Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 300: Studies on The Cycles of Phantom Lords

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Date: 2:18:17 PM, July 15th; 11:44:50 PM, July 15th; 7:37:04 PM, July 16th, 2006.

Metal Man (GM): Interlude thingy
Gibby's walking down the street, paper in hand. His mission: Destroy the person's computer!

Gibby: "TiMe tO gO bReAk tHiNgS, BoInG!"

Metal Man (GM): You find the house. It has a red door.
You know what to do.
The door's shut, so it needs... prompt destroying.

Gibby: "This dOoR sHaLl nOt sToP mE!"
*He takes out his sword and slashes the door to pieces.*

Metal Man (GM): You slash it open... a scared-looking man stands inside, near a computer.
He's plugged in the mouse to the monitor and hot glued a floppy disk to his forehead.

Gibby looks down at his paper to see if this guy had a name.

???: "I'm gonna sue you for that! That's my hard drive you blew up!"

Metal Man (GM): It says... 'DARK FORCES OF EVIL'

Gibby: "Are yOu mR. dArK fOrCeS oF eViL?"

???: "...I am a normal person, attempting to use my computer! But... it's broken... I'm gonna sue those Silph co morons!"

Gibby shrugs and puts his baby away.
"Your cOmPuTeR mUsT gO bOoM nOw!"

???: "Huh?"

Gibby dashes over to the man's computer and slashes it to pieces much like he did the door.

Metal Man (GM): *BOOM.*

Gibby: "HI-yAh!"

Metal Man (GM): It explodes, bits and pieces flying everywhere.

???: "...I think I will take the intelligent route."

Metal Man (GM): He runs away screaming.

Gibby hops down and raises his sword up high.
"Another jOb wElL dOnE fOr gIbBy, BoInG!"

Metal Man (GM): +10,000 coins to Gibby.
Side quest completed
The phone rings.

Gibby blinks and walks over to the phone. He lifts it up with his sword.
"...hElLo?"

George: "...Good work with blasting the computer. When you get back to your HQ... there will be a little present for you."

Metal Man (GM): The phone hangs up, and a portal back to HQ opens.

Gibby: "Present? HoRrAy!"
*He takes note of the portal, drops the phone, and runs head first into it.*

Metal Man (GM): You appear back at HQ... with the others. The coffee, now worn off.

Gibby gets rather dizzy as he exits.

Digifanatic: "Hey Gibby. Where did you go off to?"

Metal Man (GM): You find a Silph Co. Brand 'Hacking Device' to attach to your dex in your hand.

Gibby: "Woah... wHat... hAppened... To me?"

Metal Man (GM): It apparently is a device made to hack computers automatically.

Dragoshi: "...Hello, Gibbert. Where were ya?"

Wolfman: "...I don't think I want to know."

Gibby walks over to the hacking device and attaches it to his dex. He looks to the others. "...Wasn't I with you guys?"

Dragoshi: "...No."

Gibby holds his head.

Dragoshi: "You took the elevator down to a lower level."

Gibby: "...And you didn't?"

Dragoshi: "...Nope."

Digifanatic: "Trust me, we had a crazy time..."

Dragoshi: "The rest of us went up to the higher floors. And, yeah Digi's right."

Gibby: "...My head hurts."
*He falls on his butt.*

Wolfman: "Perhaps some rest will do you well then."

Digifanatic: "Something..."

Gibby: "Yeah... rest is good."

Digifanatic: "At least that coffee has worn out."

Wolfman: "And I sold my can away so that no one can take it."

Gibby: "Coffee? OH YEAH! That Saturn coffee. That was good. Is there any more left?"

Digifanatic: "No."
.oO(Please believe me...)

Wolfman: "...that's not exactly accurate..."

Digifanatic: "Wolf!"

Wolfman: "Was I supposed to lie?"

Gibby: "There's MORE?"

Digifanatic: "I just don't want him going crazy throughout the HQ!"

Dragoshi: "...Ay caramba."

Gibby: "...Crazy?"

Wolfman: "Do you have... hmm... ...I believe it was...100K coins?"

Gibby: "Darn... I don't."
*He gets up.*

Digifanatic: "I think it's 10K."

Gibby: "...I have THAT!"

Digifanatic: "One of the two."

Dragoshi: "...He was referring to the Collateral damage Gibby could potentially cause."

Digifanatic: "No wait, it was 50."

Gibby: "...Huh? For cryin' out loud, what the heck's the price?"

Digifanatic: "We're having problems remembering. Or at least I am."

Dragoshi: "...No, no, no. The coffee was 10k."

Gibby: "10K... I can manage that."

Digifanatic: .oO(...)

Dragoshi: "The ensuing collateral damage from the drinker of the coffee's hyperness would be 10 times that much. Well, potentially, anyway."

Gibby: "Damage? It's bad coffee?"

Dragoshi: "...No."

Digifanatic: "The mind warp..."

Dragoshi: "...The ensuing effects, th-Yeah. That."

Gibby: "Mind warp?"

Digifanatic: "All the 'Boing's and such."

Gibby: "...You people are weird. I'm going to get something to eat."

Dragoshi: "No. You just can't remember what happened between the drinking of the coffee and now."

Gibby walks his way down to the cafeteria to grab a quick bite to eat.

Digifanatic: "So... I'll probably just head back to my room... and I'll let Ari know that the coffee high is over.
Since he wasn't here for this one."

Dragoshi: "...Yea. Good idea. I think I'll just... Head back to my room as well."

Digifanatic walks back to room, meanwhile texting Ari that nobody is going crazy from the Saturn Coffee anymore.
*And that he's 100% serious.*

Aribar picks up his dex and sees the message. He thanks Digi and goes back to helping clean things up in the library.

Digifanatic reads the reply, breathes a sigh of relief, and just lounges back.
"It's over..."
*He decides to exit his room again, buys a bunch of items, and heads back to R&R.
*Anyone else there?*
* "So, Dragoshi, what was it like to go through the coffee jolt?"

Dragoshi: "...It felt like arguing with artificial grass. Which in itself is odd."

Digifanatic: "Arguing with artificial grass? That is strange... I can just imagine someone bending down to yell at a clump of Astroturf."

Dragoshi: "It has something to do with these 5 stages of drunkenness. I think it was around, Iunno, stage 3."

Digifanatic: "Yeah... I believe you. Those Saturns are strange.
I don't think I'll be getting any of that soon."

Dragoshi: "Yeah, seriously. Though, if there was ever a record for the pinkest houses ever they'd snatch it up easily."

Digifanatic: "You have a point. Like I said, it's as is Kirby and Jigglypuff has their way.
Speaking of which, it's almost a miracle to see Gibby survive after that. He's just so nuts sometimes. But awesome like that."

Dragoshi: "Yeah. Or if a giant laser beam of pink paint crashed down upon the- Yeah, I suppose so."

Digifanatic: "Heh. Laser of pink paint. You gonna get that coffee again sometime, or is 1 can enough for you?"

Dragoshi: "...One can is definitely enough. Not accepting anything from Saturns ever again, either."

Digifanatic: "Yeah... I think Gibby's interested...
I dunno what Alexia would do. I'd say she'd refuse."

Dragoshi: "...Ugh. Once is enou- Yea, I'd prolly' have to agree with that."

Digifanatic: "He's Gibby. If he doesn't take more coffee, I would be shocked."

Dragoshi shrugs "Eh. Wouldn't know that, really."

Digifanatic pops on the TV and starts flipping through channels. "Surely there has to be something besides the usuals."

Dragoshi: "Yea, suppose so. But, then again, there usually isn't much that qualifies as good on TV these days..."

Digifanatic: "I've always wondered what this place has for sports. And by this place, I mean this planet, somewhat."

Dragoshi: "...Ah, right. ...Somewhat?"

Digifanatic: "Surely someone's gotta televise something interesting that counts as competition. And not just us beating our own brains out in CAL or something."

Dragoshi nods in agreement.

Digifanatic: "And, by the way, please don't start arguments with Julian again. Yes, I know he walloped you a good one, but he was confused and just using his drinks that he had to screw around with Erin's mind. You saw what Erin did to him--he can't blame it on himself."

Dragoshi: "...I suppose so."

Digifanatic: "And that means you can't, either. I don't mean to annoy you or anything, I just don't want any more arguments between us."

Dragoshi: "Ah. Right. Okay, then."

Digifanatic: "They happen way too often for comfort."

Dragoshi: "...Huh. Well, what happens, happens. But, I suppose it can get annoying if said happening happens one time too many."

Digifanatic: "Yeah. Well, I'll be around. Talk back later."

Dragoshi: "Same." *Walks back to his room.*

Digifanatic gets back up and heads on back, still amazed at how relieving it is to not deal with the coffee-induced high that the three once had.

Metal Man (GM): Okay then....
We might as well finish off that scene we had.
It is after the whole Silph thing, you're in Metal's office.

Metal Man: "...So... what exactly was it you wanted to tell me?"

Dragoshi: "Right. Well, anyway. A report about the mission. It was successful, yet a few odd happenings occurred... I don't know how to properly explain it, but..."

Metal Man: "...?"
*He seems... strangely interested.
* "I felt something odd, yes. However dex videotaping was static-y."

Wolfman: "Perhaps I can be of help then Dragoshi?"

Metal Man: "What... or who... was it about?"

Dragoshi: "Hmm... Yes, that you should, Wolf. Someone else who saw this would be quite helpful in my explanation."

Wolfman: "After I had contacted you about the time and pizza machine, someone... I don't recall who... touched it, causing a time distortion. That caused the coffee to become decaffeinated, and returned the others to normal. Eventually, after some crazy puzzles, we ran into the troublemaker: Erin Kareen."

Metal Man: "Hm."

Dragoshi: "Yes. And apparently, it wasn't the real Erin, just an alternate timeline one. And, boy was this guy NUTS."

Wolfman: "She was trying to put three items inside a machine of hers. I thought she wanted to make a crazy monster. I tried to knock the machine over... only to get frozen in time, and basically was a non-factor in the battle that Dragoshi and the others took part in."

Dragoshi: "He, Wolf. HE."
*He facepalms.*

Wolfman: "Right... I've got to remember that."

Dragoshi: "Ay carumba. Well, gender screwups aside..."

Wolfman: "After that battle supposedly happened, we took a warp that we thought was the warp back to HQ... only it wasn't."

Metal Man: "?"

Wolfman: "We got sent to some sort of Astral Realm, where Erin chose to do battle against Julian. Due to... certain reasons... I had no objections to it."

Metal Man: "I... have felt some odd need to fight him, myself."

Wolfman: "Well, part of that reason might be gone now. He was a host of some sort of being, similar to you with the Void. Only his was called the Fury. Apparently, the Void and the Fury are some type of Phantom Lords, as Erin called them.
...it was also revealed during or right before that battle that Erin was a part of the Mage Council, which also caused some minor conflict at first."

Metal Man: "I... see."

Wolfman: "Long story short, the Fury has been stopped for awhile, and Erin requested we try to avoid meeting with them in the future. Of course, he said that fate will probably put us against each other again."

Metal Man gets up, then turns around, staring at a bunch of stuff behind his desk. He seems to have a strange reaction to this.

Dragoshi: "...Yes. Though, the latter might not be possible, since fate seems to keep making us run into them."

Wolfman: "I'm not sure what everyone here thinks of the Mage Council."

Metal Man: "...If this is true... then measures must be ta--" *He holds his head.*

Dragoshi: "I'm neutral towards them. For now."

Wolfman: "However, if it's possible to figure out if any of them are at certain mission spots ahead of time, perhaps we can... well, leave them alone for awhile."

Dragoshi: "...Hmm? What's wrong, sir?" *Looks at Metal.*

Wolfman: "...you seem to have something against them Metal."

Metal Man: "...Poser... The Fury is immature and pathetic compared to me. The Mages Council are fools; I shall destroy him for you next time he appears!."

Wolfman: "The Fury, or the Mage Council?"

Metal Man: "...You have to understand... my other half is apparently an oddity."

Dragoshi: "Apparently so."

Metal Man: "Phantom Lords are universally evil... except... this guy? He feels the Phantom Lords, for some reason, are dumb, and wishes... to destroy them himself?"

Wolfman: "That also makes me wonder... could Sha'Fol take over me again?"

