Rebirth Height 4 - Orb 1

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

[ Audio ]

Hello... you're a funny little thing, aren't you? Who made you, huh?

[ Visual ]

[ Suddenly there's a bright flash of light. ] Damn! [ As the light fades, Dark's face finally comes into view. ]

Not exactly what I was expecting, but I can work with it.

Alright, talk. How many of you are there? How long have you been trapped in this world?

Comments

[shiromadoushi]

I don't know if I'd call it something like being trapped... but I think everyone started showing up about a week or so ago. [[or at least that's when he and his family had shown]] Though it's been a lot more people in the past few days than before...

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

A week, huh? How much do you know about this place?

[shiromadoushi]

Mm... Mostly that it really seems like some place out of a storybook, or what you'd expect one to be like, complete with a great evil lurking in the background to be defeated.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Yeah, yeah, apart from that?

[shiromadoushi]

Aaa-- I don't really know much past that, unfortunately. I haven't been here that long to really find out too many things.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

How did you all get here? You've been here a while, you haven't noticed anything strange? Exhaustion? Sickness?

[shiromadoushi]

[[a pause as he thinks, trying to recall]] I don't think so... I don't think anything about me changed this time! [[a small laugh]] And it just sort of happened, like last time. One moment I was in bookstore, the next, that castle!

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

'This time'? This sort of thing happens to you a lot?

[shiromadoushi]

Just once before. Though really, for something like traveling between worlds, just twice is enough to be a lot!

[give_kitty_cake]

Some one who just arrived shouldn't be giving orders.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

What if I asked nicely?

[give_kitty_cake]

You might get better results.

Or I might decide to ignore you.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Would you please be so kind as to help me find out what's going on here?

[give_kitty_cake]

[Koma can't help but smile a bit at the change in tone. ]

We were brought here by a magic spell to save this world. That is what the townspeople keep telling me.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Save it? What's happening to it?

[give_kitty_cake]

There is some kind of magic that is causing thorns to take over. They recently lost and entire town to the thorns.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Thorns, huh. Doesn't sound like anything I've run into before.

So if we can fix this place, it'll let us go, you think?

[goldeneyeball]

[Oh, hey, JW is still learning how to use his own Orb so you get a rather unpleasant close-up of the guy's face.]

I just got here and it sucks.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

[ Ew, man face. ]

Yeah? What's so bad about it?

[goldeneyeball]

Well, for one, it's not where I wanna be. I was busy. Doin' important shit.

[James, you were buying eggs.]

And for another, we're stuck here. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as sucking.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

So no deep, meaningful reasons then.

[goldeneyeball]

...Well there's something about some undefined evil we have to fight. So that's a thing, I guess.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

Yeah, I heard about that. "Undefined" and "evil" sounds about right.

[goldeneyeball]

So what'd they say you had to be? I'm a Wizard or something.

[ex_apaintingdarkly917]

A knight. Not really my style.