Rick's Medieval Lab->Hamlet Nearby

Lune quietly followed the others for some food. She noticed Kieri was keeping an eye out for any hidden danger for the group. She thought that it was a sign of their friendship. She also listened to the conversation on stealing food between Kieri and the man cooking said food. Although stealing is wrong, times are tough in this strange city, and they're gonna need every advantage they can get right now.

The werewolf noted the presence of a giant floating strawberry and asked the appropriate question. This immediately caught Lune's attention and she looked at it with some confusion. Was this part of the city itself or is it something more?

"Eh?!"

edited 15th Jan '16 6:42:59 PM by josh6243

Hair of the Inu: City Outskirts

Koishi would probably have rectified her statement as "Really hungover", but the abrasive foreigner probably wouldn't appreciate it. Foreigner also stuck out to her a bit, there were barely any non-Japanese people in Gensokyo, and those that did live here had expansive mansions to ride out hangovers in. Foreigners lived, well in places that weren't anywhere near Gensokyo. Putting two and two slowly together, she felt a little knot in her stomach develop. Could she have really gotten so lost in the last minute or so that she somehow ended up outside the border?

"Oh, right..." the youkai said calmly, stepping back slowly to give the foreigner some space. "Sometimes I speak what's on my...mind...a little too easily." She performed a polite bow, and looked back up at him. "Hello, I'm Koishi," she said as she raised her hand for a traditional-style handshake. Foreigners love handshakes. "Do you know where we are?"

edited 15th Jan '16 6:43:44 PM by wikkit

The Forest

Closed eyelids twitched for a moment, their owner regretfully coming out of the depths of slumber with a few half-hearted grumbles even as consciousness returned to the bleary teenager. Upon fully opening them, one Ranma Saotome saw the bewildering scene of a forest, one that didn't look like it belonged in Japan at all A frown instantly flitted upon her youthful face with irateness following even as the grogginess was broken through like hard sunshine shearing through dispersing fog.

Easily flipping onto her feet from her prone position, the high school student then reached out to pinch her arms, wincing at the pain that was felt. "So I'm not dreaming... This means I was kidnapped. Again." Feeling herself to see if anything was out of the ordinary, Ranma's frown deepened once more as she found that instead of her more comfortable clothes, she was wearing a green dress with various frills and other girly decorations embroidered upon it.◊ Her backpack with all its supplies weren't around either, though what looked like a leather haversack could be seen holding various things that corresponded with her own supplies such as a leather canteen that replaced her thermos and more dresses that replaced her training gis.

Pinching the bridge of her nose in even more annoyance, the currently female martial artist took a deep breath before exhaling to calm herself down. When her eyes opened once again, confusion was replaced with a steely determination. "Right, time to find out what the heck is going on." Moving about the forest with a keen eye, she picked a path that looked like more people traveled upon the trails and headed into that direction.

Despite looking like a prim little lady, she was hopping about on branches of the trees with a nimbleness that monkeys and ninjas might envy. And then a really conspicuous sound attracted her attention like a magnet. Something about transformations and strawberries? Perching herself atop one of the lower hanging branches of a tree in a crouched position, the girl tilted her head to one side as interest replaced irritation. "Yo, ya know where we are, Mr. Sentai?" Seeing as the person looked rather flustered, she doubt he knew.

edited 15th Jan '16 8:09:16 PM by Makaioh

"Huh," nodded Morty as he listened to both Sadness and Cole explain their abilities. Both of them seemed like "You know, those a-abilities might come in handy, huh?"

"Yeah, they might be able, to, I dunno, make a monster commit suicide or something." Rick had started pushing his way back into the forest... only to find that the path they'd been travelling along before was gone, a victim of the ever-chaotic layout. "Great," mumbled Rick. "Morty, just *urp* just keep going in a straight line until we either hit my lab or we fall off the edge."

