Organized Canine Bureau Special Agent
Gon
Gon went on to continue.
"I need to contact a woman in South Korea. Her name is Mogyeong Choi. Her life is in danger right now."
He then continued to explain.
"The last time I saw her, she was taken hostage by her boss in Ventura Holdings in Seoul. I have no idea where she is since I was about to go and save her."
edited 24th Mar '17 7:35:06 AM by Ominae
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
Ciri - Buffet
Ciri came to a halt outside of a building shaped like a large glass dome, tilting her chin up as she sniffed at the air. "Here," she said simply. "I think this will do."She approached the entrance and went into the building, observing those who were at the serving counters along the perimeter of the building, as well as those seated in the general area. It wasn't too difficult to see what was going on, but the entire concept of the buffet still fascinated her. It was almost like a feast, except you had to bring your plate to the food. She had to stifle a laugh at the idea of a noble back home being insulted at the idea of having to do the work of putting food on their plate instead of a servant doing it for you. The peasants would be an even more amusing sight, each of them trying to stuff their pockets as best they could. Although in this case, when she saw a man take a potato from the counter, a second potato appeared to replace the first, as if by magic.
"Yes," she said. "This will do indeed."
With that, she approached the counter and began to pile a plate high with sausages and waffles.
THE SLORG!
There was still nothing from Louie at all in response. After a bit, Thomas stepped in again. "Well, I d#n't know #or sure#about now,#but yeste#day he was #pset by th# way you#two gave #im patro#izing re#ponse# as if #reating#him#like#an idiot,#afte# what h# felt #as a legi#imate #uestion" Thomas' voice explained, still choppy. "#aybe t#at #hed# s#me l#gh# on wha#ever's bo#herin# him#now?" the young wizard's voice continued, though sounded admittedly uncertain.
Joseph opened his mouth about to respond to Ben, but then suddenly Melanie stepped over and spoke up first. "We're trying to cheer up the snake tits lady" Melanie told Ben.
Joseph slowly turned his head towards her with an expression of slightly dulled exasperation. "Didn't we tell you to stop referring to her as that?" Joseph reminded her quietly.
Melanie gave a playful shrug of her shoulders along with rolling her eyes slightly. "You know I mean it in good fun" Melanie muttered.
"So uh, yeah, the leader of the non-humans" Joseph corrected, turning his attention back to Ben. "We've been told she's rather in the dumps lately, and some of us just want to have a party because that's fun, so we're gonna get two birds stoned with one joint, so to speak" the Fanboy explained, motioning to the banner he was working on. Only the first half was really finished yet with a fancy flower pattern he was drawing in, while the latter half was still pencil outlining, and said, 'welcome Silanhia'.
"Hey, didn't we already tell you that's not how you spell her name?" Melanie cheekily pointed out to Joseph.
"Yeah yeah, it's just the outlining- I can still change it" Joseph responded with a dismissive wave of his hand. "So anyway uh, what were you saying? If it's about a movie, maybe we can help you out; give you synopsis rather than making you have to watch the whole thing" the Fanboy offered, then cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted into the lobby, "HEY! ANYBODY KNOW A FILM CALLED 'NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS'?!"
"Oh! Oh! I know that one! Pick me!" Melanie said, hopping up and down with one hand raised. "So there's like, magical worlds based on holidays, and the Halloween one is ruled by this skinny skeleton guy named Jack Skellington who's tired of doing Halloween all the time, and then he stumbles into the Christmas world and decides he wants to do Christmas, so then he does Christmas after kidnapping Santa Claus but it's terrible and nobody likes it, and he almost dies and Santa Claus almost gets eaten by a singing burlap sack filled with bugs, and then there's a happy ending as Jack learns to be happy sticking with Halloween" the Fangirl explained to Ben at length, speaking very quickly and seemingly not even pausing to take a breath until she finished.
Then after taking a big breath, she added, more calmly, "or something like that."
You are reading this.
For the Horde!
