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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:16 pm
Shadowstep just closed his good eye and rubbed his forehead. He was seriously wondering if he should have been more strict with his recruitment process right now. Perhaps he could be a little more careful with the final three slots in the guild. He needed able bodies, but sanity was another issue.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:40 pm
SANDSHARK took the ale of one of the NPC's, not caring if it tasted like nothing. The antics of these three...
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:41 pm
After having been healed up by the lovely Night, and NOT BEING HEALED BY THE PERSON WHO SAID HE WAS GOING TO, NotAllan sat up and stretched on the table.
Then a conversation ensued, NotAllan on her pocket card and the others mentally (she preferred writing out her thoughts much more than just sending them off to whoever could hear them).
NotAllan stroked her new familiar, looking at the others with triumph. "Okay we should go somewhere today. What about like ... to the lake for a picnic!" She looked at the walrus NPC and whispered, "We could celebrate here, but I don't trust that guy."
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:36 pm
After all the ordeal that they had just gone through, they had a slew of information that they now had. Shadowstep took over the table they had been at earlier and sat himself down.
"As I thought, this is no mere dream. It's never that ******** simple," he muttered under his breath, "We've been in here for five days. We might have been asleep for longer. Who the ******** knows what's happening to our bodies? The last time unnatural comas happened, seven people were having their ******** life being slowly sucked out."
He closed his good eye and placed his hand to his forehead.
"There's reason to believe that ALICE is not our target. It could be the queens she mentioned. Or... as I was told by someone else, it could be some sort of malignant force that's in this game. I don't know how trustworthy ALICE or Mimsy are..." he continued. There was still so much to process. Apparently there was a trap involved as well? Was this the doing of the Hunters? Some other sentient artifact that's ******** with them (again)?
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:43 pm
NotAllan nodded. "Look I love MMOs as much as the next gal, and this place is hecka fun, but even I have to draw the line somewhere. Knowing we've been gone for so many days sorta saps the fun out of it ..."
The gryphon put a hand on her chin, officially applying her strategist cap. "The way I see it, there's a few options. We can play out the game and defeat the queens on the flimsy hope that it'll get us out. We can go after ALICE and get more answers. Or we can keep searching for a third option." She paused for a moment and said, "No. Wait, there's a fourth option."
She looked at the others, down to her cutlass then back up. "No, nevermind forget it. So what's our game plan? I'm more of a doer, you know?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:51 pm
"I wish it was just a normal dream," The girl sighed as she followed behind them, "But as it is right now, we're completely trapped here. This isn't the first time either, no." Her gaze briefly flickered to Shadow as she sat down, and then over to NotAllan.
"Plan? ...As I see it, I'm not sure what we can do aside from go with it for now. Alice said there were three more areas to get through, so we might be able to get more clues by continuing onwards." The thought of going up against Alice made her uneasy, especially since they were essentially playing in her realm right now. The fact that she threatened an item, level, and memory wipe to those "broken" made her incredibly unsettled.
Leaning back in her seat, she lift a hand to rub at her temples. "But I don't like the idea of simply playing along either. Like NotAllan said, we don't know if killing the QUEENs will really get us out--or if, Jack forbid, it makes things worse for us."
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:53 pm
"Um, excuse me?" iPink raised a hand, giving a little wave from the next table, "I couldn't help overhearing you-" She gestured briefly to the one eyed rabbit, and offered him a sheepish smile, "-saying something about seven people being in a coma, and having their life slowly sucked out...? Where did you get that information from?"
She recognized Nightbloom from a battle they fought together, and the cheshire cat got a hello-I-remember-you nod-and-smile from her.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:59 pm
He kept his eye closed as he thought things over, trying to piece everything together. However, it opened up to give NotAllan a sort of glare when she brought up a fourth option. Shadowstep hoped she wasn't implying that they stay here.
"There's too many unknown variables right now. The course of action we take could very well screw us all over if we aren't careful. Playing along in the meantime until we find out more might be the way to go," he said while leaning forward, resting his arms on the table.
