Lo Wang chuckled, a shit-eating grin spreading across his face. "Think of it as an important life lesson for Rex. The better Wang always wins."
Then he nodded at Anna-Maria. "Yeah. I figure just pick an apartment building at random, find a nice big room and set up. Can't be too hard, with the way this place works."
Lily's laughing slowed down as everyone talked to one another. She wasn't very interested in their discussion when she realized how late it was.
When Rick offered her a place to stay she responded, "no thank you, dearie! I have sweaters to knit!" With that she turned and walked out of the lab. Her footsteps were so quiet that it would be exceptionally difficult for anyone not focusing on her position to know where she was.
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
feeling blue
Obviously Caro was less than pleased by this whole thing. She had an opportunity to talk with her friends which was now completely screwed over thanks to someone from the past being brought to the city and that particular someone was of great importance for her life. That was quite an unique situation to be put in and not in a good way.
"hey, cheer up caro! i'll try to get a video call done and that way you might be able to finally meet my bro tomorrow," he told her in an attempt to cheer her up a little.
Then his phone began ringing. It was Rex again, looked like they let him make calls at prison or he was doing so while they weren't looking. Before Sans could even say anything, Rex quickly made a request and ended the call. Maybe he got caught misbehaving, unsurprisingly.
"uh, rex called, he wants a book on something called quarians and another on something called geth," he told Miss Tairee.
I think I'm a sofa
Abel - Rick's Lab - Thanks but No
Well, they had beds. Abel had the option of sleeping on a hopefully warm, preferably comfortable mattress, or outside, where nothing was safe. He followed Ciri upstairs, took one look at the bed, and made his decision.
"Yeah, I think I'll go find somewhere else to stay," he awkwardly stepped back towards the door and reached for the doorknob. Then there was no door. Some girl literally broke the door off its hinges carrying a box, and before he knew it, she was gone. So clearly, leaving wasn't an option anymore. Abel muttered something mean and turned back to the lab, motioning for Morty to come over. "Hey, listen," he whispered. "Can I trust you?"
(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?
Curly put a hand on Silanea's shoulder as she trailed off and added reassuringly "They'll be fine tonight" before gently patting and turning to the Fanboy not busy hugging "Let's borrow some of those sleeping bags tonight, I think the last thing anyone needs is a bad back in the morning"
With that Curly stepped away from the hug intending to help lay out some sleeping bags for the group for the night "Come to think of it, I never bothered asking for your names. I'm Curly Brace"
edited 11th Mar '17 10:50:51 AM by BlitzTrain
Library - When things get timey wimey
Sans tried to cheer her up with a possibl opportunity to meet his brother tomorrow, which did perk her up a little. With a small but warm smile, Caro replied, "That would be nice. And hey, I get the feeling that, whatever else may have changed, Papyrus will still be as cool as ever!"
Pondering her options for a bit, she then turned to and said to the librarian, "I guess book for the reference one and show for the rest should do it ..." That could entertaining at least and could let her if they were all in a show like the one Sans had mentioned his friend watched ... She then added, "If I am unfortunately right about all this though, nearly or all of those will have gotten altered by certains absences. I also need to know more about how things went down originally, so is there anything that would show it as close as possible to that?"
edited 11th Mar '17 12:12:57 PM by JamesShields
The white-heared woman, perhaps sarcastically, called Rex 'sir' after hearing his reaction to being treating like a child. She didn't really think that the prison was particularly bad since she had apparently seen way worse and, after learning about the DVD player, Rex had to agree with that feeling.
She knew the feeling of being treated like a potential menace after doing her best to help and described how she had dealt with a 'Noonwraith' but people forgot all about that after she made a few mistakes. Finally! Someone that understood.
"Tell me about it. People have really bad memories. You screw up once and suddenly everyone is out to get you"
She wanted to know what exactly had happened to force Rex to be in jail.
"Well, let's say I made a deal so everyone here could send messages back home but it sort of involves fighting more monsters than usual"
As for Yael...
