WEEK 5 CYOA - MOLLY, CALEB, DIMITRI, SAKYOU

[dormheads]

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[katzepaw]

[Sakyou. . . buddy. . .

Okay, well. He is just going to lie down on the ground and curl up to show he is not a threat?]

[repress]

[ He runs after the villagers as they flee. Non-threateningly, though. ]

[headmt]

[He sort of slides off the back of Caleb Rex, landing on the ground.]

Cheese, perhaps not, but certainly some licorice.

[dormheads]

[THE VILLAGERS FLEE HARDER WHEN THEY SEE THIS BIG HOBO MAN CHASING THEM.







Eventually, though, one courageous little girl will hesitantly approached the curled up C-Rex, her curiosity apparently winning out.]

Whoa...

[modissty]

[Oh C-Rex has a good idea actually? He will also lie on the ground and wait for the earth to reclaim him.]

[katzepaw]

[He will gently nudge the little girl with his big dino snout. It's very cute. But then he will try to nibble on her. Just gently.]

[repress]

[ Dimitri gets turned around and runs back eventually. He finds three of the four party members in various states of disarray on the ground. They're doing great. ]

[headmt]

[Oh, sitting up.]

Excuse me, Queen Frostine, but have you seen a big glowing portal? Or the Candy Castle. Either one. I'm not picky. Oh-- Shite. A pile of gold. About a million and a half if I remember right.

Ha! Wasn't everyone saying these things are supposed to ruin your life? I've never felt better. Suppose the rabbit following me around is a bit creepy. It's the dead eyes.

[dormheads]

[The girl jumps back when C-Rex nibbles. After mustering up her courage again, shes's about to try and give him a pet, when Molly speaks. She then stares at Molly, confused.]

Um... Are you looking for the king? I've heard he usually spends his time in the Tower of Time now, if you're trying to meet with him... All the adults have been whispering stuff about him doing stuff with time and how weird blue stuff has been showing up lately.

[modissty]

[From his spot on the ground, where he's just vibing with his hands folded over his chest like a corpse:]

Perhaps we should journey there, then. Maybe in a place called "the Tower of Time", I'll find the ability to erase every non-licorice piece of food I've consumed from my history as penance for my crimes against humanity.

[katzepaw]

[He will allow this girl to pet him, ashamed at having tried to nibble her. Instead, after being pet, he will go over and nibble on Sakyou gently.

Let's go to this fuckin' tower y'all. Caleb is actually extremely horny for time travel but he's currently too dumb to remember that.]

[repress]

[ Dimitri nods along at all that the girl says—not what Sakyuo or Molly are talking about, because not a single word of that made sense—because he's apparently worn off his case of giggles for a second. The cats climb up onto his shoulders so he can try and pull Sakyou up to his feet, at least. ]

Can you direct us to the tower? We should be off as soon as possible.

[ Please let these villagers rest. ]

[headmt]

[Whispering to himself in a hushed, awed tone:] King Kandy.

[dormheads]

[WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON ANYMORE

But the girl will point them in the direction of the tower! They'll be able to see its spire... because once they reach it, after the trek there, it's twenty floors, and the king will not be found on the firsty nineteen. Get to work climbing those stairs.

The door is also unfortunately not T-Rex sized.]

[modissty]

[Thanks for the gentle nibbles buddy, Sakyou will pat C-Rex's noggin in guilty gratitude.

BUT OFF THEY GO... you think about how these poor cats have just been dragged along on this entire wildass adventure while the people carrying them jump at dinosaurs and hallucinate? I think about them. Anyway, once they arrive, he'll trek into the first floor through the human-shaped door, sword out and ready to shank. Why does he think they're going to need to fight this guy...

In a brief moment of lucidity:] It's a little strange for a sovereign to be in an unguarded tower, isn't it?

[katzepaw]

[He slams through the door! Okay, no, after a moment of trying, he'll change back. He still nibbles a little on Sakyou's ear.]

. . . Sorry, what is happening? This is the tower of the time travel king?

