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Revoblam: This story will begin with a letter, which you all received either via digital mediums, or physical ones.
Its contents asked each of you for help in a popular park, which in itself would be not much to ask, if it wasn't for the fact it asked to present yourselves at midnight, and that it mentioned you all held a power that was required,
"I would love to introduce myself, but please, come first!" was an excerpt from the letter, urging you to come to Timblesea park.
Candy Nobel: heads straight for the park, her partner perched on her shoulder. "Be ready for anything," she whispers. Bigfoot responds with a tiny, tinny "ook, ook."
ThorNonymous: Huh. Interesting. I have no reason not to go...
Lorrine Lamax: "Well, I guess that where I'll be getting some answers then."
Reality Glitch: "Hey, bro;" Heart sat up on the couch, "remember that 'catch' we talked about."
"Right." My voice is laced with "fed up"ness, my face lit by the glow of the midday television. "The superhero gig."
"I just got a text saying where the team's supposed to meet tonight."
"Does it have to be at night? I like getting decent sleep."
"I highly doubt we can reschedule with divine declaration."
"Alright. What do I need to bring?"
"Nothing specific."
"Al—wait. You got a text?"
"The afterlife gets surprisingly great cell service."
"You have phone?" I say semi-sarcastically.
"Yep. The ex-living aren't the only spirit, they have their own society."
"Huh. I guess we wait then."
"I guess we do."
ThorNonymous: no, there are no wolves in the park.
...
I don't need torches, I have a cell phone.
...
PolarTek. It's warmer than fur, and thinner too
Jimmy: "Alrighty, so!" says Jimmy (brown bird, on the short-ish side, on the young-ish side), walking in from another entrance (too far to notice anyone else yet), "mysterious letter, says to come to this park, right? At midnight. Am I missing anything?"
"THAT SEEMS TO BE ACCURATE, YOUNG MASTER HAWKSBILL." A 2D Chinook rendition of a Thunderbird glides through the air behind Jimmy.
"Thought so. Someone probably wants to murder my supple child ass. Imma probably kick his ass for trying. Shocker."
"BE CAUTIOUS, YOUNG MASTER. THE LETTER DID MENTION A POWER, LIKELY MINE, AND HAS THUS BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR. THIS REMINDS ME-"
"No it doesn't, shut up, this is not storytime."
"THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE THAT, IF THIS IS WHO I AM THINKING OF, THEN THIS IS THE NIGHT WHEN OUR DESTINY IS SOLIDIFIED."
"I thought our destiny was solidified when I stumbled on you and agreed to some contract because I thought I was high?"
Candy Nobel: Bigfoot has his trepidations, Candy is well aware, but their communication is more a general empathic one - details are scarce when talking to him.
ThorNonymous: why would I need to bring a spear
...
I already explained that food is plentiful and I don't need to hunt anything. We got a text asking us to come to a park. It's probably some flash mob I forgot I signed up for.
ThorNonymous: ... I... No a flash mob is like a planned stampede... ... yes people do that no it isn't dangerous there's usually music.
Candy Nobel: She knows enough to know there's something hunting Bigfoot, something that got the rest of his kind, and the whole reason for the wind-up monkey shtick is so they'll have a harder time finding him...with that in mind, she fully understands why Bigfoot is worried, but they both know it's either confront this or run from it.
Lorrine Lamax: Would confidently stride into the park, dressed nicely, but not quite formally. Not for lack of worry about what happens next, but with an understanding that it may well impact what comes next. It does probably help knowing she has a few tricks up her sleeve, if a gunpla for a spirt counts.
Revoblam: *The park itself was tuckered away in a corner of the town near the coast, but far away enough that the smell of the salty sea didn't poison the air, thus making it the perfect pit-stop for any family or group of friends to spend the morning at before going to the beach.
But more importantly, there was the center of the park, which hosted a statue with a colorful cast of stone grey animals, alongside a small light at the center that showcased the statues....however, for some reason, it was broken, only a tiny shimmer of light coming through.
Reality Glitch: As Heart and I walk in to the park, we can a handful of other individuals just waiting around.
"Oh good." I sigh in relief, "So glad I didn't get lost this time."
"You were fallowing me." Heart quipped back.
"Sorry; not used to finding my way on a new night route the first time around."
