◎ 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?

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[greatcleavage]

Roy Greenhilt.

[He offers a hand, politely.]

[greaterspeed]

I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog! [wink and thumbs up-

Before he laughs and just shakes Roy's hand]

Though I guess that introduction doesn't work well here, huh?

[greatcleavage]

I really hope you're about to tell me that's just a colorful nickname, like "the Lion" or "Slayer of Thousands".

[greaterspeed]

[... pffffft-]

[he waves his hand, grin on his face clearly hinting to the fact that he was trying not to laugh out loud] No, no! Well, maybe if I was Shadow. But no!

I'm a pretty awesome hedgehog. Even if this place decided that, nope, you need to be human to play.

... But I can add on some nicknames if it'll make you feel better. [smirk]

[greatcleavage]

I think me feeling better became a lost cause about forty pages before the comic properly started. Thank you, prequel books.

So you were actually an innocent hedgehog, transformed on coming here. Just to be clear.

[greaterspeed]

[Sonic, Pit and Roy need to party together. Fourth wall? What fourth wall META AWAAAAAAAAY--]

No, I was a way past cool hedgehog that got transformed upon coming here. Get it right.

[greatcleavage]

Right. The adjective was definitely the part of my sentence that was absolutely insane.

[greaterspeed]

Hey now, you're okay with this being some strange game but you're not cool with anthropomorphic hedgehogs being turned human? I take offense to that!

[greatcleavage]

...You're right. I suppose with all the diverse and varied races with a double-digit Intelligence score in the world, I shouldn't really have a problem with this. I apologize.

[greaterspeed]

Yup.

You'd definitely be the straight guy in the comedy routine. I forgive ya. [/amusement because hahaha, Roy, thanks for playing along(?)]

[greatcleavage]

Yes, that generally has been my role. And the celestials wondered why I wasn't in a hurry to give up the biting remarks.

[greaterspeed]

Doesn't it get dull?

[greatcleavage]

Someone needs to take things seriously and be competent and capable. Otherwise nothing would get done.

[greaterspeed]

Hey, I get things done! ... Eventually, but they get done.

[greatcleavage]

Well, for those times when 'eventually' isn't soon enough, we 'straight men' come in handy.

[greaterspeed]

[shrugs with a smile] Nothing quite like teamwork.

[greatcleavage]

That's absolutely true. Here as well as anywhere, a group can accomplish what a lone person can't.

[greaterspeed]

[SUPER POWER OF TEAMWORK- yea]

Oh wow, that's the first time a straight man has gotten where I'm coming from. Awesome! You win my vote. [wink and thumbs up]

[greatcleavage]

I was a fighter going up against a lich. I had no chance of soloing that. Besides, where I was, things were traditionally done in an adventuring party.