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Well, at least they had improved See's mood from terrified to conflicted. Still didn't seem like they were getting anywhere quickly. Maybe he should try to say something else... Don't talk to her, Seiga. Someone who is doing that to Yoshika doesn't deserve to talk to children in any situation. Especially, because she seemed bad at it.
Lucas was starting to piece things together. See seemed secretive about her mother and was trying to hide something about what she was. Lucas could believe she was a normal girl, even if she had a slightly inhuman body. The best way to end this situation was to convince her that no one cared that she was different.
Having thought it through, Lucas said to her "Having horns doesn't make you less of a person than any of us, See. No one here actually cares whether you're a human or not. You act like a normal girl, so I'll treat you like one. That's all there is to it. Whether you're a human, monster, demon, some combination of things, or whatever, I'll only hurt you if you actually were bad. And I don't think you're bad."
Why is a yam attacking me?
Also, if there was a man or woman on Earth who knew how to spell the name Seerwuohsur, she'd like to meet them. No wonder they called her See.
Seiga sighed, and shook her head. "I guess I mean, it's going to be alright. Lucas is right, you're not bad if you're different from us. Nobody here's gonna hurt you for any reason, so you don't have to worry about it, little one. You can trust us." She would've added a patented Head Ruffle to punctuate that, but that would've been a bad idea.
edited 28th Jan '17 4:05:24 PM by wikkit
THE SLORG!
Kelsey's head turned towards the Grinch and just faced towards him for a bit. Her helmet made it impossible to read her facial expression, giving nothing but its demonic, blank stare. She then turned as Lewis and Garrett decided to chew her out. "Crazy? I don't know, probably" Kelsey said, turning her head down slightly and raising up the chainaxes which were still splattered with paint and the Brute monster's not!blood. "No, 2015 is still the same, normal, nothing-ever-happens place" she answered Lewis, her tone going bitter and cold.
"Since coming here, I've never felt so alive. That life seems so long ago, but I guess it was only a couple of weeks, wasn't it?" Kelsey continued, her tone cheering up again though having a bit of a insane edge to it. Then she pointed one of her chainaxes at Morty. "I was going to teach him a lesson. Let him learn the hard way whether or not this is the kind of life for him" she told them, seemingly referring to herself as an example.
"And one more thing? I'm not sure if you're blind or just didn't realize..." Kelsey paused, and whacked the side of one of the chainaxes against her breastplate, producing a loud clanging. "I'M WEARING ARMOR YOU PUSSY-FOOTED PRUDES! I DON'T THINK THAT SCRAWNY TWIG OF A KID COULD DO A THING TO ME WITH THAT CHAINSAW!" she screamed at them loudly.
"My world is Earth as well. And World War 2... Yes, I think that was some conflict between Muggles a couple decades back, as that book mentioned..." Thomas trailed off, looking uncomfortable and scratching at his cheek for a moment.
"Earth? As in, ground? That's odd. We just call ours, 'the world'. And I don't think there was any 'World War 2' either" Louie said. Then they both looked to Ben as he asked about when they arrived. "Yesterday. It was annoying because we were stuck in one place the whole day" he answered, giving a slight frown.
"... It was that sandy day, with all the horrible monsters" Thomas muttered, looking like he'd rather not remember it.
"Um, well that's basically just repeating what I said only more bluntly, but yeah you're not wrong" Steve said to Plague Knight, then added, "though you're also glossing over that there's like, ten thousand years of tradition he's following, too."
Then he glanced at Viola and gave that sort of thoughtful, half frown look. "I mean, if you want to try I suppose, but I don't think he'll slow down his pace to let us keep up with him. Also I think it's pretty late by now, so I think personally I'm gonna go look for somewhere to sleep" Steve told her, and started to get going, but paused and looked back at Plague Knight again.
"Oh yeah, and see I know about this stuff and how to talk to him, because where I'm from he's fictional, and I acted based on the knowledge I got from that fiction; so again, totally valid approach. Pardon me if I feel just a bit cautious about little miss Totally-Normal-Don't-Mind-The-Knife, since she's setting off some red flags of stuff I know" Steve commented, pointing a thumb at Viola, then again turning to head off.
Seirwuosuhr still didn't look convinced at first, her eyes turning away and looking like she was seriously contemplating making a run for it, but her eyes flicked back and widened slightly as Lucas went on, right when he mentioned one word in particular: Demon.
