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Post by 0 on Nov 5, 2017 17:31:38 GMT
"That's sad," I say, with something of a snort, even as his grip tightens. 'Cause, actually, it's kinda funny. I giggle.
(But it is a little sad, I reflect upon remembering that I'd completely missed Halloween too. Holy. Shit. THEBESTTIMEOFTHEYEARANDI)
"It's prolly just 'cause yer dumb."
Twitch. No leaves. Yay!
Oh, there went a bone, clattering down the stairs.
"If it makes you feel any better, I'd heard that Halloween was cancelled. Too many kooks, not enough spooks."
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Post by Loner。 on Nov 7, 2017 18:13:31 GMT
The small widely spaced eyes on my pudgy face narrow.
Its not very funny missing Halloween. In fact it's really quite sad. I liked being able to play around like that.
"don't be dumb yourself. Cancelling it would be too tragic." My voice sounds way too whiny, but I've always had trouble not sounding like a kid. Can I even not now make a different impression?
"I might not even be able to enjoy Christmas at this rate." My gravity's effects are all over the place. If not for this place having different rules than than the earth realms regarding its destructibility, I would have caused a disaster already even against my own will. Its amazing that I've had any success not breaking form with how worked up I'm letting myself get.
Briefly my eyes track the falling bone. Whats with that anyhow?
annywaaays..
"you know something about what happened in the techy earth city, and its seriously thrown messed with my lifestyle. That's the real reason I missed Halloween, so I need to know the full story."
I'd let go of him if I didn't think he'd try and flee on me. He doesn't seem 100 percent well.
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Post by 0 on Nov 7, 2017 19:00:28 GMT
"Ew, why would you want to hang around some dying tree humming terrible songs?" I say when he mentions that most terrible of holidays. Well, after the pink-and-red one. dagfd
Maybe he meant to say "New Year's". They DO occur around the same time, eh? I can't imagine who would want that poor pine over a glass of wine and wild explosions.
Somethings pulls on me, and a part of me bloats up; with the guy's hands still around me, I turn into a veritable deflated lollypop. Made of black noise. Yum?
Geeze, what's up with his dumb gravity? Felt like he just swung it around, or lost a part of it. Idjeot.
"What d'ya mean? Ya don't remember?" eheheheheihardlyremembertoofudgesicles The event seems so distant now. Time never plays fair between universes, does it?
"You imploded, bud. Made a real black hole of yerself."
...wait--idear-- Still bloated up, all at once I release the energy that poured into from that flush of physics.
I esplode. The ballooned head above the guy's clenched fists burst apart, and additional material is pushed through like dandelion dust. Hopefully this will make me thin enough to slip through his fingers, but for a moment my senses go black in the effort.
Can't even tell if I'm flailing right to get back into the shadows.
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Post by Loner。 on Nov 7, 2017 21:47:17 GMT
"Its not the tree," that's a bore. "its the cookies and cakes and packages." I point out before noticing.
Oops I'm getting myself distracted again.
I turned into a true black hole and back. I knew that much. He'd said it before or something. But that's not what I even meant to get at. That's only one part of the story and I know it.
"I mean what happened to my beads, and how in the world did I get out of that state. In detail." I growled, This guy's the only one I know of who might know anything. I need to know exactly what happened and how if I want to find out a way to get my beads back, and a stable set of rules to exist by.
Before I got an answer, he popped like an exploding balloon. Surprise makes me loosen by grip just enough to drop him.
Darn it you are not getting away.
but by the time I move to catch him it's already too late.
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Post by 0 on Nov 7, 2017 22:12:36 GMT
I shan't panic. nonono
Swift as they are gone, my senses return. I breathe a sigh of relief, safely within the shadows.
I slip onto the wall, cracking a grin that splits the shadows therein. Freedom!
"Why should you care?" I say, rotating the grin in a lazy spin. I turn the crescent split into a weasel, bounding in place. "Obviously they're gone."
They're nowhere in sight of him, anyways. I honestly have no idea what happened to them--I remember now, they disappeared the second he turned black hole...right? Perhaps he'd consumed them, or broken them. What does it matter?
The weasel disappears in a whirl, and silently I creep towards the wall's edge. Now, what way had I come from...?
"A number reverted your implosion. I don't know what he did. Put you in a bottle, and I broke it." That sounds about right. I speak honestly; no reason to lie, my fun nearly through.
...The number. 1. thecut Did he know? Did that bastard do this to me on purpose!
