The Unpopping of a Wombat ((open rp))

[wombatminer]

((Digger is taken from after the end of the comic with the assumption she made it home ok; she has vague memories of Hogwarts but nothing specific.))

Digger had thought she was done waking up in ridiculous circumstances, but clearly, this wasn't the case, because in a strange place, surrounded by giant popcorn and covered in butter was ridiculous by

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[dreamingnotdead]

((Edit for html fail - How could I resist throwing in a god? Cthulhoo is Cthulhu, with extra crack. =D))

Gods? There just so happened to be a 'god' in the halls of Hogwarts at that moment. An unfathomably ancient, unspeakably horrible diety, who was being escorted on his way by a number of his equally unspeakable slaves.

This god was Great Cthulhoo, who spent the majority of time in his house in R'lyeh, not dead but dreaming. Now and again, however, he woke up and found that he could emerge from the Hogwarts lake and enjoy a state of actual awakeness, although without the usual desire for destruction, soul eating, spreading mind-rending terror, etc. The school's magic inflicted a strange state upon Cthulhoo, in which he thought about such things, but felt absolutely no urge to actually act upon his impulses. In short, the school's no-kill spell got him stoned. It didn't actually alter his impossibly huge size to allow him to fit in the castle, however- it was a different magic that did that, something that a fellow god called Lezard

[wombatminer]

Digger had only paused to mark her rout a few times - hey, even if she had no idea where here was, she figured she might as well keep track of the one landmark she'd found, which happened to be the popcorn room - when she heard the voice behind her and turned, a little incredulously, to look. The sound - if it could quite be described as a sound, which for the moment she figured she'd settle for, because this was pretty clearly not the time for redefining senses - set her teeth on edge. There was a lot of power there.

Digger spared just a moment to thoroughly resent the universe, that she was in the position to recognize that kind of power.

"I really don't have the murkiest idea where I'm going," she replied, a note of irritation in her voice. "And I really hope you don't have anything to do with that, whatever you are."

[dreamingnotdead]

"I'm a god, of course, fuzzy mortal! And it's not my fault you forgot where you going," Cthulhoo informed Digger. "I'm going to the kitchens. Or was. I think we took a wrong turn." Cthulhoo hadn't been in the school much, but, he was beginning to think that his Shoggy-drawn chariot was not actually heading in the right direction anymore, the current hall looking alot like one the Shoggies had already pulled him through. "We're following the arrows, Great Master Cthulhoo," a Shoggy explained. "We did forget where we were going so they reminded us to go somewhere!" Almost simultaneously, a number of Shoggies murmured "Ooooh, somewhere." "But where is somewhere?" another Shoggy piped, which prompted a wail of "I DON'T KNOW!" from the first Shoggy, followed by "Sooo cool, a mystery" by yet another Shoggy

[wombatminer]

He was a god. Of course he was. Not that Digger hadn't had her suspicions, but she'd rather hoped she was just jumpy and misreading him. Well, at least talking to him didn't seem to be actively driving her insane or anything, although the wombat's inborn resistance to fate might have been helping with that a little. She still wasn't sure what the exact ramifications of that might be, and she wasn't exactly keen on testing it out.

Digger bristled a little at his question - not of her species; she was used to that by now and at least he hadn't decided she was a rat or a bear or something. But whose cult-? "I'm a wombat," she informed him dryly. "We don't do cults. And I didn't forget where I'm going, I just have no idea where I am or how I got here."

[grandmasteryoda]

Yoda stumped down the hallway, his cane tapping on the stone floor. When he came upon the recently unpopped being (a Drall, perhaps? Or something completely different? Either was likely in Hogwarts) he cleared his throat to alert the being to his approach. "A sensible idea, that is," he said, noting the chalk. "Very confusing are Hogwarts' halls."

[wombatminer]

The wombat turned at the voice, to find a being whose species she couldn't hope to identify. That bothered her less than it might have; it was a little hard to get worked up over not knowing what someone else was when she'd just gotten back from a place where her enemies seemed convinced she was some kind of fat bear, and a good portion of her allies insisted on calling her a rat. And this... person... seemed friendly enough. She smiled ruefully. "Thanks. Not that I'm sure how much good it'll do me to be able to get back to that place with all the popcorn, but it seemed like as good a point of reference as any."

[grandmasteryoda]

((*headdesk* Crap, I thought I'd responded to this. Sorry!))

"If all else, know how not to get back there you do." Yoda nodded philosophically. "Know where you are going, do you? Or just exploring?"

[wombatminer]

Digger sighed. "I have no idea," she admitted. "I'm not really sure where I am, actually. I ran into a... well, a god a little while ago, but he wasn't exactly coherent. Even considering the whole 'being a god' thing. Said something about a castle, and waffles. Otherwise, I'm completely clueless."