Limbo

Mr. Thorren
~Flower Shop~
=Upstairs=

"Hmm? Uhh.. okay." Mr. Thorren stood up, grabbing his Thunderhammer and bringing it with him back downstairs, "If you get attacked by people climbing in through the holes in the walls, don't blame me if you get killed. I was guarding you, you know. I just have a problem with doors. That's it."

And then he walked casually downstairs. Badass. Sorta.

Skar and Charles
~Limbo~

He completely ignored the paper stack. Snap.

"But.. food.." Skar nearly cried manly bear tears again, but didn't, "Aw, screw it."

He returned to his normal self and just signed the papers. With blood. Where'd he get the blood? From a nearby Chilly he killed just now. Poor him.. not really. Also, he ripped the page slightly, but not over any thing important; just the sides of the paper. And hopefully not this 'Ola' chick. That would suck.

----

"Yes, yes. I am quite aware that I'm dead but.. still. WHERE ARE WE?! The Olivites' heaven looks a lot different than this.." Charles cried at the thought he'd never see his family again, "I'll never get to see my family again at this rate. D:>"

Poor Charles.. blame Skar.

Fellmund
~The Mall~
=Magic Shop=

"Ah. So you're a competent thief. Excellent." Fellmund took a bow before Larya, and while bent down stole a wallet off one of the Chillies. Why do they have wallets? Who cares. "You're the first person I've ever worked with that didn't fall for that trick. And for that, I bow."

He tossed the stolen wallet casually over to Larya, and the affected Chilly would probably too distracted by the DISCO BALL Fellmund had taken out of his hat to notice anything.

"These things are quite stupid, aren't they?"

Fellmund notices the blue pikachu.. and ran up to him and starded poking him. Yeah.

"Woah! You look like a Pokemon! From those video games and that cheesy TV show!!! But.." Fellmund then noticed what colour the PIKACHU was, "Why are you blue? Seriously."

Skar and Charles
~Limbo~

"Heh. Was Skar too heavy for you?" Skar kicked to motionless rabbit-girl's body, and merely laughed.

Charles, on the other hand, went to the front of the room and..

"Good day everyone, I'm Charles. :D" Greeted the too-happy-for-his-own-good olive.

Why was he so happy to be dead? That is a mystery we will never solve. Along with the fact Cracka Jack popped out of the shadows next to Skar.

"Sup dawg, how's it hangin'?"
"Were dead."
"Like, for reals? Cuz dat would suck eggs, yo."
"Hit the road, Jack."

And then the silly manbear promptly crushed the gangsta between his claws. But he just popped up back beside Skar without a scar at all.

"We ain't under yo influence anymore, bro. Shit got old."

Poor Skar.

Fellmund
~The Mall~
=Electronics Store=

"I'm sorry, but this is a magic show you can't refuse."

Fellmund, reaching into his cloak, sent out scores of razor-sharp cards flying everywhere - but effectively away from his teammates - which settled, floating, in an atom-shaped formation around the mechanical non-believers.

"I call this.. the 'Card'-iac Arrest." Fellmund told a blatantly bad joke, "If you try to move, you'll be torn to shreds. You may be robots, but that doesn't exempt you from these beauties. Do as we say, and I'll let you go. If not.."

He snapped his fingers; the cards moved a little closer inwards, but not quite touching the mechanical bastards.

"I really don't want it to come to that. So just hand over what.. uhh.. that woman over there asks for."

And then he discreetly took out a hand mirror.

what

Skar and his buddies
~Limbo~

"No." Snarled the hungry manbear, "By the way, can Skar eat that dead Chilly over there?"

Skar picked up the corpse of the Chilly and stared at it, drooling all over the place.

----

"Oh? You mean They are interviewing my master right now?"

Charles looked over at Skar, then over to Cracka Jack. He was snoring quite loudly. So, being the good Samaritan that he is, decided to lessen the number of interviewees for them. In other words, Charles crushed the over-sized hamburger into dust - also breaking the desk he was sitting on at the time.

"That's one less interviewee for you guys. ;D" Charles looked over at Jack's reanimating corpse, "Jack, if you don't want me to do that again, I suggest you stay dead. I mean it."

Fellmund
~That One Cafe~

"Thanks." Fellmund tipped his hat to FLO, then walked over to the stage and jumped up on it.

He closed the curtains, and began to set up his magic show. He pulled a variety of MAGICAL BOXES out of his hat, along with a few doves and a very pissed rabbit not at all related to Banny or Bunny in any way.

"Sup." Dove #1 said.
"'Ello." Dove #2 said.
"Ni~" Dove #3 said.
"WHERE'S MY FUCKING CARROTS?!?" screamed the very pissed Benny the Bunny.

"Shut up, Benny. Here." Fellmund tossed him a few MAGICAL CARROTS, which basically knocked Benny unconscious, allowing Fellmund to shove him back in the hat.

The crooked magician then proceeded to set up a bunch of spot lights and dry ice machines, along with some hidden bomb shooter things - all of which could be operated by him using MAGIC. The bomb shooter thing was loaded with smoke bombs, sleeping gas bombs, and paralysis bombs. If his audience got rowdy, he could make an easy escape.

"This is going to be perfect.."

Mr. Thorren
~Flower Shop~
=Downstairs=

"Ohh.." Mr. Thorren cried some more, causing a random lightning bolt from the snowy sky to strike just a short distance away from the Flower Shop, "...Then.. I guess this is goodbye.."

what a cheesy line

After some semi-awkward staring, He sighed.

"Might as well."

Ardin, meanwhile, facepalmed.

"You do realize that this is Limbo? As in, everything that dies comes here...so everything you kill here just comes right back and gives us extra paperwork."



The elevator stopped at what looked like a gloomy, depressing factory...with hellfire in the background, the sounds of pitiful screaming filling the air, freshly-made Chillies scurrying around everywhere in an attempt to escape before getting dragged away by older Chillies, and smooth jazz originating from somewhere on the ceiling.

"Ah, nothing like some fresh Chillies in the afternoon~! All right, listen close, because I'm going to make you do the other half of my work for me!"

Arella walked over to a large, glass-like cylindrical object in the middle of the room, in which some other random souls were stuffed.

"Pretty easy...you just press this big red button on the side, here...and, bang! Instant Chillies! Of course, that would be boring, so we have more buttons to play with!"

After pressing the big red button, Arella started pressing a bunch of other labeled buttons.

"This one releases the wasps, this one fills the room with an unhealthy balance of poisonous gasses, this one makes spikes jut out from the sides, this one sets everything on fire..."

A few buttons later, Arella got bored and let the conversion process end naturally. The cylinder lifted with a 'ding!', and out came a whole bunch of traumatized Chillies.

"See, now wasn't that fun? ♥ Okay, now you get to try!"



It wouldn't take very long for Larya to arrive with the others. Feeling pretty awesome, she kicked the door open.

"Hey, hey, Magic Man! Brought some guests!" she announced.

"Yep. Definitely a trap." Dicro commented.

"But that's okay, 'cause traps are---" Fray stopped abruptly...something just felt weird.

Ignis would find that the whole getting-into-your-avatar thing was probably even easier than expected. In a split second, he would find himself looking through Fray's eyes, which was probably a little disconcerting because semi-lolis or short. Regardless, it worked, and that's what matters!

"Huh. That was funny, kind of felt like---" her thoughts (which Ignis could hear effortlessly) were cut off by dicro waving his hand in front of her face.

"Are you okay?"

"Huh? What! Oh, yeah! I'm cool. I was just gonna say that traps are fun! Where would life be without them? ♥"



Flyri held out a hand for a goodbye handshake...and, suddenly, her eyes lit up.

"Wait! This isn't goodbye! I can still see you! I just have to...oh, how could I forget!" she spun around, pretty flowers somehow popping up out of the snow-covered ground around her.

"I'll be back tomorrow, okay? I'm going to look a little different...but I promise, it'll still be me! And then we can do friend things~!" Flyri smiled, waving and starting to skip away.

wut



Ara nearly had a heart attack.

"O-Oh...! W-When did you two get here...?" she asked nervously, wondering if they saw any of the craziness with Opine. It was bad enough that it looked like she just shook Aita to death...



Poice knocked on the open door.

"Better?" (:



"Oh, don't try to kiss up to us! I'm not going to say anything nice about you!" Ciess huffed.

"What floor are you going to, anyways? We still have to find Lady Umbra before we ditch this place. Well, we don't have to, but it's not like there's anything better to do."



"Sure! Umbra's been accepting new members lately...she'll probably be back here soon. Probably. She's not really picky, so you might as well consider yourself in now!"



Nette stepped back to avoid Charteuse, then focused back on Exuro and Seraye.

"Uh, yeah, who are you...? Please tell me that you're not a stalker or something. I mean, I know everyone wants to be pedo for me because I'm awesome and all that, but come on!"

oh nette

Skar
~Limbo~

"..Funny, isn't it? Someone as strong as Skar, getting killed with a single attack. Laugh all you want." Skar began walking over to Charteuse, and put his hand on her shoulder, "Skar got killed by a giant fucking laser; how did you meet your demise?"

What an odd pick-up line.

Charteuse
[[Limbo]]

"Well I..." she began, looking back at the man she was just talking to, "well it'll answer both of your questions. After getting into a fight with some flower shop guy...I was just minding my own business in some graveyard when this guy shows up. So he's all talking to me and stuff and he asks if I was a Tested. I showed him my Oress to prove that I was and suddenly he just slit my throat with a knife. I was already pretty weak from the fight, so I couldn't do much unfortunately."

Sure is melancholy Charteuse in here

Skar
~Limbo~

"Well, that's too bad.. perhaps a little kiss will jog your memory." Skar grinned, with blood dripping from his mouth in a very deja vu kind of way.

Needless to say, Skar kissed Aracely on the mouth the same way he did that blue-haired chick from There. I wonder if she'll have the same reaction...

oh skar you ladies man you

Charles
~That One Cafe~

Charles sulked off.. to the chair across from Vers. If he were to wake up, he'd get to see THAT FUCKING OLIVE again. But until then, Charles cried.

Cried for a ghost-olive salad, that is.

Golly, it sure is taking him a long time to reach her lips. Is she the one? Is that why everything is going in slo-mo or something? Has Skar finally found true love?!

"What the hell...? It actually worked?!"

Skar would find that Aracely had acted on instinct and, in her panic, she used Ayle to...turn Skar into a BABY MANBEAR D'AWWWWWWW

LOOK AT HIS CUTE WITTLE BLOODY MANBEAR FACE

DON'T YOU JUST WANT TO CUDDLE HIM



Ardin totally took notes on that.

"All right, then...despite the fact that you're not really religious, did you ever at any point believe there was any kind of afterlife? Even if it was just blank nothingness or something like that?"



Naturally, a FLO came by with his order. Why do all of the eating places in this RP serve weird things? ):>

{{CURSE YOU NINJA VERS}}

Suddenly, Vers would feel a small poke at the back of his mind. It gradually grew and grew (more annoying), but there still wasn't any "verbal" response.



After Lun finished fgsfgdlgfing over the explosion, he grabbed Joe's hand and began dragging through the mall, yelling 'totally!' along the way.



Seraye and the Chilly followed him in (rather hesitantly, since they were kind of worried that the place was going to cave in on them) , rather amazed by the destruction. People in the Test Reality typically didn't bother with structural damage, weapons shop or not. Exuro probably wouldn't find much, if anything at all.

"Geez...whoever did this was pretty serious about making sure nobody got any weapons..." the Chilly commented.



"Very well. Keep in mind, however, that I'm always watching. Always."

):

Halyn fell silent for a moment before eventually releasing Fray's tie and pulling back. She was almost a little disappointed...he made more than one good point, and although she was happy about the fact that her darling little Fray wasn't in any immediate danger, she was looking forward to messing with him. Curses, foiled again!

"As for Julias, I wouldn't---"

HOLY SHIT SHE USED HIS ACTUAL NAME WHOA WHOA WHOA WHAT THE HELL

"---dare hurt him. Not unless he did something to my assistants, anyways. He's too much fun to play with. Rest assured, I don't intend on disposing of him any time soon. Or ever, for that manner. ♥"

): part two

"Anyways, I suppose that's all I need from you, then. Oh, Fray? ♥ I think you can come back now~"

There was noticeably no response from Fray. No mental sighs of relief, comments, pokes, nothing. Did she, like, pass out or something...? I mean, I guess serious!Halyn is pretty terrifying, but...

Well.

This might be an issue.



'Flyri' jumped behind FLO's desk, poking her head just enough so she could see over the counter.

"I-I don't know! What's going on with this place today?"



"I'm not entirely sure. Halyn just dragged me over here with a few others and---" Umbra froze up when she realized that Aita just said something about making over a Reaper. She was about to respond with a "wait, what?" when she suddenly froze up again. It was for good reason, too...Neren had appeared behind the two lolis, clad in booty shorts, cute shoes, and a sexy top.

"Hello."

Umbra was officially convinced that today was a dream.



"So I'm...I'm...alive, then? This isn't...just a dream or something...? W-Wait, then where's..." Narelle glanced around without turning her head, eventually stopping and suddenly looking a lot more somber.

"Fuck. I knew she was trying to get herself killed. Fuck." she mumbled, her voice barely audible. After closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, Narelle looked back at Julias.

"Sorry. I should probably be thanking you right now, but...how long is it going to take for me to recover?" she asked.



"Ooh, shiny..." Naj stared at it for a moment, entranced by its...circuit-ness. Or something.




















"...So, can I touch it?"



Peylet acted quickly, transforming into a large hammer mid-swing as requested.

Baby Skar
~Limbo~

"Rawr!"

Aaaaand he started gnawing on Loret's ankles. Yeah. She was better off taking the kiss. 'Cause he may be younger now, but his teeth are still fully developed. That's the awesome part about manbears and womanbears - born with a full set of adult teeth. Hardcore, man.

