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Post by Verai on Apr 21, 2023 2:45:29 GMT 9
Verai turned to look at Kazuki- who had followed him, for some reason. He was fixated on the desk, which honestly looked more like "a box with a chunk cut out of the bottom," rather than anything proper. "Why?" He asked. He wasn't opposed- Verai, personally, would like to kill Kazuki for getting them into this mess. But the fact that Kazuki was asking him to do so was.... odd.
He went to pick up a... plant, or something, from the desk, only to find it entirely solidified to the faux-wood surface. HE took in a breath, sighed heavily, and twisted to throw a punch directly into Kazuki's jaw. He wasn't expecting it to hit, but he remained optimistic.
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Post by Kazuki on Apr 21, 2023 4:06:15 GMT 9
“Just do it.” Kazuki’s quite frankly amazed this is even up for debate. Since they met, Verai has wanted to snap him like a toothpick—which is the goal—but the moment he offers a free beating, he hesitates?
The guy fumbles with the desk ornament for a bit, before finally throwing the punch.
Despite bracing for it, Kazuki still feels the impact in his bones. He blinks, feels pain bloom on the side of his face and runs his tongue over his teeth. He spits a patter of blood on the floor.
“Bitch,” he chuckles, before the desk bursts open.
Long tendrils surge out from the fake wood, its drawers flying open, the gaps in the wood straining, splitting, cracking at the force of the tangible shadows.
Kazuki leaps back. The triumph is momentary, killed when he fails to recognize the arms that emerge. There aren’t any markings or stone fragments to form a palm. It doesn’t form anything at all, remaining sludge-like and pouring indefinitely.
Sprigatito screams as the inky puddle expands, leaping quickly onto a chair.
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Verai
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Post by Verai on Apr 21, 2023 12:19:31 GMT 9
Oh, well he did hit. What do you know?
Kazuki stumbled back, and cussed, and Verai rolled his eyes. And then something slammed. Verai whirled, staring at the desk as something seemed to spill from it, tendrils rising up as ichor spilled onto the ground. "What the fuck-" He snapped, reaching to grab sprigatito and flee the room, waiting for Kazuki to escape before closing the door and throwing his weight against it. Hopefully, it would hold against... whatever that was.
"Kazuki," He hissed gently, eyes narrowed. "What the fuck is going on?"
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Kazuki
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Post by Kazuki on May 7, 2023 8:13:31 GMT 9
Verai is the first to move, and he sees him snap up the cats and head for the exit. Kazuki has to vault over the desk and scramble to avoid touching the black ichor pouring over the floor, seeing something beginning to rise from the puddle.
When the door slams shut, his weight joins Verai in barricading it. The door pounds with whatever is screaming to be let out. When the other man asks him for an explanation with eyes narrowed, all he can offer is a bewildered and mildly pissed off look. “How the fuck should I know! I just- the first time I met the Professor, I found out she had this monster in her desk to protect her from player attacks. I figured triggering it there would help us get out.”
Well, now it seemed it would kill them. Fantastic.
He blinks, realizing the door has settled. He turns his head to press his ear against it, wondering if he’ll hear anything. He sees from the corner of his eyes something slipping out from under the door, past their feet.
“Ah, shit.”
The shadow stretches once again. It pours, rising off the floor in the middle of the strange room like water from a leaking pipe. From the top of it pops out two pointy ears.
The creature that forms looks like a bastardized version of a Pikachu. Despite its strange looks, the quality of its model makes it seem deliberate. It smiles at them with its giant puppet head and floppy neck.
A new UI pops up in front of the players. It’s just a simple black input box, with a blinking cursor.
“What… are we supposed to do with this?” Kazuki squints. Poking the box brings up the keyboard input.
Kazuki inputs: TELEPORT BACK TO SPAWN.
“Well, damn.” Kazuki clicks his tongue, glancing up. The surface is so close, but this little bastard isn’t letting them touch it.
This causes MIMIQUEUE to panic, misinterpreting the look for disinterest.
The input box fills with the prompt: SPAWN 999 CHEESE WHEELS.
And from the sky comes, as you may guess, 999 WHOLEASS CHEESE WHEELS. They pile onto each other, tumbling for a moment, before their animation cuts and they are suspended in the air.
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Post by Verai on May 7, 2023 13:13:16 GMT 9
Kauzki's answer is less than fucking helpful. Verai shot him an infuriated look- at him not knowing, at him attacking the professor, at all of it, really- only looking away when he realized there was nothing fighting against the door. At the sight of something slipping underneath, he simply moved back again, steeling himself to fight whatever it was.
Which was... a weird big doll of some kind. He shot a glance at Kaz- what was this?
