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Post by Tam on Jul 13, 2011 23:06:37 GMT -5
> Buck: Acknowledge chums' existence.
Since Sean is doing his best to ignore you ignoring him, you decide to do your best to ignore that he's doing his best to ignore you ignoring him. Your UNFLAPPABILITY STAT would soar through the roof, if you had an unflappability stat. Or a roof. But this is the way your friendship with Sean usually goes, after all. It strikes you as perfectly normal.
One of your CHUMS has fallen into step next to you. If you didn't already have an idea who he was, his fedora would have been enough to tip you off. He's smiling at you. It's rather CREEPY, actually. But you don't notice. Either that or you don't care.
God, you are so weird.
"Hey Cory" you say, smiling back at him. "How are you doing with all this moon stuff"
You keep your eyes on the ALIENS ahead of you. You think they might be plotting something. This so wasn't how you wanted your first meetup with your COOL INTERNET FRIENDS to go. After a couple of moments, one of the aliens turns and looks at you. She (at least, you think she's a she) seems somewhat taken aback, and it is only then that you realize you were kind of glaring at her. You avert your eyes, feeling kind of like a TOOL.
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Post by Robyn on Jul 13, 2011 23:07:28 GMT -5
> Toby: Give lesson in human manners.
Though Ikirid is revealed to also have very sharp teeth, you are slightly less intimidated than you were compared to the gold troll. Ikirid looks GENUINELY EXCITED to see you, and it does not appear as though she will bite you anytime soon. You are very RELIEVED. She relates her EXCITEMENT to you, and your expression goes from one of concern at her bite to a relaxed smile. Her enthusiasm is strangely flattering.
She offers her HAND as well, and she makes it clear that she has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING.
"Oh, um" you say, pleased that she at least seems willing to learn how to execute a PROPER HANDSHAKE. "This is how humans usually introduce themselves, if they've got proper manners; it's called a handshake, if I can demonstrate"
You take her hand, and then look up to make sure she's not uncomfortable. She seems a little weirded out, but hasn't stopped SMILING, so you continue.
"So you take the other person's hand-- or other troll's, in this case-- like so"
You adjust the grip so that both of your THUMBS are side by side.
"You keep your grip firm enough to exude confidence but not so strong as to cause pain to the recipient, which would be rude, and then you shake up and down"
You give about TWO FIRM SHAKES.
"Bonus points for eye contact and a smile!" you say as you maintain both of these things. Ikirid seems to get the idea, as she grins back and looks up at you with those bright yellow eyes. And then it's just you two HOLDING HANDS. This would be awkward and a little embarrassing if you weren't so COLLECTED pretty much all the time.
"Oh, and then after you've introduced yourself and shaken hands, you let go"
The handshake ends, and you are PLEASED with how good of a teacher you seem to be. You look around a bit, and you find it peculiar that none of you appear to be any closer to approaching that MARBLE BUILDING than you were before.
"Hey, have you noticed that we don't really seem to be getting any closer to that building? It feels pretty disorienting" you mention, "Do you think we should ask one of those astronauts for help? I heard them talking earlier, they might be able to tell us something"
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Post by Andrea on Jul 14, 2011 0:00:26 GMT -5
> Cory: Answer chum.[/u]
Vaguely relieved that Buck answered you since you were going SLIGHTLY INSANE from WEIRD SPACE $%$#, you decide to reply.
"It's knd of weird but i'm ok." you reply in the most MANLY POSSIBLE WAY. "H-how ar you doing?"
You have also noticed that several of your CHUMS are talking to TROLLS now. You're not sure if you have a TROLL to talk to since you spent several minutes avoiding eye contact with them.
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Post by friday on Jul 14, 2011 12:11:35 GMT -5
> Ikirid: Try to comprehend the concept of human manners.
It's not too difficult to understand, but it is a little weird. Why humans would do such STRANGE GREETING RITUALS is beyond you, though this action does seem to exhibit a great deal of TRUST. However weird it may be, this is a good thing. You take note to try and greet every HUMAN this way, if you can manage it. There's no way you'd try it on TROLLS, though. There's no telling what would happen.
