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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:02 pm
Rep unwrapped the book from the pikachu blanket, and held it in his left hand, defending himself from not-Harrison with the other. He wouldn't summon Tracey in here even if he could.
"Too right you destructive wee ********. I have it right here. See? Or can you even see with no eyes?"
It was unnerving to see it use Harrison the way it was, and he didn't like it at all, wanting to shove Creation back, away from him, but conflicted by the idea of shoving Harrison away.
"You ******** want it?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:13 pm
"MINE", it wailed, and the bar walls shook, the glass tinkered precariously, several cups shattering as they broke from their support. "THAT MASK IS MINE." What Harrison would see was the strange green mass settle and shift forms, turning into that of a boy between the cusp of childhood and adolescence. Its face continued to shift rapidly, and for a second it had Harrison's face too, cycling through faces without ever settling on one.
What Rep would see was Harrison's body convulse as he extended an arm further to reach for the mask, the ghost-limbs of overly green vines curling from Harrison's wrists longer and longer. A familiar nausea was beginning to creep in every time those vines scraped against Rep's skin.
"Further," Carl shouted, but it sounded like his voice was muffled through a thick sheet of fog, "Move it further." xToshihiko Two Harrison and his weapon can now also try to push the abomination away from where his body is standing. Roll 1d6 to see if he is successful. Odd = success, even = nothing happens and he goes through it.
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Toshihiko Two rolled 1 6-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-6)
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:18 pm
"I can't believe it! You're just a big, green fart! Get out of here, I work here, that's my...my future...go stink up somewhere else!"
YEAH! B0nez said. Okay, okay, did you check for weakpoints? Also, if you could turn me into swords again, like, I may not be a fan but I've got blades, let's wreck this guy. ...its lvl 1, right? are we still in the starter area?
Harrison thought hard about it like he had before, and there they were. Two metal pirate cutlasses. A treasure map was inscribed in the blades, and a grinning skull laughed on the handle.
Yesssssssssssss!!
Harrison wasn't really sure how to use a sword.
But he went with what felt natural.
Which was waving B0nez back and forth furiously.
"Take that!" he said. If it didn't work, he was just going to start stabbing.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:34 pm
Rep tried not to falter in the face of the things enormous power and madness, used to dealing with the way it went from what seemed like a calm pinpoint of reason out into a wild spiralling nightmare.
It hurt to see Harrison suffer, even if it wasn't Harrison at the wheel it was his body, his body that was being used by this ******** thing and he'd seen what it could do, he'd seen too many of the undying and everything in between.
He obeyed Carl unquestioningly, trying to back up, to move the book out of the not-Harrison creature's reach.
"Doesn't look like its yours right now." he said, his voice weaker than he hoped it would be, feeling like he was intensely hungover and getting worse every time it touched him.. "Finders keepers."
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 2:55 pm
Harrison's strange flailing hit something, and it shrieked, and backed away, torn between defending the body and reaching for the mask.
"MY MASK," it hissed, and everyone could hear it, and feel it exerting pressure, wild and uncontrollable power, "ALICE GAVE IT TO ME."
Maybe in the far far future, Rep could have some words with Alice.
Yet in the present, Harrison's body shuddered, and then the green begin to split from his form, like seeing a second image imposed on a first. Slowly, grotesque, malformed arms reached out from his chest, and then a head emerged made only out of writhing interlocked vines as it pulled itself fully out of Harrison.
However, it hesitated, blind now, unable to see where the mask was. More branches, vines curled into legs that continuously reformed themselves.
It was in that moment that the third human occupant of the room acted, still holding the white fragment with both hands. He managed to find its back, and the second it made contact the thing shrieked, the closer decor and bottles taking a hefty hit. Cracks began to form underneath it, and it pushed, as Rep, Harrison's freed body, and Carl all went flying backwards.
To Rep's far right was the mask, and to his left the crystal. He only had time to pick one as the thing stumbled blindly towards him. Toshihiko Two Harrison (while still appearing fourteen) now has ALL MEMORIES of his experiences) now that the ??? has left his body
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:16 pm
Harrison did not feel good. But at least he felt like himself. Sort of.
"Eurgh," he groaned from the floor, holding his tiny head with tiny hands and trying to get his bearings. Harrison looked at the horrible green mass, a little sick, and fumbled with his chest.
His eyes widened.
"s**t, s**t, aw, I'm still...does my voice sound weird?"
We're still in the middle of a boss fight, B0nez reminded him. Am I...am I level 1.... he sounded devastated by this. It was me. I was the level 1 all along. This is the worst status effect that could ever happen.
"Rep!" Harrison said, gritting his teeth at the squeaky noise, "It's me. What do you need?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:22 pm
Rep looked on in horror as a pure distilled ******** nightmare climbed right out of his much younger husband. It definitely wasn't what he expected and he didn't know what he was supposed to do.
"She told you to go BACK TO SLEEP AND YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE." he barked at it. "So ******** you." It kept right on coming.
And then Harrison was there, the simple phrase "its me" confirming the fact that it was probably the proper Harrison.
"Don't touch the book, don't touch the other thing." he said. "Trust me. I need you ALIVE."