Maybe it was just a coincidence, or a delayed reaction to what he was saying just before that, but at that point she remained fixated on Lucas and Seiga. After that she was silent for a few moments, clearly thinking and still torn, glancing her eyes down; then she looked back up with her eyes wide and pleading like a sad puppy, and faintly whispered, her voice cracking, "Pr-p-promise?"
edited 28th Jan '17 9:04:27 PM by FirockFinion
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Balloon Cart- Now we're getting somewhere
Lucas saw See react to the word demon. Well, that was the question answered, he supposed. Lucas said to her "Are you a demon? Well, I promise I don't care if you are one. I don't just attack people who are different from me."
He didn't really know what being a demon meant in her home, but she seemed nice. Someone that scared didn't pose a threat. Of course, the anti-human group must have formed for a reason, so it wasn't like he couldn't understand the secrecy.
edited 28th Jan '17 4:50:27 PM by pillowmantis
Why is a yam attacking me?
"I'm not blind, you're obviously better equipped. That's why I don't want to see you slaughter a kid who's grieving his grandpa for a bloody laugh" curly said, failing to surpress a scowl at being yelled at.
edited 28th Jan '17 4:53:17 PM by BlitzTrain
I think I'm a sofa
Abel & Rixis - Balloon Cart - Hit & Run
Thankfully, the monster was taken down pretty quickly, leaving Abel to wonder why it took these guys so long to get rid of it in the first place. Once he knew it was dead, he quickly fled the scene with Rixis trailing behind. He was pretty sure no one saw him, lucky for them, but they still had to keep their distance. After running for five minutes straight, they finally found refuge in an abandoned tent, one that was apparently used for one of those impossible dart games.
"Okay, I think we're safe for now..." Abel said, double-checking to see if anybody could hear them. "But really, Rixis? We almost got caught! I know you want to help, but we can't let people see you, or else..." He buried his face in his hands and slumped against the wall. "Who knows what else? Listen, we don't know where we are or why we're here. We can't trust anybody yet. We have to be careful. You understand?"
Rixis understood perfectly. "Good. Then let's get going." Abel opened his coat for Rixis, and soon the two were off again.
(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?
Plague Knight raised an eyebrow at what Steven. So the fanboy's earlier point was proven somewhat, but it did not mean he had to phrase it so rudely. "After we find the others, we should consider finding suitable shelter for sleep as well," the knight said to Viola.
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
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"No, that is OK, Cole. I don't think I need to rest just yet. Though I'm not sure if we are getting much proper sleep if we have to stay put in this place ... " Caro, sighing a bit in frustation, then adding, "But with way things are set up today, I don't think there would beany proper sleeping places, so I guess we will just have to make do ... "
Fortunately, it seemed that none of those walking terrors had gotten Sans. He did have a point. If they had, it would have been easily worse than whatever had happened before. At least it seemed to be gone, so that was a relief.
He did have another matter to bring up with her, which he seemed to be a bit nervous to do.
"Sure. That sounds serious. What is it?" She replied, a biy concernedly.
I just want to help!
Cole looked between the two of them, looking a little worried as Sans seemed...rather serious, especially for him. Caro always was more serious than Sans was, and...well, whatever this was, maybe it was supposed to just be between them and not him too. He should probably check on that.
"I...I can cover my ears...if you'd...rather talk about this...privately?" he finally said, scooting back a little where he was sitting on the floor.
someone
Eve|Ferris Wheel
Eve watched and listened to Ben and Arcade's conversation. It was interesting, comparing their worlds to hers. Arcade's sounded worse, Ben's better. Though, she did have to wonder if aliens walked on her world with humans, and if Train was one. The continuing conversation was fascinating, but she felt she didn't have much to add. Most of the wars on her world had been fought in secret, with assassins and Erasers.
It made her wonder how her world would be different if there had been all-out war, or if Chronos had never come to power.
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Viola I Pizza Place I Meeting Up With The Heroes
"You do realize it's rude to talk about someone while that someone is right in front of you, right?" I replied to his Little-Miss-With-A-Knife comment, slightly irritated, and leave it at that. He's right that we can't really match with the giant man's strides though, so there goes one potential ally. Leaving him be for whatever shelter he's looking for, there's only me, the doctor, the hornet and the sapling now.
"That's true. But if we can't find people, we should be prepared to stay for the night too," I answered the doctor, still holding onto the hornet as we walked along to who knows where.
Near the Ferris Wheel
And what luck! After leaving from both Steve and the armoured giant, we happen across a Ferris Wheel and, from there, a sizable group from the distance. Actual people, and this time, more than just one or two. This might just be it.
"Hey!" I called out to them. I would've also waved out my hand to get their attention, but my hands are currently occupied carrying the hornet.
