Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-36289716-20190207160231/@comment-26892768-20190211190306

"Could be, but we can't be sure..." Mista points out. "I mean, we're all from different times, right? The boss who sent this email could be from a time before we went against him."

Jolyne looks at the members of Passione for a moment, then at Cerebella. "You got no clue what's going on with them either, right?"

Cerebella blinks, looking a bit surprised. "Oh! Uh...yes? No? I'm not sure what the proper answer is here, but I'm completely clueless about this."

Jolyne nods. "Good to know I'm not the only one, then..."

Pucci may feel as though he's being watched.

He's not alone on this path, after all.

"john egbert." John nods, and then he remembers something. "oh! while i'm thinking about it - thanks for healing terezi! really helped out there."

"-ink this will deter me, lady luck!? You're going easy on me! EASY, I SAY!"'

This is what Holly Short wakes up to, groaning and rubbing her head, and then snapping to attention when she sees that she is somewhere entirely unfamiliar and she has no idea how she could have possibly gotten here. First, she does a quick check of her own person. She's wearing her shimmer suit - good, although that does raise the question of how she came to be wearing it - and is equipped with a Neutrino 3000. Also good. No helmet, which isn't ideal, but she can manage.

She takes a look at the environment. Rocky terrain, with a cave nearby, and in the distance, there's a forest. She'd need to get an aerial view to get a better idea of where she is.

"BECAUSE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL NO, I AIN'T GIVIN' UP! You hear that, lady luck, you bitch!? I'll find Shojo, I'll find Casa, and I'll get out of this weirdo place, cause I'm not backing down!"

Ah, right. Yelling guy still exists. She forgot about him. Best to give that guy a lo-

Holly's brain registers Mud Man around the same time as the guy notices her existence.

Too late to shield. D'Arvit.

"Oh, uh...hey there, little miss!" And then the guy casually waves to her, putting on a large grin, and then pausing as he looks over Holly again. "...wait, you don't have the right body...FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! I thought you were a kid, but you're just a midget! Does little offend you!? Should I refer to you as vertically challenged!?"

...ah. The human isn't that perceptive. Lucky break on her part, but she makes a mental note to be more careful next time.

"It happens." Holly replies, tapping into her gift of tongues as she gets up. "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure!" The human looks at Holly...

And with eye contact made, she proceeds to hit him with the mesmer.

'Nothing personal, Mud Man, but I need to be completely sure I'm getting all the info I can.' 

" D o y o u  k n o w  w h e r e  w e  a r e ? " Holly asks, her voice sounding like a heavenly choir.

The entranced human shakes his head. "No clue. I've never been here."

Hmmm. Not a great start, but she can go further.

" H o w d i d  y o u  g e t  h e r e ? "

The entranced human shrugs. "I have no clue how I ended up here. Probably the work of lady luck, the wicked mistress..."

Holly sighs. Clearly, she isn't getting any useful information out of this Mud Man.

" Y o u n e v e r  s a w  m e .  T h i s  w a s  a l l  j u s t  a  d r e a m .  D o  y o u  u n d e r s t a n d ? " Holly asks.

More nodding. "Just a weird dream where I met a midget. Got it."

And with that, Holly shields, fading from human sight as she releases the Mud Man from her spell.

"Huh? Where did..." He trails off as he looks around. "Damn! Must've been a dream! Heh...guess this means I'm not lost-"

Then he takes a second glance at his surroundings. "SHIT!"

Holly resists the urge to facepalm as she takes flight - thank Frond for the suit having in-built wings - and starts looking around, trying to figure out where to start.

"Guess this means that only the part with the midget was a dream..." The human - better known as Faust Zepelli - muses. "Well, whatever it was, it doesn't matter! I'm still not backing down, and I WILL find my friends! PINBALL WIZARD!"

Holly pauses, blinking in confusion, turning back around. Why is the Mud Man yelling "pinball wizar-"

Her line of questioning is promptly derailed as she sees a tree suddenly move. Not like it shifted in a visible way, no no: one moment, it was there, and the next? Somewhere completely different. And there are other trees that are subject to the same fate, creating a path that the human walks through. He doesn't even seem to be doing anything, from Holly's perspective. Whatever he's doing, it isn't anything she knows of - not even magic can explain this; humans can't use magic, after all.

...maybe she should keep tabs on this Mud Man.