But even as he spoke he dove for the crystal, because the book was important but maybe if he was quick enough this could stop it before it reached it. Following Carl's lead he leapt onto the abomination of vines and stabbed it as hard as he could with it.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 3:42 pm
The sensation was like stabbing into thick, coarse leather. Even with all his strength, Rep would have to focus, beyond the room shivering like crazy, beyond the screams of agony, beyond the pain and nausea and horrific gut-wrenching headache. He could feel the crystal pressing further but it hurt, the pain lacing through his bones, causing his Fear shield to rapidly deplete, causing it to felt nearly impossible-
- And then time slowed and then halted as everything took a strange foggy tinge. The pain had faded and there was the familiar hollow clack of small footsteps.
"Peter Pan!" said Alice, and her voice betrayed her exasperation. "I told you go to go to sleep!"
"No," said it, and it was more manageable to look at now, mostly just the form of a child-teen, missing its eyes. "I don't want to sleep. If I sleep I'll grow up."
"Growing up isn't so bad," she said, and long shadows extended from her feet, pushing down the tendrils that were starting to extend from his body again. "Everyone grows up."
And then it stopped. "But you never grew up."
"You're wrong." Alice's shadow loomed longer and longer and from it stretched a thin figure wearing a cloak, holding an antique pocketwatch in one hand. "I grew up too."
The dream stopped, the white crystal clattered to the ground, a green branch trapped within it. The good news was it had indeed cured Harrison-
- The bad news was its shadow remained on the island, keeping everyone grounded as they were.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:43 pm
Thus far, Harrison had actually steered clear of most general weirdness (in spite of Rep being steeped in the stuff) but today was the day it all hit.
He didn't know who the kids were, or what they were arguing about, although he had a few guesses.
And at the end of it all, the crystal Rep had used to stab the oversized salad dropped back to the floor, a lot less empty than when they started.
He found Rep's hand, and squeezed it.
That had been in him. And some part of him, the part whose heart beat a distinctly bluer shade, absolutely hated it.
He took a shaky look at the rest of the bar. He was still a kid. Carl, who they were supposed to be taking care of, hadn't died, right? A few things had gotten broken, but it was okay. And Rep...
"You okay?" He asked.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:57 am
Rep struggled, intensely focused on driving the crystal through the tough vines. It became the center of his world, the creature endangering both Carl and Harrison, the people who he wanted to protect most of all right now. It hurt, but pain to him was just a reminder that he was still alive, only when it stopped would he worry about it.
Things shifted and he found himself staring at Creation and Alice, unable to do anything, or to help. He couldn't help but wonder who or what Alice truly was.
When things resumed, he scrambled to his feet.
Harrison was all right other than being 14 years old and received a weary nod for his question.
"I'm fine. But where is...?"
Rep hurriedly sought Carl in the chaos.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:38 am
If Harrison or Rep was paying attention, they might have noticed the green filaments in the crystal vainly trying to reach for the old book, the actual crystal unmoving. If Harrison was left unattended with the book, he could almost hear it whisper, tug at his consciousness and it didn't look like a book at all to Harrison but a mask made of colourless black. It subconsciously scared him as if he already knew it was wrong.
Carl was fine, though he was vainly trying to align some of the collapsed glasses back on the counter, somehow feeling responsible that the chaos was mostly his fault. He nearly dropped the glass when Rep showed up and had an oddly guilty expression. "Did- did it work?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:51 am
"Did what work?" Harrison asked, giving the book a sidelong and suspicious look.
"I think that book's whispering," he divulged, "isn't there somewhere you got to put, um, to put-" He seemed to notice Carl again.
"Put...that kind of thing, Sir, Not-Sir, uh," Their boss was in the bar.
"Do you uh, need...anything?"
He felt even more vulnerable than usual, with the squeaky voice and lack of muscle.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:01 pm
Rep moved to pick up the crystal, keeping clear of the book at the same time. He was relieved to see Carl intact and as apologetic as usual. "I dunno. Did it?" he asked, holding up the strange crystal.
When Harrison mentioned the book again he looked at it, concerned.
"I don't hear anything." he said. "Maybe stay far from it. And oh my god stop calling him sir. Carl's great."
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:19 pm
He looked even more guilty at the great part and then just sadly put all the cups down. "Sorry about your restaurant." Close enough. "I have - I have some money." He took out a small bundle of things he had been collecting and carrying around ever since he had started planning Operation island escape, which included a fake passport and a simple envelope with about two thousand USD, five hundred Euro, and six thousand Chinese yuan. Since monetary value literally meant nothing to most kids, he was still concerned that the money wasn't enough to cover the broken cups, and also he was pretty sure other than the US bills, the others were monopoly money.
When the crystal came to contact with Rep, the miasma inside tried to frantically tap against the class, as if still conscious.
"What are you going to do with that?" Carl ask for a long second. "Maybe you should bury it. And the mask, but um, not together." After trying to add to the amount of attempting to pay Rep and Harrison back with a very expensive watch that looked quite antique, he turned around. "You two make a great couple." Rep was a lucky wife.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:33 pm
Rep didn't bother correcting Carl about the fact it was a bar and not a restaurant, he did however look very impressed at the pile of money that Cael carted around with him, he probably had to be prepared for whatever happened though.
He eyed the crystal instead, letting Harrison decide what happened with the money and watch, though he felt like it was going to be the hardest decision of his life, free things or potentially invoking the wrath of a superior.
There was a bit of mercy in his gaze at the way it seemed to tap back. "It's a poor kid. A little s**t but still a kid, scared to grow up. I used to be scared of that too."
Carl got a smirk. "Ta." he said. "We look out for each other, I got lucky as ********>
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