Fellmund
~Random Body of Water~

Larya would find Fellmund half-dead.. but grinning?

"Lar.. ya.. G-guess I shouldn't have.. overused my.. powers, eh?" he chuckled. Huh.

Charles
~That One Cafe~

Charles ate his ghost olive salad.

At least, he probably would've, had he been physically able to touch the bowl made of silver and the silver spoons and the silver forks. They repel ghostly Olivites, don't cha know.

"FMUD*." Charles said to himself.

{{*Fuck My Un-death.}}

Mr. Thorren
~The Mall~

Mr. Thorren dreamed dreams about Trolls 2, being healed by some hot chicks, and a dancing chinchilla. Badass.

{{Note to self.. never post past midnight.}}

...Say, is it starting to rain? I'm feeling some drizzle...none of those clouds look big enough to produce rain, though, and there's nothing else in the sky. Of course, it's not like the weather around here makes any sense, so you know.



"Bad baby meanbear, bad!" Loret scolded baby!Skar, spraying him with a convenient spray bottle full of water.

"You'd better be a good boy, or you won't get any baby manbear treats!"

MANBEAR TREATS, YOU SAY?



"Yeah, I get what you mean. I didn't really think too much about afterlives existing until I actually died...well, okay, that's not true. I started thinking about it after I found out one of my friends had a parallel self in one of the Head Reapers here, but that's a completely different story."

Ardin handed the apparently-completed papers over to Mate and Ola (yes, they still exist), who started filling out more stuff on them.

"Okay, so from here on, we've got a bit of a problem. We weren't expecting people to die this fast, so We haven't really prepared a lot of room for people here...so, you've got three options. One, you just stay in that waiting room until We clear things up. Two, you go back down into the Test Reality as a ghost. Three, you stay over There for awhile...getting an apartment There is surprisingly easy. We can do pretty much any of those options right here, right now, but if you pick the second option and actually want to be tangible and all - which is helpful if you like eating or interacting with people or picking up things - we'll have to go get you 'approved' first."



Larya rushed over by Fellmund.

"Whoa, whoa! Hey, are you okay?! What were you guys doing in that card house?!"



"So you're evil, then?"

"I see...well, I guess I shouldn't be questioning you, then. You did just save my life, after all. So, um, thanks."

Meanwhile, Soleil had taken notice of Dicro's suspicious prolonged silence and decided that is deserved investigation.

"What's up?"

"...Huh? What? Oh, sorry. I spaced out. Again."

"You do that a lot."

"Yeah, well, I keep getting this weird feeling..."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. It's like something terrible is happening right now, and only I have the power to stop it. I feel like I know what terrible thing is happening, too..."

"Soooo...why don't you stop it, then?"

"Because I'm also getting a feeling that this terrible thing is terribly amusing."

"Makes sense."

and that, dear friends, is how halyn's alliance makes important decisions



"Is there something wrong, sir?" the FLO who brought his food asked, apparently not noticing the whole ghost thing.



"What's not possible? I bet it is possible! And this is my mind, but you keep coming in here and pushing me out! That's very rude!" the adorable little voice huffed in an adorable bratty tone. Which wasn't actually that adorable.



The Chilly was pretty much rolling around on the floor by now, crying tears of joy at the thought of recognition and official-ness and an actual name and---

He paused and stood back up.

"Huh. A name...? Whoa, I've never even thought about naming myself before...let's see...uh..."

Lun, meanwhile, poked his head into the shop, making sure to do so in a manner that was totally sneaky and spylicious.

"Hey, wait, I recognize them! That's just some Chilly, that's one of my co-workers, Seraye, and that guy's her new boyfriend or something. But why would they...?"

Lun gasped, coming to the terrible realization that...

"...I knew it! Love's turned Seraye evil! Now her and her evil boyfriend are going to blow us all up! Oh, man, I knew this day would come eventually! What do we do, what do we do, what do we do?!"

silly lun is silly



Ignis was lucky that 1) semi-loli freight trains are not as terrifying as they sound, and 2) Umbra happened to have some patience when it came to Fray. You just get used to her and her crazy semi-loli antics after a couple of years. So, for better or worse, there wasn't really much of a hostile reaction from Umbra...but maybe that's because all of this is totally just a dream. Totally.

"What the hell could you possibly be running from?" she asked, eyebrow raised. It wasn't really like Fray to not try and make friends with everything that could possibly warrant fleeing...well, maybe not Halyn. Yeah, that was probably it. Umbra decided that next she should probably ask why Fray was talking all formally, but given her earlier outburst at the arcade...yeah. Maybe she was having soul spasms or something. Fuckin' Marionettes, how do they work? Anyways, Umbra decided that there was a much better question to ask, anyways:

"...And, more importantly, where did everyone else go?"



"I-I hope not...w-why would anyone attack the mall?" 'Flyri' commented, looking around nervously.

"O-Oh, Mr. Thorren! Please wake up so we can get out of here...!"



Then it was Peylet's turn to pause, but it was a pretty snappy pause.

"Do you think that strange man will be preoccupied long enough for us to do so?" she asked, sounding a little concerned.

"Well, if you don't have the time, I could always help out!" Poice spoke up, prompting Peylet to turn around. "I know all about the Oress! I couldn't have made one myself if I didn't!"

"Yeah, boss knows everything about the Oress!" Fredericks added.



Kilii was immediately on her knees at Lokk's side, her eyes almost doing the pleading for her.

"Please do! Do you have any idea how tired I am of having to keep track of that...that thing?! Do you have any idea what it's like?!"

And now you suddenly feel bad for Poice and Kilii.

Baby Skar
~Limbo~

Baby Skar began crying.. well, sort of. If you count a massive screeching roar battlecry thing crying.

And just then, a giant jello man in the shape of Alucard from a certain anime/manga series appeared behind Skar.. in his hands was a congealed weapon.

"Just what do you think you're doing?" it said, in the most sinister voice possible, a gelatinous gun aimed at the one who made Skar this way, "Return my master to his former self, or I'm going to have to shoot you. It would be shame if you died again, now wouldn't it?"

Don't mess with someone who resembles the most badass vampire the world has ever seen. Just.. don't.

Fellmund
~Random Body of Water~

"J-just a bit of tor.. ture." Fellmund coughed up blood, "Used up all.. my energy collapsing t-the house. Didn't even have enough to protect m-myself from my own attack.. heh."

He wasn't about to mention the fact that he basically raped the hostages; minus Cinda. That would make any woman within 5 miles untrustworthy of him instantly. And Fellmund loooves his women!

Mr. Thorren
~The Mall~

Mr. Thorren didn't budge. He was still recovering his energy from his sporadic usage of his Oress, so the only way Mr. Thorren was gonna leave the building was if Flyri and Kim-Ko dragged him out. Not to mention they have to grab his Thunderhammer too. Wouldn't want anyone getting their hands on that.

Even though I'd doubt anyone else could even lift it, let alone swing it around like a maniac.

Charles
~That One Cafe~

"I'm a ghost. I can't touch anything; especially things made of silver. But I'm sooo hungryyyy.."

Suck it up, olive-boy.

Baby Skar
~Limbo~

Jellucard consumed Aracely, as in, put her inside of him. No, not that way. Aracely would find that Jellucard's interior.. was rather corrosive. It could burn the leather off a car seat. And the flesh from a human.

"Why didn't you turn him back, you idiot?" Jellucard laughed sinisterly, "Because I'm more than willing to leave you alone if you change him back now.. otherwise, he might summon a Macaroni Statue army again. And you don't want to see what happens with those guys."

Baby Skar continued roar-crying. Yeah.

Charles
~That One Cafe~

"..Go ahead. Eat it. I'll wallow in my misery over here on this guy's head." he cried.

Charles floated over to Vers' head. And just.. sat there. And waited.

Fellmund
~Random Body of Water~

"D-don't worry.. I ain't dyin' yet." he said optimistically, "Just waiting for those H-Halyn's.. Alliance people to leave. If they.. d-do come over here.. Well, don't let them."

See? Those card wounds were already patching themselves up. Nice.

{{zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzah uh[wotijhthjihjdohtisrt}}

Skar and Jellucard
~Limbo~

Jellucard detached himself from Aracely's body, which would probably have some serious burns anyways. Skar, meanwhile, did nothing. Nothing but stare. Stare at the one known as Loret.

"Skar didn't come here for a life lesson. Skar may be part human, but he will have none of these so called 'morals' that you weaklings have. If you're trying to convert Skar to be nice, you best forget it. Skar will never change." he snarled, since manbears do that often, "Also, the only reason Skar even went near you people is to say 'hello'. You human beings obviously don't know that that is how manbears greet women. Giving them a deep, passionate kiss.. while blood is dripping from their mouths. Skar wasn't going to hurt you. No one needed to get hurt, but you chose otherwise."

He walked over to the other side of the room, away from the two infidels.

"Got any more problems, take them up with Jellucard here."

Jellucard grinned evily at the two women, with jello-guns in hand. Not sure why he even has those. Probably just to look badass. But it's kinda hard when you're nothing but a blob of gelatin.

Charles
~That One Cafe~

"That bastard sitting in the chair shot me with a GIANT FUCKING LAZER, and all I did was ask him a question about the whereabouts of my master at the time. And then he ended up shooting, and killing, my master with a GIANT FUCKING LAZER as well. So now all we can do is hang out in Limbo and There. It's actually pretty lame. Except for that bitchin' restaurant over There."

Charles drooled at the though of eating an olive salad. That cannibalistic psycho.. But we love him!

Fellmund
~Random Body of Water~

{{THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN DERP DERP HURR DURR}}

Mr. Thorren
~The Mall~

Mr. Thorren started snoring. Look down, back up; he's on a vine. His dreams are now diamonds.

Skar
~Limbo~

"Skar can't guarantee your safety if you don't cooperate.." Skar grinned sinisterly, "Besides, it's just a kiss.. nothing with that, right?"

Charles turned into his normal badass form, not quite a scary as the demon form, but still..

"LISTEN TO WHAT MY MASTER SAYS. OR ELSE I WILL HAVE TO VIOLENTLY VIOLATE YOU WITH DEMONIC TENTACLES."

So what'll it be; a harmless little kiss with a manbear with blood dripping from his mouth, or getting "explored" by a horny olive demon? I'd take option number one, thank you.

Fellmund
~The Mall~

"In that case.. let us go to.. THE STUFF THAT NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EVER STEAL FROM STORE!!!" Fellmund pointed to a small, beat-up store just a few steps away from the clothing store, and then ran towards it. Huh.

Good thing he's not in his right mind.. because.. seriously, who would ever steal anything from a store full of Ferbies, moldy muffins, and cheap knock-off film props? And.. what the hell is one of those doing there? Is this where Naj got all hers from..?

I don't want to know.. But.. why is there a shotgun hanging on the wall behind the FLO standing there? I'd be afraid.

Skar
~Limbo~

"Bah.. why doesn't anyone ever want a kiss from a cuddly manbear?" Skar snarled, with a hint of sadness and crying in there.

In fact, Skar was crying. So he stepped through the wall that you can step through.. and sat down outside of it. Crying manly tears of deep sadness.. Charles and Jellucard, on the other hand, were a little more than pissed. But unless the Reapers have control over the Tested's Oress powers, they weren't going to be able to mind control these two murderers.

"YOU MADE MY MASTER SAD. THAT'S TOTALLY NOT COOL, MAN."
"You heard the olive.. now apologize, before he goes British on your ass."

But alas, they were too late.. Charles had become demon olive again. Said olive immediately lashed his tentacles - which had olive fists on the ends of them - out at the one who had made his master cry. At the same time, a giant chocolate bunny sprouted from Charles' head and broke apart into pieces.. that were oddly shaped like shurikens. They were sent flying in Ola's direction, as well. And to top things off, Jellucard was preparing his attack too.. just in case Charles didn't get the job done the first time.

oh the things people do for their masters

Fellmund
~The Mall~

Fellmund wasn't going to let a little shotgun hanging on the wall scare him. Besides, FLO probably doesn't even know how to use one. But just in case.. Fellmund flung his razor sharp cards at the gun, which he used to pick it up and.. carry it over to himself. That is, if FLO didn't interrupt the whole proccess. But if I were her I would've ducked by that point due to the razor cards flying everywhere.

Skar & Co.
~Limbo~

" I say, madame.. what's so great about an ol' bloke like me?" Charles blushed, "It would be a terribly awful thing if you were thinking up some outrageous sexual fantasy rigtht now. It would make this olive a very sad chap.."

Meanwhile, Beatrice had killed a few Chillies and was bathing in their blood. And then there was Skar. He was staring at the two mind-raped people pinching themselves in the corner. He cocked his one eyebrow and tilted his head to the right. How was this spectacle even remotely strange? In many, many ways.

Fellmund
~The Mall~

Fellmund dragged Larya away from the imminent hellish war that was going to most likely destroy about half of the mall. So he took her into the nearest store.. which ended up being a store that sold nothing but ice cream and cake. A song was being played softly in the background, and there was a single table that could fit two people at it.

"..Please don't tell me you hate ice cream and cake. Don't."

Mr. Thorren
~Flower Shop~

Mr. Thorren twitched. He felt the prescence of the TV, and began to slowly rise. His eyes hadn't opened yet, but still he walked over to Kim-Ko and gave her a signature Mr. Thorren hug. While still sleeping. Woah. That takes some serious skills, man. Totally.

Fellmund
~The Mall~

"Pfft.. why would you even think I'd think about thinking about paying for something. I mean, I have a card with an infinite amount of money on it that I nicked off this wacked out scientist guy, but still.. Stealing is so much more fun!" Fellmund laughed, walking up to the counter of the ice cream shoppe and politely asked FLO to get them their food, "Get us what we want, or I'll chop your fucking head off. I'll take the TripleChocolateOreoRoloSmartiesM&MsSkittlesCaramelFudge Ice Cream Cake Supreme. As for my partners in crime.. what do you guys want?"

