Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"FeEd It To YoUr FrIeNdS. tHaT gReEn HaIrEd GiRl LoOkS nIcE."

"I think if you gained 100 charges and slept, you'd become part of Xlentia," Stephanie says, "As for her last words..."

Stephanie whistles to me, "Hey, Aj, can you come here a moment?" She asks.

 

"Hey Artemis!... There's this thing telling me to feed you this goo, and I don't think it has good intentions."
I say worriedly.

 

"ShUt Up, YoU fOoL! fOrCe ThE gOo DoWn HeR tHrOaT!"

"What? You mean the remains of the blank?" Artemis asks, "And what 'Thing'?"

 

"So in theory, if I distract Virei'tus, you and your strike team could attack the others?"

 

"Well... That'd make me powerful enough to not worry about assassination. If the me part could take prominence."

 

"Depends. What'll it do?"

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"Yeah, the remains of the Blank. Do you have any idea what it might do?"

 

"That sounds like more than a theory. That sounds like a plan."

 

"Yes, I guess it is a plan. I'm not sure if it would work though. Though if your strike team kills enough of them, it could work."

 

"Aj, do you remember Ihra's mother's last words to you?" Stephanie asks as I walk over.

"Jeez, I can't forget that," I say, "Her soulcore thingy had cracked, and I was standing in the same place I was before I started fighting Vei with the watch of true time. She said "Don't make any more paradoxes, If I can't protect my daughter, then all I can do...promise me...you'll pick up where...I..""

Stephanie summons a familiar can of carbonated drink, and sips it, listening.

"Then some more weird time stuff happened, and I got the crap beaten out of me by both Abigail and my future self, then Artemis brought Vei back to life, and she said, after describing what happened, "Take my tomes... they will complete the... pylon... but one... thing...never forget..." and then she died." I explain.

"I think she got brought back with Artemis' father? But that's all she said while she was alive." I say.

OOC: I might have searched back thousands of pages to recap on what happened. Maybe. Possibly. It's classified.

"SHOVE THE DAMN GOO DOWN THE WENCH'S THROAT ALREADY!"

"It shouldn't really do much. A company once tried selling it in cans as a new type of drink; though it didn't go down well because...it's grey goo." Artemis says.

"PIN THE GIRL TO THE GROUND AND FORCE FEED HER THE GOO!"

 

I think for a few seconds.
"Stephanie might know more about it, don't you think?"
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"You still haven't told me what it does."

 

"If you can distract him sufficiently, we can make a clean sweep of the camp."

"So she wanted Aj to defend me. Probably to do the solo ascension thingy. Well... I do have the pylon."
Ihra prepares and absorbs a charge.

 

"She might do, but she looks a little busy with Ihra." Artemis says.

"SHOVE IT DOWN HER THROAT. DO IT NOW. YEAAAARGH."

"How does your solo ascension tie in with Xlentia then?" Stephanie asks.

"I'll defend you if you need to do something that takes your focus." I say.

 

"I bet I'm supposed to try to become Xle- that makes so much sense and sounds extremely difficult. Shit. I don't think I can..."
She trails off into tears.
Well, there's some serious pressure in that request...

 

"Well that's unfortunate. It's yelling at at me now, and I'm a bit worried."
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"Telling me to shove it down her throat is not telling me what it does."

 

Stephanie hugs Ihra as she starts crying.

"So, you wouldn't be losing your sense of self when you went into Xlentia, you'd be Xlentia. Ihrentia...Xlentihra..." I say.

Abigail falls to the floor nearby, unconscious, and a sphere of the potion resides next to Katie. Katie freezes it and smashes it on the ground.

Noticing Ihra crying, she runs over.

"Ihra, what's wrong?" Katie asks, kneeling down to Ihra's level.

"The grey goo can't talk, 13. It's literally goo, there's no way for it to talk. If you want me to drink some of it, I'll drink some of it alright? It's probably what started me on that poison addiction; to purge the damn stuff from my body." Artemis says.

"YES! YES! TACKLE HER TO THE FLOOR AND FORCE IT DOWN HER THROAT! GET THE GREY GOO INSIDE THE GIRL!"

 

"No, it's not the goo, I'm actually not sure what it is. But if you're willing to risk it, it's on you. Help yourself if you want to try it."

 

"I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!!" She wails, curling up into a ball.

 

"Well...now I'm not sure. We should probably get Stephanie to look at it; I don't sense any malicious spirits around anyway." Artemis says.

"GRAB HER. PIN HER THE THE GROUND. THEN SHOVE. THE DAMN GREY GOO. IN HER MOUTH!"

You feel a slight urge to pin Artemis to the ground and force feed her the grey goo.

 

"Right. Remember, the teleport leaves a trail, so we'll have to follow it before it goes."
Arnold goes back into the world. He then tries to trace the teleport to the group.

 

Stephanie and Katie give Ihra some space. I take up a defensive position.