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OrNot snickered at his companion, which quickly turned into a grin.

"I have someone else outside of here too." He admitted, easily. He wasn't taking this too seriously either, but at the same time it was hard for him to let his old habits die; especially the one where he was a huge stick in the mud. It was good to know that AM liked boobs, because he did not possess them in any world, at any time. The last thing he wanted was to make his girlfriend upset though, even with a fake internet game marriage to someone he was trying really hard to not recognize. He had his suspicions, but he was trying his best to ignore them. It made it more awkward, he imagined. Especially if he was right.

"Too bad my hair isn't white." Sure, his avatar's hair was white. And currently, his hair was also white in the real world; but it wasn't naturally so. On a deep, deep level...he wasn't lying. At least not a lot. "Sorry, buddy." Except he wasn't, not really.

"I hope that's not too spicy, or I'm not kissing you." He warned, half-joking. His attempt to move on was stopped entirely by the dormouse, who insisted that he wait until he betrothed caught up. Damnit. After what seemed like forever, he found himself in front of some tablets. He looked over them carefully, and after being drawn to none of them at all, swiped one of the White Rabbit tiles.

Before he could get even two steps ahead, he paused, and turned to look at AM again, holding up the white rabbit constellation.

"This doesn't mean I'm fast. For future reference."

Natt had been trying to get away from the dormouse for what seemed like eternity. All two minutes of painful, horrible eternity.

"I TOLD YOU, I DON'T HAVE A---" Her screeching came to an abrupt end as she was pushed into a different room and, oddly, spotted someone she recognized. Oh. The Caterpillar who insisted he wasn't stupid! "HEY IT'S YOU! HI NOTS!" The ghoul cried in delight, which only seemed to make the Dormouse behind her nod in understanding.

"There, user: nomallthethings and user: notstupid! As promised, we have reunited you with your betrothed! Now we can continue on with our the sacred traditions." The Dormouse squeaked quietly, shoving both Natt and Nots down to a set of baskets. The moment Natt had one of the woven creations in her hand, she started screaming: it apparently took her that long to figure out what was going on.

"WHAT! NO! I DON'T WANT TO MARRY STUPID! NO, YOU'RE WRONG! NOOOOOOOOO----OH CAKE" Suddenly her woes were forgotten, and she was sniffing at the various cakes laid out for them. Nots was totally forgotten, abandoned for confectionery.

The every-flavour cake was chosen, naturally, but that didn't stop her from trying to eat the remainder of the cakes.

He only actually knew one guy with white hair outside of this game, and the fact that the man currently with him was called OrNot was probably a big hint as to who he actually was. But adventuremaster didn't want to know for sure. Didn't want to guess. It might make things awkward later when they woke up but...hell, who was he kidding. It was probably going to make things awkward anyways.

Like a certain New Years dream not so long ago.

NOPE, not thinking about it.

While it was hard to resist the temptation of a ***** joke at the other mans admission, adventuremaster simply shrugged his shoulders instead. "I mean, it doesn't really mean anything though, does it? Being with somebody outside of the game." He snorted at the end of that, hurrying to catch up to his seemingly over-eager companion. "Or maybe it does to you. I don't know. I'm ******** up." He admitted, with another shrug.

"What....." He looked very pointedly at the other mans hair. "The ******** do you take me for. That's white." He pointed. "Fine. I like guys with rabbit ears and fluffy asses. I'm a god damn furry lover." Or was it anthro? Ugh, who cared. He'd lost his edge in this conversation already, grinning back at the other man, unable to resist, giving a chuckle and a shake of his head.

"Oh, so kissing is suddenly on the table now?" He asked, moving up to the next table and barely even looking before taking the caterpillar tablet, noting that OrNot was already on his way to the next station.

Wait wait, fast? As in quick? As in---"....So we're not going to go have a quickie after this?"

Bam. Adventuremaster was a total comedian.