"Rick, that's not what I meant. I mean... I know that-" Morty looked back to the duo, then back at his grandfather, then back to the duo, before sheepishly waving at them and hurrying after Rick. "Uh... see you guys later!" he called.

"Morty, you can get together with your friends later and, and *urp* wo*URP*rk through aaaaaaaaaaall your emotional problems later." Rick rubbed his forehead and kept pushing his way through the woods. "I gotta get rid of this hangover and then build some... shit in case that Marcus guy shows up."

"Rick-"

"Morty, I'm working with 16th century technology here! It's not- it's not gonna be an easy day. I don't have time to listen to all your complaints."

edited 15th Jan '16 8:42:22 PM by Locoman

Darth Marr shook his head as Peridot and Ben started to argue with insults, this is just like having to deal with two backstabbing Sith wanting to gain power for themselves..

"I shall not put my weapon down...and you two should stop acting like petulant children right now!"

-Spider Lizard Noises-

The forest path

Ben frowned, dropping the stick and crossing his arms. Spoilsport, he thought. "Fine," he sighed. There was no arguing with a guy who was holding a laser sword a foot or two away from you, after all. He looked back up at Peridot. "So what's your deal? You some kind of alien?" he asked Peridot. "You remind me of one of my aliens. You know a bounty hunter with a hoverboard?" he asked, tilting his head slightly.

I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.

The forest, somewhere near Pk's pub — Meeting the strangers

While waiting for an answer, Rex overheard a guy yelling that he wasn't drunk. Was it Rick? He looked to one of the trees and saw a hooded guy yelling at a girl.

He called the kinghts' attention to what was going on "Hey guys, check it out. Do you think she needs help?"

He walked up to where Trevor and Koishi were until he was a few meters away from them.

"Is everything alright, guys?"

The Forest

"We may as well go see. Heaven knows we haven't met enough drunks...", Specter Knight half sarcastically replied to Rex, "although it may not be a bad idea to help that girl."

edited 15th Jan '16 9:51:35 PM by astrokitty

Somebody once told me the world was macaroni, I took a bite out of a tree

"Not far," Plague Knight said to Rex, slightly disappointed Spectre Knight preemptively curbed his suggestion. "In fact, here we are!" he said, heading towards the entrance of the pub, which had now went from a modern 21st century restaurant to an actual medieval pub. "I admit, that the set up I have is rather makeshift, but this is merely a temporary facility until my request for a version of my laboratories back home has been fully submitted."

He reached for the door and opened. As he did, he noticed Rex pointing out to something. "Wait, what was that about - "

He noticed Agarth. However, thanks to the armor the warrior wore, Plague Knight did not recognize him, thinking him to be yet another citizen. "Sir, while I appreciate you not refriaining from touching any of my experiments, I would appreciate if you just consult with me on what to take - "

That was when he noticed the hornet and the plant.

He gasped.

Ignoring Agarth, he ran over to the where the two creatures were. "The flower has already attracted a pollinating host? Without any apparent source of lifeorms within this facility? Most peculiar.....perhaps a creature managed to get inside two days ago and survived the intense cold the day prior? Or maybe there was a larva incubating within the flower already? The latter holds water, considering the gelatinous state of the insect....."

He turned to the plant monster. "And this....is that occular tissue?!" he cried out, gently poking at the plant creature. "If this is the young of that plant monster we vanquished two days past, then its young has either starting evolving with some sort of defense mechanism from its parent's defeat, or are the eyes merely an early stage in its develop? So much to write down....."

The alchemist then went over to the part of the bar were he kept his notes and started taking down new ones on any fresh sheets of paper he could find, completely forgetting the events transpiring just outside.

edited 15th Jan '16 10:09:59 PM by UdtheImp

"Well before, I did it with reckless abandon. Now I can't control myself!" ~ Jesse Cox, 2014

City Outskirts

Trevor pressed the heel of his hand against his forehead for a brief moment, letting out a frustrated groan. Innocent girl, probably not the one who made him wear this costume, relax. He managed to restrain a fraction of his rage, just so he wouldn't assault this girl for no reason at all. If nothing else, he respected the ladies. He didn't exactly respond to her attempt at friendliness, pacing a few steps away from her and back. "Koishi, what, wh-what kinda name is that, huh? Japanese? How come a little blonde gal like yourself is using a Japanese name?" It was an odd change of topic, but it was something he could at least focus on.

