Mario & Luigi-Now You're Playing With Power (Ups)-Okinoka
Luigi watched his hands go translicent in awe, alternating between looking at his palms and the back of his now see through hand. He could admit, even with how used to power ups he was getting what with loving in the Mushroom Kingdom, he was still filled with a sense of awe everytime he used one. There were just so many crazy powers you could get! You could get the Abilities of a cat, shoot fireballs, become a racoon (who can fly for some reason? Luigi was pretty sure the suit was supposed to be a tanooki, but everyone kept calling it a racoon suit, so what did he know?), not to mention the incredible rush of strength and power from that super star! With a proper powerup, why, Luigi felt he could almost be as brave as Mario!
Speaking of...
"M-Mario!" Luigi shouted in a panic, making to grab his big brother's arms before he floated off like an actual baloon-only for his arms to pass right through Mario's, like he was some kinda ghost (a simile Luigi really did not appreciate).
"Dont worry, Lu! This is perfect!" Mario shouted down in a tone of voice that suggested Mario really was happy with this development. So much for Chara's barbed comment finding any purchase-a lot like Luigi's intangible hand, really.
"It is!?" Luigi asked, highly doubting it.
"Yeah!" Mario continued, confidently, rising higher into the sky. "Like this, I can act a as our eye in tha sky! I'll stick to the rooftops and keep an eye out from up there! If anyone spots me, they'll think I'm just parta tha parade decorations!"
"O-okay! And I'll uh....find a place to hide, I guess? Maybe phase through things to get a betta look from the ground?"
"Yeah! Great idea, bro! Ooh, and be sure ta take the Block wit' ya!" And with that compliment and suggestion, Mario floated over the rooftops, towards the main road. Luigi (miraculously given his power up) grabbed the question mark block and booked it alongside the others to the main road.
From his position in the air, it was easy for Mario to track Luigi, Joey, Chara, Sora's and Beppo's path to the main road. Floating to a new position just over one of the rooftops near their new position, he prepared to keep watch over the proceedings.
Meanwhile, back on the ground, Luigi listened to everyone else planing what to do about this evil parade guard (and marveling at Joey just straight up using his cards to summon a guy, he had NOT been expecting that), before his expression took on a look that was both somehow nervous AND excited.
"O-ooh, I know!" He started in a conspiratorial whisper. "So it looks like dis guard is pretty focused on making sure everything is as picture perfect as possible for tha parade, right? Maybe I could use my power up to, ehheh, discreetly mess wit tha parade decorations so he comes back dis way? Y'know, lead him back to youse guys with a bread crum trail of ruined decorations?"
Once again dazed by the speedy transport back to her own home (on foot, no less!) Uriko dipped her head in thanks to Kanami as she went inside. "That might be wise, yes. Though you can probably stay by the foot of the stairs- we don't exactly have many walls in this house."
Up the stairs, she went, over to her bed and the trunk containing her dresses. "...Kanami-san?" she called to her escort, "What did you mean when you asked those strangers if they were from another universe? I mean, surely the universe encompasses everything, otherwise what's the point of the name?"
As the two parties conversed, Miss Toriyama emerged from a nearby avenue. Spotting Yuri and Hiroto, she quickly hurried over. "Hello, boys. Looks like you had better luck than me at finding a soul in this town. Who are these extravagantly dressed folks?"
Tosanjin took a candle from Iori and looked it over perplexedly. "Trust is a thing to be earned, woman," he said, in his usual curt manner, "Much like the respect of a samurai. What is the purpose of these candles? Not black magic, I trust?"
Beppo leaned in close to catch Luigi's whispering. "Ooo, mischief," he said with a nod. "I like this plan. All in favour?"
Meanwhile, bopping up above, Mario managed to spot the inbound parade. First came the hornblowers on horseback, red-faced from blowing, then a little man with a gong to strike. Then a crowd of black-garbed guardsmen came, cracking whips to keep the onlookers in line. All this before the throng of attendants tossing petals on the road.
