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[Orikanyo]

So I was close to having a magical girl companion huh....?

The question slipping out before you could stop it, the void of it leaving your body is replaced by great shame.
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Ah, r-regardless. i suppous we should... Perhaps... Investigate the local church? Do you know anything of our goal? Or perchance what might improve our chances here?

The young man spun to approach the church, wondering what could be inside... Or if this would act like a save point in games? Place of healing?

==> Examine church for iconography to ascertain religious beliefs.​

 

[Squad141]

As you approach the church, you notice something off about it. You couldn't quite put your finger on it...

Of course, you realize.
Theres nothing indicating what religion it serves.

You wipe your hand across the old stone bricks, surprised to have found it cold, compared to the somewhat humid temperature of the desert night.
You walk around tot he front doors, and grab the handles.

Locked.
Orikanyo
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You scroll to one named, 'cat woman can eat shit'.
You don't particularly know why someone named your contact this, but they must be interesting.

You press the button to begin a conversation with them.
TekSoda Kimona ​

 

[TekSoda]

You pet Luci in some attempt to reassure them. You realize that it's kind of been your go to response and decide that you can ask them whats wrong in a few seconds, but decide to head straight for the TV remote first: while you'd love to comfort Luci some more, you have something to do. You pick up the remote and start spamming the channel buttons. What channels are available could give you a sense of where on Earth you are, and if you're not on earth, a sense for the language and culture for wherever you are - while TV is nothing like real life, what people like to watch says a lot.

While you're doing this, you turn to Luci, because they clearly know more than you do; even if they can't respond verbally, they can communicate through other means.

"Hey, Luci, what's wrong?"​

 

[Kimona]

Check Out This Contact==>

Maybe???
They look like a weirdo.
Also why didn't they just put in their name???
God.
Now you really had no idea who this was.
Well.
It couldn't hurt to try.

Retroradio(however her contact shows up on the other end.): Hello.
Retroradio: Am I speaking with "cat woman can eat shit"?

TekSoda ​

 

[Squad141]

Luci, still slightly shaking, begins to quickly recede back into your home, and up the stairs.

You follow her up the stairs, and she begins to look furiously around your room, through drawers and books and such.
You wonder if maybe Dick had this happen as well...?
TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Well, that was disappointing.

Your words are enhanced by a sigh, the blank church stands still as the night. Perhaps you will need a key?

Will it become a huge side quest of trading things over a long period of time so you can trade for the key and encounter a secret boss or treasure inside the place?!?

Who knows game started with tentacles keen on fiddling your bits and drag you to your doom down below so got to keep your options open.

==> investigate pub

While you don't know the drinking age for this place, you figure you can at least get information from the people... Or at least figure out what the people look like around here. Your hope they don't mind you having one eye, it's typically the first thing somebody asks about.

==> Go to the pub

Yes yes your getting on it sand isn't easy to walk on. Should try and get better clothes perhaps.​

 

[TekSoda]

You never expected there would be a connection... here, but dick had one, so it works out.​

who even are you
oh its radio bitch
hi
why the fuck didnt you talk to me before you yeeted me into wherevr i am
one sec my ghost is having a fuckin panic attack

You follow Luci into your room and stare confusedly. What are they even looking for that's that important, jeez. You decide to ask in the group chat, which now only consists of two people.​

hey dick my ghost is like
destructively searchin my home like the fbi in those shitty youtube videos
is this normal
also wait
==>skyjackr added Retroradio to the chat

 

[Orikanyo]

Oh, it means your ghost is looking for a host thing? Give it a object that looks kinda like it could be a game character. Mine took my Medjed plushie.

The ghost should be able to talk to you then... After you leave the house, apparrently.

Fucking gateing.

Also, good Day Ryou sorry about the paniced radio call in, crisis is over, for me at least, best you... Watch your surroundings... They might be on your home now...

 

[Squad141]

You press on the pubs door lightly. The building itself looks decrepit, and you couldn’t see any lights from where you landed (is that the right term?).

The doors swing open with reckless abandon. You were correct to assume that people were here, because they weren’t.

The pubs main lights are out, and from the moonlight outside you can only barely make out anything in there...

You freeze when you hear a scittering.
Yeah, your definitely not going in there without some kind of light.

Medjed floats behind you, steadily.
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MEDJED: Richard. It’s become apparent to me that your struggling currently.
MEDJED: Judging by the way you moved across the street, and your unrelenting fear of getting killed by a monster in the dark, I think now is an appropriate time.
MEDJED: The time to tell you about Alchemy.

Orikanyo ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: Alchemy?

What immedately appears in your mind is a blonde haired short young man who utilizes alchemy that looks like magic to create many different types of things out of other things, not including weaponry, sharp thrusting rocks and one guy who makes explosions.

You only hope to be the second guy.
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Dick: So basically making something into another thing? Or mixing two things to become another better thing? Or are we gonna go into the Platonic humors here...?