Or rather, he was hoping he could focus on it. Out of the not-forest came another group, which obviously attracted Trevor's attention. A person who looked suspiciously like Death itself, and...a clown. He didn't have the red nose or the cheap makeup, but that ridiculous getup couldn't have come from anything else. Now things made even less sense, and shockingly, things not making sense got Trevor a bit mad. "Oh yeeeah, everything's just peachy! Nothin' like waking up on the edge of some ledge with a paper-maché forest on one side and an unsurvivable drop on the other. Not to mention running into a couple of costumed freaks who think it's perfectly okay to just interrupt someone in the middle of their conversation!"

"Well, I remember my hair not being blonde, to be honest." She hung her head down and pulled at a longer strand, bringing it up to inspection. "Yes. Not blonde at all." She was interrupted with the sudden appearance of one very imposing figure, and one absolutely not-imposing one. The tall one was honestly a bit unsettling, especially with the big blade that reminded Koishi of a certain Ferrywoman, but it was entirely defused by the boy and his ridiculous garb. If she was in less polite company, she would fall over laughing at the juxtaposition the two created. She struggled to stifle the merriment for a moment, and managed to get out, "No, no, I'm just confused, but I think he needs to go to sleep or something..."

"I mean, of course it's a Japanese name," she said to Trevor, tilting her head in puzzlement. "Why's that so weird? You're speaking Japanese too."

Kouta couldn't hear what the group was saying, but he could tell from the body language of the kid that he could handle himself... probably. He was more akin to a Sentai fanboy, posing like his watch was a wrist-worn device that allowed him to transform.

Forget letting the White Armored Rider or Yggdrasil know where he is. He has to save him. He put the Lockseed onto his Sengoku Driver and locked it in.

LOCK ON!

To his surprise, instead of a Japanese horn, he instead heard his rival's signature bombastic trumpeting. Rather loud... If he wanted the element of surprise, he would lose it really fast. He has to cut the Lockseed now.

"Yo, ya know where we are, Mr. Sentai?"

Then a literal redhead woman made him jump and land on the ground. Conversely, the giant strawberry lopsided to the point where it almost touched the ground, though still keeping parallel to Kouta's head if and when he cuts the Lockseed.

"I-I-I don't know!" Kouta's train of thought had been derailed by Ranma's interference. Bits of the branches in the bushes scratched up his undersuit and skin, though they haven't punctured any to procure blood. He now wasn't so focused on transforming so much as figuring out where he is. He knows he wasn't in Helheim Forest from the Armor Part forming, but other than that, he had no clue.

All while the trumpeting was still playing.

edited 16th Jan '16 5:33:18 AM by Psyga315

Mary (Library) - She's Not Okay

"...okay?"

Physically, Mary seemed to be perfectly fine, even with the cut on her lip. However, the way her mouth was curling up into an unusually wide grin could be interpreted as a sign that something might be wrong.

"Are you okay?"

Very wrong.

"Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Are you okaaaaaaaaaay?"

"Ohohohohohohohohoooo!"

Despite her recent experience running with those clothes, the fabricated girl did not even consider the possibility of tripping again when she decided to try and bolt out of the library, laughing loudly all the time with her eyes as wide as plates. She didn't even grab her bag; she just... started running without looking back at all.

edited 16th Jan '16 6:34:04 AM by Katarsus

Library

Neither of the women seemed to pay Asgore much attention, but as Mary started talking, they both glanced over at the back of her head. When she suddenly bolted for it, both women were shocked, but Miss Tairee seemed especially upset. "No, wait! NOO!" Miss Tairee had started to move forward, dropping the broken quill on the floor, but had only taken a few steps by the time Mary was already out the door; Miss Tairee then fell to her knees and punched the floor. The woman from the ice tunneling group, already starting to move after Mary herself, slowed slightly to glance back with a confused expression.