"That's kind of neat~! 8D I'd never heard of that before~ Trolls don't have such intimate polite greetings~" You grin widely. "Humans are a very courteous race~! 83"
Your mind suddenly wanders, and you wonder whether or not that was the FIRST PHYSICAL CONTACT any troll has ever had with human beings. From the looks of things, it isn't, but you still seem to be ONE OF THE FIRST. This excites you.
Your train of thought halts when Toby questions you about the funny astronaut people. "Yeah, I noticed that~" you say. "I don't know how they can help, but it's worth a shot~ Maybe they'll give us secret passes to get to it or something~ 8O"
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Post by selmette on Jul 14, 2011 12:56:58 GMT -5
((sorry this post is so STUPID STUPID DUMB i'm kind of tired and i have to rush this))
> Danseuse Whir: Narrate.
Well, my dear Golden player, the SPACEMO--ASTRONAUTS seem to have disappeared long ago. In fact, they were following you, but after a few minutes, they simply vanished into thin air. Odd, isn't it? And you're about to find out exactly where they went. Just be patient.
Oh, and as a side note: no Player has done anything wrong as of yet. You're all doing fine. So far, anyway.
> Ceci: Be weirded out.
Note to self: they aren't GOTHIC MOOSE-PEOPLE, they're trolls. Whatever.
Okay, um, ew? What the hell? Are you talking to a packet of gushers or something? Because... blood is not green. No. That's just... ew. Ewewewewewewewewew. Why did you even starting talking to him? EWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWWWWWWWWWW
Thankfully you don't have to find a way to awkwardly end the conversation, because something weird just hapened.
*What Aubergine has been added to your list of ARTISTS.
> Danseuse Whir: Narrate some more.
Sean's star suddenly begins to glow brighter and brighter and brighter. Everyone averts their eyes and all conversation stops at once. Suddenly, in a flash of blindingly bright white light, you all find yourselves inside a building. Presumably the GLARINGLY OBVIOUS MARBLE BUILDING.
You are standing at the front of a narrow hallway, built of the white marbly stuff just like the outside with several unlabeled doors to your left and right. After a few yards or so the hallway leads to what looks like a giant cafeteria full of a bunch of the SPACEMO--ASTRONAUTS. They are wearing simple white suits now, without all the heavy armour and stuff. ...and none of them are wearing helmets.
They all look human. Hm. Odd.
You can hear a door open on your right and one of them almost trips over Sean, who has collapsed onto the floor. His star is dull and a faded gray-gold colour. You think he's unconscious.
"Oh," the astronaut-thingy says. "Um. You guys got inside. Okay. That's... okay." It looks at you.
He looks like your average college guy, but something's wrong with his eyes. You can't quite... Something's not... You find yourself unable to meet his eyes directly.
"Um. I guess you must be the guys we've heard about. Come this way, then. I'm sure you have a lot of questions," he mumbles, leading you to the door he just came out of. You might be imagining it, but he looks sort of irritated, as if your arrival in the GLARINGLY OBVIOUSLY MARBLE BUILDING messes up some plans of his. Spoiler: it does.
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Post by gold on Jul 14, 2011 13:26:55 GMT -5
((Yes! I was wondering what was up with Sean's shirt.))
> Ikroye: Take victory in this.
Woah. Your kid... collapsed. This is awesome. You take victory in this, because now it'll take even longer for you to have to talk to him. Yesss.
You stick your tongue out at him. This is a rare opportunity, so of course you take it.
You take a quick look around inside the GLARINGLY OBVIOUS MARBLE BUILDING , and see that the ASTRONAUT is beckoning for everyone to follow. You do so.
((Note: Since Trolls don't have Gunnerkrigg Court, Ikroye had nothing to be confused by, so he didn't include the SPACEMO-- ))
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Post by Lord Hayati on Jul 14, 2011 13:42:27 GMT -5
>Aaron: Order a drink.Since you're all in this fancy mansion, you might as well get something. You haven't had much to drink, since your FERAL ATTACK CATS decided to use you as a scratching post. "Excuse me, Astronaut-knight people, may I Please have a glass of Coke?"Hopefully, they'll understand you. ;; woah, did Sean just faint? geez, He must've did something. Maybe you should pick him up... but For now, you'll leave him be.
