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towerofanimus2012-09-13 12:09 am
pointerpixl) wrote in towerofanimus2012-09-13 12:09 am
Entry tags:
[open / intro]
Characters: Tippi, and anyone especially fascinated by a talking neon butterfly
Setting: September 13th; dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway, OR floor 32
Format: Whatever, although I am much faster at action
Summary: Tippi appears, and finds a particularly rare and valuable item in her RPG Tutorial Treasure Chest, if you know what I mean... Alternatively, being a teeny-tiny little bug is really, really hard when your ability to fly is disabled on certain floors!!
Warnings: None, unless you need a warning for potential sad?
[option 1: dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway]
[Something about this wasn't sitting right with Tippi at all.
For one, she was on an unfamiliar bed. Merlon, kind soul that he was, had offered her her own bed in Flipside for little in exchange but the promise of her well-being, and it was an offer she could not refuse. She found herself needing much less sleep than others, in the end, but when the urge came over her, she would perch on the pillow delicately and drift off. This was not that bed; it looked different, smelled different, and even felt a little too crisp for her liking. Another point against this being anything normal was a tiny little collar fitted behind her antennae, and it certainly hadn't been there before. It didn't feel heavy or intrusive, but was snug enough to be noticeable all the same.
But more than any of that, there was that almost incomprehensible letter.
...Or, Tippi wished it was incomprehensible. She knew what it meant, but didn't want to admit it. A dull wave of sorrow washed over her, causing her wings to droop. The Void... really swallowed everyone? They were all gone? Merlon was gone, and Flipside? Even Mario, and Peach, and Bowser, and Luigi? And... it must have even taken--
Feeling slightly numb, she skimmed over the second letter shuffled beneath the first and absorbed the information. The emotion running through her was still too great to absorb the same way, but she knew, if only vaguely. Without really understanding how, she fluttered over to the chest at the end of the room and flipped it open -- perhaps she'd seen Mario do it enough times now that she could copy him without even thinking about it.
That didn't matter. The numbness subsided into grief instead when she saw the only object that was inside.]
Mario... I...
[Not too long after this, you may find Tippi struggling obstinately to drag a peculiar red cap down the hallway and away. Though it's easily almost double her size, and she can only inch it forward a little bit at a time, she's being exceptionally persistent.]
[option 2: floor 32]
[It was extremely discouraging when Tippi wilted to the floor unceremoniously upon reaching the thirty-second floor, especially when she was still on the stairs. So far, exploring hadn't been so bad, but suddenly, she couldn't get airborne again no matter how hard she tried.
After a while of furiously flapping her wings to no avail, she gave up and starts trying to ascend the normal way -- which is the hard way when you're an insect that's not built to walk or climb. Going up little by little, each bit of progress required a burst of energy for her to flap her wings hard enough to lift her to the next step without whatever Pixl magic had been allowing her to fly so freely before. (She hadn't even known it existed; yet another quirk of being a Pixl she could only learn through trial and error.)
So, if you're going up or down the stairs in the series of floors where flight is disabled, you may either notice her struggling, or not notice at all and almost step on her by accident (and get yelled at for it).]
Setting: September 13th; dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway, OR floor 32
Format: Whatever, although I am much faster at action
Summary: Tippi appears, and finds a particularly rare and valuable item in her RPG Tutorial Treasure Chest, if you know what I mean... Alternatively, being a teeny-tiny little bug is really, really hard when your ability to fly is disabled on certain floors!!
Warnings: None, unless you need a warning for potential sad?
[option 1: dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway]
[Something about this wasn't sitting right with Tippi at all.
For one, she was on an unfamiliar bed. Merlon, kind soul that he was, had offered her her own bed in Flipside for little in exchange but the promise of her well-being, and it was an offer she could not refuse. She found herself needing much less sleep than others, in the end, but when the urge came over her, she would perch on the pillow delicately and drift off. This was not that bed; it looked different, smelled different, and even felt a little too crisp for her liking. Another point against this being anything normal was a tiny little collar fitted behind her antennae, and it certainly hadn't been there before. It didn't feel heavy or intrusive, but was snug enough to be noticeable all the same.
But more than any of that, there was that almost incomprehensible letter.
...Or, Tippi wished it was incomprehensible. She knew what it meant, but didn't want to admit it. A dull wave of sorrow washed over her, causing her wings to droop. The Void... really swallowed everyone? They were all gone? Merlon was gone, and Flipside? Even Mario, and Peach, and Bowser, and Luigi? And... it must have even taken--
Feeling slightly numb, she skimmed over the second letter shuffled beneath the first and absorbed the information. The emotion running through her was still too great to absorb the same way, but she knew, if only vaguely. Without really understanding how, she fluttered over to the chest at the end of the room and flipped it open -- perhaps she'd seen Mario do it enough times now that she could copy him without even thinking about it.
