!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. ]

Comments

video; un: unknownrealms

[headlining]

Thank god. And here I was getting sick of people trying to tell me that the thing was "magically blocked". Idiots.

[A pause.] So, what, is our job done in this place? We brought the sun back, what's left to do?

VIDEO.

[selfimage]

[ it's hard to tell if he's more dubious or amused. ]

That was the most mortal thing to say that ever motaled. You are a mortal aren't you? Best get a flag proclaiming it.

video;

[headlining]

You say that like you aren't mortal yourself.

[Keats is actually not mortal, but, uh, he thinks he is. He's in denial. It's pretty bad.]

[selfimage]

[ there's a little waggle of his finger. ]

You got it in one. I'll reserve the prize, will a gift card do?

[headlining]

Oh, come on, you're just throwing out that you're immortal so casually? Where's the fanfare? I'd think I'd make a bigger deal about it if I learned I couldn't die.

[selfimage]

[ Loki heaves up an exasperated sigh. ]

Most likely because you're mortal.

Hence my point.

[ a mortal perspective on immortality. there's a pair of bright green eyes that flicker with a hint of amusement. ]

[headlining]

[He's just going to keep up this highly amused grin over here.]

So, tell me, immortal man, how did the whole immortality thing happen? Your mother didn't dip you in some special god serum up to your ankle, did she?

[Keats, this is no time to be a giant mythology nerd.]

video;

[adlantisag]

[ head tilt. ]

You believe in gods, but not in magic?

video;

[headlining]

Actually, no. I don't believe in magic or gods.

[adlantisag]

But you believe in one god. The one you just invoked.

[ /flaw-free logic ]

[headlining]

[Just shaking his head over here.]

It's a term of expression. It doesn't actually mean I believe that there's a god. People use that phrase commonly in our culture to the point where it has rather lost it's religious connotations.

[adlantisag]

[ When they met, they were both stuck under a kissing plant, and then he comforted her over the death of her mother and the sundering of her people. But he doesn't believe in magic? Sure. ]

I see. What do you believe in?

[headlining]

[Not at all. It's not like it's a big part of his life or anything like that.]

Logic. Reason. The natural scientific rules of the world. Things like that.

[ VIDEO ] UN: FruitsParfaitSamurai

[naturallywavy]

We can bring peace between the two by offering them to join in unison and celebration... a four-eyed pinata they can whack together.
_{[ —that would be you, Keats.
Gintoki was one who sided a bit with the magic part, but he's not terribly offended. Pushing Keats' buttons is just fun. ]}

video;

[headlining]

[Keats doesn't even take two seconds to reply back, unfazed:]

Nah, I think using someone who happens to look like a messy albino would do the trick for something like that.

[ VIDEO; ]

[naturallywavy]

_{[ who are you calling a messy albino?? ]}

Maybe you're right. Nothing sweet would come out of you.
Just a lot of shit. 'Cause you're full of it.

_{[ round 3, FIGHT!!!
for no reason whatsoever.. ]}

video;

[headlining]

I think the term you're looking for is "blood". Since, you know, that comes out of people when you hit them.

[THESE TWO ARE SO DUMB THEY CAN FIGHT OVER LITERALLY NOTHING]

...Do you have anything better to do than insulting me?

[ VIDEO ]

[naturallywavy]

_{[ this guy is totally, absolutely serious. What the hell. ]}

It's an insult, dumbass. Do I need to dumb those down for you now, too?
Did your pretty hair suck up all your intelligence? Is that what is happening? Is that why it has so much sheen?

_{[ apparently not, Keats. This is all he wants to do right now. ]}

video; 1/2

[headlining]

I think you're already dumbing them down for yourself. I'm surprised you can even understand words, that's quite the feat.

[His eyes are just rolling over from the sheer stupidity of this argument. What a waste of his time.]

Excuse me, did you just call my hair "pretty"? [There's a pause. A long pause. And then something clicks.]

video; 2/2

[headlining]

[Oh, and would you look at that. He's grinning like the cat who ate the canary.]

Are you jealous of me?

[digophelia]

Considering the little information we knew before any of this, it wasn't an odd conclusion to draw from.

[ /DEADEYES ]

[headlining]

If your first inclination when encountering something impossible is to think it's because of magic...I don't know what to tell you. It's silly.

[Keat's you've USED MAGIC YOURSELF, YOU IDIOT.]

keywords

[digophelia]

I may be inclined to agree with you in some cases, however, if memory serves right, there was that thing at the gates.

[ She's just now going to acknowledge it. ]

Unless you had an explanation for that.

[headlining]

...

[Just. This look.]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[digophelia]

I couldn't possibly be seeing things, considering that look on your face. Tell me, do you have a penchant for spiders?

[ SHE WILL SHANK YOU. ]