pointed out, but otherwise paid the little orange creature no mind as he followed Calvin in walking past Wander.
"Holy crap holy crap holy crap! He looks so awesome in person!" Calvin said with great enthusiasm, his hands shaking in excitement as he looked at Megaman. "Could we, could we- oh man we don't have anything to put autographs on!" he went on, realizing that to his apparent horror.
Silvester wasn't quite as excited, and thus had the thought to actually look around at the rest of the place and notice its condition. "Woah, this place is trashed. Did you guys just have a fight in here?" Silvester asked, then glanced to Lothric and Lorian and remembered something. "And oh hey, remember what we were saying about robots? That guy is a robot" he mentioned to them, pointing at Megaman.
Miss Tairee didn't look entirely surprised, but did raise an eyebrow slightly as she glanced over at Ben, already typing on her computer. "Of course I can; I did earlier. But twice in the same day Ben? You must have been busy" Miss Tairee said, that familiar green device appearing on her arm. Then she stood up and started firing the healing beam on Eve, Cole, and the woman with the shot out knees.
Meanwhile, Kelsey remained silent for a moment after Jack's question, not even looking over at him. She was staring forward at nothing in particular. "... The librarian was just telling the two of us about her boss... All of this, this, place is just, some kind of writing aid?" Kelsey said, it sounding from her tone like she was only just truly getting into the ramifications of this. "I got chosen at random to be kidnapped from my home. I got employed by a demon. I found a god to worship that gave my life a purpose. I killed lots of people... All just so some cosmic author could get over his writer's block" she thought out loud, only then finally turning her head to look at Jack, her expression upset in a way like she wasn't sure if she wanted to rage or cry, and added, "is my whole life just some cruel joke?"
You are reading this.
Happy Box Hater
Pub
The more Lucas observed of these two brothers, the more certain he was that something incredibly bad happened to them. Lorian seemed to lack much mental acuity, and was very dependent on his brother. And Lucas didn't like the way that Lorian was looking at him.
And then X asked Lothric about his world, and the response was a bit chilling, both because of the cryptic wording and the actual message. The brothers came from a dying world? Lucas asked Lothric "Um... If your w-world is ash, do you mean that f-fire was the reason that it's d-dying?"
Lucas might have said more but than the other people entered. Lucas could only stare as they acted in a manner Lucas could only compare to how the pigmasks acted about DCMC related things.
Why is a yam attacking me?
PK's Pub
X was a bit taken aback by the sudden introduction of the fanboys, and how excited some of them were to see him. As for the robot comment, it wasn't totally inaccurate... Reploid was the more general term for him at this point.
"Do I know any of you?" X asked, he didn't feel like correcting them on the robot comment.
Jack nodded, frowning as he was reminded of just why he was here as well. It still angered him, but without anyone to really focus it on, it was just starting to die out. Nothing he could do but focus on helping people as best he could. Still, he couldn't stop the tinge of anger that slipped into his voice. "Yeah, I learned that a few days ago, not long after I showed up here. It's wrong. Really wrong."
The spirit then shook his head at Kelsey's question. "No, I don't think your life is a cruel joke. At least, not anymore than anyone else's is. I mean, everyone's life is full of good things and bad things, right? These situations might be different to what you're used to, but it's not anything someone else hasn't gone through before. And if other people can make it through it, I'm sure you can as well."
I just want to help!
Cole wasn't sure how it was that Miss Tairee always had so many powerful healing spells available to her. It was nice, but it was bewildering. Healers tended to be very rare back home, but then again, most of them were also rather powerful, he supposed. And she had certainly shown herself to be powerful.
Regardless, feeling the pain and nasty hot feeling coming out of him was a deep relief, doubly so with the amulet on preventing him from being aware of anything going on in the minds of those around him. After all the fear and anger, and the injuries, and the hurt in his head that always came from overusing his powers, the relief of it all was clear on his face.
"Th-thank you..." he said softly, when he finally felt well enough to be able to get up from the thing they had him laying on. It wasn't hard to take his knife from his belt and cut away the bandages that had been used to keep him in place, but he grimaced a little when a realization came, and he stood, crossing his arms over his chest and shoulders and just hunching a little awkwardly.