Ben pulled out the walkie talkie again. "Patronizing? What are you talking about? When was I patronizing Louie? What does patronizing even mean?" Ben sighed. "Look. I didn't mean to hurt his feelings if I said something. I don't even remember what I said last night, I just wanted to get out of that library so I didn't have to think about Ghostfreak anymore. I probably said something stupid. Ghostfreak... er, freaks me out," he explained.
After that, he kept the walkie talkie out in case Thomas spoke up again. He raised an eyebrow. They were apparently starting to set up a party for Silanea, the leader of the anti-humans. He suddenly felt very uncomfortable to be there, considering Silanea probably hated him now (if she didn't hate him before) because of what he said to her yesterday. He was about to say he should probably leave when Melanie popped up to try and explain the plot.
Ben blinked at Melanie's super-fast explanation, not even catching half of it because she was adding more and more details. Her bizarre summary of the plot wasn't helping. He stared at her and blinked for a moment. "Okay, you're gonna have to run that by me again... except slower. And making more sense," Ben replied.
edited 22nd Mar '17 11:00:19 PM by AllHailThrall
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
Still frowning, the young Eric glanced over to see who had spoken. Spotting Ara, his eyes widened slightly as his cheeks tinged pink. Then he realized what she said. "Wait, Jack isn't here? Where is he?"
Onwyn piped up from Ara's shoulders. "Flying! Looking for you."
Mary joined in herself, a cheeky grin on her face. "Yeah. And after he told you not to leave. I bet he's going to me maaaaad."
The boy frowned. "No he won't. But... I'm done so we can go find him anyway."
With the, all the focus turned to the oldest of the group. The children waiting for Ara to take lead.
Jack sighed sadly, staring at the girl sympathetically. He dropped to a crouch as she sat and shoved the book back at him. He slipped it quietly into his bag, not taking his eyes off Yoshika. He hated what he had to say next, to possibly darken those happy memories even more, but he'd feel worse if he didn't and something even worse happened.
The spirit reached forward and placed a gently hand on the girl's head. "People change. The woman you remember isn't the same one who is here in the city now. I don't know how or why, but... nothing I've seen so far has suggested the stuff we learn he is false. And... the book made it pretty clear the kind of person Seiga is." He looks down for a moment. "I... know you don't want to think about it. But... there's a chance that the person you knew was a lie, and this is who she always was."
He removed his hand, wrapping it around Twinetender. "Regardless, you can come to me for anything you need now, ok. I'll do what I can."
Then the spirit winced as he realized something. "But I don't think I can do anything right now, sorry. I have a bunch of kids to get to the library. And since I'm sure you came from there, I don't think you want to go back, right?" He glanced between Yoshika and Lucas.
edited 23rd Mar '17 12:58:14 AM by Alleydodger
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Eve|Library|Social Skills? What Social Skills?
Eve tilted her head, managing to make out the gist of Thomas' message. Louie felt..patronised? She tilted her head. Her response had been straightforward, not patronising. Safety was the only concern at that point. Everything else was purely secondary.
Ben, patronising means to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward someone. And my answer was entirely straightforward. Safety was the priority at that point.
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As the ride progressed, Arcade kept his eyes on the rest of the carnival. Watching the world spin, albeit slowly, and feeling the wind across his face actually did help, somewhat. When Sans started to speed the ride up, Arcade's inquisitive look broke out into a grin. It still wasn't as fast as he would've liked, but it was something.
edited 23rd Mar '17 7:32:54 AM by Skooter910
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
THE SLORG!
"Well #'m just #elayi#g what #e told me#about#how he fe#t. And ag#in, th#t wa# yester#ay. This #s prob#bly j#st misu#dersta#ding... I h#pe" Thomas' voice responded, though still choppy as usual.
"Can we get uh, translator for Melanie over here?" Joseph asked aloud before going back to his work on the banner. Chuck, still in his ugly Christmas themed sweater, walked over and listened, occasionally nodding and letting out simple noises like 'mhmm' as Melanie repeated the explanation again almost word for word. Then he looked at Ben and thought for a bit about what to parse.