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Post by Robyn on Jul 14, 2011 14:19:02 GMT -5
> Toby: Transportalize into the building.
Well. That solves that problem. You are not quite sure what has just happened, but you remember your pleasant conversation with Ikirid being cut off by the sight of Sean seemingly EVAPORATING EVERYTHING into a blinding field of white in front of you all. And now you are here. The astronauts look different.
One of them approaches you all. You cannot meet his EYES. This disturbs you greatly, as eye contact is very important to you, as far as BEING POLITE and APPEARING CONFIDENT go. He beckons for you all to follow him, but when you realize that Sean is laying unconscious on the ground, you cannot bring yourself to just leave him there. He is your FRIEND, after all.
"Hey, wait! Something's wrong with Sean!" you call out to the astroman. He either does not hear you or is ignoring you, because he doesn't turn around. You furrow your brow a bit at this display of RUDENESS but decide to see if you can rouse your forum buddy from his COMATOSE STATE.
"Sean? Hey buddy, wake up" you urge, giving his shoulders a few STRONG shakes. "We're getting left behind here, come on man"
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Post by Tam on Jul 14, 2011 15:23:48 GMT -5
> Buck: Be the easily distracted one.
"Fine thanks" you say in response to Cory's query. "But this is the single most annoying piece of alien landscape I've ever been on. I mean look at that building you'd think since we're walking towards it we might be getting closer or something but no that would just make too much sense"
> Buck: Get transportalized with impeccable timing.
"What" you say as you and your human and alien companions look around at the interior of what you can only assume to be the GLARINGLY OBVIOUS MARBLE BUILDING. "Did someone just transportalize us all in here with no warning" you ask. "I feel sullied and vaguely uncomfortable"
Everything inside the building is made of the same white marble as the exterior, and you seem to be standing at the edge of a MOON CAFETERIA of some kind. There are HUMANS all around, but none of them are wearing the odd SPACE ARMOUR the guys outside were wearing. You find yourself wondering what they needed such heavy protection from outside, and feel a bit uneasy.
Your uneasiness reaches a breaking point when you see Sean splayed out on the floor not too far away, looking very much unconscious as Toby shakes his shoulders.
"Oh" you say, staring down at him. "Oh crap"
You crouch next to him, letting Toby continue his attempts to resuscitate your BRAVE LEADER. You are more worried on behalf of your chum than you care to admit, but you draw the line at actually touching him.
"Hey" you say, doing your best to avoid sounding anxious. "Hey buddy come on wake up. We're getting surrounded by creepy astronaut guys and they're all starting to look at you like you're a delicious piece of meat"
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Post by friday on Jul 14, 2011 15:33:17 GMT -5
> Cadrax: See this as a convenience.
Sure, being SUDDENLY TRANSPORTED into the building via...whatever just happened was a bit sudden, but it saved you a long walk. Now you don't have to worry about messing up your clothes, or more POINTLESS CONVERSATION, or tripping like that other guy, or-
Oh. It seems one of the HUMANS has passed out. Perhaps the shock was too much for him. He looks a lot paler and has yet to WAKE UP. While you don't particularly care, the human in the PINK SHIRT seems to. Judging by his appearance, he looks STRONG enough to carry the other human, if he had to. Whether it comes to that or not, more important things catch your interest.
You frown upon seeing the strange astronauts up close. Or not-seeing, as it was. You can't seem to meet his eyes, no matter how hard you try. "|what trickery is this|" you mutter skeptically. The astronauts seemed to be expecting you, and, as expected, they seem to have all of the answers.
"|finally|" You decide to follow them, even if you don't really trust them. This might not be a very good idea. You'll just have to wait and see.
> Ikirid: See this as an annoyance.
The outside of the building had been really pretty, and that BRIGHT FLASH wasn't too shabby, either. But now that your eyes are adjusting, you don't like what you see. Inside is very WHITE AND DULL with hardly another color in sight. Of course, it is a marble building, but you're still annoyed.
This becomes a lot less important when you hear Toby's call. The human called SEAN is unconscious, and his friends are showing signs of worry. Some of the TROLLS are walking away despite this. Some part of you wants to join them, but abandoning Toby right after your PLEASANT CONVERSATION would just be stupid.