Metal Man: "..." *Smacks forehead* "The Nobodies are DEAD. The only reason The Void is here is because he isn't one; as you said... only Phantom Lords can exist on their own.
So... Sha'fol is pretty much as dead as dead gets."

Wolfman: "Metal: what are your thoughts on the Mage Council? Not Void."

Metal Man: "I am divided between utterly destroying them and helping them lead me to The Fury."

Dragoshi: "Also, it appears this 'Fury' isn't really complete, as there are pieces of him missing... And, apparently these pieces are people. ...Or it."

Wolfman: "And it's not advised we destroy said people."

Metal Man: "...Well... there's that... but... the Mages Council, not being Phantom Lords, don't know the other side. These pieces are interchangable."
*He begins laughing.*

Dragoshi: "Also, for some rea-...Interchangeable?"

Metal Man: "I could derail the whole process of evil of the Phantom Lords and, with your help, bring eternal peace! The cycle isn't meant to bear the weight of two Phantom Lords."

Wolfman: "...I must disagree Metal."

Dragoshi: "...But we're mere mor-Well, not really mortals per se, well some of us anyway, but still, what thinks you that we have a cha-Why not?"

Wolfman: "Yes, there is 'good', but there also has to be 'evil'."

Metal Man: "The Void's existence, tied to me as it is, can be used to steal those pieces away, rendering The Fury forever incomplete."

Wolfman: "Eternal peace... yes, it's a bit idealistic, but somehow, I doubt a utopia of peace will last."

Metal Man: "This leads any other followups to be incomplete... and possibly to cannibalize one another. The whole cycle breaks down, and we never have to worry about Phantom Lords."

Dragoshi: "Good and evil are merely words and definitions, Wolf. And, yes a utopia wouldn't be possible... Wait..."

Wolfman: "One of the last things I heard about before I left my old realm was a community of humans and reploids trying to start a utopia. I don't recall the name they wanted to use though."

Metal Man: "It isn't really a utopia, Wolf. Just no Phantom Lords trying to control time. You still have your Ivos and your Bowsers and your other miscellaneous scum and thugs."

Dragoshi: "Yep. And your Ganondorfs and gang of Knuckle thingers trapped in sands for who the hell knows how long, but, regardless..."

Metal Man: "Imagine... an infinite cycle crashing into itself... giving the mortal beings of the world control over their fates once and for all."

Wolfman: "Here is a good question then."

Metal Man: "Thse... Phantom Lords... remember what I said about cycles?"

Wolfman: "Should we live in a cycle... or a straight line?"

Metal Man: "...They could very well be the reason Earth keeps on exploding."

Dragoshi: "...That could be both good and bad... Bad, in the case that they might try and abuse it, and good in the case that it might be put to-...If, that's so, then we must deal with them, right?"

Metal Man: "The cycle, which, from what I hear, demands we all die a fiery death soon enough, before our natural lifetimes, even. If The Void does not break it, you will probably break it another way."

Dragoshi: "...No way in hell I'm going to let that happen."

Wolfman: "...then perhaps we should change our way of thinking. Instead of a cycle, that always begins and ends in similar ways... A straight line: no definite end. History is changed, and changed forever."

Metal Man: "It is merely a choice whether we cause the creations of new cycles for as long as we defy destruction, or permanent disruption of a timeline which has been causing problems for all of us."

Wolfman: "No longer stuck to the usual constraints of the old way of thinking."

Dragoshi: "Also, seeing as we dealt with the Time Calamity of Ivo... What should we do with the Master Egg Mk. II? Save it for some other time, or..."

Editor's Note: I'm pretty certain past me already forgot about this potential plot hole. Whoops!

Metal Man: "Of course... even if we render The Fury inoperable, we might have other problems."

Dragoshi: "...Other problems?"

Wolfman: "General rule of evil Dragoshi:. When one falls, another rises."

Metal Man: "Well, destabilize the cycle... more Phantom Lords can waltz on in. It may cause certain of them to die, but there's more pieces than The Void can ever contain at once."

Dragoshi: "...Aside from the obvious, Wolf. That is common knowledge upon all beings. Though, people forget that..."

Wolfman: "Then it's not so common, is it?" *Smirk.*

Metal Man shrugs. "It's a natural phenomenon of our power. We're beginning to exhaust mortal enemies. Our foray into the astral realm hints at our entry into a never-ending war... and no matter what we do, if we win, that eternal war will be broken.
The Void... must have been a mistake."

Dragoshi: "Heh. I suppose so. It might as well be conside-...Yes, that is so."

Metal Man: "All of the others are bent on keeping the cycle, I'm sure."

Wolfman: "...and I was the cause of the Void."

Metal Man: "...The Void is chaos. He doesn't care who lives or dies. ...Not quite. What we have is the previous cycles leading up to him, by putting the technology in your hands.
I can't fully understand our enemy. They make no sense, even with The Void's help.
We have them creating their own worst foes and allowing their creations to explode other of their creations.
Many people have hinted at Gods, but these people... they appear to have mostly control over pieces which they launch like missiles."

Dragoshi: "...Interesting."

Wolfman: "Is there too much magic and technology available in this combined realm?"

Metal Man: "This realm has only been getting bigger. I think something broke, somewhere. Earth used to be a very closed dimension."

Wolfman: "Depending on what you've read in the tabloids, not quite."

Metal Man: "There were only a few sides in every conflict; Earthlings, Solarians, Atlanteans."

Dragoshi: "...Hmm... Very closed?"

Metal Man: "All three recurred over and over again until they destroyed all traces of their peoples."

Wolfman: "I don't think it was very closed. I think it was pretending to be very closed. Perhaps a common material on the planet was the reason.
I've read up on history at my old realm... supposedly, there were other superheroes during that time, and on other planets."

Metal Man: "Other dimensions."

Wolfman: "Maybe other dimensions as well. Remember: I probably am from another dimension."

Metal Man: "In this current dimension, they all probably appeared in the combined past."

Wolfman: "I'm basically from an altered future earth."

Metal Man: "However the thing I'm mentioning is from my point of view, which appears to be... odd. You see, I came from the plain-old Earth. Sure, it was burnt, and we called ourselves Neo-Earthians, but everything that happened was... normal."

Editor's Note: "Normal" as in 'created a world-destroying teleporter'? Really... no.

Wolfman: "In any case, I still remember when you had to access special portals to get from Hyrule, to say... the Mushroom Kingdom, or Mobius."

Metal Man: "That was during the time the dimensions began to come together, yes."

Wolfman: "It's this... togetherness that bothers me. Somehow, VG was able to summon me. That might have been an extra catalyst that we aren't aware of."

Metal Man: "Transformers?"

Dragoshi: "...Wha?"

Wolfman: "To an extent. But... how on earth... or Nintendus... or wherever... could someone summon me from the Mushroom Kingdom to a future, bleak earth?
Unless...
...is the Great Palace of Videoland still around somewhere?
Maybe if Captain N was able to travel from his realm to various other realms... could the Palace have helped VG summon me?"

Metal Man: "...Anything could have happened then, all sorts of stuff came together here."

Wolfman: "That doesn't answer my first question."

Metal Man: "However I can be sure this 'Captain N' would be off in another dimension by now. We'd need some X-zone style portals to get there."

Wolfman: "Does the Great Palace still exist?"

Metal Man: "...Can't tell from this dimension. It isn't here, but take a astral portal and you could probably check it out."

Wolfman: "...I'll wait until I get at least a cloaking device bought before I tackle that idea."
.oO(...the Astral realm... I'll want to go back... but I think the Mage Council might want to know.)

Metal Man: "...Don't forget the difficulty of warping."

Dragoshi just leans against the wall and listens to the two, obviously unable to say anything to add on.

Metal Man: "You'd need the Businessman's help for that."

Wolfman: "...are you suggesting dimensional warping isn't as simple as it used to be? This... Businessman is required as a middleman?"

Metal Man: "...That's the reason we haven't been going all chaos-y and nuts, yes. The Void's much weaker now as a result, too.
I'm not in favor of bringing it back, though... sheesh... who knows what weirdoes would march in and attack then?"

Wolfman: "Well... I was somehow able to make it back here from my old realm... I'm guessing it was after Kuja was destroyed."

Dragoshi: "...I can only imagine the weirdos... Not too clearly though."

Wolfman: "I'm probably one of the more experienced dimensional warpers we have. The key thing is: if you walk into a warp, make sure to get out. Otherwise, you could be stuck in limbo."

Metal Man: "...Uhh... right. Depends on the type of warp. Wormholes, they just slice you in two."

Dragoshi: "Like a guillotine I presume? Except much more messier."

Metal Man: "Our portals, now, they're literal gaps between dimensions."

Wolfman: "...a lot has changed. That's all I can tell. The multiverse is getting smaller, patterns are becoming more established and more broken...
...and Dominos exists again.
Anything you wish to add Dragoshi?"

Dragoshi: "...Wait, what do you mean exists again? But, aside from that..."

Metal Man: "In conclusion... we have switched eras. With Aetos exiled, and Charles gone... the evil Questers have been finished.
All of them.
There will never be one again, for if even one comes to my attention, they are to be annihilated."

Dragoshi: "...I can't think of anything to say, really."

Metal Man: "Quester Hunters are also dead."

Wolfman: "I don't recall Charles as being evil..."

Metal Man: "...He did a number of evil things, most of the laws made today are made to make any sequels to him illegal."

Wolfman: "Fair enough."

Metal Man: "He is, what I'd say, a non-Quester. You recruited a few too many of those.
Phantom, for example.
Panzer was borderline...
Skyhigh... what were you thinking?"

Wolfman: "It wasn't an exclusive club back then like it is now."

Editor's Note: Hey, take that back. What kind of "exclusive club" let AETOS into it?

Metal Man: "Well, I guess it could also be time problems. I remember hiring a few problems myself."

Dragoshi: "...Such as..."

Metal Man: "Yurie, the woman who attempted to basically usurp me. Marco... or was it Hydro?"

Dragoshi: "...Maybe it was both?" *Shrugs.*

Metal Man: "Hydro kept on insulting people and making a mess. In some ways, I preferred Yurie. Tetra... ...complained of enemies stealing our victories.
...Instead of actually chasing them.
That got messy rather quickly."

Dragoshi: "...Talk about imbecilic. Then again, who am I to judge those of the past that I know nothing about?"

Metal Man: "Yes. I mention them to show my own randomness with recruits. ...If The Void hadn't have existed, Razor probably would have been The Phantom Lord of that time. He wielded chaos, after all.'"

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Wolfman: "I won't argue that one."

Metal Man: "Anyway, we all made mistakes; let's just make sure that, in this era, it's the Mages Council's turn."

Wolfman: "..."

Dragoshi: "Yes. Not to mention some of their rules are a little... What's the word..." *Thinking.*

Metal Man: "Fascist?"

Dragoshi: "Yes, that's the word. Thank you"

Metal Man: "At least, they appear to feel as if they control everything. ...But... not even the Phantom Lords can do that."

Dragoshi: "Yes. That is the truth"."

Metal Man: "And if my knowledge is right, they've created a lotta stuff."

Dragoshi: "...Such as?"

Metal Man: "The Void himself created all of those nobodies."

Dragoshi: "Mhm..."

Metal Man: "I can't know the rest, as they're from before or after my time."

Dragoshi: "Ah. Makes sense, then."

Metal Man: "The only one besides him I'd know was from a time before we were knowledgeable of them. I'd bet whoever that was was an 'end of cycle' one, which is obviously different from The Fury."

Dragoshi: "That would appear to be the case... Though, I also suspect that I might know who a piece of this 'Fury'. But, it is merely a guess, and I'm overthinking. But, regardless, do continue"

Wolfman: "Best not to overthink... it's a dangerous thing."

Dragoshi: "Yes, that it is."

Metal Man: "Phantom Lords have hosts. Know the host, and you know them. That's why The Void didn't die.
You knew me too much. He lived on because of that.
...However Julian is sort of remote to us all."

Dragoshi: "...Makes sense. Yea, sorta. But, then again, who out of the lot of us isn't?"

Metal Man: "Me, at least. Wolfman... sorta."

Dragoshi chuckles "Yes, at least."

Metal Man: "I knew many people well... but they keep on moving on."

Dragoshi: "...I'm not going to ask, seeing as it might be a touchy subject..."

Wolfman: "That, and I don't wish to hear of it right now. Any other pressing matters Metal?"