"The guy that runs Halloween decides to give running Christmas a try; things go wrong, but he learns a lesson about being content with what he has and sticking with what he's good at. And there's a happy ending" Chuck explained simply to Ben, speaking normally and clearly, and sticking to what he interpreted as being the most important elements. "That seems to be the gist of it. Beyond that's just details; so will that be enough...? Actually I'm not clear here- why do you need a synopsis of this movie?" the Fanboy then went on, asking as it occurred to him that he had no idea why Ben was asking this in the first place.
You are reading this.
Jack o' Latern Ride - Spinning (sorta) out of control
As Caro sat down on one of the available seats, Fried landed on her lap, to be included in the experience as well. Once everyone got in and the door automatically closed, the whole thing started spinning, albeit a bit slowly. There was admitedly not much excitement yet, but then Sans found the lever in the center of the contraption and began spinning it, causing the whole thing to spin much faster as well.
Now that was more like it. With the wind and sensation of speed picking up more and more around, the little dragon began to screech a bit, while she now sported a grin and even started to laugh a bit in excitement.
edited 23rd Mar '17 7:44:06 AM by JamesShields
Ride ~ Around We Go
Fate just quietly sat down in the first available seat she came across, with Arf sitting right next to her. As the ride started, she looked around, as if unsure what to think of this.
Arf seemed interested for all of a couple moments before she immediately started to look bored.
"Still not seeing it," she commented, before glancing in the man's direction, "So, I don't think we got a name out of y-"
Then Sans started making the thing go faster and faster.
"-Oh, now I see it," Arf finished, perhaps not being heard over the sound of wind. Then she smirked. "This is more like it!"
Fate didn't quite seem to be enjoying herself as much. As the speed started picking up, she scrambled between holding on for dear life, keeping Bardiche from flying off her face, and keeping her pigtails from flying all over the place. All the while, she wore a wide-wided expression with something of a grimace. Clearly, she should have changed into her barrier jacket before getting on.
Icon by Civvi the Civilian!
I just want to help!
Cole didn't protest when Sans set him down inside the pumpkin...thing, while musing that this wasn't really like riding a horse at all. The others didn't look scared, so Cole just hung onto his bunny tight in both arms, looking around at the inside of the pumpkin...and then it started moving.
This clearly startled him, as he jumped in his seat, eyes going wide, but looking around at the others showed that none of them looked all that concerned. Sans and Arf even looked a little...bored. As much as Sans could look like anything with a pumpkin on his head.
Why did Sans have a pumpkin on his head.
Well this was novel, anyway. Sitting inside a room that moved. It was like the room that moved on the day where the world was gone, except this was much, much less scary, because Cole could still look outside and see the world. This wasn't so bad, then, just riding along on the ground. If this was what "rides" were, he thought he could handle rides.
Sans reached out towards a gear or crank of some sort in the middle of the ride, gripping it and turning it, and the pumpkin suddenly moved more, spinning about a little bit. That was strange. Was it supposed to do-
And then Sans grabbed the crank again and started turning it as fast as it looked like his hands could go, and the pumpkin started whipping around in circles, making him squeak and grab immediately at the person sitting next to him...a probably unfortunate-feeling Fate. He managed to loop one arm with her's, then just hugged it as tight as he could, while still hugging his rabbit, and hung on for dear life, eyes squeezed closed.
Though he did seem to be a little freaked out, he didn't scream or react otherwise, apparently just waiting it out as best he could.
feeling blue
Sans kept going at it for a while, the fact he could see that at most of the others were enjoying it making him even try to make it go a little faster.
Eventually the ride ended and Sans was the first to get off it, although he could barely make a step forward without falling over.
"man... that thing sure can go fast..."
After just about two steps forward, Sans tripped and landed on his face, or rather, mask. Finding himself in a rather unflattering position where the top half of his body was on the ground but his rear was raised up
"does anyone wanna go again?" He casually asked as if nothing happened
edited 23rd Mar '17 10:38:36 AM by FullMoon
I think I'm a sofa
Abel - Universe Buffet - MORE FOOD
"Oh, okay," Abel didn't know how to respond to this, so he just awkwardly fell behind the group as they entered the building. "Wait, what is this? I thought we were going on a riiiiiii..." he trailed off as he realized where he was standing.
