CALL | un: catstate

[dragonring]

[Dave is always coming and going between his homeworld and the SFC, and every time he presses that transport button, every time he tells his girlfriend and his master but not his parents everything he's seen, more questions form in his mind.]

Surprise, the multiverse exists! So now you can explore, learn, and then... what happens then? Have you gone home after visiting the SFC? And what did you do? Just... went on like always?

Have you made toast while thinking about unicorns and non-fatal anvils?

Is it weird to come to the meta-universe hub and take advantage of a temporal anomaly to finish your paper on oscillation?

Is normal life overrated? Am I thinking too much?

[He got carried away and wrote without really thinking (the irony). So a second texts comes after that.]

Rhetorical question, don't answer the last one.

[After another moment, a third text arrives to finally close the feed.]

PS: Is anyone else going to check out the Inverted Cathedral? Because if I go alone I just know it won't end well.

Comments

un: courtblanche

[cosmetological]

Do you seriously just have a hard on for trying to throw yourself at demons?

[dragonring]

[ROLLING HIS EYES SO HARD OVER HERE.]

Isn't nothing supposed to happen if you don't touch anything?

[cosmetological]

No, they said you really really shouldn't. They didn't say anything about it being safe otherwise.

Never dealt with the Fae or anything, have you? They never tell you up front what's safe. They just make it look like they are so that you don't see the spikes until you're on them.

[dragonring]

Define anything.

Apparently a rush of tourists goes to see it every time it shows up. They can't all be religious fanatics.

[cosmetological]

They don't necessarily come back either.

[dragonring]

So someone should stop them, right?

[cosmetological]

From what it sounds like, the only people who go are 'adventurers', not tourists, so they have an idea of what they might be facing in there.

So are you going in there to see what's what or to save people?

[dragonring]

I

don't even know anymore

A look can't hurt, right?

[cosmetological]

Why don't you find a nice person and go get a half-free meal or something?

Go to Adventure and watch beautiful women beat each other up?

Watch a MOVIE?

Do you have a death wish or something?

[dragonring]

You were ALSO going to the supposed "demon" island. You shouldn't be judging. :/

[cosmetological]

And do you remember why I said I was going?

Not the same. Not the same at all.

[dragonring]

Why not? I just said those visitors should be warned.

[cosmetological]

And are you intending to stand at the entrance and tell them to leave? That all you're planning on?

[dragonring]

Why do you care so much?

[cosmetological]

Why do you?

[dragonring]

I asked first.

[private]

[cosmetological]

You seem like a good kid.

I don't like seeing good people getting hurt, all right?

[private]

[dragonring]

[Why is this suddenly private? It looks suspicious to Dave. So he gives a generic answer.]

I can take care of myself.

[private]

[cosmetological]

Look. I know wizards. I know a wizard who's got enough raw power to blow up half of Chicago on an off day. And no matter how big and bad and tough you are, no matter how good you are, you've got a weak spot. And someone is going go stab you in it unless you've got someone watching your back.

Call me an idiot even if I'm just watching afar, but I don't like seeing it.

[private]

[dragonring]

[Dave takes his time to answer, this guy hits so many sore spots. He knows about his magic, and how some asshole would stab his weak spot - it's already happened in the past after all. Add to that the fact this conversation is still private and this is just to damn weird and suspicious.

So how does he react? By being a smartass of course.]

Good thing I don't have the power to blow up half of Chicago on an off day then, right?

[private]

[cosmetological]

Yeah. Less likely to have nasty enemies who are aiming at you.

[private]

[dragonring]

[...is that a threat? Or sarcasm? Dave doesn't even know anymore. This is guy that wanted to go to "demon" island, right?]

Sure, thanks for the advice.

[Now feeling unsure as hell, Dave cuts off the feed.]

Audio | UN: Hawkguy

[weekend_avenger]

This is actually a pretty nice break from the ... I was gonna say real world, but I guess this place is real too.

What's at the Inverted Cathedral? That sounds like a level in a video game.

[dragonring]

Dragons and aliens count as a break to you? [Not that Dave has that much of a normal life back home, but it still hasn't reached this level.]

It's a-- well, a cathedral at Sorcery. One of those "man tried to be too much" cases and it got-- cursed? So it shows upside down, spiraling down into damnation.

[weekend_avenger]

Well, we get those back home too, but it's nice that they just get to chill here and I don't have to actively fight them?

Okay, creepy. Why would you want to go there? It sounds like it's probably full of draculas.

[dragonring]

Funny, they want heroes here too. I wonder what they think about these breaks

Vampires usually hang out at Nightmare. [A sigh.] I wanna see the place with my own eyes, figure out exactly why and how it happened.

[weekend_avenger]

Well if they want heroes here, they didn't do a very good job picking them, I mean, since I got one of these things.

So if you touch stuff there, will bad things happen?

[dragonring]

Maybe they thought you could put those arrows to a good use? [He remembers the username!]

That's what they said. I don't think touching will be needed to sense the magic anyway.

[weekend_avenger]

I guess if they need me to arrow something, sure. I'll consider this vacation until then.

Place sounds like the Sanctum, everything you try to touch there probably wants to eat you or turn you inside out or something.

[dragonring]

That's totally fair, man. [Dave's been doing some hero-ing but to be honest, he uses this place to escape some times too.] Sanctum? Like that bad claustrophobic movie about underwater caves?

[weekend_avenger]

Wow I've never seen that movie, so no.

The uh, Sanctum Sanctorum-- it's where our world's super cool master sorcerer guy lives. He's like the wizard.

This place would probably rock his socks off.

[dragonring]

You aren't missing much. [There's a pause then because - welp. Dave sure has a lot to say about "super cool master sorcerer guys". Now he's curious.] So there's magic in your world too? Can you use it?

[weekend_avenger]

There is, but I can't, no... there's a bunch of people with powers too, like mutants and inhumans and supersoldiers... I could probably go on.

But i'm actually normal guy.

[dragonring]

Oh. [Another pause.] When I asked if normal is overrated I was just-- wondering about life, not trying to be like. Insulting or anything.

[weekend_avenger]

Oh, man, don't worry, you didn't offend. I was just saying... there's a lot going on where I come from.

[dragonring]

Right. "Normal" will always be relative, won't it? [Man, he can already hear his master all smug about this.]

un: themeddler

[roberteo]

I don't know most of those words, but I do know that I prefer being here to being back where I came from! For me, it's not hard to adjust, but I can't speak for everyone.

What's this Cathedral you mentioned?

[dragonring]

Really? So you haven't gone back since you came here?

It's an upside-down Cathedral that shows up at Sorcery. They said is cursed or something.

[roberteo]

Not once! I don't have much of a family back there, as it is.

I shall venture there with you, if you accept!

[dragonring]

[How do you even answer that? It sounds kinda depressing.]

Oh. Eh, sorry?

Seriously? Alright! Know how to get there or need a guide?

[roberteo]

I believe I may need some guidance, as I haven't seen this place.

wanna log it out?

[dragonring]

Sure - where are you now? Can you arrive to Sorcery at least?

sure thing!

[roberteo]

I'm sure Speedwagon can find his way over there, eventually!

[dragonring]

((ooc: sorry for the delay but there we go!))

un: a.stark

[iron_man]

It's definitely weird to go home and ... deal with the differences. I want to take home a flying car.

[dragonring]

It is, right? I'm not imaging it. I've taken small stuff home, maybe you can try with the car?

[iron_man]

No, you're definitely not imagining it. I may try, just to see what happens.

[dragonring]

If I have to guess, what happens is a bunch of freaked out people. And probably money offers.