futurology | !IMPORTANT! video; username: 82736775

[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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[One thing about Dr. Eggman is that he likes to observe. In fact, seeing this is largely what keeps him from announcing his own presence in a boisterous manner across the network.

The subject of the video, though they might be cloaked, makes themselves as an intellectual pe- no, not a peer. A rival. An intellectual inferior, compared to his genius. Eggman observes the video carefully, taking notice of every little detail. The machine. It's function. The three figures scurrying about. That crude gesture that sneaks into the frame for the briefest of seconds.

Perhaps it's the secrecy of this that intrigues him, or perhaps it's just the need to gain some sort of figure to antagonize. Otherwise, it prompts him to test the water.

Eggman leans back into the cockpit of his machine, and fiddles with his jewelry.]

two moons is a bit excessive. :)

[that username... it can only be one person]

why you. of all people.

[who the hell are you]

oh i'm SORRY are my opinions on the celestial bodies not allowed here?

I'm not talking about that, you buffoon.

[just give him a moment to flip to the video function of the strange, completely mental network.

So he can glare]

[oh

OHHHHHHHHH

OH-HO

there are a few seconds of silence, before some audio kicks in. there is the distinct sound of what sounds like a huff and the sound of metal moving about, as eggman reclines in the seat of the eggmobile.]

Well, I see you've managed to evolve into the pitch-perfect image of happiness since the last time we crossed paths, Shadow!

Edited 2016-01-28 05:30 (UTC)

[he just narrows his eyes more]

I thought this company was only recruiting individuals to save worlds, not muck them up. So I ask you again; why are you here? Did you follow me?

Oh, with all the assumptions, Shadow! [there's a mocking apologetic tone in his voice, which still manages to come across as passive-aggressive] Mucking them up...ridiculous! I'm hurt you'd think of me in such a manner! You blow up the moon one time...

[he rolls his eyes] You only have to blow up the moon one time. You're lucky the cannon didn't completely vaporize it. You have no place here... urgh. Just... stay out of the way of the people who can finish this chaos forsaken mission so we can all go home.

There's very clearly two moons. Up in the sky. That's what we were discussing before you so rudely barged in.

So, yes, I believe that I can blow up the moon more than one time.

Edited (curse my nitpickiness) 2016-01-28 23:49 (UTC)

There will be no blowing up of any moons!

Oh, pssh, would you honestly expect me to repeat my own schemes, Shadow? If so, I'm very disappointed that you have such a low opinion of my creativity!

Besides, if I remember correctly, you were quite enthusiastic about that very thing when it happened!

My memories were altered and I was effectively brainwashed. What's your excuse?

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chaoscontrol - 2016-02-11 04:51 (UTC) - Expand

[The emoticon... why, tho...]

I've seen dumber celestial configurations.

[specifically to troll you tbh]

absolutely, but this just isn't aesthetically pleasing, you must understand.

[Wow... feeling special...]

This isn't Pinterest. Sometimes shit's just ugly.

[yes]

and you're telling me you couldn't have figured out a way to do it without the obvious resource-drain of the second moon? i'm shocked, good sir.

[.......................

wait.]

Yo I didn't CREATE the galaxy we're in, dude. Are you NEW?

no, i just think you deciding to keep using a second moon, or implementing one rather, is stupid!

Let me use small words. The moons were already there. They, and the rest of the sky, were being blocked by some bullshit. I unblocked it.

I'm not gonna build a Death Star to erase one of them because you have some weird single-moon fetish. Do it yourself.

death EGG

it's called the DEATH EGG

Say what

its called a death EGG not a death STAR you ignoramus

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ricksybusiness - 2016-02-08 04:45 (UTC) - Expand

Multiple satellites around a single planetary body is a common occurence.

[ thanks for the input melan. ]

but it's also NEEDLESSLY stupid!

I don't understand how moons can be "stupid."

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