He was inside a buffet. With food. Real food.
Just...food.
Abel had to resist making a bee line for the tables and scarfing down everything on it. He eyed the food the way a...dang it, he couldn't even think of a metaphor right now. He just stood there, mouth watering, thinking of ways to—ohmygodwerethoseCHICKENNUGGETS—
Abel forgot every respectful thing he ever learned and sprinted for the chicken nuggets, grabbing a plate on the way and shoveling nuggets into it. He ran towards the closest booth he could find and started eating like a starving wolf.
(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?
For the Horde!
Ben shrugged. "Well, if you can get a hold of him, please tell him I'm not... patronizing him or whatever Eve just said," he told Thomas over the walkie talkie, then glanced back at Chuck, who asked him why he needed this information.
"I'm trying to complete today's challenge. It said something about a king getting tired of his old post and wanting to run a different realm. And that if we convinced him to stick with his own realm we'd in win the reward that I'd like. My friend thought it sounded like this Jack Skellington dude I guess, cause he said I should watch that movie," he explained to them.
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
She stacked her plate high with something she remembered enjoying when she last had them, twenty years ago: noodles. Not one to be outdone by Ciri, she put literally nothing but a pile of noodles on her plate, matching Ciri's pile. Almost all of it would go to waste, but hey! It's infinite!
Seiga sidled up to Ciri, and pointed at her amassment of sausages. "Yes, quite impressive. I also enjoy such things, but today, I reach for the familiar. Now, what do you need pointed out about this city?"
She had a distinct desire to not think about the theories Jack had laid out about Seiga. Whatever could've driven a formerly kind person to do such a thing was unthinkable, and if she was always that vile, why did she act so different nowadays?
Assuming Jack had departed back for his other kids, it was Yoshika and Lucas now, sitting in the snow. A pause on Yoshika's part, but she eventually came up with some choice words. "Lucas, I didn't get to do anything that other time, because of the...you know, everything bad that happened on that day. But, I'm here now. While we try and see if we can do something...can we just do stuff? Normal people things?"
Arcade chuckled when he heard Cole squeak. The sensation of the ride mixed with the adorableness of Cole was starting to really wear the doctor down. He could enjoy himself in the moment and worry about his future later.
As the ride slowed to a stop, Arf's half-finished question reached Arcade and he smiled sheepishly. "Oh, right, I'm Arcade," he introduced himself, then he snarked, "and yes, I know it's unusual. I've heard that plenty of times."
He waited for the others to leave before him. He wasn't in the Wasteland, but he still preferred to follow(ha!). He looked over at Sans and snorted before answering, "I'd actually rather find something faster. Though I imagine there might be some resistance to that plan." He glanced at Fate and Cole with some sympathy, but not enough to distract from his own thrill-seeking desires.
edited 23rd Mar '17 8:44:53 PM by Skooter910
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."
Happy Box Hater
Streets
As Lucas returned to Jack and Yoshika, he realized that Yoshika was currently having a bit of a rant. Even having missed the beginning, Lucas pieced together that Yoshika had know Seiga before her death and, more disturbingly, had been killed by her. That... That wasn't something Lucas could believe had any sort of justification. The necromancy based enslavement was bad enough on its own, but mix in betrayal and it becomes a lot worse.
There wasn't much Lucas could think of saying. What could he say to make this better? Jack clearly had his own opinions on the matter, which Lucas mostly agreed with, but Lucas had the feeling that there might at least be some twisted sentimentality or affection or something in Seiga's attitude towards Yoshika, rather than a lack of true kindness from the moment Yoshika had met her. While it might have been a mere act, Lucas got some feeling of sincerity from the way he had seen Seiga talk to Yoshika. It didn't justify anything, but Lucas refused to jump to the conclusion that someone was just a monster, even if it meant seeing signs that might not be there. He didn't want to believe in another Porky.