"And he's just plain crazy. He was part of a group that followed a demon's orders but now he's gone and almost everyone is in jail. And before you ask, yeah, thanks to me"
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
Oh. So the librarian wanted this Sir Redring (I thought I remembered his name briefly appearing on the board this morning, just before I took the lead) to find places for all the stray animals scuttling around this place to take refuge. Made sense. It wasn't as if you wanted some blind alien bull or the like storming into a room full of sensitive equipment because someone scared it.
Promptly upon entering the library, the...squid? Octopus? Fantasy creature that resembled one or both of those but couldn't rightly be called either?...made his way to the librarian and put the little guy in a cage she'd left out. Unsurprisingly, also with the librarian were Sans, Caro, and Lucas. They looked preoccupied, but still...
The octopus(?) then made his way to...oh, those were Plague Knight's kids. I looked back and forth between where they were and where he was, mildly uncomfortable.
i guess you can watch me shitpost i guess
Screw the Lion!
"One of those phones has the functionality of another device entirely?" Plague Knight said to Lewis with wonder. "Such amazing technology......" he muttered.
He and Lewis followed Red Ring into the library, with dapper octpoid wishing to gather various stray animals in the City for possible adoption. Upon enter, the plant child ran up to the alchemist. "Hello there little one! Have you beuaved youself?" he said as he picked up the tiny creature and hugged it gently. "The hornet is with me as well," he explained. "She prefers the flower mostly."
Still carrying the plant child like a toddler, the alchemist then went over to Miss Tairee.
"Excuse me, Miss Tiaree, I would like to have a new phone with radio functionality, if you would so kindly," he asked.
"Well before, I did it with reckless abandon. Now I can't control myself!" ~ Jesse Cox, 2014
Ciri - Prison
"It is always a dark day to find one who has been corrupted by demons," Ciri said to Rex, looking in Yael's direction. "Goetia never winds up going quite the way the summoner expects. He should be so fortunate that he still draws breath. Becoming a draugir would be far worse a fate. Still, demons and other monsters, you say?" a slight grin appeared as her hand idly drifted to her medallion. "Perhaps it is fate, because I just so happen to be in the business of slaying monsters."She looked into the cell to focus on Rex with a determined look. "You claim to have some method of contacting our homes, for everyone - that will be immensely valuable for me. My own attempts to return to my realm have been... less than successful. At the moment, I am unable to leave the confines of this city. If there is some way to send a message by letter, megascope, or however you manage to accomplish such a feat, I would most appreciate it if you could explain the process."
Library - All back together
She felt the familiar vibration and beeping that indicate a new message had arrived on her number. She pulled it out once more and saw a message from Lewis.
Turning in the indicated direction, she flashed him a sheepish smile and said, " Hey there again. Well, I would say that we had really no choice in the matter, but I at least was already trying leave before Mis Tairee took us here, so, sorry anyway ... In anycase, after we are done with our business here, we will be off to find somewhere to spend the night. Wanna come with this us then?
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
As Plague Knight went up to the librarian's desk to ask for that phone like I'd suggested, I likewise went to Caro, who explained that she didn't really get the option anyway. "Oh, well that sucks. Well, Plague Knight over here invited me to stop by his lab while he fixes it up." I tapped the stout fellow. "Hey, you mind if these guys come with when you head back to your lab? They're looking for somewhere to camp out for the night."
i guess you can watch me shitpost i guess
feeling blue
Caro's phone began buzzing and she turned around, prompting Sans to do the same and see that Lewis had already caught up to them. He then suggested spending the night in bird face's lab which was a nice thought but not one he appreciated much.
"i think there are better places to sleep in than a lab, we could just go find an empty house or something," he rebutted.
edited 11th Mar '17 3:31:19 PM by FullMoon
Screw the Lion!
"No, of course not!" Plague Knight said to Lewis. "Though yes, sleeping area is limited to any open booths. And not considering the lab may still be a mess after it had been ransacked. Still though, you are all welcome to come tomorrow."