Metal Man: "None."

Dragoshi: "Well, if that's the case..."

Wolfman: "Shall we take our leave?"

Metal Man: "Yes."

Dragoshi: "Goodbye, then. May we continue this conversation if anything new arises..."
*He exits the office and heads towards his room.*

Metal Man (GM): EWIGT@24y924y74qV TI@TB(@Q 24 Exception Errrorrrrrr
You're in the big room again. The console is now spewing gibberish.

Metal Man: "...Hmmm... I can't quite put a finger on what you actually picked."

Digifanatic: "What in the world is going on?"

Aribar is in the big room looking at the console. The elf seems a bit more timid than usual.

The Wraith opens up its dex. "...Are you sure it's not just a glitch?"

Wolfman: "Perhaps I wasn't well when I voted."

Gibby enters the big room.

Metal Man: "It is... a location. Just that... it isn't in this universe."

Digifanatic: "Whoa."

Gibby: "This has 'crazy' written all over it."

Dragoshi: "...Hoo boy."

Metal Man: "Our warp machines indicate it to be in range, however why I don't know."

The Wraith: "...Interesting. Any idea what plane it is in...?"

Wolfman: "...perhaps it's to another warp?"

Aribar opens his dex a bit late to catch the Wraith's responses.

Metal Man: "It says: *Makes a raspberry, then spins in circles*. That isn't really a... location... is it?
I can't really say what's gonna happen... just hold onto your hats when you warp."

Aribar: "How did this get into our systems?"

Wolfman: "...that's comforting."

Aribar: "Who requested this, rather?"

Metal Man: "...It was sent by some sort of really powerful technology. The requester was "Abwayayayaakgebe;e."

Digifanatic: "I certainly imagine."

Gibby: "Sounds suspicious to me."

Dragoshi: "...Someone HAD to be drunk when they made this. Or insane. Whiche-...Roight."

Metal Man: *Starts choking, then drinks some water* "...That."

Digifanatic: "Yeah, strange."

The Wraith: "This should be a hoot & a half... Be right back."
*He then abruptly vanishes from sight.*

Wolfman: "Any further advice for us?"

Metal Man: "Be prepared for anything."

Digifanatic: "Sir, yes, sir."

Dragoshi: "Understood."

Gibby: "Private Digi, I presume?"

Digifanatic: "Heh."

Aribar remembers something he has to talk to Metal about, but realizes it would probably be better left for after the mission. "Should we get going?"

Gibby: "Might as well get this over with."

Metal Man: "I guess... I dunno how you'll be paid."

Wolfman: "Let's go."

Digifanatic: "It's just we're doing something a bit outta the ordinary. Just gotta go with the flow."

Gibby: "Well for all we know it could be a really bad thing. So we should stop it right away."

Digifanatic: "Yup."

Metal Man: "You may step on the elevator when you're ready." *Waits for The Wraith.*

The Wraith shortly reappears... holding a bottle. Judging by the solid color of it, it seems unopened yet. He stows it away after appearing.

Gibby: "Wouldn't want to deal with another Kuja or anything..."

Digifanatic starts to walk on over to he elevator of insanity.

Gibby makes his way into the elevator.

The Wraith then nods to Metal and drifts over to the elevator.

Aribar steps onto the elevator after a quick check to make sure his equipment is there.

Dragoshi steps on the elevator as well.

Metal Man (GM): The elevator glows, then flies upwards. You hear the warp room sputter, and then suddenly you realize the elevator is still traveling upwards through completely black space.

Digifanatic: .oO(No Julian again? Wow, he really needs that vacation or something.)

Wolfman: .oO(Well... this is a first)

Gibby: "Uhh... are we ok?"

Dragoshi: .oO(...Huh)

Wolfman: "I feel optimal."

Digifanatic: "As long as it doesn't blow up..."

Dragoshi: "...Yea."

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* You shatter some sort of ceiling. With your heads. It doesn't hurt, but it seems odd, as you see... phantasmal glass falling everywhere.

Editor's Note: Willy Wonka-esque, eh?

Dragoshi: "...What the..."

Gibby blinks and looks down at the glass.

Aribar: "W-what is going on?"

Wolfman feels a little startle...

Dragoshi does the same as Gibby.

Gibby: "Maybe we -shouldn't- have done this..."

Digifanatic: "All I can say is that it is strange."

The Wraith folds its arms and looks around as they travel so... It raises an eyebrow as the 'ceiling' 'shatter's...

Metal Man (GM): After flying through the glass ceiling, you begin to see light... light which, somehow, first becomes seemingly blinding, but then somehow your eyes adjust... showing color.

The Wraith: .oO(Who summoned us...?)

Dragoshi: "Woah."

Gibby: "At least there's light."

Wolfman tries to used to things.

Metal Man (GM): The elevator rips through a piece of ground, and now you're suddenly standing inside some sort of town.

Digifanatic: "Yeah."

Wolfman: "This is rather strange..."

Dragoshi: "Yep."

Metal Man (GM): It's highly bright here, but visible; crystal clear, even.

Aribar looks about and wonders about what's going on...

Dragoshi: "I mean, this is starting to be reminiscent of a random dream."

Metal Man (GM): The ground is white, though, like clouds.

Gibby: "...Did we die again?"

Wolfman: "Remember to take things easy here; this is not a regular realm."

Dragoshi: "...Hope not."

Digifanatic: "Don't think so."

Metal Man (GM): You suddenly see someone talking down the street.

Wolfman: "I don't feel dead."

Julian Sawyer?: "...What the #($&ing hell? How did they #($&ing find me? AHHHH!!!" *Begins running.*

Gibby: "Look! A people!"

Wolfman catches the eye of a talker not with us...
"...oh hell no. Guys, after him!"

Metal Man (GM): Look! It's The Fury! And he's... running away!

Aribar: "Is that... Julian?"

The Wraith cocks its head to the side as it sees... Julian?

Alexia: "Aw, hell, JULIAN?!"

Gibby: "What's Julian doing here?"

Wolfman starts to chase after the Fury.

Digifanatic: "Sounds like him."

Alexia starts flying after him.

Digifanatic: "No idea."

Gibby: "Wait... what?"

Digifanatic starts running...

Metal Man (GM): He seems an unhealthy shade of orange to be Julian.

Gibby shrugs and follows the others.

Digifanatic: "Long story, Gibby."

Metal Man (GM): You chase after him. He runs, and you pass several buildings.

The Wraith opens his dex as he starts flying after 'Julian'... "...What, did the guy go maverick or something?"

Metal Man (GM): Other people, some ghost-like, star at you in shock.

Gibby: "Julian! Wait up!"

Digifanatic: "But when we were dealing with the crazy guy in Silph, he spliced Julian. That's his angry half."

Man1: "...How the heck did they get here?"

Man2: "...Something up."

Gibby: "...Angry half?"

Wolfman slows down, wanting to answer some of them.

Digifanatic: "Angry, angrier, whatever."

Wolfman: "...crazy elevator."

Metal Man (GM): You finally chase him to a dead-end of sorts... it is apparently a massive building... ...the top of the ancient outpost.

Gibby: "Didn't think he had any other half BUT angry."

Wolfman: "Chasing evil being."
*He resumes the chase.*

Alexia lands.

Digifanatic: "Only when provoked, Gibby."

Alexia: "...Wow."

Dragoshi: "...Huh. ...How ----ing wonderful, huh?"

Aribar: "Uhhh... I suppose talking it out doesn't suit you?"

Wolfman: "The Astral Realm! I was hoping to find this place actually."

The Fury: "But... you can't have known anything about this realm!"

Alexia: "Huh. Julian finally snapped and got Tourettes."

Editor's Note: I never will understand why people think Julian didn't curse that much such that they acted like it was weird when I would have other characters mimic his cursing.

Digifanatic: "Our duty."

Aribar: .oO(Okay... A merciless Julian. We're pretty much doomed...)
"We don't."

The Fury: "I'd fight, but there's something wrong here!"

Gibby: "We received a message from some unknown dude about this place."

Dragoshi: "...And that would be?"

Wolfman: "What is wrong exactly?"

The Fury: "...You couldn't have known the secret to get here... ...No... that is a guarded secret. Whoever gave it to you should have been punished. Severely."

Dragoshi: "...Well, this may be a bit odd, but... Well..."

Wolfman: "Then call us lucky."

Digifanatic: "We wouldn't know."

Dragoshi: "Uhh... Yea, what he said."

Digifanatic: "It was all scrambled up when we received it."

Gibby: "All we did was take the elevator."

The Fury: "Hmmm... I could fight, but that would be pointless."

Wolfman: "Personally, I'd rather not fight either."

Digifanatic: "Me three."

The Fury: "The rules of this realm make death and damage nearly impossible."

Alexia: "...?"

Gibby looks to the others.

Wolfman: "I'll keep that in mind my next trip here."

Gibby: "...You -sure- we're not dead?"

The Wraith rubs its chin thoughtfully this entire time, just silently pondering what's going on...

The Fury: "Only specific areas cursed to emulate damage and death can have that... and those aren't just summoned out of thin air."

Digifanatic: "I'm almost certain we are not dead, Gibby."

Dragoshi: "...Heh."

Aribar: "Okay, so... Now what?"

The Fury: "No. See for yourselves. Whereas most people here are ghostly... you are clearly mortal. This is f(#&ed up."

The Wraith raises his hand with a smirk.

Wolfman: "Would you know if the Astral Realm could take us to... say, any universe or alternate variation?"

Gibby looks at himself and nods.
"Yup... alive and well."

Alexia suddenly stops.

Aribar: "Can you read... The language of the astral people?"

The Fury: "Take you to any universe? Of course. Anywhere."

Alexia: "We're in the Astral Realm?"

The Fury: "...Of course I can."

Wolfman: "Is there any sort of price to pay?"

The Fury: "Why would I help you? ...I don't deal with interstellar warps."

Dragoshi: "...You wouldn't. I mean, that'd just be stupid"

Aribar: "Then you just want to leave us alone?"

Wolfman: "Fair enough."

Dragoshi: "Yes, fair enough I suppose..."

The Fury: "...To be honest, I hate all of you... but this is neither the time or place."

Gibby: "Why do you hate us?"

Dragoshi: "'Sides, even if we were to enter combat it'd be rather pointless for me to swipe stuff from you."

The Fury: "You're trying to mess up the cycle. That'd doom everyone."

Alexia: "Cycle?"

Wolfman: "The cycle of good and evil?"

The Fury: "It's not my job to tell you that either."

Gibby scratches his head.

Dragoshi: "...Huh. Cycle."

The Fury: "You're touching stuff you shouldn't..."

Digifanatic: "Is there someone here who can?"

Gibby: "Is it like messing with fate or something?"

Aribar: "Perhaps you can tell us more so we... Don't destroy everything?"

Dragoshi: "...You know, he might be lying, but then again I really don't want to test that..."

Wolfman: "He's probably accurate though. Is there anything safe to touch in this realm?"

Metal Man (GM): You hear something... a vague laugh... a chuckle... then a huge portal ripping through the floor near The Fury.

Alexia: "HOLY..."

Digifanatic: "Whoa!"

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Gibby steps back and grabs hold of his sheath.

Digifanatic backs off a step or two.

Dragoshi: "Curiouser, and curiouser."

Alexia takes a few steps away from the portal.

Wolfman steps back a bit.

Aribar: "We're touching the..." *The elf quickly puts away the dex and crooks his fingers, readying himself for spellslinging.*

Dragoshi floats back a little bit.

Metal Man (GM): The Void emerges from it, looking around as if he's been away from here for a long time.

Gibby: "...The Void?"

Digifanatic: .oO(Not this again.)

Metal Man (GM): The massive, floating sphere of nothingness with red eyes he is.

Dragoshi: "...Holy-The Void, I presume?"

Wolfman: .oO(Oh brother...)

Aribar relaxes. "Err... 'allo." .oO(Still weird how a past enemy is now a 'friend.')

Gibby: "What are YOU doing here?"

The Void: "Yes! You took my mission! Now we can destroy the cycle!"

Alexia: *With sheer hatred* "YOU. I thought you perished a while back."

The Wraith had readied two of his stones upon hearing the chuckle and seeing the portal, but just cocks his head to the side as he sees The Void...

Dragoshi: "Holy cra-...This is so confusing, YOU posted that mission!?"