Finally some knowledge of anime helps you out somehow.​

 

[Squad141]

MEDJED: The creation of something new with the sacrifice of two things old.​

MEDJED: However, it’s very different than the strange, exaggerated animations you are thinking of.
MEDJED: That table, the one I was attempting to talk about earlier before the language barrier was broken, is the key.
MEDJED: So I’ll explain it to you now. The reason because being that your room has not adjusted to the Darkness yet, meaning I’d be talking in my native language until then.
MEDJED: The procure is as follow: Place two objects on the plate. Turn the pages onto one another, or together, to create an item.
MEDJED: Good luck.

You quickly process this information, then think about the possibilities. And hey, now you know why that strange table is part of the starter-pack of doom.

Orikanyo ​

 

[Kimona]

Respond==>

Huh.

RR: First, that was an uncalled for rude name.
RR: Second, I'm not sure what you mean dude.
RR: Ghost?

You think it over for a second.
Is CCES over here the one that the game reacted too?
If so that means this is a group game and that somehow the buttons on the screen effect other players.
Sounds simple enough.

RR: Contemplate your adding to said chat==>

There isn't much to contemplate. This just seems to be some kind of chat where those in this game seem to be communicating.
Panicked radio call?
That much be the weird Rich guy then

RR: Yo
RR: How's it hanging.

Orikanyo TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

EM: Not to much I dare say,currently in a spooky fucking desert town. Medjed(My ghost)just explained alchemy, pretty neat shit. Honestly it's super simple, two things become one, mixing them. Magic type of stuff.
EM: Adia you should have a table or something to do that on, your ghost should explain it soon if yea ask em when they can talk.
EM: How do you fare Ryou? God knows this isn't fun for any of us, especially since i'm staring into a dark pub's door while hearing skittering noises inside.

==> Go back home and commence alchemy in the safety of your own terrain.

A splendid idea, you think as you shakily bare your cane in the direction of the door like a frightening knight in his first skirmish... Or an old man trying to scare away a raccoon, with distinctly less shouting.​

 

[TekSoda]

SJ: im lowkey like
SJ: even more confused
SJ: im not even sure what i have that looks like a ga
SJ: waiiiiiiiiit

You go into your closet, where shitty merchandise you bought goes to die. Half of your closet is perfectly organized, with shirts hung nicely and running shoes neatly arranged, or as neatly and nicely as you could arrange them. The other half, well, that's the half with the dresses, high heels, that one t-shirt you bought in fifth grade that has "Things that are EPIC" written on it above depictions of various things that were deemed by the shirt's designer as "epic," teddy bears, a few game t-shirts, a shitty nylon bag with "WEST TEK" written on it, and some plushies - ah, there it is. A plushie of Faith Connors from your shitty mirror's edge phase. Any other plushie would work too, but that was the specific one your mind first jumped to for "Game Character"

Spoiler: Plushie

You hold the plushie up to Luci, hoping they accept your offering of video game merchandise.​

 

[Squad141]

Medjed looks at you in mild contempt. Or maybe happiness?
You can't really tell when his eyes are almost constantly in a bored expression.

Damn those Egyptians.

Either way, you put down your cane, and swiftly close the pubs door. It makes a large dust poof when it interacts with its frame.

You head back to your home.
Orikanyo
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She Accepts It.

As she hesitantly merges with it, a bright light-red light fills the room.
It gets so bright that eventually you have to look away, and hear a strange noise which can only be described as someone's organs getting reborn.

When you look back, you're surprised.
Luci has become something different. She now has the hair, clothing and eye makeup of the plushie, but her skin is still that of the spirit orb thing.

LUCI: ….
LUCI: hello, adia
TekSoda
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A Notification Appears.

It a seems as if you now have a new option for CCES, or whatever her name is.
Man, you really need to find these peoples names out.

The option goes as follows:

> Release Table
Kimona ​

 

[TekSoda]

"Woah holy shit"
"Hi"

You realize after the fact that that may have been a bit of a thoughtless, or even rude reaction. It was normal for them to do that, right, and they were hesitating about it, too.

"Sorry if that was a rude reaction, I've just never seen a ghost merge with something before. Is merge the right word? Is it more like possession, since you're a ghost?"
"Holy shit are you dead? Like, were you a person or"

Congratulations, you've said something even more thoughtless than before!

"Sorry. again."​

 

[Squad141]

LUCI: oh, uh
LUCI: its fine!
LUCI: even I didn't know I could do that
LUCI: unless I did. which I kinda had to...
LUCI: oh, this if not going well...

Luci begins to hauntingly sweat.
TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Dick: Send pics of the ghost you when merge it!

Coming to the table, you begin to think of possible things to use as a weapon, or maybe armor? Cool cape? All heroes need cool capes right? Wait, if your the hierophant does that mean your a healer mage dude? Or one of those tanky paladin dudes?

Dick gazes at his cane thoughtfully, then towards his large amount of stuff which is neatly disorganized by the tentacle home invasion.

==> Rummage

You go about your stuff, you find various stuff, old photos, year books, missing socks, a brass scarab pin, an old dusty magician's kit top hat and cape combo, and tarot deck.

Huh, tarot, funny thats there...

==> Equip top hat, scarab pin and cape

You look silly yet distinguished

==> Look for better stuff.