Then came the centrepiece of the whole thing, almost obscured entirely in a cloud of paper dragons and- lucky for Mario -giant balloons shaped like cuddly qilin. Guardsmen riding warhorses surrounded a grand palanquin of black and gold floral patterns. In front of it rode men in colourful robes and tall black hats, who could only have been the Lord of Ashihara- a close relation of the Emperor -and his son the Crown Prince and groom-to-be.
Behind all this, trailing faaaar at the back, was a meagre and mouldy donkey-drawn cart where a group of peasants sat huddled and packed close together as they road along.
And a Strange Figure Emerges.Ōwada Anchorage - Hiroto Kuga
Hiroto notices Toriyama-san's approach, and gently waves to her before answering.
"Toriyama-san. These guys said something about crashing a wedding. And we actually heard from the docks that, uh, the procession is moving on schedule. I think they're implying that the wedding they're trying to crash actually had the shapeshifter take the actual bride's place."
...Okay, that's a lot to unpack there.
"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."Okinoka
"Aye." Chara muttered in response to Beppo, gazing at the incoming parade with a gaze that was trying to be neutral. It wasn't entirely successful, as even this grumpy kid was showing on his face that what he saw wasn't right in his opinion.
"What do you propose we do when we get the guard cornered? I'm not much for interrogation. One of you would need to step in for that."
Proud member of the AGOG community.Owada Anchorage
“I’m afraid your guess is as good as mine, Donna…and it’s a pleasure, Dave. Yugi Muto.”
But his attention gets taken elsewhere…
“Miss Toriyama…?”
{…This could be a trick.}
“…Miss Toriyama, a question - what is something you can see, but cannot see?”
Yami Yugi shoots a stern look at Hiroto, as if trying to tell him something.
Okinoka
Joey cracks his knuckles.
“If ‘dis guy’s crooked like you guys say, ‘den I got a perfect idea. Just lemme knock da info outta him.”
This post is sponsored by Amalgam Comics.Uriko's House
"Well, Uriko-chan, there's a theory that says there's a thing called the 'multiverse', which you can think of as many different universes, each existing inside its own separate bubble," Kanami began explaining as her voice carried easily up the stairs, happy to educate her new friend on the subject. "Each universe is different from the next, and some may even have different rules of reality than the one we know. One day, I was living my usual life, when I found out that the multiverse theory was true! And that's because until about a year ago, I used to live in a very different universe than the one you know.
"Many things that are taken for granted on Foteinigi were merely subjects of myth and legend on my home planet, which was named Earth. There were no creatures on the level of human intelligence aside from humans, spirits and demons like Youkai weren't real, and magic didn't exist. Then, one night, I was suddenly enveloped by a bright light, and found myself a ways over the sea from here, in the capital of the United States of Atlantis. From there, I made my way here, partly because Onogoro-Shima is the closest in culture to my original home country. There were other differences too, of course, but those are the basics. And it seems like the various unusual people we've met today also come from different universes! Pretty unbelievable, right? But it's the truth!"
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.Superwoman - Some headway, maybe
Donna watches as this new person approaches and conversates with the spiky-haired sponge-man. She was right on the money: Something was happening.
"Donna Troy. Charmed." She says, content to see where this "Toriyama" and the spike-machine's conversation would go.
If nothing else, this did cement that something was happening, which was enough for her.
"Doctor, I did say look for the Spymaster. Or should I say Spy....Master?"Lancer says Hello.
"Charmed to meet ya'. Mario. Mario Mario." he grins at all the new arrivals. "Say, a wedding, huh? Seems we could get Miss Uriko there, since we may have a problem..." he trails off at Yugi's strange question. Lancer looks curious, watching from the sidelines. Too bad he didn't have enough for a Gae Bolg...
You piss off the Venom T-Rex. Roll initiative.Iori
"I suppose I'll change the question then," Iori said, "Would you rather arrive at the wedding now and stop whatever it is the Amanojaku is doing there, or would you rather stay here while I check it out?"
"The Amanojaku is not here. There are too few people for it to stir up trouble around in this town," Iori observed. "And if it is here, then the only thing it could reasonably do is break into a few houses and move around unnoticed. A safe course of action, but one that wastes a unique opportunity."
