!IMPORTANT! video; username: 82736775

[ricksybusiness]

[The video is from everyone's favorite camera-shy mad scientist, 82736775. This time, he's not even present in a carefully-framed way; he appears to just be using his jewellery as a Go-Pro.

The view is a large machine in the middle of the woods. It's crudely constructed, with loud, grinding gears and exhaust tubes belching smoke. There are three figures scurrying about -- Dipper, Shiki, and Hide, for those of you who would recognize them -- pulling levers and turning cranks and struggling to hear each other over the machine's groaning. Jars of fairy goop hang off the thing like lanterns in a coal mine.]

Listen uuuup, bitcheesss!

[The view jerks, then readjusts as the sky comes into focus.]

Thanks to my genius and everybody else's scrappy, can-do attitude, we're about to make scientific history. By which I mean w-we're about to blow this bullshit away.

[His hand enters the frame. He is flipping off the sky.]

Engage Operation: Fuck You, Magic!

[The frame stays centered on the sky, though the machine's groaning reaches almost deafening levels. Above the cacophony, there's a high-pitched whining: something is warming up. All over Chantes, the ground shakes.

Then bright green fills the screen and everything is so loud that it's almost silent. Those of you who are at a distance may see a gigantic green beam shooting into the sky just before everything turns bright white for a few long seconds.

And suddenly, there is light. Stars. Two moons. The sky is back.

82736775 is laughing maniacally. He swings the frame around to the giant machine, which has blasted wide open: smoking panels have fallen to the ground, exposing frayed wires. His assistants are also on the ground, looking dazed.]

Suck my dick, Narnia! Haha, yeah!

Now let's figure out what to do and get the hell off this rock! Team science, ouuuut!

[ ooc. IMPORTANT! the sun is now returned. from this point on, there are normal day-night cycles in chantes! be aware there are two moons, and the sun rises in the west. use this post to discuss what to do now! threadjacking encouraged. thank you to my fellow players and our modteam for making this plot so successful! i love you all.

UPDATE! check this thread for conversation on a peaceful option. ]

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[satsujinki]

[Pleased to just have his extremities intact--and that he managed to put the fire out relatively quickly, Shiki started kicking sand and dirt over the burning parts of the machine.]

Yeah, but what if they use that weird magic again and black out the sky right away, again? We don't know if they can do it again, so we'd really be in a rut if they found out it was us and decided to make sure Rick couldn't rebuild this thing.

[While everyone was celebrating--Shiki was desperately clinging to his pessimism. Dipper had plenty enthusiasm for the both of them, anyway--so, it worked out.]

[twinpeak]

—What?

[ Yeah, that sure is some pessimism there, buddy. While Shiki takes the time to actually do something about the flaming heap of now scrap metal, Dipper only manages to narrow his eyes skeptically his way. ]

C'mon, man, is that seriously what you're thinking? There's no way that level of magic could've been that easy to pull off!

[ He... assumes, anyway. ]

[satsujinki]

The problem is--we don't know how difficult it was or how it was really done, so there's no way to tell if we're in the clear or not.

[There was some word of 'gods' being thrown in on that front, but Shiki had no idea just how strong a god could be.

Having seen ridiculous magic in the past, Shiki had plenty of worries.]

I'm not trying to ruin it, Dipper, but we don't know if they can do it again or not. I just don't want to be caught off guard.

[twinpeak]

Pssh.

[ Is he blowing off those concerns... Why yes. Yes he is. ]

If it happens a second time, we can fix it all over again. Rebuilding isn't impossible, so don't worry about it!

[satsujinki]

[Dipper's laissez faire disposition did everything it could to force Shiki into a frown.]

I'm not sure we'll be able to say it'll be easy if we're trying to reassemble it surrounded by armed soldiers.

Not everyone's going to understand the giant beam we fired into the atmosphere.

[twinpeak]

... Dude, you're really worried about this, aren't you.

[ You're a weird guy, Shiki. ]

[satsujinki]

[His jaw hung slack. Shiki, reaching up to massage his temples, looked away from Dipper.]

Why aren't you?

[He forgot he was talking to an excited young boy who saw something amazing--something that likely reaffirmed his belief in the awesomeness of the people around him.

Shiki knew too much about how things could go wrong to avoid being cynical.]