"I looks like they're also accompanied by spirits. Let's go say say 'Hi.'"
"Heh heh. Alright, but don't give unprompted introductions."
"They are our teammates; and you don't have to do any talking you don't want to."
I sigh. "Alright."
ThorNonymous: ...
Gotcha, Invisible Speakers around. I'll stay on guard.
Candy Nobel: is first to the park, gets right up to the statue, and examines the broken light. "Huh."
Jimmy: "M'kay. Question."
"YOU MAY 'FIRE,' YOUNG MASTER."
"Is that statue supposed to be like that? Looks like Picasso took a mallet to it."
"I BELIEVE IT IS BROKEN."
"You sure of that hypothesis, Einstein? I was just checking..." Jimmy glances around. After a moment of registry, he perks up and starts pointing around. "Oh, hey, waidaminit. Who're you chucklefucks?!"
ThorNonymous: are they like you?
...
How- how is that racist? You said you felt something. how am I supposed to know there aren't other wendigo around? I can't see anything in this lighting, or at all! Your kind are all but invisible to most of us!
ThorNonymous: cackling from the dark
ThorNonymous: oh you're messing with me. Great.
Lorrine Lamax: "Just nightly park visitors?" would shrug "I'm not the one who looks like a punk."
ThorNonymous: <continues to fumble around and run into trees>
Reality Glitch: We walk up to the others grouped around the stature. Heart looks a little concerned at the bird's language, but politely responds, "We're here to meet with you and the others how've been partnered with spirits."
Jimmy: "Oh, so Mr. James Bond-ass motherfucker wants to step up without even introducing himself to the class?"
ThorNonymous: Hi I'm Thelonious. Did you folks get some weird text?
ThorNonymous: disembodied screeching deer noise
Candy Nobel: "Ah, I shoulda guessed." Candy cracks her knuckles. "So what, is this a Jojo thing? Are you guys my first opponents?" She turns around, a big, scary grin to rival Bigfoot's on her face. "Or is this gonna be more like an 'Avengers, Assemble' deal?"
ThorNonymous: Uhh this thing that just screamed eerily is haunting me in exchange for not eating me in the woods, if you can see it that's a welcome first
Reality Glitch: Heart replies, "More like the Avengers." then smiles.
Revoblam: The sculpture is actually higher than expected, but from what you can tell, it seems not be just broken...but that something is hiding there, when you look further...
...
. . .
. . .
There is....a tiny....thing looking at Nobel, peeking through one of the statues' legs, kinda startled that she decided to look at it up from close, it then begins to shoo her away, almost implying it wants to do a great entrance or something from the hand gestures. Sadly this gestures are a bit too obvious, and nayone else looking at the statue can see something is making gestures to Nobel.
Candy Nobel: "Oh, come on. Are you...are you trying to make a dramatic entrance here?" She groans.
Jimmy: "Excuse me a moment," Jimmy says to Mr. James Bond-ass motherfucker, before turning to the girl. "I was thinking more Saw or something, but hey, I guess it pays to be optimistic." He turns to Mr. 'Hur-Hur, I'm Behind Some Trees.' "Nice. Sounds like a real character." He turns back to the suit man. "Okay, you were saying?"
Reality Glitch: ((Suit man?))
Lorrine Lamax: isn't iin a suit, and isn't a guy, but yeah sure, lets go with that.
Jimmy: (Whoops.)
Jimmy: (I thought when you said "well-dressed...")
Reality Glitch: ((That was Lorrine.))
ThorNonymous: <fights through a shrub and dust off very plant-scuffed clothes>
Reality Glitch: Heart walks over to Candy. "Just let them do their thing."
Jimmy: (Whom I was addressing with that.)
Lorrine Lamax: "Eh, I dunno, you don't seem like the kind of person I'd want to know my name."
Reality Glitch: "Or," I walk up next to Heart, "we don't let them have that advantage."
ThorNonymous: <straightens tie, pulls out battery tank, plugs in phone>
Revoblam: It begins shooing everyone even harder. It clearly wanted to do its dramatic entrance really baaad.
Reality Glitch: ((<@ThorNonymous>; please put dialog in quotation marks.))
ThorNonymous: ((what about external monologue?))
Reality Glitch: Heart turns to me. "Eh; good a plan as any." Then she turns to the "thing" and reaches to grab it, and yank it out into the open.