Wait.. did I say 'politely asked'? I meant 'DEMANDED LIKE A BAMF'. Yeah.

Mr. Thorren
~Flower Shop~

Mr. Thorren's sleepwalking body fell backwards.. right on top of the cute form of Puppy. Oh noes! Save that Chilly, Flyri! YOU CAN DO EET!

"Zzz...zzzzzzz...z..z.z.zzz.z.zz....zz..z..zzzz..zz..z...z.z.zz...."

When the hell is he going to wake up...?

Skar & the Gang
~Limbo~

Charles could've cried olive tears in olivelicious delight. In fact, he did!

"Madame.. you are terrificly wonderful person! I say, that is a most splendidly awesome idea! Now let us depart on some misadventures, milady." Charles tipped his hat to her, using one of those buff arms of his. Yes, despite reverting back to his old personality, he still had those bloody arms. Damn. "Cheerio Mr. Manbear, Ms. Unicorn Pickle, Ms. Booty Shorts Lady, and the two Ms. Cower In The Corners! Oh, and Ms. New Lady!"

Waving farewell to all of them, Charles dragged Loret to the other side of the wall.. what happens on the other side of the wall, stays on the other side of the wall. except herpes. that shit stays with you forever.

Speaking of Mr. Manbear, he walked over towards the two Ms. Cower In The Corners.

"Has your mind been raped enough yet? If Skar can't physically touch any of you, Skar will indirectly do it. GWARHARHARHARHAR!" he roar-laughed, prompting another messed up creation to pop up.. a giant potato chip that wears suspenders and a straw hat.

"Hyuk hyuk hyuk! Dis shindig 'ere shur has sum fine lookin' fellers!" It said, "If yer don' knaw me, they call me Luther! Mighty fine name, don't cha think?"

Beatrice, on the other hand, had walked up to the booty-shorts wearing Neren.

"Like, oh em gee. Those shorts are like, totally hot. Do you think you could like, give them to me? Like, I would so give you a lesbi-"

A chocolate shuriken imbedded itself in Beatrice's face, causing her eyes to glow a crimson red. She reared up on her back knees, then promptly started to melt like a birthday candle. Except less wax-like. Her hair turned into spaghetti, then into rice, then back into spaghetti. Her hooves.. they were coconuts. Ready to be carried by any passing swallows. Regardless of where they grip it.

I feel sorry for everyone in this room.

Skar & Luther
~Limbo~

"Skar doesn't care. Now, silence before Skar gets something really disturbing in here."

Just as Skar said that, the fears of everyone in the room came true.. Neren had dropped her shorts. Oh god. But.. Skar.. he thought, that if Neren took them off so easily.. maybe she'd kiss Skar. That sick bastard. And so, he killed yet another innocent Chilly - where do all those things come from? He smeared his mouth with Chilly blood, and walked up to Neren.

"Would it be possible for Skar to give you a manbear's greeting?"

If Neren said yes, he would promptly give her his disgusting manbear kiss. If Neren said no, he would promptly make Beatrice give her a disgusting - but kinda hot in some fucked up way - lesbo unicorn kiss. Yes.

As for Luther.. he was eyein' dem fellers in that dere corner! In a rather perverted way. Sick hick potato chip.

Charles
~Limbo~

Amidst all the dead people, Charles had managed to find.. a cave? A deep, dark, ominous and totally-not-evil cave. In the side of a building. How strange.

"I say, never in all my years, have I seen something as weird as this!" Charles gasped, obviously not remembering Macaroni Bill Clinton or Cracka Jack or pretty much every other creation of Skar's, "But yes, ladies first, madame."

Mr. Thorren
~Flower Shop~

Mr. Thorren's sleepwalking form began walking right outside the Flower Shop door entrance, almost beckoning any homicidal pyromaniacs to come burn his store down. The silly gardener walked right into a tree and fell backwards, motionless on the ground.

He was stilll snoring.

Fellmund
~The Mall~

"Hehe, yeah.." Fellmund laughed, allowing his big ego to inflate tenfold more than the two-hundredfold it was at right now, "Maybe after the ice cream cakes we can go steal more stuff from Them.. and maybe even see a movie."

Wait.. is Fellmund hitting on Larya? And asking her our to a movie? What part does Spark play in this?

punt

NOTE: If you're in a location that none of my characters are currently in (such as the park, the cafe, etc.), you can choose to bring the location into Day 4.



Day 1 was normal, Day 2 was cold, and Day 3 was Day 3...so, looks like it's time to crank up the heat! Like, literally. At least it's a dry heat, not a humid one...



YOU SHOULDN'T BE PROUD OF TERRIFYING YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS FRIENDS, IGNIS, THAT'S JUST NOT NICE

Anyways, the two jumped when he spoke up, mainly because he's Ignis. They seemed to calm down rather quickly though, indicating that they have a weakness for either conversation or ending awkward silences.

"Actually, I'm pretty sure I've figured out what you're up to." Dicro shrugged, apparently pretty confident in his hypothesis. "I'm not entirely sure if I want to know the details, tho---"

"Hey!" Fray shouted, interrupting Dicro. "I'm the most semi-loli semi-loli of all time! Of all time! Besides maybe Nette...but I'm still pretty semi-loli for a semi-loli!" she huffed, apparently insulted by the thought of her semi-loli-ness not being up to par. Being a semi-loli is serious business, you know.



Silly TCC, she didn't take off her shorts...she almost did! But I guess almost is close enough, am I right or am I right?

Neren looked at Rokkskar with virtually no expression: she didn't look terrified or disgusted, but she didn't look excited or even confused.

"What is 'a manbear's greeting'?" she asked in that moderately spooky voice of hers.



whooooo random caves

Loret walked inside, looking around at the cave-ness of the cave in awe.

"Oh, my...that's certainly random! What's this cave doing here?" she asked to no one in particular.



For some strange reason, it was totally morning now. Yes.

FLO returned with the group's orders, with Larya's being halfway gone in a heartbeat

"Sounds good to me! What do you think, Sparkle Rat?" she asked, attempting to look up at the Pikachu on her head. She's so silly.



So yeah, morning.

It was oddly quiet around here...Lun was missing, Soleil was gone, Fredericks was still asleep in his cute little corner, Dicro (since he probably at some point decided to go back into his own body and come back to the apartment) and Fray were presumably still asleep in their respective rooms, Naj had vanished for better or worse (better for Halyn's Alliance, worse for whoever has the misfortune of ending up in her view), Narelle had apparently left at some point, and there was a curious lack of Poice and Kilii in the basement. The only one who was awake and actually in the apartment was Tintra, who was just sort of awkwardly hovering around the couch that sleepy!Vers was bein' sleepy on.

There were some curious noises coming from that obligatory unclaimed guest room, however...

Assuming Koren went to Limbo, he'd pass through that white wall and do all of that cool jazz.

Yeah.



Vers had the feeling that someone was nearby, despite the fact that he was asleep. He'd been woken up once during the night, by his brother, who made a rather unusual series of requests - a standard military toolkit (Dear gods, why? was Vers' thought), a pouch of white phosphorus powder (You're fuckin' crazy, Durnam), and some thermite-coated plastic explosive spikes (Seriously, fuck you and your fire stuff, alright?) - and left as quickly as he arrived, which was perfectly normal for Durnam. And now, this. Vers jolted upwards, yelling a string of swears in his native tongue in an apparent attempt to scare Tintra, who probably wouldn't find it very frightening.

"Oh, it's just you, Tintra. You've got no idea how glad I am that you're not someone else with a gun or something. That's always good," Vers said, trying his hardest to get out of the sofa, but falling off in a rather comical manner, as if he couldn't move his legs normally. "Shit. I figured that something like this would happen, and it's my legs that aren't working? Goddamnit, I wish it was my left arm instead."

Vers swore under his breath as he picked his coat up from the floor, and dragged himself into that wheelchair of his. After fiddling with his technologically advanced gauntlet, Vers began testing the wheelchair, spinning in circles, hovering, and doing other cool stuff that you can do with wheelchairs. Once he had settled down, Vers took a good look around, noticing the lack of people.

"Say, where's everyone?"



((Frozen, Imma gonna assume that the two of 'em made it back to the Doll Shop safely and stuff. So yeah.))

Everyone in the Doll Shop would smell something rather nice cooking. Someone was cooking breakfast, from the smell of it, and it was turning out rather we-

Wait, never mind, now it's burning. Oh god, it's burning. Just in case anyone was already downstairs, there's a lot of swearing (and smoke) coming from that kitchen.

I'm never cooking with Fyel again. Bad, bad, bad idea. Goddamn lucky that I didn't burn the place down...

Trauma. Trauma everywhere. Well, Neren didn't seem particularly traumatized...a little confused, but still mostly emotionless. Also, she's a really boring kisser. I don't think she had any idea what was going on. ):



"Oh, Charles! You're so brave!" Loret beamed, not caring that said monster was probably just some random dead soul or litter. Damn dead people and their littering. There's laws against that, you know. Limbo isn't going to make itself beautiful all on its own, you know!



Tintra jumped at Vers' sudden foreign cursing, but otherwise she seemed in a relatively 'normal' mood. She didn't even comment on that bitchin' wheelchair!

"Lun never came back from the mall, I haven't seen Naj anywhere, Poice's Chilly is right over there - but he's sleeping, so try not to wake him! - Soleil left earlier to meet up with some friends, I think Dicro and Fray are still asleep, and Poice and Kilii went into the guest room earlier and haven't come out since. Kind of suspicious, but, hey." she explained with a shrug, implying that stuff like this was pretty normal.

Psh, and she totally only mentioned my characters! How self-centered of that selfish GSG! Wait a minute...



Defying all logic, Seraye didn't wake up thanks to the chaos downstairs. Actually, she didn't wake up at all. Hot damn, she must be one hell of a heavy sleeper. Exuro's Chilly, meanwhile, was busy running around in a panic. An adorable panic.



Well, more like the window frame. Koren's girly screams are pretty intense, you know.

Meanwhile, Halyn dragged herself away from the MYSTERIOUS DARKNESS of that MYSTERIOUS WORLD behind the couch, noticeably not clinging to Lun. Guess he got lucky and managed to escape at some point during the night...unless Halyn creeped him to death! D:

That lovable creeper pulled herself up, stretching. After rubbing her eyes and looking around, she turned her attention to Joe. RUNNNNNNN

"Huh. It's all empty in here. Where is everyone...?" she asked, trying her hardest not to yawn in the middle of her sentence.

Also, Bunny was kind of just chillin' on the couch. :3



INDEED

It didn't take much longer for the two to reach Poice's lab, it took even less time for them to get inside, and it took even LESS time for them to be crowded by wide-eyed Chillies.

"Hey, Stan!"

"Who's this chick?"

"What's up, bro?"

"BFFKSDJSBSJDFB TENTACLES"

"What'cha need, Stan Man?"

I think they need to raise their hands. Uh, paws. ):<



'Flyri' seemed to have gone missing, but Puppy was still bein' a cutey sleepy-face. (:



Mr. Fish's midsection had now been reduced to the consistency of silly putty. Technically, it was already like that, but you know what I mean. He won't be standing upright ever again. Well, fish don't stand but...okay, you know what? Shut up. Shut up.

Deciding that her semi-loli dignity just wasn't worth it, Fray returned to cowering behind Dicro. Speaking of that guy, all of his anxiety seemed to have mostly dissolved, which is weird because Ignis seems to just get more and more intimidating...

"Easy. You want access to Fray's mental links because, thanks to experience from those other cycles or research or whatever, you're well aware that Fray's subconscious is basically a gateway leading to other subconsciouses that are higher and higher up on the Chain...and I'm assuming that you're in to the idea of getting as high on the Chain as possible."

IS HE A WIZARD

I'M PRETTY SURE HE'S A WIZARD



Instead of being concerned, Larya just started laughing. She laughed so hard that she actually fell off of her chair and totally ignored her half-finished DELICIOUS DESSERT.

"Oh, man! You guys are dumbasses! Duh, don't you know what eating does to you guys?!" she laughed. Best friend EVER!

"Hmm... How does 'everything' sound to you?"



"Well, that's somewhat interesting. I suppose I'll take a look," he said, fiddling with something on his ultra-magical technological gauntlet. "Aaand, there we are. Lokk, the equipment's all primed and ready to go. We can put it all together once I see what this whole thing is about."

And then Vers followed Kilii, with his floating wheelchair of awesome.



Durnam was still being shifty in that shifty corner of the kitchen. Rather shifty, don't you think?

>.>

<.<

YOU BE TROLLIN', ARDIN

Displeased with Ardin's response, Koren just say there, and gave him the most intense, searing gaze that a baron possibly could give.



Vers looked at "Todd" in all of its glory, and shrugged. "It's not as impressive as the supercomputer I had back in my own lab, but I suppose it gets the job done. Anyways," he said, spinning around in that wheelchair of his. "It looks like there isn't much I can help you with. I mean, if this involved more stuff like how to suspend an apple in an anti-grav field, I'd be solving that in a snap. Well, when you think about it, it's a pretty simple problem, but the amount of energy required is kinda sorta large. Damn it, there I go again, getting off tangent. So I suppose that's all I can do here for now. If anything comes up, contact either me or my brother. I've got giant death robots to build, so I guess I'll be heading out now."

And, with that, Vers went back downstairs. Yeah.



The moment Seraye tried to take a look at what Durnam was writing down, he snapped the notebook shut. "Oh, stuff. Nothing too important, I suppose. Now, if you'll excuse me, quit lurking over my shoulder like that," said Durnam, edging away from the shifty corner of the kitchen and heading over to the front part of the store, sitting down on the obligatory couch, and playing with some fire. 'cause HELL YEAH FIRE POWERS

"As I said, everything. I do not know where to begin, but I would prefer to know as much as possible."