Dotdotdot's first thought as she was following the dormouse down the aisle to collect the materials needed to make the wedding ring was that it was a shame that all the decorations were really a waste, considering the nature of many of the marriages that had happened and that were going to happen. Like many other pairs before, she and her guildmate were only doing this to reap the benefits of in-game marriage. Yup.

After picking up her basket, she stared at the large assortment of cakes. While she didn't understand the reason why cake was required to make a ring, she went along with it, and tasted all of them before picking the spice cake.

The next part required picking a tablet with the symbol of their "union". She didn't really know what that meant or what to pick, so dotdotdot went with the circular tablet with The Gryphon on it. After all, the two of them belonged to the gryphon class in the game, so why not?

Lastly, dotdotdot walked over to where the bottomless box to pick something to "feed [her] soul". The first item that she found in her hand was a tiny dead bird in a small wire cage, which she automatically dropped straight back into the box. "Why was something like that in there?", she wondered. Dotdotdot finally settled on a glass eyeball, shrugged, and threw that into her basket as well. She placed all of the items into the teapot, wondering what kind of ring contained cake and an eyeball, and tipped it over to receive her ring. Interesting. Well, that was game mechanics for you.

Having finished, dotdotdot turned to SANDSHARK.

"I just think--" OrNot stopped himself. Would it be too obvious if he were to admit that he never really played games? That this whole world was very strange to him, because he had no idea if it was considered cheating or not, because it technically wasn't real...and yet suggesting it on line could be considered intent? Hrm. "Nevermind." OrNot decided, looking away very pointedly.

"It's an avatar." OrNot reminded him as he folded his arms across his chest. The rest of what AM had to say both didn't apply and didn't make sense to him in the slightest. "Creepy, dude." Was all he had to say on the matter, though the other man's chuckles granted him a small smile.

"Well, we are apparently getting married." OrNot shrugged, his arms still folded. "That depends on how fast I annul this after." He gave a cryptic smile and went ahead, only to find a massive box of everything. He knelt in front of it and dug around, giving each item that made it into his hand a curious look. One item recieved more of a glance than the others, and he actually pulled this one out of the box: It was a glove. A cold weather glove.

For some reason, he felt that he had lost it, and was glad to have it back.

"...Ready when you are, Hubby."

SANDSHARK wasn't there because he liked dotdotdot, but because she was available to do this quest with him. THe Pocket Card said they'd level from it, but it didn't mention anything about the quest itself, merely the location.

So, his incredibly obvious shock and horror at the concept was well justified, in his mind anyway. The little dormouse was so eager, so very set on marrying them though... "This doesn't matter outside this world, okay?" He muttered, being shoved along by the rat. He was only in it for the levels.

He chose a random cake, the bread and butter cake, and threw it in his basket. No tasting required - it looked the least sweet (barring the mercurial, but he wasn't that dumb.) Next he chose The Gryphon symbol, seeing as they were both of the same class and, who knew, that might actually do something for them? And finally, he just reached his hand into the box and pulled out a half-used candle, a bobbypin, and a red paper heart. Tossing them all in the kettle was easy enough, and pouring out the ring, while very weird, was even simpler.

Turning to the other gryphon, SANDSHARK got a peculiar smile on his face. "I guess this is where we say "I do," yeah?" He slid the ring onto her finger, shrugging afterwards. Easy levelling was easy.

MY STATS

My character’s username: SANDSHARK
My character’s level: 28
Character’s HP: 40
Character’s Job Class: Gryphon
Current party: n / a
Current Guild: Penumbra
Location: Tulgey Woods
Small IC description of character: A tall and bony man with a gold trimmed coat and long auburn hair covering his eyepatch. Tends to have a sneer on his face and looks down his nose at people.
Character journal: Here!

Dotdotdot took the ring she had and said "Yeah, I guess." she said, awkwardly slipping the ring onto SANDSHARK's finger, also shrugging in response. Although they were doing it just for the levels, she couldn't help but feel like it was a marriage of some sort in the end, no matter the reasons ... but that feeling quickly vanished. Yeah, there really was nothing to this.

"Now what?"