"Well before, I did it with reckless abandon. Now I can't control myself!" ~ Jesse Cox, 2014
Ciri lamented finding out about demons in the city and noted that Yael was lucky to be alive after cooperating with one "I doubt the demon was from your world but, yeah. Luckily we beat him but I'm still not sure exactly what happened"
Fortunately, she was used to killing monsters. Guess the city could always use some help.
"Welcome to the club"
She was interested in being able to send messages home and wanted to know how it was supposed to work.
"I hate to break it to you but we're all going to be trapped here for a couple of weeks. That's why I made the deal in the first place. It's going to last several days but you can call home tomorrow and every five days after that. I don't know exactly how but I'm sure Tairee is going to explain everything"
Ciri - Prison
"Tairee?" Ciri asked Rex. "Is he the Writer? I met a little boy earlier who was telling me that we were here at the whim of a writer working on a book, but otherwise the details were limited. I've only recently arrived so I'm not yet familiar with the intricacies of who is in charge and who resides in the city. What sort of deal are you refering to, though?"
THE SLORG!
"Yeah, that's what most people here do" Anna-Maria said to Lo Wang with a nod, and the two Annas moved to head outside and go looking for an empty building with him.
Meanwhile, Miss Tairee 1 looked at Sans with a slightly raised eyebrow after he mentioned Rex. "Well unfortunately for Rex, I don't deliver" Miss Tairee 1 said simply as she was still typing, the book and cds Caro requested appearing on the desk next to the bag of holding. "Those cds will work with Sans' laptop" the librarian informed them simply. Her computer beeped and she paused for a moment, looking at the screen.
Miss Tairee 1 then turned and looked at Caro directly, and shook her head. "I'm afraid I'm unable to provide the original, unaltered versions, so that isn't so simple" Miss Tairee informed Caro apologetically, idly tapping a few more keys to make a cell phone appear in front of Plague Knight. "Now unless you feel like dealing with an irate alien, I suggest you vacate the premises. As I must leave very shortly, and must free him before I do" the librarian told them, not bothering to motion at the bubbled Ghostfreak.
The other Miss Tairee walked up to the desks, guiding Tommy and Seirwuosuhr along each by a hand. "Sir Redring, may I ask you a favor? Would you please see these two children to somewhere safe to spend the night, and bring them back here in the morning?" Miss Tairee 2 asked him.
Sir Redring turned to her and looked at the children for a moment, then made a sort of salute with two tentacles. "By my honor madam!" Sir Redring declared.
"Thank you" Miss Tairee 2 said sincerely, and guided the two sleepy-looking children to him.
"You feel slimy" Tommy muttered, then yawned.
Miss Tairee waited about a minute to give them all a chance to leave the library, which Sir Redring quickly did with the two children. Then, she typed on her computer for a bit and then both of her vanished, the bubble containing Ghostfreak vanishing at the same time.
"I think we left them over here" the first Fanboy said, heading to one side of the lobby, behind the area with the replicators. "I'm Chuck; he's Connor" he answered Curly, then pointed out a pile of sleeping bags and pillows tucked away in a corner with an exclamation of, "ah, there!"
The lobby doors opened, and a couple more members of the Fanboys walked in; namely Calvin and Melanie, who seemed to be mid-conversation.
"Dang it, I should have made part of the deal that you let me do it again later!" Calvin said in mild frustration.
"What? Once wasn't enough for you?" Melanie asked, somewhat teasingly.
"I was too distracted thinking, 'oh God Jason's gonna come kill me any second and it's gonna really hurt'- and then he did, and it hurt worse than I thought it would!" Calvin complained, frowning as he added, "and you didn't die! You didn't even get hurt!"
"Hah! Well I did seem to be in some Final Destination shit after that, but I was smart enough to make it through the rest of the night" Melanie bragged, and grinned cheekily. "Maybe if you're really lucky, the city will contrive some new scenario that requires you to fondle my breasts later; but right now, you lose" she added, sticking her tongue out at him.
Only then did they look around and seem to notice that there were people besides other Fanboys in the lobby, though thankfully Silanea was still engrossed in the hug and didn't seem to care about their conversation. "Oh, uh, what's going on in here?" Calvin asked.