Wolfman: "Are you sure the cycle is worth destroying?"

Aribar: "Metal is losing his control over you, isn't he?"

The Fury: "..." *Cowers, almost in fear, from The Void* "You... you survived the impossible!"

Dragoshi: "...The impossible?"

The Void: "What do you mean? We discussed this whole matter very simply. The cycle dictates we all die fiery deaths."

Gibby: "...Huh?"

The Void: "The Fury wishes to kill you all."

Dragoshi: "Well, not to punch a dead horse... The impossible can become possible..."

Wolfman: "Remind us not to have such talks late at night."

Digifanatic: "Oh, yeah yeah yeah... alright. Destroy the cycle and survive."

The Void: "Now... allow me to explain in more detail."

Dragoshi: "...Heh. Of course."

Gibby: "Please do."

The Void: "Because, being the first Phantom Lord, it is also my job to explain."

Digifanatic: "Sure."

Dragoshi: "Ah. Makes sense. So, please do explain."

The Fury: "Argh... I had no clue a Phantom Lord was on your side..."

Aribar listens and knows that he shall soon have to make an important decision...

Alexia keeps a Mindblast charged, but stops to listen
"Neither did I, Julian..."

The Void: "...Ironically, I was not the one who gave you the link up here, but someone who did it for me without asking."

Wolfman gets in the sitting position.

Gibby: "And who might that be?"

Dragoshi: *To the Fury* "...Heh. Surprising, isn't it?"

The Void: "He didn't tell me."

Wolfman: .oO(I wonder if Erin Kareen did it...)

Gibby: "Humph..."

The Void: "Your mission... is to explore the lost satellite of the Quester Hunters."

Dragoshi: .oO(...Hmmm... So many possible people who could've done this...)
"...Wait, wha?"

Alexia: "The Hunters had a satellite?"

Gibby: "A lost one even."

The Void: "...It was before most of your times. I mean the Thirteen Gentlemen."

Wolfman: "It's somewhere in this realm, isn't it?"

Dragoshi: "...Lost satellites are never a good thi-...Thirteen Gentlemen?"

Aribar: "I shall not accept this mission without... Learning more of this cycle."

The Void: "They were a poor ripoff of us Phantom Lords, and, ironically, their satellite was shot so far off course it crashed here."

The Wraith folds its arms, head tilted to the side again as it begins emitting some rasping noises...

Digifanatic: "That's off course."

Dragoshi: "...Irony shot them straight in the head, huh?"

Metal Man (GM): Such noises... can be heard here!

Gibby: "And why do we have to explore this thing?"

Metal Man (GM): Without any dex!

Wolfman heard stuff... huh?!?!?
He turns to...

Digifanatic: "What the heck?"

Wolfman: "...Wraith?"

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

The Void: "...It's been met repeatedly by lower-realm people, but... this is your chance to see it as it truly is."

The Wraith: "Curious, indeed... Have any life forms come from the wreckage?"

Aribar glances up at the Wraith momentarily, but keeps an eye on the Void.

The Void: "None, an evil version of SIMBER evacuated them all."

Digifanatic: .oO(Different.)

Gibby: "Woah... strange... anyway, I suppose we could take a look around."

Aribar: .oO(Could this cycle be... The catastrophe Kuja foresaw?)

Dragoshi: "...Well, if that is the ca-...Evil version? Must be another thing before my time as well."

The Void: "But... aboard the satellite is something important in my plan to save us all from destruction."

Dragoshi: "...And that is..."

The Void: "Information... on the cycle."

Digifanatic: "This is where the destruction of the cycle comes into, right? Right."

Dragoshi: "...Information?"

Aribar: "You've tried to destroy us numerous times before. Why should we trust you?"

Wolfman: "So this is a scouting assignment. Fine by me."

The Void: "They went all-out to imitate us, so they even corrupted reality and stole it."

Dragoshi: "Well, if that's the case, then this is of the utmost urgency, now isn't it?"

Digifanatic: "Stole reality?!"

Alexia drops her hands and stops charging.

The Void: "If I wanted to, I could have sent that portal through here and into the X-zone in another reality.
You'd have vanished and never been seen again."

The Wraith 'reclines' in the air, beginning to look rather amused by this all as he puts pieces together...

Gibby: "...Works for me."

The Void: "Plus, Metal is my partner. I do this... to serve your interests. You want to live past 10 years from now, right?"

Digifanatic: "Of course."

Gibby nods.

Aribar: "I want to know what this cycle is about."

Editor's Note: And... he didn't lie. Wow. The Void telling the truth. Weird... extremely weird.

The Void: "And you... are looking... for information."

Alexia glances at Ari
"Yes, we do."

Wolfman: "Where shall we find this satellite?"

The Void: "That information will tell you, Aribar."

Digifanatic: .oO(WE? WHAT?!)

The Wraith looks to Ari. "Think the circle of life... on a much higher scale."

The Void: "To the right of here. This is a portal to the abandoned outpost. Rand made it."

Digifanatic: .oO(She better be talking the Questers as a whole.)

Gibby: "...Rand, eh?"

Aribar: "If it is like the circle of life... Then I shall not tamper with it."

Dragoshi: "...Rand?"

Digifanatic: .oO(Yeah, she is... just shut up in your brain.)

The Void: "You may stand here until the mission is over, then."

Gibby: "Well I want to know more about the cycle, so I'm checking it out."

Digifanatic: "Same here."

Wolfman: "I'll ask just one favor Void."

The Wraith chuckles a bit as he starts drifting sideways toward the portal. "I don't know about you guys, but I find this rather interesting..."

Wolfman: "When this mission ends, I'd like to be able to return here some day... I need to look into something."

The Void: "This is the first of many missions. After we find out what it's about, we will have to begin our work to prevent The Fury from fulfilling his duty."

The Fury: "Why you..." *Runs at The Void, flies right through him.*

Dragoshi nods in agreement with the Wraith"As do I, as do I."

Wolfman: "I meant... in down time."

The Void: "I studied your host. You lack magical attacks. You cannot damage me."

Wolfman: .oO(Does the Great Palace still exist? That's what I want to know.)

Aribar: "But today we just learn, correct? We shall not... Go to the Quester Hunter satellite?"

Dragoshi points at the Fury. "...Bug off, you,"

Digifanatic: "Hopefully, we'll just learn."

The Void: "No, you go to the satellite and retrieve information."

Gibby: "Right. Lets get going then."

Digifanatic: "Basically that."

The Void: "It's a dead zone. Nobody interesting there."

Digifanatic: "K, good."

Dragoshi: "Well, that makes things easier."

Gibby goes to the right and starts making his way towards the portal.

The Void: "Off to the left, down that path." *Points down a white path which leads across a small field.*

Wolfman: "Understood."

Digifanatic starts walking toward the portal as well.

Wolfman follows the path to the satellite.

Metal Man (GM): *Right.*

Dragoshi follows Wolf.

Metal Man (GM): You walk right, down the path.

Aribar follows the Void's instructions. The elf does not like this one bit.

The Wraith stops at the attempt at an attack. "...The Fury is incapable of magical damage? Even more interesting..." He then continues on down the path.

Metal Man (GM): You begin to see... sort of an outer-spacey area, as The Void stays behind, briefly smacking The Fury upside the face before sinking back into the ground.

Digifanatic: "Wraith, if Julian doesn't have any magical attacks, how do you expect his twin to be so?"

Metal Man (GM): You finally reach... a portal, with a hologram of the satellite in front of it.

Wolfman: "...alright, here we are."

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Gibby walks straight into the portal not wasting another minute.

Digifanatic keeps on walking.

The Wraith: "...Tally-ho!" *It air-skips straight into the portal.*

Aribar takes a deep breath and enters the portal.

Wolfman jumps in.

Dragoshi follows the others.

Metal Man (GM): You fly in... reaching a very, very strange area.
The only change from the last time it was accessed was a sign.
It says: "Welcome to NULL SPACE, Thirteen Gentleman Satellite Floor 6."

Dragoshi looks at this sign"...Huh. Null space?"

Gibby: "Here we are then."

Wolfman: "I don't remember what this place was like the last time I was here..."

Aribar lets out a short nod and scans the area.

Metal Man (GM): There are 7 doors in here, arranged in a hub.
There's an '8th' one which is actually a portal back to the Astral Realm.

Gibby: "Oh joy, more doors."

Metal Man (GM): All of your clocks and timers would have stopped by now.

Digifanatic: "At least there are no deathtraps... I'd presume."

Aribar: "Start from the left and work our way over?"

Wolfman: "...let's see if there is a map first."

Metal Man (GM): Door 1 opens up.

Gibby looks over at Door 1.

Metal Man (GM): You see... hmmm... this must be something like what Ruvyn's looking for.

Wolfman: "Or... just take the first door."

The Wraith shrugs, then enters, eyeing around with amused interest.

Metal Man (GM): It's a large room with a huge ring-shaped portal-generating object.
Various computers are hooked up to it, and it apparently can go to many realms.

Wolfman tries to get a better look at this object.

Dragoshi follows the others as well, slowly looking around.

Metal Man (GM): It was last used to go back to Nintendus.

Aribar starts towards room 1 slowly. The elf looks inside at the object... "An odd device..."

Wolfman: "...this is what I could use."

Gibby steps inside.

Wolfman makes a note to come back here later.
"This is a warping machine. I hope to eventually make a use for it."

Digifanatic enters.
"Yeah, same here."

Gibby: "Well it's not what we're looking for right now."

Digifanatic: "I would love this kinda tech."

Metal Man (GM): You see a vague image of Zio flicker in and out.
As well as... Charles...

The Wraith: "Hmm... Curious..."

Wolfman studies the images that come in now... huh?

Metal Man (GM): And... some of the Thirteen Gentlemen... as well as flickers of a red SIMBER.

Wolfman: "...is this of our past?"

Dragoshi: "...Curiouser and curiouser..."

Digifanatic: *Sees all that* "Okay, better not be any long, boasting, arrogant speeches."

Metal Man (GM): All are apparently past images which were captured by the endless frozen time here.

Aribar: "It might be, Wolfman..."

Gibby: "Didn't realize so many people came here."

Wolfman: "Came would probably be the operative word."

Aribar hrms and gets a thought. "With such a device Time Stones are trivial..."

Wolfman waits to see if there are other important images...

Gibby: "I'm gonna go check out another door."
*He steps outside of the room and walks over to door 2.*

Metal Man (GM): None, really. You open Door 2.

Digifanatic follows Gibby.

Dragoshi: "I shall do the same..."

Wolfman: "Next door then..."

Metal Man (GM): It's... a museum!

Wolfman enters room 2.000000

The Wraith: "Good idea, Gibster..." *He follows, figuring it's best if they all see each part of th earea.*

Dragoshi goes over to check out room 2 with Gibbs."

Metal Man (GM): Weird-looking stuff inside glass cases.

Wolfman enters, and sees... a collection of items, like a museum?

Aribar waits a bit longer to see if the device does anything before following the others to the second door.

Wolfman: "Well, this is certainly a respected place."

Metal Man (GM): One of Bowser's Move Necklaces...

Gibby steps inside the room.

Metal Man (GM): A doubler...
A transformer...

Dragoshi: "...Ay carumba. What is this stuff..."

Gibby: "Wow! I nearly forgot about these things."

Wolfman gets... the equivalent of shaky knees...

Metal Man (GM): A weird looking bottle of chocolate milk labeled 'Wolfman's private stash'

Digifanatic: "Yeah. Me too."

The Wraith eyes the items. "Meeemorieees..."

Wolfman gets a look at the milk...

Metal Man (GM): Weird yellow-glowing weapons...

Wolfman: "...Mewtwo made that milk; not me."

Metal Man (GM): A remote with no buttons...

Dragoshi looks at the yellow-glowing weapons and the buttonless remote.

Metal Man (GM): A circular detonator with 'N-2' written on it...

Dragoshi: "...What's a TV remote doing here?"

Metal Man (GM): A strange computer...
A jar full of floating amoeba...
Phazon...

Dragoshi then looks at the computer, and amoeba jar.

Metal Man (GM): And a nuclear bomb.

Aribar looks all about. His eyes linger on the Transformer for a moment longer than the others. He eventually works his way over to the computer and scans it over.

Wolfman: "Remote? It was probably the Fighter Remote... though I recall it having buttons."