That didn't matter. The numbness subsided into grief instead when she saw the only object that was inside.]
Mario... I...
[Not too long after this, you may find Tippi struggling obstinately to drag a peculiar red cap down the hallway and away. Though it's easily almost double her size, and she can only inch it forward a little bit at a time, she's being exceptionally persistent.]
[option 2: floor 32]
[It was extremely discouraging when Tippi wilted to the floor unceremoniously upon reaching the thirty-second floor, especially when she was still on the stairs. So far, exploring hadn't been so bad, but suddenly, she couldn't get airborne again no matter how hard she tried.
After a while of furiously flapping her wings to no avail, she gave up and starts trying to ascend the normal way -- which is the hard way when you're an insect that's not built to walk or climb. Going up little by little, each bit of progress required a burst of energy for her to flap her wings hard enough to lift her to the next step without whatever Pixl magic had been allowing her to fly so freely before. (She hadn't even known it existed; yet another quirk of being a Pixl she could only learn through trial and error.)
So, if you're going up or down the stairs in the series of floors where flight is disabled, you may either notice her struggling, or not notice at all and almost step on her by accident (and get yelled at for it).]
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"But I am of the Tribe of Darkness..."
"Why would that matter? Anyone with a heart would not ignore an injured soul--"
Looking just a bit frazzled, she shuffles tentatively onto Bleck's glove. Her conscious mind tells her to be ready to jump off any moment, but another part of her doesn't seem to agree, because she relaxes a bit after that.
Help is still help, regardless of who it is from. That's all that should matter right now...]
That's... strange... It must have been very far if it wasn't even affected...
--Ohh, what am I saying?! That still means Mario... and Luigi... and Peach, and Bowser, and all of Flipside...
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Far indeed, says Count Bleck.
[He straightens up and looks along the stairs where she was heading and went along that way.]
Count Bleck assumes they are gone. Although, count Bleck also assumed he was the only survivor and yet here you are, Pixl.
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[A ruffle, but no attempts to do much otherwise.]
But it can't be proven! Maybe it was like what happened to Mario... We all thought his game was truly over, but he came back because it was just a trick by that infuriating magician...
[Even then, there's a number of things that baffle her yet. One being that the Void should have kept growing and consumed all the worlds. The other problem lay with the fact that if the Dark Prognosticus had come to pass... Count Bleck himself should not be--
Blumiere! No, you mustn't! Darling!]
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Very well. Tippi.
[It should have. Bleck thought about that when he had first woken up in the tower but he assumed that this world was well and truly far enough away that the Void wouldn't be seen for some time.]
Magician. You speak of Dimentio, Count Bleck assumes.
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Yes... He simply warped right into Merlon's house! Then he made them vanish like it was nothing, without even a moment of hesitation... That brazen little clown with his tacky comparisons...
[Yeah, she mad. But on the bright side, it means she doesn't have to deal with that gross quirk, and the weirdo it comes attached to, here.
It means, too, if they could even come back from where games go to be over, it's not hopeless until she sees it for herself.]
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Count Bleck believes he knows some of what you speak but did not know of Dimentio's hand in it.
[Just what had Dimentio been up to? And why hadn't the Count expected this of him?
And now, he's not even sure what to say to the Pixl. His goal was to destroy their dimension and now it was but... Ugh.]
If you have appeared here, your friends may too. Says Count Bleck.
[He has to remind himself that Timpani is gone and there's no proof that Tippi is her.]
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[News to her!]
But even though he did that, it proved they can come back through anything, even a game over... I believe that with all my heart! Even if it seems they're gone forever, things can still turn out all right in the end!
[From her perspective, Tippi has no foundation for believing this outside of that one instance, which may well have just been a stroke of dumb luck. She just... does, even though she can't put her finger on the basis for it.
Hmmmmmm.]
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[Oh. He will have WORDS with Dimentio if he ever appears here.]
Whether they make it through it and to the tower means nothing now, says Count Bleck. The worlds were destroyed and nothing can change that now. The best you can hope for is to see them here.
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[Something, to her optimistic mind, is certainly better than nothing. It's easier to admit the odds are against her thinking here, but in Tippi's opinion, it's not better.]
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[Killer of hopes and dreams, right here. Yep.]
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She didn't want that. She didn't want anyone to get a Game Over, sure, but she didn't want it for some other reason that she knew she'd had almost figured out before, but has since slipped back out of her mental grasp.]
I...
[As the statement subsides before it even begins, Tippi spends a long, long moment trying in vain to process everything.]
But, but still...! Even though I can't do anything now, I can still hope... I owe them all at least that much, even if I have to wait for a long time...
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[He doesn't want to take that from her at least. And without hope, well, what point was there in going on. Count Bleck himself has pretty much given up on hope all together by now.]
You have plenty of time to continue hoping for them here, after all.