[repress]

Apparently the king of this land has was seen here last. I assume we need to discover what his motives are.

[ Time travel... he refrains from giggling at Caleb gnawing on Sakyou's face so that he can draw his spear and check out the stairs. They've got a long way to go, after all. ]

[headmt]

[He's just following everyone.]

Oh, right, yeah you were-- In the lizard. We're going to find the time travel king and then go back to where the cheerful idiot with lots of money is. I assume. It can't be that hard, I think I understand time travel now. A man with a red coat has been explaining it all to me. It's something about how the reindeer move so quickly and the sleigh itself is aerodynamic so they start to slip through time and space itself.

... It makes more sense when you hear him say it.

[dormheads]

[Imagine if I said you could only go up one flight of stairs every tag round.

But they climb up twenty flights without interference! Well, external interference. I take no responsibility if Dimitri nyooms away at some point or if Sakyou collapses in his sasuke cheese guilt, but anyway.

The top floor takes them to a large and very ominous door, with no hint as to what's behind it. Do they open it?]

[modissty]

[It'd be what they deserved honestly. Also hopefully Caleb bit the ear that wasn't clawed so he doesn't get a mouthful of blood, god bless.

ANYWAY! UP THEY GO. He's absolutely stopping somewhere around the midway point for a cheeseburger sasuke breakdown but it's fine he'll catch back up. And then stand in front of this ominous door for a second, looking at it, looking at the rest of their group... Poor sweet Caleb who might still be in love with a dinosaur, Dimitri the giggling menace and Molly who's learning all of Santa's trade tricks.]

Well. There's probably some sort of trap or something on the other side, so I'll go first. It's the least I can do to make up for the thousands of frowns I've caused in my life...

[Yeah he's goin for it TIME TO OPEN THAT DOOR.]

[katzepaw]

[The thousands of frowns. . . ]

So we are all horribly cursed, it seems. [He still has some feelings for the King of Extinction even now, but. . . ] Well, let's stick together. I'm out of spells now, though.

[So he still still stay behind poor cursed Sakyou.]

[repress]

[ Dimitri probably backtracked once or twice, but he's made it up these stairs and is looking fairly serious? It's a lot of effort, but the door is ominous enough to sober him up a little. ]

The rest of us can lead, then.

[ Even though Molly is completely incomprehensible and Sakyou is emo, theoretically they can fight. ]

[headmt]

I'm fine! I'm lucid.

[He's not. But he's fine.]

Also out of powers however.

[dormheads]

[They open the door, which takes them to a strange dome-like room. The floor is less of a floor and more of a platform, with nothing to stop someone from falling off the edge and into the endless void below. Hanging from the ceiling is a bizarre-looking machine, including a bunch of metallic baby heads, which is not ominous at all.

Standing by the edge closest to the machine is the king, who seems to be powering it through magic. When he hears them enter, though, he whirls around in a frenzy.]

Who are you!? Have you come to interfere? I won't let you! I've already altered the Future to create my desired timeline... and soon, I'll be able to change the past as well! I'm so close—I won't let anyone get in my way!

[He babbles on like this, dramatically pointing a finger at the group and conveniently revealing all of his motives even though no one asked.]

Then, I'll be able to undo my wife and child's deaths!

[modissty]

[THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING HERE. Sakyou will take the front with Dimitri to protect their squishy magic users, at least, because he can indeed still fight even though he's emo. He's just sweatily looking at these funky metal baby heads and then listening to this dramatic monologue.

He's hit in his little guilt-riddled heart about these DEAD FAMILY motives, but also...]

Is the future not in ruins? [IT COLLAPSED AROUND THEM, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO RAISE A ZOMBIE FAMILY LIKE THAT. He glances toward the others, readying his blade.]

One can't simply sacrifice the lives of everyone in the future for such a thing...

[Time to kill the king and run before getting tried for crimes against the crown?? He won't attack just yet though, in case anyone else has some Reason With The Crazy Guy plan.]