Dragoshi then runs over to the phazon, eyes widened
"What the-?"

Digifanatic: "Nitrogen... nuke... just strange stuff."

Gibby gets -really- close to the nuclear bomb.

Wolfman: "This is sort of a collection of how things were over 13 years ago."

Dragoshi: "...What's Phazon of all things doing here?"

Gibby: "Oooo..."

Aribar: "So far... This entire place is just like a museum of our past."

Metal Man (GM): The computer is long dead, and smells burnt.

The Wraith: "One could ask the same about many other of the items here, Dragoshi..."

Dragoshi looks over to the Wraith. "Eh, don't mind me. I'm just wondering what the hell would mutagenic stuff like this would be doing here..."

Metal Man (GM): You can open the cases, although these items look both new and old at the same time.

Wolfman looks at the remote... is it the old Fighter Remote of old?
He isn't opening his case.

Metal Man (GM): Appears to be an original fighter remote.

Wolfman: "Wow... one of the originals..."

Aribar starts out of the room, but he catches a glimpse of Gibby. "Hey, don't set off a nuclear explosion..." The mage sticks by the door until the others are done.

Dragoshi: "So much interesting stuff..."

Digifanatic: "Yeah..."

Gibby: "Huh? ...OH!"
*He leaps away from the bomb.*

The Wraith would make a point to not let anyone touch those weapons, having a suspicion of just what they are...

Wolfman: "Stuff from our past... Has everyone looked at what they wished to?"

Gibby just turns and exits the room. Enough past stuff for today.

Dragoshi: "I have."

Metal Man (GM): They have a title card near them. 'Antimatter weapons.'

The Wraith: .oO(...Yep.)

Dragoshi exits the room and opens door number 3

Aribar: "Yes." *The elf starts towards the third door.*

Metal Man (GM): 'WARNING: Eats through all materials, dangerous, and is possibly from another dimension.'

Editor's Note: Ah, the Antimatter weapons from the Dark Ages... hardly knew ye.

Wolfman: "Then let's carry on then."

Digifanatic keeps moving.

Wolfman enters the third room.

The Wraith nods a bit, making sure all the cases are closed before following the group.

Gibby makes his way to door 3.

Metal Man (GM): Door 3 contains a large fusion reactor, several computers, and... radiation warnings everywhere.
As well as discarded radiation suits.

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Wolfman: "...this is REALLY a room to be careful of..."

Gibby: "No kidding."

Metal Man (GM): The navigation computer in the room states 'UNKNOWN LOCATION'

Wolfman has to wonder... can the Void be contacted at this time...?

Aribar stays out of the room and keeps next to the fourth door.

Dragoshi: "...Yea, seriously."

Aribar: "I'm not going in there."

Wolfman: "Any objections to me trying to reach Void?"

Gibby walks over to one of the computers.

The Wraith: "Yeah: Don't bother tryin'."

Metal Man (GM): Gibby: Why... there could be information on this computer.

Aribar: "I see no reason to call him. We haven't found too much..."

Metal Man (GM): With some hacking you could probably get what you need.

Wolfman: "Well, so much for asking if we could borrow the suits then..."

Dragoshi: "Yea. I say just go to the next room and return here later..."

Gibby rubs his chin. Some information would be good... he pulls out his dex and notes the hacking device he got last time. He wasn't sure how to connect it though.

Metal Man (GM): It has a red button, and is wireless.

Gibby: "Ooo... button..."

Digifanatic: "GIBBY..."

Gibby pokes the button.

Wolfman turns to Gibby...

Gibby: "What?"

Metal Man (GM): The computer blinks.

Wolfman: .oO(Uh oh)

Metal Man (GM): 'Root access acquired Displaying all files'

Digifanatic: "Oh, phew. So far."

Gibby: "I did good again!"

Dragoshi: "...Nice one."

Metal Man (GM): You see a huge amount of files which you can look through.

The Wraith just drifts right on in... No glow, no strange feelings, hmm? The stuff's probably either exhausted or nulled by the seeming time stop on the area.

Dragoshi applauds Gibby.

Aribar glances into the third room. "What? ... You people are going in there unprotected?"

Gibby puts his dex away and looks over the files.

Metal Man (GM): Like... 'Reactor readings' 'Plans' 'Phantom Lords' 'Sephiroth' 'Wolfman'

Gibby: "What do you guys wanna look at?"

Wolfman gets a look...
"Go in order if you can.
I'm curious what they have to say about me."

Dragoshi: "Yea. Please do. Be it forward or reverse."

Gibby nods and clicks on Reactor readings.

Aribar heads on inside, guessing it's okay...

Metal Man (GM): You see a large text file which shows radiation readings in 'rems'.
It's relatively high for quite a while, but then suddenly turns to 0 and cuts abruptly.
Indicates the time stop, I guess. Not very useful.

Wolfman: "Alright... what's next?"

Gibby clicks 'Plans' next.

Aribar: "Might as well go in order."

Metal Man (GM): 'Plans: We, the Thirteen Gentlemen, have assembled under the order of The Void to destroy the Questers and rule both Saga and Nintendus. This will be accomplished by releasing invincible obsidian robots, named 'Super soldiers', which are, so far, unstoppable. In addition, when one of us dies, we merely replace one member with another.
Should we succeed, we can destroy the world for our lord and master, The Void.'
It ends there.

Wolfman: "...I don't recall the Thirteen Gentlemen replacing themselves..."

Dragoshi: "...Interesting."

Gibby: "Hmmm... super soldiers, eh?"

Dragoshi: "Yet, prolly' old info by now."

Gibby clicks on Sephiroth right away.

Dragoshi: "...So, Phantom Lo-Gaw dammet, Gibby"."

Aribar: "Yes... The Gentlemen were defeated before Kuja took over."

Gibby: "Maybe there's a connection."

Metal Man (GM): You see... an image of him, split into three. Including one of him wearing a weird mask.

Dragoshi: "...Chances of that are closer to zero than possi-...Fuuuh?"

Digifanatic: "Okay, that's just strange."

Gibby takes a closer look at the mask... a zoom in perhaps?

Wolfman is confused.

Dragoshi: "..."

Aribar: "Who's he?"

Gibby: "A very dangerous person..."

Dragoshi: "...Indeed."

Aribar: "I see..."

Metal Man (GM): The image split into three shows a dark outline of him, then that of some sort of... presence... and the third, his actual body.

Wolfman just shudders.

Metal Man (GM): Text streams across the document.

Dragoshi: "...Huh?"

Metal Man (GM): 'Unknown class V Jenova Specimen. Joined the Gentlemen but vanished with their defeat. Motives unknown.'

Gibby: "So he's still around..."

Dragoshi: "...If that's the case... Then we should prolly' be careful... Or somethin' like that"

Wolfman: "Is that the end of his file?"

Gibby nods and proceeds to Phantom Lords if that section was complete.

The Wraith: "Hmm, interesting... We just may encounter him sometime. Do keep on your guards if and when we do... He's a rather powerful individual in himself."

Metal Man (GM): It streams one last bit of information across the screen.
'Split into pieces over Nintendus, considered to be linked to strange light-related phenomena.'
Then the Phantom Lords.
This is what you were looking for.

Wolfman: "...light-related phenomena...? The Light Side of the planet?"

Digifanatic: "Oh boy... light-related phenomena."

Gibby: "Maybe... GAH!"
*He leaps away from the computer.*

Wolfman: "Gibby, go to my file instead!"

Gibby: "Alright then."

Metal Man (GM): You're in the Phantom Lord document already.

Gibby: "Oh, wait... here we are."

Metal Man (GM): It scrolls by...

Dragoshi: "...Huh?"

Metal Man (GM): You see the information, titled' CYCLE 1: CHAOS

Digifanatic: "Here we go."

Metal Man (GM): This cycle is ruled by The Void, and is the beginning of the cycles, if there could ever be such a thing.
It is based on a peaceful world being shattered by chaos.
This sets up for the next cycle. Information is limited, but it appears to hint at a world which is repeatedly changed.
This introduces the elements used later as the world enters the next cycle. It is also known for a lack of reality.

Aribar looks over Gibby's head and at the computer. The elf reminds himself to keep any comments on this to himself...

Metal Man (GM): As many weird things can happen without explanation.
This document being from that era, it is unknown if this theory is even true. However, I, Sardis Mongul, have managed to write down what I could.

The Wraith: "Ooh, Sardis..."

Gibby: "Sardis... Mongul?"

Digifanatic: "Oh, he's back."

Wolfman doesn't recall that name fully...

Aribar: "That Mongul person wrote this stuff too?"

The Wraith seems to become much more interested at this point... He had studied the archives of Sardis' writings.

Metal Man (GM): CYCLE 2: TIME

Aribar: "How did some loon get to write stuff everywhere?"

Metal Man (GM): I cannot easily describe a cycle which I have never visited. But it is clearly a good one to avoid.

Gibby: "Not sure, but he must have good information."

Metal Man (GM): Research shows that the chaos is subsequently destroyed and then order descends... but this leads to new problems.

Dragoshi: "...Interesting."

Digifanatic: "Okay..."

Metal Man (GM): The realm begins to become too big and inevitably winds up being destroyed by some sort of calamity.
It is then restarted for the next cycle.

Digifanatic: "Probably what Void was referencing to."

Aribar: "...How could the realm get too big?"

Metal Man (GM): CYCLE 3: WEO(@N#$I)V@#ENF%C)(@#BDC
O)@!NH#O ERRO DATA CORRUPTED

Digifanatic: "There are probably too many things to--oh, great."

Aribar frowns.

Gibby: "Darn..."

Dragoshi: "...What the Fuuuhhhh?"

The Wraith: "Grah..."

Wolfman: "...that's what usually happens."

Metal Man (GM): Notes written below it are as such.

Gibby: "Just when we were getting somewhere."

Wolfman: "Well, maybe my file has something."

Digifanatic: "Like I was saying, realms probably can't control everything because there's too much space and too many things within it."

Metal Man (GM): 'Stolen from some old ruins by Denon. Will come in handy; for us to emulate the Phantom Lords, we must learn their history.'

Digifanatic: "It overloads and everything just envelopes on in."

Metal Man (GM): It ends there.

The Wraith: "Hmm..."

Dragoshi: "...?"

Wolfman: "Alright... what does it say about me?"

Aribar: .oO(The Void wants this Cycle destroyed... This Cycle provides order... Without it there would be chaos... He just wants to rule over everything again.)

Gibby double clicks on Wolf's file.

Metal Man (GM): WOLFMAN - UNSTABLE META-OBJECT
It shows Wolfman holding the fighter remote.

Wolfman: "...unstable?"

Gibby: "You're unstable?"

Metal Man (GM): 'It appears this Wolfman is from another realm. He claims to be able to control the Questers with the fighter remote.'

Digifanatic: "I doubt that."

Gibby: "..."

Digifanatic: "The instability."

Wolfman: "...that is a part of it I'm sure."

The Wraith smirks, then chuckles at that.

Dragoshi: .oO(...The Cycle... Interesting. Though, order, chaos... Too confusing. Well, I believe the cycle should be destroyed, but would my peers say abou-Huh?)
"...Huh."

Metal Man (GM): 'He wears a gold mask and possesses a large amount of magical powers, and also appears to be Maverick.'

Gibby: "..."

Metal Man (GM): 'Like most other Thirteen Gentlemen, he is an aberration imported by The Void.'

Aribar shudders and mutters something under his breath.

Wolfman: "...I was a 13 Gentleman?"

Digifanatic: "Aberration impor--wha???"

Gibby just looks at Wolf with disbelief.

Wolfman: "...perhaps this was when I was Maverick for a time..."

Metal Man (GM): 'He claims to serve a being named Sha'fol, who has powers which apparently can destroy entire planets. Unfortunately, something or someone stole them.'

Wolfman: "...yep."

Gibby looks back at the computer.

Digifanatic looks to see if there is anything else that can be scrolled to.

The Wraith: "...This was unexpected."

Aribar: "Wolfman, I don't think this was you."

Wolfman: "It's just history of me... accurate as it currently may be."

Metal Man (GM): 'When his mask was taken off, an unknown dimensional event caused him to change to the earlier known leader variety and also affected Sha'fol in an unknown way.'

Dragoshi: "...Hoo boy, ...Wait, the hell is Sha'Fol?"