Durnam, as battered as he might have been, still managed to make his way over to the table where Seraye sat down. Carefully, he set the black quarterstaff down beside him, and (wincing slightly) stretched.

Tsk. Not bad, figuring it out that easily. Unfortunately for you, Preston, I invested more power into that than was necessary, so I know precisely how to ensure victory for our next meeting. I suppose that a Destroyer would work to dispatch other Oress Holders, so long as they can't defend against it. I'd like to see Poice's or Flyri's holder try and fight something inorganic. But, I suppose that's not my concern right now.

"Exuro, you're paying. Seraye, I'll need to keep your Card for a bit longer, mostly so I can buy some replacements for my armor. Elia, after all this is said and done, we should meet up with Poice. Anyways, I bet you're all dying to know why I look like this. Long story short, I took a slight detour and was ambushed. Arode's holder thought that I had hurt some people - which isn't an invalid claim on some occasions - and decided to attack me on sight. Managed to shrug him off my tail, but I'm not too sure how long I'm safe."

Oh, and if FLO came and asked the group for their order, Durnam simply requested some tea. Sheesh, he didn't even specify what type. Jerk.

A wall or two? How about all six?

When the elevator came to a stop, Koren slammed on the floor, apparently hurt from how often he was flung about, thanks to his failure at using an elevator. Looking around, he noticed that strange shadowy mass shifting around in the corner. GEE ZETTA, YOU SO ORIGINAL.

"Why, hello there, shadow blob creature. How do you do on this fine day?"



"Kind of. It's an ideological socio-economic philosophy thing that never really works out in the end. I'm not a political scientist, so I don't really know the specifics. Anyways, if you think that's good, check this out."



The robot just stared(?) at Sprinkles in silence, before speaking up in its mechanical voice.

"CAN I BE MON-GOOSE DOG?"



Hmph. There's only one explanation for this: Soleil. Whatever she's doing, I doubt it really matters to me. Time to make my way to the armor store.

Without further ado, Durnam charged through the crowd of Unreal people, trying to make his way to the armor store. You know, 'cause that armor isn't going to repair itself.

((Limbo))

The King made a new face of fascination after each muffin flavor Ola listed off.

"Well, I do say! The pepsi-cola muffin is very tempting, but I'd much more prefer the half-eaten Zebra that broke it's back leg in the middle of the spring, after eating a carrot and going crazy on it's delicious splendor. That one peaks me highest fancy!"

The King held his palm out and looked away, acting as if the very specific muffin was at the top of that endless muffin basket.

((Umbra's Mansion))

Aita ignored the stinky poo-poo faces, and payed soul attention to the apple of her eye. She giggled innocently at his comment, while taking full advantage of the fact that Neren turned his attention! Go team! The lil' loli went in for a big snuggly ol' hug. "Neren and I believe in you, Dicro!" She said, smiling up, while holding her body suspiciously close to his. As in... he would soon come to the realization that her hands were never on his back at all!

((Limbo))

The King didn't take his time to devour the zebra muffin. Very soon, the only remains were the small crumbs around his slightly less tan skin. "Interview...? Are we conducting a job placement for me here? Well let me begin by saying I'm a very respectable ruler of the world. That's what I call a type-cast!"

((Umbra's Mansion))

His gentle prying, just resulted in tighter squeezing and higher amounts of body heat exchange. The scent of fresh strawberries emitted from her hair, creating a strange illusion that even though she was death huggling him, everything would probably be alright.

"My name's Aita! It's a surprise you've never heard of me! I had a spark of fame not that long of a time ago. I'm the holder of Neren, Mirror of Elia, best friends with Ara, Neren, Halyn and well almost everyone! I'm known for my cute loli attitudes and gestures, my ability to act senselessly in murderous occasions and my joyous loli-misadventures! But in the world of hot men..." She got on her tippie-toes to get closer to his ear - but really she gained almost no height out of the endeavor. In the most seductive 9-year-old voice she could muster, she whispered, "I'm known for a little more~." She let go of him, spinning with her arms stretched in satisfaction, before taking her place beside Neren.

"I'm believening that we're going to be together foreeeever."

((Castle Oress - Third Floor))

Elia just stood in awe. Not really did she want to touch or ask about anything; everything probably had a place and description beyond her attention span.

Joe
[[Limbo Day 6]]

Joe quickly woke up to see himself in an unfamiliar landscape. He was panting pretty hard, probably from shitting bricks because of what Shan just did to him.

"Fuckin' a! 'Dat...'dat man is crazy! 'Dat man is crazy!" was all he could really say, still panting.

"Come on Joe...Shan's gone now..." he repeated to himself. He took a deep breath and got up.

Also because it called for it and to save GSG time, Joe was drawn towards the wall and walked towards it.

Kim-Ko
[[idk somewhere Day 6]]

Kim-Ko was traumatized as fuck. She had this really creeped out look on her face, plus now she was starting to sober up. BUT HANGOVERS, YAYYYYYYY!

"I..." she tried saying, but nothing could come out of her mouth. She just sort of looked over towards Shan, holding her forehead with one hand.

"H-help me..." was all she could finally muster.

Charteuse
[[HFBW Day 6]]

Charteuse seemed to enjoy the bottomless pit.

"WHEEEEEEE~! It's like it's...never ending and stuff!"

Joe
[[Limbo Day 6]]

Joe took the first muffin he saw, which happened to be a strawberry milkshake muffin.

"So uh..." he began, eating his muffin in the process. "Where am I anyway?"

Kim-Ko
[[idk somewhere Day 6]]

Kim-Ko looked up quietly, taking Shan's hand and pulling herself up. She then quietly followed Shan back to the mansion.

"W-What are we...what a-are we going to d-do now?" she asked him, still nervous after seeing two people she just met die such gruesome deaths.

Charteuse
[[HFBW Day 6]]

"HI THERE~" she said, giggling, and giving the guard a hug. Cause you know...she doesn't really fight unless she's EXTREMELY freaked out.

...but then one of the guards began attacking her. Being provoked, she screeched as she began violently attacking the men.

Joe
[[Limbo]]

"Oh...'dat makes sense...anyway is 'de-"

Then Jane Doe. Seeing as he was already dead, it just made him aggravated.

"'EY LADY WHAT'S YA' FUGGIN' PROBLEM 'ERE?" he yelled back at her.

Kim-Ko
[[idk somewhere -> Umbra's Mansion]]

Kim-Ko's face suddenly went pale. "K-K
k-killing? W-win? B-but...h-how are w-we going to d-do that?"

Normally she'd have commented about killing is bad, but Shan was already pissed off.

Charteuse
[[HFBW/I don't know]]

Charteuse followed her companion.

Jane Doe
She wasn't all that surprised when her scream proved to be relatively ineffective; Tested bodies were different compared to normal human ones... But, she just felt like screaming. And stomping on Chillies.

Anyways, her head drooped towards the ground as she was handled by Cieux. For a few moments, she didn't respond to anything; she abruptly lifted up her head and yelled...

"...haha~~!!! MY PROBLEM? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"

This scream was even louder than the one she used before; she knew (at this point) that it wouldn't do more than annoy others, but she didn't care. She wanted to hurt something, anything. So, at around the same time she screamed, she activated her Decay ability; whether this would be on effective on Cieux or not, she didn't know. But, she wouldn't know unless she tried; if it wasn't effective, she would still struggle and be a relative nuisance.

"Fuck, fuck all of you! Fucking rip off your damned heads and just die die diediEIdIOeeeedDdieieee!!!!!!!!"

Now, Jane's face looked... Twisted. Veins were clearly visible throughout her face and neck, her canines became noticeably longer, and the whites of her eyes turned red. Besides that, her long hair turned white and her nails grew (at least 4 inches). She obviously didn't look human...

Jane Doe
When Xantha got the needle out, Jane’s struggling ceased. She stared at Xantha.

“…Heh. Of course, dying isn’t bad; that’s why I killed myself. The thing that’s worse is continuing to pointlessly struggle in something where you don’t have a future; I’m sure as hell not going through with that again. You fuckers dangled the cake of godhood like a carrot on a stick… But, the cake is a lie. Heh. And now I’m greeted by a fucking potato and shit… This is all a fucking joke. So, go ahead and stick that needle in me you ugly bitch. I’ve been through worse.”

Her voice was noticeably quieter than it was before, but her grotesque physical features remained unchanged.
……
…
Preston(?), Day 6, The Park
Preston absentmindedly took out some earwax with the tip of his pinky finger and flicked it away. Then, he started to pick his nose. He was still lying on his back.

”Heh. Me? Worried? More like bored. Wanted to provoke you guys a bit, but seems like that didn’t work. Well, not like I really tried. Anyways, this whole Competition bit was interesting at first, but it’s pretty easy to see who’s gonna probably win this; it’s not this guy, of course.”

After his nose was thoroughly cleaned, he wiped his boogers off on the ground next to him.

“Well, whatever. Just a little warning… Hmm… Oh yeah. Yeah… None of you guys are Tested, so if you decide to harm this guy… Well, you’re smart enough to guess. Now, are we done talking?”

Apparently, Preston either didn’t notice the “elsewhere” bit (of Julias’ words) or just didn’t care.

Jane Doe
Jane listened to Xantha's words.

Then, what the hell is it? Didn't that dumb bitch explain it on the first day? Either this bitch lied or she did.

She was planning on asking Xantha after the latter was done with her part, but...

"Well, guess it ain't nice to poke fun at lower bein's!..."

After hearing that, Jane couldn't keep her composure; everything else after that part flew out the window. Her voice started off as a small chuckle, then gradually increased in volume. Thus, it eventually...

"HahAHAhaAHAHAH~!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!..."

To break free from Cieux's grip, Jane used more power than she had used before. Whether this was successful or not, she would use Neladi to scream annoyingly. Her physical features looked even more grotesque...
......
...
Preston(?), Day 6, The Park
"Yeah. Cool story brah. Whatevs. See ya."

With that, "Preston" seemed to sleep. If nothing in particular happened after that, then...
......
...
Preston would slowly wake up; moving his body in his current condition was somewhat difficult, but was a vast improvement over yesterday's. He looked at his surroundings to see...

Jane Doe
Unfortunately for Jane, she was unable to dodge the needle. As such, the effects took place; she fell to her knees. After realizing what happened to her, she just laughed. She reverted back to her Matsuri-looking self.

“Heheh…”

---

Xantha backed away and Cieux walked over to her side, both taking a moment to observe Jane's change. The two shrugged at each other for no clearly obvious reason, then returned their attention to Jane.

"See, ain't that better? Well, uh, Boss is still busy, so...why don'tcha tell us about your transformin' thing?"

why

why do they try (well, okay, just Xantha) and start conversations

i don't understand

---

Probably much to Rahn's disdain, Lilita had returned Raine's power in limited quantity: long story short, the LAZAR disintegrated before it got the chance to be praised by pretty much everyone who's met Raine so far. Damn. ):>

"Q-Quit?! You can't quit! I'll just have Lilita send you back!" she huffed (she seems to do that a lot).

"I'd just walk away." Umbra shrugged, earning her yet another glare from Raine.



As usual, Ara fgsfgdlgf'd slightly upon being dragged out and Neren was indifferent. Unusually, Shan flinched upon hearing Ciess' name, but relaxed once Aita was distracted by Exuro and Seraye. Upon noticing who Aita was looking at, Ara immediately tried to switch places with Aita. (':

"Hm. That's an interesting question. What are you two doing here?" he asked, visibly wondering if Umbra would approve of him killing them...maybe he'd throw in Flare as a bonus. Just the thought seemed to do wonders for his poor little heart, if the worryingly evil-looking grin slowly spreading across his face was any indication.

"Uh, we're..." Seraye quickly looked over at Flare, trying to ignore that terrible look on Shan's face.

"A portal, huh? I wonder if it was Opine's doing. She likes dragging people into things, so I wouldn't be surprised..." she said quickly, hoping the change in conversation would divert Shan's attention away from Seraye and Exuro's mission. It didn't. (':

---

"O-Old...?"

Before Narelle could do anything else that was uncool, Flyri bounced over to the lovely couple.

"Of course, of course, of course~! Anything for my new friends! But we'd have to invite Kim-Ko and Mr. Thorren...ah, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind! And I even know people who can change age! Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful~!" Flyri cheered, immediately copying Mariol and her spinning.

---

Cel nodded shakily and followed Vers so closely that she might as well have been clinging to him, her eyes darting at a speed that rivaled THE SPEED OF TREMBLING. Which is pretty fast. She didn't even notice when Lokk arrived, instead too occupied with...well, nothing yet. Just paranoia!

Apparently she had a good reason to paranoid, though, since there appeared to be a shadow following the trio...

---

Koren would be able to escape while the others were distracted with not being distracted by Koren, but he'd end up running into...

...A tentacle monster and his large-hatted girlfriend?

An awkward silence followed the run-in until Laleh's hat spoke up:

"Hey! Watch where you're going, dumbass!"

---

tra-la-la-la-la waiting is fun wheeeeeeeeeee

Joe
[[Limbo]]

More muffin eating.

"So uh...am I supposed 'da get interviewed or some shit like 'dat?" he then asked them.

Kim-Ko
[[Umbra's Mansion]]

She looked over to Aita, Ara, and Neren who just recently arrived on scene. Feeling more relaxed that she was going to get killed to bits by Exuro cause he is scary looking to Kim-Ko, she loosened her grip on Shan's hand. She looked over to Aita, who was still hiding behind her two weirdly chosen shields.

"W-why are you hiding...?" she asked Aita, completely oblivious of the situation Aita was actually in. :'D


Charteuse
[[HFBW???]]

AND THEN CHARTEUSE WAITED FOR TCC

Jane Doe
Instead of answering Xantha's question, Jane's head looked towards the ground. Then, she gave Xantha the finger.
......
...
Preston
"..."

It was stupid. Why would he give such valuable info to a person he barely even knew? Hell, he didn't even know the dude's name. As such, trusting such a person to heal his wounds was odd; Preston didn't like to depend on others in the first place. But, the circumstances weren't exactly normal; so...

