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buttrinthum2024-07-20 09:30 am
TDM #10 OVERFLOW
Whether it be sleep or death, you feel your eyes close, and as your body begins to let go, you see a barn owl that is flying through the darkness, soon sweeping you across the clouded sky. You feel yourself mouth the words, “I wish, I wish..” and utter your deepest and darkest desire.
When you regain consciousness, you’ll find you are in an unfamiliar place with no recognition of how you arrived here. You have the clothes on your back, but nothing else. No weapons and if you had a particular superpower, you’ll notice it is missing. All you have is a satchel with a piece of bread, a vial of water, and a potion. The potion could be red, blue or golden. There are no instructions about these potions other than two words: Drink Me.
Will you drink it or not?
There is a parchment, handwritten in scrawling, jagged lettering that seems a bit... ominous:
You’re in a garden, surrounded by flowers and plants– most of which you cannot identify. However, there are a few that you can make out: Sunflowers and Hibiscus. You’ll soon find out that being around the Sunflower makes it difficult to pass through the already disorienting garden, even with the light guiding you. Where patches of them grow, even if only waist-high, you cannot pass through them, over them, or even destroy them to get them out of your way. In each grouping that blocks your path, there is one that has a key-shaped opening in the middle of the flower. Maybe the key is nearby? (Spoiler: it's probably under a rock nearby that you forgot to check!) The hibiscus offers an entirely different effect - inhaling the pollen grants you the temporary ability to shoot fireballs out of your hands. But be careful, those fireballs are difficult to control and seem to bounce in random directions no matter how hard you try to aim (cannot be used to destroy the sunflowers). The effect ends once you step out of the garden.
Somnius is once again recovering from a devastating blow. Buildings need to be restored to their former glory and the emotional turmoil of the previous weeks surely needs to be alleviated. What better way to lighten the mood than a little fun for the whole family? A new arcade has appeared in town, beckoning residents with its stone doors set wide open.
With multiple levels, a variety of games and even a snackbar, Appl3 Pi Arcade is sure to be a hit!
Of course, as with everything that ever happens in Somnius, the arcades appearance is not without some complications. For one, playing the games inside might see characters teleported into the machine itself, perfectly pixelated to fit the game they're in. Hope you weren't about to fight the final boss, because now you might be fighting for your life! The good news is, if you die in the game... you don't die in real life and are just popped back out into the arcade again.
Strange things happen outside the arcade too. Walking down the road you might suddenly see a healthbar pop up above someone's head. Are you supposed to fight them? Are they going to fight you? Best to be cautious and reach for any trusty weapons you have just in case. Weapons that have become pixelated and can be pulled seemingly out of nowhere like some kind of hammerspace. They are also prone to breaking and shattering into glimmering pixel pieces (your normal weapons are still intact, don't worry).
Boxes and pots around Somnius are somehow more breakable than usual, smashed open with a single swing of those pixel weapons and producing gold coins! What a shame gold coins aren't the currency here. But if you don't want to destroy more things around Somnius, why not try fishing instead? That seems safe - if not suddenly more difficult with the fishing minigame that popped up in front of you. Quick! Keep the fish icon in the green bar or you'll lose it!
All things considered? It's all relatively harmless fun up until-
Vaeros wakes up. For those new to town, this means nothing. For those that were here for the castle raid? They can rest assured that they're in for a surprise. The Overlord of Visium has finally awoken from his Hyalily induced coma and he is furious. A shout echoes from the castle:
A wave of magical energy sweeps through the town, shaking it to the very core. Miraculously, the destroyed buildings and any remnants of the forest onslaught are gone and returned to their usual state. Perhaps Vaeros shouting was just another tantrum, an empty threat?
Not quite.
The town has been restored, but the locals? They are nowhere to be seen - cowering in their homes and fleeing to the sanctity of the Church of the Moon in hopes of staying out of sight of Vaeros and Dreamers both. The once tame video game effects are now far more intense - monsters from within those games are now rampaging through the town. They seem to shift through buildings, but if they run face first into a Dreamer, they will find them very corporeal and very deadly.
Not only that, but the lines are starting to blur between reality and fiction again, the healthbar above your head flickering in and out, the monsters turning from pixel beasts to real, live animals that roam Somnius - both feral and not. One second you are walking through town, and the next you are stepping onto a platform that starts to break under your weight, demanding you jump to the next platform before you plummet into an odd, multicolored abyss.
And strangest of all is that music coming from the labyrinth, growing louder when you approach and fading out when you move away.
Welcome to the labyrinthum TDM! Characters will arrive depowered and with only their clothing, and will be given a satchel with a crystal pendant, a communication device, some water and bread and a magic potion. If they drink the potion, they will manifest an elemental, healing or animal transformation ability.
With the exception of Castle Vaeros, characters are free to go as they please, so feel free to place them in any of the locations available on the map. Yes, this includes the Labyrinth - though characters will not be able to clear the maze.
You can find more information about the game here. Any questions regarding the TDM can go under the comment below.