Reality Glitch: ((Write it like you would a novel.))
Reality Glitch: ((<@!Revoblam>; Do I need to roll for that?))
Candy Nobel: "Ugh, fine. You folks, Jojos, whatever you are. Our pen pal wants us to step away from the statue."
Revoblam: ((hM, I would say roll quick, but I didn't exactly plan for that XD.))
Reality Glitch: !f 1
DiscoDude: <@Reality Glitch> rolled 4dF+1 for 1 [4dF = [-][+][ ][ ]]
Reality Glitch: ((Oops! Didn't wait for the difficulty to be set.))
ThorNonymous: ((It's more like mumbling to my spirit than full speech, hence the classical aside italicization rather than quotation))
"Oh ok, thanks. I'm guessing this is spirit- related, but I can't even see my buddy here except as skull and lots of antlers, and only out of the corner of my eye"
Revoblam: ((hah, I was thinking of having it be at 2, so you failed.))
Reality Glitch: ((Italics are for thoughts.))
Reality Glitch: ((You just need to specify that the speech is towards "Wendy" and not to the rest of us.))
ThorNonymous: ((I will also quote it fno. Gotcha, although I was kinda addressing the room))
Reality Glitch: "Hey! Get out here! We already know you're back there!" Heart shouts as she stretches, leaning over to grab at the "thing" in the statue.
Revoblam: Heart is proven unable to catch this thing, after which it screams with a high pitched voice.* "WHOA, WHOA WHOA WHOA. YOU DIDN'T EVEN LET ME DO MY SPEECH; FOR THE SAKE OF THE GODDESS OF FATE!"
It scurries back into the statues, you all can see the light shifting around, seemingly skipping multiple lines and preparing to show itself in front of you all.
ThorNonymous: ((sorry, hard crash, catching up now ready))
Reality Glitch: ((Can we give the deities actual names, please? Even if they're just "Fate", "Sun", "Moon", and "Nature".))
Reality Glitch: "Sis?"
"Fine." Heart pulls her hand back and stands straight, hands on her hips.
Revoblam: ((Soon, Soooon. also remember OOC.))
ThorNonymous: "Hey wait who's grabbing for what? Our host? What's up?"
ThorNonymous: "Does anyone have their copy of that text handy? I'm assuming that's why we're here but my phone is a brick"
Reality Glitch: I turn to face Thelonious, may canine eyes much better equipped for the dark than his. "Forgot to charge your phone before coming, huh?"
ThorNonymous: ...
"I will not admit torches were a good idea"
ThorNonymous: "yeah..."
Jimmy: "Don't rub it in!" Jimmy pauses... "... Friggin... Having phones."
Reality Glitch: "I've got a spare battery. Which model do you have?"
Reality Glitch: I turn to the bird. "You seriously don't have a phone? Not even old flip-phone or something that can make phone calls?"
ThorNonymous: "oh, thanks but I've got the tank. It was just buried in between dissertation chapters."
Jimmy: "Oh, well," he seems to puff up a bit, "I spent my money on something even sweeter!"
Lorrine Lamax: would look around at the growing band of odds and ends, including Nate Breaker's failed attempt at getting at something. Scanning for answers per say "So, is there an explanation behind this, or are we just going to spin our wheels here?"
Reality Glitch: Heart turns to me. "You have your phone; light the place up."
"Oh, right!" I take out my smartphone and crank the brightness all the way up (nearly blinding myself in the process) before shining it among the statues to see what's hiding in there.
Revoblam: Suddenly the shifting stops, and the the host begins to climb the towers, slowly letting the light its tail was covering shine upon it again, once you see it reach the top, you notice its tail is detached from its body, instead made of....a starS? or what looked to be a series of small shining stars aligned, Its body made of similar constellations in the exact same pattern, excluding the head, which was also detached, shaped like a sphere.
It then looks at all of you with quite the determination on its eyes. "Alright, Alright, Screw the all-mighty introduction, you all have Spirits anyways so it's not like it would be that big of a deal..." it clears its 'throat' and keeps talking. "AHEM, I summoned all of you here for the simple reason of asking you for help! Help to keep your town peaceful and calm, and all that shtick."
Reality Glitch: "Told you." Heart quips.