That was when I noticed two familiar faces among the group who may not be very fond of meeting up with me: the transforming boy Ben and the girl Eve.
"... Oh." Well, this is a strange coincidence. Not to mention slightly awkward. I best make sure to leave the talking to the doctor for now.
edited 28th Jan '17 8:11:20 PM by JustSomeGuy732
"A post per day keeps the GMs away!"
feeling blue
"it's fine, cole, this kinda has to do with you too."
Sans sighed and took a moment to organize his thoughts. He first looked at Caro, though his gaze didn't meet hers.
"look, you're pretty much like a little sister to me and i want to see you happy. this way when i go back home to deal with what's waiting for me there, i can at least go out knowing that at least one of my friends is still out there, living a happy life," he began saying, pausing to recollect his thoughts. "but... y'know... i don't really think i've been really helping with any of that. ever since i told you about what happened to my world, you've gone through a lot because of me and i should've figured something like that would happen."
He let out a weak chuckle and finally looked at Caro properly. He was still smiling, but it was pretty clear that it was a sad smile that fit very well with the look on his eyes.
"i know you humans are pretty determined. you're not the type to give up even when the situation looks bleak. and i know the fact that you can't do anything for me is really bothering you, especially after that brief moment with cole's demon side yesterday. when i told you about all that stuff, i thought it wouldn't really matter whether you knew or not, i didn't think it would affect you that much." He then glanced at Cole. "it probably bothers you a lot too, but there was no way i could've kept any of it hidden from you, at least, not at the time."
He sighed and leaned back on the chair, looking up at the ceiling.
"bottom line is... it would've been better if i never told you anything. ignorance is bliss, right?" He let out a chuckle. "hell, considering how much distress i've caused you in this week we've been together, maybe it would've been better if we never met at all? i don't know, maybe you'd be happier that way..."
He then began looking back at the two, still leaning against the chair.
"i know you probably want to say something like 'i want to see you happy too', but... sorry, kids, i've given up on being happy a long time ago. the most i can do now is try to bring some joy to the people i care about and, heh... i'm not really doing a very good job at that right now." He concluded, giving them a small shrug.
Morty screamed impotently as the flaming ghost grabbed him and lifted him aloft, imputently flailing his chainsaw, kicking his battered sneakers against the ghost's impeccably sharp suit, and generally struggling against Lewis's superior strength. "P-put me down, you, you, flaming bastard! I'll kill you!" he screamed, although by this point the threats and protests were more than a little half-hearted as Morty's overtaxed systems abruptly decided that they'd had enough of working overtime and started to punch out early. "I'll fight you! I'll.. I'll..." Morty swung the chainsaw through the air in protest, its gasoline-powered scream drowning out whatever he was going to say next.
Jack wasn't sure what to think of the idea that See was a demon. He was kind of limited in his interactions with them, though he supposed he had met spirits over the years that could have been called that, and then there was the bird brain. But, the young girl was nothing like that monster. Who knew how it worked with all these weird places. Either way, it didn't change anything, so no reason to linger on it. "I already promised, remember? This doesn't change anything."
THE SLORG!
Seirwuosuhr finally, though slowly, relaxed her stance of looking like she was expecting to be attacked. She didn't look that much less upset though, but after a quick sniffle and some weary blinking followed by rubbing at her eyes, it became evident there was another reason why. "I'm tired. I wanna go home" Seirwuosuhr said quietly, moving forward and hugging herself into Jack's arms.
"... You're cold" Seirwuosuhr complained after a few moments of silence.
Kelsey looked towards Curly and tilted her head just a little. "I don't recall ever saying I would kill him" Kelsey pointed out, in a rather unimpressed, annoyed tone. She paused for a moment as Morty continued to rant and generally fly off the handle, then looked back at Curly. "That boy clearly needs some kind of outlet. I don't see you volunteering" the berserker woman stated in a slightly challenging tone.
edited 28th Jan '17 9:04:14 PM by FirockFinion
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Though, contingency plans never hurt...
Ah, that can wait. When the girl finally relented enough to be touched, Seiga got up and patted off the dust from her skirt before walking over to her servant. Yoshika whispered "I thought you ha-" before Seiga could interrupt her with a shake of the head. "You don't need to remember those kinds of things. Now, go get those boltcutters. We'll still be delivering those," as she pointed in their direction.
Yoshika stared at where her master pointed for a few moments, lightly drooling, before she clarified "Those red things." The jiangshi saluted, and walked off to get them.
"It's good to see that my Yoshika managed to protect you well enough, I hope that she didn't give you too much trouble," she said to the rest of the group.
