!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

[powerdriven]

Of course they should. [ As far as he's concerned, the good lot of them didn't want anything to do with ALASTAIR and this mission. Still. ] That doesn't mean it's conducive to peace.

Or are you suggesting we give the king a firm reminder we won't be around to follow up on?

[bougy]

Neither is compromise, but that doesn't mean it's not an important part of the process. ( not seen, but she shrugs. she doesn't particularly care for the burden of having others beholden to her, but now that they've helped it would irresponsibility to not do what they can to use their position in the most effect way possible. gratitude and titles make it easier to get things done--or to completely mess things up, but she's ignoring that for the moment. )

Well, what I'm thinking is, it will be awfully hard for him to forget if everyone around him could remind him. Then it's not just our business if everyone knows about it.

[powerdriven]

[ Gratitude and titles, he's not so keen on, perhaps, but if there's any disagreement between them, it's only the matter of how they're to best use that position. Leaving it in the hands of the villagers is necessary, as well as an inevitability. ]

True enough, but they stood in stalemate once before. We need to make sure everyone's voice is heard. Not overshadowed by the personal bias of outsiders.

[bougy]

( honestly, she does agree with that sentiment. it should be, and will be their decision, so long as they're listened to, and listening is what Hawke would like to do. it's just that, left on their own, they'd manage to create a situation that dragged interdimensional bullshit into their struggles. invasions are one thing but this a whole other level of disruptive. )

And who better to do the listening? Do you really think the humans would be willing to hear the goblins out if they didn't know there's a reason they should?

[powerdriven]

Not those with influence.

[ Not the King, he means. ]

But don't forget we have yet to gain the full breadth of that ourselves. Let's save the boasting for after we have the crown under our thumb. Putting him under threat won't be good enough to sustain.

[bougy]

( at that she cocks an eyebrow. ) And how else would you get it there? Asking him nicely?

[powerdriven]

Sorry. I should be clearer. No bodily threat.

[bougy]

No threat to his person? I can't imagine what else he cares for. Maybe his image? It's certainly not his subjects or his family. Between you and me, I'm pretty sure he offed his wife as well. Provided he doesn't get off on it, he doesn't seem like the kind to take kindly to being a cuckold.

[powerdriven]

[ How bold... not that he outright disagrees. There are some fishy stories out there. ]

You've said it yourself, haven't you? No need to sling mud for a pig.

[ After all, he did that job quite well for them already. ]

But for our own sakes, we're in no position to support dethroning. The next best thing is to kick him where it hurts.

[bougy]

The family jewels? ( she shares a tidy little smirk. ) But I agree, you know, we're not in any position to. It's his subjects who are. Or at least kick him. They have a lot more legs than we do.