Verai just stared at it. "We should just go."
Another popup appeared in front of his face. Verai squinted at it, and tried to wave it away. It refused to move.
Kazuki seemed to think of something, tapping away. The doll made a sad noise.
Testing? Were they supposed to be testing something? Before he could ask, the thing seemed to panic.
SPAWN 999 CHEESE WHEELS
Verai saw the cheese materialize, and flinched to cover his head- only for them to seem to break, hovering just above them. He looked at the doll again. "Did... you do that?" He asked. The doll wiggled its floppy head.
Verai looked up at the cheese again. "Maybe if we finish testing whatever, we can... go."
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 3:18:15 GMT 9
“Maybe.” Like Verai, Kazuki is looking up at the floating rain of cheese wheels. “That’s a lot of fucking cheese wheels.” He reaches up, grabbing one and trying to pull it down to—eat it, maybe. But the wheel of cheese refuses to budge, frozen in time and space.
“… Alright.” Kazuki looks over to the floppy doll making hopeful eyes at them. “What are we supposed to test exactly?”
Well, that’s helpful. “Seriously? No ideas? We don’t even know the commands.”
Kazuki scoffs. He pulls up the prompt and mutters to Verai beside him. “Yeah, no, that thing’s busted. Kill it.” A few error messages later, and a prompt is finally accepted.
SPAWN 999 SWORDS
Swords rain from above.
The doll squeaks, hopping here and there as the swords come clattering all around it. All swords that fall over Kazuki and Verai freeze several feet above before colliding.
SPAWN 999 CARS
Error, object not found.
SPAWN 999 CARRIAGES
The doll is quashed underneath a prairie shooner.
Kazuki, looking immensely satisfied with this, waves away the prompt. “Alright, Ver. Time to prove your arms aren’t just for show.”
A tower of babel composed of cheese wheels, swords, and carriages looms over them. It just barely reaches the barrier above.
“Get climbing.” Kazuki leaps, grabbing hold of the first platform: a cluster of cheese wheels surrounded by an outer layer of swords.
Past them, the prairie shooner starts to rattle.
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Post by Verai on May 15, 2023 3:36:14 GMT 9
Verai frowned over at Kazuki. "Why should I?" He asked. It wasn't like the thing was... doing anything threatening. It just wanted to be helpful. Even if its idea of helpful was summoning a veritable army of cheese wheels.
Kazuki answered that by simply demanding it spawn an equal number of swords. Verai watched them rain down, a few bouncing of the creature harmlessly. That was obviously not enough, as Kazuki continues... crushing it under a pile of carriages, thankfully bereft of their horses.
Verai shook his head, finding handholds on the schooner and hauling himself up. "There are options outside of murder, you know." He criticized, using a sword blade to hop over to a higher cheese platform. He looked up at how far they had to go, and huffed. This was going to take ages. But... so was arguing with Kazuki about it.
He hauled his way up onto the side of a carriage, careful to not fall in- only for a shot of something, viscous and oily-black, to shoot up from behind him. "Kazuki!"
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 3:43:51 GMT 9
"There are options outside of murder, you know."
“But are they as efficient?” Kazuki happily argues back, swinging from cheese wheel to cheese wheel like some kind of cheese chimp. He’s getting all sorts of grazes, lacking Verai’s care when it comes to dodging the swords, and it doesn’t help that the assets aren’t even frozen properly. He nearly trips from a cheese wheel that actually wobbles.
They didn’t have time for this.
A tendril of oily black shoots out from under the shooner, reaching for Verai. Of course, it couldn’t be fucking easy.
“Duck!” Kazuki hisses, yanking the swords around him. He goes through three before finding one that actually moves, ripping it out of the air and flinging it at the tendril.
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Post by Verai on May 15, 2023 4:04:07 GMT 9
Verai didn't move, at first, watching Kazuki grab at far too many swords. He swung his arm back, though, and then did Verai duck, feeling the sword sing over his head. There was a terrible screech from below, the pile shaking further. Verai lunged upwards, grabbing at whatever he could- some fucking cheese- climbing with new intensity. "This doesn't feel very efficient!"
First the deer, then the halls, and now this.
The schooner under his feet simply fell, Verai grabbing at the closest thing, fingers curling grimly around a sword to keep himself from falling back to- whatever that was. "Isn't this for kids?" He hissed, making his way to Kazuki, fingers curled around his hand.
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 4:53:29 GMT 9
Verai struggles up to reach him, but by some miracle makes it by the sweet virtue of cheese and disobeying every rule in knife handling ever written. Kazuki grimaces, glancing over the edge they’ve climbed onto. It really isn’t much of a platform, composed of mostly swords after the carriage fell, and the next level above is a gap they can’t reach with their arms.