"The hell is her problem..?" the woman muttered, then turned her head back and got to running at full speed after Mary.

Miss Tairee took a few deep breaths, then punched the floor again. "DAMN IT!" And then again. "DAMN IT!" Her knuckles were bleeding, but she didn't seem to notice or care. Tears were starting to run down her face.

---

Plague Knight's pub lab

The seedling swayed back a little as Plague Knight poked it, and shook itself a little after he had stopped. It watched him go over to where his notes were, then hopped out of the pot onto the floor to follow behind him, continuing to just watch what he was doing. The hornet stayed by the flower, glancing back and forth from Plague Knight to Agarth.

---

Hamlet near Rick's lab

As the giant strawberry seemed to... Tumble around? Among the trees in the distance, there was a clear and obvious trumpeting noise starting to come from that direction too. "And now there's trumpets? Do we even want to know?" the werewolf muttered, watching the strawberry in fascination.

"It could be some kind of dangerous monster, or a trap" the man cooking the meat said, then after a moment of ponder admitted, "or it could be nothing."

You are reading this.

The forest path

Ben blinked in confusion, hearing the trumpeting coming from the distance.

"What...?" he asked, suddenly losing interest in his confrontation with Peridot and instead moving to behind the trees. He would attempt to get a good look at whatever was making the noise. As he did so, he tried to also keep an eye on Peridot in case the alien attempted to ambush him or something.

When he managed to peek out, he saw what looked like an older Japanese boy and a pretty redheaded girl in a dress.... and a giant strawberry??

"Whoa, what's going on here?" he asked, so confused that he didn't even notice the Omnitrix chime and turn green.

I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.

Outside the pub

The guy may not be Rick but he still sounded like an angry drunk. The girl reminded Rex of Alice (where was she anyway?) and she insisted that he and Specter Knight were speaking Japanese.

"Oh, you guys are new? I'll put you up to date. We are stranded in this city to inspire some sort of god up there, we reappear somewhere else if we die, and every day something crazy happens. Today it changes our clothes and machines are turned into golems"

Maybe throwing all that information on a pair of new characters was not the best move, but he figured he would want to know right away what was going on if he were in their place.

"So, uh, enjoy your newfound immortality or something. And, about the language, I'm pretty sure I'm speaking English"

edited 1st Feb '16 5:03:40 PM by DeisTheAlcano

The Forest

With Rex's comment about their new-found immortality, Specter Knight was reminded that he couldn't accurately refer to other people as mortals anymore. Disappointing, but he'd still use the term occasionally. As for the fact that to the girl, they were speaking some other language, he had a good idea of why that was.

He turned to Rex. "Perhaps the entity that created this place and brought us here has also made it so we could understand each other..."

edited 16th Jan '16 1:08:12 PM by astrokitty

Somebody once told me the world was macaroni, I took a bite out of a tree

...What? Peridot said. "a bounty hunter with a hover board?" What's a hoverboard? Then she turned to Darth Marr. Now listen. I have no idea what I'm doing here, and it would help if you put that...thing down!

(holds pool noodle threateningly) Do you want to know what we do to artists?

City Outskirts (also apparently outside the pub)

Somehow I thought Koishi had blonde hair, even though I looked at the picture of her a couple of times before I posted. Whoops.

Well this was going nowhere. The more questions Trevor asked and the more people showed up, the more gibberish they began to say. Though all the weirdness that's been going on has made him connect a couple of dots; the costumes, the insane talk of gods, bringing in newcomers from apparently nowhere. It was a long shot, but it was the only one that Trevor could understand.

