The Last Oddetsey

[playzooki]

playzooki runs away

[andrewj]

Cleo sat and listened to the history of the psycorps with interest, but she could sense the nervousness coming from the woman and Eudial. Her initial excitement about the psycorps had dwindled. This wasn't simply an opportunity to meet other psychic beings. She understood for the first time that whatever she was going to be asked to do would be serious.

"If you really believe that I can help in some way, I would be happy to take an aptitude test and contribute wherever I am needed."

[alex_holt]

OOC: Playzooki try to give me something to work with , at least tell me what exactly you are running away from and what sort of thing you are looking to run to.

LELAND and EUDIAL

A figure approaches from a lift nearby, he is dressed in a labcoat and actually manages to embody to make the room a little greyer for e tering it. He is not exactly a barrel of laughs...

”I am Doctor Seben and I will be attending to your tests today"

He leads the two to small soundproofed separate rooms in a distant wing of the huge complex and invites them to sit down and read some magazines - which largely seem to be copies of tedious science periodicals, and, for some reason, books of how to knit fuzzy cats.

After half an hour Seben returns....

[playzooki]

playzooki runs away from the robotic knights or whatever they were and runs to... anything

[alex_holt]

There is a brief pause and the faint indecipherable muffled sound of talking outside, and then footsteps towards the rooms.

EUDIAL:

The door to Eudial's room slides open.

"Good news young lady. I am able to inform you that we have detected in you some psychic powers. Not high level ones you understand me, and seemingly tied in to your pyromancy abililities largely. With a bit of training, we suspect we could get your abilities to be able to sophisticated, as well as potentially instantaneously generate it without the use of spells. If you wish we can introduce you to a pyrokinesis tutor for a crash course of your choice?"

If you want to do one we can offer one of fire generation, fire shields, fire weapon, fire flight or fire form. We can only provide one without becoming a full member however."

Your friend Mr Gaunt, he has already left, although he was unfortunately unsuccessful, I think he went off to explore the city"

LELAND

Moving through the corridors until out of earshot of Eudial, Seben arrives at the room of Leland Gaunt and rather than opening the door, he slides open a panel in it.

"Mr Gaunt, your chakra are incorrectly aligned for psionic abilities, however, as a very magical creature you can still be of use to us. You will not be rescued, your friends think you have left already."

With that he slams the small hatch shut, and suddenly Leland feels pain in his chest - small pinpoints of light spring up in the walls of the room and weakness rockets through him, forcing him to lean heavily against the wall. The implication is strongly that he is having his magic leached.

The room contains: 5 Magazines. A basic bed. A chair. A small bathroom unit. A pot plant. A small television showing a soap opera that seems to be showing something vaguely similar to Romeo and Juliet, starring a family of Amoebas and a Family of Talking Musical Instruments.

PLAYZOOKI

After running away for inexplicable reasons from the entirely neutral guards who had just been standing there minding their own business, Playzooki finds himself right dab in the middle of the Infamous Beige Light District. Here people come to pay money to complain to other people about how people these days aren't moral and how things were better in their day. He passes the front door of an elderly woman who is discussing how cheese used to be better in her day and he notes lots of Daily Mail clippings on her noticeboard.

It seems that great evil has worked its way even here....

CLEO

It would seem that the test for known psychics is a lot quicker, as suddenly Cleo feels the presence of the young woman in her mind, although simultaneously becomes aware that the easygoing young woman is not entirely who she appears. The form they see is merely a projection over something else.... A disembodied mind, ascended from a mortal form which lies helplessly in a hideous machine far away, deep in the bowels of the earth, trapped in constant agony for thousands of.....

"Well I think that is quite enough of that" says the woman known as the Brain of Krull bruskly.

"In fact I think you might be just the sort of person I am looking for... please follow me... and don't say anything, I have a job for you of the utmost importance."

She heads off down a small spiral staircase.

[majinb]

Aurelia looks to Twitch and Marisa

"Hmmmm, yes Twitch, yes, you bring up good points... a stealthy flight overhead... you can pull this off! Remain unseen... if at any time your mission risks reaching the point of failure, get out and get back to us!"

Then, to the members Old Worlds Club

"You, beings of times gone by, we, the Macaw, the Witch and the Angel, not to be confused with the similarly named trio that can has been chronicled in the books of Narnia, shall aid you in your quest. Macaw, I trust in you and your suggested attempt to find entrance overhead, but I think I can do something to aid you in your plan. For this I must leave you for now, but do not worry, we, will meet again!"