Before saying more, another had approached them. He turned towards the stranger, looking her over.
"Let's just say I've been through a lot of s**t," he said plainly, lowly, "It's past experiences that gave me the feeling this was no mere benign dream."
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:04 am
NotAllan nodded, following Shadow's line of thinking right down to the last letter. "I agree. The best we can do is play along in attempts to find out what this is all about. We duck out at the first sign of danger."
At the addition of one very pretty rabbit girl, NotAllan's sense was once again lost. "Why hellooooo pretty ladaaay," she cat-called from across the table. "Ain't you a cool drink on a hot summer day. Come sit with us!"
She shot a look at Shadow like if you say no I will hurt you.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:15 am
"I'm sure we've all been through our fair share of... That," She frowned, tilting her head ever so slightly as she played with the fur trimmings on her coat, "But you were being awfully specific. I mean, I understand that this is not just a dream or just a game, but you said something about seven people being in a coma?"
Was that information reliable? While she did not want to stay here forever, she had been fine with being here for the time being; however, if they were in danger, that would change a lot of things.
"Um," She looked to her left, and then to her right, before staring at - she glanced at the name above the female's head - NotAllan... Well of course she's not Allan. Allan is a boil's name. Unless... That's a boil with a feminine voice, stuck in a ghoul's body...... Well, she probably shouldn't judge, "Me?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:42 am
"iPink!" Looking pleasantly surprised by the other girl's arrival, Nightbloom's tail waved eagerly as she smiled at the girl. Turning to look at NotAllan when she invited the dormouse over, Nightmoon nodded eagerly.
"Yes, please do!" And then she too gave Shadow a look, albeit one that was a little more pleading. Surely he wouldn't say no, right?
Riiiight?
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:21 am
Shadowstep nodded slowly to NotAllan's agreement. It wasn't the most ideal to him, but it was probably their safest route at this point. He just sort of shook his head to himself at her comment to the stranger though.
"Yes. A year or so ago there were seven people in a comatose state. Some artifact had taken hold of them and they had to be 'extracted'. Right now? The ones in a coma is every single ******** one of us. The AI said we've been in game for five days. We've been dreaming for that long."
He let out a breath, not making any comment or gesture to suggest he was for or against her sitting at the Penumbra table.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:12 am
"Five days?!" She echoed, perhaps a little too loudly as she quickly lowered her voice, "I was there too, with that AI... If we're talking about the same AI. But I probably missed it, since I arrived a little later than most others." With every word, she inched a little closer to the other table until she was seated by Nightbloom; the ghoul was a familiar face, even if she did not know any of them that well.
"Thank you," She said softly, mostly to NotAllan, but it was also directed at the rest of the group gathered around the table, "I did manage to catch something about a Red Queen, and a White Queen... I imagine they won't be easy to fight, unless we're at a high enough level. There's really no harm in playing along... It might actually be beneficial, right?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:28 am
She had literally no idea what they were talking about. Comas? Seven people? She listened in politely, but only determined to ask Shadow about it later.
NotAllan grinned when the pink haired one joined them. She was really glad there were so many other pink haired people in this world. It was wonderful to see. Pink hair was the best.
"Wait a second, let's get one thing straight," she interjected at iPink's statement, "There is a LOT of risk in playing along. Right now, it's like we're playing chess and we don't know what pieces are on the board, see?"
NotAllan leaned back in her seat, putting her feet on the table. "Not sayin' we should all freak out though." No, that would cause more harm than good. A smile came across her face and she said, "Leveling shouldn't be a problem."
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:22 am
"There was mention of a trap as well. The way she replied to Sandshark's question was peculiar. If we're here because of a trap, then that may complicate things," Shadowstep started while folding his hands over the table, "Defeating the queens could potentially get us all out of here. But it's very possible the queens represent something else entirely. If ALICE is not actually on our side and is only pretending to be, there's no telling what would happen if the queens' existence is beneficial to us."
He let out a sigh, "It boils down to us needing more information. There is.. apparently something malicious within this game. That could very well be the target but I haven't a clue of what that is exactly."
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