"Sure. I am not exactly human myself. As for pain, I cannot feel it."

Whether Julias healed his wounds or not, Preston would continue.

"I will just tell you so that you can relay it to your lord; I have a place I should be going to, you see... Well, Durnam found us. My deceased partner entombed him with Arode, then blew him up using coal dust. However, Durnam survived the large explosion. My guess is that he used his shadow power to survive such an attack; he can hide in the shadows. Of course, other options are possible; but, the shadow power is probably how he survived. My brain is still a bit out of sorts, but I can assure you of that. Ironically, the explosion harmed us more than it did him. The rest is easy to guess. As for the circumstances of the battle... If you mean how we came to fight against each other, that is a trifle. Basically, my partner saw him kill a girl. Stabbed her in the back. As such, he wanted to do something about it. So, I helped him."

Preston paused. Then, he continued.

"If you want to kill him, the element of surprise would be absolutely necessary."

Whether Julias was finished healing him or not, Preston would slowly stand up.

"Well, we can talk as we walk. If you wish to stay here, I will not stop you; I will return, if that is the case."

With that, Preston slowly walked towards the mall.

Jane Doe]
After hearing Xantha’s words, she looked up. Then, she mustered her strength to…

Send flying spit towards Xantha’s face.

D:
……
…
Preston, The Park
Of course, Preston didn’t scream; he didn’t feel the pain, after all. As for Julias’ words, Preston quietly thought upon them before giving a response.

“Black fire, black fire… I do not recall. However, I am not saying that you are lying; as I have said before, my brain is still out of sorts. But if what you are saying is true…”

Preston stopped walking, but still remained a healthy distance away from Julias; obviously, he didn’t trust Julias completely yet (he didn’t even know his name).

"Then we should not let this spy eavesdrop any longer. Come out.”

Of course, Preston sensed Vayd before; the instant Vayd entered Preston’s range, he was detected. To Preston, invisibility and such was pointless; something above that would be necessary to avoid detection (Jane’s Senseless, Them, etc). Even in his current condition, sensing a Tested was simple.

As for why he didn’t mention it earlier… Well, Preston wanted to see whether Julias would be able to detect the intruder. Julias was either an extremely good actor or he didn’t sense the Tested’s (Vayd’s) presence at all.

---

Upon realizing that there was nowhere else for him to go - he wasn't going back home as long as Raine was there, there wasn't anyone to mess with at the destroyed apartment building, and Castle Oress was sparsely populated this round - he loosened his grip on Kim-Ko and THEN SHE RAN THE FUCK AWAY decided that there was only one option.

"Is there...is there anywhere..." Shan struggled to find the words, considering 1) he wasn't big on talking, 2) most of his talking was done to Ciess, 3) most, if not all, of his talking not involving Ciess involved killing people or being creepy. Finding a way to say something 'nice' to an easily-terrified little girl was...painful. Clearing his throat, he forced out the words:

"Is there anywhere you'd like to go?"

---

"W-Who killed you...?" Mate asked, shuddering at the thought of such a death. Ola looked a little unnerved, but she dealt with death all of the time...so she continued.

"Back when you were alive in your own Reality, what did you think about death? Did you have any kind of religion or did you believe in any kind of afterlife? Was death inevitable or something to be defied? Stuff like that."

---

Peylet paused, taking in this new topic of conversation. Cenedra sat (well, floated) back, apparently intrigued. Funny, she didn't really look like someone who would dig philosophy...

"That's true...a lot of the people within the Competition are people like us. Perhaps they don't have innocent pasts...but their intentions are passionate and driven. They each have their own reasons for wanting to win, and I'm positive that there are others who would rather go home than battle for godhood. I don't believe there are 'heroes' and 'villains' in a place like this...terms like that exist only in the mind. I've heard such thoughts before, but...never did I think I would be in a place that would force that belief on me. In a game full of killing, you're a hero and a villain at the same time."

"So, the Competition is just a shrine for those with bloodlust, heroic beliefs, and selfish desires. Does that make the Competition a bad thing...or maybe a good thing?"

none of that sounded very positive peylet

---

"Ummmmm..." Mariol tilted her head to the side. "Pretty green flowers! I want lots of pretty green flowers~!"

"Got it! Now, how about a theme...?" Flyri asked, flowers already starting to bloom all around the room.

---

AND THEN THERE WERE SOCK PUPPETS

Dicro was kind of surprised, almost forgetting that Ignis had the ability to poke in his mind. Nonetheless, he nudged Fray and whispered something to her, causing her to tense up. Mind creepers. In the flesh.

"Hey, Umbra."

Umbra glanced back at the two, a gesture apparently meaning 'continue'.

"Half of our alliance is kind of missing, so I figured now would probably be a good time to get them back together."

"Why don't you just text them?" Umbra asked, skeptical.

"Because that wouldn't be any fun. Duh." Dicro replied without missing a beat. Umbra turned back to Rahn and shrugged.

"Whatever."

Dicro proceeded to drag Fray out of the building. (':

"Huh. Well, that's weird. You were summoned by Raine or that other chick, right? So you're someone's Mirror? If you're a Tested's Mirror - I'm feeling that Sytel vibe on you, so I'm not surprised - that might have something to do with it...but I think the Test Reality puts limits on outsiders in general."



"I know what you mean...I feel guilty for saying it, but I'm really grateful I got Promoted...if only so I didn't have to participate in this anymore. I'd go insane..."

Seraye then turned her attention towards Raine, who had dragged Lilita over in a heartbeat.

"Is that so? Do elaborate."

Meanwhile, Dicro and Fray totally ninja'd their way out of the mansion and off towards the park.

---

Muri sprung up, apparently offended.

"Of course I'm one of Them! If I was a Tested...well, I would've won the Competition by now!" Muri huffed. After that, she hesitated to respond, but decided it would be in her best interest not to drive these guys away.

"As for why I'm here...well, fuck it. I'm bored as hell, to put it bluntly. I keep trying to stalk people to get my mind off of my hunger, but nooooo! You guys just keep running away! It's just rude!"

uh

"Well, that aside, I'm getting some funky vibes from Pinkie." she said, pointing at Cel. Cel proceeded to point at herself, prompting Muri to sigh.

"Yes, you, dumbass. Aside from the fact that I'm pointing to you, do you see anyone else wearing ridiculous amounts of pink?"

")':"

"That's aside the point, though. Her vibe's kind of jacking up your guys' vibes. In such a delectable manner, too...agh, damn it! Stop taunting me!"

what

---

Verity apparently developed a fantastic sense of timing (is that sarcasm or not...?) and the doll shop's cute little bell jingled. As implied, Verity walked through the door silently, making it rather unclear if she saw or heard any of that. If she did see anything, she sure wasn't mentioning it, although she looked rather solemn...

"Hey." she spoke up, letting that one word simmer in the silence for a moment. "We need to talk."

---

The two both raised an eyebrow.

"You...might be new?"

"I wouldn't be so shifty, man. I'm a cop."

AND HE SHALL SMITE THEE WITH THE POWERS OF JUSTICE AND TENTACLES

---

Ara was silent, but Aita's loli tears triggered quite a few loli tears of her own. After a moment, she wiped them away and tried to smile.

"I-I'm being really silly about this, a-aren't I? If Ciess saw me like this, t-then...s-she'd be really mad at me. She'd tell me that...she'd t-tell me that crying was stupid, and that...and that we should be used to things like this by now!"

Her thinly-veiled happiness dissolved quickly, and she proceeded to cry into Aita as if she was a warm, comforting pillow.

"B-But, Aita...why is it that...how come I feel even more afraid now i-if I've been through this before?" she asked rather pitifully. "S-Shouldn't we have made peace with all of this by now? Why does it still hurt?"

---

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE I DON'T WANT TO DIE I DON'T WANT TO DIE"

Dicro and Fray had arrived at the park by now, although Fray was far from willing.

"That's funny, I don't remember there being a cave here." he thought out loud, still attempting to drag Fray inside.

"NO NO NO NO NO YOU CAN'T MAKE MEEEEEEEE"

Suddenly recalling that he was a Marionettiste, Dicro promptly forced Fray to follow him. (':

Joe
[[Limbo]]

"You know a guy by 'de name of 'Shan'? It was that sunnvabitch 'dat did 'dis to me..." he simply replied, anger in his voice clearly visible.



Kim-Ko
[[Somewhere]]

"W-well...uh...I-I'd really like t-to try and f-find my friends again! C-can you help m-me l-look for them?" she asked, giving Shan a almost-puppy-dog-without-really-trying face.

Joe
[[Limbo]]

"I killed 'de guy's girlfriend," Joe bluntly stated.


Kim-Ko
[[idk somewhere]]

Kim-Ko paused for a moment, thinking about where they would actually be. Wait, were her eyes getting watery?

"I-I don't know...I lost t-track of them after y-you and Ciess h-helped me. W-well w-we saw Mr. Thorren...he was the b-big g-guy w-who c-came to the mansion. But I don't know w-where he c-could have gone. I-I'm not sure were Flyri went..." then she gasped, "W-what if they're dead already? she then added, sniffling.


WHAT WILL SHAN DO?

Charteuse
[[what is this I don't even]]

Normally Charteuse would LOVE the sight of clowns! But these clowns were scary, and so she freaked out. Trying to get rid of them as much as possible, she began to violently thrash at all of them that she saw.

"GET.AWAY.FROM.MEEEEEEE!" she screamed as she thrashed about.

Joe
[[Limbo]]

"I poisoned 'de broad while shes was drunk. 'Ain't dat 'ard for me..."

Kim-Ko
[[idk somewhere]]

Kim-Ko wiped her eyes and looked at the list, relieved that her friends were still alive. She looked up when Shank asked her about Flyri.

"I-I guess so. ...S-she's one of T-Them..."


Charteuse
[[what is this i don't even]]

At this point Charteuse was already tired from the thrashing. So she did the second best thing.

Run.

Away from them.

"STRANGER DANGER STRANGER DANGER!"

Joe
[[Limbo]]

Joe paused for a moment. He was thinking to himself about that time.

"Death," he said, the words leaving his voice in a raspy kind of way. "I 'dink 'dat death only 'appens when it's your time. 'De reason why is because I've 'ad a damn close near death experience."

He paused again before speaking. "I was meant to drown in 'de rivah...'dese two men gave me 'de cement shoe treatment and threw me in 'de river. One minute I lost consciousness, the next I wake up on 'de bridge drenched in watah. I can't even explain what 'appened," he concluded, voice not changing at all during his explanation, melancholy yet pleased.


Kim-Ko
[[idk somewhere -> Castle Oress]]

Kim-Ko followed Shan. Detailed.


Charteuse
[[game wurld]]

Charteuse looked over at the robot and...jumped it.

"GET AWAYYYYYYY" she cried as she failed to hurt the robot.

Joe
[[Limbo]]

"Care to show me 'de way, ladies?" he asked, grinning like a goof.


Kim-Ko
[[Castle Oress]]

"C-Castle...Oress? I-I think I've h-h-heard the name before..." she told Flyri, still looking around at the place.

"W-what are you doing here...a-anyway?" she then asked.



Charteuse
[[GAME WURLD]]

Charteuse finally got up again. However, this time she felt different. By different I mean normal. She began rubbing her head in pain, and began looking around where they were.

"...Where the hell are we?" she asked the robot lady.

Joe
[[Limbo]]

"Uh...I-I 'dink I got it," Joe said, almost surprised at the new fangled technology. The two would probably be surprised, seeing as they thought he had BALLS OF STEEL.

Pressing the button with Shan's name on it, he waited for the TV to do magic bro.

He felt the "flicker", but ignored it.




Kim-Ko
[[Castle Oress]]

"O-Oh dear...t-that's a lot to do! Wait uh...m-mind I ask w-who is g-getting married?"


And then giant olive. Naturally Kim-o hid behind Flyri, not knowing what the hell is going on.


"P-p-please don't h-hurt m-me...." she whimpered to Charles, too freaked out to care about the flicker.



Charteuse
[[idk lol]]

"Yeah yeah I'm fine..." Charteuse muttered, getting up and looking around. Then big noises. Then dat flicker.

"...do you hear that? ...and did you FEEL that?"

---

"Like this!"

With a snap of her fingers, the three would vanish and spontaneously appear in Castle Oress.

---

HOW MANY OF MY CHARACTERS CAN I SHOVE IN HERE

LET'S SEEEEEE

As stated above, Joe, Ola, and Mate would suddenly pop up inside of Castle Oress.

"How exciting~! I can just feel the love in the air... ♥"

"I feel danger..."

He and Sileny arrived not long afterwards - although He planned on going to the Doll Shop uninterrupted, He couldn't possibly ignore Mariol getting married. Something had to be up...but, at the same time, the thought was kind of adorable, which was entirely the reason Sileny decided to tag along. (':

Narelle arrived, too, but she's really just here to take up space. Yes.

Not far away from the strawberry sammiches, Cel was watching sadly as Aita devoured them all mercilessly. Thankfully, Vers took her mind off of her depression, only to apparently offend her.

"Subtle? Subtle?! One should never try and be subtle about pink, especially not someone like me! I mean, pink practically embodies the concept of femininity! It's only proper for a girl to wear as much of it as possible, whenever possible!" she ranted, imaginary (pink) fireworks going off behind her. Cel was so passionate about her pink that, for a moment, nothing existed but pink! No wedding, no people, just marvelous pink~!

She doesn't have a problem. She can quit any time she wants!

Ara was too focused on Aita to notice Vers, Lokk, and Cel over there, naturally.

"U-Um, Aita...shouldn't we focus on our mission?" she asked, trying her hardest not to sound rude.

"She has a point. We can't possibly focus on protecting people while bouncing! That kind of double-tasking is...impractical!"