[NWOWWE]

Gaunt was finishing up one of the science magazines. He planned on asking if he could keep one. At face value it was pretty worthless, but you never knew...

A sliding sound jerked him out of his thoughts. He could see a little bit of Dr. Seben's face. Gaunt's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Mr Gaunt, your chakra are incorrectly aligned for psionic abilities, however, as a very magical creature you can still be of use to us. You will not be rescued, your friends think you have left already."

The hatch immediately slammed shut. Get back here you f***ing a**hole! Gaunt was ready to scream, but a sudden pain in his chest robbed him of his breath and voice. He staggered over to the wall and propped himself against it. The pain continued along with a kind of draining sensation. What was going on? He looked at his hands and saw them changing. He was changing back into a demon. Through the pain, he screwed up his concentration as best as he could manage to reverse the transformation. Nothing. What were they doing to him? The draining sensation... Were they...? They were! They were actually draining his powers away from him! Anger surged through him. Anger... and fear. He had never felt anywhere near this kind of helplessness. He had never thought such a thing could be possible.

He pulled off the jacket he had acquired and shakily dug through the pockets. He extracted one of the smoke balls and the collapsible harpoon. A vague plan was swirling in his head. Demon-Gaunt sauntered over to the bathroom unit. Was the room watertight? Might as well find out he thought with a snarl. He screwed up all the strength he could manage and attacked the toilet, trying to burst the water line. Success! He tore up pages of some of the periodicals and jabbed them down the sink's drain and turned it's water on as high as it would go.

There... I'm being destructive and insolent, he thought. Perhaps they'll want to come in and reprimand me. Let them. If the wrong f***ing person opens that door they won't live long enough to regret it! He then went about making as much noise and commotion near the door as possible.

[playzooki]

keep running, its the daily mail!

[kodster]

Eudial exited the room and stood outside as the doctor moved away, slightly surprised. So there was some power within her? But of course, tied to her fire-based power. Just brilliant. Maybe she would set Mimete's wardrobe on fire when she got back. Heheh... yes...

Then she heard a distant slam. She looked down the hallway... wasn't that Gaunt's room?

Your friend Mr Gaunt, he has already left, although he was unfortunately unsuccessful, I think he went off to explore the city

He was hardly a friend, but from what Eudial knew of him, it wasn't like Gaunt to just suddenly take off like that, not in a place like this. And that slam... hmph. So that meant Gaunt was still in his room... locked in.

So the doctor lied.

And Eudial had no reason to believe the rest of what he had said either.

Rather than fear, a demon's smile crept onto her face. Psychic power, huh... what a joke. It was time to show these doddery old fools what power she really had.

Still wearing Vengeance's hat, she hid the savage grin on her face and approached the other room, with an air of hardly noticing what she was doing. The loci in her pocket was still there. Perfect.

"Hello..." she said nonchalantly to the doctor, "I wanted to ask a few more things... for one, what exactly do your tests, of sorts, involve? Secondly, might I inquire as to whom you were talking to before you opened my door... third, is the city you are referring to the one we were teleported from... and last of all, that man isn't the one who would leave a place like this that fast at all..." Eudial inclined her head. "Where is he really?"

[alex_holt]

AURELIA

Aurelia leaves to find herself outside in the kind of area that looks like it was incredibly upmarket fifty years ago but has subsequently been surpassed and fallen out of fashion. A being are going about their business, a family of small chocolate monkeys, a monster-truck-centaur and a a gentleman made of glass who appears to be wearing all his suit inside out.

LELAND GAUNT

The plan works and despite the intense pain, the floor quickly begins to flood with water at an alarming rate. Despite the weakness he manages to hold himself together long enough that the water seeps into the ground and the weakening light flickers off. After quickly inspecting himself it would appear it wasn't too long there, although his skin has gone a lot more leathery in accordance with an actual demon, however this isn't bad enough to point him out as a demon. However, despite his new toughness, he is still trapped in the room for now and the water level is rising.

PLAYZOOKI

Playzooki runs away again and this time finds himself in courtyard of the Retirement Home for the Psycorps, where retired psychics insist on telling embarrassing childhood stories of everyone who visits to their friends. Already an old lady on a rocking chair is pointing out Playzooki and chuckling with her friends.

EUDIAL

Suddenly there is a powerful psychic emanation from Dr Seben, and her head screams. But actually that was just a normal headache wasn't it? There was something going on here but she couldn't will the knowledge forward (remember your ability scores :P).

"Are you alright, you were just about to choose your free training?"

There was something very wrong, Leland had gone back to the city, but she couldn't place her finger on what wasn't right...