"I... think we'll be alright on our own. Thanks for helping... see you later." Lucas said to Jack.
After Jack had left the two of them alone, Yoshika told Lucas that she wanted to try doing some normal things and take advantage of the day. To Lucas, this was a splendid idea. After a second, Lucas replied to her "Y-Yeah, that sounds like a good idea... do you have anything specific in mind or should we just walk around a bit and see what looks interesting?" Lucas would start walking along with Yoshika if she started going anywhere.
Why is a yam attacking me?
Ride -> Festive streets - Once the world stops spinning
Most of the others seemed to be enjoying the experience as well. Fate and Cole, not so much ... With the former's discomfort probably rising as the latter squealed and desperately latching onto her. At least it could be perhaps become a sort of bonding moment, maybe?
Sans decided to crank up the speed a little more towards the end. Then gradually, things started slowing down, until the contraption finally grinded to a halt. Sans was the first to exit, but it seemed that all the spinning had an effect on his balance, for no sooner had he step out than he ended falling down, into what most might a rather compromising position.
As soon as she got the chance, she made for the exit. However, she was rather cautious, gripping the side of the door as she stepped out and hold onto it a bit until she seemed to have regained balance. As for Fried, he was flying a bit erratically, so she had him land on her shoulder until he recovered a bit. He clearly still seemed rather unimpressed with the whole deal.
She then made it over to Sans, reaching out a hand if he was laid down and then trying to help him up. Whatever the case, she would then say, "Well, a few of us did seem to like it and we might not easily find this again if we leave, but there is so much else that we could do. In fact, with how this place goes, the possibilities could be practically limitless! So we probably should go try some others things."
edited 23rd Mar '17 8:13:13 PM by JamesShields
"Yup! And then you can come back for seconds-" Suddenly Abel rushed past. Curly paused to stare at the sight. "Uh, let's not do that though. ...When is the last time that kid ate?"
After a moment Curly shook her head slightly to remind herself what she was supposed to be doing then grabbed a plate and start browsing the options while keeping an eye out for something resembling the deer liver dish Silanea mentioned
2 Spooky 4 U
Kamina then got flung out of Gurren and landed on top of Lagann. Once Simon opened the dome of Lagann, he was face to face with a arching back fist. "Let's see you grit those teeth!" said Kamina as the powerful punch was released.
Simon got ready to take the hit, eyes close and face showing his displeasure at this, when everything stopped, including the wake-up hit from Kamina. The sounds of gunfire died, yelling and screaming no longer played out. Then the darkness came into their eyes and at some point, they couldn't see each other anymore. Simon was freaking out inside. What was the point of trying when Kamina wasn't with him?
Kamina was not as worried as Simon but he was still concerned about his little bro. Was Simon going to be ok without him?..........Yes, he would be. Simon's drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens after all!
Both of the two Spiral users could feel the cold and pressure of this starless night sky. Then just like that, the darkness parted and the two were blasted by a dual combo of light and sound that was equal to that of Enki's laser beam! They were not home anymore.
Kamina had red pants and sandles on, his wrappings on his forearm and stomach had a candy cane strip pattern on them, and his cape had white fur around the edge of it. His nodachi also gained this candy cane pattern. Overall, he looked like stripper Santa.
Simon's pants, shoes, and coat also changed to red, the wrappings on his stomach and lower legs gained the same candy cane pattern but the Core Drill, his googles, and the band on his arm also gained those same patterns. Simon almost in a way had a version of Kamina's new outfit.
The final thing to note is that Kamina was still throwing a full force punch at someone that was no longer currently on the same level as him while also doing so during a break day and being disoriented as all hell. The result? Kamina continued forward with his punch and his face to got to meet the balcony ground. Of course, it didn't hurt because of the no harm effect going on.
Kamina let out a long groan and said, "Simon, what just happened?"
Simon replied with a quiet, worried tone, "I have no idea bro and I don't like it. Do you think that the Beastmen did this?"