Speaking of the bouncy house, Halyn's Alliance exited it suspiciously early, shrugging at each other over their phones. HMMMMMMMM

Meanwhile, Nika glanced over at the decorations with surprising nonchalance.

"I did not come here to engage in 'psychopathic' activities. I came here as a show of support, in a manner...to partially apologize for killing you. Only partially because...you seem happier now."

joe and co, him an sileny, PINK IS A WOMAN'S LIFE ):< aaaaaa robots, shouldn't we be on our guard, sorry for killing you bro

---

"Well, alright...I guess that means we're ready~! Oh, Charles, go downstairs and tell the groom that it's time to get this show on the road~!"

YEAAAAAAAAAAH WEDDING TIME

---

FLO seemed shocked by Durnam's behavior, and actually looked like she was going to angrily say something back...but she took a deep breath, reminded herself that she had a job, and reluctantly carried out Durnam's order/s.

GET IT

ORDERS AND ORDER

HEE HEE HEE HEE HEokay I'm done.

"Hell yeah! Let's go crash that shit!" Banny agreed, hopping out of the cafe. >:X

---

Muri stared at Koren for a moment, looking rather concerned, but she eventually shook it off. He might not have been completely normal, but this amount of normalcy was normal enough for her.

"Uh...huh. Well, whatever, I guess that makes sense. To the Mall, then!"

Both Koren and Cracka Jack (due to his proximity to the shadows) would find themselves dragged through the shadows and into the mall, just like that.

...Wait, so the shadows are, like, her digestive system, right? So does that mean she technically just ate them both and spit them back up or something? Am I looking too deep into this? ಠ_ಠ



Kilii rushed back into the room, now all wedding-ready. She was about ready to leave with Cinda and her frilly dress when she noticed that Skar and the others totally weren't ready.

"H-Hey! What are you doing just standing there for?! We have a wedding to go to!" Kilii scolded, attempting to stuff Skar into a manbear-sized tux. Where that came from, we'll never know...



Nago...appreciating something?! What is this I don't even...

Once Nago entered the door on the other side, he'd arrive in a room full of the usual blue roses and butterflies, but now there were a bunch of screens as well. And a table and chairs and another chair turned away from Nago at the other side of the table! There was also a plume of smoke originating from said turned-away chair, which climbed towards the ceiling in a manner that almost seemed...dream-like. The smoke seemed to cut through the air like silk, flowed like water, and had an appearance definitely unlike traditional smoke. It filled the room with a scent not unlike lavender; it was instantly relaxing.

For a moment, it seemed like everything would just simmer in silence. Gradually the smoke tapered off, and a voice sounded from behind the chair.

"State your business."

---

Fredericks puffed out his fluffy wittle chest and put his fluffy wittle paws on his fluffy wittle hips.

"Well, duh! That's why you should never underestimate anybody! Never know when someone's going to suddenly prove themselves to be competent!"

"Well, I'm sure there'll be food at the wedding! I suppose that's not very classy, though, so I'd otherwise recommend That One Cafe. Here, this should be of help..."

Poice rummaged through his pockets for a moment before pulling out a convenient map of the Test Reality.

"There you go! Anything else you need before Fredericks and I take off?"

---

Loret obviously followed Mr. Thorren along...but thanks to Julias, she quickly went into Kinet mode and got the fuck away from that cave. (':

Halyn, meanwhile, shrugged and proceeded to text her beloved assistants the ambiguous message of 'leave before it ends'. Well, b4. Larya, on the other hand, pulled out popcorn for her and her groupies, free of charge! For now.

---

"Admire..."

Peylet stopped again, apparently reminiscing about something. For a moment she looked lost, but she quickly found herself...and, displaying a mix of gratitude and sorrow, hugged DBA.

D'AWWWWWWWW

---

Who knows, dood?

The Prinny Chilly took off immediately, Arella revealing herself soon after.

"Cocky little punk. Damn lolis never get scared these days. I suppose I could just kick your ass, then...that'd make you cry, right?"

Cornet and Spinet had somehow managed to stay in their badass stances this whole time...

---

The Chilly proceeded to be excited in a totally detailed manner! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay~!

---

Peylet raised an eyebrow, not recognizing that name.

"Ignis?"

---

Vitara shrugged.

"There must've been some kind of mass killing...I don't think I could find anyone in this mess...especially not a near-complete stranger!"

"ANYTHING FOR YOU BABE ;D"

"Of course, Mr. Thorren! Anything for a friend! What do you need?" Flyri asked, beaming.

"Why, I'm Poice, the original holder of that Oress! What an odd coincidence that I meet you, hm? Well, I'm sure we'll be the best of friends~! ♪" Poice introduced enthusiastically.

ಠ_ಠ ...

---

Neren nodded.

"Understood. I will return at a later time, then; I am needed in Limbo." she stated, vanishing away from her loli groupies to do boring stuff like paperwork. Pssssssssssh.

Shan and Umbra both looked at Aita like she was a crazy loli. 'Cause she is. Once Kim-Ko spoke up, Shan turned his attention towards her. He cringed immediately, not used to being around pitiful lolis (he didn't hang out with Ara nearly enough).

"Well, I'd assume they all died."

wow way to be comforting shan

"Of course, Flyri is one of Them, so I'm sure she's fine. As for the others...well, I saw mostly Them and ghosts anyways. Everyone else...well, I guess they probably burned fast." he shrugged, clearly needing to practice his loli conversation skills.

---

Totally ignoring all of the other crazy shit happening around them, Mariol cheerfully watched the King make things shiny and happy again. (:

"I'm sure we'll have the prettiest kingdom ever! ♥"

Lilita backed away from Beatrice, not having had any positive experiences in the Test Reality. There was no way she would trust a potato loli!

"U-Uh...well, yeah, I'm glad you're okay! 'Cause...um, well...yeah...the, uh...the hurt goes away after a while, you know? Just gotta let it go..." she coughed, prepared to go all Mirror Goddess on Beatrice's ass (but not literally, because Beatrice would like that).

"Well, I'm doing fine! Just showing my pal Dan around. And you?" :3

Has he forgotten everything that just happened...? :3

---

"Hey, don't give me that look! It's not my fault that you don't pay attention when stuff blows up!" Larya huffed.



"Uh...fuck, that's a good question! Well, we could probably go over by where that shit blew up. The magnificent bastard's probably still chillin' there." Banny shrugged. >:X

---

Once he got close enough, Vers would probably notice Cel peering through the nearest window, any situation-indicative expression blocked by her MAGICAL BINOCULAR HANDS.

---

FLO went to the mysterious back room and stuff.

THIS SHORT POST IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NINJA-ING ME

HMPH ):<

Actually it's because I'm lazy, but whatevs.

---

The new day finally began, probably causing time paradoxes everywhere. I don't think that's a bad thing, though, since we just pleased the mighty Tayl and will live to keep our monies~ another day.

Anyways, it was completely cloudy...but instead of being gray, the clouds seemed almost unrealistically white and fluffy. It started snowing almost immediately, although said snow was light and pretty much melted the instant it touched the ground. Hopefully that wouldn't be an all-day thing, 'cause this RP needs more snowballs. Yes.

---

"I suppose that's a good point, but I wonder what 'Ignis' is supposed to mean. If it's linked to that fire, then I guess it's best if we don't find out."

Peylet suddenly took notice of the sudden change in whether, immediately freaking out because she's apparently never seen snow.

"W-What is this? What's going on?!" she asked rather frantically.

SILLY PEYLET

---

Loret promptly rose her hand and jumped!

"Ooh, ooh, me! I'm Loret Chicane~!" she exclaimed excitedly. After Mr. Thorren spoke up, she blinked.

"Oh, don't worry, Mr. Thorren! I'm sure he's friendly!"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAoh she's serious.

---

Ara watch Aita bring inspiration to little girls everywhere from the hallway, eyes wide with awe at her loli counseling skills.

Shan, on the other hand, simply blinked and waited to see if Aita's advice did anything to calm Kim-Ko down. HE'S SO GOOD WITH LITTLE GIRLS

---

oh king, you so smooth

"Ooh, a vacation~!" Mariol clapped. "Well, where should we go? ♥" she asked.

Presumably, He vanished at some point to go do paperwork or something. Also Raine glanced over at the couple quite disconcertingly, while Lilita was distracted from Beatrice by the chaotic sounds coming from outside.

---

Silence.

Halyn's Alliance still didn't get the context and were therefore doubly shocked, while Seraye and Exuro's Chilly were actually quite pleased (temporarily pushing away the thought that Ignis was probably going to come back for revenge at some point).

"At least that shit was kind of badass..." Banny commented as he hopped to the Park with his bunny bro. >:X

After not-actually blinking, Bunny shrugged and looked up at Dan. :3

"See? He got what he deserved! Or something, I guess. The Test Reality is kind of whacky with karma, but you know. But I guess that's not totally relevant to our conversation." :3

---

Fray nearly had a heart attack when Ignis appeared, and was even more D: upon noticing Julias' condition. Needless to say, she wished she was still asleep. Larya, on the other hand, kept making angry faces at Fellmund.

On the other other hand (for this mysterious being has many hands), Halyn didn't care about Ignis' demanding tone. No, no, the reason she shot up to answer his command so quickly was because who the hell thought it was a good idea to fuck with her Julie?

Needless to say, Halyn's reality-bending powers were immediately put to use. Her darling Julie's wounds would begin healing themselves at an impressive rate, and so Halyn turned her attention to Ignis, arms folded and gaze capable of devouring puppies (which isn't something eyes are usually able to do).

"W-Who did this to him?! Don't they know how precious and fragile he is?! Someone must be punished!"

Clingy creeper phrasing aside, Halyn seemed quite generally angry. Julie is serious business.

This post contains lots of italics. They're pretty sexy.

---

Flyri was too stunned by Mr. Thorren's response to follow his orders, and Loret seemed rather concerned.

"M-Mr. Thorren, I really don't think that such retaliation is necessary...! I admit he seems rather shifty, but making him angry...i-it doesn't really seem like that's a good idea..."

MEANWHILE

"Well...sort of. I was in the last Competition and got Promoted..." Poice began, suddenly noticing Dan.

"Oh! Hello there, mailman guy! Sure, I suppose I can take you to Opine now! Here, Current Poice, talk to my wife!" he said, shoving Kilii (who waved) in front of Joe. what

Anyways, Poice led Dan over to the trippy elevator that lead to There, adjusting his glasses as they went.

"I don't believe I saw you at the wedding! I take it you saw the explosion? Magnificent, wasn't it?! Ah, too bad I died before I got to observe it properly..." he frowned, because weird things like that make him sad. I wouldn't try to understand, I really wouldn't.

---

Cel was about to respond affirmatively, but then Skar and Beatrice showed up. She (who was far from a loli, not even a semi-loli!) wasn't sure how to respond to Beatrice, but Skar had her immediately clinging to Vers. (':

---

Larya glared at Fellmund, but was still clearly focused on getting monies~. Monies~ = serious business. Apparently less serious business than Ignis, though, since she stopped trying to rob Dicro once he spoke up. Speaking of Dicro, he seemed rather disinterested in everything going on around him, but it was hard to tell if he just didn't care, this texting session was extremely intriguing, or if he was still completely out-of-it.

Obviously, Halyn was already too close to Julias. Really, that just goes without saying. You probably assumed that right away. It's just a given, you know? I'm not trying to add to my word count, what are you talking about?



"Holy shit, that's fucking awesome! Man, I wish I had badass dreams like that. Can't even remember my fucking dreams. They're probably shitty anyways, whatever. Anyways, what the hell are we going to do today?" >:X

---

FLO ENJOYED THE SHINY

---

Laughing, She simply stared at the floor. I'm pretty sure She's digging this. ಠ△ಠ

Also, Poice's experiment didn't wear off. Wheeeeeeeeee~!

---

"Probably figured more people would show up to the wedding. Living Tested, anyways."

ONE LOLI ADVENTURE LATER, Umbra looked over at the Diabetes Duo™.

"Not sure. It still doesn't seem like the Competition is at the point where my 'intervention' is necessary, so we probably won't be doing any dirty work today. Well, unless we're threatened, of course." she shrugged.

As if he absolutely couldn't not make a comment about this, one of Shan's eyes snapped open and he spoke up:

"Really? After last night, I figured you'd be interested in finding your b---"

Umbra proceeded to chuck a conveniently-placed heavy book at Shan's face. (':

"Well, that was rude."

those two don't have hard-to-tell-apart text colors at all

Also Puppy totally exists, I didn't forget about him and only remembered him when Mantis said 'puppy' or anything PSSSSSSSSSSH!

---

Raine simply blinked - appearing to be in astonishment - but Lilita rushed right over.

"Really? How romantic! ♥ You'd have to go on your honeymoon either here in the Test Reality, in Limbo, or over There, though...I don't think Opine would let you leave the Test Reality." she frowned.

---

Peylet nodded and continued walking along...until she bumped into an invisible wall. There was clearly more stuff beyond it, but Peylet couldn't make the wall budge.

"Hmm. I suppose this is it."

How anticlimactic.

---

Seraye slumped into her chair upon arrival, while Exuro's Chilly decided to follow...Flare, since Exuro was asleep and stuff. Sleeping people are boring.

Anyways, assuming Flare's door was closed, he'd tap on it with his adorable Chilly paws. If it was open, then she'd have an adorably concerned chinchilla just kind of hovering by her doorway. But not literally, because those little Chilly wings are far from efficient. But I digress, witty commentary doesn't mix well with depressing Doll Shops.

---

GSG WOULD RESPOND BUT HER CHARACTERS AT THE RANDOM BODY OF WATER ARE STILL WAITING FOR LL

I'LL SHOVE SOMEONE IN HERE SOON PROBABLY ):

~Day 7~

Mr. Thorren
~Limbo~

Mr. Thorren's anger turned into tears. Yes.