Metal Man (GM): The file ends there.

Wolfman: "Aribar, it was."

The Wraith: "...Gibby, be sure to record each of these files."

Gibby nods and points to his dex.

Aribar shrugs and answers Dragoshi's question. "Sha'Fol was, if I recall correctly, a powerful Solarian."

Dragoshi shrugs "...Wonder if there."
*'s anything else of importance.*

Metal Man (GM): A final file pops up.

Gibby: "Something else..."

Dragoshi: "...?"

Metal Man (GM): 'RETRIEVED CORRUPTED FILE'

The Wraith: "..."

Aribar: "The Phantom Lords file?"

Gibby: "Ah, good."

The Wraith: "Hold that thought."

Wolfman: "This seems too easy..."

Wolfman: "Gibby: store the current information somewhere else... use another Dex if required."

The Wraith tries to download a copy of each of the files to his own dex, then disconnect from the terminal/Gibby's dex after doing so.

Metal Man (GM): Do you open the file?

The Wraith: "My thoughts exactly, Wolf..."

Gibby clicks on it.

Aribar: "Umm... Dragoshi, scratch that... Sha'Fol was a fake, but powerful, Solarian... My memory was a little fuzzy on that issue."

Editor's Note: Ah, it seems even then people knew Sha'Fol was fake, great! This may even be the first canon incident of 'Fake Solarian' being used to describe the ones from Season 6 and before.

Metal Man (GM): 'A4FFF39038AD38 Partially retrieved data'

Gibby: "...I thought it was ret--oh."

Metal Man (GM): 'Portion of text/mime file type 5'

Aribar: "This is making no sense so far."

Metal Man (GM): '-The Void, Phantom Lord Class I'

Aribar: "Ah, here we go."

Dragoshi: "...A fake? ...Who is this Sardis Mongul that was mentioned earlier in the file, though?"

Aribar: "I think he wrote some of the files."

Dragoshi: "...Ah."

Gibby: "Didn't he write stuff on the X-Zone?"

Metal Man (GM): 'He is the first one to appear with the first Cycle, and is a variable case. He can be good, evil, or both. Current information leads me to believe he is linked to Metal Man.'

Digifanatic: "Yeah."

Aribar: "But besides that he's just some loon..."

Digifanatic: "Indeed."

Dragoshi decides to copy some of the files, namely the Phantom Lord one and Sephiroth for later reading over "...Huh."

Metal Man (GM): 'I have managed to catch some conversations from him. He appears resentful of the very group he is in and made the Thirteen Gentlemen to counter that. Unfortunately, this offended the Questers, and the Thirteen Gentlemen also went out of his control.'

Digifanatic decides to also take some stuff down, most notably the one about the cycles--at least the first two.

Wolfman: "..."

Metal Man (GM): 'I do not know how to assess his state, as it is constantly changing. -The ???, Phantom Lord Class II
I do not know who comes next, as I have never visited this cycle.
CORRUPTED DATA PORTION'

Gibby: "And we're corrupted..."

'-...The A59363DM39MAN, Phantom Lord Class VI'

Dragoshi: "...Yep. Ay carumba."

Aribar sighs. "This is annoying."

Digifanatic: *Clicks tongue a few times* "Indeed."

'W#()#$&48932723723 UNKNOWN INTENTIONS 123801012781712634 AIDHJRMWN TARGET IS TO 329237cFI(Wiw I FEAR 2392382'

Dragoshi: "...The whatnow?"

Metal Man (GM): 'MASTER OF 329520s0 KNOWS 235023572356235 SOMETHING sSQFQIEBE'

Gibby: "Drat!"

Aribar: "I wonder how these... Classes work?"

Wolfman: "...you sure we didn't get a virus?"

Gibby: "I don't -think- so..."

Digifanatic: "It's probably encryption or something."

Metal Man (GM): '-This file stolen by Denon from yet more ruins. Too bad half the disk had been burnt by someone.'
*end of file.*

The Wraith: "The file is simply corrupted, botched, damaged."

Dragoshi: "...I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe the data was corrupted to begin with...?"

Digifanatic: "Eh, yeah... It's a possibility."

The Wraith: "Most likely from -that-'" *He 'underlines' the last sentence with his finger.*

Gibby nods in agreement.

Aribar: "So... It seems like we've learned as much as we can from this thing. Right?"

Digifanatic: "Mmm."

Metal Man (GM): After coughing up the data, the computer then resets to the way it was when you first saw it.

Gibby: "I believe this is the most we're going to get out of it."

Metal Man (GM): Screwy frozen time.

Gibby: "Yup."

Digifanatic: "Guess, so, Ari."

Wolfman: "Out of this room anyway."

Digifanatic: "Sure."

Wolfman: "We still have...4 more rooms left I believe."

Gibby closes up his dex and steps away from the computer.

Digifanatic leaves and heads for the next door.

Dragoshi nods in agreement as well.

Gibby follows Digi to the next door.

Wolfman goes to the next room.

Aribar: "Time for the forth room." *The elf heads that way.*

Dragoshi: "...I say we explore the rest of this place..."
*He exits the room and heads towards door number...4?*

Metal Man (GM): The next room is the navigation room.

The Wraith: "This gets more and more interesting..." *He follows the lot, continuing on to whichever door is next.*

Metal Man (GM): It shows a huge amount of maps, including an outdated one of Nintendus.

Gibby: "Maps galore..."

Digifanatic checks out the old Ninty map.

Metal Man (GM): It looks like... this.
http://archive.metalman88.com/SSQLAND2.PNG

Dragoshi: "...Interesting."
*He looks to see if there are any maps of interest... That aren't outdated.*

Metal Man (GM): ...all of the maps are outdated.

Digifanatic: "Yeah, that goes back a WAYS."

Metal Man (GM): The dates show this to be at least 10+ years ago.

Wolfman: "...I still disagreed with this layout back then... it just didn't work as it should."

Aribar looks at the various maps. "Hm..."

Metal Man (GM): The only other thing of interest is the navigation computer, which shows you to be in somewhere in outer space.

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Metal Man (GM): The name of this place is... 'EXCEPTION'

Wolfman: "Zora's Domain should never have been that close to Toad Town."

Gibby looks around for a map of this satellite. That might help them know what's behind the other doors.

Digifanatic: "Well, nothing much. Should we move on?"

Metal Man (GM): Nearby is 'EWOPTN@#T239thn2' and 'The X-Zone'
No maps of the satellite, sadly.

Aribar: "Wait, this computer looks like it might show us where we are... And when."

Dragoshi: "...Well, seeing as there's nothing else worth of intere-...'Exception'? Buh?"

Gibby sighs.

Digifanatic: "Sure."

Wolfman: "Anyone else feeling a little overwhelmed with what we've learned so far?"

Gibby: "Just a tad."

Metal Man (GM): It is listed as... 1004 CE

Dragoshi: "A little bit."

The Wraith: "Hmm... I think I was still mostly sane then."

Aribar: "Hrm..."

Metal Man (GM): It also says 'Teleporter engaged'
Otherwise... unless you want to fly the satellite through null space, nothin'.

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Gibby: "I'm checking the next room."

Dragoshi: "Well, let's check the next room..."

Aribar mutters something the teleporter under his breath before saying out loud, "Well, yup... Fifth door."

Gibby steps out and heads towards room five.

Digifanatic keeps moving.

Aribar starts out and follows Gibby.

Dragoshi walks over to door number 5 after exiting room 4

The Wraith: "Hmm... Time to move on, I s'pose." *And it goes on to the next room.*

Metal Man (GM): You enter the room.
One never seen before...

Wolfman enters 5
He has... no clue what this spot is.

Metal Man (GM): Herein lies a strange machine and all sorts of controls.
All of them very complex.

Aribar: "Now what could this be?"

Gibby: "Oh dear... perhaps I shouldn't be in here."

Wolfman: "Gibby, on me, now."

Gibby nods and gets on Wolf.

Wolfman: "I want you to not wander off of me until we leave this room."

Gibby: "Right... good call."

Metal Man (GM): Wolf has... buttons... behind his head.

Dragoshi: "...Interesting. Think we should leave this alone?"

Gibby: "... ...Wolf...
...WOLF...@_@..."

Wolfman: "What is it Gibby?"

Gibby: "That thing with the B..."

Wolfman: "What is it Gibby? Is there a tick on me?"

Gibby: "B-b-...BUTTONS!!!"

Digifanatic: "Dang it, did he just go into a coffee lapse again?!"

Wolfman: "...oh brother..." *Waits to be pushed.*

Gibby: "I'm not gonna press... I'm NOT gonna press... I'm in my happy place... happy place!"

Dragoshi: "...Right."

Gibby closes his eyes.

Dragoshi: "...I still say we should leave this room and move on to the next."

Gibby whimpers.

Wolfman tries to make sense of the technology while Gibby whimpers on him.
"...can someone else hold onto Gibby?"

Aribar: "I think we should... Just leave before we blow up this section of petrified time... Or something like that."

The Wraith starts drifting up & about, looking at this machine from all angles...

Metal Man (GM): It appears to be some sort of generator... a really weird one.

Aribar: "Sorry, can't really carry a Kirby with one hand..."

Metal Man (GM): One which bends reality.

Dragoshi exits the room and heads on to the 6th one
*But before doing so, he motions for the others to follow.*

Aribar follows Dragoshi out.

Gibby leaps off of Wolf and FLIES towards Drag and Ari.

Wolfman: "...okay, NOW I'll head out. Come on Gibby."

Gibby: "No way!"

Wolfman heads out.

Metal Man (GM): Door 6... a room prison cells.
With prison cells, not just prison cells.
Chains... manacles... skeletons...

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Gibby: "...This is creepy."

Aribar: "Okay..." *The elf looks about for any... Living occupants.*

Metal Man (GM): None.

Wolfman moves slowly into the prison room...

The Wraith rubs his chin as he follows the group still, eyeing the skeletons and looking for perhaps any fresher corpses...

Metal Man (GM): Nothing fresh; the place looks abandoned.

Dragoshi checks to see if there's anything worth of interest in here... Without going into the prison cells.

Digifanatic keeps going.

Wolfman: "...perhaps we should let these skeletons rest."

Gibby: "Way ahead of ya."
*He exits and makes his way to door seven.*

Aribar mutters a short, "Yes." and leaves for room 7.

Dragoshi then exits and heads towards the 7th room.

Digifanatic goes to#7!

Wolfman enters #7

Metal Man (GM): You enter the 7th room. The door shuts, and the room spins at high speeds.

Digifanatic: "Oh great... here we go."

Aribar: "What the...?!"

Gibby: "AHH! I'm getting dizzy!"

Wolfman turns to the sound of the door slamming... then starts losing his footing......
"Everybody Hang on!"

Gibby is propelled all over the place cause he was so small.

Dragoshi: "What the,,,"

Digifanatic: "This isn't supposed to be a carnival!"

Wolfman attempts to maintain his footing without quick drawing his claws.

Gibby: "I'm----getting----sick!"

The Wraith looks around as he notices everything, including his comrades, beginning to spin about. "...Well, this is new."

Metal Man (GM): After a few minutes, the room stops, and the door opens.
You hear a cheesy recorded laugh.

Editor's Note: Seems like something to do with The Doorman, then.

Dragoshi: "...Woah."

Gibby lands flat on his face in the center of the room.

Digifanatic: *Whirlywhirl.*

Wolfman shakes the dizziness out of him...

Aribar tries to regain his balance and looks to the opened door.

Wolfman hears a bad laugh.

Gibby: *@_@* "Spinning... spinning all the time..."

Digifanatic: "Okay... just a minute."

Wolfman: "...very funny..."

The Wraith: "...Now that's just silly." *Any other doors?*

Dragoshi lands on his arse, gets up and shakes his head
"No. Not that I know of."

Digifanatic: "No, that should be it."

Dragoshi exits the room.

Gibby gets up and wobbles himself out of the room.

Metal Man (GM): Nope... wait... there's somebody in the middle o' the main room!

Gibby shakes his head and looks at the person.

Wolfman feels like he's got the cobwebs out now... huh?

Digifanatic starts to walk, but... oh boy, random foreigner alert...

Metal Man (GM): It's... Wolfman?
With... a gold mask?

Aribar sets a hand on Moonlight's pommel and looks at the somebody.

The Wraith cocks his head to the side as he sees this...

