week 5 CYOA - yams, marcy, damien

[saturations]

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[saturations]

[it's thursday. it's thursday, and you're in the prism doing whatever it is you feel like you should be doing today. maybe you're sleeping in (damien.) maybe you're hanging around at the forge to bond with your kin (yasusada.) maybe you're kicking around in the office kingdom to be around the person you like most (marceline.)

maybe you're doing none of the above, actually, but wherever you are, you find yourself to be the recipient of a text.]

where r u?

[it is accompanied by a picture.



upon opening this text, the world shimmers around you and you find yourself passing through a black and white archway. you enter a city.

all three of you may recognize it for various reasons. it's the hustling, bustling crowd in the middle of a crossing. four sets of white lines lay out on the ground in a square formation, a fifth crosswalk cutting through diagonally. cars drive through, and the buildings tower around you. people barely seem to notice you as they hurry this way and that.

this city is more alive than the one you may have seen before. colors burst brilliantly, lights and sounds wrapping around you and scent of delicious food and coffee waft through the air. you're in the middle of the crossing together...]

x. REAPERS

[ your phone vibrates, and rings. ]

HEAD TO HACHIKO FOR A CHANCE TO WIN

[win what? good question. but you get the sense that this is something you really want...perhaps it's a good idea to go check it out?

you check your phone. everyone but the three of you has been erased from your contacts, though there are a few blurred out names. you also have access to a notes app, a map, and another locked application.

what would you like to do first?]

[aitou]

[huehuehueHUEHUEHUE

That's not what yams does, that's just me. Yasusada, for his part, stumbles through the archway, looking around--it is no longer emotionshare week, but his vibes of "AGAIN?!" are clear enough on his face. Shortly after that, though, he just looks surprised and confused.]

Eh? Wait, isn't this...

[highrisk]

[ damien's vibes meanwhile are that of a person who was definitely still half-asleep and on his way to get a morning (morning????) coffee. he blinks and also looks around blearily.

and then groans. ]

Oh, fuck this.

[theampirequeen]

[ marcy is wearing this. this is irrelevant to what's happening but is important to me even if we get an outfit change later. she's looking around with a ?? look on her face because she recognizes the place, but then her phone pings and she just. hrm. ]

... This is going to suck.

[ AGAIN???? but also she has no patience so she just sighs and squints at the picture and then the area around ]

We might as well go, right?

[aitou]

--Eh, Damien?!

[WHY. Not like "oh god why is Damien here", but like "WHY ARE WE APPARENTLY SPIRITED AWAY PARTNERS". Very funny.

Marceline's right, though--he looks around a little more, but then he nods at her.]

We'll have to. [There's no getting out of here by just standing around, probably.]

[highrisk]

You've got some bad luck, Excalibur.

[ i mean, like, so does damien? and he glances over to marceline because she wasn't with them last time, but she did go on an adventure too so... ]

You too, I guess. Eugh.

[ and he has no input on what to do here so he just shrugs. he'll go along with whatever... ]

[theampirequeen]

Yup. We can form a dang club with HP when we get back. C'mon, let's go.

[ mod said it'd be funnier if we explore elsewhere so marceline leads them in the completely wrong direction because the phone can't tell her what to do. BURGER TIME ]

[aitou]

Sorry.

[Look at his Pomeranian ears. Watch them droop. Even if they're not bodymod-ed he looks enough like a puppy that the vibe is there anyway.

Except then Marceline is leaving?! HELP he will follow her]

Eh, are you sure it's this way?

[yams has not actually been to scramble crossing specifically, he just knows what it is because he's Japanese]

[highrisk]

What are you apologizing for...

[ for having bad luck??? anyway damien also has no idea where anything is. he's from america. so he's just following along. surely someone else will fix the situation.

... ]

Can we stop and get coffee?

[theampirequeen]

[ yams is an adorable pomeranian and it's very distracting. puppy. anyway; ]

It's a quest point. You never go to the marker first thing, c'mon, every one knows that you gotta explore for side stuff first. Adventuring 101.

[ and then damien requests coffee so like. yeah. okay. let's look around for a coffee shop ]

First side stuff: coffee.

[aitou]

[Maybe Damien should be nicer and Yasusada won't have to apologize for nothing, how about that!!]

I don't think that's how missions work...

[He says that but he's still following so apparently Marceline is the leader of this team now. Except he's spinning around and looking at everything as they go!!!]