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[He squats down and even pokes the monster. It's unmoving. If it plays dead, maybe these two will leave and it can forget it ever met these two.]
Hah! I get it! I'm so powerful that my mere aura made it fall over dead! That's so cool!
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[Wait. WAIT. WAIT!!!!!!]
Wait! BB the Bald! You're not dead yet, right? So that means you're strong enough to overcome my uber aura! That means we can still fight (to the death)!
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BB STANDS FOR -
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- 9,999,999 damage
got em
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But I understand! Not everyone is a fighter... so I won't force you.
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[ She leans on one side and gives him a wink, ]
But when BB-chan gets her powers back she will throw herself at you! She wants to see what you can do anyways after all! What kind of human are you, she wonders!
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I'm looking forward to it. The best way to know someone is by meeting them head on in a fight, yeah? So you'll learn what I am... while I learn what you are! It'll be fun!
[Oh, he genuinely does look happy, but that's because he's got a battle-date! He rarely gets many of those nowadays!]
So bring everything you got, BB the Bald! 'Cuz I won't hold back either!
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[...mostly because he is an old man when he isn't cosplaying a haunted Victorian child, the delicate waif, or whatever it going on with his sock wardrobe here. Demi-Fiend was forever sour over Lucifer donning hot disguises for other people yet not for him (rude!)]
How about, I dunno, BumbleBee?
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[For the first time, Demi-Fiend seems a bit wrongfooted and uncertain about the conversation's direction. The thing was, his 'story' was not something he thought about too deeply. The details were too... well, and the event were, well, and... the whole thing was just well. So long as you keep marching forwards, punching anything in your path, the sad thoughts can't catch you...
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There was no punching or marching here, however, so he put his hands on his hips and declared dramatically:]
I'm a high school graduate.
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[He... couldn't remember the name of his school, actually. Everything from before the world exploding was all fuzzy, just because it had been so long ago. He thinks. Maybe? It had to have been a decade at least? Ish? Or more? He couldn't remember...]
The school was, uh, I think... I think it was... it might've been... Jouin...?
[...that sounded familiar, so it had to be that one, right?]
Uh, yeah, Jouin! I graduated from Jouin, Tokyo. Uh, not really thinking about college right now, though. Probably couldn't anyways. [He never got his exam results back u-u ] I forgot everythin' to do with academic stuff.
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Jouin? Eh? Jouin! Tokoyo? Eh? Never heard of Jouin. [ She moves her legs around like a child playfully kicking them about, ] Sounds like a fun place and whats with the tats? [ Tattoos. ] They kind of look like mana circuits to BB.
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'Mana circuits'? Never heard of those, but I got these when Lucifer ambushed me in a hospital basement and put a bug in me.
[He does not elaborate on this.]
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Demi-Fiend is just kinda like. 🧍 right now because this is the first time anyone legitimately asked him 'you good, man?' and not following it up with some sort of suckerpunch because demons are, in general, sociopathic assholes.
(Well, the only exception to that rule was Pixie, who doesn't count because she was there from the beginning when he crawled off that hospital bed disorientated and clawing at his eye from when the bug- well yeah, so knew he was Not Good from the start.)]
I, uh...
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[He snaps out of it after a moment, though, and he even laughs obnoxiously as if him being anything but good was ludicrous.]
My origin story sounds like the plot to a bad early-2000s RPG, true, but it's all good. The tattoos are cool, and it helped me survive, so I can't complain. People have had it way worse than me.
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Yeah, sure you are. [ BB leans back a bit watching him with ever-rising intrigue. ]
Yeah? A run-in with Lucifer is just your everyday then? Sounds rough, BB-chan can't imagine, she met Nyarlathotep once - that's a Cosmic Eldritch God in case you don't know - and like, boy that was a riot to deal with! [ She laughs like this conversation is the most normal convo in the world. ] After that BB-chan became much more powerful and leveled up her Villain stat tree so she could trap someone in a time loop over and over again and never let her leave. [ She sighs, so sad. Makes a frowny face. ] They did end up leaving though.
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[He genuinely means it! Villain stats? Timeloop prisons???? He can't trap people in timeloop prisons what the hell. Why didn't Lucifer give him that power?? That bastard definitely had that power since he kept bending time into a pretzel when they duked it out that one time (god he hated that move so much).
Anyway, he sees an opportunity for the focus to shift awaaaaaaaaaaaaay from him and onto BB the Bald (no matter what she says this is what she is eternally in his mind now). He rapidly starts talking, hoping throwing enough conversation starters at the wall would have one stick like spaghetti.]
Shame about your timeloop prisoner escaping though. But that means you get to hunt them, right? Oh, wait, were they were your girlfriend? Family member? Rival? Arch-enemy? Are you locked in an eternal game of cat-and-mouse? Also how did you do the timeloop, there's this guy I wouldn't mind locking in one because he's kinda bad at dealing with his shit that doesn't involve the people he cares about dying horribly and he's being all depressed about it.
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