Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-29194274-20180528032838/@comment-26892768-20180531022935

The plate just sits there.

It seems...vaguely ominous. Like something's watching through it.

And then someone notices Dimentio's group.

"Hey." Tephra looks behind her to see Soichi approaching in the distance, wearing a sleek business suit with his hands in his pockets. "You sure are an interesting lot, huh? What're you doing over here?"

Tephra looks at Soichi, then back at Grease, before cracking her knuckles. "Another local."

Grease reaches for his crank. "Won't take too long to-"

''"Upupupupupupup! Don't you do a thing!" ''Dimentio suddenly interrupts. "After all, a fist to the face isn't a proper way to greet an extraterrestrial at all! It's like arriving at a birthday party with an explosive instead of a present! Am I right, Evolto?"

Soichi stops dead in his tracks, his face switching from a casual smile to a more serious, straight face as he looks down at the plate on Grease's hip. "So, you know what I really am, do you?"

Grease immediately recognizes the voice. "Stalk?"

"Bossy snake man?" Kiba also recognizes the voice.

Tephra pulls off her Dimension Plate and looks at it. "Explain."

''"Gladly! See, Evolto - or, as Kazumi and the Hokuto Crows know him, Blood Stalk - is an extraterrestrial from another galaxy with a wide planet-destroying record. His method is fairly simple - send down a nifty little weapon called Pandora's Box, wait for some poor sap to touch the thing, create giant walls, and cause discord among the populace of the planet, then wait some more for the bottles used to unlock each panel to become full of essence, then put all the bottles into Pandora's Box to open it, thus allowing him to retrieve the Evol Trigger, assume his ultimate form, and then wipe out the civilization of that planet with a giant black hole. Discard Evol Trigger, rinse, repeat, which was all well and good until a Martian queen ruined his fun by forcing his soul out of his body and damaging his transformation device. Then he had to wait a millenia or so before a rover showed up, allowing some of himself to get on, and then he had to wait until a few years later when an astronaut happened to find Pandora's Box, at which point he then possessed said astronaut with what was left of his soul, took Pandora's Box with him, and...well, he actually intended to just skip the game and destroy the planet from the get-go, but said Martian queen ruined his plans again. So, there you go." Dimentio explains. Then he pauses. "Also, yes, Kazumi and Kiba, that does essentially make this man responsible for all your problems, but even split into two pieces and having a normal human host rather than a one with an elevated Hazard Level, he'd still beat you if you tried anything, so please don't."''

Kazumi and Kiba are too busy being stunned by this information that they don't even acknowledge Dimentio at all.

'"Three pieces, actually." 'Soichi, or rather Evolto at the moment, corrects. "You can blame a golden scorpion for that..."

''"Well, that sounds like an interesting story!" ''Dimentio remarks. "But that can come later. So tell me, how are you walking around again? I thought your host there got hit with a scythe powered by death itself!"

'"It didn't hit me." 'Evolto states. "That, and this body got revived. Now I'm stuck working for a shapeshifter that may sound a bit familiar to you."

''"Hmmmm...is her default form a nun?" ''Dimentio asks.

'''"Bingo!" '''Evolto laughs. "So you're Dimentio, then. Well, good thing you're not dead - from what she says about you, you sound interesting...more interesting than what she's having us do, anyway."

''"Oh, don't worry; her plan's already..." ''Dimentio trails off, pausing for a moment.

Tephra raises an eyebrow.

''"I stand corrected! Apparently the Skullgirl's found a way to do the impossible! How...inconvenient." ''Dimentio does not seem nearly as enthusiastic as before. "Excuse me for one moment..."

Suddenly, the plate the Hard-boiled Heavies are holding starts spouting a loud, long, incomprehensible stream of curse words.

And after a few moments... "-GODDAMNwait, this isn't empty space...hmmm...well, that's an embarassing first impression! I thought no one was here, and yet, here you all are! You...people I don't know. How interesting..."