"Ohh, yeah, I get it. This is all some freaky cult that likes to kidnap people and force their ways on them, mind-washing them to fit their little society. I see it all the time." He shook his head to help clear his thoughts, glancing around them again. "But ah, I make it a point not to conform to anyone, so, if you'll excuse me." Trevor started forward past Rex, clapping him on the shoulder as he passed. "Wish ya luck."

The Forest

"Ah, sorry man." Wincing at how surprised he was and remembering that normal(ish) people tended to freak out when they hear things above their heads, the girl adroitly tumbled down and landed with the (ironic) grace of a cat landing on its paws. Hustling on over to where Kouta was, she held out a hand with a very sheepish look on her face. "So uh... you like strawberries and trumpets, eh?"

Glancing on over to where a newly arrived boy with occidental features was looking confused, Ranma only got more self-conscious and coughed a few times into her hand to hide her embarrassed blush. "Ah, I surprised Mr. Sentai here from whatever it was he was doing so now it's kinda behaving like a car alarm. Don't suppose ya know where we are, boyo?" The pigtailed girl asked with a hopeful tone, thinking Ben to be a local.

Library

Asgore stared in shock as Mary seemed to lose her sanity and run out of the library, the woman following after her. Seeing Miss Tairee's state, he figured he should do something about it since the other woman was already going to deal with Mary.

"Are you all right?" said Asgore, grimacing a little at the blood coming from her knuckles and taking notice of the tears "You do not want to do any of this, do you?"

Kieri nodded at the explanation given by the one bringing the food and started to eat the bread in her hands. She smiled before taking another bite, happy to have some food in his belly. The Angel was so hungry that she was starting to see things, such as giant strawberries. Because clearly that wasn't real. Right?

Kieri blinked a few times. The strawberry wasn't going away as she ate. That...That was real. How it was, she wasn't sure. "M-Maybe we c-can investigate it later," she suggested, the scent of meat wafting up into her nose "after w-we eat."

An idea suddenly hit the Angel and she turned towards Grimlock. The autobot turned dragon still fascinated her, but now for a different reason. He had been purely mechanical before, without the taste of food organics had, but now... "Y-You know," she said to him "you do h-have a n-new body now. I don't know w-whether we'll find any energon, b-but maybe your n-new body gives y-you new tastes? D-Does that m-make any sense?"

That is all there is to say, and I will say no more.

The Forest

Specter Knight glared at the man. So this lowlife believed he had been kidnapped by a cult? Well, he certainly was spot-on with the 'kidnapped' part. Specter Knight teleported near him, and spoke coldly.

"Believing that you're still in your own reality will only help you so much, mortal. I know nothing of where you're from, but I can guess that you'll see something completely alien to it soon enough."

edited 16th Jan '16 8:04:21 PM by astrokitty

Somebody once told me the world was macaroni, I took a bite out of a tree

The forest

Ben shook his head solemnly, trying to ignore the oddity that was the trumpets and the strawberry. "Nope, I have no idea where we are," he muttered. "This city keeps moving around. From what I've learned, some reality-warping guy captured a whole bunch of us from a billion different worlds, and now we're supposed to "inspire" him or whatever that means. This stupid city keeps changing too, cause yesterday it was a frozen wasteland and now it's fairy tale forest land or whatever. That's why we're dressed up like this," he explained, realizing he was probably sounding insane.

"Whatever. Point is, it's gonna be really hard to get out of here. But we can't work together if we don't know each other. My name's Ben Tennyson! I'm a hero!" he exclaimed with a grin and offering his hand to shake to her.

edited 16th Jan '16 7:55:19 PM by AllHailThrall

I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.

In front of Library

After a good two or three minutes of walking, Crono squats down and takes a breather. The armor, he felt, was actually kinda heavy; even the armor he received in the future was lighter than this. What's more, he hadn't had the chance to think about it until now, but he could feel something else underneath the armor. It was making him itch a little. He'll have to look at it later.

Quickly checking his location, he stands back up and sees the library to his left. Curious, Crono decides to step inside, pushing open the doors...