"Never doubted you."
"Oh; right."
Jimmy: "AHA! I KNEW IT."
"Didn't you say there was just a chance, Thunder-B?"
ThorNonymous: "Oh hey are you a spirit? I can see you way better than I can usually see my hey when did you get a body?!"
Jimmy: (Is the place illuminated now?)
Revoblam: (YES)
ThorNonymous: . . .
"Oh ok I'm just magically not as oblivious as I was 10 minutes ago somehow, gotcha."
Lorrine Lamax: would nod "Alright, is there anything else? Because my spirit made the, fight for justice bit very clear." said spirit would probably take that as their cue, escaping her pocket, what would at the very leasy be identifyable as a white gundam like toy.
Reality Glitch: "Light-bulbs aren't magic." I quip back to Thelon.
Jimmy: "Whoa! You make that?! Give me one and your spot on my shit list turns into a spot on my Christmas card list!"
Lorrine Lamax: then said gunpla would, in a very hot blooded pilot voice, speak "Does there need to be more then that?"
ThorNonymous: ...
"Wh.. Spiritualwhatnow? How do you... Haaaah, never mind."
"Oh no sorry I was talking to the hungry ghost behind me."
ThorNonymous: "it's gotten bigger. Or rather, it's been big and I've only seen the head."
Candy Nobel: "Wow." Candy claps slowly. "Okay, so. This is some kinda...'Teenagers with Attitude' thing? Only some of these folks seem a little old to be playing Power Rangers..."
ThorNonymous: "I actually never watched that show, my parents thought it was too violent or something"
Reality Glitch: "Hungry gh—EH!" I'm taken aback be the sight of a fully-illuminated wendigo standing near Thelon.
Revoblam: "Fight for Justice? What did that guy feed you?!" It then jumps down, seemingly taking no damage from the fall as it lands with two feet "....Althoooouugghhh you could consider it like if you look at it from a certain way. BUT THAT AIN'T THE POINT!" It then hops up, floating around each of its chosen ones.
"Hmm, I see, good, You are all up to snuff to take on some resentful spirits and general jerk-heads, GREAT!" It exclaims rather cheerfully.
ThorNonymous: "I've seen some of the pirate one though.
Oh yeah, his name's horrible screeching sound like a cross between a trumpet, tearing steel, and cracking bone"
ThorNonymous: "he's harmless. Well, not really. But I've been teaching him restraint."
Candy Nobel: "Okay, wait, hold on. 'Resentful spirits'? 'General jerk-heads'? You're making us sound less like, eye-dee-kay, fighters for justice and more like the spirit world's janitors?"
Jimmy: Jimmy pleats his hands in front of his face. "Ghost cops."
Revoblam: "I mean, Isn't it the Janitor's job to make sure things don't go to hell and keep things all clear?" it responds to Candy, rather nonchalantly.
Reality Glitch: Still focused on Thelon, I say, loud enough for the constellation to here me, "You sure wendigo, spirits of CANNIBALISM, don't qualify as such?"
Lorrine Lamax: would give the giant scary death cannibal thing a glance, before doing her best to act like this is all normal. "Sounds kinda like... we are being enlisted to quash a rebellion..."
ThorNonymous: "GHOST COPS 🎵 <🌩 noise> "
ThorNonymous: (edit:) turns to RG "Oh no not cannibalism"
ThorNonymous: "Adversity"
Candy Nobel: "Okay. Rebellion-quashing? That I can get behind. I mean. If it's evil crazy 'rebels' who want to enslave mankind we're dealing with."
Lorrine Lamax: (Said nothing aloud about canniblism)
Reality Glitch: "What if they're like the rebels from Star Wars?" I inquire.
ThorNonymous: ((sorry, I need to learn to specify))
Candy Nobel: "Then we have a problem," Candy says, grinning evilly at their host.
Revoblam: "...Crap, Right, I need to explain this all to you, don't I? Yeah, I should probably explain it all to you..."
Revoblam: ((AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE PART WHERE WE SHOUDL CUT BECAUSE ITS LATE))
Lorrine Lamax: "Or just like the Principality of Zeon..."
Reality Glitch: "That still leaves open th—"
Heart cuts me off, "Shut up!"
"Yeesh!"
"Sorry, but this is important."
Revoblam: !end