"We have a couple guests tonight" Chuck told them as he carried over a sleeping bag. He glanced at the still-ongoing hug and then added more quietly, "she's had a really rough day, so take it easy, alright? I'll explain later."
edited 11th Mar '17 6:33:49 PM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.
Happy Box Hater
Library
A lot of people were talking about a lot of things quicker than Lucas could put in his two cents on them. It was good that none of the things discussed required any clarifying questions on his part for him to understand what was going on, so he just filed away any information learned. What was important to him, though, was the matter of where they would sleep Lucas said to Sans "I agree... I don't want to be in any labs. I'll be fine with anywhere else, though."
And then he quickly departed after Ms. Tairee's warning, presumably staying with Sans, Caro, and whomever else might join them.
edited 11th Mar '17 6:57:14 PM by pillowmantis
Why is a yam attacking me?
For the Horde!
As soon as the bubble around Ghostfreak disappeared, he became visible once more, hissing in anger in the direction of the librarian's desk. He looked around. Everyone had been evacuated before he was set free. No doubt they were all afraid of his power. He seethed, looking straight at Miss Tairee's desk and flying over to it.
"Tairee... the librarian. You will pay for humiliating Zs'Skayr. Not today, not tomorrow, but soon." With that, he flew out of the library, entering the darkness that surrounded the library. The leathery outer skin sloughed off and Ghostfreak was now in his true form once more. He stretched his claws and hissed. "It is good to bask in the darkness once more...." he muttered to himself, moving out and turning invisible and intangible, moving to search the various houses for Ben.
He thought as he flew. The contest had been won and the robotic boy had granted the people of the City one opportunity per break day to speak with the outside world. Already wheels began to turn in his head, the perfect revenge against Tennyson, and he would only need to speak to his associate Dr. Vicktor, and his Loboan and Thep Khufan followers, to put his plan into motion...
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
Ciri came to the conclussion that Tairee was the writer's name given her talk with a kid in the city.
"No, Tairee is a woman. She's basically the actual writer's secretary and she's always at the library. She really likes books"
She also wanted to know what the challenge entailed. Guess there was no way of sugarcoating it.
"I agreed to a longer challenge than usual so everyone could send messages back home, which probably means I have to kill a giant monster or something. The writer get his kicks from watching us fight"
Library -> Anywhere else - Not much time for contemplation
"I think I will have to agree with Sans on that one. Thanks for the offer and we might indeed visit you later, but for now I think we will be searching for a house or hotel to sleep in," Caro said to Plague Knight and Lewis about the offer to spend the night in the former's lab.
So apparently they could only get the altered versions of the media about their worlds. Yeah, seemed like it really wasn't going to be easy to find out about this whole situation. She would have to piece the truth together by comparing what was in those cds to what she could remember, she guessed.
Miss Tairee then warned them that she was about to turn in for the night and that Ghostfreak was thus about to the freed from his punishment and they should leave before it happened. Quickly grabbing the book and cds and stashing into the bag, noticing that it seemed like no weight had been added to the latter as she then grabbed it in turn, she then hastily said to the library, "Alright we will be going then. Thanks for all of these and until later ... " then turning to Sans and Lucas, she quickly said, "Well, let's just get out of here ..." before rushing towards one of the doors, hopefully followed by them.
Once outside, she would continue to rush around, until a city shift then took them away from near the library, at which point she would more calmly look around for any signs of an empty house or any kind of open hotel.
edited 11th Mar '17 7:27:40 PM by JamesShields
Ciri - Prison
"It was a boon, then?" Ciri asked Rex. "Accept a contract on a beast, and be granted reprieve from one of the restrictions placed upon us?"She tapped her chin. "Why would he grant such a privilege to all the occupants, when you are the one required to fulfill the contract? It's the way of the world that the bounty only goes to those who complete the work."
"Wha?" Rick blinked as Yoshioka handed the wire cutters over to him, barely noticing her mangling of his name. Vague memories of something swirled around in his head. "Oh yeah. Right. Thanks. J-just lemme..." He held them up, pulled a length of something or other from out of a drawer, and resoundingly snipped it in two. "Awright. Yeah. Th-th-that'll really *urp* that- you came through for me. I guess."