“Kids are into some fucked up shit these days,” Kazuki points out. The floor at the bottom of the tower has turned into a familiar puddle of black. “We need to double time. I think someone might be pissed, and I’ve got the feeling we won’t respawn where we want to if it gets us.”
He raises a brow at Verai’s hand. “Is your hand bleeding?” Oh, this was not the time for this shit.
He grabs the man by the collar, glaring at him as the platform under their feet trembles violently. “Get on top of me and grab the damn platform.”
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Post by Verai on May 15, 2023 5:13:42 GMT 9
"Maybe it's mad you dropped swords on it." Verai pointed out. This was a fact Kazuki seemed to have forgotten, despite it happening three seconds ago. Verai would be pissed if someone dropped a single sword on him- not to mention hundreds.
At the comment of his hand, Verai gave him an unimpressed look. "You can't be getting squeamish now." He'd gotten a similarly bad cut making dinner. And Kazuki was concerned enough to speak up? Some fighter...
There's another rumble, and Kazuki grabs him. But there was no time to argue. He accepted the boost, climbing up onto Kazuki's shoulders- and pulled himself up onto the cheese platform.
And without thought or hesitation, he turned, throwing himself flat on the cheese to reach down, extending a hand towards Kazuki.
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Post by Kazuki on May 15, 2023 5:53:41 GMT 9
“Squeamish, my ass. I just don’t want you holding us back by climbing with a shit hand,” Kazuki growls as he pulls him up by the waist, raising him until he can use his shoulders as a foothold. It’s unfortunate then that he can’t enjoy the view, since the tower is threatening to collapse under his feet and homicidal goop is about to kill him before he reaches the next platform.
A hand from above is extended right on time. He grabs it, leaping just as the sword platform collapses, leaving him to dangle, his life briefly and quite literally in Verai’s hand. He uses his other hand to grab the cheese, pulling his body up to the next level.
The tower shifts like waves. Mimiqueue’s remnants are spilling uncontrollably like a geyser of tears, flooding the lower ground and swallowing them into nothingness. The explosion causes the platform Verai and Kazuki are standing on to get launched skyward, Kazuki cursing loudly as he flails in the air, just barely managing to snag his hand on a tree root.
His other hand nabs Verai’s robes. “Shit,” he hisses, arms straining under the weight of his own body and the weight of the grown man. “SHIT!”
The unfathomable abyss of white is filled with a distorted howl.
"VER! HURRY UP!"
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Post by Verai on May 15, 2023 6:16:48 GMT 9
Kazuki is barely to the platform before it all falls apart. More of the shadows stretch up, and the cheese is blasted apart, the pair sent tumbling through the air. Something grabs him, and he dangles awkwardly, gaze down at the expanse of impossible white, the shadows retreating back into it.
"Hurry up!"
The yell snaps him from reverie- He looks up, at Kazuki, and the reaching roots of the tree. With a grunt, he grabbed Kazuki's arm, climbing up him as quickly as he could to relieve the weight. But-
Still holding onto the tree roots, brown stretches up above his head. Loam. Earth. But Kazuki is at his heels, and going back down isn't an option. He shoves his way upwards-
And puts his hands on grass, shoving his way up out of the ground, collapsing onto it to simply lay there a moment, and catch his breath.
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Post by Kazuki on May 16, 2023 1:05:41 GMT 9
As Verai climbs over him, his other hand comes to join the first, twin grips keeping him from falling to his death as the other player reaches the earthy barrier. Though he knows it’s a dumbass move, he still looks down, immediately disoriented by the sight of his legs dangling over a blank canvas, no floor to compare the height to.
No floor, except a rising sea of pitch black.
His heart can’t be going any faster than this. Something patters on his head, and before he can snap, irritated, he sees the clumps of dirt slip from his hair, and Verai’s legs disappear.
Scrambling, filling his nails with dirt, Kazuki pops out after Verai, gasping in the fresh air. He hadn’t even realized he missed it—the earthen, autumnal scent of Birchwild. He yanks the rest of his body through the hole, immediately collapsing beside Verai.
“Holy fuck,” Kazuki heaves. “Holy fuck, we got out.”
He has to take control of his breathing before his heart bursts out of him. He takes a deep inhale.
A weight slaps on top of him, forcing him to choke.
<Oh!> Sprigatito mewls, shaking his head, having somehow popped back into existence. He starts jumping on his trainer’s chest as if it's a trampoline. <We’re home!> He mewls excitedly at Verai, Kitten, and Kitty. <Guys, we made it!>
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