Tropers: The Series

The bottle is closed.

"Well, at least I still have this."

TropesForever pulls out a large piece of paper and unfolds it.

Booing from the studio audience

"I made us a logo! What do you guys think?"

Zack throws bottles at random people "Jarate!"

"Hey, all we have to do is learn a lesson, and status quo will get us out of here for the next episode."

Days in the future, but not many...

The Awakened Paladin is bored. He has walked down generic roads and driven generic cars, and he is still stuck on a generic street corner. There isn't any such thing as a "generic exit to a city" to take to some probably very generic suburbs, so he waits. And nothing happens. Obviously.

The present

"So, anyone want to play chess? This bottle is boring."

edited 8th Jul '17 5:12:31 PM by ZeroL

"Nah I have no idea how to play"

We learned that bottles are bad.

Episode 13: The Unlucky Episode

OOC: Orange text doesn't work here, sorry.

edited 8th Jul '17 8:04:30 PM by TalesofUnder

"So, I'm building a new robot!"

" No, you're not."

DirkLBot drives his sword through the frame of a potential new cast member.

"Maybe I'm the one who realized this because it's the same mistake the original Dirk made, but copying ourself into all of the robots won't make things easier. It only makes it more complicated. You introduced lil' Pete episodes ago, and neither of him have done anything yet. We need to start being more-"

"Were you about to say "responsible?" Because that's Cerebus Syndrome material. Sure, I'm using Dirk as a bit of a role model here, but I'm not going to Wangst like him. I really don't get how you could change so much over this short amount of time, DLB. Besides, we need a punchline, because this discussion is too serious."

"You want a punchline? Fine. Here you go."

He punches me in the face.

"Maybe that'll get you to get over yourself, and start listening to yourselves for once."

He stomps off.

Days in the future, but not many...

AP figures out how to use a generic subway, and jumped out a generic window to get to a generic cave. He looks around, is attacked by some generic cave bat enemies, and hits them all with a giant sword slice, triggering generic Critical Existence Failure.

He ponders whether this is real somehow, or just symbolic. He decides that it's okay if it's symbolic, because it means that it will still have the real consequences he hopes for if he accomplishes...

He can't decide what he's trying to accomplish. He shrugs, and finds a generic dungeon to go grind in.

In the present

Two AIs in glasses are communicating over wifi. They're using binary, but it translates well enough into English.

Lil' Pete 1: Why isn't this post very funny? For Zero's mention of Cerebus Syndrome, he doesn't seem to be fighting it too hard.

LP2: I'm wondering what the days in the future thing is! Is it canon? Is it random?

LP1: Since it's in the future, we shouldn't know about it! Anyway, you up for chess?

2: Tie in 612 moves. Also, why are our script names shortening?

1: "script names?" Is that the best name you have for them?

2: I guess. I would look on Wikipedia, except that I don't have AI glasses to tell to do that, and it would be stupid to do it for myself. I mean, who would pay me?

1: We're not getting paid.

2: Oh, right. We're products.

1: No, I was thinking along the line of original characters.

edited 8th Jul '17 8:13:26 PM by ZeroL

"This has something to do with Homestuck. Or Undertale. Definitely one of them, I'm sure."

"orange" doesn't work for colour markup, you want "cinnamon".

edited 8th Jul '17 8:06:08 PM by TropesForever

"I think he's just an OC."

Buddy puts an image of eyes onto to screen in his front, and makes them roll.

"And, of course, he'll get shoehorned into the main plot eventually. That's just like real troper me, trying to cram as many characters into one game as possible. At least we're not all appearing in every post."

Days in-

"No! We need a break from having so many of me/you/us! No robo-me, lil' Pete, DLB, or days in the future for the rest of the episode!"

Days In

"I agree" comes out from a shaggy, haggard hermit Taco, still living in the bottle. "You all produce so much noise!"

"NOISE" screams Penroses.

He has a bunch of bottles with ships in his hands. "Hey guys some random person that's probably an unpaid actor gave me all these ships in bottles"

"Are we still in the bottle? What about the cult?"

"Either the cult has destroyed itself, or we'll have to deal with it later. Either way, I'm concerned about Sam."

Buddy finishes painting himself blue.

"Now we should be easier to tell apart."

"I can't wait until I get to decide an episode title!" Penroses the urn says excitedly.

Hermit Taco from the bottle supports Pen. "I can't wait till the urn gets to name an episode!"

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!"

I smash the bottle with a.baseball bat.

"All right, guys, let's get back so we can finish the episode."

edited 10th Jul '17 3:21:45 AM by ZeroL

"the bottle is dead..." Penroses the urn whispers. "Okay, let's go!"

Meanwhile, I'm playing a humorous version of Call of Cthulhu with Taco Badger.

"Okay, you can only kick someone in the nuts so many times before it's a SAN check for you."

I make a sanity check attempting to comprehend the current plot, and fail. Tentacled horrors dance in front of my eyes, until one talks to me.

"   Hi! I'm Cthulhy!   "

"Nice to meet you! I'm-"

"No. More. New. OCs. I've met with DLB, and we need to stop churning out the characters."

edited 10th Jul '17 7:34:11 PM by ZeroL

Suddenly, a large 27 with limbs and a face walks up.

"Hi! I'm the number 27! Do you wanna go on a ma—"

"NO MORE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS." Penroses the urn shouts.

"But I'm not an original character! I'm the number 27!"

"Please leave."

"Can do!" 27 explodes.

Taco, whose bottle was smashed, plays the game. "I will keep kicking till my leg falls off!"

Gangrenous F, the original OC, steps in with a machine gun, and starts firing wildly at the unwelcome OCs.

edited 10th Jul '17 7:41:41 PM by TacoBadger

"Ok. The Cthulhu impersonator hits you in the brain with a fake tentacle, -1 INT."

(Can you tell I haven't played Call of Cthulhu?)

edited 10th Jul '17 7:43:03 PM by TalesofUnder