In a sing-songy tone, she added "Did they give you a hard time or anything, Yoshika?" Said Yoshika came back over, carrying her very handy tool with her, and she said "I've got no idea. I don't remember."
Seiga shrugged. "So you don't, so you don't. Now, I'm sure everyone else is tired, so maybe we should rest a while."
edited 28th Jan '17 9:27:38 PM by wikkit
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See was good now, if very tired from the day's events. It made sense. The only reason Lucas was doing so well was that his death early on refreshed him completely. And he couldn't imagine the stress put on See from when she was grabbed by that doppelganger earlier. He let out a little chuckle when she complained about Jack's lack of body heat.
His thoughts about a place to sleep were cut short by Seiga responding to something Yoshika whispered to her. That attitude was seriously straining his patience. But Yoshika wanted them to not act about it, so he stopped himself from punching Seiga in the face.
Well, that part addressed to the group as a whole really made his blood boil. Oh well, he would at least try to answer normally. He told Seiga "She was a big help. She even had a few pages when she came to us, which I heard was a part of the day challenge. So I guess she's part of the reason why we aren't powerless now. I'd say she did an amazing job. And she was so quick to offer to risk herself to find more pages, even. You should be proud of her." He was forcing himself to not make eye contact with her, for fear he would put on an expression of utter disgust. He already put a bit of an edge at the end there. He wanted to go to sleep but he felt way too uncomfortable around Seiga.
edited 28th Jan '17 9:46:51 PM by pillowmantis
Why is a yam attacking me?
Spooky Forest
"This conversation is missing the point,I think it's about time we blow this joint."
The Grinch took a step back and held out his hands,
his Grinch copter unfolding right where he stands!
With a loud whir and a hop he went into the sky,
surveying out the region with his Grinchy eye.
edited 28th Jan '17 9:46:57 PM by nman
Tired of givin' up the ghost
Garrett, still having such a great sense of timing, chose this particular moment to come up to me, wary of Morty flailing madly in my arms, struggling in vain to get free while still swinging that chainsaw aimlessly, and ask about that special bonus challenge I'd brought back up earlier. He trailed off but...did he think the pages were it?
"I thought it was a multi-day thing. Not now, I'm in the middle of something."
That something being getting this kid to something that needed killing more urgently than this maniac lady. I'd already begun to tune them both out, and was about to start gliding in some other direction...
"Since coming here, I've never felt so alive. That life seems so long ago..."
My eyes went wide and then slowly narrowed again, the only hint to the internal monologue I was slipping into, to the ignorance of all else.
She felt alive butchering anything she came across? What an odd and horrid thing to revel in, actively and violently harming others...I knew the feeling of life. Pretty well, in fact, and that wasn't helped by the physiological rollercoaster today had been. I'll tell you this: there is no feeling more exhilarating, or captivating, or pleasing or comforting than breaking out every ounce of magic in your being to create the most fanciful and melodic display of fervent pink magic you could possibly conceive...or on the other hand, feeling and listening to the rhythm of carbon-based tissue pressing on, playing their parts in a simple yet filling harmony, and just being.
But this wasn't about me. This was about how this...Kelsey...relished in bringing harm to things and people.
It was intrinsically hurtful, even if none of it did stick in this place. And she enjoyed it, now that the city had given her the opportunity. Was that not the definition of sociopathy? And she so enjoyed it that she was willing to saw apart a kid who she clearly knew was in no position to fight back specifically for kicks, and to see if he had it in him to be just like her.
It seemed ridiculous. Morty, like her? I looked down at him, seeing that he was starting to tire out. What kind of killer could he be, a young man, routinely jittery by all appearances, who...had suddenly revealed a twisted hidden side of cruelty and disregard after some event had come to provoke and encourage it, and subsequently was a danger to the people around him.
Something clicked that I realized I shouldn't have neglected for so long.
"...'s a fight you want, right," I mumbled to her.
I dropped Morty, and repeated louder. "It's a fight you want, right?"
I turned back around and approached her, spawning a line of lampposts behind me in case Morty tried to run over and interfere. "Well, I'll give you a damn fight, you fucking psychopath! You lose, you back off him. You understand that!?"
I readied that same torrent of projectile flames from earlier. "Try me, I fucking dare you!"
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"You mean volunteering to take a chainsaw to the face? Gee, I wonder why" Curly said flatly "Even with the crazy demon armor I don't see encouraging him to wantonly attack people being a good idea no matter how alive it makes you feel. Lewis has him under control for the moment-"
Correction, Lewis had him. Now the ghost was challenging Kelsey to fight him instead of Morty, while Curly just paused and tried to imagine some way of keeping things from getting worse.