"The Royal Wedding promises the appearance of the prince and his bride, along with who knows how many other officials that would come and congratulate the royal couple. Do you believe the Amanojaku would be so cowardly to pass up the chance to kill off or even replace a royal? There are few positions in this country where it could stand to cause more chaos."
"So I will ask you again, Samurai Tosanjin. Will you entrust this matter to me and my companions completely- and I will go with or without you -or would you rather follow us and see things through yourself."
Edited by drearyArchon on Sep 6th 2023 at 7:29:30 PM
Everyone's just doing the best that they can.Okinoka
"We are watching him. If he so happens to get violent when we cross paths, that's hardly our fault." Chara muttered in response to Sora.
("Darkness. What a joke. Humans don't need anything of the sort to coax out who they really are. It'll be the same with the street thug here, just you watch.") The youth thought as he waited, since right now all he could do was think and wait.
Proud member of the AGOG community."...Is it?" Uriko's voice sounded nervous, while coming through a forced smile. Exactly the kind of voice you'd put on if you just realised you'd entrusted your life to a madwoman. "Well that's all...quite extraordinary! Ah heh heh, heh heh... Well, there we have it!"
Uriko trotted back downstairs, clad in a faded blue cotton dress and sandals. "Let's get back to the others. Quick as you can." She had considered diving out the window for a moment but decided that for all Kanami's babbling, no one could travel faster than her.
"Wh-W-WHAT?!" cried Toriyama. Her eyes went wide, staring at nothing while she attempted to process this bombshell
"W-d-d-A PUZZLE!" blurted Toriyama, "Now listen! The only wedding I know of today with a procession around this area is the one with the Emperor's nephew, the Crown Prince of Ashihara. If a dangerous yokai bluffs its way into the Emperor's court, there's no TELLING what damage it could do!" She paced about, head in hands, beginning to hyperventilate. "This is bad, this is really bad, we've got to find the others at once!"
The samurai sighed, dipping his head in frustrated contemplation. "Very well," he said at last. "My only condition is that you notify my men. I don't want them running about like headless chickens, looking for me in the wrong town."
As Mario scouted ahead and the rest of the group discussed what to do with the suspect, Beppo the monkey chimed in. "If y' don't want to rough him up too bad, I could give his hair an' ears a tug until he says Uncle."
And a Strange Figure Emerges.Owada Anchorage (Yami Yugi)
"...Then we must act quickly. Gaia might not be fast enough, but we have to hurry..."
Yugi places his hand on top of his deck, his stoic demeanor faltering for a moment as even he looks concerned in his "king" persona.
{Heart of the Cards...guide me...}
Yugi draws the top card of his deck...and smiles when he sees what it is.
"Perfect. Polymerization!"
Yugi slots the new card into his Duel Disk, taking the dragon he drew earlier and depositing it in a separate compartment on the device.
As he does, Gaia undergoes a change. His dark steed disappears, replaced with the same yellow dragon Yugi and Hiroto had ridden earlier.
"Gaia the Dragon Champion and I will search for Iori and Lara. Hiroto, we may need your machine to get us to the procession in time, as well. I'll catch up once I've found our wayward teammates. Are we agreed on the plan?"
As he lays all this out, Yugi takes Gaia's hand and is helped up onto the dragon's back.
Okinoka (Joey Wheeler)
"...Y'know, dis Sora guy's gotta point. We dunno if dis guy's even done any'tin yet. But da second he does, we're goin' wit' da monkey's plan. Monkeys and I got a colored past an' all-"
What in god's holy name does that even mean???
"-but I like his style."
Edited by ZodanTheUnbounceable on Sep 7th 2023 at 8:54:33 AM
This post is sponsored by Amalgam Comics.Lancer... just listening in.
Cú was squatting on the ground, looking indifferent. However, he was listening to the many conversations intently, and his eyebrow quirks in interest as Yugi summons the yellow dragon. "Interesting." he hums. "You all are going to the wedding? Then I'll stay with lady Kanami and Uriko. I'd say we need to stick together, but kid rider over here can probably handle himself, along with a few others." he chuckles, standing up and stretching.
