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Act 5 Act 2: He Is Already Here.
Part 23: Grimdark
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GG: rose please say something
GG: you are making me nervous...
TT: I should have gone looking for her.
TT: It would have been normal of me. I can't remember what I was trying to prove anymore.
GG: i dont think you should be so hard on yourself about it
GG: john was being john, and you were being you, which i guess meant taking our problems very seriously and putting all your attention on solving them!
GG: argh, i dont know if im very good at consoling people. sorry rose i dont want to make you feel worse :(
GG: now we have all lost guardians
GG: i think that maybe it is an inevitable part of a game that can be cruel sometimes
TT: For some reason, despite all the danger, I never thought she was in any trouble.
TT: I never believed she would actually die.
TT: I didn't actually need the ectobiological verification that she was like a mother and a sister at the same time. I always understood that somehow.
TT: I think she was just waiting for me to catch up with her.
TT: But now I can't.
GG: i am so sad
GG: rose i think you are being stronger about it than i am
TT: Probably because my emotions have now ceded to anger.
GG: i just hope you arent thinking of doing something rash
TT: I already was.
TT: I was going to go to sleep, fly to a sun bigger than our universe, drop a bomb in it, and kill myself.
GG: but i was trusting that you had thought it through and it was our best hope
TT: I'm not sure if I did.
TT: Maybe I will go kill Jack myself.
TT: Right now.
GG: oh no no no no no!
GG: rose that is a much much worse plan!!!!!
TT: Probably.
TT: But the Scratch will wipe us out anyway, and reboot the conditions of our session.
TT: I suddenly don't feel much like sneaking through the back door of the Furthest Ring for retribution by distant super nova.
TT: I may have been allowing myself to be manipulated by an omniscient being regardless.
GG: what? who?
Hello ladies.
GG: aaaaaaa whaaaaat?????
GG: rose who is this!
TT: Ignore him.
You were discussing Ms. Lalonde's intrepid new variation on suicide.
As one with a passion for the subject, I'm intrigued.
TT: Anyway, if it's true the gods have "selected" me for service, maybe the power they've given me will be sufficient.
GG: please dont rose, i know you are angry but you arent thinking straight
TT: I'm fully aware I'll probably die and fail. Scratch happens, we start fresh. No recollection, no problem.
GG: the dark gods gave you all these powers, and seem to be helping us with dream bubbles and stuff...
GG: but what if they are not actually good?
TT: They are enormous, ugly, and live in darkness.
TT: That doesn't necessarily make them bad.
If only there were a way to make this determination with certainty.
Through a reliable source within reach, for instance, at this exact moment. Perhaps one that is spherical, and devastatingly handsome.
GG: whats this weirdo talking about!
TT: The cue ball.
TT: Yes. And he is right.
TT: What are you suggesting I ask it?
GG: since we dont know much about the gods...
GG: why dont you ask it about them?
You ask.
Thusly does Kanaya lose sight of Roses timeline.
Thusly does Rose go completely grimdark.
You make a half-hearted attempt to resist the desire to seek bloody vengeance.
But alas, one is not easily shaken from the broodfester tongues.
You have found The Tumor.
There seems to be something just visible at the very center of it...
10 hours, 25 minutes.
Tumor acquired.
Back on the surface, you encounter some guy from Derse. He has your toy rabbit!
But something's missing here. Where is all his sweet loot?
Maybe they blew away in the
BREEZE.
As it so happens, the rabbit's eyes have the power to enlarge or shrink things! You bring the WARHAMMER OF ZILLYHOO up to proper usable size.
[S] Behold the glory of Zillyhoo.
This is extremely silly.
You don your leadership hood and prepare to find your friends in order to make some extremely authorative friendly requests.
You promote Liv Tyler the bunny to Captain Tyler, and give her her own battleship to pilot.
Your robed ward is given possession of your Wallet, and the Tumor inside. This noble crew must fly the ship to Derse, and deliver the Tumor to its moon.
GG: john!!! i am worried about rose!
GG: im pretty sure she is on her way there to look for jack!
GG: i cant say for sure because i cant see her with my goggles anymore for some reason, but i am fearing the worst
GG: just in case, you should to try to intercept her before she does something stupid like try to fight him!!!!!
GG: john?
GG: oh god please dont tell me your computer was in the wallet you just gave that guy.....
GG: dammit john!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, whats that? It looks ominous. And grimdark.
You'd better investigate!
[S] Seer: Descend.
Deep inside the bloodstained cathedral...
JOHN: heh... what?
JOHN: also, why are you all gray like that? you look weird.
ROSE: G'hroog fib'th mur brup brup.
ROSE: G'HROOG FIB'TH MUR BRUP BRUP!"
JOHN: rose, i can't understand a word you are saying. it is a lot sillyspeak and gobbledygook.
JOHN: wait, i know what's going on here. it finally happened! you have gone grimdark!!!
JOHN: i told you rose. i warned you about... what did you call them? the broodfester throes?
ROSE: ...
JOHN: it's ok rose, don't worry. we will find a cure for your stubborn throes.
JOHN: but i'm still trying to find our parents! i thought my dad might have come to this castle to check out that huge black rain cloud.
ROSE: Jgngn, fnlth gohluyng j'rg HOTHAHT!
JOHN: wait, are you talking about our parents?
JOHN: oh man... you mean, they're here?!
ROSE: Shgvb throl. Goors fn'nnyuld hothahty'j otot!
JOHN: are you saying they are in trouble??
JOHN: oh no! rose, we have to go help them!
JOHN: yes, i am frustrated too. but there is no time for such lamentations!
JOHN: please lead the way, rose!
ROSE: Gorthytch svulk borbly'ahth?
JOHN: wait! i hope that didn't come off as a proposal or anything!
JOHN: sorry, i'm just making conversation.
JOHN: i guess i am a little nervous...
JOHN: because technically, this is the first time we have ever met, and also, you are talking like an eldritch monster, so i'm kind of babbling.
JOHN: we don't actually have get married though. i mean, not if you don't want to.
ROSE: ...
JOHN: heheh. ok, i'll shut up now.
[S] Strife.
Characters Jack Has Killed
Black Queen, Black King, Everyone on Prospit, Jade, Everyone on Prospit again, all the trolls, Bro, John, John's Dad, Rose's Mom, John again
NEXT CHAPTER: The other Seer.
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