"S-sorry.. I d-don't know what came over me.." he sobbed, falling back onto the couch, spreading his hands out over his eyes. "Go on.. take my friends away.. they don't need me. All I ever do is endanger them anyways.."

he so sad :(

Skar & Beatrice
~Ritzy Apartment Building~

Beatrice had decided that all she needed was another woman, loli or not, when Vers decided to be paranoid and blow the ground up.

Instead of doing stuff that was nowhere near harmful to anything related to Vers, Skar and Beatrice walked all ghostily through the debris and outside.

"That son-of-a.. what the hell was that for?!" Beatrice shouted. "I mean, sure you tried to kill him and everything at one point but.. were ghosts! We can't harm him at all! And I was just about to act all cheerful and stuff.. which I hate. Gaahh.. Come on, hairball, let's go find someone who isn't going to try and kill us. Even though we technically can't die. Bu-"

Skar smacked that bitch. Which fucked with her potato-y complexion. He also gave her a stare that basically said "SHUT THE FUCK UP" and he continued walking towards the next building.

Meanwhile, Beatrice huffed and pouted, while her face magically got all better and stuff.

"SOMETIMES, BITCHES NEED TO LEARN TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!" shouted Benny.

Charles
~That One Cafe~

sleeping!Charles found himself floating through into a certain cafe, waking up just before he ran into Her. Mainly because a cookie-bee ended up running into him, which Charles ended up punching into the wall. Apparently the creations of one Oress can see the creations of another Oress. How strange. But either way, Charles glared at Koren.

"I say, are you the master of these little bee creatures?"

Fellmund
~The Park~

"Fine, fine.." Fellmund sighed.

AND THEN BITCHSLAP

And so Fellmund punted Spark towards the rock wall. >:|

hey you attacked me without a chance of dodging so I'm getting even >:3

Benny
~The Park~

"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW. UNLESS.." Benny thought to himself for a moment, then continued, "ARE THERE ANY OCEANS AND SHIT AROUND HERE? ANY BEACHES? IF THERE IS, MAYBE WE COULD FIND SOME BITCHES TO TROLL THERE. BEACHES ATTRACT BITCHES LIKE CRAZY, BRO."

this is actually all just a semi-elaborate plan to get benny and sprinkles united

Ricardo and Q
~HFBW GAME WURLD~

"..Oh right." Brain-Jar Ricardo said, as he pulled out his remote and pressed the biggest button he could find on it.

Suddenly, a giant zipper popped out of nowhere, zipping downwards, revealing a totally trippy time-rip. Tentacles shot out from the hole, grabbing onto Charteuse, Q and Ricardo and pulling them in. The ride through the time rip could be described as a mixture of a really bad acid trip, sexy bath time, being the star of a hentai film, and being stuck in a freezer filled with fishbears. Yes. TESTED ANATOMY MEANT NOTHING WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE TIME-RIP

But finally, the three had arrived back in Bunny's lair.

"Soo.. what now?" Ricardo asked the probably-traumatized Charteuse.

that's a good question

---

Poice paused for a moment (gee my characters sure like pausing for a moment), not entirely sure how to not make Opine sound like, at best, a creepy chick who's watching your every move.

"Well, let's see...she really digs butterflies and blue roses, and she always wears a mask...and I guess you should really just exercise caution around her! I don't think she's a bad person, but she...well, she's really touchy about her ideals, and she can kind of bend reality to her will because of this wish she made that allows her to do anything in order to make the Competition 'perfect' whether it's terrible or wonderful or involves other Realities or all of Entirety...but I really don't think she's that bad!"

wat



"Of course, Mr. Thorren! Anything for a friend! ♥" Flyri beamed, clasping her hands and promptly...Them-ing the two back down to the Test Reality.

Vitara, meanwhile, nodded and entered the elevator (HOW CAN THERE BE TWO SEPERATE ELEVATORS IN ONE, WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN) to There. Loret followed, but looked rather nervous.

"W-Who did you say we were visiting, again?" she asked.

MEANWHILE (TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)...

"Yeah, see, there was this big wedding, but someone attacked it. That's where most of us came from." said the tentacle monster standing next to Charteuse.

oh hi stan

MEANWHILE PART 2 (3, technically)...

"H-How could you split up lovers like that?!" Kilii gasped, appalled at the thought. YOU'RE SUCH A JERK JOE, KILLING PEOPLE LIKE THAT

WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS, THE COMPETITION?

---

Mr. Thorren and Flyri would arrive in front of the destroyed Flower Shop which, upon the snap of Flyri's fingers, began rebuilding itself and returning to its former glory.

"See? Soon everything will be back to normal~!" she assured him.

---

"No one knows about the second floor. It doesn't really exist, or at least that's as close as we can get to an answer! I guess we could investigate it, but it might be dangerous if we find anything out..." Ara replied, stopping herself when Aita brought up Umbra's resemblance to Opine. Ara naturally looked rather anxious, Shan looked surprised, Puppy looked like a Chilly, and Umbra seemed pretty skeptical.

"How can you tell what she looks like? She's never taken off that damn mask before, at least not from what I've seen."

Kim-Ko officially owed Aita her life, since the talk of Opine had distracted her from book-throwing. Adorably, Shan had bothered to cover her face anyways. SO LOVING AND CARI/facebook lololololololololol puns

Once the threat of facial destruction had passed, Shan backed off and replied in a quiet tone:

"Yes. I wouldn't mention it around her, though. Umbra's...touchy about her relationships."

YOU THINK

Then Beatrice walked in. She got srs bizness looks from Umbra and Shan, Ara looked curious but you know strangers are scary and stuff, and Puppy continued to be a Chilly.

---

"Okay!" Mariol jumped, excited.

"Well, what kind of places do you like? We could go to space or underwater or to a pretty place with lots of flowers or to a castle or to somewhere shiny or somewhere with lots of sweets or a volcano or...!"

Mariol continued to ramble about 'fun' places to go. Raine looked at Mariol like she was insane, while Lilita found Mariol's silliness to be adorable and charming. (:

---

"Sounds pretty cool, but there's just one problem; I'm not a Manipulator, buddy. Think you're getting me confused with Niya and past plots and stuff, breaking of the 4th wall totally intentional. I just rape the timestream beyond reason." Larya shrugged. "I'm pretty sure I can take care of those weapons either way, though. I'm just that cool!"

---

BUT TCC, SPRINKLES (AND NIYA, BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT BITCH) IS STUCK IN POST-LIMBO WITH PRINCESS

THOU SHALT BE DOOMED TO POST LIMBO AS WELL UNLESS ALL NON-SPRINKLES CHARACTERS ARE IGNORED AND THE BUNNY DUO LEAVE AT SOME POINT WITHOUT THE ALMIGHTY FREAKIN' SPRINKLES

ACCEPT Y/N

---

She turned to look at Charles, which naturally sent the FLO fleeing. The grin on her face was...unholy, to say the least.

"Well, good morning to you, too! What brings you here on such a fantastic day?"

terror terror terror

---

"People are weird." :3

---

"Definitely. If you ever see her...yeah, don't. Just avoid her at all costs!" the Chilly nodded. "As for people who can talk to dead people...yeah, there's tons of them around here! I mean, most of the Tested have connections with people who pretty much invented ghosts! Or something. But, yeah, a lot of people like that hang around here. Why do you ask?" he asked.

---

"Probably. They seem to be really strict about keeping us in the Test Reality." Peylet replied.

---

GSG POINTED TO HER OOC POST WHEEEEEE

"Normalcy is quite overrated, my friend!" Poice exclaimed. "Around here, what you consider normal is completely abnormal! I don't think Opine would be too incredibly strange for someone of your tastes, though...she's much too quiet and to-the-point for her abnormalities to properly shine through in a typical situation!"

Poice paused (AS MY CHARACTERS REALLY LIKE TO DO), definitely not stalling so we can get Nago's group in and out so Dan can get his Opine time or anything NOPE.

"Say, what did you come here to deliver, anyways?"



"...So, what, a crazy chick killed you with rocket sheep? You sure you didn't just hit your head or something?"

Kilii folded her arms.

"Well...I guess I can't really get mad at you for that. The Competition forces people to do some pretty horrible things..." she sighed, frowning.

"So, um...who exactly are you, then?"

"Huh? Uh...probably, I guess. Just go through that door," Stan pointed at the door in question, "And they should be able to turn you into a ghost pretty quick."

---

Cel fgsfgdlgf'd and shot up, not expecting to get a bucket of cold water poured on her. <s>VERSHOLE )':</s>

"O-Okay, okay, I'm up! L-Let's go..." she said, shivering.

---

"Wait a minute," Dicro spoke up, surprisingly not immediately saying yes to a MAGICAL SUBCONSCIOUS ADVENTURE. "What exactly is it that you want me to do in there? I'm running low on Life Energy, you see...I'm not really going to be able to do anything that would require offense or defense, and I probably won't be able to...well, do the convenient subconscious stuff I usually can. At least, not today." he explained, already sounding exhausted.

---

Shan was struck silent as an oddly unquestioning Umbra (who naturally had to get one of her many sexy coats before they left) and a confused/conflicted Ara were dragged out by Aita. Once they were gone, he shifted his attention to Beatrice, staring at her warily as Kim-Ko decided to be friendly and stuff.

FRIENDSHIP NEVER SOLVES ANYTHING, at least in Shan's world.



For a while, there was just a lot of awkward silence. Umbra seemed pretty nonchalant about all of this, while Ara was squeezing Aita's hand so hard it was a wonder that it didn't just pop. Finally, though, she spoke up:

"U-Um, hey, Aita! Do you think Soleil is done with our costumes yet...?"

"Costumes?"

"Me, Aita, and Neren are superheroes, Lady Umbra~!" Ara explained, suddenly perking up. Super lolis (and Neren) make everything better! (:

---

"I wouldn't think so. In a place like this, you have to forgive and forget pretty quick...but I guess people really like questions around here. Well, either way, good luck! And if things don't turn out like you planned, I'm always here for you!"

KISS-UP

YOU JUST WANT TO GET SCRATCHED SOME MORE

---

"That's so convenient~!" Mariol beamed in a sing-song voice. As the two went along, the area around them began fading away, being replaced by an underwater landscape.

...Wait, what? That's not how They teleport over There, and this didn't look like a place in the Test Reality... ﾟ⊿ﾟ

---

"All right, then. Good luck." He saluted. Charteuse would almost immediately feel the sensation of falling, although it only lasted a split second. Once that split second was over with, Charteuse would find herself - now as a solid ghost - standing in front of the Ritzy Apartment Building. People were visible through the window, so YAAAAAAAY SOCIALIZATION

anyways new location herp derp

---

"That's exactly why I'm pissed." Verity mumbled, sharpening her knife with such ferocity that she probably wouldn't even care if it snapped in half. "Opine claims she just wants to make the perfect game. She acts like she wants to bring happiness and perfection, but that's all just a load of bullshit. Things were fine the way they were after the second Competition, but then Opine decided to just fuck everything up by making a new Competition and throwing in a bunch of incompetent dumbasses to play along, no offense."

Yeah, that...that doesn't really make things seem less offensive.

"If she brought in some intelligent, patient people who were actually worthy of being Promoted, I wouldn't be so upset. I could understand that. At this point, though, it seems like she's trying to make everything worse just so she can keep the almighty power her Request gave her. And that...it sickens me. Just thinking about it makes me want to vomit blood." she scowled.

"Being impatient is great for all of the idiots down there, but it's hell for the people who actually know what's going on. The impatient people just keep getting further out of blind luck and brutality, while the people worthy of become one of Them are doomed to self-destruction; they'll either have to sink below their normal levels to survive, or their rationality will lead to their demise."

Sheesh.

Haters gonna hate.

---

Kilii was quickly reduced to an anxious mess of hand-wringing and lip biting.

"W-Well...my problem is that I'm...I'm a succubus, you see. But there must've been something off with my soul because when I was converted in the first place...well, I retained most of my humanity. Very, very rare amongst succubi, at least the variety I'm a part of. I can't say I'm completely human though...every once in a while I lapse into my 'natural' mode, and Poice happened to meet me during one of those periods. But we wasn't appalled nor excited...he seemed quite curious, rather. In fact, instead of focusing on that fact that I was essentially trying to assault him, he wanted to investigate my soul to compare it to the souls he had previously studied.

And, you see, that's why I got into soul science! I was disgusted with my species, and wanted to find out if there was some way to revert a succubus back into their original form. Nothing traditional worked, so I started studying souls to see why I ended up different. I was hoping I would find something in myself that would allow the creation of a cure! So when Poice said that so nonchalantly, I just...well, I couldn't say no! I snapped out of it and we agreed to become partners and have been studying soul science together ever since!" she explained, going back into dreamland again. Aaaaaand then she remembered Joe's first question.

"Hm? Ah, well, you see, he had more than one! But I'm afraid that's classified information; we keep the 'conditions' top secret so someone can't attempt to train themselves or fake the qualities needed for Promotion!"

PSSSSSSSSSH

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG IF PEOPLE KNEW HOW TO FAKE BEING AN AWESOME PERSON SO THEY COULD GAIN ALMIGHTY POWER

I MEAN REALLY, IT COULDN'T BE THAT BAD

"I suppose that you do have a point. However, you have to keep in mind that, such rampant brutality gives people the time to shine, and show that they're above such lowly acts. Besides, impatience, in warfare, almost always leads to mistakes. These impatient people, as you refer to them, are only biding their time until someone capable takes all of them down in one stroke. Either that, or they'll fight each other and thin out their numbers. I'd capitalize on that myself, if I wasn't already dead. Although, there isn't anything against provoking people..." said Koren, drifting away into somewhat sinister thoughts until a potential, but nevertheless disastrous possibility snapped him out of it.

"As for Opine, well, someone's going to wreck her plans. It's only a matter of time before someone gets pissed off with her manipulative attitude and begins to formulate plans to get back at her.

Joe sighed due to two reasons; one, he wish he didn't hear Kilii's life story and two, she wouldn't tell him how one could become one of Them.