Dragoshi looks at the person "...The hell?"

Wolfman tries to focus on the... stranger... that looks like..........

Aribar: "...Eldorado, if I recall correctly..."

Digifanatic: "Good god."

Wolfman: "...guys... meet my self when I turned Maverick."

Dragoshi: "..."

Digifanatic: "Ah."

Gibby: "...Woah... but wait, how can there be TWO of you?"

Dragoshi: "...Ay ca-freakin-rumba."

Wolfman: .oO(...okay, fire at us why don't you?)

Eldorado: "It is I! Eldo... ...how dare you speak my name! And why did you make a clone of me?"

Dragoshi: "...The HELL kind of name is Eldorado?"

Eldorado: "My mask is gold, unlike your wit. What other reason is there?"

Wolfman: "I don't recall purposefully asking to be cloned from you."

Eldorado: *He pulls out a fighter remote.*

Gibby: "Golden wit?"

The Wraith just smirks, folding his arms...

Eldorado: "And now... I shall take over the world... and rule Saga! Ah ha ha haaaa!"

Aribar: "This Wolfman here is the present day one. You are... Stuck in the past."

Eldorado: "What? No... it is you... who are stuck in the future!"

Editor's Note: That is so hilariously cheesy.

Dragoshi: "...Oh, shut up. What the flak is Saga, anyway?"

Wolfman: "I don't recall wanting to control Saga..."

Gibby: "GAH! I hate time!"

Dragoshi: "...Also, that comment makes no damn sense!"

The Wraith: "Yes... He -is- stuck in the past... Let's move on."

Eldorado: "Dost thou read limerick? Saga is no flak, you clod!"

Dragoshi: "..."

Wolfman starts wondering...

Gibby: "...All for moving on to door eight?"

Wolfman: .oO(...he he's in the past, and I'm in the future... could we be in the present?)

Eldorado: "The Thirteen Gentlemen shall rule again! No... I, ELDORADO, shall rule again!"

Aribar: .oO(This transcends time and space...) "We have no quarrel with you."

Dragoshi nods in agreement with Wraith.

Wolfman: "...are we free to leave you be at least?"

Digifanatic just shrugs it off (HOPEFULLY...) and is set to leave...

The Wraith: "Heheh... Think again, buddy."

Eldorado: "You scoff... at Eldorado? Then taste my wrath!"

Dragoshi: "...Let's just get it out of here... We really don't need to deal with this idiocy."

Gibby: "Oh great..."

Metal Man (GM): He presses a button. Digi's wrist flashes and he turns around and stops leaving.

Eldorado: "You are but puppets to the Quester Remote! Created by none other than I, Eldorado! Behold!"

Wolfman: "Okay, that's wrong on too many counts! I'm Wolfman!"

Dragoshi: "...Curiouser and curiouser..."

Aribar: "Watch out... If I recall correctly he is mightier than Zio..."

Metal Man (GM): He presses a button, and Digi smacks Aribar.

Wolfman: "I made the Fighter Remote!"

Aribar: "Gah! And that..."

Dragoshi: "...Okay."

Wolfman: "And I certainly didn't make it have that much control over the Questers!"

Eldorado: "I made... the QUESTER Remote!"

Gibby: "Oh dear."

Digifanatic: "I didn't--of course, I did."

Eldorado: "I control everything about the Questers!"

Dragoshi: "...Hoo boy."

The Wraith: "...Know your fault, Dora?" *He points a finger at the remote, and goes to shoot it out of Eldorado's hand with a quick blast of magic.*

Dragoshi: "...Wait, everything? Even the attacks?"

Eldorado: "How dare you!" *Roll it.*

Metal Man (GM): You blast it out of his hand... then time reverses and it reappears.

The Wraith: "Hmm..."

Wolfman definitely doesn't recall making that...

Aribar: "...I hate time!"

Eldorado: "Thou refuse to blast my remote? Idiot!"

Dragoshi: "...Heh. That's a little too... Deadly to be in your-What the-?"

Metal Man (GM): It appears time won't let you just blast the remote.

Eldorado: "Prove to me your right to steal our information by battle, then."

Gibby: "Ugh."
*He unsheaths his sword.*

Dragoshi: "...How will we be so sure, you'll try not to be cheap and use the remote now, hmmm?"

Wolfman: "...alright old self. Let's rumble for old times sake."

Eldorado: "I shall not be able to avoid your blows as thoroughly as my remote... but I demand to see your power!"

Gibby: "Very well then... if we must."

The Wraith: "Alright, I'm ready for a rumble. Sounds like fun. A fight just for the hell of it... Reminds me of old times..."

Digifanatic: "That was strange..."

The Wraith flicks his wrists... then pulls out that bottle, takes a swig, and puts it away again before readying his grey and purple stones, smirking.

Dragoshi: "..."

The Wraith: "...What? I'm loosening up for the battle." *He chuckles, not seeming to have changed much at all yet.*

Dragoshi: "...Ah. Well, good to know."

Gibby: "Just don't get drunk on us, alright?"

Dragoshi: "...Heh."

The Wraith: "C'mooon, it's fun! But don't worry, I won't be drinking much right now unless we start needin' it..."

Wolfman just studies up on his old self... taller, and more reliant on power than now...

Gibby: "Lets hope not."

Dragoshi: "...What he said."

Aribar: .oO(Blast... I really wish I could remember more of this guy's abilities...)

Metal Man (GM): BOSS: PHANTOM ELDORADO Order: Eldorado, Aribar, Dragoshi, Gibby, Digi, Wolf, Wraith

Eldorado: "I am a true combatant, unlike you! Behold this!"

Dragoshi: "..."

Metal Man (GM): He takes his remote at The Wraith and then remote-controls him into shooting his energy beam at Dragoshi.

The Wraith suddenly snaps to, and mindlessly turns to Dragoshi, raising those stones of fearsome power... He lifts one finger first, shooting out those tendrils, then follows up with the unearthly kaboom of bigness. Sorry, Dragoshi.

Dragoshi evades the tendrils with ease
"Missed."
*He then Chaos Controls to avoid the blast using up 4 CP
* "...Ha."

Metal Man (GM): He becomes infuriated.

Dragoshi: "...Didn't work out, now did it?"

Gibby watches Wraith attack Dragoshi and looks back at Eldorado.

Aribar: "This might be a bit tough..."

Gibby: "You think manipulating us to attack each other makes you a true combatant? HA! That's a good one..."

Eldorado: "I will make sure you regret that."

Metal Man (GM): Questers' turns
The Wraith even gets his full turn.

Aribar unsheaths his shortsword and points it at Eldorado. A chilling mist of light is conjured into existence and starts towards the elf's foe. The elf then fires two small bursts of magic energy at Eldorado. (Chilling Light, Magic Barrage)

Wolfman will assume the Dexing role
.oO(I really hope he doesn't have what I think he does...)

Metal Man (GM): He seems immune to Agility damage, and as well as freezing... he takes minimal damage from the barrage.

Aribar: "Blast! My spells aren't working on him."

The Wraith: "Oooh, you's a-gonna regret that, bubster... I's don't like bein' used like dat..." *The booze seems to be starting to take effect... He points a finger at the foe, and pulls the same combo as before, already REALLY not liking this guy...*

Metal Man (GM): Meanwhile, Wolfman's dex spews out gibberish.
The Wraith manages to hit with both.

Wolfman: .oO(...guess this is where one would pray.)

Gibby: "Ugh... already?"

Dragoshi: "...Wonder if you have anything valuable" *FIVE CLAWED DISCOUNT!*

Wolfman will save his 2 TP for something later on.

Metal Man (GM): You hit him, but he owns nothing.

Dragoshi: "Friggin' bum!"

Gibby turns away from Wraith and glances at Eldorado. He lunges at him and slashes at him twice.

Dragoshi stands still, ending his turn.

Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit.

Gibby leaps back to the others.

Digifanatic notices that Eldorado's speed may be the biggest problem: he may not be able to hit well! He still doesn't waste anything, starting with a burst of Celestial Fury and switching to the Aerial Strike after.

Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit.
He's horribly torn up after that barrage. However, he holds the remote firmly.

Eldorado: "So, you think yourselves superior to me? You are nothing!"

Dragoshi: "..."

Gibby: "Humph..."
*He holds his ground.*

Eldorado: "You... used the magic on me... now I shall use MY magic on YOU!"

Metal Man (GM): He presses the remote... and... begins to fluctuate.
In fact... everything begins to rip apart around you.
Rays of energy fly about randomly.

Dragoshi: "...What the-..."

Wolfman: "...uh oh."

Gibby: "What's going on here?!?!"

Metal Man (GM): The remote disintegrates from the raw power, as he holds up a clawed hand.

Dragoshi: "...Damn."

Eldorado: "... ."

Dragoshi: "...Yeah."

Eldorado: "X-ZONE!!!!."

Aribar: "Piffle..."

Gibby: "...Oh CRAP!"

Dragoshi: "This is friggin' wi-Wait, WHAT!?"

The Wraith: "Awwwwww, HERE GOES!"

Metal Man (GM): An unearthly barrage of words, thoughts, lasers, fireballs, and wigs flies at you.

Wolfman: "We're in the Astral Realm, not the X-Zone... oh SLAG IT!"

Metal Man (GM): Also, some Dans too. For some reason, everything thrown... explodes.
Your luck... is decided by the dice.

Dragoshi: "... Ay caramba."

Metal Man (GM): It will effect... four people.
Gibby, Digi, Aribar, and The Wraith.
Now... damage type.
1. Coin Slots
2. Flat Damage
3. Massive but Random
Gibby, Digi, and The Wraith are hit by 500 flat damage each.
This is flat. It ignores DR and goes through all defenses.

Aribar is smote by a flying OMGWTFBBQ which attacks his money pouch... Thankfully he only takes 10,000 with him each mission.

Wolfman somehow gets lucky and avoids... the new equivalent of the old Wolf Crush.

Dragoshi: "...Holy DAMN!" *Is also somehow lucky enough to avoid this...*

Metal Man (GM): 20... 500... 1. Aribar takes 521 damage... and loses 521 coins.

Wolfman just says nothing...

Digifanatic is flat out KILLED.

Metal Man (GM): The madness clears up, with the remote regenerating. In retaliation, Eldorado is harmed for...

Aribar would try and use Chaos Control to dodge the attack... Or at least use up some Chaos.

Metal Man (GM): Chaos control TRIPLES THE DAMAGE TO YOU.
And destroys all your CP.
This is pure chaos, after all.
You summon more things to hit you.

Aribar is definitely smote by the OMGWTFBBQ.

The Wraith is also a-go POOF!... That was more than enough to kill the wraith several times over.

Wolfman looks to Dragoshi... "Shall We?"

Aribar poofs back into existence.

Dragoshi: "...Yes. We shall."

Wolfman gets in the mount me position.

Dragoshi jumps on Wolfman, and mounts him.

The Wraith would be... trying to pull himself back together during this time.

Gibby would be dead and stuff.

Wolfman will start off by trying to Bite his old clone (normal attack, stun possible)

Aribar shakes his head as he 'revives' In a poof of BBQ sauce. "Ow... That hurt... Alot."

Eldorado: "I may be a phantom... but I shall not take this victory lightly!" *Evades Wolfman.*

Wolfman: "Well, I doubt you can evade this!" *Team up!*

Digifanatic: *Revived, can;t do squat!*

Wolfman lets loose a Crush... not as powerful as it was in the past, but the Kilo Crush still hits in a radius that can hopefully hit him. Combined with the Ice Tornado, it's a chilling energy tornado powered by the reploid energy that can hopefully do lots of damage KILO TORNADO!

Metal Man (GM): Hit and hit.
As usual, I like to round up to the nearest 100. So dat's 100.

Dragoshi: "...How do you like us NOW!?"

Wolfman barks in agreement.
*EoT.*

Dragoshi smirks and stays still (EoT)

Eldorado: "Truthfully... you were never liked by me."

Dragoshi: "...It was a RHETORICAL QUESTION!"

Eldorado: "You are a rhetorical Quester."

Metal Man (GM): Lack of other live people mean...

Eldorado: "You think you are so tough? Perhaps I should finish you off now."

Metal Man (GM): He presses the remote... the area rumbles. Alarms come on.

Computer: "Danger: Thirteen Cannon activated."