"We probably need to hurry, though." Cú's eyes narrow, flickering from person to person. "The lady's right, monsters in power don't usually end well for the people under them."
You piss off the Venom T-Rex. Roll initiative.Ōwada Anchorage - Hiroto Kuga
Hiroto brings up the display for his Core Gundam II and Earth Armour, agreeing with Yugi's (well, Yami's) plan. "I can tell Core Gundam to come here while you do that, Yugi."
"Toriyama-san, once my Gundam arrives, we're gonna have to be quick. Do you know the route the procession would take?"
It then occurs to Hiroto that Lancer was right there, too. "You sure it's a good idea to stay? We might need your help as well."
Back at the old fort, the Core Gundam II and Earth Armour begins to power up on Hiroto's order...
"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."Okinoka
". . ."
The boy blinks a few times after hearing Joey's comment about monkeys, then looks between the group gathered with him before staring at Beppo.
"I am awake right now, aren't I? I'm not hallucinating being stuck with someone who thinks monsters from card games can talk to him?" Chara asked, knowing full well what kind of response this might provoke from Joey.
Edited by Bored_Man on Sep 10th 2023 at 4:56:43 AM
Proud member of the AGOG community.Uriko's House -> Owada Anchorage
"You don't believe me at all, do you?" Kanami asked, shaking her head with an amused smile as Uriko returned to the ground floor. "Oh well! That's fine! I just thought I should be honest about it, is all! I'm sure you'll see something soon enough that will convince you I'm not lying... and also not, you know, delusional!"
"Anyway, quick as I can, huh?" the <Monk> asked rhetorically, rolling her shoulders. "Sure thing! Away we gooooo~!" She scooped the bride-to-be up in her arms again and zoomed back outside and over to where the others were gathered.
"Hey~, you guys~!" she greeted, sing-song. "That's a pretty sweet-lookin' dragon ya go there! So, whatcha find out by chatting? We ready to go root out that imposter at the wedding yet?"
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.Lancer Cú Chulainn
"Heh, seems I spoke too soon." Cú snarks. "I'll pass with the dragon, thanks. Pretty sure there are others who could use it."
He puts his hands on his hips with a smile. "Alright, Kanami-chan has a point. Let's go crash a wedding." his red eyes narrow as he grins, anticipating combat soon. Yet I still don't have a Master... he thinks idly.
You piss off the Venom T-Rex. Roll initiative.Yumi || Owada Anchorage || Had Work (derogatory)
There's been a lot to process. First, the multiverse - and the immediate thought that Jeremie and Aelita would lose their minds is consumed with the sting of grief, the pain of realising that she doesn't know if she'll ever make it back home - then the yokai (stories she had grown up with, and dismissed as fairy tales, focused on high school and then XANA), and now the dragon. The literal dragon. She's half-tempted to poke it, but she also doesn't want to die.
Which she might be able to do, in her Lyoko form, because she's not in her home universe where the supercomputer is.
It's been a day.
She's half on auto-pilot as she follows people, trying to understand everything that's happening. More people - because this day has to get weirder. She tunes back in - and they're crashing a wedding. They're crashing a wedding.
She misses Kankrelots.
"I can sneak," she says quietly, adding a 'I think' to it mentally. "If we want to do this stealthily, rather than busting down the door with a - dragon." Holy fuck that's still a dragon.
[TOP SECRET]Mario & Luigi-Plumbers on Parade
As the parade floated by, Mario, given his newfound shape, would attempt to integrate himself among the Qilin balloons. This way, when things inevitably went south, Mario would be right on top of the action-literally!
Meanwhile, down at street level, Luigi was having a bit of a crisis. "Wait, 'old on just a minute. You guys sayin' dis guy hasn't even done anything? Then how are we sure he's even a bad guy!? I don' wanna get innocents involved, not if I can help it!"
