30e724 No.713[View All]
The door opens and drops you off in a truly fantastic landscape. Above, a large yellow sun hangs in the sky, though it doesn't feel like it is heating up the air at all. Down, near the end of the horizon hangs a smaller blue one, where it is just carrying on that last bright light before it hits the horizon.
Your immediate surroundings are thus, a small building behind you that obviously isn't the bar, but rather just the door, behind that is a huge (inland) sea, glittering even bluer than normal water because of the sun.
In front of you there is some kind of fantastic forest, comprised mainly of pines, but with tiny crystal slivers in place of pine needles. Above and far there are spires of some kind of glittering city.
>reached through the door in the Bar while thinking of "Rothra"
c4018c No.1758
>>1757
"I see."
He nods. "Thank you. I can't say it enough."
44b859 No.1759
She nods again and points you out back into the entryway.
Vasnesh and Shudleng are out there looking at the others. "So she helped you too?" Asks Shudleng.
c4018c No.1760
>>1759
"Yes, she did. Probably nipped a bad case of dissociative identity disorder in the bud."
He seems happy--optimistic, even.
"As I understand it, Riley will be here for another day. I'll have to speak with her and Cayenne, of course..."
The optimism starts to drain from him. "It has to be complicated, doesn't it?"
c4018c No.1761
>You mind if I play out the talk between Cayenne, Percy, and Riley separately? I doubt the healer will have much to say in that conversation.
30e724 No.1762
c4018c No.1763
>>1762
>Oh, by the way. How many couches are there exactly?
30e724 No.1764
>>1763
>in that specific room? 3
c4018c No.1765
c4018c No.1766
Sometime next morning...
"...nngh. I had the oddest dream."
Percival sits up, stretching and yawning.
"Me too," Cayenne mutters, as she sits up next to him.
The two of them glance toward Riley, who is still lying between them.
"...oh."
"I see it was not a dream."
000000 No.1767
>>1766
Riley is still asleep. Each breath she takes blows her hair out of her face, but it keeps drifting back into place.
c4018c No.1768
>>1767
"...she's adorable," Percy mumbles.
Cayenne shrugs, and gives Percy a kiss on the cheek.
Meanwhile, Hal is currently out in the hall, trying to find a water fountain or something along those lines.
000000 No.1769
>>1768
Riley wakes up. Looks to her left. Looks to her right.
Riley very slowly slips underneath the covers, sliding off the foot of the bed.
c4018c No.1770
>>1769
"...hey, Riley?"
Percival's staring at you, bewildered.
"I..."
"...think you should put on some clothes. And perhaps take a shower."
000000 No.1771
>>1770
Riley puts on her coat, and steps out the door.
"Yeah, I'll just ask Losi where a shower is."
She pulls up the hood on the long coat.
c4018c No.1772
>>1771
"Come to think of it, I need a shower too," Percy mumbles.
Outside, you find Hal, looking somewhat confused.
"Well," he says, "I guess this society does not have water fountains yet."
025490 No.1773
Outside the room where the others were staying, William is seated, dozing against the door frame.
2b6a29 No.1774
>Sorry I hadn't been here the past week.
>Life stuff.
>Been tired lately.
>And distracted.
>Sorry.
>So.. uh...
c4018c No.1775
>>1773
As Percy stumbles out of the therapy room, he silently thanks the spirits that be for the mercy of not having to explain why all of them look like they've been sitting in front of an industrial fan for an hour.
Talk about "bed"head.
025490 No.1776
>>1775
William's gauntlet beeps at him and he starts awake, looking up and only seeing Percy, he relaxes and yawns.
"So is everything finished then?" He asks while rubbing the sleep out of his eye
c4018c No.1777
>>1776
"Yes."
Cayenne steps out of the therapy room, yawning.
Hey, they both look like they slept in front of the AC.
And...hey, Hal's over by the door. What is with these three and horrible morning hair?
025490 No.1778
c4018c No.1779
>>1778
>I've no clue where Vas is.
>All I can really do is >imply sex happened
2b6a29 No.1780
>Don't we have his Skype?
>Also, I don't know if I should just continue from where I was...
2b6a29 No.1781
>>1778
>Still lasted longer than /rp/.
000000 No.1782
Vas is dealing with family issues. Long story short, Losi is not amused, that is her house, we all can go back to the bar.
30e724 No.1783
>>1777
>>1776
>>1775
>SPOKE TOO SOON FUCKER
Lotl'ssthicyt comes walking out of her room next door to where Riley was supposed be sleeping. She's got some weird version of crystal head dress and sheer gown on. She looks very annoyed and irritated. Like she got very little sleep. She concentrates very hard and all the crystals on her headress flash.
This is a place for mental healing. Not sexual healing. You all will go home. Take the two shapeshifting spiders downstairs with you. Go back to your bar.
She has a look that brooks no argument and Percy feels a silly amount of disappointment radiating off her. Like he can almost hear her mentally saying "You should know better."
025490 No.1784
>>1783
"Smooth." William chuckles as he stands and stretches.
"So how do we even get back? Can we just take any door?" He asks as he presses some switches on his gauntlet.
c4018c No.1785
>>1783
"Well--I--uh--sorry m'am."