No teleporting, no warping. My gatherings fallen through.
Why, I oughta oughta uhm...sumthin.
I flicker on the edge, trying to reconstitute my thoughts. Possibilities. Probabilities.
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Post by Loner。 on Nov 8, 2017 2:34:53 GMT
Why care, because I shouldn't even be able to stand here existing without them. I should be an unconscious black hole, no powers, no ability to walk around in any universe. Nothing.
But I'm not going to explain that all, only a part of it. "Because the beads kept the gravity stable. Now in all my favorite universes things get absorbed before I get to have fun with them. Its really not cool." I pointed out complaining. Part of the fun of being was messing with things and then eating them, but now most of the small things weren't worth while.
The shadow on the wall's words didn't make too much sense. A number...put me in a jar...?
Well maybe the number knows some stuff. "Where do I find him?"
I gotta take whatever clues I can get.
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Post by 0 on Nov 8, 2017 3:23:54 GMT
"Uh...," sayeth Ieth to his question, a-scratchin' at my head as me thoughts are interrupted.
Way back when I could teleport, I thought of where I wanted to go and was just...there--or was there more to it than that? Probably. Else why can't I do it NOW?
Either way, hard to give directions when you don't take any traditional routes.--(ordontpayattentionwhichwayyergoin) I must have before, though. If not to that house...to an older place?
Dig deep. Erm....
"The Wall maybe? Or try sendin' him a letter in a bottle, set it adrift in the great void sea!" Shucks, man, I should try that myself sometime.
"But, really," I continue, "do ya need the guy?" Much as a dumbass the guy was--actually--no, yeah, that must be why he wanted to do it. Do it doit do what? Did he want the beads back? Good golly gee, the MORON.
"Why don't cha just learn to control it yerself? Wouldn't that be more fun fer a guy like you? Trickin' folks instead o' bein' the fool yerself?"
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Post by Loner。 on Nov 8, 2017 5:39:52 GMT
I scowl, clearly annoyed. This guy wasn't getting it at all.
Can't he give me anything more valuable than some random and very outdated messaging tricks. I don't wanna rely on some silly chance odds. I'm trying to fix a serious problem here.
"Dude, its not just about fun. Its like...." I don't know a comparison that he'll actually be able to get. "Its like a puzzle without all the parts. So I really do want to find the guy, cause I can't just ignore them."
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Post by 0 on Nov 8, 2017 6:08:20 GMT
Khk...the face he makes--can't help but snicker at it.
I s'pose I get what he's sayin', but I still don't understand. Why should he want to find the number, if not for wanting to revert yet more--get those damnable beads back even? Maybe they were sentimental, or baby's first training wheels. Who knows, who cares.
I'm getting too tired to try runnin' through all the options.
The fact that he hasn't up and run oft seems to imply that my first set of directions weren't good enough. Again, I try to think, try to remember something substantial.
"The wall," I repeat, halfway exasperated. "If'n you can find it. There's an ol' wall somewhereabouts. In cities, stands out from the rest in one way or another. Get through it and 1'll instantly know yer there.
"Now," I say, "if you'll excuse me, I's gots me a pay phone ta find."
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Post by Loner。 on Nov 8, 2017 12:41:13 GMT
I give the wall a nice hard hit.
"Idiot I can't work with directions like that."
Come on give me details. Whats it look like, whats nearby? Bet you won't even try to give me a street name. Or better yet a clue I could use to make the warp.
Its clear I'm mad. If not for the wonky physics here I'd be sucking in things from miles away. The buildings and streets are fine, but small inconsequential things like that bone, and the leaves and loose pebbles are still starting to come towards me. Sure thats nature, but I definitely find myself getting more upset by it. Gravity does exactly what it should whenever I don't want it to.
Of course he wants to leave and of course I can't stop him. I wish I could run him through a cosmic paper shredder.
Of course that another thing I can't do.
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Post by 0 on Nov 8, 2017 17:40:03 GMT
Oh, my lord, what more does he WANT?
"Well, if you're going to be too STUPID about it, then I can't help you at all!" I spit. I give him directions, clear as day, and apparently they're not good enough!
The wall's struck without damage, small objects drifting towards him. Curious, I realize; supposedly he can't touch things without the world goin' to shit, and yet here he is. Just some leaves 'n' pebbles coming into orbit.
What a little liar.
I am OUT.
Sticking to the shadows, I leave the alley behind, and swiftly run through the mingling shadows of the monsters about the square until I am in the streets beyond.
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