Dragoshi: "Okay... Who f-...Ay, carumba."

Eldorado: "Computer! Aim at coordinate -60 feet!"

Aribar: "What is that?"

Wolfman: "I don't remember this..."

Eldorado: "The Thirteen Gentleman cannon, which has now been aimed to take you all out. Normally this would be suicidal, but this realm... means only outsiders are harmed."

Dragoshi: "...Weeeelll..."

Metal Man (GM): *RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE.*

Aribar: "Does there happen to be a countdown involved?"

Dragoshi: *Long stream of damns.*

Eldorado: "No."

Wolfman isn't going to like this...

Aribar: "Piff-woah!" *The elf rolls away from the blast. Or tries to.*

Wolfman is weighed down too much by his own armor... and Dragoshi.

Gibby shuffles himself away from the blast of evilness.

Metal Man (GM): All rolls 22 and under... means you're hit for a whopping 1000 damage by the cannon, which subsequently blows everything to pieces... and everything then reassembles.

Digifanatic is killed again...

Metal Man (GM): Eldorado is hit by it as well... taking himself out.

Wolfman: *BOOM Boom boom boom boom...*

Eldorado: "Argh!!!!!" *Disintegrate.*

Gibby nearly manages to get past it.

Dragoshi: *Death toar.*

Gibby watches most of them explode.
"...so THAT'S what it looks like..."

Wolfman does the MMX teleport thing back to life... err, 2nd life.

Metal Man (GM): Battle over. Questers 1, Eldorado -0

The Wraith finally managed to pull itself back together... then gets obliterated again. -.-;

Metal Man (GM): +1000 EXP

Digifanatic: *Revived.*

Dragoshi rematerializes back into existence, revived, minus a life though. Good thing he has 2 left.

Metal Man (GM): After a series of reviving and stuff putting it together, you see nothing more than Eldorado's corpse.

Dragoshi: "...That was NUTS!"

Gibby: "Very nuts..."

Wolfman: "...can we leave this place now?"

Dragoshi: "...The hell happened to him?"

Wolfman: "His cannon probably backfired."

Aribar: "We killed him... Well, his own miscalculation killed Eldorado. Might as well head through the door."

Dragoshi: "...Oh, IRONY."

The Wraith cocks an eyebrow as he reforms with a bit of a red tint, glaring at the 'corpse' of Eldorado. "...Let's go." He then started heading for the exit, knowing better than to linger...

Wolfman walks to the corpse...

Digifanatic: "Yeah. Indeed."
*He follows Wraith over...*

Dragoshi checks to see if there's anything valuable the corpse has... Even though his theft came up with nothing.

Wolfman: "...I don't remember much of being you... but it's best you stay down."

Metal Man (GM): Good idea... you hear stuff shifting.

Digifanatic: "Just get out of here..."

Wolfman starts to get out now.

Metal Man (GM): The corpse begins to heal, and other shadows begin to appear.

Aribar: "...Anyone know what that sound is?"

Dragoshi follows Wolf.

The Wraith: "...NOW!"

Metal Man (GM): You see... Charles fighting... Zio...

Aribar: "Oh no... To the portal!"

Dragoshi: "...No, but I suggest we get the hell out of here!"

Gibby: "..."

Aribar rushes back out of this satellite.

Gibby: "Good call!"

Metal Man (GM): *Escape* *Escape.*

Wolfman: "...I do NOT want to be trapped in the past; let's MOVE!"

Gibby follows Ari post haste.

Dragoshi follows the others. QUICKLY.

The Wraith goes to the portal while putting up a barrier around himself just in case...

Metal Man (GM): You run away just as you see a separate Charles enter the prison room, and another exit with Doopliss. And a third, with Shadow wandering around... and a fourth... Zio running around... and even one with The Void... *WARP*
You can tell why--it's between the X-zone and the Astral realm now.
You return to the Astral Realm, happy to have avoided fighting only Charles knows what.

Wolfman: "Home, sweet... something..."

Gibby: "Ahh... happiness..."

The Wraith: "I rather like it here better..."

Dragoshi: "...Hoo boy. Well, that was what we call a successful, yet ODD mission"

Digifanatic: "Yeah."

Aribar: "We still know next to nothing about the Cycles..."

Digifanatic: "To both of you."

Wolfman: "...I think we know enough. Or at least, we have a start."

The Void emerges from the ground.

Digifanatic: "Yeah. I'd say."

Dragoshi: "Hello there."

The Void: "I have already checked out the information."

Digifanatic: "I have it in my Dex 'case I forget."

Aribar looks to the Void, but says nothing.

Wolfman nods to the Void.

Dragoshi: "...Oh, yes. The in-Good, good."

Gibby: "Excellent."

Aribar: "What will happen if we destroy the Cycle, Void?"

The Void: "The endless destruction of Neo-Earth and its people will cease."

Digifanatic: "Cease? Thank goodness."

The Void: "People will be able to live their normal lives again. Earth was normal until the cycles began with me."

Aribar: "Neo Earth? Wasn't that destroyed long, long ago?"

The Void: "I created what messed up Digi and Julian's times."

Dragoshi: .oO(...Or what passes as normal.)

Digifanatic: "Ah."

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

The Void: "...You don't get the picture, Neo Earth is also Nintendus. Also Earth."

Aribar: "I see..."

The Void: "So the cycles continually destroy and remake Earth."

Dragoshi: "...Interesting."

Digifanatic: "WHA?"

Gibby: "So that's good."

The Void: "Each time renaming it."

The Wraith: "Huh... And mine, too."

Digifanatic: "So this planet we're on..."

The Void: "And killing off most of the people. ...You're all here because of it, and me."

Digifanatic: "Is Earth all over again?!"

Wolfman: "...I knew the combined realm of Nintendus wasn't right..."

The Void: "If we stop the cycle... you can go home. For real."

Dragoshi: "So, first time Earth, second time Neo-Earth, third time Nintendus, right?"

The Void: "Yes."

Digifanatic: "Holy!"

Wolfman: "...wait a second. When I used to run the Questers organization, I was able to travel to Earth from the Mushroom Kingdom many times."

Dragoshi: "...Good. Just needed to make sure I had this correct. ..."

The Void: "That was a time warp, not a place warp."

Digifanatic: "So, really, all I wanted to do was glorified time travel?"

Wolfman: "...sure felt like a place warp."

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

The Void: "Most of you traveled through time, not space."

Digifanatic: "Same here."

Aribar: "How would destroying the cycles now fix what happened in the past?"

Gibby: "Well as long as we prevent this next cycle, we'll be fine."

Digifanatic wonders what the approximate coordinates of HQ would be.

Wolfman: "...I'll want to come back here Void."

The Void: "Destroy the cycle, it can stop, you can go back home and live in peace."

Wolfman: "There is a place I wish to eventually go to, but I'll need some of the technology here to get me there."

The Void: "The Phantom Lords, once destroyed, cease to exist. Permanently."

Wolfman: "...I have no more home."

The Void: "Will do. You may go back to your HQ... this is a reasonably completed mission."

Digifanatic: "Startling crazy revelations... Thanks."

Metal Man (GM): Mission Completed-- +10,000 coins

Gibby: "Excellent. Another job well done."

Wolfman: "Will it be a problem for me to come back here?"

Metal Man (GM): *Warp home appears.*

Dragoshi: "...I suppose so."

The Void: "No, you'll be back for my next mission, when it is readied."

Gibby struts his way into the warp back home.

Wolfman: "I meant... when we don't have a mission."

The Void: "We must search all of time itself. That can be arranged next mission."

Wolfman: "...fair enough."

Dragoshi floats towards the warp"...All of time itself? ...This is going to be a long journey..."

Digifanatic: "Ah. Hmm... maybe this includes my time."

Dragoshi: .oO(...Though, it'll prolly' be worth it)

The Void: "Yes... this will take many years."

Wolfman: "Let's get back."

Digifanatic: "Maybe you guys will meet my original friends."

Aribar: "And this Fury character is supposed to be the thing that would bring about the end of this cycle?"

Wolfman starts to go in the warp...

The Wraith: "Hmm... Void, you saw the note about the information being stolen from ancient ruins... Would you have any idea what particular ruins those would be?"

The Void: "This cycle, yes. He is to be defeated to advance to the next."

Digifanatic: "You'd probably like them. They're nice people."

The Void: "...Very, very old ones, which vanished when my reign of terror ended."

Dragoshi: "And, if that's the case then we'll have to make sure he's destroyed. Each and every atom"

Digifanatic: "So, one more question, Void."

The Wraith: "...Hmm. Very well, then." *He nods and goes to pass through the warp.*

The Void: "The lost City of Ordoth... a Solarian settlement from the Three Powers war. Yes?"

Digifanatic: "Seen as how this is the same planet as Earth... about what year would be? Somewhere in a five figure AD?"

The Void: "AD 20,000+ or something."

Digifanatic: "Alright. Thought around there.
Appreciate it."

The Void watches everyone leave.

Digifanatic heads on back to HQ.

The Void: "Hmm... now for some fun."

Aribar passes through the warp. He isn't sure whether the Cycles should be destroyed or not... The Void couldn't be after peace.

Metal Man (GM): He flies into the warp for the satellite.

Digifanatic: .oO(Wow... and to think I was going through lightyears of galaxies to see my friends...)

Metal Man (GM): Inside, Eldorado, Zio, and the evil SIMBER are assembled.

Wolfman: .oO(...I still want to know how I was summoned...)

Digifanatic: .oO(When really, it was just a thousands miles and about 18,000 years.)

Eldorado: "I shall defeat you, fallen master! You are an idiot!"

Zio: "You... cannot lead us."

Evil SIMBER: "Kill. Crush."

The Void: "ARMAGEDDON!!!!"

Metal Man (GM): *Satellite explodes ...Reassembles, of course, but later*
End of Mission

Wolfman gets back in HQ...

VG: *In Big Room, seeing others come in* "How was it?"

Dragoshi: .oO(...Huh. To think that so much time has passed. ...Thousands of years. If I remember correctly, the last time period I accidentally stumbled upon before this...17,000 to 15,000 years in the future? Eh.)
"...Very weird."

Digifanatic: "Veeg, you'll never guess."

Gibby: "Crazy stuff happened... as usual."

VG: "You got to see Elvis?"

Digifanatic: "This is Earth about 18-20K years after I was born."

The Wraith emits some rasping noises as if to speak... then realizes they're not in Kans--the Astral plane anymore.

VG: "... WHAT?!?!?."

Dragoshi: "Long story short, we faced this guy who took crap too seriously. ...Yeah, that and what Digi said."

VG: "That's impossible! That's improbable! That's..."

Digifanatic: "That's what The Void said at least."

Dragoshi: "Yep."

Gibby: "Apparently it is."

VG: "...probably the main reason why places from different worlds are together."

Dragoshi: "And, apparently there's a lot of other stuff... Though, we still don't know much about the cycles..."

VG: "Things weren't like this when I helped with the Questers back in my day."

Aribar: "...I'll be in my room." *The elf sighs and heads to his room, locking the door once inside. This... These cycles are a part of the nature of Nintendus. Destroying them would... Probably cause massive amounts of chaos... He should seek out the Fury to learn more.*

Wolfman just stays quiet... though he does smirk a bit with VG yelling like that.

Digifanatic wonders if he can get a map of this place in terms of a global perspectives... he's wondering about HQ's relative position back in his time.

VG: "Any ideas on the next thing to do?"

Gibby is going to get himself a snack. Cycles and Furies and Sephiroths and Gentleman... it was too much info.

Dragoshi: "...No idea. Though the Void said he'll arrange it next mission"

Wolfman: "All I know... I want to go back to the Astral Realm. There is something I seek."

VG: "Oh? Since when were you a treasure hunter?"

Wolfman: "...it's not treasure."

VG: "Sure, sure... just share some of the loot once you bring it back."
*He heads out.*

Digifanatic: *Looks at map, somewhat quietly* "So head out to Saturn Valley, I'm around western Europe..."

Dragoshi: "...Well, seeing as this insanity is over..." *Heads over to the kitchen to get a snack of his own...*

Wolfman: .oO(...perhaps it's best he doesn't know at this time. And yet... I wonder if he wonders how he summoned me... he had to have some connection with other realms!)

Digifanatic: "So if that's about England or Scandinavia... Julian and I would be just east of Hyrule Castle..."

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