11 | they should worry

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph and you!
Setting: Floor 1, Floor 62, Floor 86
Format: Actionspam
Summary: Aleph shares a little wine that will knock the unsuspecting out. He heads up to the beach, and from there to the fairy ring floor where he has a "little" problem.
Warnings: Drinking, by minors if you.. count Aleph as a minor. Will update to include other things if they occur.

[Floor 1]
[There was a rather large bottle of wine on the table.

On close inspection, it would be labeled with simply 'Dionysus' on one side of the label. Anyone paying any attention to it would get Aleph to smile and say:]

If you promise to drink responsibly, I'll let you have some.

[Warning: alcohol made by the god of wine is delicious, but severely intoxicating.]

[Floor 62]
[It's good to be on the beach when it's warm...

Don't mind Aleph's deposited top half of his armor. It was 70 degrees and it felt great to just stretch out on the beach there.]

[Floor 86]
[Maybe he'd drank too much of the wine. There was certainly a sway in his step when he was proceeding up the stairs, enough that he stepped off onto this floor in particular.

Right into a ring of mushrooms. Should they even be allowed to grow that close to the stairs? Either way, it was too late to think of that now, as a small group of fairies appeared and surrounded him.]

What a silly man!

Coming into our ring, how mean!

[Right, he could handle this, he negotiated with spirits for a living... He started to speak.] It was an accident-

Did he bring iron into our ring?

Scary, scary, we'll have to make sure he doesn't use it!

[Well crap.

The next thing Aleph saw was a swirl of lights, and then... everything suddenly looked a whole lot bigger.

Those who enter this floor after Aleph will notice that he's about the size of somebody's hand - that is, if they look before they step onto it.]

Comments

[alephbet]

And we're closer to doing things about it now.

[midgarhorizon]

[Grin.]

Exactly. This kinda thing's just up my alley.

[alephbet]

You must live an exciting life.

[And you don't, Aleph?]

[midgarhorizon]

Once in a while. Definitely have since comin' here.

[Guys. Guys stop. Guys pls.]

[alephbet]

Really, everybody here lives an exciting life now. That's for sure.

THERE AIN'T NO GETTIN OFF THIS WHALE WE'RE ON

[midgarhorizon]

There's a curse back home. Goes something like, "may your life be interesting and full." But I kinda don't think they meant like this.

at least it wasn't a giant turtle, that would just be silly

[alephbet]

It'd be a pretty effective curse if they did mean it like this.

Good to know we have standards!

[midgarhorizon]

Oh yeah, it's one of the most powerful damned curses in the multiverse.

[alephbet]

People should be more careful what they say or they could send somebody to oa horrortower accidentally.

...isn't this called enabling.

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno's facepalming a bit here.]

Y'really think that works? Man, I'd hope not. Say the wrong damn thing and people wind up here.

[Getting up, he shifts the chair and sits back down in it properly this time, crossing his ankle on one knee.]

But then... there's a thought that if ya invite trouble, it comes running.

[But usually they said that about the Turks.]

perhaps~

[alephbet]

I believe in all kinds of things. I won't rule out curses like this.

[Aleph shrugs, sipping his drink.]

You should be careful what you say, especially in a place like this.

[midgarhorizon]

Heh, yeah, you're right.

[Open your big mouth, get sent back home for a few months. Have entire Tower falling around your ears. Yep, that seems like exactly how it happened.]

I'd better head out.

[alephbet]

Take care of yourself, okay?

[You don't have to be tipsy to get in serious trouble.]

[midgarhorizon]

Yeah, sure. Don't need to tell me twice. You, too.

[C'mon man why do you think he's swearing off alcohol for the next year, it's gotten triple time dangerous up in here.

You never know when a space whale will attack.]

[alephbet]

I haven't got this far without being careful.

Thanks.