Okinoka
"What are you...oh, right. You weren't here for that." Chara said, his harsh tone losing some of its vitriol as he realized that the brothers had shown up after the display in the restaurant.
"If any of these wedding enforcers are innocent, I'll eat my knife." Chara said next, giving Luigi a flat stare. "We'll find out soon enough either way, won't we?"
Proud member of the AGOG community.The reminder that most of the group missed the reason they were following this person caused Sora to shake his head quickly to get them back on track (the monkey on his head forgotten for that moment). He shot Joey a grateful smile before speaking up again.
"The official we're watching was covered in darkness when he showed up," he explained, "I've seen people with that much before, it means that he's really close to falling into it. Like, someone who's so ambitious they're kidnapping a princess to take over her kingdom. Someone might be feeding into it, though. So we need to keep an eye on him to figure out who that is."
He glanced down at Chara and shrugged, "you're probably right. It's really hard to have that much darkness and not be a bad person. It's really just my friend who's done it. And there's not a lot of people like him."
I say that aloud too sometimes, just: "man, no life."Owada Anchorage (Yami Yugi)
"Then I'll go retrieve Iori and Lara, we'll meet up at the wedding procession. Hiroto, if you run into trouble, find a way to send a signal. A flare of some kind. I have my own way of doing it, that's how we'll communicate if there's a problem before we meet back up."
With that, Yugi and Gaia take off in the direction Iori and Lara had gone.
Okinoka (Joey Wheeler)
"...I got a friend who's got some darkness in 'im. Great guy, kinda creepy sometimes, but a solid friend. Sora and Lu, yous guys got a point. So hey, here's da plan. We talk to da guy, ask some questions, make sure he's not some kinda creep. An' if he is, den we start crackin' skulls."
He throws an arm around Sora, a sort of combination of a hug and a headlock.
"Killer teamwork already, amiright? And hey, Knife Kid, ya don't always know what's goin' on wit' someone. We can't just assume someone's bad an' beat 'em up for no reason."
This post is sponsored by Amalgam Comics.Super Mario Bros-Plumbers on Parade-Okinoka
Luigi listened to everyone's input (Chara's with trepidation and some fear, Sora's with acceptance, and Joey's with something resembling resolve), and nodded once they had all said their peace.
"O-Okay. Okay! If this guy is really as full a darkness as you guys say 'e is, then I'm on board. Dat "kidnapping a princess and taking over her kingdom" bits hittin' to close ta home. Luigi Mario isn't just gonna sit around and let that happen! Not again!" Luigi affirmed confidently, before less confidently adding "This guy doesn't look anywhere near as scary as Bowser anyways...I'll have 'im ova here for so we can interrogate 'im in a jiffy!"
With that said, Luigi nodded to himself, put down the block he was carrying, and took off, skirting around the back of the crowd until he was near where the guard in question was stationed.
Spotting a nearby banner, Luigi made his way through the crowd to get to it-and when I say through, I mean that literaly. Luigi's intangibility power up meant that Luigi was able to pass through the crowd of people in his way like a ghost.
Reaching the pole one end of the banner was tied to, Luigi gave a mighty leap upwards. Somehow managing to grab onto the pole despite his power-up (just how did this intangibility power decide what it did and didn't work on anyway? Like, he couldn't touch Mario, but could pick up the power up block? Luigi had questions, but those questions could wait), Luigi undid the knots keeping the banner up. Once the banner was free to flap wildly about, Luigi would drop to the ground and retreat to the back of the crowd.
Hopefully everyone would be too focused on the parade to notice a short, see through plumber doing all this.
Edited by Dezmo on Sep 26th 2023 at 5:28:09 AM

Crazy dave getting seeds just in case near uriko house.
Crazy dave was inside penny for a while now missing the new arrivals as he was filling his pockets with seeds, he finally gets out now 200% more seedier and still with the magnifying grass on a pot from earlier.
"Oh look at that penny. New neighbours!"
<Yes, yes very nice user Dave.>
"The name's Crazy Dave. But you all can just call me Crazy Dave."
He said in a friendly tone to the new arrivals.