"I...I-I have blood on me...and no shirt..." A slight pout came to his face at the next part. "...and my hat is gone."
edited 11th Nov '16 2:23:21 PM by ColeMinor
Stop Killing My Titles
Lobros
Lothric pondered on Plague Knight's words again. So capturing the demon was out of the people's power. He doubted that he and Lorian could apprehend it themselves. Killing it would only be a temporary relief, but the description of the alchemist made it clear that this Old Feather Beak was nothing like their home demons.
Lucas asked if it was some sort of fire that lay waste to their word. Lothric grew a hollow, almost cruel smile. "You could say that, young one." Whether he fed himself - and Lorian - to the flames, the result would be the same if not worse. Leaving the world to perish was granting it mercy.
He tapped Lorian's shoulder. The elder brother returned back to a more neutral position before Lothric focused his attention on Plague Knight again. "What about the cultists? Can they be swayed back to righteousness?"
grah
Just another guy
Viola I Library I Back to Reading
Finishing off the last drop of tea, I looked over to both Jack and Kelsey one more time; with the former trying to comfort the latter. How cute.
Seeing that I already had my fill for today, I muttered a soft "If you'll excuse me," to the two of them on the table, stood up, pocketed the communication device Miss Tairee gave me and, provided that no one stops me or wanted to ask me for something for whatever reason, I made my way to the fifth floor of the library. From there, I'll try to find a more obscure, relatively inconspicuous area of the floor, where I could read in peace without interruptions; still carrying the book about Immortality with me.
"A post per day keeps the GMs away!"
"Quite possibly," Plague Knight said to Lothric. "Most of them were brainwashed into service in one way or another, so their loyalty is tenuous at best. However, there may be a few hold outs...."
The fanboys then arrived. "The Ruckus did this," the knight said to Sylvester. "Destroyed must of my equipment and experiments, and possibly stole a few as well. The most dangerous they stole were all the loaves of clay explosives I had baking in the oven, and thus we are heading towards the library to warn everyone."
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
throwback
"Cartoon character?" Wander parroted, bouncing after them. "Why, I don't rightly know! I suppose I could be, and that'd be fine with me! HEY, SYL! Do you think we're cartoon characters?"
"Huh? No, Wander."
"Oh, there's our answer!"
"I'm more concerned about these guys' stories," Sylvia muttered, listening to Lothric and Plague Knight closely. She spared an irritated glance at the fanboys, muttering, "Nerds."
edited 11th Nov '16 12:57:51 PM by Syrika
Currently writing something. Currently procrastinating.
someone
Eve|Library| About damn time
Anyone watching Eve would notice the glow around her now non-existent wound fading and then disappearing entirely. Her eyes flickered and then opened. Looking down at herself, Eve made some mental checks. She felt fine, the wounds were gone, her dress was in tatters, she was in the library, there were some people which she recognised.
Her dress was in tatters. Damn. She had planned to change anyway when she got the chance, but damn. She liked that dress. It was a nice dress. Rinslet had bought it for her. And then she remembered what she had been doing when she had been shot.
The grocery store. The hostage situation. Ruckus. Sitting straight up, Eve looked to see who was close to her. Recognising Ben, she asked him a couple of questions.
"What day is it? Actually, nevermind. The hostage situation. What happened?"
[TOP SECRET]
Sans asked for a little rundown of what had happened in the store since he had left but not before cracking a joke about Rex's back pain. The teen thought they were over making fun of each other.
"Har har, huesitos. I got shot, ok?"
"Lune and I attacked the Ruckus but they shot Cole before we could get there. A few of them, including Yael, escaped and one of Silanea's men shot this girl—Eve—because he got angry at her or something. Also, it turns out she's like an EVO or something"
For the Horde!
As soon as Miss Tairee healed Eve, Ben looked relieved. "Eve! You're okay!" he exclaimed. "I was really worried, y'know? I, uh..." He winced, then Eve asked him what had happened with the hostage situation. "All taken care of," he assured her. "But... it's back. Old Feather Beak, the demon controlling Ruckus. They... managed to bring it back to life." He looked worried, then back at Miss Tairee.
"Miss Tairee, we're gonna need amulets, we can't allow that bird to get into our heads. Could you conjure some up?" He sighed, looking back at Eve. "I wish I could've done something sooner, and I wish I could've stopped them from bringing him back...."
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
feeling blue
So that was what happened. The stuff about one of Silanea's people shooting that girl was a little concerning but Rex apparently didn't know much about it either so that was a matter to discuss later. Instead, there was something else that caught Sans' interest.