Kamina got back up and put his nodachi on his shoulder and gave Simon his normal confidant, fearless smirk. He couldn't let Simon think that anything was going wrong here! Kamina told Simon, "Those boozes!? Those guys couldn't figure out which one of our Gunmen is Gurren or Lagann even if we put name tags on the damn things! Asides," Kamina walks to the edge of the balcony with a proud swagger, "the mighty Kamina won't stop just because this could be some kind of trap by those furry bastards! Keep pressing forwards no matter what! That's how Team Dai-Gurren rolls!" Kamina then started running off in the direction of the City.
"Wait, Kamina. We don't have Gurren or Lagann here. We are weak without them." yelled out Simon to the departing Kamina.
"So? We don't need our Gunmen! We got fighting spirit!" and with that Kamina went out of Simon's sight and went on running.
Simon reached his hands out and then looked all around with a panicking face. He couldn't leave his bro's side! Simon ran after Kamina as he said loudly, "Hey, wait up for me bro!"
edited 23rd Mar '17 7:24:02 PM by LightToAll
Ciri - Buffet
"Just about everything," Ciri said to Seiga. "Or rather, everything that isn't contained in these writings I took from the library. Starting with what that is," she pointed at the noodles the necromancer had stacked up on her plate.Glancing around, she spotted Abel and pointed at him. "I know that boy, I met him yesterday," she told the other woman before walking over and setting her plate down at Abel's table and taking a seat.
"Hello again, Abel," she said to the boy, trying to get in a word before she started on her food. "I thought you were staying with your friend and his grandfather. Did you get separated?"
I think I'm a sofa
Abel - Universe Buffet - CHICKEN NUG
Ciri had caught Abel in a very awkward position. He froze with five chicken nuggets in his mouth, one hand reaching for more and the other down his jacket, presumably with nuggets. "Uh-uh," he mumbled, crumbs spraying out of his mouth. He chewed up the rest of the delicious poultry and cleared his throat. "I, uh, went with them." He pointed at Silanea and Rex and, if she looked that way, started taking chicken nuggets and feeding them to Rixis.
(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?
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Eve|Library|Hooray For Writer's Block!
Eve shook her head, not really understanding anything. Louie felt patronised? Why?
She was so bored. She was really bored. And the only people in the library she recognised were Thomas and Lewis. So she watched the eviction footage some more times, and took screenshots.
She was alone. She hated being alone. She hadn't realised it at first. But through she was happy to sit and read while life went on around her, she was only happy while people were there. When she was alone, she thought. About stuff. About what was happening. About what had happened. And she really didn't want to think about that right now. She couldn't afford to think about this right now.
But she ended up thinking about it anyway. About the situation with Ghostfreak, and how to deal with it. She already had plans. She already had a lot of plans. But no plan survived contact with the enemy, and she was...
...scared. She was scared. And she couldn't show it, and she couldn't let it affect her. She was lying through her teeth every single time she encountered Ghostfreak, simply becauseshe couldn't let her emotions affect the others. She was also really really fucking sick of being targeted because of who she chose to associate with. If someone wanted to kill her repeatedly, couldn't it, just once, be for something she did? Just once. Instead of it being for what she was, or who she was friends with? It wasn't her fault Ben had a crush on her.
Don't think about that now. Don't think about emotions she had only read about, and didn't really understand. Don't think about Creed, he's not a problem anymore. Don't think about the Doctor, just don't. Don't think about the operating table and the dolls and what Sven said and how he escaped when the Apostles fell and he's still out there with power over Tao and the WarpWorld and why was she thinking about this now?
Must've been because of the doll Ben handed her this morning. She had never really liked dolls, and that experience had only added to the hate. But back to the problem at hand. Which she also didn't want to think about. But she did anyway.
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Eve|Library|Ditched
Eve went to leave with Ben....but he left without her. Oh. She wasn't sure what to do with herself, really. She wandered aimlessly, feeling rather...unfettered. Sitting on a nearby couch, she pulled out her phone, rewatching the Ghostfreak eviction footage with something akin to glee.
Opening the radio app, she heard the end of Ben and Louie's conversation. Louie, what's wrong? she spoke into the phone's microphone.
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