Well, you look around for stuff that may have more... Power? Your figurines stand at attention...

==> Examine Magical Girl statue.

No, definitly not her, shes to precious to be made into a alchemy test dummy. She is the prize of your figurines, and is adorable to boot!​

 

[TekSoda]

"Uh, yeah, hehe..."
"Wait, the game, or the conversation...?"

It doesn't really matter either way. Everything went to shit in both, but she's a cute floating plushie, so you can excuse any and everything that goes wrong, so long as it doesn't involve your demise and the like.

Then again, her anxiety is palpable. Something's up.

"What's... wrong, exactly?"​

 

[Squad141]

LUCI: I mean
LUCI: I feel like I should have been more
LUCI: ready?
LUCI: your here now at least
LUCI: ...

Luci looks unsure of herself.
She floats up tot he window.​

LUCI: I dunno
LUCI: I just feel like I wasn't ready to be a guide
LUCI: like your friends is much better, and even a bit assertive
LUCI: but im like
LUCI: 'hey, its me small wispy ball, sorry to break all your expectations of some kind of classic fun ghost'
LUCI: but I guess we should
LUCI: yknow, get to business or whatever

TekSoda ​

 

[TekSoda]

You consider making a Mulan reference, but now isn't the time. Also, you're not sure Luci even knows what Mulan is.

"I'm not exactly the best with words, so sorry in advance, but, like"
"I don't do being trapped in small rooms, or even, like, full apartments."
"I succeeded in distracting my self by focusing on, like, improving myself and stuff, but then my apartment block started getting eaten..?"
"Anyways, when you showed up, I was literally about to fucking shatter."
"If you were anyone else I probably would be curled in a fetal position on the floor of a rapidly sinking house."
"Don't worry too much about not being as confident or assertive, sometimes a gentler touch is needed, I guess."

Your brain is making several burglary analogies with the last line, but that's irrelevant. Also, why does she even care about being a wispy ball? It was basically inevitable that she'd merge with something else eventually. She just didn't know that, you guess. Shes cute both merged and unmerged, though.

"Oh shit, right. Before we get things rolling, I owe Dick a pic of you. that sounded wrong."

Before she has a chance to duck out of the way, you raise your camera, aim, and fire.​

 

[Kimona]

Press the button==>

Of course.
What else are you supposed to do?
You, of course, have to press the button.
After all, that is apparently your job.
Because you have to listen to the 'rules' of soc- ahem.

Of course, you didn't even know that a button had appeared since you were still standing in the mess that is your living room.
Your cleaning hadn't been very successful since you think you have just made the mess worse.

Maybe you should go check on your computer... To see if anything has changed.

Onward==>

Fine.

You make the annoying trek back to your room where you do actually find the appearance of the button.
You press it.

RR: Table.​

 

[Orikanyo]

==> Examine tarot deck.

It's abit dusty, but works, the small manual is all but ruined due to years of disuse, so it could work as scrap paper if needed. But you do find a couple left over cards, and amongst them your own card! The Hierophant!

Yay!

You take it, leaving the rest stacked neatly on the dresser, next to your found socks. Since you found something reasonably good, you figure you should try and mix up something...

Looking at your inventory and equiped gear, you decide to put the hierophant card and the cape on the silver platter. Following Medjed's instructions you then close the book, hoping it would work symbolically instead of just turning your cape into cardstock...​

 

[Squad141]

You attempt to close the book, but it won’t close all the way. So instead, you look down, and notice that the cape has appeared on the right page and the card on the left.

Still a bit befuzzled, you turn the right page onto the left, and realize that it stays.

An icon lights up on the table, and engraving of an arrow pointing Left, and on a flash of light your two items have disappeared, creating something new.

You have obtained the Holy Cloak, a white cape with golden decals that (metaphorically) shine with holiness.

After you see this item, the book flips to two, new fresh pages.
However, the ones you just used are still accessible.

This is going to be fun.
Orikanyo
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In a quick flash of light, which you almost confuse for your phones camera, a table appeared in the corner of your room, complete with a plate, an open book, and some cool engravings and tablecloth.

What the hell.
TekSoda ​

 

[Orikanyo]

Indeed it is gonna be fun.

It's time to make some stuff!

==> Go alchemy crazy

While you would, you aren't sure what to grab... Maybe a rock from outside or... Wait... Your figurines... Couple of them have weapons so... Maybe... Canes are fine but, maybe... You could...

....

Okay, lets start with something... Choose randomly... How about... Man it's been years since you've played Flaming Symbol 7.

Shes a mage, well, dark mage to be exact, so maybe that magical prowess might give your cane some wicked flair? Maybe shoot out bolts of energy?

Oh yea.

==> Equip cloak.

Now we're cooking with petrol.

Now lets put the somewhat risque statuette on the platter with the cane.. Heres hoping it goes well. Man, your lucky Medjed didn't choose this figurine, having a clingy obsessive dark mage as a companion is not what you'd call a fun journey... Or... maybe..?

As he closes the book, he wonders if the cane would clash with his white cloak...

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