"Well," he said, sighing afterwards, "'dats a shame then. Cause you know...I'm already kinda' dead 'ere! So the information wouldn't be much use to me anyway! Ya' sure ya' can't just tell me in private somewhere?" he asked once more. Silly~

---

"I suppose. But that doesn't make me any happier about the situation." Verity mumbled.

"As for Opine...I don't doubt that people are already plotting against her, but I'm concerned that most of those revolutionary-wannabes don't fully realize that she's a being above gods. Hell, she's practically beyond Them thanks to her Request! I want Opine gone as much as the next person - minus the old Tested who don't seem to understand how miserable their existences are - but it's not like we can just storm through her doors and chop her head off or something." she explained.

---

Silly Joe, you can't expect to ask one of my characters questions and not get a life story answer!

Kilii looked increasingly anxious as Joe persisted, as if talking about the 'qualities' was the worst crime one of Them could commit. Shifting uncomfortably, she tried beating around the bush:

"U-Uh, well, you see...I can't tell you because this isn't the end! I mean, Opine's either going to let you all go home in the end, or she'll erase you guys from existence...I doubt this'll be the last time you die! And so I can't tell you, you see!"

what

"You know, Opine may be above Them, but she's still got emotions. She's no better than a typical person, if you ask me. If people want to be able to take her down, they're going to have to play a very, very dangerous game. Probably even get involved in some double-crossing," said Koren, pulling out a conveniently-placed pocketwatch.

"Well, would you look at the time! I've been here quite a while. I should be off. Ciao!"

With that, Koren frolicked towards the door to the interview room and kicked it down like the champ he was.

---

Is it a bad thing if the world 'ciao' forever makes me think of Dimentio?

The occupants of the interview room (He was noticeably absent, holy shit is He going to do non-Limbo related things??!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?) all glanced blankly up at Koren, apparently not appreciating Koren's door-kicking.

Joe

"...WHAT?!" Joe asked, suddenly stopping his interrogating of this secret information.


"'Dis shit still 'ain't done yet? And you're saying 'dis...Opine person can basically kill all of us if she wants?! I neva' asked for 'dis what 'de hell?!" Joe rambled, sounding a mix of angry and hysterical, angsterical? Hyngry? Who knows...

---

Kilii covered her mouth. WHOOPS

"W-Well, you see, that's what Opine did with everyone in the first Competition who didn't get Promoted. She just sort of dropped them into a kind of nonexistence. B-But she put them back into the reincarnation cycle a while back, so it's not like they're gone forever or anything like that! I'm sure that's the worst that would happen to you!" she explained frantically, trying to make things sound better than they were.

"A-And, I don't think Opine would do that to you guys...I-I mean, she left the second group of Tested here and they're fine, right? I'm sure you'll all be okay!"

I don't know, that still seems worthy of angstericalness to me.

Koren just walked over to a chair and sat down, as if kicking down a door like that was absolutely normal.

"Uh, well, I'd like to be sent to somewhere without crazy people. There's plenty of crazies down at the Test Reality that'll probably get me killed, so I'm definitely not going there. Anywhere but there's just fine, actually, so long as I'm protected against crazy people. Yeah."

Joe

Joe was panting now, cause he was tired from the ranting he was doing. "You...you betta' not be shittin' me. She betta' not erase us..." he told her, mostly to get some reassurance.

"And...when da' hell does 'dis end for us then?" he then asked her on the spot.

---

The group looked at each other, and then Ola and Mate burst into laughter. Sileny would've laughed if she was capable, but she had to settle for writing down [lol]. Neren didn't believe in laughing, at least not while on the job and away from lolis.

"First and foremost, you can't die if you're already dead. Death shouldn't be a concern of yours. Second, there is no such thing as a sane place in the chain of Realities you're permitted to go to. The only other place we can send you is over There, which isn't much better than the Test Reality. If you have a problem with this, you may take it up with Opine Frazil."

---

"Well, the Competition ends when all of the Tested die and come here. The winner gets Promoted alongside anyone else deemed worthy, and then Opine decides the rest. D-Don't worry too much about it, though! I'm sure she wouldn't just get rid of everyone like that! Even if she wants to, most of Us are really fond of you guys...we wouldn't let her eliminate you, at least not without a fight!" Kilii attempted to reassure him.

Joe

]


Joe calmed down a little bit, yet Kilii could still sense that he was a bit distraught of what he had just been told. He paced back and forth again in front of Kilii, showing no signs of stopping.

"So...okay...ah jeez I can't believe 'dis...if she's gonna send us all home for the ones who aren't Promoted and shit, then what's 'da point of the Competition in 'da first place?" he asked, almost seeming out loud, but it was directed to Kilii.

---

Kilii jumped at Joe's question, and briefly wondered if it was okay to mention this. There was nothing about it in the rules and the answer was widely known over There...so she couldn't really get in trouble, could she?

"Well, first off, Opine might not just send you home. She might do what she did with the people from the second Competition: just leave them in the Test Reality to participate in future Competitions and the sort. But, to answer your question..."

She looked around for a moment, making sure no one was watching. Sure, it might not be against the rules, but...

"If I tell you, then you'll have to swear on your soul to keep it a secret, okay? I can't just let things like this spread through the Test Reality!"

---

Our favorite little Pikachu would wake up in the black-and-white streets of Limbo, compelled to walk through the wall leading to Limbo's lobby as all dead Tested did.

...But at least he had his videogames with him! (:?

(Spark)

So... Yeah. Spark walked through the wall too the lobby. And he was happy that he still had his videogames!

So much detail in this post. :')

Joe

"Pfft. Of course I can keep a secret darlin'," he said, reassuring Kilii. "In 'da business I was in, bein' a snitch was no good, ya see? So I ain't tellin' anyone anythin'!"

"Whatever. Just send me somewhere with the least crazy."

---

That busty receptionist would promptly point Spark over to the interview room and its doorless goodness, where he'd be able to see Koren chillin' with the Reapers.

YOU CAN JUST FEEL HOW MUCH EFFORT WENT INTO THIS POST

---

Snitches get stitches!

Despite that, Kilii was still clearly uncomfortable. This was a pretty big deal: most of the old Tested didn't even know about this, and the ones who did know hung out with Them and probably wouldn't tell anyone anyways. Sure, Joe claimed he'd keep the secret a secret, but could she really trust him? They had just met, after all. Kilii was pretty decent on getting a grasp on people with a glance, but she couldn't help but doubt Joe.

Still, even if he lied and spread it around, it couldn't possibly do that much harm, right? It wasn't a particularly evil purpose, nor could it really change the flow of the Competition...

"Very well. The purpose of the Competition..." she began, presumably pausing for dramatic emphasis.

"...to create more of Us. And not through people winning the Competition...in fact, the people who strive to win the Competition - usually even the winners - tend to be the kind of people We don't want among Us. You see, one of Our rules is to refrain from messing with inferior beings, so when Opine brought up the Competition, there was a lot of conflict. Even with her Request, no one wanted it. The only reason Everyone finally allowed it was because Opine decided to make her game into something that would improve the lives of those who lived in it, something that would enhance souls and make the Traits shine through." she explained.

"Going by that, the first Competition was a disaster; I wasn't alive back then, but I've heard nothing good about it. It ended in tragedy and the winner terrifies us all...and although the person the winner forcibly Promoted is a valuable member to Our community, there's a reason that there was a 15,000 year gap between that Competition and the last one." Kilii continued.

"But the second Competition...by Opine's standards, it was brilliant. Two people were Promoted right off the bat, at least two people respectfully declined Promotion offers, a significant number of the Competitors are already worthy of Promotions, and - most importantly - We just love them to death! ♥ It really represented the purpose of the Competition; We're not trying to make gods, We're trying to make fantastic souls. Then Opine decided to make a third one...and, although the purpose of raising more of Us is still the point, no one's quite sure if she made it because she wanted to see another second Competition, or if it was because the second one wasn't good enough for her." she finished, looking a bit calmer than she did at the beginning of her speech.

"But, there you have it. The Competition exists to essentially grow 'perfect' souls."

dayum

---

"You're there." Neren said bluntly.

DETAILS

(Spark)

So, yeah. details, details. Spark pretty much walked over to the interview room and stuff. So, yeah. Not much to add lulz.

Except for the fact that he said to Koren, "Hiya! :)" ... How do you pronounce that anyways?

Joe just stood there dumbfounded. This was an...odd revelation to take in. Hell, he didn't know how to feel!

"So basically...'dis whole t'ing is to make us betta'...souls? Like to betta' our morality or somethin'?" he whispered to Kilii.

---

As with everyone else who died in the Test Reality - unless Exuro's death by Ignis resulted in him going somewhere else in which case this post is irrelevant - Exuro would end up in the all-too-familiar street of Limbo. You should know by now how it goes - walking through walls, fancy offices, all that jazz. Limbo really hadn't changed much since the last time he was here.

Except, of course, this time there wasn't a submissive Nette in a maid outfit and an adorable little Aita there with him. Good times, good times.

Well, not for Exuro, but...

"No, I'm not. Don't you dare mock me! I know a spell that'll show your true form! A cave rat taught it to m- Wait, no, I don't know that. Never mind," said Koren, leaning back in his chair.

And then Spark entered.

"You know, you're pronouncing it wrong. It sounds more like ..." he said, which was followed by some incomprehensible gibberish. Presumably the actual pronunciation of ":)"

---

Kilii shook her head.

"Not quite." she said, her voice louder now; anyone listening in would find their conversation a lot more ambiguous now.

"A good soul doesn't necessarily make a good person. Take Arella, for example; I don't know if you've met her, but she's essentially an evil angel who treats the chinchillas you see running around like slaves...and the rest of Us don't get much better treatment from her. Yet, despite all of that, her soul is ideal." she explained. "Even the most immoral of people can be Promoted as long as they possess the qualities We look for. Keep in mind, of course, that We much prefer the company of those with some sense of morality...basic manners, at least. We're more than happy to chat with a psychotic murderer if they don't leap over the table and strangle Us in mid-sentence. Manners aren't exactly a dominant factor when it comes to Promotions, though."

---

[I think it's supposed to sound more like ":)"]

While Ola and Mate quietly disagreed on the pronunciation of :), Neren remembered that they actually had jobs and stuff. PSSSSSSH, YOU'RE NO FUN, NEREN

UNLESS YOU'RE BEING A MAGICAL GIRL IN A LOLI GROUP

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Neren turned out to be a lesbian pedo or someth---oh, shit, were we talking about something relevant?

And now you know how Neren feels.

"Pardon me for a moment, Mr. Verrome. The recently-deceased must take priority for the sake of order." she said, turning towards Spark.

"Good afternoon..." Neren glanced down at blarrrrrrrrrgh more paperwork, "Spark, I believe? We'll get this out of the way quickly. I just need you to answer two simple questions. One, how did you die? Two, what did you think of death before the Competition?"

(Spark)

"Oh gosh... Who should I listen to, then? I'M SO CONFUSED ON HOW TO PRONOUNCE ':)'" Don't worry, Spark, I feel the same way.

"How I did... I basically bled to death after getting shot a bunch of times. What I thought about death before... I thought it was the worst thing that could happen, especially when you're really young. Back when I was still at home, I kept thinking that everyone would forget about me once I died, especially since I was 'strange.' Or at lease that's what they called me behind my back- oh god why am I ranting about this, I am so sorry!" Goddammit Spark I thought I told you to keep your answers short and sweet.

Deciding to listen to reason for once, Koren just sorta chilled there.

And this post totally isn't gonna be shorter than my other ultra-short Koren-related post. Why? Well, I'm going to be filling it up with fluff. Why? Because I can. Besides, why not? Actually, I just realized that I could probably keep this whole thing going for several pages if I decided to just talk about rocket sheep and how awesome they are, and stuff in something about Koren and insanity every now and then. But not today.

Why?

War, war never changes.

---

"Don't think much of it. It's very common for the recently-deceased to ramble. It's nothing I haven't dealt with before. Now, then, there's the matter of your afterlife. You have three choices: you can return to the Test Reality as a ghost, stay here in Limbo, or go over There as a sort of 'guest'."

details

(Spark)

"Well, I always wondered what is was like over There..." I think he's taking the third option. You know what this means? MISADVENTURE TIME, FOOLS.

"Ahh... So you guys are tryin' to make souls that are sane I guess is what ya tryin to get at...doesn't matter how much of an asshole 'de person is." he said to her, mostly to get clarification about the whole thing.

He looked around the room and back at Kilii for whatever reason. I guess he was still looking out for Ciess?

"Shit...I forgot 'dat bitch is still dead. She might be near..." he nervously thought to himself.


"Say um...a bit off topic 'ere. But since I'm...well dead an all, can I actually still be harmed at all that?" he asked.

---

"Very well. Just enter the elevator in the lobby and you'll be instantly taken over There. If you get lost, please kill yourself to return here."

That's some wacky advice you don't hear every day.

Also, details. So many of them.

---

"Well, I wouldn't exactly say sane, either," Kilii laughed, "But essentially, yes. As for your second question...sort of? If you go down into the Test Reality as a ghost, no. Over There you can be harmed, but not killed. Outside of this room you can't be harmed, but in any of Limbo's offices, you can be killed. In that case, you would just appear back outside on that street or sidewalk or...whatever it would be considered." she explained.

And then Ciess popped up behind Joe and strangled him to death.

Limbo
------

"Okay! :D"

And then Spark went over There via elevator in the lobby.

So much detail. Once he gets There, I could go on with how he's all excited and stuff, but I'm too lazy for that bullshit. Hell, I'm bullshitting at this very moment by just writing whatever so this post doesn't look short and crappy. Then again, I like to keep my posts short and sweet so people don't waste as much time-

WHY AM I STILL TALKING

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AND THEN MR. THORREN AND FLYRI APPEARED IN LIMBO

AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT

that's all you're getting