twelve (video; backdated to june 9) ♊ we can change the world

[viiru2alert]

That was... a trip.

[Phew. One Sollux Captor reporting for duty on the Gear, and he looks absolutely wiped out.] Like, seriously. Did someone shove pot brownies down my throat while I wasn't looking or something? Okay, let me tell you all what happened, because this is weird shit. If anyone's got an answer to how any of the past couple of days even happened, I am seriously interested in hearing it.

I'm pretty sure after we left Cianwood and went back because -- fuck if I know -- someone forgot something, and... well. I just found this off the Internet, but it was the most approximate image for what Cianwood looked like when we got back.

[Trainer 22413 [CAPTOR, SOLLUX] would like to send you a file.]




...Yeah.

Flying numbers and everything.

I think something in there really fucked with Jake, though... he got sent home by the Powers that Be literally right after that, and I got his Zebstrika or whatever it's called. That cannot be a fucking coincidence. I lost both KN and AA getting back out, no idea where they are. And, oh yeah -- I just got transported across an entire fucking Region. This is fucking Lavender Town!

[Sollux looks around, and the next time he speaks, it's very quiet.]

...for fuck's sake, someone get me out of here.

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[timelymaid]

[ A short while after this. ]

We're in Mahogany now! And in one piece. Well, two pieces. ...I don't think our flying or surfing abilities will exactly help out here, though.

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[viiru2alert]

Thank fuck, AA!

Um... alright. So I'm going to need a while to get back to Johto someway, so can you two just kind of sit tight there?

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[timelymaid]

[ She has to laugh. ]

I think I'm flattered by your concern!

But sure. We may range a little ways out from the city, but as soon as you hit Johto soil, we'll meander back. I take it you're completely okay?

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[viiru2alert]

Uh, I'm capable of getting back to Johto without any urgent life-threatening injuries, if that's what you're asking.

[Because when is Sollux ever completely okay.]

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[timelymaid]

I'm asking if you sustained any life-threatening injuries when you got flipped over there, but you seem fine, so I don't think you did. I mean, I'm sure you would have said something before now if you had!

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[viiru2alert]

Well, I think I've been traumatized for life, but that's not necessarily a new occurrence, so I guess it's all good.

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[timelymaid]

How was it traumatizing? Being in new places suddenly isn't new.

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[viiru2alert]

I meant whatever happened in the last town.

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[timelymaid]

Oh, that was just weird! I wouldn't call it traumatizing. We've been through a lot worse!

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[viiru2alert]

It was a little bit weirder for me because I've seen that same exact shit in a video game. I just didn't expect to see it in real life.

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[timelymaid]

Wait, that was in the video game? But it was so...different!

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[viiru2alert]

A video game. Fiduspawn RPG, remember? The old-school ones did the same thing when you talked to a certain number of people in order and then flew to a few places... it was complicated. But the end result looked just like that!

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[timelymaid]

No, I remember, but when I saw you play it, the game never looked like that.

[ Puzzlement is a go. ]

So...someone broke the game?

[ ...

...

... ]

Sollux, did you break Johto?

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[viiru2alert]

[ ... ]

Maybe?

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[timelymaid]

Well, do you remember tampering with the fabric of reality recently?

[ Mostly teasing. ]

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[viiru2alert]

Uh.

No.

[Not taking it as a joke. This is the second person to accuse him of breaking the universe, and it's starting to look more and more like a possibility.]

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[timelymaid]

...This is the part where you laugh!

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[viiru2alert]

[And he does.]

[...Tries to.]

[As it turns out, when Sollux laughs, he sounds kind of like a cat dying of asphyxiation. It doesn't help that he really doesn't feel like laughing at all.]

[But it's a laugh.]

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[timelymaid]

[ ...Sol...lux... ]

Well, you tried. I will give you a gold star for - wait, nevermind. I almost forgot I'm not allowed to give you any more of those.

[ because of you and your two rule. ]

But I was joking, you know!

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[viiru2alert]

Yeah, well, I wasn't.

There's a possibility I might actually have fucked something up.

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[timelymaid]

How? Were you actually tampering with space-time?

[ she takes her eye off you for five minutes -

no okay like aradia wouldn't be on team "let's fuck shit up" if that were a team. she would totally have encouraged tampering with space-time. ]

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[viiru2alert]

No, I was tampering with code! But then John accused me of causing the mess with the town, because of what I coded. And then I talked to some other asshole named Ishimaru and he said that he thinks this whole place is based around a... a... a video game. And now there's you and I know you're kidding but I can't shake the feeling that I might actually have fucked something up!

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[timelymaid]

I thought we'd already decided this place is based around a video game?

[ is this new information? ]

But Sollux, the code you were tampering with, what was that about? I mean, I doubt you actually caused this, and if you did I don't think it's the end of the world! Just calm down and think about it. What were you doing?

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[viiru2alert]

No, I mean that we are physically within a video game.

That might be what's happening.

I didn't know what I was doing half the time, okay? I was picking at the stuff I knew and seeing what happened. Most of the time? Nothing. And maybe it was just sloppy junk code. But I still want to figure out what's really making this place tick, just to make sure.

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[timelymaid]

Wasn't that implied?

[ She...can't bring herself to mind that. :T It's not like they weren't JUST in a video game... ]

Well...regardless, if you did cause something, isn't that a good thing?