"... what's an evo?" he asked, tilting his head slightly and giving Rex a puzzled look for a moment before focusing back on piloting.
Thanks to the library being close they got there fairly quickly. Not wanting to risk making a mess trying to land the ship just yet, Sans just left it floating in space close to it.
"well, that was quick."
Library - Witness account
As it turned out, apparently the girl didn't know Cole that well but had helped him previously. Given that she mentioned that the other time had also involved his amulet, she could guess what situation it had been. Still, now wasn't quite the time to bring up the situation with Lewis.
"Ah, I see. Still, thanks for helpng him again in anycase. My name is Caro by the way," She then said.
But then, the other girl said something quite shocking. Her eyes widened in response as she proclaimed to have witnessed her fight the Lord of Change a few days ago. She didn't know that anyone else had seen what had gone down there. But it in that case, it was a good opportunity to find more what had happened. She still hadn't figured the deal with the whole miracle that had saved Sans and hers.
She couldn't miss a chance like this. So readily responded, "Y-You saw that!? But yeah, that was indeed me. Me and my friend, Sans. And well ... Could I ask you something? If you witnessed everything that happened ... Maybe you could help me understand what happened. I mean, the Lord of Change had me caught in own chains, while it was trying to literally suck out Sans' soul, everything seemed so hopeless ... But then a miracle happened. Something came from the library, so fast that I couldn't tell what it was. And then this brilliant ray came and finished it off ... I still don't quite get what happened. So ... Could maybe shed light on those events?"
While she was speaking to the girl, Miss Tairee then healed Cole, who then began to wrestle himself free from the bandages tying him to the stretcher. She left go off his hand, taking the opportunity to place the bag she was carrying on a nearby table, then taking the suits off from her and Fried and placing the helmets on top of the table as well..
Cole seemed distraught over a few things, including the fact he was without both a shirt and his hat. Regarding the former, she couldn't help finding it a bit ironic that they had just being at the store. Of course, the situation was more than a little hectic and Cole's life had been in danger, so it was understandable that it had been the furthest thing from anyone's mind.
Still, that was relatively simple. The shirt was probably easily replaceable. His hat though, that was a quite different story. He seemed to like it quite a bit, after all.
"Well, that's unfortunate. We should be able to do something about finding you a shirt. As for your hat though ... Do you remember where you left it? Did you lose in the fight at the store?" She then replied.
Sans listened to his recap but didn't exactly know what an EVO was. Right, that sort of thing didn't translate between universes.
"It's what we call people like me back in my world. Eve's got nanites that let her do all sorts of crazy stuff, just like me"
Wait, what if they didn't have that sort of technology back in his world?
"You do know what nanites are, right?"
feeling blue
"is that the nanomachine things from your human movies? by the way i'm teleporting us in 3 2 1-"
Sans then teleported both of them at the library entrance, since the skeleton did so while he was sitting he would normally end up falling on his rear but thanks to the low gravity he could quickly adjust himself in time.
"is everything ok in here?" he asked as he went to regroup with everyone
I just want to help!
Cole looked to Caro when she spoke, then looked down, shaking his head a little. "It...it all happened so fast. I was...I was helping, and then I was awake and it all hurt...it's...it's not there, in between..."
About then, Sans and Rex abruptly reappeared inside the room, and he glanced at them, taking a moment as though to reassure himself that they both seemed relatively all right before lowering his gaze to the floor, just staying half-hunched and with his arms folded, just looking rather awkward and uncomfortable as he did.
Rick stared as the two girls took Morty by the wrist; who bit his lip and looked about as awkward as could be as this ad-hoc setup crystalized into something. From within his helmet, he sighed, slung his bag of beer over his shoulder - grabbing one errant bottle as it threatened to float out of the bag- and pushed himself off the wall of the grocery store to join the others.
Without knowing what sort of movies Sans had watched, Rex could only hope they were talking about the same thing.
"I guess?" After a small countdown before teleporting, they were now back in the library "Yup, still freaky"
Well, those were some good, what? 20 minutes of Earth-like gravity? Back to awkwardly floating around the place. At least everyone was there. Cole and Eve specially seemed to be back to normal and Rex already had hundreds of questions in mind for the blonde girl. This was really exciting.