You stand next to Toby and poke Sean curiously. "What happened to him~? 8O"
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Post by Robyn on Jul 14, 2011 16:51:32 GMT -5
> Toby: Deal with unconscious pal.
Your primitive methods of rousing Sean prove to be fruitless. He is OUT COLD. You glance up at Buck, who has mentioned something about cannibalistic astronauts.
"A-are you serious? They're really looking at us like that?"
Looking around, you see that the other HUMANS, while still rather unsettling and creepy even without their armor, seem to be standing near what looks to be a SPACE CAFETERIA. You do not see any actual food though, and you hope that Buck is using exaggeration as a strange means of persuasion to get Sean up again. Neither of your attempts are WORKING.
A grey hand flies into your line of vision, and you move to shoo it away before you realize that it belongs to Ikirid. She only wants to know what happened.
"Oh, hey" you say, caught a bit off guard by her sudden reappearance, "We don't know, he must have passed out after he sort of exploded into white light and brought us all here"
You chew the inside of your cheek as you think. You really don't want to do what you're considering doing, but you can see that this unfortunate scenario is giving the trolls a HEADSTART on following that weird guy. And you can't just leave Sean behind. You sigh and lift your pal over your shoulder with RELATIVE EASE.
Buck gives you a weird look. You know that this must look STRANGE, and you also know that it will probably be AWKWARD once Sean comes to.
But you just shrug with your free shoulder and say, "We need to go" as you continue on your way towards the door.
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Post by Tam on Jul 14, 2011 18:29:40 GMT -5
> Buck: Get out of the way, you tool.
This is so incredibly awkward.
You do your best not to look horrified by the vast amount of UNCOMFORTABLE TOUCHING going on between Toby and Sean, the latter of whom is currently busy lolling over the other boy's shoulder like an OVERCOOKED NOODLE. You wrench your attention away from this UPSETTING DISPLAY and back to the astronauts, then manage a reply to Toby.
"I don't know" you say. "But I don't think they're here for the golfing venues"
As Toby moves off with Sean, you find yourself next to the smallish alien who seemed concerned for your chum. Well. You may as well say something to her. Apart from the UNNECESSARY POKING OF YOUR UNCONSCIOUS FRIEND, she doesn't seem that bad.
"Hi" you say. "So are you Sean's personal allocated alien then"
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Post by friday on Jul 14, 2011 19:50:24 GMT -5
> Ikirid: Observe inquiring human.
As Toby walks away with Sean slung over his back awkwardly, you turn to see the OTHER HUMAN. He seems to be a PRETTY COOL GUY. His outfit is leaning on the plain side, but you love his choice of CRIMSON EYEWEAR. The human looks as if he's trying to REGAIN HIS COOL after what must have been an unsettling event. You see nothing wrong with Toby helping out Sean, so you assume he's just jumpy from all of the TELEPORTING going on.
"Lol, yeah, my name is Ikirid~ You seem a little familiar~ 8/" You eye him closely, trying to remember why it seems like you've heard of him before. "Do you know a troll by the name of Cadrax~? I think he's mentioned you once or twice~ What's your name~?"
You notice that you're pretty much GETTING LEFT BEHIND. There's an itchy feeling that says you need to get going. This place looks easy to get lost in.
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Post by Lord Hayati on Jul 14, 2011 20:13:57 GMT -5
Aaron: Retreive Drink.After waiting in line, and not waiting for the astroknights, you retreive a drink of water. You take a sip... and promptly fall over, onto one of those troll people. This water tastes disgusting. looks like you fell on the person named Ikirid. whatever that name means. "Note to Self... Moon water Does Not taste good. "
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Post by friday on Jul 14, 2011 22:01:12 GMT -5
> Ikirid: React.
You are suddenly interrupted by a very tall HUMAN falling on you. He surprisingly heavy, at least when you compare his size to your own, but you're able to heave his weight off. Peeved by the abrupt interference, you want to lash out, but he looks SLIGHTLY ILL after drinking something. It seems it was an ACCIDENT.
"That was sort of uncalled for~" you say, "Watch who you're falling on~ 8E"
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