First Specter; Text/Action

[grislytragedian]

Text A;

I find it a little weird that I was supposedly saved from the apocalypse when the apocalypse already came and went several hours ago.
Little late to the party there, mysterious letter-writer.
But whatever.
Accidents happen, nobody is perfect, and by the way: you have horrible taste in accessories.
To be honest, I am slightly more concerned with the fact that I appear to be alive again.
So I am guessing that I was either lied to or some other, outside force interferred with the way things were supposed to go.
Because this place seems like a far cry from what I was promised.
Or perhaps this is

[Nope, changed his mind apparently, abrupt subject change is a-go!]

Dave, Rose, Jade, please let me know if you ended up here as well, hopefully the four of us together will be able to figure this shit out.
And if someone would be willing to give me a more in-depth low-down of this place, I would appreciate it.
The letter was informative and all but I think a first-hand account might be better in this case.
In addition, I seem to find myself in need of a blacksmith or anyone who deals with weapons repair.
Alternatively: the location of the nearest alchemiter.
It seems that our kind, anonmyous host decided to break my weapon and shove it into a trunk when they saved my life.
And I would really rather not be caught unarmed.

Oh, and one more thing.
If anyone happens to run across a larger-than-average, bipedal, yellow salamander, please let me know.
Losing functionality of my sylladex seems to have made me lose track of Cheryl again.

Action B;
[A short boy in a rather dark outfit can be found wandering around the dormitory levels. It seems that he doesn't want to stray too far and chance getting lost or losing terminal access in case somebody answers his questions. He's clearly looking for something, pausing at every nook and cranny and looking behind every terminal he passes. Fortunately, he refrains from trying to barge into anybody's room. The search for his loving daughter salamander hasn't gotten quite that desperate yet.]

[Won't it be sad when he finally realizes she isn't here?]

[Feel free to bother him, it's not like he has anything that's actually important to do right now.]

Comments

[grislytragedian]

[On the other end of the terminal, John winces a little bit. Thank god this isn't video. Did she really have to phrase it as "gutted alive and laid to rest in a pool of blood"?]

[Because that's basically what he did to his Jade the last time he saw her.]

Mmmm...
Well you don't have to have quite such a grisly death to be considered doomed.
I can't say that I understand what your case is because I thought there could only be one alpha timeline.
Then again, time isn't exactly my thing.
But I do know enough to tell you that you can't use that statement anymore, because I am definitely not from an alpha timeline.
I don't know about punching anyone though.
To be honest, though this isn't exactly what I had in mind, I can't say that I am really all that upset over winding up here.

[For all he knows, the dreambubbles weren't a much better option.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

thats what i thought
but theres a jade thats not me and a dave thats not my dave and it all really confusing and stupid
not to mention there are apparently some dudes from a different time on my own timeline?
im not really the best at managing timelines but all i can figure from this is that paradoxspace is trying to spit in everyones face



wait
what do you mean youre not your alpha?
i mean youre here and

[....Oh.]

you died before coming here?

[grislytragedian]

Yes.
That was kind of the last thing I did back home.
Hence my confusion when I woke up here, apparently alive again.
But I found out about my timeline being doomed before that.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

well fuck me now i feel like an ass
i get that whole
dying thing
it sucks
howd you know you were on a dead line though?
i mean i never know if im an alpha or a goner in the next five minutes
got any tips for an up and coming time lord to be?

[grislytragedian]

Well you can do what I did and stumble across a library on your planet.
That's the only reason I knew, it was literally written out for me in big bold letters.
And then Typheus confirmed it so hey, talking to your denizen might not be a bad idea either.
That's all I have though, I'm not the time guy.
I'm the light guy, whatever the hell that means.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

lame >:|
the only thing in my land was a bunch of snow and a giant beat mesa
and i dont think hephaestus liked me very much though
idk we were all pretty sucky at playing the game
id guess that the lighty thing probably involves some kind of magical flashlight powers
and the ability to banish the evil to the netherland by using the power of the sun and friendship
but i could be wrong
so dont quote me on that

[grislytragedian]

Pffft.
Well my planet was full of spotlights so who knows, maybe you are on to something there.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

maybe part of your heroic quest was to take center stage and bend the spotlights around until it revealed the answer to some cryptic puzzle
then you get your complementary pajamas and shine the beacon into the eyes of your enemies
john used flash!
its super effective!

[grislytragedian]

I see it now.
It all makes sense.
My destiny is to become everyone's nightlight.
Never again will a cave go unlit as long as John is around!

No but if that's it then I demand a refund because that is seriously the most lame-ass power in existence.
Who even bothered with flash other than using it to light caves anyway?
You just teach it to some Pokemon that you don't care about, and shove it in the box when you don't have any caves to go through.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

hahaha sorry dude no refunds
without the nightlight the world will just be a dank dark place
the people need you john
and you have more than four slots to waste a flash on come on
the only problem was when you got to victory road and then couldnt see SHIT >:|

[grislytragedian]

But what if I like the world to be a dark, dank place?

[reddeadvirtuoso]

whoa bro
thats some serious destiny-denying timeline fucking bullshit going on right there
you rock the boat that much we are all going to drown! :|

[grislytragedian]

I'm kidding, don't worry.




Or am I? ;)

[Oh hey look, you actually got him to use an emote, JStri. No but yeah, he's mostly kidding. He may not mind the dark and the dank himself, but he certainly doesn't want to subject everyone else to it.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[SHE'S COUNTING IT AS A VICTORY]

dun

dun



duuuuunnnnnnn

:o

[grislytragedian]

It's like getting to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop.
We may just never know if I am serious.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

the center could be the promised chocolatey goodness
or it could be that they have begun creating them with dark chocolate?
white chocolate?
that shits not even a legit chocolate
i would feel extremely cheated

[grislytragedian]

Or maybe it isn't even chocolate at all.
Oh shit look at that surprising twist there!
Absolutely nobody could have seen it coming, especially not me because I can't even eat Tootsie Pops anyway.
In retrospect that was a really dumb analogy.
Let's talk about something else.