THE SLORG!
Kelsey's head whipped around as the loud helicopter started up, and even with her helmet and armor on, it was clear there was some amount of being boggled going on based on her posture. "What?! The Grinch has a helicopter?!" Kelsey said, watching him rise up into the air.
She was so caught up with this that she didn't hear Lewis speaking until he spoke up and moved towards her threateningly. She looked towards him for a moment, saying nothing, but then slowly shifted one foot over, facing herself towards him and lowering her stance slightly as she brought the chainaxes up to either side; a combat ready pose. "It's the kid who wants the fight, but if you're challenging me, well, I can't refuse; it would be disservice to Khorne" Kelsey said, keeping in the same pose. "I was going to walk away, skeleton. So now it's your choice" she added, an excitement and eagerness creeping into her tone. She offered no words to Curly, being entirely focused on Lewis now.
edited 28th Jan '17 11:00:39 PM by FirockFinion
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Seeing that she was growing tired, Jack smiled and let See hug herself into his arms, before he shifted her and lifted her up as he stood; Holding her to his chest. He chuckled at her quiet complaint. "Sorry about that, kiddo. Can't help it. And don't worry we'll get you home when we can. Just get some rest for now."
With one of the children in his arms, the spirit then turned to look at Tommy and Lucas. Tommy is particular, since he'd been in a bad position with that monster. "You two ok?"
And then, his good mood was almost sapped entirely when that woman spoke up again. Hearing her call the young girl hers made the Guardian take a deep slow breath, then block out whatever else she was saying. He would wait, and make sure Seiga got exactly what she deserved.
Raising his voice slightly to the rest of the group, he looked around, though kept his gaze purposely off Yoshika and Seiga. "We should get inside somewhere before we rest. If the day changes and we're out here, we might get moved away."
The jiangshi paused as she tried to answer her, because she honestly didn't remember...but, there was some vague notion hinting towards her bag. Strange, she didn't remember having a bag. She pulled it open and, indeed, there were some badly-drawn pictures of horror movie monsters. Processing this revelation, Yoshika's grin slowly grew wider, before she raised the bag high to her master's face.
"Yep! I got this many pages, and I did it by myself!" Yoshika proudly announced.
Seiga brought her in for a nice, well-deserved hug. It would've been a miracle for the normal Yoshika, but this day's Yoshika must've been just like how she first knew her: A clever, naive and extremely determined girl. Oh, if it weren't for her own grievous mistake, she might've gotten to spend some time with that old friend of hers. Really, she had to mess things up like that...
Hugging her tight and deploying the long-awaited head ruffle, Seiga announced "You're fantastic, Yoshika! Lucas is entirely right, I should be proud of a fantastic little jiangshi like you. I died just trying to get one note!" Yoshika's mood shifted suddenly for the worse hearing that, but the astute Ms. Kaku detected it immediately and smothered her before she could start questioning. "Oh, Yoshika, you really are a great kid, aren't you?"
Asking a question was all it took to distract her from the idea that Seiga was capable of dying, and her head was given just enough breathing room for her to respond. "Yeah, I like me too. I'm pretty great!"
As the love party kept going on, Seiga made sure to look at Lucas and Jack, and how they were doing their best to make sure she didn't see their faces. It was terribly obvious, given how Yoshika had left her in tears earlier that day. Now, she had to figure out exactly what clever, naive and unimaginably stupid Yoshika decided to say about her.
Well this is a rather odd coincidence, Plague Knight as he and Viola reached the Ferris Wheel, the location of the very first monster he had faced off this day. He first thing he noticed was one of the large passenger cars on the ground and nearly completely melted. That was a big enough picture the knight needed to know what happened to the creature. He also noticed people gathered around, including Ben and Eve.
"Ah, Ben!" Plague Knight cried out, running over to the younger hero while still carrying the plant child and the honey flower. "It good to see some more familiar faces! Are you alright? You have not been killed by anything, have you?" he asked. He then looked over at Eve. "And you must be Eve, correct?" he asked her.
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HOTTING HELPY!!
Garrett nodded at Gon, indicating that he was okay, then turned towards Kelsey with a look of disbelief. "Are you crazy?" he asked, then realized that was probably a redundant question given her prior behavior. "You seriously wanted to cut each other to pieces? This city must be making everyone more unhinged with every passing day..." he said to himself, then went after Lewis. Giving a suspicious look to Morty and making sure to stay away from the boy, he asked Lewis, "So, about what you said earlier... about participating in the 'special challenge' in exchange for mail home. You don't think...?" he asked, giving a meaningful look to the scenery around them.