"Hey, guys. Good to see you are okay. Specially you, Eve. It's nice meeting someone else like me around here"
someone
Eve|Library|This should be fun
It was time to think this through. From the way Ben was acting, it was the same day that she had been shot. That was good, especially with the other news. The demon was back. Ruckus had their leader back. Though she had never fought him herself, Ruckus seemed to be a strong enough force without him, and she had no idea what they would be like with his backup.
And Ben was being insecure again. How surprising. Still, she was sure he had done his best, and told him so.
"I'm sure you did all that you could do."
Then Rex walked up. And then it got weird. There were a couple of confusing points, like that fact that he knew her name (when did he get a chance to learn her name?), the fact that he was especially glad that she was fine, when she barely knew him and (most oddly) the fact that he said that she was like him.
There was some quizzical head tilting. Much like Rex, Eve had a bunch of questions, but unlike Rex, she was not particularly excited to ask them.
"Like...you?"
[TOP SECRET]
THE SLORG!
"Uh, not exactly, no" Calvin admitted sheepishly to X and his question, while Silvester noted what Plague Knight said about Ruckus.
"Ruckus? I thought they were pretty much toast by now. Well, we've got a ship and we were planning on stopping by there at some point; we could give you all a ride. You mind if we grab something to eat on the go though? I'm famished" Silvester said to Plague Knight.
Meanwhile, Melanie stepped forward and nodded at Lothric's answer. "Yeah their whole world sucks. It's stuck in some constant cycle of death because their gods are jerks; pretty much only undead live there now" Melanie piped in. "At least, that's what I took from it" she added with a shrug.
"Yes, I heard about it coming back. Terrible news, that" Miss Tairee said with genuine sympathy, but her expression quickly evened out as she listened to things people were saying and hit a few keys on her keyboard. "Goodness, you people sure are making my work cut out for me, aren't you? Take as many of these as you need" the librarian stated idly, as with a blur two full boxes of wraithbone amulets appeared next to the central desks.
Thomas decided to step up and take one, examining it closely and curiously. "I don't recognize these symbols" Thomas muttered to himself.
"They aren't from your universe" Miss Tairee told him simply, standing up and hopping over her desk in the low gravity, moving her way over to where Cole and others were. As she went, she had brought up the holographic interface from her bracelet again and was typing away on it. When she got to them, some of the furniture nearby them disappeared in a blur, creating a small open space on the floor; then with another blur, some kind of opaque, glass stall appeared there, complete with a door.
"Come on now, in you go" Miss Tairee instructed Cole, swinging the door of the stall open while still typing with her other hand. "Don't worry, it won't hurt" she added, still typing.
Meanwhile, Kelsey didn't look entirely convinced by Jack's reassurance, and glanced away and down at the floor with a solemn expression. "My life seems to only be bad things" Kelsey muttered quietly, her gaze idly lingering on the platter of cake slices.note "I don't know if I want to make it through this. I don't... And I kind of think I don't- that I shouldn't" she admitted in a stammering voice, her eyes cringing shut as a few tears started to work their way out of them.
Abruptly she stood up, hands balled up into fists at her sides. "I shouldn't be in here. I need to go- I need weapons" Kelsey stated, turning and looking around until she spotted where Miss Tairee went, then started moving towards her across the large room.
edited 11th Nov '16 10:03:54 PM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
PK's Pub
"Really then?" X asked, it wasn't totally unusual to happen to meet someone who knew about him, especially with his involvement in the origin of Reploids, but in this city...
"Then how do you know about me exactly?"
I just want to help!
Cole didn't seem to know what to make of this sudden strange offering from Miss Tairee, looking at it with wide eyes. A quick glance around the room didn't seem to reveal whatever trick he might have been expecting, and he swallowed a little hard. Tairee assured him that whatever this was, it wouldn't hurt...and surely she wouldn't lie about that, right? She was...still frightening, but...Lieutenant Wells didn't trust her, and he would keep an eye on things, right?
Obviously concerned and a bit alarmed, Cole nonetheless moved forward, staring at the box, glancing at Tairee again, then took a deep breath and moved inside, wincing. "I-it w-w-won't lock me up, w-will it? I-I-I can get b-back out i-if it's...if it's scary?"
"Honestly, I do not know," Plague Knight said. "I never actually witnessed Old Feather Beak's first defeat, thus I do not know how to defeat him outside of overwhelming brute force. I have read and heard that from where he came from, demons are more like intelligent thought and emotion given physical form, so to defeat him one has to destroy his physical body at least. Containment, however, is another story entirely."
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!