He quietly mumbles about how persuasive his sister is, and sighs.
>>1784
"I have a mark set at the door we need to get to," Percy says, after taking a moment to regain what little composure he has left. "We'll all need to be in contact to teleport--NOT LIKE THAT, but holding hands will do."
"Clever. I should have thought of it," Cayenne says, as she takes his hand.
Hal, meanwhile, is just chuckling to himself in the corner.
025490 No.1786
>>1785
William flicks his wrist and his gauntlet collapses down to a vambrace, allowing him to take cayenne's hand.
"Well let's get this over with then."
30e724 No.1787
>>1785
>>1786
Shudleng and Vasnesh are giggling from the ceiling. Shudleng looks like a gigantic black widow spider, down to the markings on her stomach. She's tittering in a particularly coquettish way at the scene.
"Oh, Cayenne. I told you. You didn't think it would work, but I told you."
Vasnesh lowers himself on a narrow strand of silk and Shudleng follows, dropping down onto the floor and becoming the elven woman you all know, though she looks oddly somehow more spider-ish. It might just be the way her eyes are more black than normal, or perhaps the way her fingers seem to curl in on themselves like a dead spider. Who knows?
44d70f No.1788
>>1787
>>1786
"Well, let's wrap up."
Hal offers a hand to William and Shudleng, Percy takes Riley's hand, and an emerald glow begins to fill the room.
"You'll feel a slight tug," Percy says, "and it'll feel like a direction you've never heard of. Don't worry, that's normal."
025490 No.1789
>>1788
And then what happened?
44d70f No.1790
>>1789
Then I waited for Vas and Riley to reply so I can make sure we're all paying attention for the 'port home.
30e724 No.1791
Ah, in that case, I'm listening and here.
Vasnesh has taken a few moments to transform into his standard humanoid form, complete with grey silk clothes, and is holding on.
44d70f No.1792
>>1791
>>1789
"Right. Here we go...!"
With everyone holding on, the glow fades to a sort of light jade color.
In front of you, the light forms a pinprick of white.
You're yanked in a direction that shouldn't exist.
And...you find yourselves standing at the door to the Bar, which is currently hanging just an inch off the sand, facing inland.
"Everyone arrived okay, correct?"
000000 No.1793
>>1792
"Heeeeee~"
Riley drunkenly leans into Percival.
30e724 No.1794
>>1793
Vasnesh grins. "Better than okay, Percy. After all, Riley can talk now. I told you it'd be just fine. Didn't I. Didn't I. Diiiiiiidn't I?" He drags the last one out as he leans in to wiggle his eyebrows at you.
44d70f No.1795
>>1794
>>1793
"..."
Percy sighs.
"You have to admit," Cayenne says, leaning in. with an eyebrow wiggle of her own. "It did go far better than expected."
Hal busts out laughing.
30e724 No.1796
>>1795
Shudleng walks up and curls her fingers over Cayenne's shoulder and crooning into her ear. "You know, I told you that it would work."
44d70f No.1797
>>1796
"And how was I supposed to know that you knew what you were talking about?"
Percy shoots you a look. It's not clear whether he's wondering what you're on, or thanking you. Probably a mix of both.
025490 No.1798
>donut RP episode VI: Return of the Plot
30e724 No.1799
>>1797
"Because I was talking about it." Her eyes slip over to where Vasnesh is standing and back to Cayenne. "I've had enough relationships fall apart on me over the years that I know what will work and won't."
Vasnesh, for his part is studying Percy's face closely, like he's trying to memorize it.
000000 No.1800
>>1799
>>1797
>>1796
"We should go baaack~"
Riley is rubbing against Percy's arm.
44d70f No.1801
>>1799
"Fair enough," Cayenne says, as she slips an arm around Percy.
Percy pulls her close, and addresses Vas: "I take it you're prepping for another transformation? I thought you figured out my face the last time."
30e724 No.1802
>>1801
He smiles. "No, no prep. I know your face, but the way you move yours is a unique thing to you. If I'm ever going to get some of that double witch action." He throws out a wink, and begins walking to the door.
Shudleng steps up on her tiptoe. "Do they have familiars in your world?"
000000 No.1803
>>1802
Riley just giggles at this. She's holding herself close to Percy, and whispers something to him before gently biting on his ear.
44d70f No.1804
>>1802
>>1803
"I'm not sure you'll get to--"
He goes pale.
"...what's wrong?" Cayenne asks.
025490 No.1805
 | Rolled 3, 8, 1 = 12 (3d20) |
>>1804
>p...perception check?
30e724 No.1806
| Rolled 5, 9, 14 = 28 (3d20) |
>>1804
>Shudleng will get in on that perception roll, given she's right there.
44d70f No.1807
>>1805
>>1806
There's a bout of frantic whispering, but it's hard to tell what they're saying.
"...Cayenne, Hal, Riley, with me. We're heading back into the Bar. The rest of you--well, go wherever you want. I've got some things to work out."
He turns, pushes the door open, and walks through.
Cayenne raises an eyebrow, and drags Hal through the door.