Morty watched on, unimpressed. "I'm going to bed, Rick."
"Meh." Rick waved off his grandson and got back to work.
"Night."
"Night, Morty. D-don't *urp* don't turn into anything weird while I'm not looking."
It was at that moment that Abel called him over. Shooting a vaguely resentful glance at Rick, who was back to being completely engrossed in whatever the hell he as doing, Morty made his way over to Abel.
"Um. I-I guess? Yeah?" he responded to the boy's question.
edited 11th Mar '17 7:38:48 PM by Locoman
I think I'm a sofa
Abel - Rick's Lab - Literally the Plot of Every Show on Disney Channel Right Now
Morty didn't sound as trustworthy as Abel hoped, but he was better than the other guy. He glanced at Rick to make sure he wasn't looking, then turned back to Morty. He opened his mouth to say something, then changed his mind and closed it. "Never mind. Forget I said anything. Sorry for wasting your time." He stood straight, tightened his jacket, and calmly walked out the front door. It was shame that Abel couldn't trust Morty. He thought he could, but at the last second, he figured that was asking for too much. Nonetheless, he wasn't going to abandon the idea entirely. He found a nice alleyway tightly squeezed between two tall buildings near the lab and climbed over a dumpster. When the morning came, he was gonna go see Morty again. Maybe there was hope for him after all. He watched the building from a distance, and, eventually, he fell asleep.
edited 11th Mar '17 8:07:23 PM by ProTrash
(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?
Oh, did I say Yoshika? I meant Mailwoman Yoshika. Because after 2.5 days, a package to Mr. Sanchez was finally being delivered!
Hey, it's faster than the real post office!
She loudly said "Hi again, Mr. Nick," set down the bolt cutters on the nearest table, and added "Bye again, Mr. Nick," as she left as soon as she came.
And on the cutters was a neat little tag, with some very purdy-lookin' writing, saying "To Rick, this was far more trouble than it was worth. Next time we meet, don't ask us to fetch you something. -Seiga Kaku"
Today had been a very unorthodox day for Seiga Kaku. It probably would've gone a lot easier for everyone if she just commanded Yoshika to suck it up, but no, she decided she was going to try and calm an inconsolable jiangshi the old fashioned, non-magically assisted way.
That mostly meant eating out at buffets. Buffets that, after Yoshika was done with them, don't operate anymore.
It was a miracle that she spotted, after so much aimless milling about as she and Yoshika took a sightseeing tour of what might be the closest the City has to a "natural" state, the residence of that old man she had been trying to deliver tools to for 2.5 days. And, being crafty, she knew the only thing that could really get a jiangshi up and running was some good old commanding.
"I did it, Seigaaaa~" said our favorite rotting heroine, practically brimming with positive energy as she pranced out onto the street. Seiga nodded, and began her questionnaire of adequate service.
"So, then. Did you alert him to the delivery?"
"Yep!"
"You were polite, of course?"
"Yep!"
"You remembered Rick's name, right?"
Yoshika looked sideways for a moment, but concluded she must've. "Yep!"
"Okay, then, here you are." Another feature of Jiangshi is that, since they tend to adore you, you can give them any item willy-nilly and they'll cherish it till it's nothing but tatters and dust. Really, she remembered she gave a handkerchief she sneezed in to some poor soul once, and after locking him in a mausoleum for 200 years he was still clutching it tightly long after it had faded out of the material world.
Naturally, this little...she forgot the name, llama? Yes, llama doll should for last far less time with a Yoshika to keep at bay.
Yoshika ripped the little white plushie away from Seiga, and started rubbing it on her face like it was a bar of soap. Warm, cherished soap. While her polyester cleansing went on, she asked Seiga a question. "Now what? I think that's all we needed to do, Lady Seiga."
"The next day is a break day. You remember the time we visited the beach?"
"...No?"
"...The time I was drugged."
"...Yeeeaaaah..."