I wonder what era this is?

[highrisk]

What, like in video games?

[ damien is keeping an eye on yasusada like he's worried he might just wander off like a distractible puppy if he sees something shiny... ]

It's gotta be pretty modern.

[ find us some coffee, marceline ]

[theampirequeen]

Sure, in video games too. But real life dungeon and quest stuff is totally like that too.

[ marceline spots... the coffee shop! hurray! she walks over and once they get close enough she pauses ]

Are we gonna have to pay for that?

[saturations]

x. REAPERS

[ your phone vibrates, and rings. ]

REACH TOWER RECORDS

[or don't. will they go immediately? or will they do something else?]

[aitou]

[Moves over here!!!

Anyway as mentioned he will take Kitsunegasaki!! Why can't he have two pins equipped... he will swap his old one out for this one though.]

Thank you!

[To their buddy... to the others:]

Alright, let's go.

[highrisk]

[ damien will take In My Misery because of fucking course he will. ]

If it's another stamp rally I'm gonna be real annoyed.

[theampirequeen]

[ marcy is left with A Moonlit Night Inside and equip it, and also, a lot of frowny thoughts about the thoughts of the people of this place. hmmm.

anyway off they go directly to tower records because they put clothes on already ]

It's gonna be a boss battle or more hallucinations. Something horrible for sure.

[saturations]

[onward they go to tower records from their place in the crossing.]



[upon arrival, they'll see...people going about their business. there's the large, green-covered dome of modi housing a few shops. streets split off to cat street and spain hill. behind them is the crossing. ahead of them to the right is the record store, or so they think. the whole area appears to be covered in a dark shadow, flickers of red flashing every now and then.

on the other side of the entrance to the record store, there's a faint ripple of blue. an archway that's trying to form, also flickering and the metal construction staring to bend as if blocking entry.

approach? or do something else?]

[aitou]

[Well the dark shadows and such are definitely very concerning but uhhhh Yasusada is more worried about getting out of here and back to Kashuu so he's IMMEDIATELY POINTING TO THE ARCHWAY once he sees it.]

Look!

[WE GOT SOME PRISM SIGNS IN HERE surely they can just jailbreak and get out of here on Tuesday night]

[highrisk]

Yeah, an archway seems more promising than the rest of this.

[ looks at... the shadows and red flashes... ]

[theampirequeen]

[ marceline stays planted right where she is, pensive for a long while before she pipes up: ]

I think we should go red. [ because of her bias. and also; ] This is Riff's junk, right? Like. All of this is based on Riff's life. Or at least everyone's super depressing thoughts sure sounded like him and this is the city in his archway.

[ it could be bass's too but bass isn't this much of a sad wreck. she loves her riff. ]

So the archway is Prism junk. And the red is... whatever he left behind by wanting to stay in the Prism? Ughhh, I dunno.

[saturations]

[well...

...you spent a while stalling in the game. you spent time collecting your stamps, fighting enemies for money, and buying new clothes.

and while all of that was happening...

...you know.

yams is looking at the arch, and marceline's debating what to do, but damien's actually looking at the shadows and that's about the time he'll see a few things.

several scattered pins are on the ground. it's hard to see what they are, but they'll recognize them as loot that's been dropped from defeating some of the noise. a few feet away, further into the shadows though...

a hand. two hands. shadowed limbs that are disjointed and trying to crawl toward the archway itself, yellow eyes squinting as a harsh red glow continues to surround their figure.

in the shadows, a clawed hand appears to be pulling them back by the leg as the red flashes even more harshly.

so?]

[aitou]

[All of that is news to him, so Yasusada looks away from the archway to Marceline. Damien please say like "what the fuck" or something to get their attention.]

Is it? Eh, then... do you think we're here to help fix his memories?

[highrisk]

[ damien clears his throat to get their attention and like. points. at the crawling shadow thing trying to escape the clawed grip of - something. ]

If you think we're supposed to stay and do something, maybe start with that?

[ .......... he doesn't do anything though. ]

[theampirequeen]

[ she doesn't get to answer yams before damien wants attention like a needy child, except she turns and you know what. for once. he is valid. ]



Okay, never mind, we grab whoever that is and go in the blue. The red sucks.

[ are they close enough to grab the shadow person to drag along?? marcy is gonna at least... like... try .... ]