◎ Act 1

[greaterspeed]

[in the room where the Chaos Gate is situated crouches a young, blue Twin Blade. He's far enough to one side to be out of the way, but not enough to be easily ignored. See, Sonic liked to be at the center of attention, it feeds that ego of his and well... He just liked to be social whenever fancy struck him.

What he didn't like was the idea of not being able to defend himself.

The fact that he was still a low level Twin Blade certainly did not help with the whole 'independent' thing. Which has led him to the boy crouching by himself moaning about the indignity of it all]

AAAAAAAUGH! I'm not made for RPGs! I can't do this level thing, got knocked out by a goblin. A MOOK! How does that even happen?? I've taken down giant death robots, angry water Gods, gigantic lasers, more killer robots and even more angry Gods and what happens?

[he throws his hands up in the air in exasperation. A few NPCs take this as a cue to exit the stage] A stupid Goblin knocks me out for an hour!

[silence.

...

...

Then Sonic just covers his face with his hands with a whine, ears folded against his head in embarrassment. In a small, muffled voice;]

I'm sorry, I promise to never do this RPG thing again now can I please go back to being able to beat things up just by jumping on them?

Comments

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

An' I'm Faris.

It'd be good to have you around sometime, Sonic.

[Not commenting on the "the Hedgehog" title, for now.]

[greaterspeed]

I'd love to party! Bet we could show those mooks a thing or two if we used the true superpower of teamwork.

[whyyyyy, Sonic, why?]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

[whyyyyy indeed.]

[Just. All of the stern face. All of it.]

[greaterspeed]

...

What? What'd I say?

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

Only about the cheesiest line I've ever heard.

1/3

[greaterspeed]

. . .

[greaterspeed]

[everyone's a critic these days. *sigh*]

[greaterspeed]

Whaaat? There's nothing wrong with a couple of cheesy lines every once in a while.

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

I'm not denying that.

["Ha! Looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!"

"With cheese biscuits AND mashed potatoes!"]

[...granted, she had said neither of those lines.]

[greaterspeed]

['sounds delicious']

Then why the face?

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

'Cause it's a bit early to be celebrating.

[Her device is held in whichever hand is closer to you, but she hasn't bothered to uncross her arms.]

[greaterspeed]

But waiting's such a pain. [Sonic reaches up to scratch his ear before pulling out his Relic]

So we register each other's friend code first, right?

[I blame this on the 'hints' option]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

Somethin' like that.

[The Relic has been extended.]

[greaterspeed]

Neat!

[and he holds out his own Relic then it plays for everyone the classic Sonic Life-Up tune. A quick chime lets both players know that they've been registered...

And Sonic's still a piddly level 1 Twin Blade. /sob]

Great, next time you're heading out feel free to give me a shout! [pause, then a sheepish grin] S'not like there's really anywhere to go here but you get the idea.

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

You, too, y'hear? Gettin' yourself killed again is only a bad idea.

[greaterspeed]

Yea~ Somehow, I got this weird feeling that this isn't my first time dying and coming back. It's the weirdest feeling....

Ahem.

I'll be seeing you 'round then! [grin]

[ladieswhodresslikemen]

Now that you mention it...

[Curse you, Atomos. Curse you.]

...nah, doesn't matter. See ya.

[She gone.]

[greaterspeed]

[he waves and darts off to explore some more. Running solves everything 8) ]